You love to see it.

I generally refer to him as “Rapey McTraitor”.

Just continuing a proud Bolsonaro family tradition.

I think you’re thinking of this fantastic quote by Lindsey Graham:

“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”

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Not surprising that Fetterman voted no for this. Of course, if he voted yes, I guarantee that Murkowski, Collins, and Tillis would’ve drawn straws to see which of them was going to vote no, keeping the total 50-49.

While not completely outside the scope of all things that are possible, the likelihood of a black person lynching another black person is about as remote as a black person lynching themselves. Tasia’s not the only black woman who “hung herself” recently, either. There’s been a spate of lynchings ruled as suicides in the south over the last couple of years. Tonea Nicole Miller was found deceased, hanging from a tree in Miami on June 8th this year. Juliana Umba Nzita was found in Charlotte on May 8th. Also ruled a suicide. Yolna Yubrin was found in Orlando on September 28th, 2023. Gloria Bambo was found in McKinney, TX on July 12, 2020.

I’m sure I’ve missed a bunch of other examples. These are all over the South, so it’s not necessarily a serial killer; could just be widespread, old fashioned racism. Still, lots of young black women found hanging from trees, and all of them initially ruled as suicides.

It’s a clear violation of 18 USC 597: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

Couple of interesting things about this: this covers both the supply side and the demand side of the bribe economy; it’s illegal to offer the bribe, and illegal to accept it. Both are punishable for up to 2 years imprisonment per count. So if the US actually were a nation of laws, that would mean approximately 360 million years of prison for the fat orange traitor, and up to 2 years in prison for everybody who votes Republican thinking they’re going to get $5,000 for it.

Of course, we’re not a nation of laws. Clearly. I mean, Trump has violated the law pretty much every single day (sometimes multiple times per day) that he’s been in office, and nothing negative has happened to him. We’ve all just accepted that our president is a traitor, and that’s just the way things are.

Yeah, exactly. It takes real courage to do what Mamdani did; despite the fact that he’s the one who pulled back the veil on this thing, he’s going to be remembered as the mayor who cost NYC a shit load of money. It’s very likely that no negative consequences are going to befall anybody who covered this shit up (well, maybe for Giuliani, but it’ll probably be post-mortem, or at least too late to make any difference). But every other mayor and elected official between then and now is going to skate. But Mamdani will be tarnished by it. It’s so fucked up and backwards. All of the previous admin officials will essentially be rewarded for being cowards.

It makes me so incredibly happy that he released this info, but I can totally understand why every single administration before him continued the coverup on this. The legal shitstorm that this will unleash…

Nope - Trump demanded that they take him out there so that he could see the progress in person, but he didn’t want to walk, 'cause that’d be too much effort and poor Natalie Harp’s arms would get tired from carrying all his backup diapers. So they got a motorcade together and drove to the reflecting pool, but he couldn’t get a good enough vantage point from the side, so he had them drive onto the freshly sealed surface.

It’s so rare these days to see positive stories in the news.

The best way to deal with Nazi shitheads like him is discourse (holds up right fist) and datcourse (holds up left fist). I approve.

Well… in a nutshell… after Trump committed treason, our government decided in its infinite wisdom that its hands were tied as regards consequences for him because he announced his candidacy in the 2024 election. A couple of states tried to bar him from running on account of his treason, but in his previous term, Trump appointed a few traitors to be supreme court judges, and they said: “no, section 3 of the 14th amendment doesn’t apply (disqualification from office for insurrection or rebellion), because it doesn’t specifically list the office of president”.

So, we all collectively decided: “Well, the traitors have decided to let the traitor run for president. Let’s see how this pans out.” And then 77 million traitors voted for him, and he became the president. So now he’s trying everything he can to make himself dictator for life so that he doesn’t die in a prison cell.

Also, he’s potentially the dumbest human to have ever lived, on top of the fact that he’s suffering from late-stage dementia. So all of the weird, asinine, nonsensical decisions he’s made… well… that’s just par for the course for him.

I mean, a nomination made by a preschooler would be better. The bar’s in hell.

Both of whom, btw, voted that the 14th amendment was constitutional.

She did. It was, however, mysteriously very shaken up. No idea how that happened.

It’s at least evil clever.

I was chilling on the couch watching tv when my roommate came home. She left her purse on the kitchen counter, then came to join me on the couch. I realized after she sat down that I was thirsty, and I’d missed my opportunity to ask her to grab something for me when she was in the kitchen. So I sent a text to her phone, which was still in her purse on the kitchen counter.

She groaned, then got up to check her message:

“Hey, since you’re up anyway, can you grab me a soda from the fridge?”

True. He’s essentially controlled opposition. But even so, he’s terrible at the job he was hired to do: corralling the Dem vote. As shitty as Nancy Pelosi was, at least she knew how to keep her people in line. Jeffries can’t even manage that. I would call him useless, but if he were simply useless, that would actually be better. He’s actively harmful.