…on what grounds [DOT 8/2/20]

…there’s some disagreement over the exact phrasing

…but broadly speaking the point the old greek geezer was making was that were a suitable lever to exist along with a fulcrum of some sort & a place to stand anyone could move anything…up to & including tipping the globe off its axis

…but what good is a lever if you’re denied standing despite having all the grounds you could ask for?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/federal-appeals-court-dismisses-trump-emoluments-case-n1132441

…seriously – there isn’t even a pretense of a defense against the charges themselves since it’s a matter of public record that one of the reasons those suits fit so badly is the pockets each contain their own financial singularity

https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/02/federal-appeals-court-dismisses-democrats-emoluments-challenge-for-lack-of-standing/

…no – apparently what it is is that the district court judges overlooked the specious contention that the Members of Congress “lack standing” because they were not personally harmed by the illegal, unconstitutional & explicitly forbidden processes by which the eternally impeached grifter continues to help himself to what would be enrichment to someone less mired in a soul-crushingly out of control nested sequence of debt-management vehicles masquerading as a legitimate enterprise

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-has-paid-rates-as-high-as-650-a-night-for-rooms-at-trumps-properties/2020/02/06/story.html

[…sure, that one isn’t foreign but it’s still a blatant biff of gratuitous grifting at rates that are well into gouging territory]

…which is…curious, shall we say…given that a great many people are in breach of a great many subpoenas for a great deal of definitely super-not-great financial information relating to the RICO-convictions-in-waiting that are the trump-tribe finances…all properly sworn out & everything…but a few of those same individuals & agencies are happy to give up similar sorts of financial information about the Biden family just for the asking…when the ask is coming from team God-awful Orange Parasite, that is

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/senate-republicans-hunter-biden_n_5e3c61bfc5b6b70886fc4ed4

…because this train has officially left the tracks now, people

The Real News in Bill Barr’s Announcement: He’s Vetoing Campaign Finance Investigations, Too

…none of this is ok…& precious little of it means anything like the crap that the right is desperate to make it sound like it means…so let’s be clear…the only un-alleged thing about the fraudulent puppet posturing in place of an actual president is that he is now & always will be the eternally & immutably Impeached Chump

…& in a just world it would be a federal offense to use his given name under any circumstances without that immutable prefix…preferably with some modifiers…like “the demonstrably-guilty-&-improperly-acquitted-but-none-the-less-very-much-indelibly Impeached Chump”

…say it a few times & it starts to roll off the tongue quite satisfyingly

…also, that bullshit about expunging that via the same bought-&-paid-for travesty of process that billy boy is barr-none-ing the shit out of in the over-reach ret-con stakes the obnoxious orange outrage is still flogging like Xerxes on the shore?

“They can’t do that.” according to one Nancy Pelosi, paper-shearing spokeswoman for exasperated grown-ups all over the shop “First of all they’re not getting the chamber back, but apart from that, there’s no expunging. If they don’t want to honor their oath of office, then they’re going to expunge from their own souls the violation of the Constitution that they made.”

quoted in WaPo if anyone’s keeping score…

…& when it comes to that violating…they sure do keep ’em coming

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/07/alexander-vindman-fired-trump-impeachment-white-house

…with the brother for a encore & an ambassador for the hat-trick of 100% pure vengeful spite of the most insecure & pre-pubescent variety ever to be displayed by (technically) a president…albeit an impeached-&-unjustly-acquitted cancerous asshole of a “president”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/vindman-who-provided-key-impeachment-testimony-escorted-white-house-attorney-n1132526

…meanwhile

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/facebook-and-twitter-decline-pelosi-request-to-delete-trump-video.html

…how that kind of adulterated video content is supposed to fit through that “for comedic purposes” loophole they had the gall to pull out of their ass a while back I don’t know but if there were any lingering doubts about whether @jack & the zuckster weren’t steeped in this malignancy right up to their shifty little eyeballs those bridges are well & truly burnt…but for those of you who are fans of irony here’s a double-header for you

#fuckzuck

twitter sucks

…anyone still not onboard the twitter-sucks/fuck-zuck bandwagon is way the fuck late to this bonfire of the vanities, folks

…still…at least it’s the weekend…maybe some of these assholes will go to church & some god or other will smite them good & proper just to make me look like an idiot with all this agnostic ranting & raving

…go on…I dare you…I god damned double dare your deified ass to make with the god damned thunderbolts already