To be honest, I took a rather sick pleasure in watching the “debate” this week. And I’m getting even more pleasure out of watching the experiments to see what the right spin will be. Messages are emanating for the consumption and regurgitation by the usual idiots, and after a bit of casting around, the final excuse everyone has settled on is, “Yes, but Trump lied!” Don’t bother pointing out that both of them lied through their capped teeth continuously. TRUMP LIED. So, ok guys, go with that and pretend that your candidate isn’t a demented mummy. I’ll admit that there’s some wisdom behind this- Trump (who isn’t exactly a brain trust either) can’t take the W and he won’t shut up; he’ll do or say some things that are so stupid that he’ll self-destruct. He just can’t help himself. As one of the political science profs at my school observed, “If somebody broke Trump’s thumbs in October 2020, today he’d be president.” Of course, by the time this posts, I could be overtaken by events…
Speaking of events, it’s one of those sparse days for birthdays, but still there’s a guy who studied biota; a guy who presaged Haystacks Calhoun; a guy who presaged Art Modell; an entertainer who was an activist before entertainers became retarded activists; a jazz pianist whose music was difficult but absolutely worth it; a guy to see if you happened to need a rabbit right away; a particularly evil grifter who preys on the grieving; a guy who will return forever; star of a terrific cartoon show, but hold your ears; and one of my homeboys who showed that the path to athletic greatness runs through a bong.
And with that, some odd and assorted Links.
Most of the news today is some variation or other of this story. Or of this one.
On the one hand, this is stupid. On the other hand… I got nothin’.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED that “sanctions” are so trivial to evade.
“You mean that when I shit my pants in front of the Queen, people noticed?”
Old Guy Music is another band that Tomb Raider introduced me to (the woman does have excellent taste in music if not in politicians or men). It’s ironic that this was just how I was feeling. I think I’ll break out my flute…
Mike Tyson is a chatty Cathy in public. Dude will
bitetalk your ear offWhy are the links so early?… crap they’re on-time.
The Glib Foundation wins whatever happens with Biden – if he gets 25thed or dies before the end of his term, it get $100 from Jarflax (who even emerged from the shadows last week to confirm this,) and if Gropey Joe finishes his term, it gets $100 from me!
All that happens is he and his team dig in their heels and try to ride it out along with canceling the second debate. The cold embrace of death, which might be waiting in the next room from the looks of him, is the only thing that’s going to remove Joe from the race unless there’s some incredible political backstabbing engaged in and that brings its own enormous problems.
I think the backstabbing becomes death. They’ll start scaring him around corners and sending him to vist flu/COVID wards in hospitals since they are again claiming a COVID uptick.
I am gonna speculate that the pro-democracy party is betting on Joe winning so that five minutes after he wins they will off him before he can be seated. They can replace him with the puppet of their choice, sans voters. Having Joe go play checkers with Hitler before he can be sworn in per the 20A says the Vice President will be sworn in but are we sure who that will be?
This idea came to me when I saw the polling on all of joe’s potential replacements. Trump wildly beats all of them by double digits, from 10 to 40 points.
Please. Whitmer or Newsom would each Trump for lunch and shit him out the backside.
Newsom? Maybe, hard to say. He would shore up support amongst the AWFLs, but I don’t know that he has much appeal beyond that. His record in CA also presents a target-rich environment.
Whitmer? I just don’t see it. A charmless Hillary clone without the national name recognition seems a long shot.
I was telling Mrs. Dean the other day that the Dems have to be just weeping in their Chardonnay that Granholm isn’t eligible to be President, on account of she was born in Canada. Their bench is so thin it boggles the mind, but if it wasn’t for that accident of birth, she’d be at the top of the list.
Replacing him post election is the same problem as replacing him pre-election; there is no one in charge of the team, and so each player is going to go his own way. In other words, they cannot coalesce around one person, as there is too much infighting between the various factions.
I’m going to throw another idea in the ring – Harris gets sidelined and throws a hissy fit, refusing to certify the electoral college vote out of spite. While an ineffectual protest, it does cause another distracting kerfuffle in January.
I’m still hoping they buy off Harris by appointing her to SCOTUS. There’s reportedly pressure being put on the Wise Latinx to retire so the RBG nightmare scenario doesn’t get replayed.
GAAAAAAAAH!!! 😱
I’ll go $50 if he “willingly” steps down at any time. And another $100 if HRC is our next President
whaddup doh’
Hey from the laundromat again since the board I ordered for my broken dryer is the wrong one.
So, no clothesline?
Not yet.
I haven’t been home enough to install one.
I used to have a “Choose Your Own Adventure” style book that featured you as a young apprentice to Harry Blackstone.
*Blackstone and the Sex Offender Registry*?
*taps out in paroxysms of uncontrollable laughter*
“He’s being selfish. He’s putting himself ahead of the country. He’s surrounded by opportunistic enablers. He has created a reality distortion field where we’re told not to believe what we’ve plainly seen. His hubris is infuriating. He says he’s doing this for us, but he’s really doing it for himself.”
Like Joe’s sudden onset dementia, this is a shocking recent development to her.
Kept as well hidden as Weinstein’s activities.
By golly I just learned a new word.
Mike Tyson said that Mohammed Ali in his prime would have beaten him.
I could never beat him in the NES game, but Tyson once said he could never beat Glass Joe when he tried to play.
Well, his wheelhouse was hitting hard, not insane frame-perfect timing.
Talking about Ali?
Tyson.
I went off looking for a breakdown of how to set a speedrun world record in the NES game. It’s a bit dry as a video, and about 4x as long as the world record proper.
Ugh I hate “speed runs”. It is just counter to everything I play a game for.
It does skip all the fun of the game.
Tyson is today’s Ernie Shavers. Yeah, I believe that…he couldn’t beat Ali in his prime, but who could?
There hasn’t been anyone before or after like Ali.
Did that fight between Tyson and Jake Paul ever happen?
Delayed due to a heart scare for Tyson. I can’t remember when, but it’s a few months out.
The things I took from the recent debate:
1. I’m anti-abortion, but Trump’s stance of “let the states decide for themselves” is acceptable to me.
2. Trump decrying the loss of life in Ukraine and Israel, calling it senseless and tragic, implies to me that he really is anti-war.
3. He mentioned reducing regulations, but I thought he should have leaned hard into it.
4. It’s unfortunate that people running for President don’t talk about rolling back Federal spending. Yes, taxation is theft, but the real theft is government spending.
But he is bad! You hear me? B-A-D bad. And he lies.
Yeah, I was disappointed he didn’t take a wrecking bar to the FedGov apparatus. All I can hope now is that he learned from that. We will see.
Hope in one hand and… which one fulls up first.
I could almost feel compassion for Joe but I don’t. One does not need a doctor or family or friends to know when the time to move along has arrived.
Some wise ol’ wag once said “It’s better to quit a day too early than a day too late”. We all should know this, pretending is a helluva a way to go through life. I’m watching my old friends carefully (and quietly) just as I know they are watching me.
Athletes understand this better than anyone else, when no one will pick up their contract, doesn’t matter how old they are. Money talks, bullshit walks (and sometimes not very well). The only people supporting either of the two candidates are those that stand to game the program and are really non-competitive in their own right, the strap hangars.
Goodbye Joe, we’ve known you far too long. The other guy, too.
Three cheers. Both of ’em appear to be more ego-ridden than concerned about what happens to the country. Far as I’m concerned, both candidates – and their parties – are moribund.
Prediction: Trudeau out this week.
That would be sweet.
Like a long forgotten dream.
No kidding? Is there a vote already set? (I haven’t seen many of the Canuckistani Glibs around lately, and I haven’t been following Viva Frei closely, though I gather he’s been in Montreal.)
After last week’s byelection result, a number of backbenchers are looking at the prospect of losing their seat in the next general election (by next fall, at the latest). And they’re likely to get an earful from unhappy constituents on the Canada Day barbecue circuit.
One sitting MP (albeit not running again) has already publicly called for his resignation, supported by another (who maybe hit Reply All by mistake). I don’t think a backbencher does that unless they’re confident that they have numbers.
I’ll believe it when I see it. For reasons that still escape me, he’s managed to side-step scandal after scandal that would have brought any other PM (not to mention their party) down. Effer’s made from Teflon as far as I can tell.
On the gripping hand, his staying in power is exactly the gift that the Conservative leader (Pierre Poilievre) needs, because Trudeau leaving right now gives the FedLibs time to put someone else in there that might be more attractive to voters. (This assumes, of course, that the real Powers That Be *don’t* choose from the existing slate of MPs, who comprise the shallowest bench of candidates I’ve seen in my life).
In virtually no case that I can imagine would an early election be called. Too many one-term MPs are depending on a full five years in office to guarantee that sweet lifetime pension after they leave.
The PSG Consulting, Democracy Corps, and Greenberg Research poll was conducted June 27, surveying 374 registered voters nationally. The qualitative survey analyzed several individually recruited groups, including dual haters, third-party voters, Black and Hispanic voters, young white voters and single female white voters.
I hate duals as much as the next guy.
Looks kind of like they didn’t include a couple of strong voting blocks for the survey. I’m sure that didn’t skew the poll results, though.
“374 registered voters nationally”
Well, that sounds definitive. More than 7 whole registered voters per state! And “individually recruited groups”, as one does when striving for validity.
What is a “dual hater”, anyway?
Watching the new Orphan Black, I’m underwhelmed thus far.
Who’s showing that? We have the original series on Blu-Ray. Same leading actress, I hope?
On BBCA right now. Krysten Ritter is the lead.
😞
Man, I have never seen a good show jump the shark like the original did.
After finishing the whole episode, I doubt I’ll give them another look. Even with them teasing bringing back Felix. And the other reveal at the end…
What is a “dual hater”, anyway?
People like just about everybody here, who hate Biden AND Trump.
People who drive dual axle trucks that haven’t with a pristine bed that haven’t towed anytthing?
I said anout 4x4s in California, not allowed if you don’t go off road some of the time.
Have you seen the roads lately? I think that qualifies at this point.
I wonder if there will be any long term ramifications for the Democrats when people look back at the way they locked down the primary process and made it absolutely certain Joe would be the nominee? Will there be a revolt at the convention?
Haha, I crack myself up.
The floggings will continue until morale improves
“The bedwetting brigade is calling for Joe Biden to ‘drop out.’ That is the best possible way for Donald Trump to win and us to lose,” Biden deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty argued in the email to supporters.
“First of all: Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee, period. End of story. Voters voted. He won overwhelmingly,” Flaherty added. “And if he were to drop out, it would lead to weeks of chaos, internal foodfighting, and a bunch of candidates who limp into a brutal floor fight at the convention, all while Donald Trump has time to speak to American voters uncontested.”
I’m obviously not a big Democratic donor, but I can’t help wondering how many people will hang up the next time some Party fundraiser calls.
“Fuck me? No, fuck you.”
Interest contrast to this obviously Team Blue planted spin.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/30/us-news/biden-holed-up-at-camp-david-with-first-lady-jill-family-to-discuss-campaigns-future-report/
All will be forgiven after he wins in November. What part of permanent majority is unclear?
And publicly, Democratic officials have circled the wagons around Biden. California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday night after the debate that he “will never turn [his] back on President Biden,” while New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who hosted the fundraiser in his state on Saturday, told Biden “We are all with you 1,000%,” and called him “America’s comeback kid.”
C’mon out back, Joe. I want to show you the new ditch we dug.
I would have also accepted “Ignore the plastic lining on the floors, we’re doing some remodeling.”
The old people here will remember when George McGovern was 1,000% behind Tom Eagleton.
“A small, quaint California town has been torn apart by an internal war that has culminated in ‘terrorism,’ with residents allegedly deliberately swerving trucks toward each other, spraying enemies with weed killer – and now a bomb squad has been called in.
The battle erupted in the idyllic, historic town called Port Costa, which has a population of 251 seemingly very angry people.
The bitter townsfolk drew lines in the sand in classic ‘not in my backyard’ (NIMBY) fashion after a non-profit organization called the Field Semester expressed their intention to create an environmental school for high schoolers in the town.
In October, a group calling itself the ‘Port Costa Community Alliance’ distributed flyers throughout the town warning about the Field Semester Project in ‘overly dramatic and purposefully misleading language.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13584401/California-San-Francisco-Ecology-Threat-Bomb.html
damn hippies
Say, wasn’t Trump supposed to announce his VP pick by now?
Why divert attention away from all the fuss about Joe?
Excellent point.
And now that I think about it, I’m surprised Trump has managed to keep his yapper shut after the debate and not pile on in his usual childish, impulsive way.
I think those were rumors that it might be revealed around the debate.
I think Trump has always said he’d make it public closer to the convention.
Of course… Trump being Trump… it could pop out any time.
Outlandish poppycock
Backed with no substantial evidence, GOP lawmakers and state election officials, along with right-wing activists, have launched a barrage of claims that the Biden administration is using this order to overstep the federal government’s role in elections, garner more Democratic voters and register non-U.S. citizens, who cannot legally vote in federal elections.
“This Executive Order is another attempt by the Biden Administration to tilt the scales ahead of 2024,” Republican Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin, chair of the House Administration Committee, said this month in a press release referencing “Bidenbucks,” what has become shorthand for unsubstantiated allegations that the administration is misusing federal tax dollars to benefit Biden’s reelection campaign.
Baseless irresponsible rumormongering aimed at undermining democracy.
“Backed with no substantial evidence”
Well, other than automatic voter registration when issuing driver’s licenses, and voter registration forms being given to illegals.
@RC
I saw you picked up Fallout 4. It’s a fantastic piece of entertainment, imo. Feel free to chat about it. I still play it a lot since getting my Steam Deck.
Which is more tiresome to read in an article “…a clear threat to our democracy…” or “…due to climate change…”. Certainly, either of these phrases is my que to stop reading and proceed somewhere else.
The Supreme Court’s reign of terror
The Supreme Court fundamentally altered the way that our federal government functions on Friday, transferring an almost unimaginable amount of power from the executive branch to the federal judiciary. By a 6–3 vote, the conservative supermajority overruled Chevron v. NRDC, wiping out four decades of precedent that required unelected judges to defer to the expert judgment of federal agencies. The ruling is extraordinary in every way—a massive aggrandizement of judicial power based solely on the majority’s own irritation with existing limits on its authority. After Friday, virtually every decision an agency makes will be subject to a free-floating veto by federal judges with zero expertise or accountability to the people. All at once, SCOTUS has undermined Congress’ ability to enact effective legislation capable of addressing evolving problems and sabotaged the executive branch’s ability to apply those laws to the facts on the ground. It is one of the most far-reaching and disruptive rulings in the history of the court.
Game over, man.
“…those selfless public servants without whom EVERYONE ON EARTH would have died of the ‘VID!!”
“All at once, SCOTUS has undermined Congress’ ability to enact effective legislation capable of addressing evolving problems ”
Horseshit. Not that Congress is interested in solving problems.
Effective legislation being rubber stamp enabling acts to the bureaucracy apparently.
If the power is an unimaginable amount of power then neither should have it. Good Lord, does that dummy even know what they are saying?
Also, I was at a left-leaning friends house yesterday and he started fretting about how easy it was to 3D print his AR lower he had just finished and was showing me, but wished he had to go through some kind of background check to do it. I asked, “You mean like Hunter?” He stopped.
So he wished that he had to ask permission to do something because why?
I have some sympathy here. The cognitive dissonance of being a left-leaning gun owner can lead to a wide variety of neurotic ticking. Try to be supportive.
I try and use them as teaching moments.
XX is going to be 21 Tuesday.
How did this happen? When? Why?
Wellllll, 21 years and approximately nine months ago, two people who loved each other very, very much . . .
Same way The Boy will turn 30 next year.
Time Bandits.
Son of Fourscore in SS eligible next month.
Unbounded government power made this nation great
For most cases, the decision may require resentencing. Others with pending charges will go to trial without an obstruction claim.
One of those is former President Donald Trump. Special Counsel Jack Smith brought four charges in Washington, D.C.: obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy against rights. The Fischer ruling means that half of the indictment would be dropped. Smith could be compelled to seek a superseding indictment.
The loss of the obstruction counts seemed to rip the wings off the plane that Smith has been trying to get off the ground before November. It was the obstruction theory that held the indictment together — the notion that Trump was directing his followers to stop the certification from occurring by charging the Congress.
The court rejected this theory and noted that that the “novel interpretation would criminalize a broad swath of prosaic conduct, exposing activists and lobbyists alike to decades in prison.” Smith has been here before. He was unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court in his conviction of Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. Notably, as with today, the court found his theory to be dangerously “boundless.”
I’m still confused by the idea a President can be charged with obstructing the government. But what do I know?
He OFFERED the NG to the Capitol Police, but Pelosi turned him down. It was 5D chess he was playing!
My little contribution to President Puddin’ Cup’s Sunday morning musings about whether he should bow out of the Presidential race:
Pacing the Cage
Biden has also become the most anti-free speech president since John Adams, including the establishment of a massive censorship system described by one court as “Orwellian.” As I discuss in my new book, the Biden administration has brought together an unprecedented alliance of government, corporate and academic interests to target and silence those with opposing views.
These, combined with the weaponization of the legal system and his party’s efforts at ballot cleansing, hardly make Biden look like the defender of democracy to many citizens.
For those who have been found guilty under these unlawful charges, it is a bit late to convert the Justice Department’s “shock and awe” into a mere “aw shucks.” It can also seem just awful for many citizens who see the political rage of Jan. 6 replaced by a type of state rage. As a result, Fischer suggests for many that democracy may be on the ballot, but the threat is not exactly what the press and the pundits have suggested.
This will, of course be answered by the Democrats and their media steno pool with a call to gaslight harder.
“An accomplished service member who once won the ‘Soldier of the Year’ award for her leadership and achievements has revealed how she kept a major secret throughout her military career.
Karen Holmes enlisted in the Maryland Defense Force in 2011 as a corporal, and over the next five years, she climbed the ranks and earned coveted awards.
But for nearly half a decade, Holmes kept quiet about her big secret: she was transgender.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13584227/Soldier-Transgender-Maryland-Military-Transgender.html
Except that it’s the MD State Defense Force (aka non-federally recognized state militia) and was never subject to the federal don’t ask, don’t tell policy.
Unrepentent
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on Saturday continued to defend the actions that resulted in his prison sentence.
In an interview with NBC News, Bannon continued to assert that the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoenas “don’t mean anything” and reiterated arguments about executive privilege that have been rejected in courts.
The vocal ally of former President Donald Trump is set to report to prison by Monday to serve a four-month sentence for defying subpoenas to appear before Congress during the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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Bannon’s prison sentence stems from being held in contempt of Congress after defying the Jan. 6 committee’s request for testimony and documents. White House records had shown that Bannon had multiple conversations with Trump on or immediately before Jan. 6.
He continued to reject a question from NBC News about the content of those conversations, calling them “personal and private” and pointing to executive privilege claims, which the Jan. 6 committee said would not prevent him from having to testify.
“That’s none of your fucking beeswax”?
What insolence.
Interesting. Similar to Trump’s conviction bump, but without the cash for the moment. It’s one poll so who knows.
https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1806835998036250886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1806835998036250886%7Ctwgr%5E34fccd70724e98cc005fe34ad367474f29fd7ace%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nj.com%2Fnews%2F2024%2F06%2Ffirst-post-debate-poll-reveals-startling-results-in-trump-biden-battle-who-wouldve-predicted-this.html
At this point, who is undecided?
“Trump lied the entire debate.”
/NPR