Month: January 2024

Trump Trumped, DeSantis Diced, Feeding Hungry Fined, Ban Abortion

Wow!
Practice really does make perfect:

  • Did we really think a $3 million award to E. Jean Carroll would stop mr Trump from his attack-dog mode?
     
    He showed us a thing or two with a hundred more defamations.
    See? $3 million is chump change.
     
    tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors notes an irony as another jury ups that $3 million by another $83.3 Million. The new jury considers a helpful Trump boast from another trial.
     
  • On the criminal charge side, the Palmer Report has Jack Smith ready to present evidence that can break open the Trump document case: data from cell towers.
     
  • A non-revelation:
     
    Donald Trump suggested he has his pick for vice president and hinted people will not “be that surprised” by his choice of running mate, The Hill reports.
     
    Wisconsin conservatives have a question:


    Fellow Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson narrows the choices:

  • Max’s Dad takes whatever is left of Ron DeSantis, slices, dices, and cooks the pieces.
     
    Key personality:
    Like most bullies he got punched by an even bigger bully and crawled away, hat in hand, and expressed his admiration for the other bully. A Profile in Courage.
     
  • It’s becoming a familiar pattern. A Murdoch employee generates a rumor that another Murdoch employee reports as a real news story. The report is believed without question by a credulous audience.
     
    News Corpse takes the arc into full circle as a gossip columnist for the Murdoch owned NY Post reports that Michelle Obama is about to become a candidate for President, which Fox personality Steve Doocy repeats on the Murdoch owned network as a terrifying report.
     
  • Iron Knee at Political Irony contrasts Iowa’s electoral significance through history with media fascination at the local diner.
     
  • Hackwhackers ventures into TwitterLand (rebranded as X) to watch mr Trump lose talking points, lose his tongue, and simply lose track as Republicans frantically look for ways to defend his mental state.
     
  • PZ Myers has some fun with mr Trump passing a bare minimum cognitive test, then getting retelling wrong.
     
    Key observation:
    No one would celebrate passing it — it’s like expecting to be applauded when an examining doctor finds a heartbeat.
     
    Random internet reaction:

  • Of course, this had to float around the internet:

  • @whiskeywhistle98 has the best version of a cognitive test, to determine if she is sane:
     

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Impeach Crime Search, 14th, Trump Threats, Censor, Drowning Refugees

Ordinary strangers will sometimes take risks to help:

  • The Propaganda Professor provides a ten item guide, dead giveaways that the Biden impeachment is a blatant scam.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the numbers. A plurality of voters supports Trump being banned from ballots.
     
  • At the Palmer Report mr Trump can’t just wait for his Supreme Court to rule in his favor on eligibility, he has to threaten what will happen if they don’t.
     
  • Sammy The Bull Gravano, one-time hitman for the Gambino crime family, endorses mr Trump, and Trump proudly makes sure everyone knows.
     
    Media outlets, pundits, the internet explode with derision at the obtuseness. What sort of character witness does Trump think he’s discovered?
     
    Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged points to a darker motive.
     
    Key dark view:
    He’s just letting people know he’s got friends in all kinds of places. Loyal ones. Maybe dangerous ones.
     
  • Master of rant, snark, and thoughtful review, Max’s Dad examines the performance of Donald Trump during his defamation trial.
     
    Key claim:
    But there he is claiming how grief stricken he is over his mother in laws death though odds are 11,780 to one he could even remember her name.
     
  • News Corpse notes the standard that mr Trump says he will impose on major networks. If they haven’t been broadcasting his speeches, government must put them out of business.
     
    Key promise:
    Our so-called ‘government’ should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity.
     

  • mr Trump isn’t the only one. Tommy Christopher has Trump ex-employee, current Fox host, Kayleigh McEnany furious that CNN cut away from a Trump rant.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson is not convinced:

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Biden Tough, Fox Frustration, Trump Secrets, Immunity, Political Prisoners

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Old Out, New In, Economy WOW, 14th, Slavery Bad, Crenshaw Fury, RFK Fake

  • @whiskeywhistle98 has a final word on the year 2023:
     
  • At The Moderate Voice, retired U.S. Air Force Major Dorian bids a fond farewell to the best and worst of the bygone year.
     
  • In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson emphasizes the departure by the Biden administration from past economic doctrine with surprising results in 2023.
     
    Key support for infrastructure:
    This was a dramatic shift from the previous 40 years of U.S. policy, when lawmakers maintained that slashing the government would stimulate economic growth, and pundits widely predicted that the Democrats’ policies would create a recession.
     
    Key evaluation:
    Heather Long of the Washington Post said yesterday there was only one word for the U.S. economy in 2023, and that word is “miracle.”
     
  • Infidel753 has a radical suggestion: The progressive wing of the Democratic party might want to listen to voters.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has links to stories of many thousands of documented deaths linked to COVID advice from mr Trump and those of like mind.
     
    To mr Trump:
    Thank you sir. And I say that with tears in my eyes.
     
  • News Corpse looks into a new Trump announcement proving he really won the 2020 election:
     
    I am pleased to share a Report that is fully verified […] and compiled by the most highly qualified Election Experts in the Country.
     
    The report names no experts and is a rehash of unverified accusations that have long been disproven.
     
  • Iron Knee at Political Irony gets irritated with word mincing hypocrisy about Trump, Insurrection, and lock-em-up.
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged suggests what might have caused so many insurrectionists to have thought there was nothing the government would do to the 1/6 rioters, and what that has to do with the 14th Amendment, as well as Executive Immunity.
     
    Key accountability:
    That’s why we need to keep the pilot light of freedom lit for this crass moral infant, Donald Trump, who has been touching stoves his whole life and not finding them hot enough to stop reaching over and over again.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger asks if keeping Trump off the ballot is anti‑democratic, and makes the case for No!
     
  • Tommy Christopher brings us the latest logic from Trump attorney Alina Habba. Seems Trump appointed judges are biased against Trump.
     
    Logic seems to be this:
    Trump lawyers have to up their game, contriving especially shiny bright incandescently brilliant arguments because judges, including some Supreme Court Justices, who were appointed by him are biased against him because they want to appear unbiased and are frightened right down to their socks that any ruling in Trump’s favor will seem biased because he appointed them, so they are biased against him, even though they want to rule for him.
    Or something.
     
  • Update: (Law? Who said anything about law?):

  • In Hackwhackers Nikki Haley is still caught in Civil War boxes (cartoon style).
     
  • Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara doesn’t get the controversy about Nikki, the Civil War, and slavery.
     
    He accomplishes this non-comprehension by casting her answer to What caused the Civil War?, ummm, (rights, liberty, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, government overreach, capitalism, economics, did I leave anything out?) as a defense of abolitionists of that era, rather than a word salad about confederate inner motives.
     
    Key concession:
    Haley’s answer could have been better polished.
     
    Well… yeah.

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