These are the people you appoint when you want to destroy the institutions they are to lead.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 00:53 (three months ago) link
Well, yeah
― Pat Methamphetamine Trio (is this anything?) (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 00:54 (three months ago) link
Never forget
https://i.imgur.com/JlqbS4D.jpg
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 00:58 (three months ago) link
Hey let's not forget Eric Greitens, Bob McDonnell, Dennis Hastert, Tom DeLay, Larry Craig, Anthony Scaramucci.
Here's hoping for Lauren Boebert, Chip Roy, Matt Gaetz, MTG, etc. to join them in infamy soon
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:00 (three months ago) link
We can only hope that Boebert's political career has come to an end with her drunken fight with her ex at a bar in Silt, Colorado.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:02 (three months ago) link
Was that before or after the handy in the theater?
― nickn, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:06 (three months ago) link
Oh, the fight was just last week, well after the Beetlejuice Affair.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:08 (three months ago) link
I guess I missed that one.
― nickn, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:13 (three months ago) link
I thought she just switched districts, from the one where she won by like half a percent to a safer, redder district.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:33 (three months ago) link
After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, Mnuchin established an investment fund, Liberty Strategic Capital. The fund obtained funds from the Saudis, Emirati and Qatari sovereign wealth funds. According to the New York Times, "The scale of Mr. Mnuchinβs fund and its investments from countries where he traveled as Treasury secretary have raised questions about whether he used his government role to enrich himself."
Hmm.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:35 (three months ago) link
Boebert will continue to prosper as long as she annoys people like me.
Owning the libs is way more important to her base than proper theater and restaurant etiquette.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:50 (three months ago) link
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social Β· 51mfunniest outcome of the Trump immunity case is the court finds that the President has complete immunity and then Biden immediately kills Trump
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 02:13 (three months ago) link
Her old district included the town where I went to high school. I mean, hasn't Pueblo suffered enough?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 02:13 (three months ago) link
stephen miller was quoted at length in https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html. he'll be in the administration again if trump wins, unlike mnuchin, sessions, tillerson, etc.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 05:21 (three months ago) link
Miller is The Boy Who Lived
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 14:34 (three months ago) link
You can't kill that which does not have a heart
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 14:38 (three months ago) link
I think we can legit expect MyPillow in the cabinet somewhere ... probably on top of the sheets
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 14:40 (three months ago) link
Secretary of Pillow Fights
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 14:54 (three months ago) link
every time i read the stories associated with the reality of yesterday's proceedings i like literally cannot believe this is the reality of this shit. like, the fact that people are just arguing what they are arguing, and not being pelted with feces and stones.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:09 (three months ago) link
Plus the whole thing where it's like someone who's actively feasting on an infant slinging baseless accusations about someone else just having shoplifted from a CVS and a distressing number of people are all like '(gasp) not a CVS!!!' rather than 'please stop ceaselessly prevaricating as a means of distracting us from the fact that we need to drive you out of society, you baby-gobbling monster'.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:15 (three months ago) link
Today the NYT push alerted a headline "I'm Rubber, You're Glue" in reference to Trump and these very concerns and I had a similar "what in god's name happened to everything" moment
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:17 (three months ago) link
Yeah - every now and again the sheer deranged nature of modern American political life does smack one about the head and face
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:19 (three months ago) link
The deepest of roffles: per Joshua Friedman on Bluesky, "Please enjoy the full 10-page correspondence of Trump's attorney trying to negotiate his court appearance tomorrow"
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=_PLUS_cASZsP0hNiBQOHYbw_PLUS_TPQ==
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:13 (three months ago) link
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution today had extensive coverage on the Willis allegations and how they might affect the Trump indictment. I do not remember a single line questioning whether the allegations were true. There was, however, a front-page story on her supposed paramour.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:16 (three months ago) link
β Ned Raggett, Wednesday, January 10, 2024 10:13 AM bookmarkflaglink
That link didn't seem to work but the bluesky one does
https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3king6b7qav22
Incredible stuff, and would be very funny if it weren't so tragic.
― felicity, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:43 (three months ago) link
Continuing deep thanks to those credulous media outlets still, here in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four, just taking any shit he spouts at face value.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:45 (three months ago) link
oh cool Chris Kise's email address isn't redacted ,time 2 start trolling
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:46 (three months ago) link
The link works as long as the two equal signs at the end of it are included.
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:47 (three months ago) link
Experience - Commitment - ResultsAppellateComplex LitigationWhite-Collar Defense
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:48 (three months ago) link
emails the court in lower case as if e.e. cummings went to law school
― felicity, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:56 (three months ago) link
The judge went out of his way to accommodate Trump, and of course it wasn't enough.
The denial of the request for Trump to speak was classic.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:08 (three months ago) link
as if e.e. cummings went to law school
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:09 (three months ago) link
After explicitly being told 'these are the conditions. they are not negotiable. take it or leave it', I like how Trump's lawyer shows the judge who's really the boss here by writing "Mr. Trump will speak tomorrow". When you represent Trump you set a torch to your professional standing and then trample the ashes in case there's anything left of it.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:44 (three months ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/buxTDVSqwhgAAAAC/asha-rangappa.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:47 (three months ago) link
fwiw ned i feel like now bsky posts are public you may was well just link the post rather than manually c+p
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 20:14 (three months ago) link
scuse me as I kiss Chris Kise
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link
When someone holding a bible talks about how he is voting for Trump because of Trump's "principles"...to paraphrase ICP: "Fucking Trump voters, how do they work?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/us/politics/iowa-voters.html
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:12 (three months ago) link
Trump reflects the eschatologically dwindling evangelical Xtian population's certainty that everyone else around them is evil?
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:15 (three months ago) link
he probably still would have appealed to a lot of those voters in the 90s, feel like the big difference with his forward trajectory is that he started appealing to a significantly greater percentage of people who really should fucking know better.
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:19 (three months ago) link
"I just want people to follow the law"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/bomb-threat-targeted-home-judge-trumps-civil-fraud-trial-rcna133416
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:21 (three months ago) link
Kise probably called it in himself
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:23 (three months ago) link
So there was just a courtroom meltdown?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 January 2024 18:19 (three months ago) link
lol he said "it's a fraud on me"
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 January 2024 18:22 (three months ago) link
lol Engoran said "please control your client" to Kise at one point
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 January 2024 18:29 (three months ago) link
Trump says AG James is the reason why Exxon left New York and moved to Texas. Exxon moved to Texas in 1989 pic.twitter.com/EmBfetgznM— Acyn (@Acyn) January 11, 2024
lol
― (β’Μͺβ) (carne asada), Thursday, 11 January 2024 18:46 (three months ago) link
the lawyer nodding her head in agreement!
― (β’Μͺβ) (carne asada), Thursday, 11 January 2024 18:47 (three months ago) link
'other companies are gonna be moving out of NY as well'
Including yours, idiot
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:11 (three months ago) link
it's a circus that never ends. here's hoping Trump's DC trial on the Jan 6 conspiracy doesn't devolve into Trump spouting nonsense as badly as this one has.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:54 (three months ago) link
It hasnt really been that bad imo! Judge may have been a trifle too clever at times but all his nonsense has been outside the courtroom bc when heβs in court he has to shut the fuck up
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:56 (three months ago) link