More Fridazed Fart Noises

Let's be honest here: If Porky Pisshat really believed he had absolute immunity while he was the so-called precedent (sic), wouldn't he be pressuring the Extreme Court to affirm it, instead of urging them to slow-walk Jack Smith's appeal?

Something that can be predicted with 100% certainty is this: Whenever one or more MAGA maggots are caught doing something stupid, corrupt, or illegal, their immediate reaction is to accuse one or more Democrats of doing whatever they themselves have just been caught doing. Therefore, Pisshat (the main maggot) is now calling Joe Biden an insurrectionist.

After getting nearly all the blame for MAGA Monkey election flops in recent years, now Ronna McDaniel has been sucked down into Porky Pisshat's cesspool of 2020 election tampering too. 

Decent normal people who are comfortable with the United States the way it has been during their lifetimes need to research Agenda 47 and Project 2025 and get a serious understanding of what exactly Porky Pisshat has planned for them if he wins in 2024. 

An introduction to Project 2025 @ pbs.org outlines how Porky Pisshat plans to personally become the American government himself.

Update 4:38 PM with latest news: My gut feeling is that if there were five solid votes supporting Pisshat's position on precedential (sic) absolute immunity, the Extremes would have jumped on the case and shut down the prosecution(s) now. I may be proven wrong, but I expect the D.C. circuit court of appeals will promptly affirm what we already know (no immunity). When Pisshat files his immediate appeal, the Extremes will respond exactly as they did in 2020 when they refused to hear his appeals of state court verdicts in all those bogus election fraud cases.

Q NOTES # 843: More Mid-Week Mumbling

Lovely little Lindsey Graham, who wastes inordinate amounts of time and energy sniffing Huey Hairdo's butt, made still another serious error in judgment when he decided to mess with the 2020 election in Georgia. Now that he's been issued a subpoena by the special Fulton Co. grand jury, little Lindsey wants to fight it based on his position on the Senate judiciary committee. There's something wrong with this picture.

The governor of Mississippi is proud that the supreme (sic) court decision abolishing abortion rights was piggybacked on a Mississippi state statute. This repulsive slug brags that his state is creating a Culture of Life. Ask yourself: Would you really want to LIVE in a shithole like Mississippi? 

Well, isn't this special? A right-wing religious nut whose organization moves a steady stream of litigation through the supreme (sic) court also meets with a group of her favorite supreme judges (sic) for periodic prayer rituals. The group includes includes Smug Sammy and Clearance Sale (and the late Fat Tony Scalia). If Boof, Gorsucks and the Handmaid aren't in the clique now, it shouldn't be long until they are. This seems like an impeachable conflict of interest, and if it isn't, it should be.

Texas under Greg Abutt is a few microscopic units better than Mississippi, but the latest plan to deal with the massacres of teachers and students in schools? Would you believe about $50,000,000 worth of bulletproof shields for security officers?

We need a lot more Republicans like these ten, and no Trumplickans at all. 

Good advice: When in doubt, Democrats should follow Kamala's lead.

You can keep your culture of life, Bubba.

Q NOTES # 779: Anger

Most Trumplicans are bottom-feeding malcontents who are constantly pissed off about all kinds of stuff, and because they're angry, they usually turn out in large numbers on election day to protest by voting.

Democrats usually lose elections when they get complacent (see 2016), but almost always win elections when their anger equals or exceeds that on the other side. (see 2020). At the moment, it looks like Democrats may be as mad as hell in the next two elections, thanks to Dump.

When legal abortion is gone,  Trumplicans will have lost their best winning issue, and Democrats will have gained their newest one.

Added 3:23 PM Wednesday 4 May: The approaching end of legal abortion is still a focal point in today's news. A few public opinion polls are already being reported that show a significant majority of Americans support Roe v. Wade, which presents potential problems for Trumplicans running in swing states or districts in November. Expect them to try bullshitting their way  through the blowback from Sammy's decision.

Q NOTES # 682

It isn't exactly great news, but it's still a relief to learn that Justice Stephen Breyer has decided to retire from the Supreme Court, giving Joe and a Democratic Senate an opportunity to secure his seat for a few decades. Great news would be that Clarence Thomas was forced to resign his seat for misconduct.

A quick look at today's news updates confirms that trump bumpkins are always seeking solutions to problems that only exist in their deranged imaginations (teaching CRT in public schools, rigged elections, social diversity, public opposition to theocracy or autocracy, etc). Unfortunately, they have no interest at all in solving problems that actually make life worse in the real world.

In fact, the surest solution to real problems that make our lives worse would be ridding federal, state and local governments of trump bumpkins completely.  

Q NOTES 272: Countdown, Day 40

Cheez Doodle is fat, lazy, and ignorant (among other things), so it's no surprise that he's stunned by the Supreme Court's action yesterday. As USA TODAY points out, the justices that he plugged into vacant seats on the Court are all conservatives, and their decisions were compatible with their conservatism. Being ignorant, Cheezy assumed their decisions would be based on personal gratitude and loyalty to him, since that's the way he thinks.

It was completely predicable that almost as soon as the cable news shows reported the Supreme Court activity yesterday, an official in the Texas (R) Party would propose secession. Since those assholes don't like the way we do things in the United States, but plenty of other people in Texas do, my recommendation is that we load the goddamned secessionists onto cargo planes and unload them in some shithole on the other side of the world, preferably Russia. Permanent exile for them is a better option than secession for us. 

Cheez Doodle and the most devoted members of his cult really are fascists, the same kind of people we fought and defeated in Europe during WWII. More than likely, there are lots of other (R) people who aren't deeply committed to fascism, but are pretending to be because they want to be popular with members of the club. The test will be how they behave after Cheez Doodle's out of the White House and isn't constantly on TV.  Maybe they'll straighten up and fly right, as my old man used to say.

Bartering?

The latest rumor going around is that Donnie's people negotiated early retirement with Anthony Kennedy, and the deal was finalized when there was agreement that Donnie would select Kennedy's boy (Kavanaugh) to fill the open seat. Okay, it's a rumor at this point, but is there anything about it that seems even a wee bit implausible? Be honest.

The thing about having a corrupt, incompetent sociopath posing as a so-called precedent (sic) is that every accusation of criminal conduct is automatically credible.

The Court, Corruption, etc.

Digby @ Hullabaloo on Depraved Donnie and the next Supreme Court vacancy

What will it take to get THIS shit investigated?

Ivanka and the Chinese bribes

Only a few months of Depraved Donnie has exposed every weakness in an American system of government we were taught to respect as the finest in the world.

It's sickening that someone like Rod Rosenstein has to be interrogated by a piece of shit like Rep. Jim Jordan. Have one of the clerks add Jordan's name to the Awaiting Deportation list.

Candy Asses

Mitch (Candy Ass) McConnell, the chinless wonder, is ready to scrap Senate rules and traditions to make sure Gorsucks is confirmed. If the so-called precedent (sic) wanted to prove who the real boss is around here, he'd scrub the Gorsucks nomination immediately and nominate Merrick Garland instead. That would have some heads exploding around the country.

But a bold move like that would require an alpha male, power-loaded with testosterone, not an old pussy like Fatso.

Judgment Day

Another day, another damned nightmare from the fat guy.

Whew

From a USA TODAY editorial on the Obamacare ruling by the USSC:

If the Court had ruled for the plaintiffs...

"Republicans then would have been under enormous pressure to figure out how to let people keep their insurance. But the party is deeply divided over how to remake the law along conservative lines, and now it doesn't have to. Instead, critics are free to continue to snipe and attack, with no responsibility for doing the hard work it would take to write a Republican alternative and build a majority for it. You could almost hear the sigh of relief from Capitol Hill."

Health Notes

The odds are good the Scalia Gang of Five will deal a painful blow to the Affordable Care Act. Republicans don't have a goddamned clue what to do if Fat Tony's mob strikes down federal insurance premium subsidies for enrollees in states without insurance exchanges.

Did anyone seriously expect that anything in America could possibly be improved by turning Congress over to a Republican majority? Their speciality is destroying stuff, not building it. 

For sale to the highest bidder

The five right-wingers on the U.S. Supreme Court are all free-market conservatives who believe that anyone should be able to buy as many politicians as he can afford. I disagree, but if I wanted to own Congress, I should've inherited 20,000,000,000 dollars, so tough shit.

Free

Free at last, free at last. Great god almighty, he free at last. Tom DeLay's conviction has been reversed by a Texas appeals court. Now he can get his concealed handgun permit back.

Ace in the hole

From an ABC News report:

Republican House Majority Leader Mike Turzai made waves in June when he said at the Republican State Committee meeting that the voter ID law “is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.”

“We are focused on making sure that we meet our obligations that we’ve talked about for years,” Turzai said in a speech to committee members, Politics PA reported.

Turzai then listed a handful of accomplishments such as “Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.”

  

We'll probably never know how many voters in each state were prevented from voting due to Republican voter ID requirements, or who they would have voted for if they could. If Obama loses Pennsylvania, he probably loses in November. The idea of President Willard Romney is nauseating enough without the suspicion that he stole the election. One reason I hated Bush 43 so much is that I never escaped the feeling he manipulated the vote counting to win Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004.

Tampering with justices

A recent editorial in USA Today addresses one of the problems that keep me irritated when I let my mind wander into the political swamp. In several states, Republicans are trying out various attempts to politicize their judicial systems, which are probably already political enough.

My personal preference for divided government (either state or federal) requires the executive and legislative branches to be split between the two major parties, with the judicial branch being independent and non-partisan. As I see it, that's the formula for an effective system of checks and balances.

When the judicial system starts leaning too far in one partisan direction or the other, it throws everything else out of kilter. I could make an argument that if there had been one less conservative Republican on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000, there might never have been a war in Iraq. Of course, we'll never really know now.

In a perfect world, there would be a method for either (A) electing judges in non-partisan voting, or (B) having them appointed by independent panels instead of by governors or presidents. As long as politicians want to sneak bad laws past voters, they'll keep trying to stack the courts with hacks who'll vote the party line.

Judicial Activism

When I have fantasies about the ideal federal government, I imagine the executive branch in the control of one party, with the other party controlling at least the House or the Senate. In my fantasy, the judicial branch is non-partisan, meaning a judge's decisions couldn't be predicted based on his/her party affiliation. Remember, I said we're talking about dreams, not realities.

What we have now is a reasonable approximation of my divided government ideal, except the judicial branch isn't free of partisanship. It's obvious the GOP is counting on their 5-4 advantage in the US Supreme Court to abolish health care reform legislation. Nothing has changed: Judicial activism is still defined as any court ruling one party doesn't agree with.

Activism

There's something about the idea that legal bribery and free speech are the same thing that I don't understand. I first got on the McCain bandwagon in 2000 based on his efforts to enact campaign finance reform, and the laws that were finally passed didn't go far enough to suit me. Now the judicial activists on the USSC have thrown open the gates and turned the dogs loose. Unbelievable.

Cut 'em off

I was reading the online newspapers this morning, my usual Sunday ritual, and came across references by several conservatives on the opinion pages to Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor and her desire to see all white males castrated. I thought I'd seen everything, but this one was new to me.

Thanks to Google, I was able to check out "sotomayor white male castration" and discovered the origins of this widely circulated right-wing fantasy.

I've reached one conclusion -- castration of some white males would benefit the species by taking their genetic material out of circulation. Yeah, you know which ones I'm talking about.

The wisdom of youth

If only her daddy was as smart as his daughter.

Added 4:22 pm, same day: If the Senate Judiciary Committee was made up of all Democrats, it would be as worthless an assembly of human beings as you could find. When you consider that so many of its members are Republicans, it makes the committee even more worthless, impossible as that seems.

Sotomayor in sessions

I was out driving around in the heat this afternoon, listening to the car radio, and decided to skip the usual AM radio crap. Instead I flipped over to National Public Radio on FM and listened to some of Sotomayor's interrogation by the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was the first time I'd actually heard her voice, and she sounded like a pretty bright individual.

The senator attempting to make her life miserable today was Jeff Sessions of Alabama. Whenever I'm compiling lists of the most repulsive Republicans, Jeff is usually nowhere to be seen because he's been too insignificant to make much of a ripple on the surface of the pond. Sort of like John Cornyn was for a long time. If what I heard today is an indication of what this worthless dogturd has to offer, he'll never be overlooked on future lists.

When I was in the public welfare business I always thought of Alabama and Mississippi as buffers. As long as those two were around, it was a fairly safe bet Texas would never hit the bottom of the barrel. Bammer and Miz-sippy would always be there to soften the landing when Texas began another of its drives to be ranked 50th of fifty. And now, as long as Alabama keeps re-electing Jeff Sessions, Texas will never have the worst United States Senator.

Added 11:42 am, Wednesday: Here's a surprise. The National Rifle Association and the Southern Baptist Convention have serious misgivings about Sotomayor. Hmmm... she's looking better to me all the time.