Here to bark that bickering over things like whether a corrupt #SCOTUS justice is or isn't also a liar is like arguing over whether or not a fart accompanied a crap. Let's dispense with the distractions: #MAGA is the #GOP and both are shite. No exceptions.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Just to sum up. You support #Trump for pres even if he's convicted in classified docs case. You support him for pres even though you believe he contributed to an insurrection. You support him for pres even though you believe he's lying about the last election. You support him for pres even if he's convicted in Manhattan case. I just want to say, the answer to that is yes, correct?
“What would be informative: A minute or two of unedited video showing Trump’s rambling, incoherent and deranged rants. Rather than merely “fact check” the nonsense blizzard, reports can explore the unprecedented nature of his rhetoric, illustrate the deterioration in his thinking and speech, and discuss how an obviously irrational and unhinged leader casts a spell over his devoted following.” How to report on the election #JenniferRubin — https://wapo.st/45d5wpk
Is not asking folks to be hopeful at least kinda like asking them to be optimistic? I agree that chicken littling before things get started in this case is unwise, unproductive, and unhealthy, but I understand how folks can jump to defeatism after having suffered what so many would term... "defeats." Will avoid using synonyms going forward.
"Let's try to be hopeful" Is pretty close to "let's be optimistic." I'm just saying optimism is in short supply. I've read much of what you posted today (and for the past several). I enjoy your feed. Not sure where/why we're at odds on this.
In defense of the doomers, most have been smelling this particular shade of orange sh!t for about a decade now. A lot of them probably have grown dismissive of any notion that smell will ever abate. Don't look for optimism on death row.
#Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection w/a #HushMoney payment made to a porn star to influence the 2016 election. The case could be in the jury’s hands as early as Wed.
"Today's ruling is devastating for #Arizona women and their families. This is not what Arizonans want, and women could die because of it." “This isn't about partisanship — it's about protecting Arizonans' rights. And here in Arizona, we support a woman's right to an #abortion — which is why I am going to defeat Kari Lake and fight like hell to protect abortion rights once and for all."
Trump now owns the RNC. The GOP Fascist Party is in full swing.
Via NYT—Donald #Trump will attend a high-dollar fund-raising dinner in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday that is expected to raise at least $25 million for a new joint fund-raising account for Trump’s presidential campaign, the #RNC and roughly 40 state parties.
Attorneys for #Trump were in NY appeals court Monday in 11th-hour bid to try to delay his impending criminal trial on charges he falsified business records related to hush $ payments/interference.
Lawyers filed papers at the state Appellate Division arguing the trial should be pushed back while Trump challenges a partial gag order against him and argues the setting of the trial in Manhattan would be unfair, a source with direct knowledge of the action #legal
Trump reminds me of the snakes our dog routinely “catches and fetches” from our fields. She arrives, snakehead in mouth, wagging her tail in time with the snake's frantic thrashing. As the snake slows, so does her tail, until both are still. Disinterested, she drops the neutralized reptile. The kids rock-paper-scissors to see who gets to drape it over the fence for the hawk that patrols our farm. The bird swoops then darts into the nearby woods to our collective relief. Good doggy.
A Florida woman was sentenced to a month in prison for her role in a scheme to steal the diary of Ashley Biden, President #Biden’s daughter, and sell it to a right-wing group, in what prosecutors called a plot to disrupt the 2020 election - NYT
A group of House Republicans tanked a procedural vote to begin debate on a bill to reauthorize the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers, leaving the chamber scrambling on how to address the important spy tool -The Hill
Republicans far too eagerly crap the country’s collective pantaloons to appease their base. What must it be like to be beholden to those who respond favorably to… eager… pant crapping?
#Climate change’s graduality appears to be perfectly exploiting our myopia, a particularly common affliction among us great apes. The wising up can’t happen too soon.
#Trump has his posse again. Today it’s more #Republican elected officials. Today, Trump will be joined by the #House speaker, #MikeJohnson, as well as #NorthDakota’s governor, #DougBurgum, a contender to be Trump's running mate. Also present will be Representatives #ByronDonalds & #CoryMills of Florida, & #VivekRamaswamy, who was one of Trump's primary rivals this year. Both Donalds & Ramaswamy are longshot hopefuls to be Trump's running mate.
Everything is #rigged. Of course, he's never done anything wrong, and the nearly 100 #felonyIndictments against him are just evidence of what a poor, persecuted victim he is. It's all just one obscenely enormous #witchHunt involving thousands of public servants led by #JoeBiden (from his basement coma suite). This is the abject bullshit #Trump is hoping you believe, which is why he repeats it everytime a camera is nearby. Persuasion through repetition.
I try to bear in mind how we, as an electorate, will get what we deserve. This buoys my spirits, because who can be truly upset in the face of fairness and justice. If we're stupid enough, as a society, to elect Herr Rottencrotch, we're stupid enough to suffer for it.