Midweek Mayhem [DOT 10/8/22]

10/8/22 MegMegMcGee 30

Today is my Friday betches!

I love this song

Mar-a-Lago search appears focused on whether Trump, aides withheld items
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/09/trump-fbi-search-mar-a-lago/

Ewwwwwww

Alex Jones sent nude photo of wife to Roger Stone, Sandy Hook lawyer reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/09/alex-jones-nude-photo-wife-roger-stone

Primaries going on…

Mandela Barnes is projected to win the Wisconsin Democratic Senate nod, setting up a fierce clash with Sen. Ron Johnson (R)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/09/primaries-wisconsin-vermont-minnesota-connecticut/

Fire spreads at Cuba oil storage facility as fourth tank erupts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/09/cuba-matanzas-oil-depot-fire-energy-shortage

New Mexico police detain primary suspect in killings of four Muslim men
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/09/new-mexico-suspect-muslim-killings-albuquerque

Sprots!

Serena Williams announces she will retire from tennis after glittering career
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/aug/09/serena-williams-retirement-tennis-us-open

Your daily dose of cuteness:

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30 Comments

  1. @megmegmcgee

    Your news yesterday that you were flying off to Europe got me thinking that I haven’t been on a plane since before the pandemic. This morning, as I was grazing for early morning news, I fell into an Internet wormhole that ultimately led me to this.  I wish I could have been on Elm Farm Ollie’s flight.

    I was thinking it would be good to go back to Italy, and no sooner had I thought this than I came across this. I don’t know why Domino’s thought they could make a go of it in Italy. The founder, Tom Monaghan, is super-Catholic so maybe he wanted to venture into the very heart of the Mother Church and do a good deed by–no, none of that makes sense. Turns out Monaghan sold off his stake to Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s vulture capital firm, for a cool $1 billion, so maybe the good folks at Bain thought that Italians would naturally prefer superior American products that aren’t as spicy, have way more toppings and of a greater variety, like hamburger and pineapple, and are more uniformly consistent? It was a failure, obviously.

    Then I got to wondering, like Carrie Bradshaw, whether there might be Taco Bells in Mexico. I could almost see this, locations along the border in impoverished cities where there’s a lot of US-Mexico flow, but no.

    • We are going to Italy next summer.  My daughter will be doing a study abroad program in Florence and then we will meet her and explore more of the country.  Hopefully it won’t be as warm as it has been this year but with my luck it probably will be worst!

      • Oh, how I envy you. Italy is such a beautiful country. Well, lots of it anyway, but especially Florence, one of the jewels in the crown. My advice to you is, for Florence in the summer, be prepared for crowds, and as early as you can try to find a place to stay and lock it in. I know you’re a big beer connoisseur, but you’re going to be adjacent to Chianti, and maybe that will be interesting for you. See how “the other half” lives on the beer/wine divide. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to the CA wine country but Chianti is even more beautiful and certainly more charming, to my mind.

        • Oh, I love wine almost as much as beer so will definitely check that out and yes, I have been to CA. wine country.  My wife grew up in what used to be the original Alamaden vineyard area. 

      • I wouldn’t want to see what his liver looks like at this point. Is there such a thing as alcohol-induced dementia? I think there is.

        Did you know that Giuliani himself actually incited a riot, way back in ’92? Later that year New Yorkers (we, but not me personally) elected him Mayor.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrolmen%27s_Benevolent_Association_Riot

        Wow. Thirty years ago. I still remember that. My colleague/eventual boss at the time was a native Italian and I ran into him at the elevators the day after the election. He said to me, “If I wanted a Fascist named Giuliani for Mayor I would have stayed in Italy.”

  3. One of the funniest things I’ve ever heard came out of Vermont’s primary: A Democratic candidate for Congress, going for the “moderate” mantle, claimed that voting for one of her rivals would be like “another Bernie Sanders” and it’s like, girl, you live in Vermont.

    She got wrecked, not surprisingly, by the people who, y’know, VOTE FOR BERNIE SANDERS EVERY SIX YEARS IN ENORMOUS NUMBERS.

    • There’s a lot of time left to run but the Democrats suddenly have good inflation news, passed some halfway decent legislation, have Trump being paraded around as a criminal, have the GOP tripling down on abortion prosecutions, more J6 to come … they will still do their very best to blow the midterms but it has shifted from “complete disaster, lose both houses” to “I like the Senate map and the House is in play” within the past few weeks.

  6. The NY Times reported yesterday that prior to the search, the feds had subpoenaed Mar a Lago’s security cam footage and Trump’s people had complied.

    Which is interesting because that meant Trump knew something was up about his home, even though he wouldn’t know the specifics.

    But it’s also interesting that nobody on either the Trump or Justice Department sides leaked about this.

    This was happening while there was an attempt to create a PR drumbeat that Garland and Justice weren’t doing anything. It implies DOJ’s being very tight, and if there are other background moves the government has kept its secrets.

    And it also suggests Trump didn’t want this out. He could have started undermining further moves early by complaining sooner. That’s been standard defensive procedure for him when he feels he has the upper hand, but not in cases like Stormy Daniels where he tried very hard to keep things secret.

    And finally it means the press really ought to be shoving away supposed inside sources who either lied to them or were in the dark about a lot of this. But that would mean reporters admitting they’re falling down on the job too. So that’s not happening.

    • …it wasn’t technically a raid, either…short notice but the secret service were told on the day rather than finding out when they turned up…& although the archives people had been down there earlier in the year to take a look & tell them to at least lock up the room some of this stuff was in better…it seems more plausible that there is/was a more significant concern cited in terms of a crime committed evidence of which needed procuring with haste & brooking no delay or obfuscation…I don’t think that warrant gets signed off if it’s just that they thought the extra padlock didn’t really address their concerns

      …it’s hard to be mad about something that seems to have upset so very many people who deserve that & more…but given some of what went into the warrant granting process apparently involved particulars that couldn’t be publicly discussed without nat-sec implications…if I were to get my hopes up it would be in the direction of the whole “help, help, I’m being oppressed” routine being a hail mary attempt to dampen the powder keg before the fuse burns all the way down?

    • There’s a steady drumbeat on Twitter saying that if Trump wants to “prove” he’s being persecuted, he can post his copy of the search warrant. Strangely, he has not done so.

      • The radio silence on the warrant is a telling detail, and it’s also telling that so little emphasis has been placed on this in press accounts.

        Crime reporters all over know the implications and regularly push this point in their reporting, down to stories about a shoplifting ring or car repair scammers. But the press execs aren’t treating this as something for the crime beat, they’re treating this as a politics beat story.

        And it’s a sign of how badly these organizations are stovepiped that the crime reporters are shunted to the sidelines in favor of political reporters who have such limited perspectives.

        • …yeah…I can be sympathetic up to a point on the basis that it’s hard to speak intelligently on something that hasn’t been disclosed…but on the one hand you’d think that would incline more of them to write up what might preclude the DoJ from disclosure & why that might be deemed appropriate…along with the fact that the un-presidented one absolutely could make public the full extent of the information disclosed to him…& that much like pleasing the fifth in a civil proceeding the way he did today it is in fact entirely fitting to infer from that action (or lack thereof) that the answers he’s being tight-lipped about are in fact the very furthest thing from exculpatory that they could be

          …weird how irresponsible speculation is such anathema to folks when a known fraud & criminal conspiracist has his crib tossed for contraband…but it’s just what the doctor ordered when the financial markets threaten to wobble

          …well…not weird, I guess…but damn if it isn’t tempting to make some conjectures

          …as well as some sort of montage video of all the times he said/tweeted things about others’ alleged guilt (& his certainty about same) which directly apply to him…presumably the midas bunch or someone is all over that, though?

  7. Some good questions to ask the Rethugs in your life…

    https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-is-it-that-republicans-actually

    This is fucking hilarious! “Trump — after a fierce campaign against Clinton in which he called for her to be jailed for her handling of classified material — signed a law in 2018 that stiffened the penalty for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents from one year to five years, turning it into a felony offense.”

    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/09/why-the-trump-search-warrant-is-nothing-like-hillarys-emails-00050691

    and if they can win with this platform, our country is done!

  9. I’m astonished that Alex Jones is married. But I’m not surprised that if she’s dumb enough to live with the guy, she’s dumb enough to let him take “intimate” photos of her.

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