GOPers can't help it: they're VERY interested in what everyone else is doing, and, boy, do they like to teach transgressors a lesson.

Is there some reasonable expectation on Menendez's part of a break of some sort from the judgefor relinquishing his Senate seat prior to sentencing?

Que sabroso! Thanks for posting.

Yum.
~ Anonymous Brain Worm

Is Ronny Jackson even licensed to practice medicine anymore?

Obfuscation, lying, deception and cover-up iarecthe story when it comes to Trump's myriad physical and mental problems.

Trump has a mixed history of releasing medical information. In 2015, during his first run for the White House, he said he instructed his doctor, Harold Bornstein, to release "a full medical report" and promised "it will show perfection." Bornstein did not release Trump's records, but instead issued a four-paragraph letter that said Trump would be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency." Bornstein, who died in 2021, later told CNN that Trump "dictated that whole letter."

Harris is bringing the freaks out of the woodwork. They've already received permission to act like goobers from Orange Julius, their prejudices are shared with other goobers so there's tribalism and hoorawing for the cult to consider. Yeah, they'll soon be using waders in the sewer of innuendo.

#5
Lets see some forts named after Little Turtle, Sitting Bull and a few other of the country's original inhabitants who dealt out bloody noses on their way down.

Hence "the ostentatious Christianity on display on Jan. 6."

When Trump lost the 2020 election and refused to concede, almost all of these Trump-aligned prophets likewise refused to recant their prophecies, proclaiming that God would have to miraculously intervene to reinstate Trump ... .[T]he fervor around these prophecies was a major mobilizing force for what became the Capitol insurrection.

Indeed, I have tracked more than 60 independent charismatic church leaders ... and a number of other celebrity prophets, who were present in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. A central reason there were so many Christian symbols, Christian Bible citations, Christian songs and Christian preachers there that day was because they felt it was their responsibility to bring to fruition the myriad Trump prophecies.

The author writes:

Whether you believe in modern-day prophecy or not, the messianic aura and religious attachments to Trump that these hyper-partisan prophecies foster is a dagger pointed at the heart of American democracy. Voters aren't supposed to elect messiahs; we're supposed to elect chief executives and commanders in chief, whose job it is to do the will of the people. Prophecies, divine anointings and heavenly missions are garments fit for bedecking dictators, authoritarians and cult leaders, not the humble robes of democratic servants of the people.

We have already sampled on Jan. 6 the havoc that radicalized Christian prophecy believers can wreak. The more that MAGA Christians embellish Trump with messianic properties and make him an instrument of divine wrath on God's enemies, the more of a menace they and he pose to democracy.

If Trump wins, he might claim " to shouts of acclamation from his devotees " a divine mandate to remake America. If he loses, these prophecies may once again become rationalizations for attacking the "demonic" institutions that dare defy God's anointed.

Pretty sure there's something we won't see: a "debate" between Harris and Trump. Trump would need a boost of whatever Billy Baffert's pumping into him these days just to meander onto the stage. Harris? She would shred his ass. And he knows it. So being the soft-lard poosie that he is, Orange Julius will cite his war-torn bone spurs and wait for Mr. de Mille to arrive for that long-promised closeup.

They caint hep it, being racialists. So goober clueless and foolish they barely even know their racism is showing.

Trump: "America's Hitler."
Jim "JD" Vance
Aristopopulist

"Today, while the flag represents racism to some Americans, others recognize it as a sign of their heritage."

It is. And many have tried to understandably shed a lot of it. After all: Celebrating a heritage built on slave labor and a treasonous war waged against the nation in order to maintain a slavocracy? Seriously?

That's some highfalutin nonsense there.

According to Vance, "In pointing that finger so repeatedly and enthusiastically, Donald Trump has debased our entire political culture. On the right, the party of robust American global leadership now finds itself apologising for a man who apologises for Vladimir Putin even as he scares our staunchest European allies."

Mike Johnson reeks authenticity. He's definitely an authentic simple-minded goober

It's Shakespearean, the self-destructive hatred fueling Israel's forever war.

#22
Clunk! Wrong again.

Well, we have Ronny Jackson's - snort, snort - word for it. Doesn't appear to have a valid medical license, but he knows 220-pounds of hunka man when he sees it ... through the haze.

#49
In other words, you haven't a clue. Thanks for the update.

A persistent, positive and powerful voice. RIP

"We have no obligation to blow up the country to give someone who's "'earned it' one last run around the track," writes Tim Miller. "It is not the Oscars lifetime achievement award. It is not a farewell tour for an aging athlete who shared their talents with a city and deserves some flowers from adoring fans."

We have no obligation to give a president a valedictory moment. That individual's personal journey is irrelevant to the concerns of voters.

We do not owe the president anything. But the president owes their best to us.

Joe Biden accomplished an immensely important, historic task. He beat Donald Trump. He gave us four years without that cancer in the Oval Office and with significant legislative accomplishments as well. But it is clear now he is no longer capable of giving us anything close to his best.

It is well past time for all this to end. The melodrama has gone on far too long.

President Biden should pass the torch, do everything in his power to help his successor finish the job, and worry about his legacy next January when he hands the keys to the White House to a younger successor.

Anyone not dedicating all of his or her efforts to that end is doing a disservice to all of us.

"Who cares?"

Just off the top of my head? People who are interested in establishing the actual facts, not some MAGAt "alternative facts." Especially when Trump and his goobers are trying to ride this as far as they can.

One article I ran across has her facing a maximum 20-year sentence on each of the four counts. She likely won't get that, but she sure could use some serious time to reformulate her philosophy.