Yup! [DOT 9/6/23]

9/6/23 MegMegMcGee 30

Happy Friday everyone. Hope you had a good week.

Nothing too exciting going on here other than everyone in the DMV talking about the wildfire smoke.

I saw a woman outside jogging this morning, no mask! Whereas I walked into the Panera from my car and could taste it through my mask. Blech!

Let’s Go!

Trump charged in Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation
https://wapo.st/45Xqf0q [gift article]

Trump indicted over alleged retention of documents at Mar-a-Lago – live
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/jun/08/trump-indicted-mar-a-lago-documents-updates-live

Oh wow

Air pollution in US from wildfire smoke is worst in recent recorded history
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/air-quality-record-smoke-hazard-wildfire-worst-day-ever-canada-new-york

Sprots!

A pickup truck doing ballet: Nikola Jokić is making the NBA finals his masterpiece
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/jun/08/nikola-jokic-nba-finals-denver-nuggets

Stonks!

Carvana shares surge after the company boosts second-quarter guidance
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/08/carvana-shares-surge-after-company-boosts-second-quarter-guidance.html

Whoa. Heed the warnings on the tweet.

Click through for a laugh

Have a great day!

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30 Comments

    • Yeah, it’s really undercut the Republican defense mechanism. They simply can’t argue that he didn’t do it or that there’s no case there. All they can do is squeal incoherently about the “rule of law” and how this is “political” and it’s some sort of miscarriage of justice and of course whataboutism concerning Biden. It would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.

      Trump federally indicted. Republicans have thoughts

      • I can see how lower level Republicans would decide to stick with Trump, but I’m shaking my head at the guys running against him like DeSantis who are trying to finesse their way through this.

        A huge part of Trump’s appeal to the GOP base came from being the guy who would turn on anyone. When Reagan went up against Gerald Ford in 1976, he didn’t care what polls or the party leadrship said about divisiveness.

        These dummies are so hung up on tomorrow’s polls they can’t think about any kind of long term planning or building any kind of base. They’re just so weak.

        • The main problem for DeSantis is that he has no significant differences from Trump to articulate. If he could speak clearly, which is doubtful. His whole identity is tied up in being more Trump than Trump. There’s no wiggle room there. And DeSantis isn’t even good at that. People (even Republicans) are freaked out by his fascism and his bizarre obsession with “woke.”

          IF the other Republican candidates weren’t idiots (remember, this is hypothetical), they’d try to focus on failed Trump “policies” and work that angle hard. “Trump wasn’t able to build the wall. I’ll finish the job.” “Unfortunately, the debt grew under Trump. I’ll fix that.” They’d be drafting behind the crap Trump launched to motivate the MAGAs. It also lets them discuss him respectfully, instead of going on attack.

          However, they are, in fact, idiots.

           

          • I agree that DeSantis has nothing except imitating Trump’s policies, and I’d add that he doesn’t get that Trump didn’t care about those policies except as a way to win power, inflict pain and sow chaos.

            If Texas had elected Beto O’Rourke, Trump would have done a 180 and offered a $1,000 bonus for every Mexican who crossed the border into Texas.

            Trump’s supporters backed him because he used issues as weapons. Trump supporters worry that DeSantis gets so hung up on issues that he blunts their value as weapons. They forgot about the wall as soon as Trump did, because they only cared about idea behind it — punishing struggling people. DeSantis does plenty of that too, but he remains the Ivy Leaguer who can’t help getting hung up in the details and punishing people in ways they don’t care about.

            • It’s not just that DeSantis blunts the value of issues to MAGAs, he is actually screwing them over. You may have heard that Florida GOP politicians have been meeting with migrant representatives and begging them to convince workers to stay in Florida. The new anti-immigration laws that DeSantis pushed are terrifying workers, who are fleeing to other states to harvest crops there. Florida farmers are hysterical, with nobody to pick tomatoes. So now the GQP politicians are saying “the law doesn’t mean anything and please don’t leave us like this.”

              Video shows Florida Republicans beg migrants not to leave state over DeSantis’ anti-immigrant law

              “The farmers are mad as hell. We are losing employees”

              • Yeah, RDS just doesn’t get how to play the game.

                When Trump screwed over farmers with his goofball anti-China tarriff war, he just made it up to them by shovelling tens of billions of dollars at them to make up for it. What did he care? He knew conservatives care ten times as much about votes than the deficit.

                Trump would have flipped the second the farmers got mad, let them get all of the temporary visas they wanted, and figured out another group to persecute instead.

                The net result for both guys is the same — stupid, ineffective, unjust persecution of tons of people — so it’s not like you could say Trump is better or worse than RDS. It’s just that Trump’s psychopathic behavior is more narcissistic and RDS’s psychopathic behavior is more clinical.

  3. It’d be nice, if the things that we’d hoped for on GT, back after the 2016 election can fiiiiinally come true!

    Convictions for Conspiracy Against the United States, violations of The Espionage Act, Treason, RICO, FinCEN, and *other* assorted High Crimes & Misdemeanors are *still* on my wishlist, ngl!!!😉😁😈

  5. Interesting bit on the wild imbalance in press coverage on the economy. It’s worth noting it now, because the excuse going forward will be that Trump’s legal issues have pushed good economic news out of the headlines. I’d add that Trump had no problem getting press about the economy staying strong after he inherited it from Obama, so it doesn’t even work as a bad news gets headlines angle.

    Also, this piece by Perry Bacon Jr. is great.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/06/anti-woke-centrism-cnn-chris-licht-atlantic-profile/

    I think it captures a lot about how insular and vapid news execs are, and how those qualities drive their obsessive prioritization of “anti-woke” reactionaryism over much bigger issues. Obviously other factors drive them, such as audience numbers and journalistic tropes.

    But it’s also worth noting how much the culture and class of the execs pushes what they think drives ratings and how they decide what counts as fairness.

     

    • It’s going to be tough for Loose Cannon to sweep this under the rug. The bottom line is they basically have recordings of Trump confessing to the crimes he’s charged with. We’re going to find out just exactly how far she’s willing to stick her neck out to protect him.

      If she’s smart she’ll step aside. She’s not smart.

  8. Obviously I know St Louis was no where near as bad as many other cities the last few days from the wildfire smoke. But also, there was lower air quality etc and the disturbing part is my coworkers and I were like eh this doesn’t feel any different than the office. The office that’s across the street from a landfill.

     

  9. I think I’m going to be like the Burgess Meredith character in the old “Twilight Zone” episode who heads down into his bank-workplace vault on his lunch hour and emerges to realize that a nuclear catastrophe has taken place and he may be the last man on earth. Then there’s a twist of course.

    I have actually been a shut-in for most of the week. BH was at the confab, someone in the building offered to walk the dog for me, we had laid in tons of food, I had tons of work, and for about 24 hours I could barely get out of bed to let in the dog-walker, so who knows what that was all about. Then, just last night, I learned that all of Canadaland is on fire and that New York’s air quality has not been…optimal. It wouldn’t kill me to look out the window every so often to observe atmospheric phenomena like the sky turning the color of what you’d see on a different planet. The dog was actually walking around in this and he didn’t mention anything.

      • I love West Coast Safeways, although I’ve never been to the Pacific NW. I’ll tell you though that the ones I’ve seen in California are like the size of the suburban neighborhood I grew up in, everything is attractively arranged, there’s often a fromager, aisles and aisles of wine and I think alcohol. If I were that bear, I would befriend the fromager and somehow communicate my desire for a crisp varietal in one of the wine aisles. The one in West Hollywood also had an excellent salumi section, so I would just plop down in the aisle and consume on-site.

        • Our Safeways are ok but our Fred Meyers are gigantic & more one stop shopping.  I’ve posted this before, where we shop near our Tahoe timeshare is a favorite for the local bears.

      • Isn’t it a little warm for bears in Central Florida? I wonder what the bear was doing there. Although I know people in Florida have huskies, and they must be miserable, but they can go inside and chill in the a/c…It’s all a mystery. I feel like Jim on “Wild Kingdom.”

        • No, we have black bears in Florida. They’re highly endangered, so there’s only about 4,000 or so. They roam all over Central Florida, though downtown Orlando is highly unusual. It had to cross a lot of streets to get there. I imagine some homeless person sleeping on a bench at Lake Eola and being awakened by a bear lumbering by.

          Our bears actually do like swamps and scrub forests. We have those aplenty, though development is taking its toll. We’ve got bear tunnels under a lot of roads to let them get past safely, and Seminole County has a recurring problem on the north side of bears raiding trashcans. So Ms. Suburb goes out to check the mail and Mama Bear and two cubs are lunching in her driveway. The county finally sprang for bear-proof cans in rural areas.

  11. The indictment has been released, including 37 counts for Trump and 38 for his codefendant, personal aide Walt Nauta.

    The indictment includes charges for nuclear intel which Trump did not have the authority to declassify while in office unlike most other documents (and of course anything declassified could be reclassified by Biden, but that’s a trickier case to prove).

    • https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.3.0_2.pdf

      The defendant is quoted verbatim in the paperwork literally saying of a document in his hands as he speaks that he could have declassified it but didn’t so now that it’s too late because he can’t, he shouldn’t be showing it to the person he’s talking to.

      And for extra credit no president can declassify the nuke shit without additional sign off from people who verifiably didn’t.

        • His MAGA-sty did the heavy lifting but it’s a pretty looking bow Jack Smith’s put on it.

          Also, when you only have to look at Gaetz, Hawley, and all the other willfully ignorant idiots who opened their mouths before they looked at that filing it really speaks volumes for how easy it is to see who didn’t open their gift to see what’s inside before their head start to running with borrowed takes.

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