Zach Montague of the New York Times: “A political activist and a Vietnam veteran represented by an anti-corruption organization filed a lawsuit on Saturday challenging what it called the 'night of cage fights' that ... [Donald] Trump planned to hold at the White House as part of the celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary. The case was filed just over a week before the event, which is scheduled for June 14 and is being organized by the mixed-martial arts promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship. The White House has been overshadowed in recent weeks by the construction of the venue for the fights, which includes a 600-ton steel arch on the South Lawn. The lawsuit argues that the transformation of the grounds was never authorized by Congress, and that the event will serve as an extraordinary use of government space to benefit both the chief executive of U.F.C., Dana White, and Mr. Trump, who is an investor in U.F.C.’s parent company.... Beyond the procedural claims that the lawsuit skipped an environmental review and took over federal spaces for an event without the approval of Congress, the case focuses heavily on questions of improper financial gains.” ~~~
~~~ Marie: I don't suppose this suit doesn't stand much of a chance, but a temporary restraining order -- one that ran at least through the 14th -- would be sweet. After all, there's no possible "national security" pretense that the White House must host a cage fight on Trump's birthday.
At Long Last, Welker Did Her Job. Tommy Christopher of Mediaite: “... Donald Trump stormed out of a Meet the Press interview Sunday — after moderator Kristen Welker repeatedly fact-checked his claims on a variety of topics including; Jan. 6, his 'anti-weaponization' fund, and election fraud. The heated six-minute final block of the interview began with Welker pressing Trump about the $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund he continues to promote — despite his administration officially abandoning its efforts to launch the fund. Welker pressed — attempting to confirm that Trump is indeed throwing in the towel.” The rest of Christopher's report lays out the dialog, including his repeated insults of Welker, a woman of color. ~~~
~~~ Katie Rogers of the New York Times: Donald “Trump, who campaigned on a central promise to keep the United States out of overseas wars, denied in an interview aired on Sunday that he’d ever made the pledge.... Mr. Trump eventually ended the wide-ranging interview after being repeatedly pressed by Ms. Welker about claiming, without evidence, that recent elections in California were rigged.” ~~~
~~~ Marie: Well, thank you, Ms. Rogers, for that exemplary job of first-class sane-washing. Yes, Trump did "eventually end" the interview. He did it after repeatedly shouting at Welker in a rage, interrupting her, insulting her and the network, lying to her again and again, then tearing off his mic, struggling to stand up, grabbing Welker's shoulder to steady himself, then lumbering off, stoop-shouldered, in a huff. This is not serious reporting. ~~~
~~~ I don't believe we would be in the horrible mess we're in if not for "journalists" like Rogers, if not for White House staff, if not for family & friends, and if not for members of Congress who never stop indulging Trump's lies. If you watch the interview embedded above, I think you'll agree that Trump seems to believe his own ludicrous, long-disproved assertions. That's at least partly because no one ever challenges him to his face. When Welker confronts him with a couple of well-established facts, he is outraged. He calls her "either crooked or stupid." He's a monster, but everyone who gets near him aids & abets his monstrous behavior.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro of the New York Times Magazine interviews Scott Pelley in his first sit-down interview since CBS News fired him. Includes video of the interview.
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Jennifer Bahney of Mediaite: “... Donald Trump thanked himself outright Saturday in a Truth Social screed about his building projects.... Trump has been doing victory laps over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which was sealed with a substance in the color 'American flag blue' and refilled with water this week. Trump’s post included a photo of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum inspecting the sealant before the water flowed.... Trump then thanked himself for a job well done, and listed off his other building projects. 'Thank you President Trump, thank you Department of the Interior — AND THE BEST IS YET TO COME with The Trump Promenade at The Lincoln Memorial, and The Triumphal Arch, which will be, along with the White House Ballroom, when completed, the Greatest Structure in Washington,' he wrote.” ~~~
~~~ Tommy Christopher of Mediaite: Donald “Trump traveled to Wisconsin for an event that was dubbed a 'Roundtable on American Agriculture,' but which featured many of the elements associated with Trump rallies.... [He] went on a [seven-minute] riff about the renovations he’s undertaken, including the area between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington 'you know, that beautiful spire!'”
Mark Walker of the New York Times (June 4): “A judge in Washington on Friday tossed a lawsuit filed by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts against a jazz musician who canceled a performance at the venue’s annual Christmas Eve concert last year after the center’s board added President Trump’s name to the building. In an order throwing out the breach-of-contract case, the judge, Tanya M. Jones Bosier, wrote that the Kennedy Center failed to prove that Chuck Redd, a jazz musician and a host of the institution’s holiday program, had signed a contract to perform as he had in years past. The dispute arose after the Kennedy Center’s board voted to rename the institution The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, according to court papers. Following the decision, Mr. Redd said that he would not participate.... In a statement, a lawyer for Mr. Redd, Lisa J. Banks, noted that the suit was dismissed based on the District of Columbia’s Anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) Act, which empowers defendants to fight lawsuits meant to intimidate and silence opposing points of view on matters of public interest.” ~~~
~~~ Marie: So Trump's Kennedy Center toadies filed a retributive suit against Redd for breaching a contract that didn't exist. Team Trump just gets stupider & stupider.
Julian Barnes & Eric Schmitt of the New York Times: “Recent U.S. intelligence reports have raised concerns about Israeli spy agencies eavesdropping on American negotiators working on a peace deal with Iran, amid rising concern over a more general counterintelligence threat by Israel. Israel and the United States have long known, and tolerated, that each was spying on the other. But an intensified Israeli effort to learn about U.S. positions in talks with Iran has crossed a line, according to some American officials. The reports include concerns that Israel has stepped up its efforts to eavesdrop on senior American officials, including Steve Witkoff..., [Donald] Trump’s top negotiator, Elbridge A. Colby, the Pentagon’s top policy official, and one of his main deputies, Michael P. DiMino IV. Another report, written by the Defense Intelligence Agency and other military intelligence offices and focused on earlier events going back several years, said that the counterintelligence threat level posed by Israel had been increased in recent weeks to the top level, from high to critical.” The link appears to be a gift link. ~~~
~~~ Gordon Lubold, et al., of NBC News broke the story: “A White House official said in a statement, 'This entire story is false and sourced to someone who doesn’t have any knowledge of what’s going on.'”
~~~ Marie: So Trump, who pays little attention to his own intel reports, pooh-poohs the story. BUT for someone whose mind often seems shot, its a good bet he'll remember to cite this report the next time he wants Israel's cooperation on something it doesn't want to do.
Andrew McCarthy of the (right-wing) National Review: “I don’t believe [Todd] Blanche’s grant of audit immunity [to Donald Trump, his family members and all their businesses], expressed in a three-paragraph document on AG’s office letterhead and dated May 19, is enforceable.... While the president shouldn’t be politically targeted for tax proceedings, neither should he be permitted to leverage the public trust he’s been given — the nation’s most powerful elective office — for his personal benefit. That’s sure what the audit immunity deal looks like.... Here’s the salient point: Section 7217 [of Title 26 of the U.S. Code] gives the attorney general no authority over the IRS.... Furthermore, Section 7217 says no 'applicable person' may make an audit request to the IRS “directly or indirectly” (emphasis added)....
“The statute expressly includes the president among 'applicable persons.' Hence, even though the statute allows the AG to make a request [as opposed to an order], it does not allow the president to make a request indirectly.... In addition, when the Justice Department wants to grant a person immunity..., federal law requires a court order. (See Section 6003 of the penal law, Title 18, U.S. Code.)” MB: You'll have to read on fro McCarthy's arguments re: various exceptions.
In D-Day Speech, Hegseth Takes the Nazis' Side. Alex Nguyen of Mother Jones: “In a perplexing speech Saturday commemorating the World War II D-Day landings in Normandy, France, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called for European leaders to combat what he implied was a second, modern D-Day — in which European countries were being 'stormed by different dangerous ideologies' accompanied by 'boats and men.' The original D-Day was the Allied invasion to liberate France from Nazi German domination: the defenders were Hitler’s National Socialists and their army, and the 'dangerous ideology' was anti-fascism. At Normandy in 1944, genocidal far-right extremists 'defended' a conquered Europe against a multiracial force fighting for democratic ideas. In 2026, Hegseth’s speech suggested, it was happening again: 'When will European capitals do something about that invasion?,' he asked.” Thanks to RAS for the link. ~~~
~~~ Marie: In fairness to Hegseth, he isn't very bright. Ken W. suggested in yesterday's Comments that Hegseth should have read his own speech before he delivered it. But Ken would give Hegseth credit for knowing how analogies work, then realizing why his didn't. Hegseth either (a) doesn't get what's wrong with his speech, or (b) has been rooting for the Nazis all along. As Nguyen writes, “Hegseth may have been confused — or, then again, we might be at the stage where our government explicitly aligns us with Nazism. After all, every single refugee we admitted to the US this year was supposedly fleeing anti-white persecution.” Nguyen also points to Hegseth's support for ICE violence against minorities and his penchant for firing high-ranking minorities and women. ~~~
~~~ Konstantin Toropin of the AP: “After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut nine Navy officers, including all the women, from a promotion list, several female officers say they see the unusual intervention as a sign that their careers now have a ceiling and worry for the future generation of female military leaders. The Navy had selected 31 sailors to promote from the rank of captain to one-star admiral, but Hegseth recently intervened to strike nine people from the list, including three women and two Black men.... As a result, the Navy is not promoting a single woman to the one-star admiral rank this year even though women make up about one-quarter of all Navy officers and nearly one-third of the sea service’s midgrade ranks.... The Pentagon has not offered any rationale on why the women, or any of the other six people, were removed from the promotion list.... Hegseth has long argued, without offering evidence, that women in the military benefit from preferential treatment and are not suited for combat roles.” ~~~
~~~ Alex Nguyen of Mother Jones: “Every single one of the 599 refugees the US admitted last month was a white South African, according to data the State Department’s Bureau of Population released Friday. In fact, so was every other refugee admitted this year. Since October 1, 2025, the US has accepted 6,668 refugees. Of those, 6,665 were white South Africans. Three—admitted last November—were from Afghanistan. No other refugees were admitted.... The Trump administration sees Afrikaners, an South African ethnic group descended primarily from European settlers, as victims of white 'genocide' — a racist conspiracy theory promoted by many on the far right, notably Elon Musk.... The State Department said the estimated cost of resettling those additional 10,000 Afrikaner refugees would be $100 million.”
Zach Montague & Madeleine Ngo of the New York Times (June 4): “A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a slate of immigration policies enacted by the Trump administration, writing that the measures had placed the lives of countless individuals on hold — solely by virtue of their countries of birth.' In a searing 135-page opinion, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. wrote that actions to lock eligible asylum seekers out of the immigration system and deny others temporary work permits had made it functionally impossible for a broad swath of people to remain in the country. He said the measures were improperly fueled by 'anti-immigration sentiments' and contrary to immigration laws. The policies, enacted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, included a global hold on asylum applications filed with the agency. U.S.C.I.S. also paused decisions on immigration applications filed by people from the 39 countries, largely in Africa and the Middle East, that are subject to the president’s travel ban, halting their ability to obtain green cards and other benefits. The sweeping measures also touched lawful permanent residents who have lived in the country legally for years but have been effectively unable to be approved for citizenship because decisions on naturalization applications had ground to a halt.”
Nicholas Slayton of Task & Purpose: "The Department of Defense is drastically reducing the number of religious faiths and belief systems it recognizes in its personnel records, from 211 to just 31. The military’s revised list of religious affiliation codes removed 180 previously accepted ones, according to a May 20 memo signed by Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata. The codes are used to identify troops’ faith and help plan religious support services for them.... Two-thirds of the revised list are different Christian denominations. The new list excludes beliefs and faiths such as Druids, Pagan and Unitarian Universalists." ~~~
~~~ Tamarra Kemsley of the Salt Lake Tribune: “For nearly a decade, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been engaged in a top-down rebrand meant partly to solidify its focus and bona fides as a Christian religion. The U.S. Department of Defense, led by conservative evangelical Pete Hegseth, appears unconvinced.... The list denotes 20 faiths as Christian, including Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Baptist and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Not, however, the Utah-based faith.... Utah Sens. Mike Lee and John Curtis, both members of the church, took to social media Saturday to condemn the seeming snub, with Curtis stating he is 'working now to ensure a correction is made.'”
Danielle Paquette, et al., of the Washington Post: “Since a pandemic spike, homicides of all kinds have plummeted — except for domestic violence deaths. They have stayed persistently high, The Washington Post found.”
As we move closer to the violent Flag Day cage fight on the White House lawn supposedly celebrating the semiquincentennial of the Revolutionary War, let us consider the freedoms George Washington and other brave patriots were fighting for. We'll let George explain as he takes a break during the famous Delaware River crossing on Christmas 1776:
Ariana Baio of the Independent: “Several A-list celebrities invited to ... Donald Trump’s UFC cage fight on the White House lawn later this month have no plans to show up, according to a new report, becoming the latest group to snub a presidential celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. Comedian Adam Sandler, actor and former professional wrestler Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, actor and musician Jared Leto and television host Mario Lopez are among the names that UFC President and CEO Dana White told Time were invited to the event on Trump’s birthday, June 14. But representatives for the stars, and one person close to Johnson, told Vanity Fair that none of them plan to attend.”
Katharine Seelye of the New York Times (June 4): “Bob Packwood, a moderate Republican senator from Oregon who championed women’s rights but was forced to resign in 1995 after his fellow senators threatened to expel him for making aggressive sexual advances toward more than 20 women, some of them his employees, died on Saturday in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 93.... The case against Mr. Packwood, who had spent nearly half his life in the Senate, unfolded long before the #MeToo movement spurred society to take more seriously allegations of sexual misconduct against high-profile men. An inquiry by the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Ethics dragged on for more than three years before the committee recommended unanimously that he be expelled. That recommendation was based in part on Mr. Packwood’s diary, in which he detailed his predatory behavior, including toward women he supervised. 'Twenty-two staff members I made love to,' he boasted, 'and probably 75 others I’ve had a passionate relationship with.'”
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Maine Senate Race. Marie: In yesterday's Comments, a contributor seemed to take umbrage at Graham Platner's sartorial choices. I try not to judge people by their outfits (though I try to dress appropriately myself). But then I remembered Senators John Fetterman & Kyrsten Sinema, both of whom regularly showed up at work in outlandish outfits & both of whom turned out to be, for the most part, Democrats in name only. Anyhow, here's Fetterman, knocking Platner: ~~~
~~~ Geoff (NB: spelled the stupid way -- Washington, George) Earle of the New York Post: “Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) pledged to wear a suit 'every day' if embattled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner can prove he didn’t send 'd[ic]k pics' to minors. The extraordinary hoodie challenge came during Fetterman’s appearance on Fox News Saturday in America, where he referred to Platner, who admitted he had an active Kik account while newly married, as 'P-Hustle' – Platner’s user name.... Fetterman ... has become Platner’s foremost critic in Congress. He wore his signature black hoodie during the interview, and regularly wears shorts when working in the Senate.... Platner ... has not been accused of any unlawful activity with minors.” Fetterman had earlier urged Platner on Sean Hannity's show “to release the messages if he had 'nothing to hide.'”
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When he wasn't thanking himself,
"Trump Posts Bizarre Song Paying Tribute To Himself"
Postal Workers
"The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting.
Calling it an “unconstitutional attack on the millions of Americans who vote by mail,” the APWU said in a press statement that it “rejects the premise” that the USPS needed to comply with Trump’s order."
He makes everything worse.
"NBA fans attending Game No. 3 at Madison Square Garden on Monday should get to the arena two hours before tip-off, according to a social media post from the New York Knicks. This is because President Donald Trump is expected to attend, and ‘TSA-style screening procedures’ will be in place.
The Knicks wrote: “As we move closer to Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night, Madison Square Garden and the United States Secret Service want to help ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for all ticket holders by sharing important security procedures that will be in place.”"
I wonder if he will be able to stay awake for the whole game? Also this is the only way he can see some real celebs in person since they avoid him like the plague (which is another disease that could make a comeback under his watch).
Enemies List
@RAS: I know it's naive of me, but I am incensed that Trump is using an official government Website, maintained by you and me, to bash individuals with whom he has a beef.
Obviously, most of what even a real president does is political in nature and most of that is controversial, at least in the views of some people. Still, IMO, it is appropriate for the official White House Website to report on the president's activities, his speeches, his informal remarks, his schedule, his bill signings & executive orders, and other things of that nature. Most of these activities, whether we agree with them or not, are part of a real president's job, and he & his staff have a duty to tell us -- his employers -- what he's doing.
But using that Website to trash individual Americans is just one more egregious abuse of presidential* power. He is abusing everyone, not just Brian Tyler Cohen and others whose names may be published on Trump's childish "enemies list." BTC's "fuck you" is an inadequate response.
Thank you for that "Meet the Press" clip in which DiJiT fumes and lies and Welker keeps his shoulders pinned to the mat. I don't watch MTP, but that was as good as any rassle-mania show going.
I am so effing tired of him.
I haven't really weighed in on the Graham Platner Scandal as of yet, but I think some perspective is in order. A few days ago Digby's site posted a link to a substack piece by Rick Perlstein. Anyone who's ever read his stuff appreciates both his attention to detail, and his ability to suss out what to make of mountains of historical evidence. I'm not going to try to boil down Perlstein's position on Platner, but, as Digby points out, what begins as a review of the panting way the press loves to go hard after Democrats turns into something quite different and surprising. I urge you all to check this out. It's completely fascinating and points to something entirely absent from the surge of reporting on Platner as a horrible human being who should be shunned by "decent" people.
This is not in any way an attempt to whitewash what he himself has acknowledged as personal problems, but to express more than a little discomfort at the way the media, the Times in particular, can't want to hang this guy out to dry, to help the Traitors AGAIN! and to ensure that Susan fucking Collins is returned to the Senate where she can let everyone know all about her ConcernTM for the latest Trump assault on the Constitution, rule of law, humanity, etc. then voting right along with him.
And my guess is, having some firsthand experience with people from Maine, that voters in that state are not keen on outsiders telling them what to do and whom to vote for. And I'm further guessing that many of them have had it up to here with Collins and see Platner as the far better option, despite the baggage. As one Down Mainer puts it "I want a senator, not a saint".
The alacrity and intensity with which Platner is being excoriated (as opposed to the way Republicans with far worse resumes are allowed to do whatever the holy fuck they want) gives me the willies. It's as if everyone needs to prove how moral they are and how NOT LIBERAL by burying this guy.
Check out the Perlstein piece. It's a gift link through Digby's site. See what you think.
The Meet the Press interview with the Orange Monster is revealing in so many ways. He screams his way through the proceedings, lying through his teeth, attempting to bulldoze his interlocutor, as is his wont. When they don't fall down at his feet and lick his boots, he instantly goes into insult mode so as not to have to answer any questions with facts. Calling someone stupid in order to extricate yourself from a tense situation is just so mature. But fourth grade antics are one of his many specialties.
But let's get back to some of what he was actually saying (so much projection, as usual). "He (Biden) is too stupid to know what's really going on, but there were crooked people surrounding him, sitting at the beautiful Resolute Desk telling him what to do". Gee, Donnie. That sounds very familiar. Like the guy who hands him executive orders to sign, orders he clearly is seeing for the first time "Oh, this one looks good..." Orders taking rights away from Americans, weaponizing the Injustice Department even further, making voting almost illegal for many people.
Then he goes on to say that Americans who have been victimized by a weaponized government need to be compensated. Really? Shit. I'm on my way to Washington right now! Where's my money? This administration is the epitome of weaponized government. If the Biden administration was weaponized, what is the current regime? Weaponized with arrays of thermonuclear devices?
He goes on to yell about lives being destroyed and all the many suicides following the J6 riot, which he created. Yes. There were suicides. Suicides of four police officers attacked by his goons. There were three suicides among the goons, after pleading guilty to attacking the Capitol. All of those tragically occurred BECAUSE OF HIM. Naturally, a sociopathic psychotic like Fat Hitler has zero concern for any of that but he's happy to use those deaths to try to prove "weaponization", but to Trump, weaponization is any attempt to hold him or his brownshirts to account for the commission of crimes. And not for nothin', but if those assholes didn't want to be brought up on charges, they shouldn't have ransacked the Capitol, shouldn't have been screaming to murder the Vice President, to stop the peaceful transfer of power, to OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT. Got it?
His inability to withstand even a very few minutes of moderately intense questioning demonstrates how psychologically damaged he is. You remember Harry Truman's quip about standing the heat. Fatty has NEVER been able to take it. He exists in a fantasy bubble where sycophants feed him a constant stream of encomiums and embarrassing and entirely undeserved tributes to his fictional greatness. He couldn't take even three minutes of questioning, so like a little kid being called to account for not cleaning his room, he ran. Well, "ran" is purely a term of art. If you watch, he almost stumbles when he tries to get up, he has to reach for Kristen Welker to stabilize himself before waddling off.
Fucking disgraceful.
Jesus, I am so fucking fed up with Fetterman's bullshit. Why doesn't he just switch parties? He does us no good. This promise to "wear a suit" is just as juvenile as something Fat Hitler might say. How bop promising to not be an asshole. That would be something, at least.
All the best words.
I read somewhere that Fatty was trying to remember the name of the Washington Monument (I know, that's a tough one...like recalling the date of the Peace of Westphalia, or the names of the four Japanese carriers sunk at Midway) and all he could muster was the, um, the...Washington "spire".
Okay. It ain't a spire, Donnie. Spires are conical architectural features most often seen atop churches. The Washington MONUMENT is an obelisk. Probably too difficult a word for that mumbling drooler to pronounce.
Then, in a piece on the No More Mister Nice Blog about what an ephemeral creature we have for a VICE president, that simpering weenie, Shady Vance, we learn that Shady was attracted to his wife Usha because she had great posture. What, did he moonlight as one of those late night ad guys selling back braces? Posture? Oh yeah, even better, he liked her...Chortle?
"She has the best chortle!"
Wow. First, chortle is a portmanteau invented by Lewis Carroll, connecting chuckle and snort. It's not a very enticing sound (moron). Even worse, Carroll used it to describe the approach of a monster, the Jabberwocky. "Oh honey, I love your, um, posture. And that chortle! You sound positively monstrous!"
Beware the Jabberwock, my son. Also, stay far away from moronic MAGAts. And Usha, divorce that idiot.
RAS,
Here's hoping the Fat Fascist brings extraordinary bad luck to the Knicks when he shows up to try to take over an NBA Finals game. "Everyone look! Your king is here. Your sovereign, your god! Pay attention to me not to those darkies down there. I'm in better shape than all of them, especially that French kid. How did he get into MY country?"
Also, regarding that Song to Myself..."They love me down in Mexico"? Really?
What to make of such neediness, so obsessive that he has to post made up shit and AI slop to prove to himself that people aren't taughing at him, hating him, despising him, calling him stupid and fat and a crook? It's sad, embarrassing, and downright scary, that the guy with the nuclear codes is so unhinged and so desperate for attention and adulation.
The funny thing is that unlike most human beings, he doesn't want to be simply loved and appreciated. He needs adulation, he needs to be idolized, venerated, deified, served with unqualified obeisance and reverence. Most of us develop the necessary amount of ego to get through life, but we also have learned to accept criticism and perform a certain amount of self-interrogation and self-awareness in order to regulate our less helpful urges. This describes a healthy adult.
Fat Hitler is the polar opposite of a healthy adult, both psychologically and physically. He is the perfect example of the uncontrolled, immature ID, he is beholden to the mindless primitive, and like an infant who throws his food at the wall (and Trump has done this!), he cannot control himself. This is why he jumps up and scoots away from interviews in which he has to talk facts, not bullshit propaganda. He self-soothes with laughable fake images, AI slop, ridiculous Super Walter Middy psycho shit: him riding lions, on Mount Rushmore, as a ripped gay icon, flying in a space ship splattering his enemies with vile fecal matter. Who does this? He's millimeters from serial killer status.
Oh, wait....
Never mind.
@Akhilleus: Yes, obelisk is one of those impossible words, like "origin"; as hard as an Orangeman tries, "origin" keeps coming out "oranges," leaving us to this day to wonder about the "oranges of the Mueller investigation."
Maybe "obelisk" would come out as "ah, big list." Very long. (But like nothing >compared to the Reflecting Pond, if you would stand up the pond, which you wouldn't because the water would fall out. Not everybody knows that.)
The law firm of Todd Blankety-blank-Blanche, LLC, formerly the United States Department of Justice, but now a wholly owned subsidiary of Fat Hitler Enterprises and Criminal Conspiracies, Inc, is initiating a dry run for rigging the midterms.
"The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said Friday it had opened 'multiple election fraud investigations' related to California’s elections and sent a prosecutor to the county’s vote-counting center.
The developments came a day after President Donald Trump made baseless claims of mass fraud in California’s drawn-out vote count from Tuesday’s primary. Late-tallied Democratic-leaning mail ballots were continuing to eat into the vote totals for the president’s preferred candidates for governor and Los Angeles mayor.
The announcement by U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, Trump’s appointee as the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, and the visit to Los Angeles County’s ballot tabulation center marked an escalation in the president’s campaign against the Democratic-dominated state, whose notoriously prolonged vote count has been a magnet for election conspiracy theories. Trump weighed in again Friday while participating in a roundtable discussion in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, claiming without evidence that Democrats were rigging the election."
It might be the US Attorney in LA, but US attorneys all report directly to the United States Attorney General. This means Blankety-Blank-Blanche, which means Fat Hitler.
The reason for "multiple investigations of election fraud" is that these losers have learned that most of their forays into attempting to substitute "gut feelings" (aka What Works for Us) for rule of law often runs into, well, the rule of law, and occasionally judges who aren't appointed by a fat authoritarian who will do his bidding no matter what. Therefore, a whole bunch of investimagation thingies are required. One or two or five might be exploding ceegars, but if they can get it out there that the only elections that are fair are ones they win, then the supine media will go along with their schemes.
If you watched the Meet the Press interview with Fatty, you heard him tear into California. When asked for proof, for facts, he shouted that EVERYONE KNOWS!
Of course no one knows it. But here they go.
This is a test run for the midterms. Just wait. If and when he loses bigly, he and his personal law firm (the Blankety-Blank guy) will take a ball peen hammer to the states they lose.
French villagers tell Kegsbreath fous le camp, ie, fuck off.
Drunk Pete goes to France (he brought his family on a little vacay on our dime, btw) to piss on democracy, on NATO, on our allies, and to praise fascism.
"US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday travelled to Normandy to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings.
But after making a speech at the American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, he conspicuously skipped afternoon’s main international ceremony marking the anniversary of the Allied landings, which helped herald the end of World War II.
His presence was not missed by some residents of the village hosting the ceremony, Langrune-sur-Mer, who said the US official was not welcome there."
Colleville-sur-Mer is situated directly above the strip known as Omaha Beach, the landing place where almost 10,000 American troops died on D-Day. The Normandy American Cemetery is located there. For these people to tell the American Secretary of Defense to bugger off is a BFD.
@Akhilleus: One day around, say, June 4, sometime in the 1990s, my husband and I were visiting some of the D-Day sights when I noticed that there were still American troops in the area. What surprised me was that American Army combat uniforms had not changed much since WWII. Also, the Jeeps they drove around in looked just the same as the 1940s version.
Then we stopped our car near one of the small groups o' troops, and I was extremely surprised to hear that the Americans spoke fluent French. Just like natives, in fact! That would be about when I realized they were re-enactors. Okay, I was pretty dumb. But surely not as dumb as Drunk Pete.
That is to say, the French have been honoring U.S. troops in their way since WWII. In fact, French farmers joined a network that saved thousands of downed American airmen during the war. Of course the farmers were risking their lives to help the Americans, Brits & Canadians. No wonder the locals are not at all pleased to have that idiot Hegseth drop by to praise "war fighters" like the Nazis and himself.
Marie,
Great anecdote. I’m sure if Drunk Pete had encountered local French re-enactors dressed like WWII American troops, he’d be outraged that they weren’t speaking ‘Merican (Pete doesn’t know that Americans speak English. He thinks our language is “‘Merican”). He’d try to have them all court martialed. He wouldn’t care that they were honoring American dead. Plus, he might want them cited for not having crusader tattoos.
We’ve always had people in government who aren’t very smart, but the dimmest bulb in a registry of motor vehicles, returning after a three martini lunch looks like Enrico Fermi next to the brainless boobs in the Fat Hitler regime.
"There was a thumb on the scale for the president's version of events". - Scott Pelly
Listening to Pelly talk about the report that Weiss wanted to make more MAGA it seems that it was a situation of she couldn't take "yes" for an answer. MAGA always has to push for more. Pelly describes how his team made sure to give equal blame to people protesting ICE. He made sure to imply that Alex Pretti was a violent danger because he had kicked an ICE car in the days before he was executed in the street for trying to come to the aid of a woman attacked by a government agent. Pelly was already adopting the MAGA narrative that whistles, car horns, a snowball and some mean words were a lethal danger to militarized half trained racist psychopaths with badges and all the authority those gave them. But moving the bar halfway way is not enough for the administration's puppets.
From the Pelly transcript,
"I felt it was very important to identify that the protesters themselves were being very aggressive and that they were half of these confrontations, and so I instructed my producers to find images in which we see the protesters acting aggressively. We found a picture of a protester chest-bumping an officer. We found a picture of an officer being hit in the head with a snowball. We culled together a lot of video of protesters screaming in the faces of officers because we were going to talk about the killing of Pretti and the killing of Good, and it seemed to me important to tell the audience about the entire context. I thought we’d done a really good job with this. We also included a picture of Alex Pretti before he was killed, kicking out a taillight on a police car and made a point of saying, this is Alex Pretti and this is what he did."
Every single comment was right on the money today, and better than I could add. I did notice that my church is no longer recognized by Kegsbreath and his cronies. We Unitarian Universalists hate him and his stupid, lunatic boss, so we don't care that we can no longer populate the military. I was also quite perturbed by the wheezing, flatulant Imitation Prez of this poor ol' country huffing as he talked "with" Kristen Welker. I only looked at the clip, so I am not sure if she had on pants or a skirt, but as he was in a C shape opposite her, I hoped he wasn't looking up her skirt, although I am sure he would try, if she had on one. She did better than usual-- I have been disappointed in the past with her. Why does she bother? He has no words or phrases or feelings that anyone needs, so stop pretending, NBC...he's a major zero as an interview participant. Projection, Fatso-- watch who YOU call "stupid." You are a toxic liar who is also a complete fool and idiot. Too bad that rain you whined about didn't give you pneumonia.
Jeanne,
Okay, so now I get to use a couple of my UU jokes. I don’t get much more than confused looks when I run this by people who aren’t familiar with Unitarians.
So here goes.
Did you hear about the UU who moved down south?
They burned a question mark on her lawn.
Many UUs teach their kids about the Ten Suggestions.
And finally:
When is the only time a UU bows his head?
When he’s told his fly is down.
Ba-dum-bum.
I have a few longer ones but these will suffice for now. MAGAts like Kegsbreath wouldn’t get any of these. They only think killing people in small boats is funny.
RAS,
Yeah, I read the Pelley interview. And okay, I get that you want a global perspective on big stories, but here we have yet another example of how freaking insidious the whole Both Sides thing is.
“Get me video of protesters acting VIOLENTLY!” But you know what? A chest bump and a broken tail light are in no way equivalent to protesters being beaten, tased, pepper sprayed and shot in the fucking head!!!
This is more false equivalence bullshit. How about more context. Why were protesters acting this way? Maybe because their city had been invaded by vicious, poorly trained thugs who were pepper spraying them in the face and pounding on them.
But when J6 thugs attack the Capitol for no reason at all, we’re supposed to hand them millions in compensation.
I haven’t really watched many 60 Minutes shows in years, but it’s clear that even an operation like this has not been immune to Both Sides bullshit,
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