Monday, December 16, 2024

GOP gov admits goal of DOGE is to gut Social Security

 motherfucking evil GOP assholes

Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses

 The age-old GOP quest, because they are giant greedy assholes

RFK Jr's Lawyer Wants to Ban the Polio Virus

 It's beyond assholery, it's pure evil 



Republicans take aim at subsidies that help tens of millions of women

 Women-hating assholes 


Conservatives have long desired to slash programs that help with healthcare, food, housing and transportation

As they prepare to take control of the White House and Congress next month, conservatives are eyeing cutbacks to federal programs that help tens of millions of women pay for healthcare, food, housing and transportation. Slashing or overhauling social support programs, long a goal of Republican lawmakers, could be catastrophic for women experiencing poverty. Supporters contend the social safety-net programs are already grossly underfunded.

Saturday, November 30, 2024

On Trump's Insane Voters

Assholes:

 Mr. Trump’s voters are granted a level of care and coddling that defies credulity and that is afforded to no other voting bloc. Many of them believe the most ludicrous things: babies being aborted after birth and children going to school as one gender and returning home surgically altered as another gender even though these things simply do not happen. Time and again, we hear the wild lies these voters believe and we act as if they are sharing the same reality as ours, as if they are making informed decisions about legitimate issues. We act as if they get to dictate the terms of political engagement on a foundation of fevered mendacity.

We must refuse to participate in a mass delusion. We must refuse to accept that the ignorance on display is a congenital condition rather than a choice. All of us should refuse to pretend that any of this is normal and that these voters are just woefully misunderstood and that if only the Democrats addressed their economic anxiety, they might vote differently. While they are numerous, that does not make them right.

These are adults, so let us treat them like adults. Let us acknowledge that they want to believe nonsense and conjecture. They want to believe anything that affirms their worldview. They want to celebrate a leader who allows them to nurture their basest beliefs about others. The biggest challenge of our lifetime will be figuring out how to combat the American willingness to embrace flagrant misinformation and bigotry.

Trump DOD Pick Pete Hegseth Railed Against ‘Insidious’ Security Measures That Kept Far-Right Extremists Out Of Armed Forces

 What a creepy ass racist POS asshole.

RFK Jr. attacked the CDC’s ‘fascism’ and likened vaccinating children to abuse by the Catholic Church

 While technically RFK Jr is not a Republican, he has allied himself with the worst GOP assholes in the world. They are all assholes. 

Texas is Fabricating Abortion Data: Doctors are being forced to report fake abortion ‘complications’ under threat of losing their jobs

 GOP women-hating assholes

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Trump’s Climate Plans Are Such a Disaster Even Exxon Is Worried

 He's such a world-shaping evil asshole

With trifecta secured, GOP already eyeing destructive healthcare cuts

 Republicans are the sickest cruelest most evil motherfuckers ever to run this country. 

Trump's Insane Clown Cabinet

Pedophile freak Matt Gaetz for AG. 

Loonball RFK Jr for HHS Secretary. 

FoxNews host Pete Hegseth as head of the Defense Dept. 

Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard for DNI.

Puppy killer Kristi Noem for DHS Secretary

A wild bunch of deranged assholes just like Trump.

Trump's cabinet is a 'grab bag' of 'freaks' — and that could save democracy: legal expert


  NYT: Trump's Reckless Choices for Leadership


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/13/republicans-matt-gaetz-trump-attorney-general

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-expected-select-rfk-jr-lead-hhs-politico-reports-2024-11-14/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/spy-world-vexed-by-trump-choice-gabbard-us-intelligence-chief-2024-11-14/

Pete Hegseth is a far right Christian nationalist


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-trump-cabinet-comes-into-view



Trump Nominates Insane Anti-Vaxxer RFK Jr. for HHS secretary

 What a bunch of fucking assholes


https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-expected-select-rfk-jr-lead-hhs-politico-reports-2024-11-14/


https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-championing-rfk-jrs-view-public-health-even-it-puts-your-kids-risk


https://x.com/JacobRubashkin/status/1857160447151255587

When RFK was running for president he said he would stop research on drug development and infectious diseases for eight years.


Republicans Being Horrible Assholes On Election Day and After The Election



Horribly racist text messages sent to young African Americans


Texas campus in uproar after protesters hold signs declaring ‘women are property’ on quad after Trump victory

America's Biggest Asshole Donald Trump Elected 47th President --

 I thought I lived in a country where a candidate for public office could never be elected who was (or did) ALL of the following:

-- a convicted felon

-- indicted in multiple states and out on bail

-- long time friends with America's most notorious pedophile and sex trafficker

-- an adjudicated rapist

-- credibly accused of sexual assault against dozens of women

-- praised Hitler and wanted to have Hitler's generals

-- repeatedly disrespected US troops and veterans 

-- unable to get most of the people who had previously worked for him to endorse him

-- was described as a fascist by 2 high level Generals who worked for him

-- tried to overthrow a national election and incited an attack on the US Capitol

-- lied about the severity of and mishandled a massive pandemic leading to the unnecessary deaths of 100,000s of Americans

-- openly admired and praised all of the world's current most brutal genocidal dictators

-- a repeated purveyor of blatant racist rhetoric

-- vowed to use military force to go after his domestic enemies

-- vowed to weaponize the justice system against his political opponents

-- used vile insulting language to describe his political opponents

-- America's most documented and prolific liar

-- used his previous time in office to personally enrich himself

-- used the power of his previous time as president to pardon his cronies who had committed crimes for him

-- corruptly sold pardons

-- refused to release his medical records despite showing signs of cognitive impairment and severe delusion

-- denied the reality of climate change, the most pressing crisis facing the world 

-- kept his taxes and personal finances opaque, likely covering up foreign payments

-- groomed by Russian intelligence

-- a long history of immorality and extra-marital affairs 

-- no clear understanding of government programs and policy

— no clear understanding of US or world history 

-- was easily and obviously manipulated by flattery

-- promoted extreme conspiracy theories and cultivated a cult-like following

-- sold scam products throughout his life including while running for president 

-- turned the Republican party into a family-run nepotistic enterprise

-- said the US constitution should be "terminated" after he lost the 2020 presidential election

-- vowed to be a dictator on day 1 of being president. 


But I guess I was wrong.


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Apparently, Nothing Matters


Charlie Sykes: “Whatever the final margin, the American people have returned this blatantly, dangerously unfit man to power. In the end, nothing mattered. Not the sexual assaults, the frauds, the lies, or the felonies. Not the raw bigotry of his campaign; not the insults, nor the threats. In the most graphic terms imaginable, the American people were warned of the danger. His previously loyal vice president refused to endorse him; his top general called him a ‘total fascist’; some of his closes aides and cabinet members described in detail his erratic character and his indifference to the Constitution.”


“But in the end, Trump was right. He could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and still win a presidential election. But, we know now that it was worse. Trump never fired a weapon on a New York City street, but he stood at the center of our politics and incited a violent mob to attack the U.S. Capitol. And it didn’t matter. And it didn’t matter that he tried to overturn a free and fair election…”


“This is the hardest part about today: realizing that our fellow Americans saw all of that; watched all of that; listened to all of that, and still said, ‘Yes, that’s what we want.’ That’s who we are.”


https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/06/apparently-nothing-matters/



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One thing for sure is that the oligarchs, the billionaires, won. They pushed Biden out via the media and by vowing to cut off funding to Dems. They made sure the media wouldn't focus on Trump's treason and his crimes. The poured huge amounts of dark money into Trump. They spread endless disinformation that confused the fuck out of the electorate. That ensured Dems would be fighting uphill the whole way. I feel bad for Kamala. She was really screwed despite doing a great job with what she had.


Quite likely that weird assassination op was a big factor in swinging the election.


One big thing that happened this last election was way too many liberals who were well-versed in all things Trump, had convinced themselves that Trump was too terrible, too toxic, too criminal for enough people to vote for him and convinced themselves that Harris would win. Some people I listen to were saying over and over way too confidently that Harris will definitely win or even win in a landslide. I was relatively confident that Harris would win but at the same time, held out the possibility of that creature winning.  


I really didn't like people being overly confident in Harris winning because I was superstitious that it would jinx it. Possibly a lot of people let their foot off the gas in the election thinking he wasn't going to win and they didn't need to spend much effort. Personally I donated as much as I could and sent letters and made some calls. But I'm sure was there some over-confidence (despite the Harris campaign many times saying they were the underdog). 

Everyone I know who follows the orange turd found it hard to believe he would be elected. 

Well, now we know exactly how insane Republicans are, how badly they have been misled at best and how deranged at worst. 


Still we need to get back in the game. I certainly don't feel now as freaked out as I did on Tuesday and really do want to continue to fight this conservative regime. 



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I’m not gonna participate in the Democrat circular firing squad. 

We got massively outspent by dark money. 

Russia fucked with us again. 

I understand black women feeling betrayed. 

The rest of us need to pick up the slack. 

The country didn’t change, we just have worse people at the top. 

We know exactly who Republicans are and they have completely beclowned themselves. 

There’s absolutely no way a Trump presidency ends successfully.



I'm hoping that while the first time was a tragedy, this second time will be a farce (as opposed to a bigger tragedy). There are some reasons for optimism. Most notably it is highly likely the White House will be completely dysfunctional, with a truly mentally incompetent POTUS. The House of Representatives will be either have a very tiny GOP majority and thus will be completely dysfunctional or have Dem control and thus be able to block a huge part of the GOP agenda.


— 


Lawrence O'Donnell has an interesting question tonight-- who is really going to be president? Because it's clear that Trump has no interest in the job, he simply can't do the job, he can't even form a coherent statement on any policy.


— 


After the initial massive panic attack Tuesday subsided and I got some rest, I'm feeling so much more optimistic and ready to push back against this new evil regime. At first on Tuesday night, I just was honestly scared and felt like the future was destroyed. But I was reminded how similar this felt to 2004 which was also a shock, where the horrible GWBush was re-elected in a  bit of an upset, with full Congressional control and all kinds of fears that hew would be a dictator and a Hitler and enact martial law. But he quickly frittered his power on a failed attempt to privatize Social Security and revelations about illegal wiretapping and doing torture (a war crime) in Iraq and on 9/11 suspects. And then in just two years, Dems won the House big and then 2 years later, elected Barack Obama. 

While I very much would rather not have to deal with this horrible man and his gang of crooks and freaks, I feel like I know better know how to live and fight back under another Trump term. There are very real threats but I am oddly optimistic. Maybe too optimistic and I know I'm not as affected by what they could do as so many women and minorities, but still I feel like we can stop the worst from happening and get back to a much better place in not too far into the future.


All that being said, I still don't know what exactly happened to the Roe vote and the women's vote. 

And I'm really pissed that trump's massive history of utter criminality was basically ignored in this campaign.

Finally, I would feel so much better about doing political work if I didn't have to spend so much fucking time deleting endless emails and texts asking for money.


————————


The thing that pisses me off about the MOST about this election is Trump getting away with EVERYTHING.


He got away with not just all his well-documented crimes, but also all the horrible stuff he did as president, like all the people that died unnecessarily from Covid, all the deep corruption, the corrupt pardons, the Russian collusion.


But most acutely for me is that he got away with just endless lies and truly gross insults in this campaign. He got away with horrible racism. He got away with treating Americans like suckers and losers and treating the US constitution like garbage.


His win fucking legitimized ALL the lies and racism and bigotry, so now anyone can same the same things and feel like it's OK.


No matter who is to blame for all of this, I will never not be mad about this and absolutely NEVER FORGIVE what he did to us.


———————


Wajahat Ali


@WajahatAli


As the collective freak out continues, Harris will lose by about 2 points. Trump will get about 50.3% of the vote. Across the Rust Belt swing states Harris would have lost by less than 150K votes it seems. 


So... Trump isn't some wizard or genius. It seems 3 factors determined this election. 


1) Post pandemic reality where nearly every incumbent party lost. 


2) Racism and misogyny that many white colleagues still refuse to acknowledge as a major factor. 


3) Right-wing media domination and disinformation.

1:22 PM · Nov 10, 2024

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SO MUCH Disinfo


https://www.dataforprogress.org/insights/2024/11/14/what-political-news-engagement-tells-us-about-donald-trumps-victory


Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Trump raged at billionaire donors at penthouse dinner — and hurled slur at Harris: report

 What a sick sick sick asshole

Dementia Don on Full Display at Philadelphia Rally

Donald Trump abruptly stopped answering questions at a town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, Monday but instead remained onstage for nearly 40 minutes, dancing and swaying to an eclectic mix of songs as many supporters streamed out of the venue. 

The former president paused the question-and-answer session after an attendee suffered a medical issue, and then halted a discussion moderated by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem after another person succumbed to heat inside the building. Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" compared that to Kamala Harris' recent schedule.




'What did I just see?' MSNBC's Morning Joe baffled by Trump's 'very weird' rally actions



Trump acquaintance asks why ex-president's aides let him 'humiliate family' at town hall



'More erratic by the day': Alarm raised over 'exhausted' Trump's latest bout of 'slurring'

Trump's Metamorphosis Into America's Hitler Is Just About Complete

 He is such an amazingly sick creepy Hitleresque asshole.


Related:

'Actual Nazi sentiments': Review of recent Trump rallies unearths two alarming trends Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’


Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day citing ‘radical left lunatics’ and ‘the enemy from within’-- ‘I think the bigger problem are the people from within, we have some very bad people, sick people, radical left lunatics,’ Republican candidate tells Fox’s Maria Bartiromo


Thursday, October 3, 2024

In abortion ban states, women undergoing sterilization spiked after Dobbs and kept climbing

 Fucking GOP assholes


"The more abortion access is jeopardized, the more women turn to sterilization, according to a new report in JAMA that drew on health insurance claims of nearly 4.8 million women in the US.

In states that enacted total or near-total abortion bans following the US Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in June 2022, the rate of sterilizations among reproductive-age women that July spiked 19 percent. A similar initial spike was seen across the nation, with states that either limited or protected access to abortions seeing a 17 percent increase.

But, after that, states with bans saw a divergent trend. The states that limited or protected abortion access saw sterilization procedures largely level off after July 2022. In contrast, states with bans continued to see increases. From July 2022 to December 2022, use of sterilization procedures increased by 3 percent each month.

The study adds to previous data finding that overturning Roe v. Wade and limiting legal access to abortion spurred reproductive-age people to seek permanent contraception. A study published in JAMA Health Forum in April, for instance, found an abrupt increase in tubal ligation and vasectomies in people aged 18 to 30 shortly after the Dobbs decision. The current study furthers the finding by assessing trends of sterilization procedures in the context of state abortion laws and policies."

5 takeaways from the big new filing on Trump’s 2020 election plot

 Bottom line-- he's an insurrectionist asshole


Also

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-jack-smiths-new-filing-doesnt-just-pose-legal-troubles-rcna173781


https://www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-filing-trump/

Trump mixes up words, swerves among subjects in off-topic speech

 Demented sick asshole

Trump falsely attacks Harris as ‘mentally impaired’ and ‘mentally disabled,’ prompting criticism

 What an incredible asshole

"I thought it was a very nice thing" -- Trump on Iranian attacks on US troops while he was president that injured 100 soldiers

 What an asshole (at an Oct 1 rally in Milwaukee)

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Donald Trump: The Most Despicable, Treasonous and Dishonest Politician Ever

 He really is an evil treasonous lying scumball of the highest order

Trump explains plan to mass deport 'beautiful children' who have 'serial numbers'

 What a sick fucking POS asshole

Trump adviser green-lights 'states that want to set up full menstrual surveillance departments'

 These evil fucking assholes couldn't be more sick.

As Death Rate Surges, Texas Asks Supreme Court to Let It Keep Denying Care to Pregnant Women

 Evil motherfucking GOP murderous assholes



Also 

A dramatic rise in pregnant women dying in Texas after abortion ban

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631

Harris campaign, Jewish groups fiercely criticize Trump preemptively blaming Jewish voters if he loses

 Trump is an antisemitic asshole

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against by Trump Admin

 Evil death cult GOP assholes

Trump likely benefited from $13.6 million in payments from foreign governments during his presidency

 Corrupt POS asshole

Friday, September 20, 2024

Trump's Gross Antisemitism

(GOP ASSHOLE) Trump tells a Jewish group the Jews will be to blame if he loses: "I will put it to you very simply and gently: I really haven't been treated right, but you haven't been treated right because you're putting yourself in great danger."


JCPA CEO Amy Spitalnick released the following statement in response to former President Trump’s remarks this evening:

“Once again, Donald Trump has used a speech about antisemitism as an opportunity to embrace antisemitic tropes and attack the American Jewish community.

Trump continues to label Jews who don’t support him as disloyal and crazy, to play into dangerous dual loyalty tropes, and – now – to blame Jews for a potential electoral loss. At the same time, he continues to normalize antisemitic extremism — spreading the ‘invasion’ and ‘replacement’ conspiracies that have fueled deadly attacks against Jews, immigrants, and so many others; embracing and platforming avowed neo-Nazis and other extremists; and mainstreaming broader hate and violence.

Treating Jews and Israel as political footballs makes Jews, Israel, and all of us less safe. Dividing Jews into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ camps, engaging in dual loyalty tropes, and scapegoating Jews for his potential loss only further normalizes antisemitism. It needs to stop, and anyone who cares about Jewish safety should call it out. This is not partisan politics — it’s about the fundamental safety of the Jewish community.”

Thursday, September 19, 2024

‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum

What a sick freaking GOP asshole

The curious case of Trump’s disappearing $15 million South Korean debt

 Yes, he's also an incredibly corrupt POS GOP asshole

Why The Military Is Central To Trump Advisors’ Plans For Mass Deportations

 Because he is a fucking evil racist fascist asshole fuck, but read the piece

In an Unprecedented Move, Ohio Is Funding the Construction of Private Religious Schools

 Unconstitutional theocratic theofascist GOP assholes

J.D. Vance’s Weak Excuse for His “Pet Eating” Lie About Haitian Immigrants

 Fucking evil POS racist Republican asshole fuck

Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care And Have Now Killed Women

 Fucking death psychopath asshole Republicans

The Dark, Neo-Nazi Origins of Trump’s Migrant Pet-Eating Conspiracy

Fucking racist piece of shit GOP asshole 

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Friday, August 16, 2024

'Disqualifies himself': Veterans blast Trump for 'disrespectful' remarks about war heroes

 What an incredible disgraceful asshole:

Donald Trump sparked an outcry from military veterans and many others by proclaiming that the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom as "better" than the Medal of Honor for military valor.

The Republican presidential nominee praised Miriam Adelson, the widow of the late GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, during a speech Thursday evening at his New Jersey golf resort, where he recalled awarding her the civilian honor after the couple had poured millions of dollars into his first campaign.

“I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom," Trump said. "That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian, it’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor."

The Medal of Honor is the highest military honor bestowed for valor in combat, and it's often mistakenly called, as Trump did, the Congressional Medal of Honor.

"But civilian version, it’s actually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers," Trump continued. "They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead. She gets it, and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she got it for — and that’s through committees and everything else.”

JD Vance, Menstrual Surveillance Hawk

 He's such a weird creepy freaky asshole

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Donald Trump’s Very Good, Very Normal Press Conference (sarcasm)

 Seriously, it was an utter trainwreck put on by a total Republican asshole losing his mind


The Harris campaign's fact sheet on the presser was just awesome:

Donald Trump’s Very Good, Very Normal Press Conference

Split Screen: Joy and Freedom vs. Whatever the Hell That Was

Donald Trump took a break from taking a break to put on some pants and host a p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ public meltdown.

We have a lot to say about it. Here are some initial thoughts – with more to come.

He hasn’t campaigned all week. He isn’t going to a single swing state this week. But he sure is mad Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are getting big crowds across the battlegrounds.

The facts were hard to track and harder to find in Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago meltdown this afternoon.

He lied. He attacked the media. He made excuses for why he’s off the campaign trail.

We’re here to help because his staff clearly isn’t.

But first, an important reminder on the question Donald didn’t answer: how he will vote on the Florida abortion referendum. (He has been ducking this question since April.)

We worked to pin down reality so Donald Trump, bless his heart, doesn’t have to. Here are the facts:

We had 12,000 and 15,000 people in Wisconsin and Michigan yesterday, respectively (Not 2,000.)

The ABC debate is September 10th. Not the 25th.

People have spoken to bigger crowds than Donald Trump. (Obama, Clinton, literally anyone at Lollapalooza, Coachella, the World Cup…)

January 6th was decidedly nothing like MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. And Trump did not get a bigger crowd than Martin Luther King Jr. on that historic day.

There was famously not a “peaceful transfer” of power after the 2020 election, which Donald Trump fought to overturn. (Famously.)

Five police officers died because of January 6th.

Donald Trump said he was off the trail this week because of the Democratic convention. (That convention is not happening this week.)

Trump said they have commercials at a level no one else does. (He is being drastically outspent on the airwaves.)

Governor Josh Shapiro is actually a great guy.

Project 2025 author Tom Homan, the “father” of Trump’s cruel child separation policy, is not a person to praise.

Jewish people should not “have their head examined” for not supporting him. (That’s actually antisemitic.)

Trump said he was not complaining. He in fact very much was.

Trump does not know the difference between asylum seekers and an insane asylum.

Donald Trump does not “cherish” the Constitution.

Abortion is not “less of an issue” for voters. It is not “subdued.” It is not a “small issue” for voters, despite how much Donald Trump wants it to be.

Donald Trump did not answer the abortion question “very well in the debate.”

Everybody did not want Roe v. Wade overturned. The American people do not support states banning abortion.

After-birth abortion does not exist.

Minnesota and Virginia are not the same.

Donald Trump doesn’t know what progressive means.

Kamala Harris does not want to take away everyone’s guns. Tim Walz is a gun owner.

Vice President Harris does not support an arms embargo on Israel.

Donald Trump could not remember Tim Walz’s name.

Donald Trump’s tax cuts are not the biggest in history.

We don’t know what “the transgender became such a big thing” is supposed to mean.

Donald Trump will cut Social Security – just like he proposed every year he was in office.

Government was not weaponized against Trump and Steve Bannon.

Mail ballots are secure.

We agree – Elon IS a different kind of guy.

There are no polls that say Donald Trump is going to win in a landslide.

The MAGA base is not 75% of the country.



Friday, August 2, 2024

JD Vance and Republicans claim to be the “pro-family” party then voted against the child tax credit that would have HELPED families.

 What a bunch of GOP assholes

J.D. Vance: Pregnancies from rape should go to term even if they're 'inconvenient'

 What a sick asshole

'Stunned' audience of Black journalists were 'gasping' at Trump at NABJ Question and Answer Session

 He's such a racist POS asshole... seriously ... more


Reminder: Trump hosted two antisemitic white supremacists for dinner.

$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt

 What a corrupt GOP asshole.  Another GOP asshole, Bill Barr covered up the crime. 

How Trump Will Try to Steal the 2024 Election Even if He Doesn't Have the Votes

 a huge bunch of Swing State Election Officials Are Pro-Trump GOP asshole Election Deniers

Nearly 70 pro-Trump conspiracists are election officials in key battleground counties — and they are poised to make a giant mess on Election Day

Monday, July 1, 2024

Supreme Court says presidents have ‘absolute’ immunity for clearly official acts but no immunity for unofficial acts

 A very terrible decision supported by 6 rightwing asshole justices

 

 

The Supreme Court gets the stakes of presidential immunity backward

 

 

The President Can Now Assassinate You, Officially

 

And from Rep. Adam Schiff:

Today’s Supreme Court decision on Donald Trump’s immunity claim is far worse than anything I imagined... Effectively giving a president immunity for any crimes committed while in office as long as that president can plausibly claim the action was taken in some form of official capacity.

 

It must now be presumed that the president, as king, is immune from accountability. The rule of law applies to everyone except the most powerful person on Earth. It would be difficult to overstate how much this opinion shifts the balance of power away from Congress and towards the presidency, and how unshackled a corrupt president will now be.

 

The Court gives the president absolute power, and it will corrupt him, absolutely. As Justice Sotomayor says so powerfully, this new immunity ‘now lies about like a loaded weapon’ for any President that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival, or his own financial gain, above the interests of the Nation.’

 

The Court holds that when a president acts within his ‘core’ authority, he is fully immune. And when he acts outside his core authority, but in an official capacity, the presumption of immunity is so strong as to be nearly absolute. Even if he acts in a purely personal capacity, and the Court majority gives no indication of when that would be, his statements while acting officially may not be used as evidence, and his motives may not be questioned.

 

Having taken up a case they never should have, having waited until the last day to issue the opinion, having known it was the defendant’s strategy to deny justice by delaying it, the Court now remands the case for further proceedings of indeterminate length, ensuring there will be no accountability for Trump’s insurrectionist crimes before the election.

 

During his abortive coup attempt, Trump told his acting attorney general and other top Justice Department officials to ‘just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.’ Now the Supreme Court says he is immune from ordering his Justice Department to lie, and the evidence of his malice, his very words, may not be used as evidence against him.

 

Under this ruling, a president can order the assassination or jailing of their political rival, and be immune. They can take a bribe in exchange for an official act, and still be immune. They can organize a military coup to hold onto power, and still be immune. If that sounds mad, that’s because it is.

 

This is a day that will live in legal infamy. When justices on the Court that bears Roberts’ name, paid back their appointment by a corrupt president with an opinion that provides immunity to all corrupt presidents, and weakened our democracy and the rule of law for the ages.

 

Our only remedy is the ballot box, a new congress, and a new Court — that has more reverence for the Constitution than the lust for power.

Jack Smith brings receipts of vile threats against judges and prosecutors in Trump cases, tells Cannon former president fundraised off of lies about FBI

 Trump's assholery is truly monstrous

Trump Is Inciting Violence as the Election Approaches

 Goddamn, he is one evil asshole