Month: August 2022

Jamie Foxx IS Trump, Night Mar-A,
Natl Security in Locker Room Storage

  • Impersonation hell! tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors discovers that Jamie Foxx IS Donald Trump!
     
  • Iron Knee at Political Irony has a thought about Mr. Trump’s level of concern for the security of hyper-secret classified documents.
     
    Should we, maybe, keep them from our enemies?
     
  • At The Onion, the Assistant Manager at Mar-A-lago wonders if anyone will claim the nuclear briefcase held at Lost And Found.
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged looks at various Trump criminalities and has a modest proposal.
     
  • The Department of Justice was hesitant to release too much information about every damn thing that led to the search warrant at Mar-A-lago.
    Would witnesses be put in danger?
    Would the direction of an investigation still in progress encourage persons-of-interest to coordinate falsehoods?
     
    Noted historian Heather Cox Richardson takes a look at the heavily redacted affidavit. Lots was hidden, protected from view. So the only thing left was… Sweet Baby Jesus!!Trump did WHAT?!!.
     
  • YellowDog Granny finds out why the Judge told Mr Trump to get off her lawn!
     
  • Meanwhile, News Corpse watches the screen as the Fox Network devotes itself to its frantic struggle to exonerate Trump.
     
  • In The New York Times, conservative Rich Lowry writes about liberal hypocrisy: Can You Tell Me What Would Happen if the F.B.I. Were Investigating a Democrat?.
     
    driftglass bludgeons Lowry with history: Gosh! If only we had one or two examples where that really happened!
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson is not excited by Mr Trump’s innocence proclamation:

  • Julian Sanchez does not hold Mr. Trump’s latest defense in high esteem.

  • So Donald Trump demands the release of the affidavit on which the search warrant was based. That would be the search warrant of Donald Trump. That would be THE Donald Trump. He knows the DOJ won’t do it because they don’t want to dox witnesses who gave information to the FBI, and don’t want to let witnesses know what lies to play. Then DOJ releases a redacted version.
     
    The Palmer Report provides a meltdown chronicle as Donald Trump goes frantic-bizarro berserk in response.
     
  • Tommy Christopher relates the amazement of political professionals. Trump Team leaks out a letter they just know will help Trump and hurt Biden. Everyone and his brother is amazed. How could Trump-folk believe that could help?
     
  • They warned us, didn’t they?
     
    Any attempt to bring the law to Donald Trump would bring on Civil War. And the 2nd Amendment has provided the weaponry.
     
    The search at Mar-a-Lago crossed the line.
     
    Green Eagle goes to the battle site of the first battle in Knox County, Ohio and reports on the result that the insurrectionists did not expect.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil is unimpressed with Republican candidates, enraged as they are about law enforcement applied to hyper-secret classified documents stolen by Mr Trump, who talk bravely about committing deadly violence against FBI agents.

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Natl Security in Locker Room Storage”

Biden Progress, Mar-A-lago Search, Mini-Rage, FBI Attacked, Rushdie Okay

A patient teacher speaks to a misbehaving child named Donald:

And Michael Jay throws some Kim Carnes at him:

@stilloneblackmansopinion All those FBIs…#parody #creatorsofcolor #votethemout #busted #maralago #bluewave #gopisdead #voteblue ♬ original sound – StillOneBlackMansOpinion

  • At Whatever, John Scalzi discovers a day, this very week in our history of self-governance, that is not only not cringeworthy, but is meaningfully encouraging.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger began this week with the Mar-a-Lago FBI search, looking at the warrant and what was found. He does not see a path for Mr. Trump to avoid being charged with a serious crime.
     
  • First time I had seen this. Ant Farmer’s Almanac has figured out what was in that more secret than top secret cache of documents stolen by Mr Trump. Yeah, yeah, I already know it’s satire.
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life starts with this:
     
    To my knowledge, though, no one has looked at what it means for an unproductive malignant narcissist to have stolen from the White House.
     
    Jack makes a plausible case that Mr Trump saw, in those more-secret-than-top-secret documents a chance to show off.
     
    An interesting take, and a departure from the assumption by those in my corner of the ideological spectrum that it involved a serious, dark, self serving, financial motive.
     
    When it comes to revealing secret documents that damage national security, where does the substitution of a petty, silly motive leave us?
     
  • At first, the Mar-a-Lago search was supposed to cement Donald Trump’s political position as a martyr to the cause of Trump. Then details of probable cause and a list of items of specific topper-than-top secret documents began to emerge. The Palmer Report takes a close look at the warrant and discovers something more that bodes ill for Mr. Trump. The usual legal justification is missing. Instead, the document contains something much worse.
     
  • So the probable cause contains stuff that could hurt people: doxing the informant and a couple of signing FBI agents. And it could let a few people-of-interest get phony stories straight. Gotta be careful with all that.
     
    Trump demands the affidavit that led to the warrant be published. Press organizations are ready to file suit to get the affidavit. Garland says okay but some information must be redacted. The judge agrees the affidavit should be redacted and open to the press.
     
    So Tommy Christopher reports that all God’s children want that affidavit open.
     
    The judge holds a hearing on it. All sides can be heard. But Trump’s lawyers are strangely silent. On publishing the affidavit, on redaction, on everything. Weird.
     
    Former Fox maven, current CNN maven, Chris Wallace knows why.
     
  • So Mr Trump has a host of explanations, excuses, and attacks as he encounters possible legal consequences for stealing ultra-secret documents. Iron Knee at Political Irony explains why political experts examine his reasoning with barely suppressed laughter.
     
  • At Cato Institute, Julian Sanchez has some fun with a defense made popular by the Trump-can-do-no-wrong rage machine:

  • My one time President explains that anytime he takes a classified document, it is, by a sort of transubstantiation, no longer classified. Nojo very briefly explains where this honored tradition began.
     
  • News Corpse lists some of the Trump excuses for holding on to the stolen documents, including the newest one. They assure us the storeroom was mostly locked and only real nice people had keys. Promise? Promise!
     
  • Satirist Andy Borowitz reports as Tucker Carlson calls Trump’s theft of nuclear secrets less worrisome than Hunter Biden’s use of Joe’s Netflix password.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson appears unimpressed with Mr Trump’s legal maneuvers

  • Dave Columbo does Tucker: outraged at the unlawful raid victimizing the honorable Mr Trump:
    @davecolumbo Back by popular demand 🙂 #democrat #democrats #democratsoftiktok #maralagoraid #politicalsatire #politicaltiktok #politicalhumor #fy #fyp #foryou ♬ Manke, honobo, everyday, funny, loop – arachang

  • Dave Dubya documents Trump-folk frustration as they are confronted by criminal statutes, evidence, and answers to excuses.

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Raid/Search, Classified, Stolen Docs, Nuke Secrets, Trump Loss, Biden Wins

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Kansas, Jan 6, DOJ, Veterans, Ukraine, Soc Sec, Alex Jones, Uhura, Bill Russell

  • The strategy worked for a while. The conservative movement, with their overt tax cut and implicit racism agenda, found a way to use the anti-abortion, anti-gay side of religion as a smokescreen.
     
    Infidel753 looks at the conservative disaster in Kansas, followed by the flatfooted Republican attempt to oppose veteran’s health care, and concludes the smokescreen has eaten the original agenda and taken over the movement.
     
  • Imani Gandy has a thought on Kansas:

  • Iron Knee at Political Irony looks at the Supreme Court changes to the Constitution affecting abortion, conservative activists pushing for even more, then Kansas – and suggests that maybe – well lets see how Iron puts it:
    This is what overreach looks like.
     
  • Andy Borowitz reports that Kansas Republicans are facing a dark future in a state where women have rights.
     
    Best quote:
    “If this kind of nightmare can happen in Kansas, it can happen anywhere,” one Republican said.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the numbers. Reputable polling shows the Republican campaign to move abortion decisions from individual women to the hands of government bureaucrats, conservative politicians, and anti-abortion activists is depriving Republican candidates of their traditional off-year advantage. Currently, Democrats are even ahead.
     
  • Darren Bailey is a candidate now catching a tsunami of flack after comparing abortion to the Holocaust. driftglass finds a lesson on how to tell what Republicans really stand for.
     
    Turns out it isn’t that hard.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit sees the overturning of Roe v Wade as already endangering women.
     
  • Julian Sanchez points out that a bogus accusation is suddenly turning real:

  • The Palmer Report considers how to limit a renegade Supreme Court apparently set to drastically slash basic rights, and comes up with an alternative to expanding the court.
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life reminds us of the open plan of conservative activists to rewrite basic rights by Convention, replacing the US Constitution with something that fits a right-wing vision.
     
  • Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara makes a bad argument on his blog against a bad argument in an op-ed against a bad anti-vax argument accusing abortion rights advocates of hypocrisy.
     
    Michael agrees with abortion rights, but objects to making a needlessly weak case. He believes he can do better.
     
    He can’t.
     
    His standard is simple. It is at the heart of libertarianism. If government tells you what to do, it is wrong. That includes prohibition of abortion. It also would include proscribing a mandatory vaccination.
     
    Abortion prohibition is wrong.
    My body, my choice.
     
    Government mandated vaccination is wrong.
    My body, my choice.
     
    A private business vaccination requirement is absolutely right.
    My business, my choice.
     
    The weakness in his argument goes to definition:
     
    Properly understood, a vaccine mandate issued by the state violates individual rights. An employer “mandate”—which is really a condition of employment to work at that company—violates no one’s rights. When the government mandates vaccines, it means get a vaccine, period. A business can not mandate a vaccine for anyone. It can simply say if you’re not vaxed, you can’t work here.
     
    Aside from members of the military, there has never existed a government vaccine mandate in the US as Michael defines it. No private citizen has ever been forced to get a vaccine.
     
    Although he does not say it here, Mr. LaFerrara does oppose actual vaccine mandates as they have existed: the government requirement that businesses impose mandates, it is easier to oppose what does not exist.
     
    Government requirements on private businesses have been an integral part of American society since long, long before either Michael A. LaFerrara or I came into existence. Before Mr. Trump’s exaggerated influence, it was controversial only on the fringes.
     
    Libertarians are against any workplace safety standards. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan in 1911 killed 146 workers who could not get out of the building. Libertarians say that since that sort of thing is bad for business, that should be cost enough. Same with vaccinations. Whether to protect employees who do not want exposure to a virus to be a job requirement should be a business decision, unaffected by government standards.
     
    Libertarians are also against consumer safety standards. When the Bush administration relaxed food inspections, the Peanut Corporation of America sent out contaminated peanut butter to kids all over the nation. 8 people died. That sort of thing is bad for business, and that should be cost enough. Same with vaccination or masking requirements. Businesses should decide for themselves whether to protect their customers, whether we’re talking about a virus or Salmonella infection.
     
    Arguing against any and all work safety and food safety standards is a heavy lift, but Libertarians should take it on. They occasionally do.
     
    Arguing against government agents pushing needles into the arms of unwilling citizens is easier.
    But it is a bogus argument against a bogus example.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson reacts emotionally to Dick Cheney. Don’t we all?

  • Dave Dubya finds hope in the January 6 Committee, newly revealed DOJ investigations, and public reaction. But he warns there is much more that must be accomplished.
     
  • So Republicans reverse themselves and support healthcare for veterans after celebrating their success in blocking it. At The Moderate Voice Kathy Gill reads the bill and considers the Republican accusation that their opposition was misunderstood.
     
  • Scotties Playtime has Rand Paul explaining why he opposes health care for veterans.

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