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Rescinding endorsement for anti-recission incumbent
One of Trump’s most vocal lackeys in the run-up to the MAGA riot was Alabama’s Mo Brooks. Clad in a bulletproof vest, as he later admitted, he exhorted the January 6th Stop the Steal crowd to spontaneously surge down to the Capitol and “kick ass and take names,” to get back what was stolen from them, the greatest president in American history, a man who simply could not lose in an honest fight.
Predictably, the transactional Artist of the Deal was not going to take any shit, even from somebody who had so loyally serviced him. Brooks, who Trump had endorsed, is running third in the polls in Alabama and so the great man recently decided to rescind his endorsement.
Trump’s absurdist soundbite was that Brooks had become “woke”. But, of course, it soon came out that Trump had rescinded his endorsement, in large part (Brooks running 3rd in the polls also large) because Brooks, surprisingly a lawyer, told him a few months back that it was impossible to rescind Joe Biden’s presidency and reinstall the rightful loser, Donald Trump, as Trump had demanded. “Rescission” was the word Brooks kept returning to, a technical word Trump must have learned as courts applied recission to strike oppressive clauses from Trump contracts. Brooks clarified that Trump wanted him to rescind the election. How a congressman would do that is hard to say, but his refusal, obviously, was intolerable so Trumpie did what Trumpie always does when a lackey removes his lips from Trumpie’s ass , pitched a lying hissy fit worthy of his boy, Boof “Crucified by the Clintons” Kavanaugh.
Foof… the fucking Orange Polyp and his entitled ilk are exhausting…
Federalist Society orthodoxy
Irony is dead, yo. Justice Coney Barrett made this claim at the fucking Mitch McConnell Center sitting right next to McConnell until she got up to speak. McConnell who had saved her a seat on the high court as well, and ram-rodded her historically quick-stepped nomination through the recently non-filibustered (by McConnell) confirmation on a partyline 51-49 vote during the middle of the 2020 presidential election.
To think that a judge of great integrity would participate in a sprint for an illegitimate Supreme Court seat, during voting in a presidential election, well, that’s partisan hackery right there, that!
Anyway, as Mark Meadows texted to Ginni Thomas in the days leading up to Trump’s MAGA riot at the Capitol:
“This is a fight of good versus evil. Evil always looks like the victor until the King of Kings triumphs. Do not grow weary in well doing. The fight continues. I have staked my career on it. Well at least my time in DC on it.”
LOL!!!! 😃😂😀
Putin foils plan to assassinate Putin
From The Onion, America’s Finest News Source:
(from nine years ago, just as true today!)
Draw the line between Paul Manafort and Volodymyr Zelensky
A short and pretty straight line it is, actually.
Paul Manafort worked, for years grooming the preferred Ukrainian presidential candidate of Putin and the oligarchs, an oligarch-friendly, pro-Russian brute named Yanukovych. Manafort worked for these oligarchs for years, finally getting their man elected. Soon enough Yanokovich became notorious for his corruption and collusion with Putin. He became so hated in Ukraine that a mass uprising of Ukrainians drove him from power in 2014.
Democratic elections were held to fill the presidency vacated by Putin’s friend, who took refuge with Putin while being convicted in absentia by Ukrainian courts. A well-known Ukrainian politician was elected to serve the rest of Yanakovich’s term.
Manafort, a clever man of refined tastes who apparently loves wearing clothing made from the skins of exotic endangered species, found himself in desperate need of money and volunteered to work as Donald Trump’s campign manager, for free, no strings attched. Manafort knew from past experience (his long partnership with Rodger Stone) how lucrative it was to be able to give access to the current. U.S. president, he’d been doing it since Reagan. Working for free to get Trump elected, with guaranteed access, seemed like a win-win for Paul Manafort, until his many connections with Putin and Russian oligarchs became known and he was forced to step down as Trump’s campaign manager. He was later replaced by members of the secretive right-wing Council for National Policy, Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway (Ginni Thomas is also a member) . These were who Trump was talking about when he said he got the best people, the best people.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine,Volodymyr Zelensky, a popular Jewish comedian, trained as a lawyer, was elected in 2019 by write-in vote, with a 73% majority. Zelensky was the young, brand new democratically elected president of Ukraine as the embattled Trump was gearing up for the Rigged 2020 Election while transacting assorted quid pro quo pardons with Manafort, Roger Stone and others, for their help obstructong investigations into his shady activities and connections with Putin. Putin was threatening the Ukraine border and Zelensky, the new president, was awaiting the weapons that the US Congress had already approved for sale to Ukraine. There was the little matter of just a small favor though and within a few months after being outed by treasonous whistleblowers (Barr’s attempt to quash the legally required investigation of the perfect shake down call having failed) the president released the aid to Ukraine that he is now bragging about giving them back in 2019.
Paul Manafort, pardoned felon. No harm, no foul, he kept his mouth shut to protect his boss, and it’s all good. Zelensky is parrying Putin’s assassination attempts as his country is bombed and Manafort’s friends continue to support Putin. Some are even featured on Russia’s state TV.
Another giant of the Senate
A reminder of this great American statesman and defender of democracy, from today’s Washington Post:
Even before Jan. 6 itself, Graham had evaluated and rejected Trump’s claims about fraud. A scene in the Bob Woodward and Robert Costa book “Peril” depicts aide Lee Holmes discussing with Graham purported evidence of fraud passed along by the White House in a series of memos.
“Holmes found the sloppiness, the overbearing tone of certainty, and the inconsistencies disqualifying. The three memos added up to nothing. …”
“Holmes reported to Graham that the data in the memos were a concoction, with a bullying tone and eighth grade writing.”
“Graham looked over the memos. ‘Third grade,’ he said.
Holmes said part of the claim was based on an affidavit.
“Graham said, ‘I can get an affidavit tomorrow saying the world is flat.’ “
You sure enough can, Lindsey, thousands of ’em.
More on Medicare for All
Like its equally well-intentioned cousin Obamacare, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicare is not set up to tell you how much you will have to pay before you go for medical care. Medicare has to wait for the doctor’s bill to see how much you owe. The “provider” bills you directly and then, sometimes months later, you get what the insurance industry calls an Explanation of Benefits. The EOB sets out what the doctor charged, how much Medicare agreed to pay, how much they actually paid, how much you owe to the provider as your 20% or “out-of-pocket copay”. Only in America, boys and girls.
How this odd arrangement jives with the Patient Protection part of Obamacare, where the patient may be billed several times for an amount that is unknown until the EOB eventually arrives, is hard to work out, except that it is an improvement over being disqualified for health insurance by the proverbial “pre-existing condition” and things like that. Don’t let the fairly shitty but better than the past thing be the enemy of…
Under the gold standard of American health insurance, you instantly get a bill, like this one.
You will get it repeatedly until the EOB arrives. If you ignore it until the EOB gets there, certain providers will turn the billing over to collections attorneys who threaten you with debt collection techniques to get their client’s dough. When the EOB comes you are finally informed of you how much you legally owe. It is often less than the initial bill you receive from the doctor.
When you’re talking a trillion or two annually for the U.S. health insurance/medical industry, why quibble over a few hundred extra bucks a hungry corporation is trying to get from you for your medical care? Everybody’s got to eat, especially hungry cannibals.
It’s not like affordable health care is any kind of human right, or right of citizenship in the wealthiest, freest (that free-est doesn’t look spelled right) country in the world, you hateful communist. What next, a whine that your record low student loan interest rate (3.75%) is 375 times higher than the interest banks now pay customers, almost 40 times higher than the highest rate wealthy corporations pay to borrow money? Commies, always carping, never satisfied with a status quo that’s pretty good for people living the dream. Lah dee dah…
A thousand words
Perfect shills
Barr’s core premise, absolute protection of a “transactional” far-right useful idiot president from all charges, no matter how much evidence of guilt, is untenable — unless you are the top law enforcement officer in the nation who gets to decide what is “tenable”. The lowest circle of hell is reserved for pious, bullying fucks like Barr, now on a sad-faced rehab tour trying to shill for his book on how he was right all along and the real threat facing our nation comes from Commies, anti-fascists, racist Blacks and goddamned hippies intent on forcing their perverted version of “equal justice” on reactionary white people who are the real victims.
Just four great hits from his tenure as top enabler, and saucy, obliging gunsel (in the Dashiell Hammett sense of the word) of an insane two year old Unitary Executive — there is no institutional racism in law enforcement and Blacks better shape the fuck up and show some goddamned respect if they want protection from the totally non-racist criminal justice system; a peaceful protest may be broken up by force if an insane president demands “domination” of the streets; that massive voter fraud from mail-in ballots during a pandemic would occur was ‘obvious”; the lies that an insane Trump loyalist pled guilty to, twice, were “immaterial”. You know what’s immaterial, Bagpiper? You and your fucking mother. Here’s Glenn Kirschner on our less than perfect shill of the day, Bill Barr:
Bagpiper blows
Heather Cox Richardson, in a post describing the mounting evidence of an extensive seditious conspiracy and an insurrection to keep Trumpie in power highlighted the increased determination of the Republican Party to turn the clock all the way back to pre-Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment days with the so-called Independent state Legislature Doctrine. This doctrine is a variation on the old slavers’ states’ rights argument, publicly embraced by four of the Trump Six so far. The theory would allow Republican-controlled state legislatures to throw out any votes they didn’t like and send their own electors in 2024. They’d use this legal theory, codified in state law, instead of staging a series of frivolous lawsuits and launching a desperate riot. Here’s the fucking religiously and politically zealous bagpiper, William Pelham Barr:
Trump’s attorney general William Barr has just published a book detailing how Trump lied about the election and threatened democracy. And yet, on a tour to sell the book, Barr on Monday told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that he would nonetheless vote for Trump if he were the Republican nominee in 2024. “Because I believe that the greatest threat to the country is the progressive agenda being pushed by the Democratic Party, it’s inconceivable to me that I wouldn’t vote for the Republican nominee,” he said.
