Thanks lil baby jebus.
Longest week ever! Sorry I haven’t been around to star every comment like you know I like to do!
I’ve mostly been asleep. But I’m feeling much better and looking forward to a weekend of continued rest and relaxation.
My mother always said if you can’t say something nice then don’t say anything at all.
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This is a wild ride
South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh charged with murder of wife and son
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/14/alex-murdaugh-south-carolina-charged-double-murder
Stonks!
Stock futures rise as Wall Street awaits more major bank earnings
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/14/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
I don’t know why anything surprises me anymore
‘Game over’: Steve Bannon audio reveals Trump planned to claim early victory
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/14/steve-bannon-audio-trump-declare-victory
They really shouldn’t let us out of the country. We’re embarrassing with our white tennis shoes, black socks, and whatever this is:
Bad kitty!
Cat who eluded capture for weeks at Boston airport finally found
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/14/cat-rowdy-logan-airport-boston-caught
Have an awesome weekend!
I was hoping you’d mention Ivana and if you didn’t, believe me I would have in these comments. I was very saddened to hear of her passing because for me, this news seems to mean that the 80s are well and truly over.
If you’d like to read more about this extraordinary woman, today’s New York Post has no fewer than 13 articles about her. There is a lot of cross-contributing, because even the most devoted Ivana watcher has only so much to say. But well they might devote 13 articles to her, because in the 1980s she was practically their patron saint, and her bombshell divorce in 1992 probably generated enough income to pay the entire newsroom staff’s salaries for a month.
In my memory they didn’t dwell on The Donald that much, except for his multiple deals and subsequents failures and bankruptcies; for that of course we relied on Spy Magazine, which couldn’t get enough of him, so I decided to visit the Spy Archive:
https://archive.org/details/SpyMagazine/Spy%20Magazine%201986-1998/1986/1986-10-OCT/
(The URL takes you to the 10/86 edition because that was the first one, but the entire run is preserved cover to cover.)
I visit the Spy Archive every so often and every time I do it’s like attending a school reunion: people and events come drifting back from the past, old friends reunited, highs and lows relived. I picked the 12/89 issue at random and there was a reference to something called the Tour De Trump. I figured that was a euphemism but no, it was exactly what it sounds like: Donald Trump, in one of his harebrained schemes, decided to create an American version of the Tour de France (going on now and something I should have mentioned in yesterday’s DOT, along with the new revelations about Macron basically being Uber’s France sales rep.) You can read about it here:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-2016-tour-de-trump-bike-race-213801/
Notice, with grim hindsight, that the article was published April 10, 2016, and the author bio notes that the writer is currently working on a book on “fringe” American presidential candidates. How naive we all were in April of 2016.
Ivana was the least offensive thing about the Trumps… she had her moments though.
Well, yes, she’s got less to answer for. However, she managed to spawn three sociopaths. Even though she’s apparently been fairly inoffensive since then, I’m not inclined to give her a pass for inflicting Dumb, Dumber, and Daddy’s Girl on humanity.
True, she wasn’t a prize personality wise, but they’re daddy’s kids. He made’em what they are today (like his dad did to him.)
And the fact she wasn’t endlessly parading in front of the camera unlike her ex hubby doesn’t hurt (Pizza Hut commercials not withstanding.)
When I saw the headline yesterday “Trump dead” , for one minute I felt peace again in life. Then I saw the rest of the story & fuck fuck fuck!!!!
I was more like, “No ‘K’. Damnit.”
I am currently okay with Trump’s continued existence. He’s rapidly becoming the Republican Party’s worst nightmare. I kinda hope he’ll run again to derail that shitstain DeSantis. Because if that fucker gets elected, we’re going to see lots more swastikas.
I heard the dream scenario of this. He runs and loses to DeSatin in the primary so decides to run as an independent which splits the party and Dems easily keep presidency. I would really rather see Manchin dead more than Trump at this point.
Unknown if toursita moron was a virgin.
The Murdaugh family seems quite fucked up. Sure we have the Kennedy’s, but this is more the WASPy Sopranos.
I wonder what his motivation was for killing his wife and son.
Money? It’s usually the prime motivator. In my family of wannabe power brokers, it’s the only motivator.
He was stealing from his clients so insurance scam comes to mind.
My first thought was that he must’ve been having an affair and they found out. After reading up on it, though, this dude was a serious criminal. All kinds of embezzlement charges and scams and stealing millions of dollars. My current thinking is that his co-conspirators turned on him and threatened to go to police, or he felt like he needed to tie up loose ends who might go to the police.
The whole family seems to be a. corrupt and b. insane. I await the inevitable miniseries.
I have a title… “Southern Gothic”
If you’re bored – here is the Reddit that has a lot of Murdaugh info.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MurdaughFamilyMurders/
I’ve said it before, but everyone in the Secret Service who worked with any member of the Trump Cartel should be considered compromised and removed from Washington, DC. Send them to chase counterfeiters in Idaho. The whole agency needs a reset.
Secret Service erased texts from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, official says
DON’T PUNISH IDAHO.
I mean, I understand why you don’t want them in their most likely refuge – Florida.
Fair point. I was trying to think of someplace where they wouldn’t actually find any counterfeiters and could do the least damage. Pretty sure you can find counterfeit rings in Florida. Plus we don’t need them hanging out a Mar-a-Lago. There’s enough scumbags there already.
They can always come to the Adams administration, where they’d receive a warm welcome:
https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/12/14/22836898/eric-adams-criminal-justice-advisor-left-nypd-under-cloud
This guy ins now the highly paid Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and hasn’t been seen in six months, despite crime getting ever worse.
Not nearly as bad as Adams trying to get his brother, the assistant general manager of a parking lot, on the dole/city payroll at $240K/per in some kind of bodyguard role:
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/01/12/so-is-eric-adamss-asst-parking-director-brother-qualified-to-head-mayoral-security/
an act so egregious it was, for once, deemed to run afoul of NYC’s badly abused rules against nepotism.
Did anyone else catch Bolton admitted to planning coups?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-bolton-coup-trump-jan-6-committee_n_62cde555e4b007c97c83fa1f
Killing your ex-wife or mom seems a bit much to postpone testifying?
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/15/donad-trump-deposition-delayed-ivana-death
Disappointed in you, Vesuvius. You were supposed to finish the job.
For the hottest volcano action he should have hiked where he shouldn’t have up Mt. Etna in Sicily. I doubt this would have mattered much to him, but he could have stayed conveniently nearby in Taormina, Sicily’s only real glam hotspot, aside from some really small towns and off-shore islands.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page ran an editorial accusing Biden of making up the story of the 10 year old girl who was raped and sought an abortion. It was a part of a widespread right wing media counteroffensive.
And then the story was verified. Does the WSJ apologize, retract and correct? No, they just add an editors note saying “well, we didn’t get the information, so the editorial stands.”
And then they ran another piece saying passions run too high, so let’s all just relax. After, of course, they tried to make the story take off to their advantage.
The NY Times opinion page ran a factually wrong piece about abortion and ectopic pregnancy from ine of their cadre of concern troll apologists for the right, and refused to fix it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/12/new-york-times-essay-ectopic-pregnancy-error
The right got what it wanted, the effects are going to continue to get worse, and the elites in charge of punditworld are bending over backwards to wish it all away.
I saw that. I expect no better from the WSJ. They’re only slightly less partisan than Fox News at this point. Actually, they may be more partisan but manage to generate a bit more effective thin veneer of objectivity. And the NYT is, well … the less said, the better.