Enemies, Both Foreign And Domestic Partners

'Tis The Treason

January 6, 2021 March 29, 2022

The electrons were barely dry on my last post on the misadventures of goofy sedition saleswoman Ginni Thomas, thinking what we had just learned then was horrific and reflected badly on her husband’s integrity (as if) on the Extreme Court. It was less than a week ago that Ginni admitted that she just remembered that she had been at the literal call-to-arms Start Stop The Steal rally leading to the giant rat infestation of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but claimed to have left early without joining in on the assault on the Capitol. It’s just not possible to keep up with these cuckoo birds. More of Thomas’ footsie with fascism has emerged in recent days.

As much as I watch the news, which is to say way too much, while I am grateful to see something other than Russia literally bombing Ukraine into oblivion, it is hardly a relief to be distracted from this senseless devastation by the equally constant news of more senseless devastation: Ratpublicans figuratively bombing our democracy into oblivion.

Between the shameful treatment of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson – who somehow managed to not cry in her beer or about her beer, or shout, or threaten, or turn red-in-the-face, or pound on the table à la Brett Kavanaugh (who, like Clarence Thomas before him, was credibly accused of sexual harassment – at least), and the Supremely Dysfunctional Court enabling yet more disenfranchisement of black Americans (via the shadow docket, hoping no one would notice), we have more news on the Ginni (and Clarence) Thomas/January 6 connection. What possible harm could there be in assuming the worst with these freaks?

Best friends Clarence and Ginni watching

the January 6 assault on the Capitol.

Wonder which side they were cheering for.

As the January 6 Select Committee pores over communications supplied by Tmurp chief-of-staff Mark Meadows before he changed his “mind” about cooperating with the commission, they are uncovering more and more proof of collusion between Team Tmurp and Qanon, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and other very fine people involved in the treasonous terror assault on the Capitol.

Ginni Thomas sent Tmurp Chief-of-staff Mark Meadows more than two dozen text messages in a deluded attempt to persuade him to overturn Joe Biden’s hugely landslidish victory. Like this frightening foray into feckless fantasy: “Do Not concede. It takes time for the army who is gathering for his back.” Isn’t that cute, all the lack of grammar and mental capacity of Sarah Palin pureed with the inane capitalizing of words we’ve come know and mock from the guy whose back “the army is gathering for.”

On November 5, 2020 (two days after the election) Mrs. Thomas shared the following quote from right-wing websites with fellow idiot Meadows: 

“Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, face stream media reporters, etc.) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition.”

Mrs. Thomas penned her own Palin-esque batshit drivel to Mark Meadows on Nov. 10, 2020 after news organizations had projected Joe Biden the winner based on state vote totals:

“Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!...You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”

And this gob-smacking gem, also to Meadows, four days after the insurrection she so vigorously supported:

“We are living through what feels like the end of America. Most of us are disgusted with the VP and are in a listening mode to see where to fight with our teams. Those who attacked the Capitol are not representative* of our great teams of patriots for DJT!! Amazing times. The end of Liberty.”

Yeah, and justice for all. I’m sure she had no discussions about her most fervent hopes and dreams with her husband, who was the lone dissenting vote – having chosen to do the absolute wrong thing by not recusing himself – in the decision to force Tmurp, Meadows, et al to hand over communications to the Select Committee. What a…coincidence?

One cannot help but wonder why a reality-challenged vacuum-head like Ginni Thomas has such easy, high-level access to the White House. How many times have you texted the White House Chief-of-staff about committing treason? Is it simply because she is deranged and dopey? Inquiring minds want to know. Of course, as a Supreme Court justice, Uncle Thomas can do whatever the fuck he wants, and he does. Any decision to recuse is strictly up to him, and given his unique perspective on democracy and justice, and his phantasmagorical relationship with the Constitution, he will continue to do whatever the fuck he wants.

Meadows wrote to Thomas on Nov. 24, invoking God to justify his perfidy. “This is a fight of good versus evil. Evil always looks like the victor until the King of Kings triumphs. Do not grow weary in well doing. The fight continues. I have staked my career on it. Well at least my time in DC on it.” 

Ginni Thomas replied: “Thank you!! Needed that! This plus a conversation with my best friend just now… I will try to keep holding on. America is worth it!” Her best friend? The My Pillow guy? Donald Tmurp? Jesus? Q? The New York Times reminds us that Ginni and Clarence Thomas have “publicly referred to each other as their best friends.”

According to an article in The Guardian, “Clarence Thomas insists supreme court justices do not rule based on politics.” According to everything we have seen at Paying Attention™ Thomas is full of shit.

Clearly, the Thomases are willing to go above and beyond…the law, that is.

I’ve been paying taxes for nearly 50 years and all I got

was this stupid fucking asshole on the Supreme Court

I wonder what Clarence, who called his confirmation hearings a “high-tech lynching” (because he got caught in a sexual harassment scandal), has to say about his peeps’ low-brow lynching of Ketanji Brown Jackson. Unfortunately, he just got out of the hospital…I mean had to spend a week in the hospital. In any event, (in)Justice Thomas needs to either recuse himself from any cases dealing with the January 6 Capitol riot or retire from the Court to spend more time with his best friend – which is definitely not the Constitution. Does anyone know if we have a Chief Justice? Maybe one who claimed he would call balls and strikes?

I look forward to the day when a new House Un-American Activities Committee asks witnesses, including both Ginni and Clarence Thomas, “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Republican Party?”

At least we are not forced to flee our homes and hide in bomb shelters. Yet.

Marin Mull – Bombed Anyway

*Oh yes they fucking are you tragically twisted Teutonic twit. And you and your best friend are two of them.

I. Mangrey, reaching the boiling point.

Cruz – Con/Troll

His Real Name Is Raphael - His Real Job is Being A Scumbag

March 28, 2022

Cruz once again proudly and publicly proclaims that he is unable to understand children's books. The latest target of Cruz’s ignorance and/or hateful dissembling is a book called Antiracist Baby. The book’s message is that no one is born a racist; it is learned behavior. At one point the book says, “Babies are taught to be racist or antiracist – there is no neutrality.” However, the racist baby senator from the Loon Star State just cannot help himself…or anyone else. They should have made him stay in Cancun when they had the chance. 

Cruz found it necessary to ask one of the most qualified SCOTUS nominees ever brought to the Senate for confirmation, “Do you agree with this book that is being taught to kids that babies are racist?” A clearly exasperated Ketanji Brown Jackson, according to Elie Mystal:

“started to answer. She said, “Senator.” And then she sighed. And then she paused. For a long time. as the silence filled the room, I felt like I could see Jackson make the same calculation nearly every Black person and ancestor has made at some point…It’s the calculation when black people try to decide.: “Am I gonna risk it all for this?” Jackson took a moment to decide if it was worth it to throw everything away – her chance, her good name, maybe even her whole career – just to tll Ted Cruz, a man she’s known for over 25 year, what she really thought of him. She decided against it of course.” 

As Al Franken has said, “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my colleagues, and I hate Ted Cruz.”

Thoughts on Ted Cruz 

Cruz making shit up about a children’s book on racism to attack Jackson 

The Texas Twit previously pontificated his pathetic grasp of children’s literature during his senseless grandstanding filibuster of Obamacare where he happily demonstrated that he did not understand the moral of Dr. Seuss' seminal work Green Eggs and Ham.  

Thanks to Cruz, Antiracist Baby shot up onto the best seller list 

No one is born racist, but I am willing to wager that almost everyone is born knowing that Ted Cruz is a tumor on the human species. I just wish Cruz would publicly hate this blog. 

Take a hike Ted. Even pseudo-Democrat Joe Manchin is reportedly prepared to vote in favor of confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson to the High Court. 

I. Mangrey. Really. I don’t see why I wouldn’t.

Broken News

International Tourorists

March 26, 2022

We recently covered Putin’s edict that Russian state television run clips of Fux News’ Fucker Carlson. Carlson’s initial foray into the Russian invasion of Ukraine consisted of the Swanson Frozen Food trust-fund-baby whining his usual “questions” about Vladimir Putin. Carlson claimed that Democrats were mandating that everyone must hate Putin. Carlson whined, “Why do I hate Putin so much? Has he ever called me a racist?” He went on with his signature line of “questioning” ad nauseam, as usual. Carlson’s nightly praise of Putin is now being replayed on a loop with Russian subtitles in Putin’s Paradise.

Fucker Carlson puts his asshole where his mouth is – both serve the same purpose

According to our intrepid alternative reporters, Carlson now insists that Russians in Ukraine are simply tourists looking for a good time:

“How is it that Russian soldiers on leave in Ukraine are being branded by Democrats as invaders? Is it now illegal to be a tourist? Is it just because the choose to sight-see in “tanks?” Is it now okay to taunt people based on their choice of transportation? Is everyone supposed to be driving Teslas now? Do we call little Suzie a war criminal because she went to Orlando on spring break, got a little tipsy and totaled her rental car by crashing into a Starbucks? Are all those buildings that look like a bomb hit them in Ukrainian cities really that badly damaged? Might they just need a fresh coat of paint and some new window dressings? Why is everyone so bent out of shape over there? Thousands of people “killed?” People die every day. It’s not like they died of COVID. Remember when that was a big thing? Millions of people leaving their homes? Don’t people relocate all the time for all sorts of reasons – new job, downsizing, won the lottery, too many black people moving in next door? Who knows why all these Ukrainians are leaving the country? Is it because they're just jealous of all the Russian tourists in their own country and want to go somewhere else for their vacation? Could it be that they are a bunch or racists who can’t stand a bunch of foreign tourists enjoying themselves and getting a little rowdy? I’m just asking questions.”

 

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Broken News

One Stupid Mother Tucker

March 25, 2022

Fucker Karen Carlson, in his role as what those in the espionage biz refer to as a useful idiot, is wallowing in his new found celebrity in Russia. Carlson, who was a cheerleader for the January-6-was-just-a-bunch-of-tourists team is taking his storytelling to the next level.

Vlad, Vlad, he’s our man!
If he can’t do it Franco can,
or he could have,
if he wasn’t still dead!
Oh, wait, I’ll come in again…

While Great Britain’s Boris Johnson was busy comparing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to Brexit – whatever the fuck that means – our alternative sources report that Fucker Carlson is insisting that the Russians in Ukraine are just tourists.

Tune in tomorrow for the full story.

 

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Thought For The Day

Old White Man Pornography

March 24, 2022

So, here's what I think:

During Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate Qanon and A, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and other angry old white men badgered Jackson over her alleged leniency with defendants who viewed child pornography. Me wonders if they doth protest too much. Or maybe three much. Cruz was caught poring over his Twitter mentions right after his sickening tirade.

Ratpublican senators finish up their Qanon and A with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

Lindsey Graham, doing his best Kate McKinnon impression, was particularly apoplectic about child pornography sentencing and would not even let Jackson answer his ridiculous, irrelevant, despicable questions as he hissy-fitted his way through whatever the hell it was he thought he was doing. Let's subpoena his browser histories.

Lindsey Graham & Kate McKinnon: Which is which?

We know these senators are misogynist, racist assholes. Now let’s find out where they really stand on child pornography. Mr. Graham seems particularly suspicious if you ask me. Even if you don’t ask me.

 

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Supremely Disconcerting, Part III

The Thomas Variations

March 22, 2022

As the Sun decides whether or not to rise on day two of the Ratpublican display of racism, sexism and Q-ism that is supposed to pass for a Supreme Court nominee confirmation hearing, if it does so we will have no choice but to let the loonies have their say lest they pull their guns and give us another January Six. Whether the inquisitors are trying to raise their profiles for a run for the White House, the Nut House, a prime-time slot on Fux News or weekend Walmart Greeter, you can be sure they will have no aim, no shame and no game as they attempt to assail the record and person of Ketanji Brown Jackson, who happens to be one of the most qualified nominees ever to grace the confirmation process.

Loopy Lindsey, Kooky Kennedy, Jerky Johnson, Hang ‘Em Hawley and Mopey Mitch
ready for (distr)action on confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson

Speaking of Supreme Court justices, you probably know that Clarence “Uncle” Thomas wound up in the hospital yesterday. According to our alternative sources, he was drinking a can of Coke and choked on a pubic hair he forgot he had put on the can as a “treat” for one of his female clerks, as he has been known to do. Thomas has acquitted himself fairly disgracefully throughout his time on the highest court. In fact, even before he began deconstructing America from the Supreme Court, he was convincingly accused of sexual harassment during his confirmation process in 1991.

Senate Judiciary Committee chair at the time, Joe Biden was at his good-old-boy, misogynistic best, brushing aside the serious and credible albeit cringe-worthy testimony of Anita Hill who had worked under Thomas years earlier, while ignoring other women who wanted to testify on Hill’s behalf, having experienced similar lurid behavior by Thomas. Our experience of Thomas was all downhill from there. He was ultimately confirmed to replace civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall. Uncle Thomas quickly and consistently made his mark as a civil wrongs icon.

During his confirmation hearings Thomas whined that he was being victimized by a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” Interesting play of the race card from someone who, despite benefitting from affirmative action, has consistently railed against the practice thereafter, and continues his flagrant complicity in disenfranchising Black voters across this country.

Ginni Take A Ride…Better Yet, A Hike

Thomas has almost certainly been using his seat on the bench to, among other things, cover for his insurrectionist wife Ginni and her fellow travelers. Recently, Thomas was the only dissenting vote in an 8-1 decision requiring the head insurrectionist Donald Tmurp to hand over documents to the House Select January 6 Committee. Thomas’s despicable dissention was not only a possibly impeachable offense, it was also incredibly stupid. Being the Lone Deranger achieved nothing more than please his mentally defective, neo-fascist wife (who in 2010 drunk-dialed Anita Hill, cajoling Hill to “consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband.”), and add to his already impressive anti-democracy bona fides.

Several weeks after Uncle Thomas’s vote we learned that his wife suddenly remembered that she was at Tmurp’s January 6, 2021 Start Stop The Steal rally where Tmurp infamously put the finishing touches on his Hang-Mike-Pence gang’s assault on the Capitol.

Ginni Thomas as Statue of Lunacy

The whiter Thomas lied, “I was disappointed and frustrated that there was violence that happened following a peaceful gathering of Trump supporters on the Ellipse on January 6.”

It would not be unfair to assume she was also lying when she whined, “I played no role with those who were planning and leading the Jan. 6 events. There are stories in the press suggesting I paid or arranged for buses. I did not. There are other stories saying I mediated feuding factions of leaders for that day. I did not.”

Then there’s this flatulent fabrication, “Like so many married couples, we share many of the same ideals, principles, and aspirations for America. Clarence doesn't discuss his work with me, and I don't involve him in my work. No he just repeatedly refuses to recuse himself on cases either directly or indirectly related to issues near and dear to his wife’s political activism. Not to mention making it possible to worm her way into the Oval Office to meet with the former guy in a meeting that one aide present at the meeting described as “the craziest meeting I've ever been to.” Thomas’s wife told those present, “Here's what the peeps think. We have to listen to the peeps.” No one was sure whether she was referring to the radical right-wing Ratpublican base or the disgustingly sugary marshmallow treats.

Naturally, one asshole don’t stop the show, but Clarence Thomas has been a, pardon the expression, lynch-pin in countless objectively disastrous decisions during his mostly dead-silent time on the Extreme Court.

Sonny Terry – One Monkey Don't Stop The Show

As we watch the latest circus that has become just about every confirmation hearing, know that Ratpublicans will never be satisfied until they have a 9-0 advantage in the Extreme Court. If you plan to watch, don’t bother with the popcorn, go straight for the barf bag.

All you really need to know is that one of the main disqualifications Ratpublicans are attempting to level at Jackson is her time as a defense attorney representing some unsavory characters. Someone should tell these vacuum-heads that a guy by the name of John Adams, who they may be familiar with, defended British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trials, which they also might have heard about.

I. Mangrey reporting.

For Russia With Lies

The Russia First Caucus

March 21, 2022

In the same way their dear leader, the disgraced, twice-impeached, two-time-popular-vote-loser, one-term, seditious, ex-president and failed blogger consistently heaped praise on murderous Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, and repeatedly sided with Putin over American intelligence and interests, the pro-Putin wing of Tmurp’s party is hard at work undermining this country and promoting Putin’s illegal war of choice against Ukraine’s citizens. Say what you will about Joe Biden, unlike the last guy, at least you know whose side he’s on.

The following House RatPutincans voted against the Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act. The purpose of this billpunishing Russia and Belarus for bombing the fuck out of Ukraine, that being the safest way to hold them liable for their crime against humanity:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida
Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado
Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona
Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina
Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin
Rep. Chip Roy of Texas

The final vote was 424-8. That’s a total of 432. There are 435 members of the House. Three representatives were either too stupid to know there was a vote or could not be bothered to show up to show support for Ukraine; okay, maybe someone was sick. Maybe they wanted Zelenskyy to do them a favor though.

I’m willing to wager that two of those three missing votes belonged to Paul Gosar of Arizona and Madison Cawthorn from North Carolina, who surely would have voted with their fellow Q-nuts listed above. Gosar had his brain surgically removed some time ago and Cawthorn, a Hitler fanboy (not kidding), is currently a star on Russian TV along with Fucker Carlson.

Cawthorn in Nazi heaven…if only

Cawthorn recently had this to say about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug. Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.” Naturally everything about that statement is sickeningly false and Cawthorn has consistently pushed joke ideologies. Just kidding – Cawthorn is no joke; he is a dangerous sociopath who bragged about having numerous concealed firearms in his wheelchair inside the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Russian television has been instructed that showing clips of Carlson is “essential” for helping bolster their own propaganda. As we know, Russian state tv is almost as dishonest, distorted and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs as Fux News.

Must-see Russian TV

Russia’s now-sanctioned foreign minister Segey Lavrov – the guy Tmurp was yukking it up with while divulging top secret national security intel in the Oval Office soon after being inaugurated – recently stated, “We know the manners and the tricks which are being used by the Western countries to manipulate media. We understood long ago that there is no such thing as an independent Western media. You can take the United States – only Fox News is trying to present some alternative point of view.” You know, alternative facts. And of course, you gotta love the pot-foolishly-attempting-to-describe-the-color-of-the-kettle nonsense.

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Broken News

Pray The Day Away

March 20, 2022

The Senate voted 100-0 to end Daylight Savings Time. It is almost impossible to get all 100 senators to agree that the sky is up. After the vote it was learned that Ratpublicans thought they were putting a stop to Gay Rights Saving.

 

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The Haunted Manchin On The Hill

Enough With This Bipartisanshit

March 19, 2022

Though he has not been as visible in the news, Sen. Joe Mansion (R-Coal) is still busy fucking up Joe Biden’s agenda and by extension the health and well-being of most Americans who do not own coal companies. Still, it continues to be said that despite Joe Mansion’s incessant obstruction of his own party’s agenda, it is much better to have him as a Democrat than a Ratpublican.

Why?

To be fair Americans elected Biden to implement a pro-people/pro-planet agenda that flies in the face of his corporate donor’s wishes. Mansion’s abhorrence of Build Back Better is understandable. This dangerous agenda would do things like raise the minimum wage above its current, barely-subsistence level, provide child care, fight the snowballing climate catastrophe and bolster critical and humane human infrastructure. All of this frivolous spending would divert monies that could very easily end up in Mansion’s donors’ already overflowing pockets, while at the same time raising their taxes to help pay for it all. Even though Mansion refuses to allow any of his sugar daddies’ hardly-earned money to find its way into the hands of the desperately poor, or to fight the deadly climate crisis, or fund any other equally silly pursuits, common wisdom holds that it is much better to have him peddling his putrid political agenda as a Democrat than as a Ratpublican.

“Yeah, buy my coal, sell my soul.”

Mansion said he could work with his friends across the aisle. He was either stupid or lying. Could be both. Who am I to judge? Either way, in the end he was full of shit. Not one single Ratpublican signed on to Mansion’s watered-down voting rights package. He assured everyone he could get ten. Continuing to insist that everything had to be bipartisan, and finding at every turn that not one single vote from the other side was forthcoming, he turned his back not on those intransigent bastards who would see America burn to the ground before they would ever reach across the aisle to compromise, but on his own supposed party.

It is claimed that Mansion often votes with his fellow Dems on various issues. So, if he was actually a Ratpublican would he stop voting for things he voted for while pretending to be a Democrat? Would he simply obey Mitch Fucking McConnell as opposed to taking a daily dump into the hat of his party’s current Senate leader Chuck Schumer? Is this the kind of person you really want associated with your party just because he sometimes agrees with you when it suits his keepers, but hangs you out to dry when it really counts? Would you let this two-faced, coal-powered corporate gofer pretend to represent your interests?

Mansion continues to intentionally and relentlessly sabotage Biden’s agenda in favor of his corporate overlords and his own coal-fired fortunes.

And it goes without saying that Kyrsten Sinema and every single Ratpublican are equally to blame for Biden’s inability to carry out the agenda for which he was elected.

I. Mangrey im-Manchining a better future.

Thought For The Night

No Mas(ks)

March 18, 2022

I cannot figure out why Ukrainians are so bent out shape. It’s not like Putin is forcing them to wear masks. 

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Supremely Disconcerting, Part II

Clowns Come A Courtin’

March 17, 2022

Unless something drastic is done with the Extreme Court, American justice, such as it has been, will be nothing but just another word for nothing left to lose. It you thought the Citizens United decision was devastating, and I’m guessing you did, and if you thought the gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 via Shelby County v. Holder, which I’m certain you did, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. With at least three rabid radical right-wing religious rubes, two of whom sit in stolen seats, and one of whom is Mr. Ginni Thomas, the sewer’s the limit.

After the Shelby decision, which saw Chief Justice John Roberts, who had been dreaming for decades of destroying voting rights, cast the deciding vote, Roberts justified his heinous vote by implying that racism in America was a thing of the past. All those pre-Reconstruction, seditious Slave States had been essentially required to report to their electoral probation officer since they could not be trusted to allow black folks to vote. These states had according to Roberts, done their time, done been rehabilitated and should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want going forward, especially since Barack Obama was sitting president.

Can you guess what happened next? You don’t have to guess, because you know damn well what happened next. Before the disappearing ink had even dried on this horrendous, racist decision, all those White-Makes-Right states started turning back the hands of electoral time. Naturally, they did not turn back all the clocks, just the ones where most of the black folks lived.

Deconstructing Reconstruction

The Turmp-addled Extreme Court has once again stood up for racist gerrymandering, this time overturning a lower court decision to stop electoral shenanigans in Alabama. Roberts sided with the three powerless liberals on the court on strictly procedural grounds, but that was not enough to stop white-activist Justice Mr. Ginni Thomas and his even whiter cohorts from continuing their assault on the Voting Rights Act.

New reporting has revealed that Ginni Thomas was very busy hawking Tmurp’s Big Lie and working feverishly to support the insurrection and overturn Joe Biden’s election.

The current make-up of the Roberts Court

The Extreme Court continues to hack away at voting rights in general with the express purpose of making it more difficult for black people to vote, and of achieving one-party rule in perpetuity. A recent example of which was the Court meddling in election laws of Alabama. States’ rights bitches! 

Elena Kagan was not pleased with her colleagues siding with the racists: “It does a disservice to the District Court which meticulously applied the Court’s longstanding voting rights precedent. And most of all it does a disservice to Black Alabamians who under that precedent have had their electoral power diminished.” 

“Alabama is not entitled to keep violating Black Alabamians’ voting rights just because the court’s order came down in the first month of an election year.” 

John Roberts thought his colleagues should have left the lower court’s decision alone: “I respectfully dissent…the District Court properly applied existing law in an extensive opinion with no apparent errors for our correction.” 

I wonder if John Roberts still believes that racism is over and dark money in politics is working out really well. Just kidding. He never believed any such thing. 

Side SCOTUS Note: Unfortunately for Tmurp, the justices he was conned into appointing by Bitch McConnell, as directed by the anti-democratic Federalist Society, were only brought on to rid the nation of legalized abortion, to erase voting rights for people of color and replace the ballot with the buy-out by making corporations people and money speech. They were not installed – against the wishes of the majority of the American public – to protect Donald Tmurp. And so, the Court had a momentary lapse of treason and denied Tmrup’s appeal to keep documents that belong to the American people hidden from the Jan 6 Commission. I bet he wishes he’d had a bigger toilet.

But Wait, That’s Just The Tip Of The Shitberg

This artificially (i.e., stolen) ballooned radical-white-wing-extremist court is more than willing to toss decades of laws, regulations and democracy into the trash bin of history. If anyone still thinks there might be unintended consequences if a Democratic administration dares to expand the Supreme Court, just take a look at the intended consequences that the current Nein…I mean Nine are well on their way to implementing. They are poised to make the Tmurp days, which made the Bush years look like Camelot, look like Shangri-La. Unfortunately, it is likely that any attempt to do something like this would require the elimination of Manchin and Sinema – in some way or other.

Stay tuned for Supremely Disconcerting, Part III*. It’s just a hunch.

I. Mangrey. Panic responsibly.

*Where Clarence “Uncle” Thomas loudly demands to be impeached (by his actions, if not in fact by his words).   

                                                                                                               

Thought For The Day

Long Live The Amazing, Peerless Brady

March 16, 2022

I am so excited to hear that Brady is coming out of retirement. Brady was one of the most entertaining public figures in my lifetime. His amazing timing, his ability to get the most out everyone he worked with. And what amazing hair. I have never had such great laughs than I’ve had with the Alan Brady Show.

Best Brady ever

Wait, what? Tom Brady? Never mind.

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Bar Bill Barr

What Do You Do When The Comedian Is The Only Serious One?

March 14, 2022

Editor's note: This story discusses persons that some people may find offensive.

Twice-Former Attorney General Bill Barr is now in a public spat with the man whose shriveled balls he coddled, the man he aided and abetted and defended against justice, democracy and the American people.  

Barr is out flogging his self-serving book, insisting that he was simply a righteous man doing God’s work. Ignoring of course the fact that he was doing that work in service to one of the most godless men of all time, and doing it in a way the flew in the face of the oath he took to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, not to protect one sick, twisted, narcissistic conman. But why quibble over such massive transgressions?

Bill Barr replicating an almost human form in happier times

During the course of one of the many interviews no one should be granting him, Barr belched that even though he would hope his ex-owner would not become his party’s presidential nominee in 2024 he would vote for a man who tried to steal America, “because I believe that the greatest threat to the country is the progressive agenda being pushed by the Democratic Party, it’s inconceivable to me that I wouldn’t vote for the Republican nominee.”

Really!? Progressive thinking and policies are the greatest threat?* Are you out of your flaccid fucking mind? Not the guy who called neo-Nazis and white supremacists “very fine people?” Not the guy who refused to accept the legitimate results of the election he lost even though you allegedly told him he definitely lost? Not the guy who stood up for Vladimir Putin at every turn? Not the guy who still praises Putin as “a genius” while the Russian madman oversees the wanton murder of Ukrainian civilians and bombs the fuck out of nuclear reactors, churches, hospitals, residences, schools, Holocaust memorials and individual women and children fleeing their beloved homeland? That guy isn’t the greatest threat to the country?

Zelenskyy has had to deal with two insane despots
Somehow Zelenskyy survived a "perfect phone call" from The Idiot 

Hey Bill, remember the part in your book where you said Tmurp exhibited a “detachment from reality that was stunning” to you? Remember when you lied about what the Mueller report said about him? How about when your idiot fucking boss withheld military assistance from Ukraine because Volodymyr Zelenskyy was unwilling to fabricate dirt on Hunter Biden in the run-up to the 2020 election? Zelenskyy ends up getting sandwiched between two of the most powerful, most sociopathic assholes on the planet. Thanks to you, your boy and his benefactor.

A comedian on the world stage:
Clown to the left of him, joker to the right
(okay, so it’s the other way around, so sue me)

Stealers Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You

In a CNN interview with Jake Tapper (Why Jake? Why?) Barr mooed that “the progressive left is sort of showing sort of a totalitarian temperament.” He blames progressives, not his own lies and depredations and his party giving the store to Russia’s Choice Tmurp and white nationalists for dividing the nation. It might seem like Barr is just dodging responsibility, but he is just lying through his teeth. Dodging responsibility is just collateral damage.

On Fux News, Barr told Brett Baier that Tmurp “showed a detachment from reality that was stunning” to him as the Traitor-in-chief insisted that he would overturn Biden’s election and retain his Russian-backed presidency.

So Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Joe Biden who are trying to help those less fortunate to have a decent life, seriously address the climate crisis, bring America into the 21^st century, and fairly tax the super-rich, are more dangerous than a traitorous, anti-democratic, conman? Just because you were instrumental in helping him become all that he is? That’s the hill you want to die on? Please let me know how I can be of assistance.

I. Mangrey remembering. I don’t think I’ll be buying his book.

*Need you be reminded that Ratpublicans are literally running on elect-us-you-idiotic-gullible-fucks-and-then-we’ll-let-you-know-what-we-plan-to-do?