Lesson #1 ~ Don't put your crimes in writing.

Lesson #2 ~ Don't have your picture taken with partners-in-crime.

Lesson #3 ~ Read book "Everything Trump Touches Die."

I hope Eastman's name on the subpoena list for the House Select Committee. It will be fun seeing him try to "lawyer" his way out of this with attorney/client privilege.

DOC

That's what I thought, too. The slimy worm sold out.

How much can you take the word of Manchin who is the type of guy who would hold the whole country hostage when he knows full well the urgency of the Voters Rights legislation and what's at stake?

My suspicious mind wants to know: What's in it for him?

There is still one more unresolved issue in my mind concerning Laundrie's parents. When he came home alone, how much, if anything, did their son tell them about killing Gabby prior to the discovery of her body? IOW, what did they know and when did they know it?

They could still be in jeopardy.

Carlton's website says these "primitive campsite" have to be reserved a year in advance.

Since Laundries parents said he went there often because he liked the place I wonder if he had a standing year-round reservation. Maybe that's why they could tell the FBI where to look.

If so, the complicity thing off the table. They were being helpful.

I did a quick search and learned that Carlton Reserve does have some big wetlands for fishing, canoeing and kayaking, etc. Their website also says they have "primitive campsites." I don't know what that means but it sounds like it could explain a lot.

RCADE

That's a good question. We can only speculate. The Reserve isn't all that small. It's about 80 square miles.

The Carlton Reserve is near Venice on the West Coast so parts of it could have been, not exactly underwater but maybe too "swampy" at the time to search. Swampy usually means snakes and alligators. I wouldn't go in there either but if it has "keys," it was probably not a real campsite but rather a makeshift campsite and a good place to hide.

Today's news report didn't say how long he'd been there nor the cause of death.

I just heard on the news that the identity has been confirmed through dental records. It was Laundries.

CATDOG

Not together.

SNOOFY

George H.W., the father of George W. was heavily involved in the Carlyle Group.

Good! Now they're both in jail and have been denied bond as flight risks. The Toebbes already had passports for their two children and were in the process of renewing their own when they were arrested.

MODER8

"It seems like the names of Republicans with their hands in the cookie jar keep popping up every news cycle."

Speaking of which . . .

Just today Mother Jones reported about Glen Younkin (R), candidate for Governor in Virginia, was making nice-nice about President Biden, saying Biden was the legitimate President and the 2020 election was on the up-and- up. At the same time he contributed one million dollars of his own money to a PAC that echoes Trump's claims of fraud as well as disclaimers about the amount of violence on 1/6. So Youngkin is just another Republican snake in the grass.

There's a new thread about it on this site today. You can read about it yourself.

MODER8

I always suspected that creating "low opinions of Republicans" was part of President's Biden's long game. It seems like the names of Republicans with their hands in the cookie jar keep popping up every news cycle.

The article didn't say how long the remains had been under water. Only that he had been missing for a month and the parents told them he was probably in that particular area. And the police described the bones as "apparently" human. And it's true that wild animals could have carried stuff away. I don't know what wild animals inhabit the area.

I still think there's cause for suspicion. As RIGHT/TRITE said, DNA will tell the story. His parents will have a lot of questions to answer if it turns out different.

Maybe we'll get another headline about the story.

NIXON

His Dad always called him a loser.

So Daddy gave him a few million dollar in seed money, just to prove his point?

Well done, Daddy Dear. Well done.

DOC

Definitely some of his wiring is arching. I hear that's what causes spontaneous human combustion (Melania should be so lucky).

I gotta' admit. Trump has the Senate Republicans by the ba11s. There a saying that dates all the way back to ancient Rome. Translated it says "Once you have them by the ba11s, the minds and hearts are sure to follow."

It's the Voting Rights Bill he's blocking now. He sided with the Republicans who don't even want the bill to be discussed, let alone passed.

Trump doesn't want it passed either. He working on getting all voting rights nullified by state legislators which, incidentally, is the sure-fired road to an irreversible dictatorship.

Yes, irreversible!

I think it's time for President Biden to take the leap get rid of the filibuster. It's a risky move but there's there a lot more at stake than a Senate rule that Republicans have turned into an obstruction tool.

BRASS

Trump judges others by his own standards.

He's a liar so he thinks everybody is a liar;
He's a thief so he thinks everybody is a thief;
He's a con artist so he thinks everybody is a con artist;
He's a cheater so he thinks everybody is a cheater;
He's a narcissist so he thinks everybody is a narcissist;
He's rotten to the core so he thinks everybody is rotten to the core.

Liar, thief, con artist, cheater, rotten to the core . . . the list is much longer but I think we all get the point.

I know there's a clinical name for Trump's mental illness. Somebody help me out here. The word "crazy" is already a given.

Hmmmmm . . . partial human remains and Laundrie's personal belongings found at the scene. And his parents directed them where to go.

We're all thinking the same thing. Staged. Right?

Not saying it's so but it wouldn't be the first time someone staged their own death to to buy get-away time.

"It must a form of mass psychosis. Seriously."

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Or when Arizona turned Blue for Biden, it scared the bejebus out of the GOP. Now they're throwing the kitchen sink at the problem. That doesn't mean they're going to succeed. It only means they're running scared . . . and pushing the panic button.

I'm going to trust that Arizona is sick and tired of all they've been through with the Republican's ridiculous shenanigan's since 2020 and give them all the ol' heave-ho.

If none of Trump's planted stooges win are we going to suffer through another audit for Fraud? Death threats? Riots? Lawsuits? and all the other mayhem and chaos that follows Trump everywhere he goes.

Manchin didn't say he was going to switch to Republican. He (reportedly) said he would change to what he called "American Independent." How does that give McConnell a majority?

I'd trade Trump to have Powell back any day of the week.