Poor judgment
Felon A (34 counts of falsifying business records) faces no punishment at all. Felon B (16 counts of bribery extortion and obstruction of justice) is looking at fifteen years. They're not even pretending with this "equal justice under law" jazz anymore, are they?
The Leader called his boy Alito and tried to get the verdict tossed out because UNFAIR!! and it looked like a done deal but then they voted and it went against him 5-4, the five being the liberal ladies, the mercurial John Roberts and -- wait for it -- Amy Coney Barrett. How sharper than a serpent's tooth, etc. You can imagine the flak she's catching from MAGA today; good thing she has her religious faith, however creepy, to sustain her. Suddenly she's "Amy Commie Barrett." (No equivalent abuse for Roberts because It's Always the Woman's Fault.) The Leader will probably order the creation of a Super-Duper Supreme Court to overturn decisions from the regular one and appoint all his disbarred former lawyers.Congratulations to North Carolina for going 126 years without a coup. That could change if the Republicans succeed in throwing out thousands of ballots on technicalities and reverse the re-election of Allison Riggs to the state supreme court. Less violent than the 1898 Wilmington massacre but just as racist.
On the other hand, the state has rid us of Edgar Welch, the gullible idiot who shot up the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington back in 2016, convinced that a child trafficking ring was operating out of its (nonexistent) basement. Police approached his parked car in Kannapolis on Saturday to arrest him on an outstanding warrant and Welch, impulsive as ever, pulled a gun. He's dead now.
The Palisades Fire continues to devastate southern California, with ten people known dead, thousands evacuated, many buildings destroyed and millions without power. How can we make this worse? MAGA demanded, and soon the air was filled with demented conspiracy theories, politicized blame-flinging, and even a drone which collided with a firefighting plane and disabled it. The bullshit around Hurricane Helene didn't start until the storm was over but now they jump right in. "They gave all the equipment away to Ukraine." "The chief of the LAFD is a lesbian and therefore -- DEI!" "Newsom has a huge faucet in the north which he refuses to turn on." (I swear to crom I don't even know what that means, but sometimes the faucet is in Canada.) "Joe Biden grounded firefighting planes." Nobody mentions the drought or the near-100 mph Santa Ana winds because what could that have to do with it?
"Beautiful, clean, fresh water" -- not that brackish Democrat water. What time on January 20 will they sign the Twenty-fifth Amendment declaration?
I am a terrible person. I thought it was funny that Mel Gibson's Malibu house burned down while he was in Austin talking to Joe Rogaine. He was there to promote The Passion of the Christ 2 -- the first one wasn't antisemitic enough. Technology will be used to de-age Jim Caviezel because that worked so well with DeNiro in The Irishman, and it will be full of "crazy stuff" (his words) about heaven and hell. I have until next year to learn how to pronounce Caviezel.
Junior Sniffles and Charlie Kirk paid a brief visit to Greenland and hurried home to lie about it. What a warm welcome they got from the "crowds" at the airport! Poor people were bribed with meals and MAGA caps if they would show up and act friendly (sounds like the 2015 Escalator Show all over again). "We know how they treat the Inuit in Alaska," wrote Pipaluk Lynge, MP. "Make that great before trying to invade us." Ten days ago Junior was whining about New Year's Eve at Motel a Lago because Daddy's friends always get drunk and treat him like a "freaking imbecile." He's 47 and he doesn't know he's allowed to turn down the invitation. Or to refuse to be a party to burying his mother in the weeds next to a golf course. "Imbecile" is not the word.
Keep the students at the University of West Florida in your thoughts. Ron DeSantis has appointed Christian nationalist Scott Yenor to its board and it's his considered opinion that girl-type students should quit. "If we want a great nation we should be preparing young women to become mothers, not finding every reason for young women to delay motherhood until they are established in a career or sufficiently independent." He calls universities "citadels of our gynecocracy" because he thinks women rule (not in a good way). Where have I heard this before? Putin? Hitler? The Taliban? Yes, yes and yes. "If every Nobel Prize winner is a man, that's not a failure. It's kind of a cause for celebration." I'll pass that along to Marie Curie. UWF students may want to transfer to someplace more enlightened, like Bob Jones.
And finally...
One day.
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