…not gonna lie…I’m a little torn this go around?
…for the longest time it’s been…a lot…like a whole lot of tunnel with nary a glipse of the light at the end…& it’s not like suddenly all that’s got better & there’s nowt worth worrying about left to fuck up my day & put me right off my cornflakes
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/independent-autopsy-andres-guardado-finds-he-was-fatally-shot-five-times-in-the-back
What the ‘black-on-black crime’ fallacy misses about race and gun deaths
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/09/republicans-second-stimulus-checks
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/uber-buys-postmates-deal-where-restaurants-delivery-people-customers-all-lose
…& as often as not even where the news doesn’t outright suck it still doesn’t rise to the extent of feeling like good news
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/08/facebook-civil-rights-audit/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/08/facebook-roger-stone/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/08/how-trump-is-losing-asia/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/07/08/harvard-mit-international-students-ice/
…because at the end of the day there’s still a lethally vainglorius fantasist at the helm of arguably the world’s largest & almost certainly the most potentially destructive ship of state
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/desperate-trump-bets-racism-2020-election-n1233116
How Could Human Nature Have Become This Politicized?
…but you know what
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-slams-trump-coronavirus-russia-commander-chief-who-doesn-t-command-anything
…this train might have hit runaway status shortly after it left the electoral college station but that light at the end of the tunnel might be hoving into view & there seems like a decent chance the fucker might go all the way off the rails when it’s all out there in the midday sun with the mad dogs & englishmen…so maybe it’s a case of an outbreak of sanity that’s got some people headed back inside?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/michael-cohen-federal-custody/2020/07/09/story.html
…either way it seems a few home truths might finally have landed on some folks like a bat upside the head
…because the pressure is sure as hell starting to show signs of things maybe starting to give…sometimes in surprising places
…oh, yeah…”I won the Mueller Witch Hunt”…this asshole may or may not think he actually has a shot at that particular delusion so much as passing for reality in the minds of his more willfully indoctrinated faithful…but I’m tempted to say I really do think he actually thinks that phrase has an intelligible meaning rather than being the perfect setup for a “that’s not how any of this shit works” moment
…because all this time I’m pretty sure he thought he was the rat & the GOP was the ship he could leave when it started to look like he’d well & truly sunk it…just like he always has with every other thing he’s ever used to keep alive the fiction that he’s anything other than an abject failure at everything he’s ever done up to & most especially including being an actually grown up functional human being & not an embarassment to the species from the ground up…& he seems to just now be noticing that all the other rats always had him pegged for the role of the Titanic in this disaster movie of an electoral cycle…& he is starting to sound desperately insane & insanely desperate even by the crackpot standards his delusory solipsistic ass has been trying to make out as a baseline of stable genius these last few seemingly-endless years…to wit
We have a totally corrupt previous Administration, including a President and Vice President who spied on my campaign, AND GOT CAUGHT…and nothing happens to them. This crime was taking place even before my election, everyone knows it, and yet all are frozen stiff with fear….
No Republican Senate Judiciary response, NO “JUSTICE”, NO FBI, NO NOTHING. Major horror show REPORTS on Comey & McCabe, guilty as hell, nothing happens. Catch Obama & Biden cold, nothing. A 3 year, $45,000,000 Mueller HOAX, failed – investigated everything….
Won all against the Federal Government and the Democrats send everything to politically corrupt New York, which is falling apart with everyone leaving, to give it a second, third and fourth try. Now the Supreme Court gives a delay ruling that they would never have given…
for another President. This is about PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT. We catch the other side SPYING on my campaign, the biggest political crime and scandal in U.S. history, and NOTHING HAPPENS. But despite this, I have done more than any President in history in first 3 1/2 years!
Originally tweeted by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) on July 9, 2020.
…give me a minute, here
…a-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
“that ain’t how any of this shit works”
…okay…now where was I…right, let’s take it from the top shall we…I mean, we all know he might legitimately misunderstand literally all the things you’d need to fail to grasp to make shit like that first paragraph even halfway true when you squint just right…but buried in those desperate stubby-fingered flailings are some sublime bits of cognitive dissonance that actually ring true if you take them out of whatver batshittery he thinks he’s on about & drop them into something resembling the reality the rest of us habitually use for contextual purposes…like this bit
crime was taking place even before my election, everyone knows it,
…that shit is right on the money…& when I say money…I’m looking at his campaign finances first & second…& literally all his other finances immediately after that…& you know…shit that potentially de-legitimises the electoral process in all sorts of scary-ass ways…speaking of which
guilty as hell, nothing happens
…we know, motherfucker…but at some level even you should realise by now that even your twitter bullshit won’t save your blubbering carcass from the harpoons of fate forever…never mind the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune…or the arc of the moral universe…or those exceedingly-fine-grinding wheels of justice…no matter how many monkey wrenches (or Bill Barrs, as the case may be) you lob at whatever spokes & gears you can contrive to in hopes the machinery will seize up insteaded of seizing upon you…what am I saying…of course you do…that’s why you’re showing your entire ass this way in front of god & everybody right there in your little dog-whistle-friendly-safe-space like the sagging waxwork effigy of a dyspeptic manchild you so orange-faced-ly are
the biggest political crime and scandal in U.S. history, and NOTHING HAPPENS
…yet…nothing happens, yet
Maybe someone could mention to Trump that Richard Nixon resigned on August 9th, 1974.
“Sir, if you resigned on August 9th, you’d get much bigger ratings. Here’s a little clip of his resignation speech. Sad, isn’t it? Behind a desk, no audience? Now if you did it…”
…things 2020 made you think that you never thought you’d say no. 16,752
“if only the president exhibited the fundamental decency & self-awareness of Richard Nixon”
Nixon didn’t exactly go willingly. The Congressional Republicans got together and dispatched Sen. Barry Goldwater (!) and the House and Senate Republican leaders to deliver some bad news. Nixon’s support among Republicans in the House and Senate was so weak that impeachment and removal from office was pretty much a sure thing.
The things that make you go hmmm
Also, apparently Facebook broke a ton of apps in the night….
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/10/21319784/ios-apps-crashing-spotify-tiktok-pinterest-tinder-facebook-sdk-certification-issue
The Mueller Witch Hunt board game, you play as trump in full witch drag or Mueller as Cotton Mather. Witch/trump plays cards to accuse other people of witchcraft, meet with the devil/Putin, add demons to his coven, appoint his own judges. Mueller/Mather plays cards that allow him to investigate other witches. Every time you think Mueller might burn trump at the stake he backs off and trump slithers away to commit another crime. The game never ends and we are all the losers.
…I think there’s something to be said for the possibility that mango unchained only thinks he’s good at that game
…he knows how to throw people to the lawyers when he needs bailing out but that’s generally played out according to a strategy that depends on the opposing side tapping out
…the federal &/or state judiciary doesn’t actually need to tap out, though…potentially ever according to some readings…& I don’t think he ever thought he’d be let down by the law when all these years he’s considered it bought & paid for
You just dredged up a memory I hadn’t thought of since childhood.
When I was in 6th or 7th grade we had to do a final report for Social Studies. Most people did a “research paper.” My best buddy and I were very creative (we used to make our own comic books and had a whole cast of characters, as one of many examples).
We petitioned the teacher and asked if we could work together and do a Salem Witch Trials board game. It would have been too difficult to do individually. With GREAT reluctance she gave us the OK.
It was amazing. It was based on the Game of Life, with a little Chutes and Ladders thrown in. The game board was huge because you didn’t go in a linear fashion, you’d sometimes get pulled into these circles. Plus, each square had quite a bit of writing on it. So, for example, you might land on a square at the entrance to a circle that said, “You are brought before the Crown Court. Roll again.” So you’d roll again and in that circle would be squares that said, “Your husband testifies against you. Skip a turn.” Or, maybe in another circle, “Prior to your trial there have been three weeks of rain but now it’s sunny. Roll again.” There would be a fork. If you rolled odds you were sentenced to be hanged for witchcraft. If you rolled evens that meant that the townsfolk thought there was something up but that you were a benign presence that could save the harvest.
So much more thought went into that game than the Trump administration has put into…well, anything.
So you were the guy screwing up the curve for people like me, lol. That sounds like an awesome game. Hope you both got an A+. Now get to work designing The Mueller Witch Hunt board game!
The deck is stacked but in the end trump is going to lose. I wasn’t so sure but Roberts is apparently committed to democracy and the idea of coequal branches of government.
…even if he’s just committed to being able to look his grandchildren in the eye I’m pretty sure I’d take it
…but the fact that the toddler-in-chief only ever had eyes for the pot ought to mean that in the end the House was always going to win
…& if November can give a double House advantage to the party that didn’t bring him to the dance in the first place I’d like to think that deck could get stacked plenty high?
From your keyboard to the goddess’ ears.
I apologize in advance if this was already covered in the links above or elsewhere but this could not have happened to a more deserving group…
https://apnews.com/11198fc30f1cc29c29c27f62f6a23644
I also want to mention a new excuse/conspiracy theory the right is pushing even among the medical community. They are trying to push that the doctors in the places having heavy Covid spikes are told to record all causes of death as Covid. They are also trying to claim that the tests will come back positive if you have any cold/flu not just Covid. These are desperate times for the Faux News loving crowd and the excuses are only going to get crazier the closer we get to the election.
and here is some great ammo for your next battle with that GOP loving friend…
https://sirota.substack.com/p/the-1-percents-quarter-trillion-dollar
…on the one hand I don’t think I had the mississippi thing in front of me before
…& on the other…the fucking tax code, man…it’s enough to make you lose your mind…& that never did seem like it was accidental
…so thanks & all…you’re not wrong…but that would for sure be joining the list of things that could put me off my cornflakes if I think about it much…& you gotta eat sometime…man cannot live on ire alone…or was it bread…shit makes me livid enough to lose my damn appetite is what I’m getting at here
It’s late but it’s here – Fur Face Friday!
https://groupthink.kinja.com/fur-face-friday-1844338845
…hurrah…bring it on