The Conversation -- March 13, 2024
Marie: I meant to look for this earlier. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) plays a short video at yesterday's House hearing, featuring elderly, confused & forgetful Donald Trump:
The Hur Report was revealed today! A disaster for Biden, a two tiered standard of justice. Artificial Intelligence was used by them against me in their videos of me. Can't do that Joe! -- Donald Trump on his social media platform, Tuesday night ~~~
~~~ Steve Benen of MSNBC: Donald Trump "could've simply ignored all of this and hoped that the clips went unnoticed. Instead, he drew fresh attention to the video montage and claimed that Democrats relied on 'artificial intelligence.' By pushing this defense, Trump is simultaneously (a) lying, (b) drawing attention to videos he should hope voters don't see; and (c) implicitly suggesting that the clips are so humiliating that they couldn't possibly be real, except they are, in fact, genuine and unaltered."
BUT the Confused, Elderly Man Still Begs to Debate President Biden. Amelia Neath of the Independent: Donald Trump "called himself 'Honest Don' in a recent Truth Social post in which he called on President Joe Biden to have a 'full-scale debate' with him. 'For the good of our now failing Nation, and in order to inform the American people of what is going on in our Country, we must immediately have a full-scale debate between Crooked Joe and Honest Don. I'm ready to go, ANY TIME, ANY PLACE!' Mr Trump posted on Tuesday.... [An' X user [wrote]: 'Trump calling himself Honest Don is like Jeffrey Dahmer calling himself Vegan Jeff.'" Thanks to Akhilleus for the lead.
Sapna Magesgwaru, et al., of the New York Times: "The House on Wednesday passed a bill with broad bipartisan support that would force TikTok's Chinese owner to sell the hugely popular video app or be banned in the United States. The move escalates a showdown between Beijing and Washington over the control of technologies that could affect national security, free speech and the social media industry. Republican leaders fast-tracked the bill through the House with limited debate, and it passed on a lopsided vote of 352-65, reflecting widespread backing for legislation that would take direct aim at China in an election year. The action came despite TikTok's efforts to mobilize its 170 million U.S. users against the measure, and amid the Biden administration's push to persuade lawmakers that Chinese ownership of the platform poses grave national security risks to the United States. The result was a bipartisan coalition behind the measure that included Republicans, who defied ... Donald J. Trump in supporting it, and Democrats, who also fell in line behind a bill that President Biden has said he would sign. The bill faces a difficult road to passage in the Senate...." The AP's report is here.
Tierney Sneed, et al., of CNN: "The presiding judge in the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and his allies has thrown out some of the charges against the former president and several of his co-defendants. The partial dismissal by Georgia Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee leaves most of the sprawling racketeering indictment intact. McAfee ruled that six charges in the 41-count indictment related to Trump and some co-defendants allegedly soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer lacked the required detail about what underlying crime the defendants were soliciting.... 'As written, these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission, i.e., the underlying felony solicited,' McAfee [wrote]. 'They do not give the Defendants enough information to prepare their defenses intelligently, as the Defendants could have violated the Constitutions and thus the statute in dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct ways.'... The new ruling did not address the ethics allegations brought against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis by the defendants. McAfee has pledged to issue a ruling on that issue by the end of the week."
Kathleen Culliton of the Raw Story: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Tuesday shared with her X followers a photograph of herself smiling directly into the camera next to an announcement for ... '... a hearing on investigating the black market of baby organ harvesting.'... Greene adds, 'Join me and special guests.' The hearing, slated for March 19 at 2 p.m., will include testimony from David Daleiden and Terrisa Bukovinac, according to the announcement.... Daleiden is an anti-abortion activist ordered to pay $2 million in damages to Planned Parenthood over accusations of conspiracy and eavesdropping, according to a Reuters report from October. Bukovinac is an anti-abortion activist who appears in a 2022 feature from New York Magazine about Lauren Handy, a fellow activist who reportedly stored baby fetuses in her refrigerator until they were removed by police." Thanks to RAS for the link. ~~~
~~~ Marie: This announcement is weird on so many levels. Besides the beaming smile, MTG is wearing a dress that looks like just the thing to flounce around in at a lawn party. The announcement itself looks like a party invitation. And with "special guests"?? Witnesses called to a Congressional hearing on a serious subject are not "guests." They're supposed to be "experts," not that Miss Margie's crackpot "guests" are experts on anything. The whole thing just screams, "Wow, I'm having fun partying in Washington, D.C.! Join me!" It's not exactly breaking news that Miss Georgia Peach 1993 is not a serious member of Congress, but this is an offensive misuse of her office.
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The New York Times live-updated Tuesday's election results:
Michael Nicholas Nehamas: "The Associated Press named Mr. Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee after projecting his victory in Georgia, while Mr. Trump was designated the presumptive Republican nominee after he swept the G.O.P. contests in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington State."
Georgia: President Biden has won the state's Democratic primary presidential election. Donald Trump has won the state's Republican primary presidential election.
Hawaii. Donald Trump won the Hawaii caucuses.
Mississippi. President Biden has won the state's Democratic primary presidential election. Donald Trump has won the state's Republican primary presidential election.
Washington. President Biden has won the state's Democratic primary presidential election. Fuckface Von Clownstick has won the state's Republican primary presidential election.
Chris Cameron: "Donald Trump has won the Republican primary in Georgia, according to The Associated Press, winning in a state where he is under indictment on 13 charges, including racketeering, in connection with his effort to overturn the 2020 election."
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Glenn Thrush & Luke Broadwater of the New York Times: "Robert K. Hur, the special counsel who investigated President Biden, on Tuesday fiercely defended the disparaging assessment of the president's mental state included in his final report -- and his decision not to charge Mr. Biden with a crime. Mr. Hur, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about his polarizing 345-page report, cast himself as an impartial arbiter.... Mr. Hur, a registered Republican who has been slammed by Mr. Biden's allies for including his politically damaging assessment of Mr. Biden's memory, showed little emotion during the hearing, but reacted angrily when a Democrat suggested he had 'smeared' the president to bolster Mr. Trump....
"About an hour before Mr. Hur testified, Democrats on the congressional panel released a lightly redacted transcript of the five-hour interview Mr. Hur and his team conducted with Mr. Biden. It offered a more nuanced portrayal than the special counsel's damning description of the 81-year-old president as 'a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.' While the 258-page transcript showed that on several occasions the president fumbled with dates and the sequence of events, he otherwise appeared clearheaded, with the kind of gaps in recollection not uncommon among people interviewed about events that transpired years earlier.... Democrats kicked off the hearing by playing a highlight reel of Mr. Trump's own verbal miscues and memory lapses -- and included a clip in which he said he did not remember saying he had a great memory."
Marie: Gee, nothing like this has ever happened before (Jim Comey/Hillary Clinton): a Republican DOJ official releases a report finding a Democratic nominee for president had committed no prosecutable crimes, then exaggerates the investigation's findings and trashes the nominee.
Matt Viser of the Washington Post: "A Post review of the complete 258-page Hur transcript ... paints a more nuanced portrait of the exchanges between [President] Biden and the special counsel. Biden doesn't come across as being as absent-minded as [Robert] Hur has made him out to be -- and Hur doesn't appear as crass as Biden has made him out to be.... The full transcript provides a more complete window into the back and forth between the two men, in which Biden frequently joked with prosecutors in a setting that seemed more chummy than antagonistic."
Andrew Prokop of Vox: "... the full transcripts of Hur's interviews with Biden have been released -- and they make Hur's claims about Biden's memory appear cherry-picked and exaggerated. Biden sat for more than five hours with Hur's team over two days. In that time, he said he did not recall specifics about how particular boxes ended up in his residences or offices after his vice presidency. But he engaged at length about his process for handling classified information and many other topics. Hur's claim that Biden had demonstrated some sort of general 'poor memory' hangs almost entirely on mix-ups by Biden about in what specific year several years-old events occurred. The transcript makes clear Biden remembers all those events. But it seems Biden just doesn't pay a lot of attention to which specific year stuff happened in.... Following in the footsteps of former special counsel John Durham, who labored without success to prove theories of Democratic malfeasance in the Trump-Russia investigation, he released a report that kind of swipes at his target anyway."
Anthony Adragna of Politico: Robert Hur "praised Biden during the interview for his 'photographic understanding and recall' of a house the president visited during a trip to Mongolia. Biden also used the interchange to tout his archery skills while recalling his foray into the sport during his foreign trip. He said that he's 'not a bad archer' but that due to 'pure luck, I hit the goddamn target.' The president added that 'I turned to the prime minister and handed [the bow] to him and the poor son-of-a-bitch couldn't pull it back.'" (See pp. 46-47 of the interview transcript, linked below.)
The transcript of Hur's interview of President Biden, via the House, is here.
Marie: One thing Hur purports not to understand is that people use different hooks to remember things. Like Biden, I don't much remember dates. The other day I had to figure out what year my husband died (2013). It's not that his death wasn't a significant and traumatic event in my own life; it's just that I don't naturally peg events to dates. Hur's report of Biden's "poor memory" is more a reflection of Hur's personal limitations than of Biden's memory. Hur, for instance, may have poor affective responses, so he may be more likely to remember milestones than to feel the meaning of the milestone events themselves. Thus, he was impressed with Biden's vivid recollections of a long-ago trip to Mongolia because Hur himself would not have remembered the affects of an event itself as much as he would tie it to a chronology of his own life.
Annals of "Journalism," Ctd. Another MSM Fail. Matt Gertz of Media Matters: "Major news outlets that ran dozens of stories hyping then-special counsel Robert Hur's claim that President Joe Biden evinced a 'poor memory' during their interview are now acknowledging that Hur's depiction was exaggerated after reviewing the newly released transcript.... The mainstream political press treated Hur as an impartial voice levying credible accusations, unleashing a deluge of reports calling Biden's mental acuity into question. Hur's background as a former clerk to right-wing judges and a Trump administration appointee -- and his gratuitous swipes at a Democratic president that happened to align with a yearslong GOP campaign to portray Biden as addled -- failed to raise their alarms....
"The Washington Post ran 33 reports on Biden's mental fitness in the four days following Hur's report, according to a review by Popular Information. On Tuesday, however, the Post reported that the transcript 'paints a more nuanced portrait of the exchanges between Biden and the special counsel' and that 'Biden doesn't come across as being as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be.'... The New York Times ran 30 reports on Biden's mental fitness in the four days following Hur's report, according to Popular Information. But on Tuesday, the Times reported the transcript 'shows that on several occasions the president fumbled with dates and the sequence of events, while otherwise appearing clearheaded.'"
Alex Gangitano of the Hill: "The White House on Tuesday declared it was 'time to move on' from Robert Hur's controversial report on President Biden's handling of classified documents after the special counsel testified for hours before the House Judiciary Committee and took fire from all sides."
The New York Times live-updated the House hearing of testimony by Special Counsel Robert Hur. It looks like Gym Jordan is running the hearing, so no doubt it will all go very smoothly. And totally fairly. (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Marie: I couldn't stand to watch the hearing, but the Times updates are are helpful. The reporters' analysis suggests to me that Hur -- a Republican -- is bending hard toward Republicans. For instance,
Charlie Savage: "As Republicans like Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey use their questioning of Hur to portray Biden's and Trump's actions as equivalent in order to disparage the charges against Trump, Hur could respond by repeating what he wrote in his report, that there are clearly 'several material distinctions' between the two cases, and the allegations against Trump, if proved, 'present serious aggravating facts' unlike the evidence involving Biden. It is notable Hur is choosing not to speak up." Emphasis added.
Glenn Thrush (pinned item): "It is not unusual for witnesses in federal cases to cite their faulty recollections in interviews with investigators, particularly about events that occurred years earlier. But Mr. Hur included references to Mr. Biden's memory that did not relate directly to retaining classified documents -- including the president's struggle to recall the year (2015) when his son Beau died." ~~~
~~~ Marie: IOW, as we all know, there's a difference between (1) conveniently repeating "I don't recall" in the way, say, Cassidy Hutchinson's Trump-paid lawyer advised her to do in order to avoid providing incriminating answers, and (2) innocently forgetting a specific date or event that may have occurred many years in the past and/or may have nothing to do with the matter at hand.
BTW, NiskyGuy notes at the top of today's Comments thread that Hur testified as a private citizen, not as a DOJ official. He quit the DOJ way back on Monday. I had been wondering why he did so: (1) something innocent, like got a great job? (2) or something more nefarious? Well, Hur is a Republican fixture, so my first guess didn't count. ~~~
~~~ Andrew Feinberg of the Independent: Robert Hur "has arranged his departure from the Department of Justice to be official as of Monday 11 March, one day before he is scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill. Instead of appearing as a DOJ employee who is bound by the ethical guidelines which govern the behaviour of federal prosecutors, he will appear as a private citizen with no constraints on his testimony.... ... [He] has surrounded himself with Republican partisans and notorious figures linked to former president Donald Trump.... In preparing for the hearing, Mr Hur has turned to William Burck, a veteran Washington lawyer with deep ties to the Republican political establishment to serve as his counsel during his testimony before the committee." Read on. Burck has a long client list & sundry associates that are nothing less than a GOP rogue's gallery. MB: Please don't try to tell me Hur ever intended to act as an honest broker in this "investigation."
Clare Foran of CNN: "Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a hardline conservative who has clashed with his own party at times, announced on Tuesday that he will leave Congress at the end of next week. Buck criticized dysfunction on Capitol Hill in discussing his decision to leave, telling CNN's Dana Bash, 'It is the worst year of the nine years and three months that I've been in Congress and having talked to former members, it's the worst year in 40, 50 years to be in Congress.... This place has just devolved into this bickering and nonsense and not really doing the job for the American people.'... Buck's decision to step down before the end of his term will trim Republicans' slim edge to 218 seats over 213 for Democrats, with three vacancies. With that breakdown, Republicans could only afford to lose two votes to pass legislation on a party-line vote." MB: I heard on the teevee that Buck didn't bother to give Mike Johnson a heads-up. ~~~
~~~ Robert Jimison of the New York Times looks at the ways Buck's resignation could affect Colorado Congressional elections this year.
Presidential Race, Ctd.
MEANWHILE, the GOP presidential frontrunner is a stable genius. This, from a transcript of one of Trump's campaign speeches. Thanks to RAS for the link: ~~~
Never forget. It's nothing new. Trump has always been a barking lunatic.pic.twitter.com/jv0VZ2Iumz
— Michigan GOP Watch (@MiMagaWatch) March 11, 2024
Tierney Sneed of CNN: "The policy-making body of the federal judiciary is clamping down on the system that conservatives have successfully used in recent years to hamstring President Joe Biden's agenda and other federal policies, including those concerning reproductive rights. The new policy seeks to curb 'judge-shopping,' the strategy where litigants strategically file lawsuits in courthouses where the cases will be guaranteed to be heard by judges perceived to be sympathetic to their arguments.... The Judicial Conference of the United States announced Tuesday a new policy that will broaden the pool of judges who could be assigned to hear cases seeking state-wide or nationwide orders, making it more difficult to single out a particular judge, although it will still be possible to seek out a favorable pool of judges to hear cases. Under the new policy, such cases seeking nationwide or state-wide orders will go into the lottery system used by the entire district." The Washington Post's report is here.
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Laura Meckler, et al., of the Washington Post: "School hate crimes targeting LGBTQ+ people have sharply risen in recent years, climbing fastest in states that have passed laws restricting LGBTQ student rights and education, a Washington Post analysis of FBI data finds. In states with restrictive laws, the number of hate crimes on K-12 campuses has more than quadrupled since the onset of a divisive culture war that has often centered on the rights of LGBTQ+ youth. At the same time, calls to LGBTQ+ youth crisis hotlines have exploded, with some advocates drawing a connection between the spike in bullying and hate crimes, and the political climate." Thanks to RAS for the link. MB: There's a chicken-and-egg question here. The data show a correlation but not a clear cause-and-effect.
Wisconsin. Todd Richmond of the AP: "Republicans who control the state Senate fired eight more of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' appointees Tuesday, including two Universities of Wisconsin regents who voted against a deal that limited campus diversity and four judicial watchdogs who wouldn't commit to punishing liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz. The Senate also fired a member of the governor's domestic abuse council after Republicans accused the body of violating open records laws and taking what the GOP considered a stance against white people, as well as a member of the deferred compensation board, which administers a state retirement program. The Senate has now fired 21 Evers appointees since the governor took office in 2019. The governor said in a statement Tuesday that he was 'apoplectic' that Republican senators keep firing his appointees for no good reason."
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Israel/Palestine, et al. CNN's live updates of developments Wednesday in the Israel/Hamas war are here: "The first maritime humanitarian aid shipment to Gaza since the war began is on its way to the enclave from Cyprus, according to nonprofit World Central Kitchen. As fears of famine grow in northern Gaza, the UN World Food Programme said one of its food convoys reached Gaza City for the first time since February 20.... An Israeli border police officer fatally shot a 12-year-old Palestinian boy in a refugee camp in occupied east Jerusalem, officials said." ~~~
~~~ The New York Times' live updates for Wednesday are here.
Ukraine, et al. Dan Lamothe of the Washington Post: "The Biden administration said Tuesday that it will send an additional $300 million in security assistance to Ukraine, an 'extraordinary measure' being taken as President Biden's request for billions of dollars more remains stalled in Congress. The emergency package, announced by the White House, will be funded by 'unanticipated cost savings' from contracts the Pentagon had brokered to replace weapons previously provided to Ukraine, national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters. The aid will include artillery shells, anti-armor weapons, antiaircraft Stinger weapons and other arms, as well as spare parts, U.S. officials said."
Paul Sonne of the New York Times: "The chief of staff to Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died last month in an Arctic penal colony, was attacked with a hammer and tear gas outside his home in Lithuania's capital late Tuesday, according to Mr. Navalny's press secretary, who said the police and an ambulance had been called to the scene. Leonid Volkov, who served as one of Mr. Navalny's top organizers, was pulling up to his house in Vilnius when the attack happened. At least one assailant smashed his car window, sprayed him with tear gas and began beating him with a hammer.... Mr. Volkov survived the attack."
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According to Rep. Goldman on Jen Psaki's show, Robert Hur resigned from the Justice Department the day before his testimony in front of jordan's committee. I also found this:
https://www.rawstory.com/robert-hur-trump/
How Conveeeeeenient?!
Wait 'til Trump reads this one (or, maybe someone will read it to him).
A right-wing pastor tells the congregation that Jesus hasn't returned
because they aren't donating enough cash to his church.
He also says he'll give up his jet when the Rapture comes. How generous.
https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-pastor-says-jesus-hasnt-returned-as-people-arent-donating-enough-20210924
@Forrest Morris: You mean you can't jet up to the Rapture? Bummer.
The entire premise of Hur’s astonishingly partisan report was his belief that his job was not to determine whether Biden’s handling of documents was willfully illegal, as in the case of the Orange Monster, but whether a jury would convict him or not.
So what he seems to be saying is that yes, Biden’s handling of the documents was wrong, but we can’t indict him because a jury would probably not convict, seeing him as a doddering old man.
Was that really his role? Or was it just to say whether or not the retention of documents was an honest error or an attempt to sneak off with state secrets, clearly an indictable offense.
If it was just an honest mistake, say so, but don’t then suggest, in the slimiest way, that well, he should be indicted but a jury wouldn’t convict this demented old guy.
So, in fact, this bullshit “investigation”—and subsequent report—is even more egregious. Protestations of complete lack of partisan political motives are transparent lies. That’s exactly what this was.
So my first thought upon reading Forrest’s post about some bible beater bragging about his jet was “How big is his parish?” Okay, guys like him don’t have parishes. I show my Catholic upbringing there. In Boston, where I grew up, if you had a strong enough arm, you could almost throw a baseball into the next parish. The runway for a jet would pretty much cover the whole parish.
Anyway, thinking this might be an exaggeration, a bit of biblical hyperbole, I looked it up. This guy doesn’t just own one jet, he has multiple jets!!
In the article I found, from about a year ago, he was instructing people to send him every penny they had because Jesus told him that his Falcon 900 jet wasn’t good enough. He needed a brand new Falcon 7X as well. These babies run between $21 and $54 million. But that’s not all. Jesus wants believers to shoot ol’ pastor Jesse as many shekels as they can muster cuz each of those jets requires a yearly operational budget of about $2 million. And don’t forget the caviar and champagne bills.
Isn’t there a line in the gospels about rich men having more trouble getting into heaven than one might have trying to shove a camel through the eye of a needle (man, they really had a way with analogies back in those days)?
I guess pastor Jesse can just fly up there. I’ll happily press the ejection seat button for him if he needs an extra boost to get there.
By the way, Jess. For your next jet, why not ask Jesus for a Boeing 737 Max. I hear they’re wicked reliable.
It is fortunate that Biden just knocked everyone's socks off with his SOTU speech because otherwise the media would probably still playing up Hur's hit job, transcript or no transcript.
The attack on the Navalny associate reminded me of this warning I saw the other day about full immunity.
"Doesn't play well with others" could describe the upcoming GOP
retreat.
Most of them are saying they don't want to spend a lot of time with
each other. Got more important things to do, like watch the paint dry,
I guess.
Also, some have complained about the venue, Greenbrier Resort.
It's a 'family friendly' resort. There'll be families there. They might
try to talk to us, I suppose that may be what they mean.
I agree with them. I wouldn't want to spend time with them either.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/politics/house-gop-retreat/index/html
The crutch of memory:
I remember the year my father died because the funeral coincided with a red eye flight I took to Orlando for a conference where I was scheduled to make a short presentation. That was 1990.
My mother lived more than a decade longer, many of those years in care facilities of one kind or another. She departed this earth by inches. I can do the math and figure out the year she died, but don't remember it off hand. There was no single coinciding event to locate it firmly in my memory.
Do remember, tho', the scene in Cellini's autobiography when he hit his son when they witnessed what Cellini thought to be a magical "salamander" in the fireplace flames.
When his son asked him why he hit him, Cellini replied the blow was to fix the moment in his memory.
Don't know if it worked for the son, but according to his report, it did for the father.
Wish all the Republican low-life shenanigans were easier to forget.
Can't even trust convicted fraudsters anymore.
"Donald Trump tried — but failed — to switch the addresses of key assets from Trump Tower in New York to Florida, officials with the state attorney general's office said in their latest civil fraud case filing.
It was on February 21, five days after the verdict, that Trump's lawyers revealed what they called the "corrected" addresses for six Trump assets that were named as defendants in James' lawsuit.
"Several of the addresses for the Defendants in the proposed Judgment are incorrect," defense lawyer Clifford S. Robert wrote in the letter to Engoron.
One such defendant is The Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust — an umbrella trust that owns 100% of Trump's business empire, also known as the Trump Organization."
Keeping the Q in GQP
"Beaming Marjorie Taylor Greene announces 'black market of baby organ harvesting' hearing"
Also just like with Tucker Putin enjoys messing with his puppets.
"Putin Recalls Trump Acting Like Jealous GF in Private
Putin said that Trump, “in the last year of his work as president… admonished me for the fact that I like Biden.”
“This was more than four years ago. He told me that in one conversation: ‘You want him to win.’ Excuse me, I’ll say it like he did, it’s just direct speech, ‘for Sleepy Joe to win.’ He told me this when he was still president,” he said."
Chip, chip, chip…
And so it starts…
Down in Georgia, charges against the Fat Fascist and some of his co-conspirators are being dismissed, including a charge connected to Trump’s “perfect” phone call.
Apparently, according to the judge, “Just find me 11,000 votes” isn’t a clear enough example of an attempt to get state officials to violate their oath of office.
And pretty soon we’ll find out that Fani Willis will be replaced by a Trump loyalist.
Chip, chip, chip…
You have to hand it to the traitors and Biden haters. When one bullshit meme explodes in their faces, they pivot quickly to something else. These days however, it happens with such speed and frequency that the pivots becomes a pirouette .
So the “Sleepy Joe” routine (they slavishly adopt every nasty insult shat out by the Orange Monster) crashed dramatically at the State of the Union. Also, the tired, doddering old man theme. Suddenly, Biden was a fire breathing dragon sowing dissension and trying to “tear the country apart” with his rapier thrusts and “savage rhetoric. So, which is it…dementia patient or Darth Vader?
What to do, what to do? We look like idiots. Again!! Quick, someone come up with a good lie to save us.
A-ha!! We have it! Biden is on drugs! He’s hopped up! COCAINE! Yeah, that baggie they found at the White House last year? That was Biden’s coke bag! Hurray! We’re saved!
Of course, this new lie doesn’t take into account the fact that cocaine, or any other form of addictive central nervous system stimulant, doesn’t make you more cogent, compelling, and perspicacious. It doesn’t make your arguments sharper and more convincing. It makes you babble like an idiot. Much like Donald Trump, on a good day.
And speaking of stupid lies…
Trump, embarrassed by the video compilations of his own idiotic babbling, is trying out a new fabrication of his own. That wasn’t Perfect Donald in those clips…that was an AI fake Donald. (And not for nothin’, but who the hell would want to create an artificial Fatty? The real one is bad enough. It’d be like going into a lab to try to duplicate some deadly pathogen already wreaking havoc out in the world. We need another?)
Of course this doesn’t take into account the perhaps hundreds of cell phone videos showing him—not some AI Donald—babbling incoherently.
The pirouettes continue. Dance, fools, dance! And get that fat man a tutu.
Hey kids, here he is, your favorite snake oil salesman again! He’s not lying, grifting, convicted defamer, lifelong fraud, and cheap huckster Flimflam Donny, he’s…Honest Don!
Thus the great nicknamer bestows upon his befuddled self a new moniker. And it’s a beaut!
“Honest Don!”
A title redolent of a loud-jacketed, toothy-grinned used car salesman, or one of those late night TV hustlers from the Crazy Eddie school of cheap hucksterism.
Clearly, he hopes his audience will make the connection with Honest Abe. But this is “honest” without the Abe. Or the “honest”, for that matter.
This is a guy who has racked up tens of thousands of lies in just a few years (by the Washington Post’s count). He was just found guilty of lying about a woman he raped and of massive, decades long fraudulent business practices. His ghost written book even suggests lying as a sales tactic, fer crissakes.
I guess in his tiny brain pan he believes his MAGAts will glom on to this new tag. But everyone else?
Honestly!
Fatty in a tutu? That would be tutu much!
Shamelessness is their super power. "Smile"
Forrest,
“Tutu much”. Nice. Although it sounds like one of my dad jokes that prompt eye rolling grimaces from wife and kid.
Classic example?
Why couldn’t the pony speak?
He was a little horse.
Ba-dum-bum…tutu much?
RAS,
Fosbury floppin’ Jesus with a gin and tonic in one hand and Sister Marie Peter’s powdery blackboard erasers in the other.
Can you imagine…in your wildest fever dream, showing up to grin like armpit scratching monkeys, successful in their most recent banana barge hijacking, with the Former ball scratching primate, while he grins like an idiot, holding a picture of your dead sister who had been kidnapped and brutally murdered?????
I’d have paid some Spanish Inquisitor type to shave his tiny testicles with a rusty razor, then set those teenie nuts on fire, and take his time doing it, if he showed up demanding we all smile along with him while holding a picture of my murdered sister so he could win an election.
Where do these fucking people come from???
Re Perjury Traitor Greede: I think she wore the garden party getup in order to ALWAYS call attention to her arms and shoulders-- she's Workout Wendy! I remember when the right wingisfere went bananas when it was revealed Michelle Obama's perfect arms-- how dare she??
Honest Don. Fitting companion to the Pillow Guy. Late night salesmen all...