eVille Times

May 3, 2024

And Another'n

I won't be defending this guy blindly. If they've got the goods on him, and they prove it in court, I hope they burn him.

But this is Texas we're talking about, and there's nothing that says they're not in cahoots with a DOJ that's still pretty well peppered with MAGA dicks who feel the need to take down a brown-skinned Democrat who hangs with a Muslim-sounding bunch like The Azerbaijan Caucus - whatever the fuck that is - and blah blah blah.

I may be paranoid,

but that don't mean

nobody's out to get me.

Texas Democrat declares innocence ahead of expected indictment

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) addressed an expected indictment following reports the Justice Department is preparing charges against him, saying he is “innocent of these allegations” and still plans to seek reelection.

The Justice Department searched Cuellar’s home in January 2022 as part of an investigation into Azerbaijan.

Cuellar, a co-chair of the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus, said at the time he was not the target of the investigation.

In his Friday statement, Cuellar did not address any specific pending charges but suggested he sought out legal advice on what would appear to be the subject of the allegations and also references his wife’s professional background.

“Before I took any action, I proactively sought legal advice from the House Ethics Committee, who gave me more than one written opinion, along with an additional opinion from a national law firm. The actions I took in Congress were consistent with the actions of many of my colleagues and in the interest of the American people,” Cuellar wrote in a statement issued through his campaign.

“Imelda and I have been married for 32 years. On top of being an amazing wife and mother, she’s an accomplished businesswoman with two degrees. She spent her career working with banking, tax, and consulting. The allegation that she is anything but qualified and hard working is both wrong and offensive.”

Cuellar also said he tried to meet with prosecutors “to explain the facts and they refused to discuss the case with us or to hear our side.”

The Hill has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.

Cuellar, a moderate Democrat from a district along the U.S.-Mexico border, narrowly defeated primary challenger Jessica Cisneros.

“Let me be clear, I’m running for re-election and will win this November,” Cuellar said.

Today's Brian

Every defendant has the right to choose whether or not they'll testify at their own trial - gosh, there's that pesky right to self-determination thing again. Not that it'll register with the rubes, of course.

Anyway, a defendant can testify or not testify, depending on their own sense of what's in their best interests.

No judge has the power to deprive any defendant of the right to make that decision. It's up to the defendant and nobody else.

So here comes Mr Snoozy von Schitzinpantz, pretending to be totally oblivious to the fact that he's un-ironically demonstrating two things:

He has to avoid testifying because cross examination will show him up as a total fucking liar, which could get his ass charged with perjury
Having shot his mouth off (again) that he'll definitely and freely and absolutely testify, he has to blame someone for preventing him from doing it

And there's that Daddy State thing. "I'm controlling everything. I'm playing 11-dimension chess, and mere mortals can do nothing to keep me from achieving my goals and my rightful place in command of everything. And BTW, those big bad liberal communist-Nazis have tied my hands and won't let me do anything - I'm the victim, and you're being shielded from their evil deeds by me and me alone..."

It's like, how exactly can an all-powerful Christ be brought low by a handful of impotent Pharisees? The answer is a fairly simple exercise in projecting your savior's greatness onto yourself - ie: He's doing it for us, because we're amazing. Let us endeavor to go on proving ourselves worthy of his sacrifice by wearing these stupid hats and rationalizing the fuck out of every contradiction that spills out of his little shit-hole gob. Praise his name.

Death By Stupid

Hey - I know - let's just stand here and watch the earth kills us.

Today's Beau

Because he's your ruler. He'll tell you what to believe - what to think.

Daddy State Awareness

The Daddy State lies as a means of demonstrating power.
The lies have practically nothing to do with the subject of the lies.
Lying about everything creates chaos, which helps condition us to stop thinking, and look to them for "guidance".
Once we're totally dependent on them, we'll accept the premise that they can do anything they want.

The goal is to dictate reality to us.

May 2, 2024

Dueling Headlines

Ah, Press Poodles, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.

For excellence in headline spin:

I may have to come up with a special Whiplash award for when the headline is at odds with the body of the reporting.

Trump says he’d accept Wisconsin results ‘if everything’s honest’

Former President Trump declined to commit to accepting Wisconsin’s November election results in an interview Wednesday, the latest instance of Trump hedging over whether he will contest the results of the election.

“If everything’s honest, I’d gladly accept the results,” Trump told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in an interview Wednesday. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.

“But if everything’s honest, which we anticipate it will be — a lot of changes have been made over the last few years — but if everything’s honest, I will absolutely accept the results,” he added.

Trump falsely claimed to the outlet that he “won the election in Wisconsin” in 2020, doubling down on his disproven claims of widespread fraud in the Badger State and elsewhere. President Biden won Wisconsin by 21,000 votes in 2020.

There's more to the piece, but who gives a fuck when they can't be honest about reporting on his standard SmarmSpace weasel-out?

He says he'll accept the outcome "if it's honest", and you know he's never ever going to say it was honest, and he'll never concede -

because he's never fucking conceded anything. EVER.

Guns Today

There's some likelihood that this is just more performative GOP bullshit, but we're talking about people with guns, so we have to see it as a face-value proposition.