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Putin is laughing his evil ass off

It’s hard to grasp the passionate MAGA embrace of dictatorial, enemy assassinating war criminal Vladimir Putin, except that their leader, a vain, compulsively lying orange-faced man with pale pink ears,  appears to truly love the taste of Putin’s ass.   Heather Cox Richardson, putting a few pieces together:

Under its new co-chairs, Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump and Trump loyalist Michael Whatley, the Republican National Committee last week sent out a robocall to voters’ phones saying that Democrats committed “massive fraud” in the 2020 presidential election and that “If Democrats have their way, your vote could be canceled out by someone who isn’t even an American citizen.” This is a straight-up lie, of course—Trump and his loyalists have never produced any evidence for their accusations and lost more than 60 court cases over it—but Trump clearly intends to make it a centerpiece of his campaign. 

While Republicans are pushing the Big Lie, in The Bulwark today, conservative commentator Mona Charen noted that Ukraine president Volodomyr Zelensky this week warned the U.S. that Ukraine will lose the war against Russia’s aggression if it does not get U.S. aid. 

“Putin seems to have pulled off the most successful foreign influence operation in American history,” Charen wrote. “If Trump were being blackmailed by Putin it’s hard to imagine how he would behave any differently. And though it started with Trump, it has not ended there. Putin now wields more power over the [Republicans] than anyone other than Trump…. [T]hey mouth Russian disinformation without shame. Putin,” she said, “must be pinching himself.”

Heather’s full letter

J6 hostage profile

Insurrectionist morons like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Lyin’ Ted Cruz and their ilk, taking their cue from the Big Orange Turd, keep referring to the rioters arrested for their violence on January 6, 2021 as hostages. According to this deranged theory the indicted and convicted rioters are political hostages, unfairly arrested, subjected to bogus political prosecutions, illegally locked up and being badly mistreated for merely engaging in forceful protest that the RNC officially designated “legitimate political discourse”.

Everyone knows what hostages are, they’re people taken prisoner by force, kidnapped and held for ransom, usually by criminals or terrorists, in order to extract concessions from the loved ones of the hostages they are holding. The civilians kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th, being held as pawns in a negotiation, are hostages.

By contrast, and in direct contradiction to compromised Speaker of the House MAGA Mike’s recent lie, no protester walking in the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, no matter how peaceful, was innocent of, at the very least, criminal trespass. The entire MAGA crowd right wing fabulist Tucker Carlson called “respectful, peaceful tourists” entered after a violent armed crowd overran the police lines, sending dozens to the hospital, and broke into the locked building where a joint session of congress was in progress. Leaving aside the disgusting detail of how many of these innocent patriotic citizens defecated and pissed in the halls of the People’s House, while sacking it.

Many of these militant, right wing, white nationalist motherfuckers, like the ones who chanted “Hang Mike Pence (bring him out!) hang Mike Pence (bring him out!)” were guilty of crimes much more serious than trespass, in spite of Ronna Romney McDaniels’ alternative fact styling of their activities as “legitimate political discourse.”

Here is a very short description of one of Trump’s so-called hostages, the innocent patriots that he is fixing to fully pardon in his syphilitic fever dream of a second term when he would be a dictator for one day.

Trump judge MAGAs

Federalist Society member Trump lifetime appointee Aileen “Loose” Cannon ordered Trump’s lawyers and the DOJ to propose jury instructions based on one of Trump’s off-the-wall defenses. Trump insists that the Presidential Records Act, a civil law which was put into effect to thwart people like Nixon from doing illegal things with government documents, is complete protection against the criminal charges against him under the Espionage Act.

It is as incoherent as anything else that Trump says, but it has been embraced by MAGA Judge Cannon. Jury instructions are usually proposed and finalized during the trial. Here, Aileen Cannon hasn’t even set a date for trial, but made the unprecedented request for jury instructions anyway. Check out her beautiful in your fucking face Trumpian reversal of who the fucking idiot is, in ruling on the DOJ’s motion.

”Unprecedented and unjust”

The actual  “complex case of first impression” is how many ways a sitting judge appointed by a criminal defendant now sitting in her courtroom can abuse her discretion to protect her benefactor from accountability before she is removed from the case by the full panel of the appellate court.

“Division is profit and unity is a loser”

Fucking Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove and Reince Priebus, (talk about perennial turd blossoms), trading bars in a political jam session for the MAGA faithful. They’re predicting the leader’s return to absolute power, taking all the swing states, lying about Biden’s “failed economy” and “out of control crime”, pointing out that in 2024 people are really, really, really angry and that Trump is the biggest middle finger angry people can give to the system, that this is a brand new game, and that in 2024 “division is profit and unity is a loser.”

Here’s a two minute audio clip of a very well presented collage of fevered right-wing talking points put together by the talented Ari Melber and his staff, and tied in a nice bow by Ari.

Reince Fucking Priebus? Didn’t the big guy fire him in disgrace?

Take note again

In October 2020, Trump refused to denounce the far-right Proud Boys organization, instead telling its members to “stand back and stand by.” The Proud Boys turned out for the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, where they helped to lead those rioters fired up by Trump’s speech at The Ellipse, where he told them: “You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing…. And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

Heather

“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing …

And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

Orange turd in the punchbowl

Merrick Garland solemnly intoned that we have one rule of law here, the same laws for the wealthy and the poor, the powerful and the powerless and so on.  The last few years have shown that is clear bullshit. 

A young military guy showing off a secret document on-line to impress his buddies, well after the FBI searched Mar-a-Largo and seized evidence that Trump illegally held on to classified documents, has already been convicted and is serving a sixteen year Espionage Act sentence. 

The young man committed a crime that is a small fraction of what the Orange Polyp committed in taking a trove of top secret documents, lying to government agencies about having them, storing them in public places around his gaudy country club home, insisting he had every right to keep the documents he rightfully took, or that were planted by the FBI, obstructing an investigation into whether he had them, instructing lackeys to destroy surveillance video of moving the boxes of secret documents and all the rest.

One big difference in the two cases, the kid who put the classified document on line surely doesn’t have $230,000 a day to spend on lawyers like the Big Guy does. Another big difference, he didn’t get to choose a judge he’d appointed to lifetime office who’d already demonstrated her fawning loyalty to him.

A NY appeals court did the Orange Turd a big favor Monday by reducing the bond he has to post to appeal his fraud case from close to a half a billion to a more manageable $175,000,000.  On the same day he got the news that starting on April 15 he will be sitting at the defendant’s table in NY criminal court four days a week until a verdict is reached in that trial, a trial that also involves his fraudulent business practices as well as election interference.   The boy is not holding up well.  In a late night rant he wrote “CROOKED JOE BUDEN MISINFORMATES AND DISINFOMATES ALL THE TIME”.   Point taken, Honest Don.

He’s going down, whether you buy his gold-painted high tops or his special Make America Prey Again Bible or any of the other bullshit he’s peddling.  On Fox they’re screaming about NBC firing discarded former Trump lackey Ronna Romney McDaniel who will be paid $600,000 by NBC per her contract, even though she won’t be on the air after massive pressure to get rid of her.  Fox insists people have the right to hear all sides, someone still claiming that the election of 2020 was stolen, and that the fake electors were real, and that the Republican party must pay all of a certain criminal defendant’s legal bills is just as entitled to those credible views as anyone who honestly stormed the Capitol on January 6th, or sincerely believes that Jewish space lasers are regularly employed to control the world.

We are living in disorientingly crazy times, just ask any of the elusive Buden superfans the NY Times was hunting for recently…

Benghazi Impeachment news

Heather Cox Richardson reports:

As Justin Rohrlich of The Daily Beast put it, “Comer…stepped on rake after rake during the hearing, consistently undermining his own conference’s case.” Finally, after Democrats had pointed out the many missteps of the committee’s Republicans, Bobulinski told Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) that “the American people are well aware of the Bidens’ corruption.” “Perfect!” Moskowitz replied. He told Bobulinski to ask Comer why he hadn’t asked for an impeachment vote. Moskowitz even offered to help the Republicans out by making a motion to impeach President Biden, urging Comer to second it. Comer declined.

Moskowitz said he wanted “to show the American people that they’re never going to impeach Joe Biden. It’s never going to happen because they don’t have the evidence. Okay, this is a show. It’s all fake. They just want to do these hearings. It’s not leading to impeachment. They’re lying to their base on Newsmax and Fox leading these people to believe that they’re going to eventually impeach the president. It’s not going to happen. At all. Ever. Period.”  

Heather