Wasn’t it Pam Bondi who didn’t press charges against Trump and family in one of his scams? https://t.co/Bpxh12l2xK
— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) October 5, 2021
Corey Lewandowski really sh*t the bed when he badly misjudged what the trophy wife of an Idaho development baron might consider foreplay. (It’s never a positive when the Daily Mail gives an American political figure a big write-up). Best practices required that he go under the radar for a while. And, since he’d managed to dirty up Kristi Noem while he was at it, the Trump Party apparently decided to highlight another female ‘rising star / potential 2024 VP candidate’ to lead the rebranding. But ol’ Corey still has a wife and kids to support, and he doesn’t have family money or high-dollar social connections to pad his fall, so…
he asked for a six-figure severance. team trump said, lol no.
Trump was briefed on Corey Lewandowski’s demand… and also scoffed at the idea.
Hence, the new “MAGAA” super pac, because the Trump lieutenants who worked with Corey simply… formed a new entity instead https://t.co/6WztHPkykc
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) October 7, 2021
I honestly don't think Trump would ever let someone close if he wasn't absolutely sure they'd demand a huge check to keep their yaps shut once he was done with them.
The only thing holding Trumpworld together are all the knives plunged firmly between shoulder blades. https://t.co/9yo7TbxPOL
— zeddy (@Zeddary) October 7, 2021
i mean, it won't save us, but trump removed all of the safeguards that were just barely preventing the republican party from being a cage full of hungry boars ready to eat each other.
— BESTCOASTMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) October 6, 2021
The Oracle of Solace
The boars may be ready to eat each other, but unfortunately it’s we who are on the menu.
Starboard Tack
The difference between Dems and Reps is that, while there is corruption among Dems, it’s retail. With Reps, it’s wholesale.
Chetan Murthy
@Starboard Tack: And eclipsed by the Fascism.
Another Scott
Yup. They’re all convinced that each one of them is the 2nd Coming and due. And given that every accusation is a confession, lots of them probably want to be in office to gum up the works so they aren’t sent to prison for their past actions…
In other news, about that California pipeline spill, Phys.org:
(Emphasis added.)
I’m shocked, shocked that inspection by the pipeline owner didn’t find any damage… [eta] To be clear, maybe all the damage happened after the last inspection (a year ago).
Cheers,
Scott.
Winston
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
eta It’s a movie on netflix.
bbleh
The modern Republican Party is designed to fail. For the credulous anger junkie yahoos in the rank and file, it’s a drug habit that constantly requires a bigger and bigger fix until they OD, and for the sociopathic functionaries who supply the junkies, it’s a Ponzi scheme, where the only way to win is to knife the other guy before he does you (and before the desperate junkies tear you apart).
I don’t see how every day isn’t saturated with fear and loathing. It really makes your skin crawl …
dmsilev
Allen ‘crazy even by the standards of the Texas GOP’ West has COVID. But don’t worry. Per his Twitter feed,
Sending, as usual, ThoughtsAndPrayers.
phdesmond
@Winston:
similar to the title of the woody guthrie song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z6OEqc0uS0
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Holy Fuk!
Alabama is defeated by an unranked team????
Another Scott
@dmsilev: “taking protocols” is very important.
Cheers,
Scott.
dmsilev
@Another Scott: Indeed. It would hardly do to take one’s horse dewormer in an incorrect fashion.
Starboard Tack
@phdesmond:
My fav.
Redshift
@dmsilev:
I guess we’re about to find out if he’s one of the pure grifters who are vaccinated themselves while sacrificing their followers on the anti-vax altar like all the Fox types, or if he’s a true believer like all the small-time Limbaugh wannabes who really are unvaccinated and firmly believe the grifters above them are too.
I’m not sure which way I’d bet…
dmsilev
@Redshift: He claims that he is not vaccinated but that his wife is. Take that for whatever it’s worth.
Major Major Major Major
I just bought a cute little jar of tumbled uranium glass on Etsy, so that’s fun.
@Redshift: hospitalized with pneumonia. Probably unvaccinated.
Redshift
@Starboard Tack: I’m also fond of:
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@dmsilev:
HA! Hydroxy causes erectile dysfunction
Winston
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Back in the sixties it was also used to cause miscarriages
eta back then it was just called quinine.
wombat probability cloud
Oy vey. Who in their right mind names a kid Trashelle? Or am I missing something?
Jerzy Russian
@dmsilev: If I understand correctly, there is at least an admission that COVID is real and not a liberal hoax of some sort. Progress, I suppose.
Thoughts and prayers for those unfortunate parasites and worms in his gut.
Starboard Tack
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
Probably doesn’t bother the limp dick brigade much with their paraphilia.
Chetan Murthy
@wombat probability cloud: You’re not missing much. But FWIW, it’s pronounced “tr[uh]-shell”. Still ridiculous.
Captain C
@wombat probability cloud:
It definitely does not pass the Middle School Test.
MagdaInBlack
@Captain C: Poor woman has no doubt taken grief her entire life for that name.
Mallard Filmore
That’s what puts the “Scientific” in Scientific Wild Assed Guess.
JoyceH
@Redshift: A later tweet reported that a chest X-ray showed pneumonia and he would probably be admitted to the hospital, so my guess would be – unvaccinated.
jl
I’ve never thought using brags about being a serial knife murderer as a pick-up line. I’ll give it a try.
Starboard Tack
How did Lewandowski not understand that the Dumpster doesn’t pay what he doesn’t have to?
Captain C
@Starboard Tack: Everyone thinks that they’re the lone exception. It appears to be TFG’s m.o. to encourage such thinking.
jl
@JoyceH: I saw a tweet someplace (Josh Marshall?) that West had to put out a tweet saying he was unvaccinated, but that he respected freedom of choice and his wife was vaccinated.
Apparently his wingnut followers decided now that West’s sick, it’s a good time to freak out that he might be vaccinated. For some reason that I cannot figure out.
Starboard Tack
@jl: He’s taken lessons from Stabby Ben Carson.
JoyceH
@jl: He gave a speech to a “packed house” just two days ago. I cackled when I read that. Am I a bad person?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: In wingnut land, you get the virus from the vax.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JoyceH: No.
Chetan Murthy
@JoyceH:
No. Those bastards are *the enemy*. For us to live, they must die: they have made that clear. So let them die.
MagdaInBlack
Rawstory tells me that the Georgia nutbag, MTG, is feuding with Lin Wood. I’ve made popcorn for this one.
jl
@Starboard Tack: IIRC Ben Carson claimed he did because of anger management issues, which he overcome through strength of character and help from God.
Lewandowski did it just to watch them die. Which, I guess, is a better line when you’re introducing yourself to someone? Maybe? Maybe not.
Well actually, I think he was stalking Odom. So, I guess bragging about slashing people fits better with that pick-up approach.
Anoniminous
@dmsilev:
Because shitting out your intestinal wall linings will do just marvy things for viral infection of endothelium cells in heart and blood vessels.
Hope the moron dies to leave the world just that infinitesimally smarter.
MagdaInBlack
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Being un-vaxed seems to have morphed in to some weird loyalty test.
But we’re the sheep, go figure.
jl
Folsom Prison Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_NLlOiD1Wo
Jim
Chetan Murthy
@JoyceH: I did the math just now. I started isolating Mar 2020, and aside from 1.5mo (Jun, half of Jul) I’ve been doing it continuously up to today. That’s 500+ days.
They need to hurry up and die already.
Chetan Murthy
https://twitter.com/JohnHolbein1/status/1446952172818731019
karen marie
@dmsilev: His wife is reported to have COVID as well.
Chetan Murthy
@karen marie: She’s vaxxed; that’s good enough for me: I hope she comes thru unscathed.
mrmoshpotato
I’m all for these fascist shitstains knifing each other.
mrmoshpotato
@Chetan Murthy: Trash Hell
Mel
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Aren’t they also working themselves into a lather because they think that “contaminated” vaccinated people “shed” something terrifying (the virus? microchops? pixie dust? common sense?) onto the “pure blood” anti-vaxxers?
I didn’t pay much attention at the time to exactly what the covidiots think is supposedly being shed, as I was too gobsmacked and horrified by the eugenics dogwhistles that they’re trying to weave in to the whole batshit crazy anti-vax narrative.
I had to have surgery a few weeks ago, and the nurses were phenomenal. I don’t know how they keep on going in the face of all the abuse they receive from wingnuts and the overwhelming grief and stress of the pandemic.
frosty
@Chetan Murthy:
That’s depressing as all hell. Mid-late June, we were there. Then delta came in and the covidiots lit the fuse.
Morzer
@Starboard Tack: It’s an open question as to whether Trump is able to pay, at this point. He’s got a portfolio of money-sink properties for which he overpaid, low liquidity and a big ol’ bundle of loans coming due very, very soon. We now know that even his griftotel lost 70 million bucks, rather than being profitable to the tune of 150 million. Deutsche Bank has booted the people who were handling his account. Where does the big fat loser go to get his next tranche of loans?
NotMax
@Morzer
Bitcoin.
//
Morzer
@MagdaInBlack: Apparently, this time the sheep of reason produced the monsters.
Chetan Murthy
@Morzer:
Vladi will never allow him to go bankrupt. He’s too valuable an asset, and going bankrupt would decimate his appeal to the mouthbreathing base.
El-Man
MAGA Again?
Funny, I always thought that to do something again, you have to have done it before…
Starboard Tack
@Chetan Murthy: Putin may want to keep Trump afloat but it’s going to be hard to funnel money to him now without it being noticed.
Morzer
@NotMax:
I suspect Trump planned to make a killing in the ivermectin futures market, but only managed the killing.
Chetan Murthy
@Starboard Tack: Honestly, I don’t think that’s going be a problem for them. Look at all the revelations of TFG’s business history. As long as the government doesn’t do shit about it, it doesn’t affect him. All that’s needed is a mere wisp of plausible deniability, and his base accepts it.
So that’s what they’ll provide: a tissue-thin veil of a story for how it isn’t just a blatant payoff. And voila, back in business.
As I read someplace: Merrick Garland thinks he’s being neutral; what he’s really doing, is being complicit.
Morzer
@Chetan Murthy: The Democrats will keep fooling themselves that neutrality is what the country wants and needs right up to the point when the GOP seizes power and the fascist firing squads start the “clean-up operation”.
opiejeanne
@Major Major Major Major: I have a necklace of vaseline glass, aka uranium glass, from the 1940s, IIRC. The yellow crystal beads are faceted, and it glows under black light. It’s been worn only once each by my daughters, to Hallowe’en parties where the lighting included black light.
There was some concern expressed when I bought it, whether it was safe to wear. The jury is still out, and right now I wonder where it’s stashed, because I don’t remember the last time I saw it.
opiejeanne
@Mel: They’re trying to blame the vaccinated for giving them Covid-19. They think the vaccine makes us shed live virus or something, maybe not that coherent. In saying his wife is vaccinated, he’s signaling that she gave it to him, which may be the case since she’s got it too but it’s more likely that he gave it to her.
They also seem to think that the vaccinated will all drop dead within the next 1-3 years.
I read recently that most of the anti-vaccine BS is coming from Putin’s troll farms, just to sow chaos here and elsewhere in the West.
mrmoshpotato
@Morzer:
Fake his own death, but, OOPS!, the life insurance company long ago told the orange shitstain to go take a long walk off a short pier?
Morzer
@mrmoshpotato: Cue the GOP screaming “He killed himself for us!” even as Trump wobbles down the ramp to the buffet in Mar-a-Largo.
Cermet
@Morzer: Easy, putin’s people – both putin and rump know he will be running and since the fix is, buying his ass will be SOP. putin will, once again, own the president select of the u.s.
Cermet
@opiejeanne: Get a cheap Geiger counter – it will both help you locate it and put to rest any issues of its radioactivity (likely rather low – do look up how to read the thing if you get one.)
Shalimar
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Alabama lost by 3 points against the pre-season #7 team in the country that finally got the good quarterback play that was expected. Not a good thing for Alabama, but they’re still in the playoffs if they don’t lose again.
Morzer
@Cermet: Does Putin need to waste money on Trump at this point? Trump’s already terrified of him.
oatler
If we hadn’t responded to that Thoroughly Impolite Dustup in1861 the Confederacy might have obliterated itself.
lowtechcyclist
@opiejeanne:
That may well be so, but I think the imprimatur given by Fox News, GOP politicians, right-wing talk radio and other ‘real’ media, etc. makes a huge difference in terms of how many people buy into it.
Andrew Sullivan was looking in all the wrong places for that treasonous fifth column.
lowtechcyclist
@Morzer:
They should be calling the GQP out for what it is. They are Covid traitors, climate traitors, and January 6th traitors to democracy.
These are not people we can work with to solve our national problems. They have taken the side that these aren’t even problems, and they oppose any efforts to address them. That’s what needs to be said. If any GQP congresspersons disagree, let them prove it with their votes.
brantl
@Anoniminous: It won’t be infinitesmally, West is REALLY stupid.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Shalimar: I can’t believe UR taking this seriously. Personally, I don’t care who wins, I root for kaos and disaster. As Thaddeus Stevens would say, what is fun without surprise.
Actually, that’s not true, I root for the team with the hottest cheerleaders.
Geminid
@Morzer: Putin never got the sanctions relief he wanted out of trump, but his investments in trump as a chaos agent have paid off. The trump organization can probably stagger along for another few years without collapsing entirely. The real estate market is hot now, so trump can convert properties like the “trump W(h)inery” near Charlottesville, Virginia into cash to keep the rest of his shabby empire afloat. The trump hotel in D.C. is already on the market.
The legend of “sucessful businessman” served trump well in his first run, but at least among his hard core of supporters he is much more than that now. And he’ll probably be able to maintain that front for three more years anyway.
Meanwhile, trump is monetizing his hold on the Republican party. Mar-a-Loco has become a shitty kind of political Lourdes, where primary candidates tithe to the overlord for fundraising banquets. This may not be enough to win an endorsement, but it may be a prerequisite. Federal Election Commission reports will reveal some but not all of this grift.
Even without the impulse of his egotism, “economic insecurity” may compel trump to run again. Jimmy Carter and the elder Bush had good lives to go on to. Not so trump. His position is analogous to that of a player in a winner-take-all game of Hearts, who has collected so many spades that he must “shoot the Moon.”
NorthLeft12
If he hasn’t started or even completed a tell all book yet, I would be willing to bet Lewandowski will now.
That book might be the sleaziest and most self serving piece of garbage ever published, but he would probably receive some serious coin for it.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@The Oracle of Solace: If they weren’t more interested in stabbing each other in the eye with plastic sporks Trump would still be president.
The Oracle of Solace
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: It’s a darn good thing the fash have such contempt for competence.
WaterGirl
@The Oracle of Solace:
Is this a typo or autocorrect?
Morzer
@WaterGirl: It’s a current shorthand way of saying fascist(s).
WaterGirl
@Morzer: Thanks. Rolling my eyes a bit because the point of communication is to, you know, communicate.
J R in WV
@opiejeanne:
If one wears the necklace once in a great while, no harm done. If you wear it all the time, that would be bad. I collect mineral specimens, some of which are radioactive to varying degrees. So I paid attention to these issues from the beginning.
To rare parties with black light, almost certainly less exposure than that received flying across the country at altitude. Which flight crews are exposed to every day. I wouldn’t worry about it, but I would try to find it.
I am not a doctor/radiologist, just an amateur rockhound, but I have read articles about this subject. We have decorative antique dishes that glow, and we don’t use them for food at all. Just showing off in the cabinet, where we don’t ever go.
The Oracle of Solace
@WaterGirl: Neither! I use “fash” as short for “fascists”, which I use as a synonym for “Trumpists” or “Republicans”; I also use “Red Caps” when I’m running low on empathy.
opiejeanne
@J R in WV: Thanks. That was my thinking too. I put it away someplace so it’s currently in a “safe place”, i.e., safe from me.