Category Archives: History and Politics

NY Times cites John Yoo’s defense of Black Klansman Clarence Thomas

In light of recent revelations that Clarence and Ginni Thomas took many undisclosed lavish paid vacations (including a half million dollar luxury cruise in Indonesia) with, and recieved obscenely expensive gifts from, a right-wing billionaire and funder of the Federalist Society and other right wing causes, a far right real estate mogul named Crow who inherited great wealth from his father, the New York Times closes their short piece about the scandal with a quote from a former government official who also clerked for Clarence Thomas.

Coincidentally the former official was an author of the fucking torture memo, that secret legal fig leaf that made it “legal” for US contractors to violate international law and treaties that the US had signed, in order to go to the dark side fighting the “War on Terror.” Here’s fucking John Yoo with the last word on the latest unfair attack on Thomas in the “liberal” NYT’s short account:

John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who clerked for Justice Thomas and served in President George W. Bush’s administration, said he did not believe that vacations or gifts would play any role in the decisions he issued. The criticism of the justice’s ties to Mr. Crow, he added, reflected a broader campaign.

“This is part of this attack on him that goes back to ever since he joined the court,” Mr. Yoo said. “That somehow he couldn’t hold these views from his own free thoughts.”

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Just the facts, ma’am

The Manhattan DA’s statement of facts in People of New York  v. Donald Trump begins:

1. The defendant DONALD J. TRUMP repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election. 

2. From August 2015 to December 2017, the Defendant orchestrated a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant’s electoral prospects. In order to execute the unlawful scheme, the participants violated election laws and made and caused false entries in the business records of various entities in New York. The participants also took steps that mischaracterized, for tax purposes, the true nature of the payments made in furtherance of the scheme.

Which, of course, is just the DA’a highly prejudiced personal opinion and another totally baseless, partisan witch hunt (like Mueller, the Rusher Thing, The Perfect Call to Ukraine Thing, The So-called “fake” electors thing, The Perfect Call to Georgia Thing, the Legitimate Political Discourse Thing, The Illegal Deep State Raid on Mar-A-Lago Thing), and, obviously, persecuted Defendant would have paid off the porn star he’d had a sexually explicit moment with ten years earlier even if he wasn’t running for president.  Then, this total LIE:

19. The Defendant directed Lawyer A to delay making a payment to Woman 2 as long as possible. He instructed Lawyer A that if they could delay the payment until after the election, they could avoid paying altogether, because at that point it would not matter if the story became public. As reflected in emails and text messages between and among Lawyer A, Lawyer B, and the AMI Editor-in-Chief, Lawyer A attempted to delay making payment as long as possible. 

20. Ultimately, with pressure mounting and the election approaching, the Defendant agreed to the payoff and directed Lawyer A to proceed.

It’s a quick read, and to me, a breath of fresh air after years of accelerating highly gaseous gaslighting.   You can see the “racist, degenerate, sick animal” DA’s entire statement of so-called facts here:

Statement of facts

The familiar stink of Bill Barr

Barr, speaking on FOX, echoed the Trump defense talking point that the payment to the porn star was a purely personal matter having nothing to do with the election and that therefore the prosecution of him for hiding the payment is another politically motivated Mueller witch hunt.  

Trumpie had a few seconds of sex with Stormy Daniels ten years before he made the hush money payment.  The reason that he paid her three days after the Access Hollywood tape was released was his fear that her story would have fatally damaged his chances to become the 45th president in a very tight race.  The reason he covered up this valuable campaign contribution was to avoid the scandalous payment becoming known, right before the election, defeating the purpose of the payment.  If there ever was a $130,000 well-spent in a tight presidential campaign, the payment to Daniels was it.

As for the possibility of conspiracy and fraud charges bumping the false accounting charge up to a felony, fraud, says Barr, requires a victim, as a matter of law. Voters can’t be defrauded by a cover-up, in Barr’s view, they can only commit fraud, OBVIOUSLY, even if it is fleetingly rare.

Barr also scoffs at NY being the venue for the indictment, citing New York City’s irrational hatred of Trumpie.  He and Trumpie had already designated NYC as an “Anarchist Jurisdiction” (also an “AntiChrist jurisdiction”) and therefore anything coming out of there is presumed to be simply “Trump derangement syndrome” since “anarchists” hate the law and order president.  

Plus, and it goes without saying, Alvin Bragg, the NY County DA, is Black and most Blacks irrationally hate Trumpie, their best friend since Lincoln.

Everything that comes out of the smugly confident Bagpiper’s hideous maw has the same stink.

BARR is back, baby!

Corrupt culture warrior Bagpiper Bill Barr is back, full stink, baby. Never one to shrink from a fight about who is the complete, evil asshole and who fights for Christ, Barr confidently dismisses the Manhattan DA’s case against Trump as a weak, pathetic, misguided political hit job on his boy. With great confidence he dismisses the theory of the case and the sealed charges that none of us have heard yet, with charge by charge theoretical analysis, no less. He then opines at great bad breathed length about how the case is held together with paper clips, string and spit. His summary is also great, I’ll spare you the 10 minutes, you can hear an odiferous bit of it here.

Meantime, Rupert Murdoch’s fair and balanced propaganda machine keeps pumping it out. As the imbecilic Jim Comer claimed on Fox yesterday, Alvin Bragg only thinks he has more power than the Congress of the United States of America and he’ll learn that when they drag him down there kicking and screaming (like the sick, deranged animal he is), subpoena be damned.

You have to picture it from these racists’ point of view, it would be like being a high ranking Nazi in Germany and having all these Jew lawyers drag you in front of Jew juries presided over by Jew judges. Who in their right mind would consent to a rigged game like that?

Nazis always “double down”

Trump’s DOJ told the Manhattan DA’s office to stand down as DOJ sheilded the boss from culpability for the cover-up of his timely hush money payment. The $130,000 was paid to shore up his injured campaign three days after revelation of his “you can grab ’em by the pussy” brag had hurt him in the polls. His bagman, Michael Cohen, was prosecuted, convicted and jailed for his crimes on behalf of Individual One, who was given a pass by his totally unweaponized DOJ. Total exoneration, like the Mueller witch hunt probe which led to the Michael Cohen conviction. Then, years later, the Manhattan DA investigated and brought politically motivated charges against the innocent leader. Then:

Another insane maniac takes assault rifles into an elementary school and massacres kids and teachers . Time to run the ad about how they want to call everything an assault rifle to completely disarm and slaughter us!!!

You can quibble that it’s unfair to call these people Nazis, just because they use all of the same techniques, and have the same ultimate goals. Fair enough, I suppose, if you find stuff like this perfectly cool:

MAGA wins gun debate! send cash!

A day after any major massacre of children in the USA, rich, powerful parasites will run ads stressing that taking away people’s assault rifles is a tyranny akin to putting them in death camps.

YouTube ad from US Concealed Carry Association for SAVING LIVES (“good guys with guns”):

Because while some may claim that bullets are now the number one cause of death for American children, only more good guys with all kinds of unregulatable weapons can protect them from those who would drink their blood after they cut your throat in your bed or murder you moments after your innocent birth. Send $50 and join the Winner’s Circle in our fight to Make America Great Again or be on the wrong side of righteous retribution!

Latest US gun massacre, for the moment

This murderous asshole was a female of some kind, killed three nine year-olds and three adults. Assault rifles, two of them. Number one cause of death for Americans aged 1-19, bullets.

Heather Cox Richardson, with context:

Seven people died today in a school shooting in Nashville. Three of them were nine-year-olds. Three were staffers. One was the shooter. In the aftermath of the shooting, President Joe Biden once again urged Congress to pass a ban on assault weapons, to which today’s Republican lawmakers will never agree because gun ownership has become a key element of social identity for their supporters, who resent the idea that the legal system could regulate their ownership of firearms.

In the wake of the shooting, Representative Andrew Ogles (R-TN), who represents Nashville thanks to redistricting by the Republican legislature that cut up a Democratic district, said he was “utterly heartbroken” by the shooting and offered “thoughts and prayers to the families of those lost.” 

In 2021, Ogles, his wife, and two of his three children held guns as they posed for a Christmas card with a caption that read: “The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference—they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”

Heather

Waco!

“Remember the Alamo!”

No dog whistle needed for Trumpie’s first 2024 campaign rally. Waco, on the anniversary of the bloody government/ armed cult standoff and deadly fire at the compound of an armed anti-government cult in Waco, Texas.

Two years later, to the day, Timothy McVeigh blew up a government building in Oklahoma City, killing over hundred Americans.

30 years later, on the day, Trumpie, choosing Waco, on the infamous anniversary, sacred to those who hate democracy, to make his Hitlerian promises of merciless retribution against those sick trairors who would enforce the law.

Makes presidential candidate Ronald Reagan’s dog whistle to Southern racists, giving a states right’s speech in Nashoba County Mississippi, at a County Fair very close to where three civil rights/election workers were murdered by the klan and buried in a dam, seem almost subtle by comparison.

Same goddamn song, different singer. Indict Roger Stone already, for fuck’s sake…

Trumpie’s ongoing obstruction of justice

Federal judge Lewis Kaplan, recognizing that a dangerous psychopath was a party to a lawsuit soon to be tried in his courtroom, took special precautions to insulate the jury from tampering, intimidation and threats of violence.

On the same day, the office of Alvin Bragg, the district attorney who Trumpie demeaned as human scum, a degenerate, psychopathic animal inserted by hateful Jew billionaire Soros, received, according to The New York Times, a package containing unidentified white powder (and a single piece of paper with the typewritten words, “ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!”). Can you say stochastic terrorism, taking its cues from the fearsome intimidator-in-chief?

Ben Meislas, an articulate lawyer with a nuanced understanding of the legal and political landscape of our threatened democracy, puts Trumpie’s rage tweets in context. He points out that judges are already using them as evidence of Trumpie’s lifelong penchant for intimidation, threats and inspiring violent retribution against all of his dangerous, sick, psychopathic, animal, Jew, Black, often female enemies. Ben included some of Trumpie’s recently posted overheated pronouncements against a few of his recent deadly enemies, human scum, worse than the Gestapo!