Month: May 2024

Spreading the joy:

Positive energy instantly spreads everywhere pic.twitter.com/CcUjCCGXTd

— Enez Özen (@Enezator) April 29, 2024

• Dave Dubya reviews the absurdities and dangers in the reasoning seemingly embraced by conservative Supreme Court Justices in oral arguments about mr Trump’s immunity claims.
   
  Key example – shamelessly stolen from Dave Dubya:
   
  
• Justice Alito wonders if possible prosecution would keep a President from peacefully leaving office.
   
  Julian Sanchez has the right take on the Alito wing of the Supreme Court:

  Post by @normative

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• Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit suggests the current conservative court wing wants to reverse the outcome of the Civil War… oops, nope … they have an earlier war in mind.
   
• Dave Columbo has Trump arguing against impeachment versus Trump arguing for immunity and what it tells us about the current state of contemporary conservative thought: Anything to get us through the night.
   
  
• Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged goes through the weird, petty, and inconsistent complaints by the excessively burdened mr Trump.
   
  Key parenthetical:
  (first as tragedy, then as farts)
   
• Could it be sleepless nights of anxiety? Inattentiveness? Eating too much? Purposeful show of contempt? Feeble, tired, onset of dementia? Something else?
   
  CalicoJack in The Psy of Life has several possible causes as mr Trump dozes and farts through court sessions.
   
• Iron Knee at Political Irony was feeling a little down, so he watched Jimmy Kimmel tear into Trump.
  Now the sky is bright and cloudless.
   
• driftglass goes to the television of my teen years (DAMN, I’m old!) to find a fictional Trump equivalent and comes up with a hokey soapy space opera.
   
• In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson deciphers mr Trump’s interview with Time Magazine on his plans after winning the election. Basic difference with his previous term: No more Mister Nice Guy!!.
   
  The same analysis is now available in audio format, as Richardson narrates in podcast.
   
  Key message:
  Based on two interviews with Trump and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisors, the story lays out Trump’s conviction that he was “too nice” in his first term and that he would not make such a mistake again.
   
• News Corpse draws the obvious conclusion as Sean Hannity is already making excuses for Trump losing future debates to Biden.
   
• Partisan observations:

  Republicans Are The Dumbest People On The Planet. Literally https://t.co/xRJ7eYDoII

  — M-A.Stay’Legit™️🇨🇦 (@BagdMilkSoWhat) May 3, 2024

• Scotties Playtime explores intentional voter fraud multiple times by a Republican official, unintentional rule breaking by an ex-convict, the differences in treatment, and why Republicans believe voter fraud is widespread.
   
• What a nightmare: I am compelled to sense the common sense in posts by two conservatives.
   
  Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson brings us Ann Coulter:

  If I'm retweeting an Ann Coulter Tweet, she may be on to something. https://t.co/5tMUAlIsxC

  — James Wigderson (@jwigderson) April 30, 2024

  Thanks A LOT, James!

• North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz appreciates the virtually unanimous fury at Kristi Noem’s boast that she made the tough decision to kill her misbehaving puppy. But he suggests that conservatives may be missing a vastly larger picture.
   
• Disaffected and it Feels So Good suggests that Kristi Noem’s puppy experience illustrates something about MAGA types.
   
  Key rule:
  Noem is everything Republican men want in a women