No one cares who Tim Scott sleeps with.  As long as his partner/s is/are consenting adult/s, his partner/s is/are his business.  If Scott’s private life doesn’t spill over into his politics, good on him.  Of course, that’s not true for any Republican, but particularly for the South Carolina Republican Senator who’s been a confirmed bachelor.  (No, I mean the other South Carolina Republican Senator who’s a confirmed bachelor.  Y’know… the Black one.)

As NBC News reports, though, the presidential candidate won’t comment on what, if any, romantic relationships he’s had, but Scott believes recent buzz in conservative media circles about his unmarried status is coming from his competitors’ campaigns.  Last week, a round of stories centered on reports that unnamed Republican donors were nervous about Scott’s long-time lack of a public romance, questioning if a “confirmed bachelor” should can be the Party’s nominee.

“People plant stories that have conversations to distract from our rise in the polls, to distract from our size of our audience,” Scott said at a campaign stop in New Hampshire. “What we’ve seen is that poll after poll says that the voters don’t care, but it seems like opponents do care and so media coverage that opponents plant — it’s okay. Good news is we just keep fighting the good fight.”

Leading up to our election, Google's search results showed ONLY negative coverage of our campaign@DrREpstein says, "Without Google's interference in that election, it means that @KariLake would have won by at least 3.4 % instead of "losing" by 0.6%"

We MUST put a stop to Big… pic.twitter.com/1KO2E346Z3

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) September 7, 2023

Wow, so some right wing nerd with “Doctor” in his title claims he can quantify how much “negative coverage” in Google search results supposedly swayed the vote against you means the election which happened nearly 10 months ago was stolen? That’s really special, Kari. Good for you. Katie Hobbs doesn’t have anything like that going on. She’s just signing papers and stuff.

Supreme Court Justice and admitted blackout drunk Brew Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of lying repeatedly during his confirmation hearing, has issued his assurance that the Supreme Court will address its mounting ethical issues that have eroded public confidence in the once-esteemed institution, the Associated Press reports, because the public should take the word of an accused sexual assaulter.

Speaking at an Ohio conference of judges, court officers, lawyers and other judicial professionals, Kavanaugh told the audience that the nine justices recognize the declining public confidence in the Supreme Court and that he expected them to take “concrete steps soon” toward a public ethics standard.

“We can increase confidence. We’re working on that,” Kavanaugh said, adding, “There’s a storm around us in the political world and the world at large in America.  We, as judges and the legal system, need to try to be a little more, I think, of the calm in the storm.”

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, September 5, 2023 at his sentencing hearing: “I want to voice… how sorry I am for January 6th. I want to start addressing those affected – those on the front lines… I’ve heard some people villainize these officers, calling them traitors or un-American. These officers deserve nothing but praise, respect for heroes they are… How would I feel if someone came to my home and turned it upside down… Citizens of DC deserve better. To citizens of DC, I’m profusely sorry for what happened that day… This trial has humbled me… I’m not a political zealot… Changing the results of an election was not my goal… With everything inside me, I wish everything that happened that day didn’t happen… I pray for unity for this entire country.”

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, September 7, 2023 via Telegram: “America no longer has a right to criticize the Russian or Chinese governments over harsh sentences to dissidents. It no longer has the moral high ground when it comes to treatment of its prisoners. Rapists, Child Molesters and Murders get sentenced to much less. My crime you ask? Speaking the truth. I am literally fighting for my life…22 years of it. They started with Trump… Now they’ve got to me. How long before it is you sitting in solitary confinement for speaking out? I’m willing to bet its not long. I have never asked for anyone to donate to me. Today I have to put that pride aside and think of my family and my fight to be free again. Please help my family by donating below.”

Plainly feeling more than a little emasculated after getting utterly defiled by Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis on Thursday morning, House Judiciary Committee wrestler Jim Jordan decided to recover some of his self-esteem and pretend he was still in charge by sending another one of his stupid letters to Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, demanding he answer questions about a non-incident of “prosecutorial misconduct” everyone’s already forgotten about that surfaced in the lead-up to fat former President Trump’s first federal indictment for having stolen classified documents from the White House and hoarded them at his chintzy Floridian catering hall.

“The Committee on the Judiciary is continuing its oversight of the Biden Justice Department’s commitment to impartial justice and its handling of a special counsel investigation against President Biden’s chief opponent in the upcoming presidential election. Last year, Jay Bratt one of your senior prosecutors and top aides allegedly improperly pressured Stanley Woodward, a lawyer representing a defendant indicted by you, by implying that the Administration would look more favorably on Mr Woodward’s candidacy for a judgeship if Mr Woodward’s client cooperated with the Office of the Special Counsel.’ This attempt to inappropriately coerce Mr. Woodward raises serious concerns about the abusive tactics of the Office of the Special Counsel and the Department’s commitment to its mission to uphold the rule of law and ensure impartial justice,” Jordan wrote, like he was staring at himself in the mirror saying “you’re a bad motherfucker and nobody screws with you. That bitch Willis and her fucking ‘Bar Association member’ shit. Fuck her. Stupid bitch. You’ll show her.”

It was EXTREMELY hard trying to pick a single clip from Peter Navarro’s post-conviction press conference but we feel confident enough that the one above encapsulated the pointlessness that was constantly interrupted by disruptive libs doing their best to annoy the shit out of him.

One-time Trump economic advisor Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress by a jury in Washington, DC for failing to comply with a subpoena issued by the House Select Committee investigating the Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

According to NBC News, Navarro claims he didn’t honor the subpoena because then-President Donald Trump has claimed executive privilege and instructed Navarro not to testify.  However, Navarro could not produce any such order nor did Trump confirm his privilege claim.  “That man thinks he’s above the law,” federal prosecutor John Crabb said in his closing statement. “In this country, nobody is above the law.”

Last year, another Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, was convicted of a similar charge and sentenced to four months in jail and a fine; Bannon is appealing his conviction.

A Los Angeles court sentenced Scientologist actor Danny Masterson of That 70s Show to 30 years to life imprisonment after his conviction on multiple charges of rape of cult initiates, the AP reports.

Actually I did give @emsteck a comment on this nothing new story, so much for honesty in journalism…@CNN fake news at its finest pic.twitter.com/Yj9Ly30WOi

— meshawn maddock (@MeshawnMaddock) September 7, 2023

Former Michigan state GOP co-chair and fake Trump 2020 elector Meshawn Maddock wishes to correct the record on whether she was asked by CNN to comment on a story resurfaced by their “I got the receipts” guy Andrew “KFile” Kaczynski and reporter Em Steck. You can tell by the headline alone it was prooooobably something that isn’t going to help Maddock’s defense in her upcoming trial on eight felony counts of fraud in the fake electors scam where she’s facing 85 years.

Lawyers for fat former President Trump on Thursday informed Fulton County, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee he “may” seek to remove his case to federal court, Lawfare’s Anna Bower reports.

“President Trump hereby notifies the Court that he may seek removal of his prosecution to federal court under 28 USC §§ 1442 & 1455. His written waiver of arraignment was filed on August 31, 2023. To be timely, his notice of removal must be filed within 30-days of his arraignment. 28 USC § 1455(b)(1),” wrote lawyer Steve Sadow, including the “President Trump” like he’s some white trash MAGA hatter who’s been to dozens of rallies in 17 different states, each time pissing himself in awe of the mere presence of the Orange Messiah and not a licensed attorney practicing in a court of law.

Trump already failed in his quest to remove the New York charges to federal court but the differing circumstances make any attempt at comparison pointless. The more instructive example might be with co-defendant Mark Meadows, who’s still awaiting a decision on his bid to federalize his trial. Even if Meadows prevails (reportedly that’s a jump ball) Trump still may have difficulty arguing that he was acting as the President and not a candidate when he threatened and harassed Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger among all the other shit which got him hit with 13 felony counts in Georgia.

According to a new book, Elon Musk demanded SpaceX engineers disengage a portion of the Starlink satellite network, used to provide internet access to isolated places, to areas around Crimea to intentionally thwart a Ukrainian surprise attack on the Russian navy in 2022.

Per a CNN report, Musk learned of a Ukrainian plan to use explosives-laden submarine drones for a significant attack on the Russian fleet positioned along the Crimean coast in 2022, and he feared the attack would be “another Pearl Harbor” prompting Russian President Vladimir Putin to utilize nuclear weapons in retaliation.  Musk balked at the use of his company’s technology to facilitate the attack saying later, “How am I in this war?  Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”

Musk reportedly discussed the continued deployment and use of the Starlink system in Ukraine with US–and Russian–officials around the time of the planned attack, with Russian officials allegedly pointing out Putin’s displeasure with Musk’s contributions to Ukrainian society.  Musk disputes reports he speaks to Putin directly, billionaire oligarch to billionaire oligarch, about Musk’s position on the Ukraine invasion, which typically has a pro-Kremlin slant.  Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov had been communicating via text with Musk, stressing the importance of the Starlink system to Ukraine’s defense. 

Senator Bro from MO Josh Hawley tells NBC News he’s worried that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s health issues make it harder to portray the relatively spry but similarly aged President Joe Biden as elderly and infirm when McConnell is clearly worse off, almost if holding two different positions is doesn’t come easily for Republicans in virtually any other situation you can think of – not least of which would be fat former President Trump’s extreme mental health issues.

“Am I concerned about his health? Yeah, I am. I’m concerned about the president’s health. I’m concerned about his health, and, as I said yesterday, I don’t think you can have it both ways,” said Hawley, like they don’t try to have it both ways on literally fucking anything you can think of. “I mean, if you’re concerned about the president’s ability to do his job – and I am, and a lot of Republicans say they are – then you’ve got to be concerned when it’s somebody from your own party, right? It can’t be sauce for the goose but not for the gander,” Hawley continued, without a hint of irony.

Another anonymous GOP Senator similarly expressed more concern for the party’s political health than that of the far more competent and effective of its two current leaders. “Because he’s having health problems, it makes it more difficult to attack Biden. And yet I think it’s pretty apparent Biden has significant health problems. There’s probably a double standard.” Jesus Christ, lol.

In yet another demonstration of their fourth-grade intellectual capacity, Tipp City, Ohio Republican school board member Anne Zakkour, takes offense when board president Simon Patry, a fellow Republican, instructs her to remain quiet as he had the floor after she repeatedly interrupted with interjections.  Zakkour, ever the exemplar of rational conservatism, responds by throwing the Nazi raised-arm salute in his direction and declaring “Sieg Heil,” because that is the appropriate response when being called out for being rude.

Responding Thursday to spandex wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan’s recent letter demanding she allow him to interfere in her ongoing criminal prosecution of disgraced former President Trump and 18 of his minions for their failed post-2020 election coup attempt in Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told Jordan to get bent, calling him out specifically and personally for ignoring a subpoena from the House January 6th Select Committee, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

“Its obvious purpose is to obstruct a Georgia criminal proceeding and to advance outrageous misrepresentations. As I make clear below, there is no justification in the Constitution for Congress to interfere with a state criminal matter, as you attempt to do… Your letter makes clear that you lack a basic understanding of the law, its practice and the ethical obligations of attorneys generally and prosecutors specifically,” Willis wrote at various points in the letter to the turgid Congressman.

It was on the first page however she dickpunched Gym the hardest. “Your note calls to mind another letter recently submitted to a House select committee: ‘This unprecedented action serves no legitimate legislative purpose and would set a dangerous precedent for future Congresses… the American people deserve better,'” Willis wrote, quoting directly from Jordan’s January 2022 letter to House January 6th Select Committee Chair Congressman Bennie Thompson in which he openly refused to comply with a subpoena to testify as to his involvement in Trump’s coup attempt.

Well she might’ve punched even harder on page 6 with “For a more thorough understanding of Georgia’s RICO statute, its application and similar laws in other states, I encourage you to read ‘RICO State-by-State.’ As a non-member of the bar, you can purchase a copy for two hundred forty-nine dollars [$249],” ragging on Jordan for getting a JD but never passing the bar exam.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s defense lawyer Tony Buzbee on Thursday complained in Instagram post that “the media” was making him look too “tan” in video and still images of the ongoing trial in which his client faces expulsion from office over his eight year political crime spree.

“Here are two pics from two different reputable news organizations, taken on the same day, within minutes of the other. I am out in the sun a lot, but I don’t think my skin has ever been that ‘tan.’ Why would they doctor my pic? I’m sure you could take a guess. So you think the news isn’t bias? Think again,” wrote Buzbee, evoking the complaints of another certain Ken Paxton ally who’s also supposed to have more important things to do than constantly obsesses over his appearance.

Texas Tribune reporter Robert Downen notes that the more orange-y image on the left is actually from the official livestream of the Texas state Senate, which doesn’t exactly qualify as a “news organization” (nor is it “reputable,” especially if they fail to convict this piece of shit). We would also add that irrespective of how much a broadcast feed or camera might oversaturate an image, Tony Buzbee looks like a douchey 1990s-era movie villain with his stupid slicked-back hairstyle and angry scowl. He’s just asking for Bruce Willis or Jean-Claude Van Damme to kick him out of an upper-floor window of a burning skyscraper and say “Buzz off, Buzbee!” or something just before the credits roll.

Marking four straight weeks of declines, jobless claims reached their lowest level in more than six months, coming in below expectations, while worker productivity jumped to its highest levels in three years, a new Labor Department report shows, per Reuters.

Jobless claims fell 13,000 to 216,000 in the week starting August 28th, according to reports, the lowest level since February 11th. Last week’s job creation report showed better-than-expected growth with downward modification on previous reports, increased wages, and growing labor participation rates.  Combined, the data demonstrate a job market with strong foundations devoid of signals of a reversal in the near future.

The foundations that manage the thirteen Presidential Libraries for former presidents–from Herbert Hoover through Barack Obama–issued a historic joint statement calling on Americans to unite, see past our differences, and work toward a more stable nation.

Noting the US role as not just an economic leader but as a beacon of democracy around the world, the statement notes that apparent weakness in the US political system–caused by Republicans undermining the foundations of American democracy, although the letter does not specifically call out the current GOP campaign to sow doubt in elections–give rise to outside threats from those looking to topple democracies worldwide.

“Americans have a strong interest in supporting democratic movements and respect for human rights around the world because free societies elsewhere contribute to our own security and prosperity here at home,” it reads. “But that interest is undermined when others see our own house in disarray. The world will not wait for us to address our problems, so we must both continue to strive toward a more perfect union and help those abroad looking for U.S. leadership.”

The federal grand jury that handed down the four count indictment of disgraced former President Trump over his post-2020 election coup attempt has been spotted meeting again at the courthouse on Friday, CNN reports on another indication that Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith isn’t done yet and that his dipshit co-conspirators ought to be afraid. Very afraid.

British Conservative MP Chris Pincher, whose drunken, Matt Schlapp-like habit of groping other men led directly to the downfall of Prime Minister Boris Johnson last year, finally resigned his seat in Parliament on Thursday, the BBC reports in a final epilogue to the Pinchygate scandal.

The open seat triggers a by-election and another headache Prime Minister Rishi Sunak doesn’t need right now as the Tories slide toward an absolute fucking nightmare of a general election at some point next year with their economy in the shitter and inflation still running rampant.