Hey gang! I did that thing where I fell asleep on my lap top…
And now it’s 5:59AM and I’ve got nothing.
So fill me in below. Last week was a good week it seems. Pat Robertson is roasting in hell and little Donny is in hot water. Do you have any other good news?
Happy Caturday!
looks like one of the duckies had a mishap
Grace Jones can do at 25 what I couldn’t at 25 😂
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtFCY7ws4Tw/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading
Typo 😡 at 75
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1667248343255220227.html
This is a good synopsis if you don’t have time to savor the actual indictment. I will say a lot of it is pretty horrifying — boxes of documents left stacked all around Mar-a-Lago including a in a freaking ballroom?
Trump indictment is unsealed, and the contents are wild
Also, it looks like Trump has a personnel issue.
‘Stuck with whatever he can get’: Trump has a lawyer ‘problem’ as he faces off with Jack Smith
Somewhere a bunch of unpaid ex Trump lawyers are laughing evilly at the prospect of junior varsity dipshit lawyers going up against the DOJ’s first team.
I continue to marvel at the fact that there are STILL lawyers out there who are willing to work with him.
Isn’t the judge assigned to the case that wingnut who is in the tank for him and who had interfered in this whole thing previously? If so, then she’s definitely going to pull a Julius Hoffman and fuck the whole thing up.
This makes me feel a little better about that:
Yeah my understanding is that protocol says you have to involve any judge that’s been a part of the case, so Loose Cannon gets the case. Also, the magistrate that originally ordered the search of Mar-a-Lago is named as well. And he’s on the side of justice. But it’s largely a formality. If Loose Cannon fucks around, the DOJ will step on her.
On the positive side, it amuses me to think of Loose Cannon combing through that huge indictment to see which parts she can dismiss and going “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck …”
It’s incredible, isn’t it?
The prosecution’s opening statement could be, “the prosecution rests” and they’d still get guilty verdicts.
That’s how guilty he is.
They’ve got recorded confessions, for God’s sake. I mean, we always talked about that orange idiot telling on himself, but this is worse than I ever imagined.
They need to start preparing a mental incapacity defense. Say the dude’s got dementia and he didn’t know what he was saying/doing. It still won’t work, but that’s where I’d go if I was one of the law school students Trump’s going to have to hire at $15 an hour.
I think her main function would be dragging things out and complicating the job of the prosecution, but I’m not sure that’s what Trump wants.
He benefitted enormously from the butheremail and Wilileaks sagas in 2016, and the way they were an endless drip knocking Clinton’s campaigning out of the news. But now he’s facing the same thing, and I don’t think it helps him get back in the White House.
He (or another GOP candidate) needs to be on the attack, but a constant stream of Trump on trial news will be an endless distraction.
It may drive up GOP margins in Alabama and Idaho, but it’s a big problem in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Judge Eileen Loose Cannon could find herself in an even worse place then she already is. Interfering in national security matters without justification nearly got her booted off the case.
If she is smart she should run/recuse herself… She’s a Dukie so that could be doubtful (a former terrible boss went there.)
Spoiler alert: She’s not smart.
She may be just smart enough to be scared, though. She’s gotten spanked once already. This is radioactive for her. Nothing she can do is going to derail this train.
Bill Barr basically admitted it’s an open-and-shut case on Fox News. If Evil Fred Flintstone is telling MAGAs that Trump is fucked, then Trump is fucked.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/donald-trumps-lawyers-on-his-dysfunctional-legal-team.html
By the way, and I forget how I did this, New York Magazine has this feature where you can sign up for their newsletter, which is “One Great Story.” Every so often, maybe every day, you get an email with a link to a story like this one, which they move out from behind the paywall as a lure to get you to subscribe. The link I posted should still be in the free zone.
One article per day from New York Magazine is enough. The great thing about One Great Story is that the article they make available is substantive, showcasing that they are capable of hiring and publishing writers who aren’t “lifestyle” hacks. If I read one more article from any source whatsoever about Manhattan’s hottest rooftop bars, or Brooklyn’s best brunch spots, or 20 Free Things To Do In New York To Make This The Best Summer Ever!…
Holy fuck. That is the kind of info that gets you killed… The non joking version of “If I have to tell you then I have to kill you.”
Same should apply to Jared “Two billion from the Saudis for something….” Kushner.
I don’t agree with Chris Christie on many things but he is correct in that the DOJ should be looking at the Mortician Princeling, Ivanka and Steve Munchkin. Betting they sold US Intel on Iran and Israel and Israeli Intel on Saudi dissidents to Prince Bonesaw.
almost gotta admire the stupidity of it all
It is amazing how everything the GOPers claimed to be on policy is merely a facade of them clinging to power.
Doesn’t matter if it is the deficit, top secret info, family values or the children. Everything is ready to go if they can hold onto power for one more second.
Right wingers are the unchained ID of humanity.
lol….everything in my backyard currently in direct sunlight is wilting…except
Fox used the obvious distraction to announce they had dumped Raj Shah, an exec who pushed for more appeasement of Trump lover audiences.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/media/fox-raj-shah-leaves-hnk-intl/index.html
Sometimes I like to stab myself in my eyes and ears so I figured I’d share what some “news” outlets are covering today.
FOX NEWS: Hunter Biden is guilty! He used to have a laptop which we’ve covered once or twice already. BUT Joe Biden is guilty! guilty! guilty! and the good news is we no longer have to jump hurdles and talk in circles to convince you that it isn’t by proxy! Why is this not the top story at every news organisation right now? It’s baffling! Baffling we say! We even removed Hunter and added Joe to the chyron ffs! What more will it take?
NEWSMAX: China Takes Front Stage Due To Joe Biden’s Weakness (in their defense I think “weakness” was a typo and they meant “wokeness”?)
INFOWARS: The only way we can fight this election rigging tyrannical witch hunt and public lynching is if y’all join the fight by taking three drops of this mind clearing iodine in a bottle that is 25% off! I know I said it’d have to go back to full price because we’re running out right quick but now I can’t justify doing that after all this tyranny so until next saturday it’s 25% off!
You’re welcome.
FOLLOW UP…
Way to go Newsmax for covering it as a 7th or 8th story:
“No one is even sure of what is even in those boxes. How do they justify bringing charges? This is astounding! We are oh so astounded. We just can’t believe all the astoundedness going on right now! This reeks of election tampering.”
“…on to the next story…and how affirmative action destroyed America!”
Here is all the right wing bullshit in one place.
https://www.therighting.com
In news Hanibal can use, the Corgis are on their paw-blicity tour to raise money for Alzheimer’s before the great Corgi races we have next month.
https://alzwablog.org/2023/05/03/corgis-for-a-cure/
With the exception of the endless amounts of hair, the need for exercise and constant companionship, and ending up to be an Asian Stereotype (top dog of choice among Asians it seems) and the fact they’re expensive I would consider getting one if my job changes to something less rotational and over time-ish.
I sure hope this guy flips and we get to hear how Trump gave the Saudis & Putin classified info. MAGA Re-thugs would still defend him but at that point what is left of the “serious” parts of the party would have to jump off. Sad thing to think is if our next president is a republican, unless it is Chris Christie (no chance in hell) or Asa Hutchinson (less than no chance in hell) they pardon Trump. Hopefully Georgia will also indict him too so they can’t pardon that. What a shitshow the next year is going to be but will make for some interesting TV.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/06/10/the-mar-a-lago-indictment-is-a-love-bunny/