Indict, Outrage, Pride Month, SCOTUS, Voting Rights, Golf Assassin, Woke, ETs

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Now, then:

  • Can this be coincidence? Okay, maybe!

    And friend tengrain of Mock Paper Scissors offers assistance:
  • Dave Dubya goes all US Criminal Code in explaining the law behind Donald Trump getting charged.
     
  • Michael John Scott presents well informed, carefully thought out, speculation about what we have yet to discover in next week’s episode in the Trauma that is Trump.
     
    Key suspicions:
    The question that haunts the minds of many in the hushed corners of political discourse is this – who else, apart from the Saudis, was at the receiving end of Trump’s criminal largesse? Was this a solo performance, or were other shadowy actors hidden behind the scenes?
     
  • The Palmer Report explains what mr Trump doesn’t get about his own legal peril.
     
    Key satisfaction:
    There isn’t any way to get around it: this week is one Trump will look back on with bitterness, hate, and fury.
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever says, and he’s right, that mr Trump is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but then Oh, come on! and he’s right as well.
     
  • News Corpse tracks the almost comically confused outrage as Republican politicians react to the indictment.
     
  • Fox hosts complain about the Trump charges:


    Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged shrugs, agrees, and reviews varying degrees of Republican angst and defiance, which seem to include advocating physical resistance.
     
    Key lowest standard of any patriot:
    So, yeah, I have a problem with espionage against the US and the willful sharing of our classified secrets, whoever is doing that but especially if I think it’s for malicious reasons. Why wouldn’t anyone else?
     
    I (um) have an opinion about the Trump age problem:

  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the poll numbers and demographics on which Americans think Donald Trump is guilty of serious crimes and which say he should not be elected if convicted.
     
  • Frances Langum has more poll numbers, bringing us the list of the companies with the worst reputations in America. Some predictable, but at least one surprise.
     
    Key raised eyebrow:
    We always knew they were garbage but now MAGA hates them, too.

     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit watches Jan 6ers, some especially notable, marching off to prison, and offers the best practical advice: running and hiding makes it all worse.
     
    Key wise counsel:
    And if you were dumb enough to run your mouth on social media about how much fun you had, you’re going to do even more time.
     
  • Green Eagle discovers a grand unified theory of MAGA.
     
  • Disaffected and it Feels So Good watches Congressional Republicans investigate wrongdoing by President Joe Biden. Past accusations have blown away upon investigation like dry leaves in the wind. And current charges seem to be fading as evidence evaporates. So Republican members are attacking news outlets for ignoring them.
     
    Mainstream media has been burned before, so this time they are waiting for more than bluster. Republicans are livid because: No evidence? That’s what they WANT you to think.
     
  • At The Moderate Voice David Robertson dives deep, deep into science, history, logic, and the Bible to document what we all should already know: Being born gay is not a sin.
     
    I got a bit personal a decade ago in an open apology of sorts to an extreme anti-gay legislator who turned out to be gay:
    Good People Participating in Great Evil vs Larry Craig
     
  • Scotties Playtime has a personal story of bullying and pain in explaining the importance of teaching acceptance in school. Acceptance is not recruitment.
     
    Key experience:
    I suffered, took the abuse, tried to fight the bullies who had the backing of the teachers. All on top of being abused at home. If I only had someone to talk to about it all, any positive role model to turn to. So much a lifetime of harm I could have been avoided / saved from if I had just had someone to go to who was LGBTQ+ friendly.
     
  • Child labor protections, indigenous children, and the right to have your vote count are on the table this month. Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group discuss four extremely important, underreported legal decisions that will hit our country from a corrupted Supreme Court in June.
     

    Imani Gandy is happy to be wrong in one prediction:

  • In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson covers the surprise decision as SCOTUS actually respects voting rights.
     
    Key rights implication:
    This leaves intact the ability of plaintiffs to sue when states appear to discriminate against minority voters. Similar lawsuits are pending in ten different states.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has the unexpected story and excerpts from one judicial dissent as SCOTUS cuts back the Alabama gerrymander which had been based on race.
     
    Something to do with letting voters have an effect on how they are ruled.
     
  • June 4th & 5th have come and gone, but not without Max’s Dad reminding us of that late night 55 years ago when hope was rekindled and the next early morning when it was taken from us, as Bobby Kennedy won California and was then killed.
     
    Key reason we still live with tragic history:
    And despair took the stage. And it hasn’t given it up yet.
     
    Because “real America” won’t let it.

  • Tommy Christopher keeps count during CNN’s Nikki Haley town meeting as host Jake Tapper accidentally falsifies the Biden/Harris position on abortion, later tries to correct himself, and blows it again.
     
  • In the Borowitz Report, skeptics question whether Pence has more to offer than raw sexual magnetism.
     
  • In The Onion, the Florida Board of Education bans any mention of the outside world.
     
  • Like many of us, M. Bouffant lives on a fixed income. He gets a bit irritated with those who look at rising wages and blow off inflation as a problem.
     
    Key irritating words:
    Sure, prices are higher than they were before the pandemic but wages are higher too so everyone should be able to adjust.
     
  • Iron Knee at Political Irony has a word about the recently averted American default.
     
    Key good news:
    Bipartisan government is back. And Biden knew what he was doing. The far-right Republicans won’t be able to pull this stunt again for at least 2 years.
     
  • driftglass watches both-siderist conservatives
    (Democrats must be just as bad and they will get worse. Republicans are just awful but they’re trying so hard and will soon be normal)
    as they try to sound intelligent about the sort-of-kinda-threat of AI.
    AI? Yup, Artificial Intelligence.
     
  • Infidel753 has thoughtful analysis (as always) of the eastern half of Oregon, the most rural half, and the movement to secede and join Idaho.
     
  • So Saudi Arabia’s cold-blooded Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the one who ordered the kidnapping, brutal assassination, and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi has paid off the PGA to merge with the golf club he indirectly owns.
     
    Hackwhackers has a few cartoon based opinions about murder, golfing, corruption, and greed.
     
  • Ant Farmer’s Almanac has a headline that pretty much summarizes the PGA golfing/sellout combo.
     
  • Neo-conservative, realpolitik online magazine The National Interest urges us to think past the Ukraine invasion to a long term relationship with Russia.
     
    Key point:
    True statecraft requires a sagacious perspective on long-term as well as immediate-term policies. Russia will not disappear, although Putin might.
     
    Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has a sensible answer:

  • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz responds to the conservative inability to define woke: by helpfully providing the definition.
     
  • It must be difficult, but PZ Myers somehow manages to acknowledge the loss of Pat Robertson without getting excessively maudlin about it.
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce asks why so many women let religious authorities take sexual advantage. And he has an answer: they don’t let anything.
     
    Key central motive:
    Evangelical churches are often quite sensitive to how they are viewed in their communities, knowing that rumors about sexual scandals could damage their reputations. This is why, instead of obeying reporting laws and putting the needs of victims first, many churches, when they hear of sexual misconduct, investigate it themselves and try to cover it up.
     
    Key second victimization:
    Even worse, victims are often shamed into silence. Jesus forgave us, shouldn’t we forgive others? victims are told.
     
  • Nan’s Notebook asks interesting, and challenging, questions about the Bible and Christianity.
     
    Key quandary:
    The plethora of denominations indicates to me that either God mumbles — or perhaps believers prefer to “hear” what makes them feel the most comfortable.
     
  • So have extra-terrestrial life-forms crashed to earth, with the wreckage found and hidden by the government? Count Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez among the faintly hopeful but strongly skeptical:

  • It’s pride month, COVID restrictions are lifting, and da-AL has a lot of artist friends, so it’s a good day for a walk with photos.
     
  • Mark Waulberg (No, not Mark Wahlberg, the other Mark) really does like BeyoncĂ©:
     
  • Came to me from a friend – Big voice in a little package:
     
  • @whiskeywhistle98 is all about the 5 tips on how not to lose it with your seven year old:
     
  • YellowDog Granny, master of cartoons and memes, seems irritated by the aging process and Republicans, as should we all.
     
  • Nothing against it in the rules of baseball, I suppose.
     
    The Savanna Bananas form a Georgia pitching mound firing squad:
     
  • Clickbait satirist Reductress stops being on time and starts being normal.
     
    Key benefits and tradeoffs:
    I show up to my doctor’s appointments, my job, and my court hearings late, and I’ve never fit in more in my entire life! I did end up getting fired and losing custody of my kids, but I guess that’s just what happens in the life of a typical, late person!
     
  • Dave Columbo has a prototype television ad that is sure to appeal if you are a man greatly self-conscious about your hairline:
     
  • Nojo brings us video of slow mo popcorn.
     
  • SilverAppleQueen finds faint evidence of cat presence.
     
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5 thoughts on “Indict, Outrage, Pride Month, SCOTUS, Voting Rights, Golf Assassin, Woke, ETs”

  1. This was a great round-up. There was some good stuff. If i had to choose a favorite, it would be John Pavlovitz homily on “wokeness”. Also, yellowdoggranny is a national treasure.

    1. Two good choices, Richard.
      Rev Pavlovitz is an inspiration.
      Can’t add much about YellowDogGranny.
      You nailed it with “National Treasure”.

      Thank you for the note.

  3. Howdy Burr!

    Another great roundup that always makes up my Sunday reading.

    I tend to think that the FBI was on Merd-a-Lardo (thanks Tengrain!) and Burgerstain like flies on rotting vegetation. If anyone in Trump’s orbit were trying to orchestrate a sale of documents, I hope they would’ve found it. Trump himself lacks the executive functioning to actually do it. Jar-Jar bowed out with his two billion.

    The real risk is from some James Bond-type waltzing in and photographing the material unbeknownst to Trump or the FBI. Like everything else, this is the result of Trump’s feculent touch.

    1. Good comment, Jack.

      I have to agree. I do wish mainstream news media would be more explicit about the danger of stray agents exploring this treasure trove of stolen intelligence.

      Thank you for the insight.

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