Only ‘Q’ and ‘Z’ get you
10 points for a single tile
The
Russian military is apparently pathetic. If not for the relentless commission
of war crimes against the people of Ukraine, they likely would have been sent
packing by now. It appears that Putin desires to rule over many thousands of
acres of rubble and dead bodies. We remember when his franchise owner Donald
Tmurp gloated, “I love the poorly educated.” Putin prefers the poorly living.
His military is not playing three-dimensional chess. They are not playing
checkers. Or even Tic-Tac-Toe. They damn sure are not playing Solitaire. They
are apparently going for the big Scrabble score. And since the only other
letter worth the maximum 10 points has already been taken by another army of
mental defectives, they grabbed ‘Z.’ Fortunately none of these nitwits can
spell anything, so neither of these bands of malignant marauders will ever prevail.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
Reporter:
“If Republicans [her word, not mine] take back control of Congress after the
midterms, what will be your agenda?”
McConnell:
“That is a very good question. And I’ll let you know when we take it back.”
Now,
he could have been honest and laid out the details of what they really want for
this country. No one would be surprised to hear Bitch McConnell rattle off
something like the following, though there would probably be major shock at the
honesty:
We
plan to raise taxes on the poor and middle class and lower them, as we always
do, for the wealthiest Americans like me. We want to make abortions illegal
even though almost two-thirds of Americans want them to be legal. We want to
make sure there are fewer books and more shootings in our schools. We plan to
make it even harder for people of color, especially black people, to vote.
Ultimately, we would like to stop wasting so much valuable time and money –
money that could very well be given to the wealthiest Americans like me – on
elections altogether. Haven’t we had enough of this nonsense by now? We also
want to kill the United States Postal Service, and with any luck, the United
States itself.
But
he did not.
Or,
he could have at least lied better than saying wait and see, and hoping enough
brain-dead voters want to make America Tmurp, who still owns the Ratpublican
Party, again.
Vote for us. What the hell have you got to lose?
Clearly,
not that they haven’t been proving this every day for decades, Ratpublicans
have zero interest in governing this country, or upholding any kind of
democracy.
So there you have it – like Seinfeld if it
was the opposite of funny – a political campaign platform about nothing.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
Garland is the only one
smiling after some of his recent
legal decisions, well him and that Turmp guy
I am all for protecting the letter of the
law. Maybe there is something I, not being a lawyer and all, simply do not
understand. But I do not think that is the problem here.
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I started the above post seven months ago,
but decided to hold off and give Garland a chance to settle in. After all, he
seemed like a stand-up jurist when Obama vainly attempted to nominate him to
the Supreme Court. As usual, Obama was being conciliatory, nominating a
centrist to replace the diseased…I mean deceased Antonin Scalia – who survived
a highly questionable hunting trip with Dick “Shoot ‘Em In The Face” Cheney,
but remains nonetheless entirely dead – unlike Obama’s successor who appointed
the stunningly polar opposite of Ruth Bader Ginsburg – both in philosophy and
gravitas – before Ginsburg’s body was even laid to rest.
Ratpublicans gave us lightweights and losers
like John Mitchell, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Jefferson Beauregard
Sessions, Matthew Whitaker and Bill Barr – twice. Attorneys General appointed
by Democrats were not always the best or the brightest, but come on, it is
simply no contest here.
Nearly one year
after the assault on the Capitol, in response to mounting discontent and
pressure by much of the public and Democrats in Congress Garland said publicly,
“The Justice Department remains committed to holding all January 6th
perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law.” However, Garland has still not
acted in any visible way, as he claimed, as though no one is above the law. I can
think of no one further below the law than Donald Tmurp. While seemingly hard
evidence that Tmurp was complicit in fomenting insurrection, there no evidence whatsoever
that either Tmurp or his closest associates, all of whom appear complicit, have
been targeted by DOJ in any way. So one question becomes impossible to ignore
any longer. What the fuck is Merrick Garland doing?
We recently learned
that the January 6 Select Committee has “a good-faith basis for concluding that
the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to
defraud the United States.” If Congress has sufficient evidence to conclude
that Tmurp acted criminally and file a formal complaint in court, then why does
the Department of Justice not have similar evidence? We all saw and heard Tmurp
incite violence at the capital on January 6, 2021 in an attempt to overturn the
election he knew he lost. Why have we heard absolutely nothing from Garland’s DOJ?
Is the Department of Justice on an extended
vacation on some sunny beach with
no internet service and with their heads deeply buried in the sand? Why
aren’t they burying their heads in the mountains of evidence already available
that shows that Tmurp broke numerous laws? Not crimes like sexual assault or rape
(which some two dozen women have credibly alleged), or even as something as
comparatively harmless as shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. It could not be
clearer that Tmurp at the very least incited the January 6, 2021
insurrection/attempted coup.
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It could also not be
clearer that Tmurp stole highly classified documents once he was forced to
leave the White House. It would be unwise to assume anything other than that he
stole these documents in order to sell them to foreign interests. And as he is
so very fond of reminding everyone on a regular basis, he holds Putin in very
high regard. Has anyone counted the number of times Tmurp sided with Putin over
U.S. interests? What we do know is that this behavior started before the 2016
election and presumably continues to this day. Also, it is not difficult to
imagine that the only documents Tmurp either digested or flushed whole were
those for which he received no substantial offers.
I hope to be proven horribly wrong, or at the
very least grossly impatient. You could lock me up for these transgressions if
it means holding Putin’s Puppy Dog accountable for once in his miserable, self-serving
life of crime.*
I. Mangrey reevaluating.
Judge now lest ye be judged.
*Somewhat
hyperbolic; Letitia James nailed his sorry ass for his fake charity, but it
only cost Donny $2 million, and a federal judge ordered the Orange Oaf to pay
out a $25 million settlement as a result of the court-ordered termination of
his comedically fake Tmurp University.
Today is the 233rd anniversary of
the founding of the Supreme Court of the United States. As we brace ourselves for
the battle to confirm of a new justice nominated by (Gasp!) a Democratic president,
we can expect flaming idiocy from the usual suspects. Unless Devil-spawn Bitch
McConnell somehow decides that his ill-gotten 6-3 majority is sufficient for
the moment, we can expect plenty of fabricated fireworks, moronic musings, asinine
arguments and seditious stalling.
I am already preemptively nauseated at the very
thought of Ron Johnson (R- MN), John Kennedy (R-LA), Josh Hawley (R-MO) and
You-Got-Me-Dizzy-Miss-Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sharing their tortured thoughts,
desperate to keep a black woman off the historically almost-all-white-all-boys-club.
They are simply not satisfied with the unrelenting white-maleness of the court
and the Court’s democracy-crushing, radical-religious,
devastatingly-hypocritical current configuration. To be fair, they are a bunch racist,
authoritarian antiques who cannot abide compromise, and are desperate to keep America
as white as possible, all else be damned.
Loopy Lindsey, Kooky Kennedy, Jerky Johnson, Hang ‘Em Hawley and Mopey
Mitch on their way to Senate hearings on accosting Ketanji Brown Jackson
Keeping Down With The Thomases
This brings us to the (head)case of the only
current black member of the Court. One who has stood up for white rights and
white privilege throughout is time on the bench. For most of that time besides
being known for his vehement opposition to affirmative action, he was most
famous for his record-breaking decades of silence as he sat in mute awe of
self-proclaimed “originalist” Antonin Scalia, who by most accounts remains as
dead as Generalissimo Francisco Franco, and similarly revered by lovers of
democracy. So-called originalist interpreters of the Constitution are,
essentially by definition, hypocritical fantasists, who blithely ignore
slavery, women’s suffrage, all manner of other vague or dangerously outdated
statements, and the fact that many actually involved in creating the Constitution
believed it should keep up with changing times.
Fermented fruit bat Ginni
Thomas,
insurrectionist-adjacent wife of Extreme Court (In)Justice Clarence is once
again under fire for her political activism. While her choice of fellow
travelers should make fans of democracy and reality shiver in disgust, that is
her business. However, it seems there are a not insignificant number of cases
before her hubby’s robed nonet have connections to Ginni’s
pals.
One might reasonably expect a devout
Constitution “originalist,” especially one who spent so many years sucking at
the teat, or the whatever, of self-proclaimed bull goose originalist Antonin
Scalia so consistently that Thomas was unable to utter a single word while
sitting on (under?) the Bench while Scalia lived, would recuse himself in order
to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, let alone the stench of fraud, fellatio
and fascism. But if Antonin Scalia allowed himself to go hunting with Dick
Cheney while hearing a case involving Cheney, one imagines all bets are off.
Waiting To Exhale
While most political
pundits are saying Ketanji Brown Jackson will certainly be confirmed, it is not
wise to count one’s justices before they’re hitched. There are too many wild
cards, jokers and abject flaming assholes in the Senate.
Tmurp’s fake attorney general, Bill Barr
gaslighting for his boss
As if that
tiny-handed, metastasized, malignant melanoma
on America’s body politic ever had a grip on anything other than crime, racism
and his own reportedlymushroom-shaped, also tiny pecker.
Barr has written a
book in a pathetic bid at a self-reclamation campaign. Attempting to bathe
himself in tomato paste in order to rid himself of the stench of rolling around
with ex-president Skunk as he sprayed his foul-smelling secretions all over
anyone who got close enough. And few bellied up to the Hot Air Buffoon Tmurp as
closely as Barr. With any luck, no amount of cleanser will ever allow Barr to
sell himself as a anything other than a disgraced toady to an autocratic asshole.
Tmurp having a grip and a fit
Bill Barr spent
several years pimping for Tmurp, acting as his personal lawyer/fixer/apologist,
when he was supposed to be representing the interests of the American people,
which were then, and remain today diametrically opposed to those of the
twice-impeached, disgraced ex-president, failed Florida blogger and current
insurrectionist-in-chief.
For his part, Tmurp disgraced his office, our nation, the human species and unbeknownst to him, himself on a daily basis. His love of Putin above America was on display from the moment the Russian strong/mad-man pledged to get Tmurp elected in 2016, and continues to this day despite Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Bill Barr is a
pathetic turd who should never be allowed to share his disgraced thoughts in
public, though he should be permitted if not forced to appear on Dancing With
the Stools (not the kind you sit on).
Paying Attention™ has been on this fucker’s
case for a
while
Other Bushit
The only thing more American
than Barr’s bullshit book is George WTF Bush condemning Putin for his illegal,
unprovoked invasion of an independent nation for no fucking reason whatsoever. Now why does that sound so familiar? The
Second Butcher of Baghdad (no, the emergence and shameful actions of Donald Tmurp did not
make Bush, Jr. and less of a war criminal or staggeringly rotten president) felt
compelled to post this sentence on his official website: “I join the
international community in condemning Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked and
unjustified invasion of Ukraine.” Heckuva job Bushie. Somebody get that man a mirror.
