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Cowgirl Up (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  October 25, 201911:35 am| 187 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Politics, Assholes, General Stupidity

I’d find the struggle to beat back this attempted hijacking of U.S. democracy by a white supremacist, patriarchal, authoritarian, oligarchical cabal more pleasant if our opponents weren’t such whiny fucks. Sweet Baby Jeebus, these entitled shitheads not only want us to hand over our freedoms, prosperity and legal protections, they want us to do it …

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Kellyanne Conway cc’s the provost!

by Betty Cracker|  October 24, 20195:30 pm| 101 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Assholes, General Stupidity

If you’re up for a Dynasty-style beat-down in the ornamental pond, listen to the audio of this call. Kellyanne Conway disparagingly told me it was improper to write about her husband and threatened to investigate my personal life in a conversation she thought was off the record. It wasn’t. https://t.co/0FTz9jj5Cf — Caitlin Yilek (@hausofcait) October …

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The Big Reveal

by Betty Cracker|  October 24, 20199:41 am| 115 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Election 2016, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Trump Crime Cartel, Trump-Russia, Trumpery, Assholes, General Stupidity

Last night when I was cooking and waiting for the baseball game to start, I got a news alert from CNN on my phone about some Giuliani fuckery. Since that’s always amusing and I had a few minutes while waiting for the cheese on my eggplant parm to reach the ideal golden brown state, I …

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The [CNN] article is about the seemingly limitless sleaze of Rudy Giuliani’s associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the guys picked up at Dulles airport two weeks ago and pled not guilty today in federal court in Manhattan. Whatever else they were doing for Trump and Giuliani, basically everywhere they went with Rudy they were trying to shake down, consult for, borrow money or rip off every high roller they came into contact with.

But down in literally the last paragraph is something I’d never heard before and I don’t think has been reported elsewhere. Parnas and Fruman (with Giuliani to arrive via a separate flight, apparently) were on their way to Vienna to handle logistics for a blockbuster interview Viktor Shokin (the notorious fired prosecutor) was going to do on Hannity!

As we learned from Bill Taylor’s testimony, Trump’s Ukraine shake-down unit was pressuring Zelensky to appear on CNN and announce that his government had opened investigations into Ukraine’s role in the hijacked 2016 US presidential election and debunked corruption allegations against the Bidens. They wanted Zelensky to lend credence to the crackpot conspiracy theory Trump, Giuliani and others have been peddling for months — a phony story that conveniently exculpates Trump/Putin/Russia and implicates the DNC/Soros/Ukraine. The extortionists also wanted Zelensky to falsely paint the Bidens as shady, corrupt characters before the 2020 election.

That was Plan A in Trump’s corrupt scheme, and from what we know so far, it looks like it failed because Congress started asking questions about the aid Trump was illegally withholding and because folks like Taylor made it clear they weren’t on board. But this CNN report suggests that the Trumpsters didn’t give up after Taylor and others foiled Plan A.

The Trumpsters persisted with Plan B, even as the Ukraine scandal was exploding around them after the whistleblower complaint. They lined up Hannity for a big reveal with the disgraced prosecutor in Vienna, where, not coincidentally, Russia-aligned Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash is currently stranded while he fights US extradition on bribery charges.

Think of it — the only thing that stopped this brazen crew from carrying out Plan B of their illegal media smear campaign to rig 2020 was the cops pinching Giuliani’s goons! And yesterday those goons pleaded not guilty in federal court to funneling foreign money to Trump PACs and individual Republicans, and their lawyers raised executive privilege claims since the goons were working for Giuliani, who was working for Trump. Analysis: amazeballs!

As Marcy Wheeler noted on Twitter, Hannity’s involvement in the aborted Vienna interview makes AG Barr’s visit to Rupert Murdoch after the Giuliani goons were picked up all the more fascinating:

To clarify, the timeline from 10/9 looks something like this:

Lunch: Rudy and Ukrainian grifters lunch across from DOJ

6:22: Grifters arrested as they prepare to flee to Vienna

That evening: Bill Barr meets with SDNY

Later that evening: Barr meets with Murdoch

What did Hannity know, and when did he know it? Hannity casts a loving spaniel gaze on Trump whenever they’re in the same frame, which suggests that the bloviating host is a true believer, as he almost certainly is. But like Trump, Hannity is all aboard the ethnocentric state train not only for the white supremacy but also for personal gain.

Recall that Hannity was Michael Cohen’s mystery client. Did we ever get all the details on services rendered? Hannity may be up to his non-existent neck in Eastern European oligarchs too; it would be irresponsible not to speculate!

So, what’s next? I don’t think Baby Jeebus loves us enough to implicate and discredit every seat of wingnut power that rolled over when Trump brought his lunatic circus to town. But on the other hand, people and organizations that form cults around demented narcissists don’t tend to prosper, at least not in the long run.

The NRA used to be the most powerful lobbying group in DC, and now it’s a husk of its former self, exposed as a foreign cut-out and riddled with self-inflicted bullet wounds. Could the attorney general, certain influential Fox News figures and the dumbest and meanest GOP back-benchers come to grief in similar fashion? Probably not, but here’s hoping…

Amy, Amy, AMY

by Betty Cracker|  October 23, 20192:25 pm| 48 Comments

This post is in: I'm With Her, Open Threads, Trump Crime Cartel

Amy Klobuchar isn’t as flashy as poor Winehouse was, but Klobuchar gets shit done. Here’s an example from Mother Jones: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) released evidence on Tuesday that the Justice Department buried the whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president by failing to refer the matter to the Federal Election …

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Impeachment Inquiry Update

by Betty Cracker|  October 22, 20191:17 pm| 155 Comments

This post is in: Impeach the Motherfucker!, Open Threads

Intriguing tidbits about State Department Ukraine envoy Bill Taylor’s testimony, courtesy of Politico reporter Andrew Desiderio’s Twitter feed: Bill Taylor gave a very lengthy opening statement behind closed doors, per multiple lawmakers. New: Per source in the room, Bill Taylor’s opening statement was 15 pages long and prompted “a lot of sighs and gasps.” MORE …

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Sunday Afternoon Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  October 20, 20191:26 pm| 109 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

Yesterday afternoon, hubby and I went to the local deplorabar, which is an obnoxious dump, but the trip there looks like this: Time for a quick boat ride? pic.twitter.com/tyuddjiw60 — Betty Cracker 🐊 (@bettycrackerfl) September 28, 2019 So the ride there was fun. We tied up to a rickety-ass dock that is a lawsuit in …

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BoJo No Go

by Betty Cracker|  October 19, 201910:04 am| 99 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Open Threads

So, this is a thing that just happened [The Guardian]: MPs have inflicted a humiliating defeat on Boris Johnson by passing a backbench amendment withholding their support from his Brexit deal. Instead of giving Johnson their backing for his Brexit deal in a “meaningful vote”, MPs passed an amendment tabled by a cross-party group of …

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Women Spilling the Tea

by Betty Cracker|  October 18, 20192:29 pm| 175 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, General Stupidity

When asked earlier this week what she was saying to Trump in the photo he posted on Twitter (which she subsequently used as the background photo on her own Twitter page), Pelosi said she was probably asking why “all roads lead to Putin.” Pelosi isn’t the only woman who’s telling the truth. In a podcast …

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Emoluments (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  October 17, 20191:16 pm| 235 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Trump Crime Cartel, Assholes, General Stupidity

U.S. Constitution Emoluments Clause: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. Breaking news …

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Y’all…

by Betty Cracker|  October 16, 20195:11 pm| 152 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, General Stupidity

A poorly socialized fifth-grader with an underdeveloped vocabulary and delusions of grandeur sent a letter on White House stationery to the president of Turkey: EXCLUSIVE: I have obtained a copy of ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩’s letter to #Erdogan. ⁦@POTUS⁩ warns him to not “be a tough guy! Don’t be a fool!” Says he could destroy Turkey’s economy if …

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Fraud Guaranteed (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  October 16, 201912:54 pm| 202 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Assholes, General Stupidity

More crimes come to light! [ProPublica]: Documents obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two Manhattan buildings, giving a lender different figures than they provided to New York City tax authorities. The discrepancies made the buildings appear more profitable to the lender — …

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Grotesque Jerry Springer (with Nukes)

by Betty Cracker|  October 16, 201910:44 am| 193 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Politics, Assholes, General Stupidity

This is so unspeakably grotesque that I can scarcely believe it actually happened, and in the Trump era, that’s saying something. A 19-year-old British motorcyclist, Harry Dunn, was killed in August by an American wrong-way driver who subsequently fled the country under cover of diplomatic immunity. Dunn’s grieving parents are in the U.S. trying to …

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Swamp Life (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  October 15, 20194:06 pm| 46 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

High temps are dropping into the upper 80s this week — time to bust out the parkas! We’re starting to see a little color in the leaves: Here’s an anhinga (aka snakebird) swimming in the river. His or her mate (I think) is perched on the left-most end of the fallen tree, hidden a bit …

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“Impeach the Motherfucker” (signed, “The Motherfucker”)

by Betty Cracker|  October 15, 201912:47 pm| 199 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Foreign Affairs, Impeach the Motherfucker!, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Assholes, General Stupidity

Damn, is Nancy Pelosi a 13-dimensional chess playing, time-traveling, ninja Jedi master or what? Talk about “self-impeaching”! He ran out of room, but what Scammy McFraudface was trying to say is that you can’t impeach a president when the economy is good. My recollection of the Clinton impeachment is hazy because I had a new …

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Joe Biden vs The Swamp

by Betty Cracker|  October 14, 20194:25 pm| 73 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Trump Crime Cartel, Assholes, General Stupidity, The Republican Crime Syndicate

I had some harsh words for Team Biden yesterday morning for its namby-pamby reaction to Trump’s smears, so for the sake of fairness, here’s a much better (IMO) response from Biden himself at an Iowa news conference yesterday afternoon: Former Vice President Joe Biden today said if he’s elected president, he will build on what …

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so just act normally?

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