Sunday, May 10, 2020

Barr's corrupt undoing of Flynn guilty plea

After lying to the vice president and the FBI about his conversations with the Russians, Mike Flynn pleaded guilty in court. Bill Barr is corrupting attempting to undo Flynn's guilty plea.

Here's a road map to Flynn's crimes, his court proceedings, Barr's attempt to dismiss the case, and Judge Emmet Sullivan's options in addressing Barr's corrupt motion to dismiss.

Saturday, May 9, 2020

No, Bill Barr. We Will Not Let The Trump Regime Write Our History

No matter what Bill Barr says, we won't let it happen.

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Trump Believes That People Who Die Of Coronavirus Are Losers

Posted by Rude One

As it usually is in these situations, it was the simplest of questions, a potential slamdunk for an ordinary politician, hell, for an ordinary human being. But we are talking about resident Donald Trump, who is a hollowed-out pumpkin filled with a slurry of toxic waste, so the most ludicrous softball questions become moments of torment and confusion because he just doesn't get how being a person works.

On Tuesday, at an event where he brayed about the small business loan program that's become a money trough for corporate pigs to feed at, Trump got a question from a reporter. "You’ve spoken about your friend who passed away," the intrepid journalist asked, tossing a soft, underhand pitch. "I was wondering if you have spoken to the families of anyone else who has lost a loved one to COVID-19.  If there’s any particular stories that have affected you."

Right now, you, sitting there as a semi-normal human being, you could toss out a couple of examples about stories that affected you. Maybe you could talk about Sklyar Herbert, the 5 year old girl in Detroit, who passed away a week before. Maybe you could mention one of the doctors or other first responders who have been taken out by the disease they were fighting. Maybe you could talk about someone else you know, like the elderly retired professor I knew who I just found out died of coronavirus. It might be emotional. But you could do it, though.

But Trump couldn't. He answered, "Well, I have — I have many people.  I know many stories.  I’ve spoken to three, maybe, I guess, four families unrelated to me.  I did — I lost a very good friend.  I also lost three other friends — two of whom I didn’t know as well, but they were friends and people I did business with, and probably almost everybody in the room did. And it’s a — it’s a bad death.  It’s not a — it’s — it’s a bad thing.  It grips onto some people.  Now, we found out that young people do extraordinarily well." And then that was it. The brain worms then made him pivot to schools that are opening up which led him to criticize distance learning because of course he did.

We know that whenever Trump is called upon to offer some kind of sympathy for the dead and sick, he either quickly reads a rote script or he changes the subject, often to how "horrendous" or "brilliant" COVID-19 is, as if it has to be the worst illness in the history of the world because that's the only virus that can be an opponent worthy of Donald Trump.

Trump has made a big show about how he refuses to wear a mask because he's been tested and doesn't have coronavirus. At the event Tuesday, in Oval Office gatherings, neither Trump nor the people there, including Drs. Birx and Fauci, wear masks. You know that he sees wearing a mask as a sign of weakness. You know that he's demanded that no one be allowed to wear masks. No one is gonna make him look like a disease-fearing pussy. He is the uber-mensch. All others cower beneath his exceedingly healthy orange glow.

Essentially, that's his attitude towards the dead. If you get sick, you are weak and you are preventing the economy from "roaring back," so he'll order you back to work or have governors force you back so you lose your unemployment benefits. If you die, you're a loser because it makes him look bad. Here's what he managed to say yesterday: "We mourn — and I have to say this so strongly — we mourn every life tragically lost to the invisible enemy, and we’re heartened that the worst of the pain and suffering is going to be behind us." The worst is not "behind us." We're in the worst right now, with cases rising in some states, falling in others, and staying steady in the others.

The sick and the dead are inconvenient because they prevent him from gallivanting around the country and prancing like a coked-out baboon in front of his adoring, cretinous crowds. He talked about how tragic it would be to have social distancing at his rallies of the damned: "I can’t imagine a rally where you have every fourth seat full. Every — every six seats are empty for every one that you have full.  That wouldn’t look too good." Your fever and cough are keeping the resident from having good-looking campaign events, you selfish fucks.

Note: Of course, as long as it's the poors, immigrants, prisoners, and the weak old people (not strong like his wheezing ass) that die, well, that's just thinning the herd until we get to immunity or something.

But I keep coming back to that fuckin' question. Trump admitted that he has not reached out to a single family of someone who died. He didn't take any time to ring up some widow in Alabama or Texas or Kansas, the states that he won. That's just fucked up. He can't because to do so would be to concede that the deaths mean something beyond lower approval ratings. He can't because he's incapable of exuding the kind of empathy that's necessary to come across as anything other than the popularity-driven, praise-thirsty, narcissistic monster that he is.

Instead, he pretends that 60,000 deaths are bad, but, hey, a million deaths is worse and China must be lying; he's petulantly defensive, pissed off that all these weak losers are dying and that he's supposed to pretend to care. Fuck that. Not when it's more fun to shitpost about Brian Williams or CNN.

He says the disease is going to disappear "like a miracle," except it's not. It's going to slowly peter out, the bodies stacking up, becoming to him like a wall preventing his reelection. Your death means nothing more and nothing less.

Joe Reacts To Trump Tweet | Morning Blow | MSNBC

Joe Scarborough reacts to a new tweet from the resident. Aired on 5/4/2020.

Trump's Fantastical Dream


Saturday, May 2, 2020

NO NO NO!!! Trump & Kushner Okay w/ 60,000-70,000 American Deaths. Say They've Done a Great Job!

Jesse Dollemore discusses recent comments from both Donald Trump and Jared Kushner when they have touted themselves as having done a great job in dealing with the spread of the Coronavirus. They are moving the goalposts right before our very eyes and think we aren't paying attention!

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

The Divine Right Of Trumps

Posted by Rude One

Something Donald Trump said last week has just stuck in my craw. Well, to be fair, every goddamn word out of that shit-ogre's mouth sticks in my craw. My craw is fuckin' full. But this is a little snippet that got no attention whatsoever, but just seems to me to indicate exactly how perverse this entire depressing situation has always been.

Last Tuesday, on April 7, prior to jacking off for the media at his Coronavirus Task Force presser, Trump held the "Small Business Relief Update Meeting," another session where he gets his balls massaged by having everyone tell him how awesome his awesomeness is. In his introductory remarks, prior to lying again about the number of jobs his daughter/genetic spank bank Ivanka has created, Trump said this: "My daughter, Ivanka Trump, who just wants to have people working.  That’s what — I gave her lots of options, and - 'What do you like?'" And then he went on to lie-brag, "She started off with a goal of 500,000 jobs, and now she’s up to over 15 million."

Look at what he's admitting there. The motherfuckin' resident of the United States, who is elected and doesn't inherit the position, said that he asked his daughter, "What do you want to do in my administration?" Not what was she qualified for. And, honestly, all she's qualified to do is be the mascot for a company of cheap knock-offs of other designers' work and putting her stupid name it. A person with any self-awareness would have said, "Oh, that's okay. I'm just gonna keep on abusing sweatshop workers." But, no, in this telling, Ivanka said, "Daddy, I wish to work on getting Americans jobs." It's not just that the whole story is a lie (really, Ivanka's there to make sure Donald doesn't shit himself and keel over). It's that the lie is disturbing as fuck: The resident let his daughter choose her job in the White House, like a toy at FAO Schwarz.

It's of a piece of Trump believing himself the equal to a king, the imperial presidency on Adderall, snorted off his daughter's tits.

Back in the quaint times of the Mueller investigation, when Trump was just a filthy traitor selling out the nation to Russia and not outright murdering Americans, he used to say repeatedly that he had the power to do all the treason he wanted: "Then, I have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president. But I don’t even talk about that," he said at some godforsaken conservative conference of the damned. Of course, he talked about it all the fuckin' time.

And now, over the last few days, Trump has gone even further, asserting that he has the power to decide when individual states are ready to open up for business post-pandemic. On Monday, he asserted, "When somebody is the resident of the United States, the authority is total, and that’s the way it’s got to be." And, as he does when he knows he's fucking wrong, he insisted that others knew what he was saying. Usually, it's "you know what I'm talking about," but here it was "And the governors know that." Except the governors don't "know" that because it's just not fucking true. I just wanted one governor to say, "Motherfucker, you were too much of a pussy to close anything. Don't fuckin' get in my face about when to open it, you anus-lipped, jiggly-jowled prick."

At today's pressturbation session, he didn't just say that he has control over the economies of individual states. He said that he can use his emergency powers to adjourn the Congress so he can recess appoint a bunch of harmful fucks to positions of power. You know, so they can ensure that government for Trump and by Trump continues unabated. He went full batshit:  "If the House will not agree to that adjournment, I will exercise my constitutional authority to adjourn both chambers of Congress. The current practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro forma sessions is a dereliction of duty that the American people cannot afford during this crisis. It is a scam what they do. It's a scam." By the way, that "scam" was used to prevent President Obama from recess-appointing anyone.

What was pissing off Trump so much that he needs to provoke another constitutional crisis? The Voice of America news outlet, funded by taxpayers, wasn't sucking his dick. Yeah, VOA reported China's number of coronavirus deaths, and because they didn't say, "Oh, and China eats shit," Trump and Trumpinistas are losing their goddamn minds. Trump wants to put in his own propagandist at the VOA.  The VOA asserted independence and freedoms, like press and speech, and that was the greatest sin you can commit when you are dealing with a king.

The pathetic reality is that Trump doesn't have the power of a king (yet) is that he can't make the truth go away. Oh, sure, the fucking idiot hordes, who will suckle at his saggy teats until it kills them, will believe his story.

But the real truth is that Trump had the power to do something to prepare for the coronavirus pandemic and he didn't. He could have waved his hand (in the form of a signature or two) and unleashed the manufacturing power of the United States. He could have coordinated national social distancing early on. He could have taken the WHO's tests and vastly expanded our ability to do them. He had that power: the power to have saved thousands of lives. It was in his tiny hands. And he didn't use it because he couldn't see past his own bloated reflection. How fucking sad is that.

What we're really seeing is the flailing of a pitiful failure, a sad old man screaming at the TV for disagreeing with him. He's going to keep saying this kind of shit and the threat is that he really acts on this. Because then it will once again be up to Republicans to join Democrats in reining in his desire to reign. And if they don't, it will be up to the Supreme Court to decide. And we know how that goes.

It's not even a surprise anymore when Trump escalates to cover up his incompetence and bad decisions. He's like every terrorist: he gets off on seeing shit blow up.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Chuck Schumer Proves He's A Completely Worthless Senator

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been more than willing to help Donald Trump get his judicial appointments confirmed and working with Mitch McConnell on stimulus bills that only help major corporations. 

But when it comes to Trump putting his name on stimulus checks, Schumer has finally decided to grow a spine. 

Schumer has introduced legislation to stop this meaningless gesture from Trump with the "No PR Act," and Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains why this is beyond infuriating.

 

https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/schumer-to-introduce-no-pr-act-to-prevent-trumps-name-from-appearing-on-future-coronavirus-relief-checks/ 


Friday, April 24, 2020

Trump Suggests Disinfectant To Kill Virus Inside The Body

The resident suggested the possibility of an 'injection' of disinfectant into a person infected with the coronavirus as a deterrent to the virus during his daily briefing Thursday. The Morning Blow panel discusses Trump's remarks. Aired on 04/24/2020.



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Donald Trump's daily coronavirus press briefings have been getting stranger by the day, but Thursday's absolutely broke the crazy meter. 
Trump told people that the virus might be able to be defeated by heating the body to absurd temperatures, or by putting light inside the body, or, and more dangerously, by injecting disinfectants into a person. 
None of these are actual treatments, and some of them are a near guarantee of death, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.  
 

https://thehill.com/homenews/coronavirus-report/494428-trump-suggests-using-light-heat-as-coronavirus-treatment 

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Tucker Calls Out AOC For Elitism and Privilege | Tim Black

Fox News Savior, Tucker Carlson goes after Ocasio Cortez aka AOC using a bit of Class, Race, White Privilege, and Wikipedia.

THIS IS DANGEROUS!!! Tucker Carlson & Fox News Are Promoting Protests Against Stay At Home Policies!

Jesse Dollemore talks about Fox News' and Tucker Carlson's irresponsible promotion and encouragement of science-denier protesters who are complaining about the many statewide stay at home orders. 

It is especially notable that Fox News is championing these largely white protests when they have made untold profits off of demonizing protests related to issues close to communities of color!



Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez BODIES Tucker Carlson After He Calls Her Privileged!

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to Tucker Carlson after he said that she came from privilege, after Republicans spent years saying she is dumb and that she's just a bartender.

Democrats Refuse To Fight For Struggling Americans In Latest Relief Bill

The Democratic leaders in Congress are patting themselves on the back today over the fact that they worked with Republicans on a new relief bill that is certain to pass. 

The only problem these Democrats have is that they didn't get anything REAL for the American public in these bills, and their "concessions" were things that should have been a no-brainer to pass. 

The Democrats aren't fighting for us, at all, and that isn't going to bode well come November. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. 



https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/21/democrats-cave-senate-interim-funding-bill-coronavirus-relief-spurns-progressive 

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Mehdi Hasan Loses His Mind, Says Joe Biden Should Pick Elizabeth Warren "Because She Is Progressive"

Mehdi Hasan of the Intercept says that Joe Biden should pick Elizabeth Warren as his Vice President, with the argument being that it's because she's a progressive who will keep him in check on progressive issues. 

Except... she's not a progressive who cares about progressive issues.



Georgia Governor Lifts Some Shelter In Place Restrictions


Germany Mocks America's Dumbest Congressman For Pushing Phony Coronavirus Cure


CEO: Laying Off Employees Is Doing Them A Favor

"The billionaire owner of the Landry’s restaurant empire told Fox News that his move to swiftly furlough almost all of his 45,000 employees was a “favor” that would help them get unemployment quicker. 

Tilman Fertitta, whose portfolio includes ownership of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, as well as Las Vegas’ Golden Nugget casino and nation franchise chains like Joe’s Crab Shack , told Ingraham Angle guest host Brian Kilmeade that laying off workers as soon as possible was a lesson he learned after having survived several recessions. 

Fertitta’s latest net worth is estimated by Forbes to be $4.8 billion, making him the 44th richest person in the world. 

“The pandemic has affected everyone,” Kilmeade said by way of introducing Fertitta. “All of you watching, all of your friends, all of your family, all of your neighbors. But I could argue that maybe no one has been affected as holistically as my next guest.”* 

Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur Cast: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur



https://www.mediaite.com/news/billionaire-restaurant-ceo-tells-fox-news-he-did-his-45000-employees-a-favor-by-furloughing-them-so-quickly/ 

Saturday, April 18, 2020

SHOCK: Joe Biden's Brain MALFUNCTIONS AGAIN On MSNBC AND CNN!

Joe Biden's dementia and cognitive decline once again on display in these videos of him sounding like a broken car on MSNBC and appearance on CNN.

Donald Trump, No One Is Willing To Die For You

TAKE A DUMP IN YOUR HAND AND THEN SLAP YOURSELF YOU INSUFFERABLE PILE OF TRASH!

No one is going to go back to work before it's safe just because you want to be elected.  I say elected because you didn't win the 2016 election, you Russian spy traitor!

YOUR VOICE IS LITERALLY THE AUDIO EQUIVALENT OF GETTING YOUR FORESKIN CAUGHT IN THE STRINGS OF A GUITAR YOU DICKLESS NUMBSKULL!

Friday, April 17, 2020

AOC RIPS Biden's Measly Concessions To Progressives

The Young Turks’ Emma Vigeland (https://Twitter.com/EmmaVigeland) breaks down Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comments about Joe Biden in an interview with The New York Times.