Is Mitch Dead?

This is wholly speculative. But how doubtful is it really?

And who thinks Republicans wouldn't pull this kind of shit?

Marco

A Win

Judge blasts Trump’s IRS lawsuit as filed for ‘improper purpose,’ recommends attorney discipline

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax returns was filed for an “improper purpose,” a judge said Monday in a scathing decision that recommended attorney sanctions and disciplinary action.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams amounts to a stinging rebuke of the Republican president’s lawsuit, characterizing it as an exercise in self-dealing in which he sued an entity that is effectively under his control.

The suit concluded in May with a settlement agreement that created a since-abandoned $1.776 billion fund meant to compensate allies of the president, as well as immunity from tax audits.

“The nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the Parties and counsel from its filing make plain that this was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law,” the judge wrote.

Overheard

In case you needed one positive thing to think about today:

Lindsey Graham wanted war with Iran more than he wanted practically anything else - and he died knowing it was all fucked up.

Recruitment Ad Parody

It's Coming

We've been drilling for oil for 160 years, and it's never been enough.

Eulogizing Lindsey

"Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power, and his decency for attention. Let it be known for all time that he knew exactly what Trump was from the beginning, and chose him over his country." --Steve Schmidt

Aaron Parnas

First, why would private sector "conservatives" be OK with taking orders from a centralized federal government?

Second, does Stephen Miller think firing a coupla hundred thousand brown people will give his ICE goons that many more chances to fuck with immigrants?

Third, if this isn't just another Trump fuck up, what Project 2025 purpose might it be meant to serve?

Fourth, if it's just another Trump fuck up, how deep is the resulting recession/depression likely to be?

MAGA Simping

MAGA rubes have taken their lesson from Trump quite efficiently - they whine about everything, but especially about how nobody respects them.

MAGA rubes are saying

they're boycotting NYC,

and they're never going there again

because of the commie mayor.

Is that Mamdani guy great or what!?!

Erika

When we pay into the system, and then get something back for it - that's the system working.

And it works quite well for parasite billionaires and big companies - not so much for the rest of us.