Do impartial justice
Feb 5, 2020
Today's Tweet
Haven't heard from this guy in a while.
GOP: He didn't do it.— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) February 5, 2020
Trump: I did it.
GOP: He didn't mean to do it.
Trump: I wish I'd done it sooner.
GOP: He did it for benign reasons.
Trump: I did it for the worst reasons.
GOP: He's sorry.
Trump: I'm never sorry.
GOP: He's chastened.
Trump: I'm doing it again tomorrow.
Let's Do Some Pie
Wealth inequity is the surest way for rich people to fuck themselves out of being rich.
Over time, wealth (and the power that always goes with it) migrates upwards. More and more money and power are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, until just a very small number of plutocrats are running the whole show.
In order for that to work, less and less money and power has to be shared by more and more people, until folks come to understand that they've been left with nothing more to lose.
That's when the man on the white horse rides in, riles 'em up and they crash the plutocrats' party in the most unpleasant ways - all in the name of goodness and patriotism and Making America Great Again.
To be sure, there's a righteousness about trying to even things up - trying to get equilibrium back into the thing. But when a system is as badly out of balance as it is in USAmerica Inc, people get desperate. And desperate people do some pretty crazy (ie: stoopid) things - like following the wrong guys who talk them into doing some really fucked shit.
Trump is the deceiver.
If I ignore what I consider the silliness of people who believed in gods and demons and a geocentric universe, and look to the basic human circumstances that seem to prevail no matter the place or time, I can get pretty cozy with the warnings of a mad monk in a cave 1800 years ago, trying to suss out why so many rich people act like such dicks, and why it's so easy for them to sucker so many normal everyday otherwise-clear-thinking folks.
It is a wonderment.
BTW - looking at Trump as that false messiah helps explain the fucked up "logic" of American Evangelicals.
And also too - the parallels with Nazi occultism are getting really freaky.
About Last Night
The big takeaway is that the buzz today is all about Badass Boss Pelosi and not that miserable 90-minute infomercial, all dressed up and trying to look like statesmanship.
Bryan Tyler Cohen
Bryan Tyler Cohen
Overheard On The Web
All the hand-wringing and conspiracy gossip swirling around the Iowa Primary seems a little silly.
The thing is run by Boomer volunteers.
So what's more likely? That they managed to rig 1700 individual caucuses, or that the old folks had trouble getting the app to work?
The thing is run by Boomer volunteers.
So what's more likely? That they managed to rig 1700 individual caucuses, or that the old folks had trouble getting the app to work?
Feb 4, 2020
It Will Come Out
But the question remains: will we get confirmation on what we need to know - what we're pretty sure we already know - in time?
New York Times Magazine:
It tells of Mike Offit - former Deustchebank wheel who helped engineer what became billions of dollars in loans to Trump at a time when nobody else would touch him.
And then he helped with the messaging so they could pretzel the fuck outa the thing in order to turn Trump into a noble avatar, at one with The Great American Little Guy.
... Democrats were pillorying Trump’s shaky — not to mention murky — personal finances, including his companies’ chronic bankruptcies. Offit thought he might dispense a little advice to his erstwhile client. On a Friday evening, he emailed Trump a lengthy message, explaining that the defense Trump was offering at the time — that he was simply using the bankruptcy law in an advantageous way — wasn’t resonating with voters. “I believe there is a much better answer, that may help defuse this issue, and am just arrogant enough to suggest it,” Offit wrote.
He advised Trump to claim that his companies had been forced to declare bankruptcy, the victims of greedy hedge funds so obsessed with wringing every last dollar out of him that they refused to let him renegotiate his crushing debts. Was this true? Not really. But it sounded good, and the line of attack meshed with Trump’s populist rhetoric on the campaign trail.
The money quote:
Last April, congressional Democrats subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for its records on Trump, his family members and his businesses. The Trump family sued to block the bank from complying; after two federal courts ruled against the Trumps, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case, with oral arguments expected in the spring. State prosecutors, meanwhile, are investigating the bank’s ties with Trump, too. The F.B.I. has been conducting its own wide-ranging investigation of Deutsche Bank, and people connected to the bank told me they have been interviewed by special agents about aspects of the Trump relationship.
Read the thing, and understand how openly these assholes are doing their criming.
Hiding in plain sight.
The main thing right now is to keep a good watchful eye on US Att'y General Bill (Where's My Roy Cohn) Barr.
I'd give a coupla my nuts to be wrong, but I think we really are seeing the big push. The Daddy State trying to come to full flower.
Oh yeah - don't miss the part where Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's son pops up in the middle of this fucking thing.
Feb 3, 2020
Today's Tweet
PSA
THIS IS LOL FUNNY:— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) February 3, 2020
Take it from desilydic and dulcesloan and incorporate 👏 that 👏 pussy 👏 pic.twitter.com/lMo43b2Q6z
Covering It All
Just to be sure I've got it all covered, I'd like to take this opportunity to assure my loyal readers that the Super Bowl confetti was not made entirely of shredded head injury studies.
thanks - The Onion
In The Land Of Poe
WaPo:
Rep. Rodney Garcia, a state lawmaker in Montana, told a roomful of Republicans he believes the U.S. Constitution says socialists can be jailed or shot simply for being socialists. Garcia initially made the statement at an election event, then he reiterated it to a Billings Gazette reporter.
The Republican Party in Montana swiftly rebuked him.
Garcia’s inflammatory assertion first came Friday night, after former interior secretary Ryan Zinke gave a speech at the party event in Helena. According to reporting from the Gazette, Garcia said he was concerned there were socialists “everywhere” in Billings, which he represents in House District 52.
Billings Gazette reporter Holly Michels later asked Garcia to clarify his remarks, and the lawmaker doubled down.
“So actually in the Constitution of the United States, [if you] are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot,” Garcia told Michels.
- and then -
Anthony Johnstone, a law professor at the University of Montana, told The Washington Post that “nothing in the Constitution of the United States authorizes the government to punish socialists or anyone else on the basis of their political beliefs.” In fact, the First Amendment prohibits punishing political speech, and the Constitution of Montana “expressly prohibits discrimination on the basis of political beliefs,” Johnstone said. All state lawmakers swear an oath to uphold those doctrines.
...because of course. That's where we are now.
The rubes giggle and run off to make this new bullshit part of the "conservative" dogma, while the Press Poodles feel compelled to fact check it - they stopped long enough to go find someone to tell them whether or not the US-fucking-Constitution says it's OK to shoot socialists.
Feb 2, 2020
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