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The Conversation -- June 22, 2024
Meredith McGraw, et al., of Politico: "Trump keeps flip-flopping his policy positions after meeting with rich people. Like when he decided last week, after meeting with the Business Round Table, that immigrants with U.S. college degrees did not "poison the blood" of the country and had earned green cards along with their sheepskins. "Trump floated a similar idea during his 2016 campaign, saying at the time that forcing non-citizens to leave the U.S. shortly after graduating from college was 'ridiculous' and that they should have a path to citizenship. But once elected president, Trump reversed himself, restricting immigration and limiting visas for high-skilled professionals and employers.... [President] Biden revoked the order soon after taking office." MB: Do you brilliant business folks not realize that Trump can flip-flop again?
What happens when you gather thousands of conspiracy theorists and gullible believers in Trumpy-QAnon lies? Ha ha ha. ~~~
~~~ At Least One Real Right-Wing Conspiracy! Yvonne Sanchez & Isaac Arnsdorf of the Washington Post: At a gathering in a Phoenix suburb, far-right Arizona delegates to the Republican National Convention plotted a coordinated release of Trump delegates, possibly out of fear that the "deep state" was controlling Donald Trump. "The exact purpose of the maneuver was not clear.... Whatever the goal, the Trump campaign rushed to head off the stunt and replace the delegates.... The fracas exposed the challenges of choreographing next month's convention in Milwaukee, where some 5,000 delegates and alternates will participate -- many of them inclined toward the falsehoods and baseless accusations that animate many of Trump's supporters.... Suspicions have circulated among Trump's supporters that covert saboteurs have somehow infiltrated their ranks."
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When they censor any mention of Donald Trump's criminal convictions, they are essentially trying to ban a fact. I am not aware of any precedent where factual statements have been banned in our lifetime. -- Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? -- Alice, Alice in Wonderland ~~~
~~~ A World of Their Own. Luke Broadwater of the New York Times: "The history-making felony conviction of ... Donald J. Trump has raised some historic questions for the House's rules of decorum.... The Republicans who now hold the majority have used those rules to impose what is essentially a gag order against talking about Mr. Trump's hush-money payments to a porn actress or about the fact that he is a felon at all, notwithstanding that those assertions are ... the basis of a jury's guilty verdict. Doing so, they have declared, is a violation of House rules.... Perhaps the only place in the United States where people are barred from talking freely about Mr. Trump's crimes is the floor of what is often referred to as 'the people's House,' where Republicans have gone so far as to erase one such mention from the official record.... [BUT] Republicans have exempted themselves from that equal treatment standard when it comes to President Biden, whom they routinely accuse of criminal conduct despite having produced no evidence of any." (Also linked yesterday.)
National Crime Blotter
Jesse McKinley & Kate Christobek of the New York Times: "Prosecutors in Manhattan said on Friday that a judge should keep in place major elements of a gag order that was imposed on Donald J. Trump, citing dozens of death threats that have been made against officials connected to the case. The order, issued before Mr. Trump's Manhattan criminal trial began in mid-April, bars him from attacking witnesses, jurors, court staff and relatives of the judge who presided over the trial, Juan M. Merchan. Mr. Trump's lawyers have sought to have the orderlifted since Mr. Trump's conviction in late May. But in a 19-page filing on Friday, prosecutors argued that while Justice Merchan no longer needed to enforce the portion of the gag order relating to trial witnesses, he should keep in place the provisions protecting jurors, prosecutors, court staff and their families....
"Prosecutors said the threats were 'directly connected to defendant's dangerous rhetoric,' and cited several examples, including a post that depicted cross hairs 'on people involved in this case.' Others were homicidal messages directed at Mr. Bragg or his employees, including, 'We will kill you all' ... and 'Your life is done.' Four of the threats were referred for further investigation, according to the police affidavit." The NBC News report is here. (Also linked yesterday.)
Perry Stein of the Washington Post: "U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Friday pressed the special counsel team prosecuting Donald Trump to explain Attorney General Merrick Garland's role in overseeing the classified-documents case and then criticized a lawyer on the team for being cagey with his response.... Based on the proceedings, it's unclear how Cannon will rule on the dismissal motion, but she acknowledged that precedent seems to support Garland's appointment of [special counsel Jack] Smith and that there would be a high legal bar for overturning it.... Next week, Cannon is scheduled to hear arguments on requests from prosecutors to restrict Trump from making any further incendiary claims that falsely suggest that FBI agents were 'complicit in a plot to assassinate him,' as well a motion from Trump's attorneys to disqualify the use at trial of audio notes that investigators obtained from one of his attorneys, Evan Corcoran." Politico's report is here.
Trumpity Doo-Dah. Edward Helmore of the Guardian: "The Missouri attorney general, Andrew Bailey [R], has confirmed that he is suing the state of New York for election interference and wrongful prosecution for bringing the Stormy Daniels hush-money case to a trial that saw Donald Trump convicted of 34 felonies.... Bailey claims the hush-money case was brought to smear the presumptive presidential nominee going into November's election and that New York's statute of limitations on falsification of business records, a misdemeanor, expired in 2019. But Bailey also told [Fox 'News'] that he recognized that any attempt by one state to sue another would probably go straight to the US supreme court." Thanks to RAS for the link. ~~~
~~~ Marie: Uh, the State of New York did not try Trump for violating a New York state records act. An entirely separate government entity -- Manhattan County -- tried Trump. One would think that an A.G. of any state would know the difference between a county and a state. I'm so confused.
John Fritze & Tierney Sneed of CNN: "Steve Bannon ... asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause his prison sentence while he appeals his conviction for contempt of Congress. A federal appeals court on Thursday night rejected his bid to delay the start of his sentence." (Also linked yesterday.)
Danny Hakim & Jack Healy of the New York Times: "A Nevada judge on Friday threw out the state's case against the six Republicans who claimed to be presidential electors and tried to declare Donald J. Trump the winner of the 2020 election. The judge, Mary Kay Holthus, said that state prosecutors had chosen the wrong venue to file the case. John Sadler, a spokesman for Attorney General Aaron D. Ford, said, 'We disagree with the judge's decision and will be appealing immediately.'" The judge determined that the case should have been filed "up north" in the state capital, Carson City, where she has determined that most the allegedly illegal acts took place, rather than in Las Vegas, the locus of her court. The NBC News story is here. (Also linked yesterday.)
Frances Vinall of the Washington Post: "David DePape, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison on federal charges after he broke into Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home and bludgeoned her husband [Paul Pelosi], was convicted Friday of five additional charges in a California court.... A [California] jury found DePape guilty of separate charges brought by California, including aggravated kidnapping, which mandates life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. DePape was also convicted of first-degree residential burglary; false imprisonment of an elder by violence or menace; threatening the life of a family member of a public official; and dissuading a witness by force or threat."
Presidential Race
Michael Scherer of the Washington Post: "President Biden quietly revealed his campaign's master strategy to defeat Donald Trump last month at a private fundraiser outside Seattle. 'When he lost in 2020, something snapped in him,' Biden said, a bumper sticker slogan he has been repeating ever since. The notion that the former president changed -- becoming more self-obsessed, more dangerous and more extreme -- has since been seeded throughout Biden's campaign, the result of months of polling, focus groups and ad testing, his advisers say. Independent Democratic groups that plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help reelect Biden have come to similar conclusions in their own research, according to people familiar with that work who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the strategy." ~~~
~~~ Marie: I don't think it's true that "something snapped" in Trump. That suggests it's possible to pinpoint a moment or short span in time when Trump changed from marginally competent to deranged. Jamelle Bouie's assessment of progressive deterioration seems more correct: ~~~
~~~ Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times: "... with less than five months left before the election, [Donald Trump] is no more prepared for a second term than he was for a first. He may even be less prepared: less capable of organizing his thoughts, less able to speak with any coherence and less willing to do or learn anything that might help him overcome his deficiencies. Everything that made Trump a bad president the first time around promises to make him an even worse one in a second term.... Trump's authoritarian instincts -- his refusal to accept or even learn the rules of the constitutional system -- are a huge part of the reason he struggled in the job of president.... As [CBS newsman John] Dickerson writes, 'Trump is in rebellion against the presidency....'" ~~~
~~~ Marie: Ramin Setoodeh, the author of a book on Trump's teevee show "The Apprentice" is making the book tour and opined the other day on MSNBC that Trump never really did any of his jobs -- businessman, tycoon, president, etc. Rather he just acted the parts. That's fair enough, but it's important to add that Trump isn't just a terrible actor; he also doesn't understand the jobs of the characters he's trying to play. A competent CEO doesn't relish saying "You're fired" to an employee; the CEO realizes that every firing is a failed hire. And a minimally competent president does few of the things that Trump made part of his daily White House schedule. His attempt to play president was an unintentional farce -- with consequences.
Jessica Piper & Madison Fernandez of Politico: "... Donald Trump's huge May fundraising haul erased President Joe Biden's longstanding cash advantage as the two gear up for a rematch. Trump's campaign had $116.6 million in the bank at the end of May, compared to $91.6 million for Biden." (Also linked yesterday.)
Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times: "Named colloquially for the fanatical postal inspector Anthony Comstock, the 1873 [Comstock A]ct -- which is actually a set of anti-vice laws -- bans the mailing of 'obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile' material, including devices and substances used 'for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral purpose.' Though never repealed, it was, until recently, considered a dead letter, made moot by Supreme Court decisions on free speech, birth control and abortion. But with Roe overturned, some in Donald Trump's orbit see a chance to reanimate Comstock, using it to ban medication abortion -- and maybe surgical abortion as well -- without passing new federal legislation. The 920-page blueprint for a second Trump administration created by Project 2025 ... calls for enforcing Comstock's criminal prohibitions against using the mail -- widely understood to include common carriers like UPS and FedEx -- to provide or distribute abortion pills.... 'Believe them when they tell us what they want to do, because they will do it if they're given half a chance,' [Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), a former Planned Parenthood official,] said."
Adam Liptak of the New York Times: "The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the government may disarm a Texas man subject to a domestic violence order, limiting the sweep of its [2022] blockbuster decision that vastly expanded gun rights." Liptak doesn't say so (yet), but John Roberts wrote the 8-1 decision; Clarence Thomas dissented. Here's CNN's report. (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Chris Geidner, Law Dork: "The decision was a not-so-subtle scaling-back of [Clarence] Thomas's 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, despite that [Chief Justice John] Roberts insisted Friday's decision was only clarifying Bruen in light of the fact that, as he put it, 'some courts have misunderstood the methodology of our recent Second Amendment cases.'... Given [Thomas'] authorship of Bruen, his dissent on Friday is honestly the strongest evidence that Friday's decision was, indeed, a pulling back from Bruen. Beneath Roberts's opinion presenting a united front against Thomas's thinking, though, every justice in the majority, save for Justice Sam Alito, also wrote separately or joined one of the 49 pages of concurring opinions." MB: Maybe Sam alone did not write an opinion because he was otherwise tied up. ~~~
** Insufferable Sam, MIA. Shania Shelton of CNN: "Justice Samuel Alito was not present on Friday morning as the Supreme Court handed down opinions in the courtroom, the second day in a row he has been absent. Alito's absence, for which the Supreme Court has not provided an explanation, is unusual because it's the end of the term and the justices have issued nine opinions over the last two days." MB: Yeah, well, I'm thinking we're looking at what you could call a domestic issue here. Martha-Ann may be off her meds. Suppose she has locked Sam in the basement. Check the flag! Therein may lie a clue. (Also linked yesterday.)
Betsy Swan of Politico: "A surprising winner in the Supreme Court gun ruling [is] Hunter Biden.... The case decided Friday ... involved a provision of a federal gun-control law that bars people under domestic-violence restraining orders from having firearms. It's a sister provision to the drug-users prohibition that Biden was found guilty of violating.... [In his opinion,] Chief Justice John Roberts emphasized in his majority opinion that the justices were only greenlighting taking guns away from people who had first been deemed by a judge to pose a danger to others."
David Badash of AlterNet: "In a 6-3 decision along partisan lines the right-wing justices on the U.S. Supreme Court once again targeted the landmark 2015 Obergefell same-sex marriage decision, leading liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to sound 'alarm bells' on marriage equality in her dissent a legal expert says, warning that they may try to 'roll it back.' The case involves Sandra Muñoz, a U.S. citizen who argued that the federal government's denial of a visa for her husband, who lives in El Salvador, deprives her of her constitutionally protected right to liberty. The right-wing majority in a decision written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett ruled: 'A citizen does not have a fundamental liberty interest in her noncitizen spouse being admitted to the country.'... [Sotomayor wrote,] '... The majority's holding will also extend to those couples who, like the Lovings and the Obergefells, depend on American law for their marriages' validity. Same-sex couples may be forced to relocate to countries that do not recognize same-sex marriage, or even those that criminalize homosexuality.... The constitutional right to marriage has deep roots.... The majority departs from longstanding precedent and gravely undervalues the right to marriage in the immigration context.'"
Elahe Izadi & Isaac Stanley-Becker of the Washington Post: "Robert Winnett, the British journalist recently tapped to become editor of The Washington Post later this year, will not take the job and will remain at the Daily Telegraph in London, according to a memo obtained by The Post on Friday.... Post CEO and publisher Will Lewis confirmed that Winnett had withdrawn from the position, relaying the news 'with regret' in a note to Post staff.... The announcement came after days of turmoil at The Post, triggered by the abrupt exit of executive editor Sally Buzbee as well as questions about the past practices of both Winnett and Lewis -- veterans of London newsrooms that operate by different rules than their American counterparts." MB: Gosh, Winnett never even had to pack. (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ The New York Times story is here. Its lede is a bit more forceful: "Robert Winnett, the editor selected to run The Washington Post, will not take up that position, after reports raised questions about his ties to unethical news gathering practices in Britain." (Also linked yesterday.)
** Robert Reich on his childhood friendship with Michael Schwerner, one of the three Freedom Riders beaten and murdered by members of the Klan, including a sheriff's deputy. The state of Mississippi refused to charge the assassins with murder.
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Florida. Patricia Mazzei of the New York Times: "... in a move that stunned arts and culture organizations, [Gov. Ron] DeSantis [R] vetoed the entirety of their grant funding -- about $32 million -- on June 12, leaving them scrambling to figure out how to offset the shortfall.... Mr. DeSantis ... gave no explanation for zeroing out the arts grants." MB: So either Gov. Phil I. Stein holds a general belief that art is for sissies or some artiste insulted him (maybe both). Donald Trump did not invent retribution; there are petty Republicans everywhere.
Louisiana. Rick Rojas, et al., of the New York Times: "Gov. Jeff Landry [R] wants his state to be at the forefront of a national movement to advance legislation with a Christian worldview.... He signed into law a mandate that the Ten Commandments be hung in every public classroom, demonstrating a new willingness for Louisiana to go where other states have not. Last month, Louisiana also became the first state to classify abortion pills as dangerous controlled substances.... The Christian political movement has been evident in debates across the country over transgender rights, school curriculums, in vitro fertilization and abortion." ~~~
~~~ Marie: The headline here is "Louisiana's Ten Commandments Law Signals a Broader Christian Agenda." But the movement is not especially Christian in its objectives. As with most religious teachers, the Jesus guy opposes bullying, most broadly expressed in the Sermon on the Mount: "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." The so-called Christian agenda is nothing if not bullying non-Christians to bow to Christian rules and requiring women and LGBTQ people to obey Christian men. Perhaps surprisingly, Jesus is quite ecumenical (see, for instance, the Parable of the Good Samaritan), pro-feminist (see, for instance, the Syro-Phoenecian woman who teaches Jesus a lesson) & undisturbed by "sinful" extra-marital sex (his healing of the Roman centurion's male sex slave and his acceptance of a prostitute [Luke 7]).
~~~ As for Louisiana's Ten Commandments law, the Gospels' Jesus would not be impressed: he was down to two: "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." (Matthew 22)
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Vatican. Emma Bubola & Elisabetta Povoledo of the New York Times: "When reports spread that Pope Francis had used an offensive anti-gay slur while speaking to Italian bishops at a conference last month, many Catholics were both shocked and baffled. How could a pope known for his openness to and acceptance of L.G.B.T.Q. people use homophobic slang and caution prelates about admitting gay men into seminaries? But the question, and the apparent inconsistency in Francis' messaging, reflect the deep contradictions and tensions that underlie the Roman Catholic Church's and Francis' relationship to homosexuality. The church holds that 'homosexual tendencies' are 'intrinsically disordered.' When it comes to ordination, the church's guidelines state that people with 'deep-seated' gay tendencies should not become priests. Yet ordination has also long been a refuge of sorts for homosexual Catholic men, according to researchers and priests, who say that at least thousands of clergymen are gay, though only a few are public about their sexual orientation because of the stigma it still carries in the church."
News Lede
New York Times: "During the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, one of the most important events on the Muslim calendar, at least 450 people died under a scorching sun as they prayed at sacred sites around the holy city of Mecca. Amid maximum temperatures that ranged from 108 Fahrenheit to 120, according to preliminary data, and throngs of people, many passed out and needed medical care. The pilgrims, some who have saved their whole lives for the hajj, spend days walking and sleeping in tents during their journey to Mecca, the holiest city for Muslims. The hajj is one of Islam's five pillars, and all Muslims who are physically and financially able are obliged to embark on the pilgrimage. Indonesia has so far reported the most deaths, 199, and India has reported 98."
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Thots N Prayrz and nothin’ else. Natch.
In Arkansas, home of the weakest gun laws (ie, none) in the country, a place proudly displaying the 5th highest gun deaths (but hoping to get into the top three any day now), 14 more people were shot in a grocery store yesterday. Praise Jesus! Three dead, 11 wounded, and a few of those in critical condition.
As news spread of this latest NRA superstar’s actions, beneficiary of our Supreme Court’s general shoulder shrug about gun violence (thr Founders…blah, blah, blah), Arkansas Party of Traitors pols sprang into (in)action. All, including Tom (Tear their flesh off!) Cotton, share Thots N Prayerz, and “Whatcha gonna do?” resignation.
Oh well, better get back to the real work of making sure more guns are in the hands of loonies.
Although other residents of that state have a different take, they’ll be lucky if they’re not locked up as dangerous haters of one part of the Second Amendment.
“Data on the Gun Violence Archive shows Friday’s mass shooting was the second this month in Arkansas and the sixth this year. A mass shooting, per the site, is one with a minimum of four victims, either wounded or killed, and excluding the shooter or shooters.
Anna Morshedi of Greater Little Rock Moms Demand Action and Insherah Qazi, a member of the Students Demand Action National Organizing Board from Arkansas, both issued statements about the shooting Friday afternoon, calling for action to stem the rash of gun violence in the United States.
‘Our hearts are with those who were wounded and their families after today’s shooting — where yet another trip to the grocery store ended in tragedy because of America’s gun violence crisis,’ Morshedi said. ‘We’re fed up with having to live in fear every day because our lawmakers refuse to put our safety first.’”
Sorry, lady. When you live in a state represented by hacks and run by a useless extreme right, do-nothing blowhard like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, you’re lucky they don’t hand out Glocks in kindergarten, along with crayons and I heart Guns stickers.
Biden
"US farmers turn towards Biden over Trump’s past agricultural policies
A growing number of rural Americans now plan to vote for Biden, fearing Trump could cost farmers again
While Joe Biden remains unpopular with farmers – Gibbs is among only 12% of US farmers who typically vote for candidates of the Democratic party – results from a host of 2022 midterm races suggest that at the state and local level, support for Democratic party candidates in rural America may be rebounding.
Moderate Democrats in swing states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona, as well as Gibbs’ Ohio outperformed Biden’s 2020 presidential election figures by as much as 15%, according to analysis by Third Way, a pro-Democratic party thinktank.
Research shows that under the Biden administration, farming incomes have increased significantly, in large part due to government assistance and a post-pandemic bump in demand for agricultural products."
"Biden doesn’t have a major economy problem—he has a Republican shit-talking problem.
Conceding to the shit talkers can’t be right as a matter of strategy or basic self-respect. Biden’s domestic policy agenda should be a source of pride, not embarrassment."
BRIAN BEUTLER
Vote Vets
HOF Reggie Jackson gives a real history lesson on playing baseball in the South.
The Heat
"During the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, one of the most important events on the Muslim calendar, at least 450 people died under a scorching sun as they prayed at sacred sites around the holy city of Mecca.
Amid maximum temperatures that ranged from 108 Fahrenheit to 120, according to preliminary data, and throngs of people, many passed out and needed medical care."
I hope that when, or if, the presidential debates come about that
Donald is handcuffed to his podium.
We don't want to see him wandering around and hovering over
Joe Biden like he did with Hillary.
Also, being handcuffed would get him used to what's coming.
Use tiny cuffs. He could slip out of regular sized ones with tiny hands.
Corporate media, the Both Sides Specialists, love running stories proclaiming a move by black voters into the Trump camp. But it seems they see only a select group, that group praised by Trump voters and Fox.
Keith Boykin sees things differently. Keith Boykin is an American TV and film producer, national political commentator, author, and former White House aide to President Bill Clinton.What he observes is that Republicans love black people who love white supremacists.
He runs down the list. For example:
“America’s top Black Republican, Tim Scott, claims that ‘woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy.’ What on earth is woke supremacy? Scott is so desperate for white approval that he voted against the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, even while three of his white Republican colleagues voted for her.
Then there’s Byron Donalds, who claimed that ‘the Black family was together’ under Jim Crow. Donalds is one of 26 House Republicans who refused to sign a letter denouncing white supremacy. And he was one of only two Black members of Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 election results, which would have disenfranchised Black voters in Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, and other cities.
And just in time for Juneteenth, three Black Republicans in the House of Representatives (Donalds, Burgess Owens, and Wesley Hunt) voted to restore a racist, Confederate monument at Arlington National Cemetery.”
And let’s not forget…
“Last but not least is Clarence Thomas, the Harlan Crow-funded Black conservative who replaced the legendary Thurgood Marshall on the U.S. Supreme Court through affirmative action, and then joined five of his white colleagues to kill affirmative action for everyone else. Thomas also cast the decisive vote to gut the Voting Rights Act that protects Black people at the polls.”
Boykin concludes..
What these Black Republicans have in common is that none of them were chosen by Black people. They may have been born in Black communities decades ago, but none of them represent Black districts or interests. That means they have no accountability to the majority of Black Americans.
And that’s important because Black and white people, like Democrats and Republicans, see the world differently. A new study from the Pew Research Center found that nearly 80 % of Biden supporters say that white people benefit from racial advantages in society, while only 22% of Trump supporters say this.
In order for Black Republicans to stay relevant with the base, they have to pretend — or in some cases, they may even believe — that racism is not an issue in America. But the majority of Black people know better. If Black Republicans spent more time in Black communities, they’d know it too.“
What he said.
So next time you see another headline screaming “Blacks love Trump!”, think about that for a minute.
Surprising that Loose Cannon hasn't yet questioned the Founders' right to create a country and constitution in the first place.
Who did they think they were?
I expect a hearing on this very Originalist matter next week.
Re: the upcoming (maybe) debate. Fatty and his Obsequious Army of Bobblehead Clones have been ranting uncontrollably for weeks about how it will be SOOOoooo unfair to Trump because Biden will be hopped up on drugs, having done a Don, Jr. eightball right before the debate.
Have you ever talked to someone who’s coked to the gills? There’s no way you could even call it a conversation, never mind a debate. Discussions with anyone similarly impaired, coke, benzos, booze, whatever, quickly descend into unintelligible woo-woo with the impaired person hopping from subject to subject, no connective tissue in sight, slurring words, getting names wrong, inventing bullshit “facts” as they stumble around.
I fact, a lot like how Trump sounds every time he opens his mouth.
Kudos to the HoR PoT leadership for doubling the number of "F Bombs" which cannot be uttered on the House floor.
Speaking of the debate,
"Trump Just Revealed How He’ll Attack Biden at Debate—and It’s Vile
He’s going to pin “migrant killings” on Biden. It’s false, and here’s how Biden should respond.
At the upcoming presidential debate on June 27, Donald Trump plans to highlight a handful of horrific murders—allegedly by undocumented migrants—and blame them on President Biden. We know this because Trump told us so right on his Truth Social feed.
“We have a new Biden Migrant Killing—it’s only going to get worse, and it’s all Crooked Joe Biden’s fault,” Trump seethed, referring to the horrible death of a 12-year-old Texas girl. “I look forward to seeing him at the Fake debate on Thursday. Let him explain why he has allowed MILLIONS of people to come into our Country illegally!”"
Of course it was Donald who torpedoed the border bill that would have given the Republicans most of what they've been whining for about immigration for years. I hope Biden takes Donald's advice and blames him for killing the bill.
Hey, if “… the 1873 [Comstock A]ct …bans the mailing of 'obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile' material…” that should mean all Trump fund raising and promotional materials sent through the mail are illegal. Indecent, filthy, and vile like you read about.
Disinformation Rules!
Trump, despite bragging about killing Roe and promising to jail abortion providers and punishing women who get abortions, is given a pass by many of his own supporters, and worse, by loads of others just as stupid, 17% of all those polled, who believe Biden is responsible for abortion bans.
Just incredible. Fatty takes credit for it but evades responsibility because disinformation rules in the current media and online environment.
Pretty soon we’ll hear that Joe Biden was responsible for the Great Depression, WWI and II, the Black Death, gay M&Ms, and that he was actually the guy who shot JR.
1011 Commandments. They sure know their Bible well. Republicans sin so much they need extras. Will teachers get in trouble if they only hang up the original ten?RAS,
Sorry, dude, you got that wrong.
In Magastan it’s considered a mortal sin if you DON’T bow down before the orange god. Well, not so much a god as a false idle (spelling correct).
And don’t you worry, the MAGAts can tell who is a traitor to the Orange Monster…who is ”not of the body”.
And they all need to die.
And that is not hyperbole. They say it flat out.
Which version of the Bible is authorized to be plastered on the walls of Louisiana public schools? There are many printings from the King James to modern English and while they all cover the same dos and don'ts there are differences.
@Bobby Lee: As I wrote in yesterday's Comments, in response to another of your questions, the answer to your question today is in the bill itself, which took me a while to find and which I linked in my response to you yesterday.
The version is from a movie.