Donald Trump is terrified by what has happened in court during his election-interference trial, during which eye witness after eye witness has testified to his sleaze, his lies, and his bullshit, none of which have been negated by any of the Lawyers Who Got Their License From A Box Of Cracker Jacks who form his crackerjack legal defense team.
It would be helpful if some diligent reporter got into the NYC court archives and compiled a list of the thousands, yes, thousands of law suits Trump's been party to. Publish the list and ask the magas why the courts were going political on Trump during all the years before he ever became political. And those suits he himself initiated, well, ask why he weaponized the courts to go after his business opponents. Make the NY Times publish one of their Sunday supplements to contribute to history.
And thanks for your assessment of Vivek. He's clearly angling for VP (delusional) or cabinet post. That backdrop of cloying and slurping political parasites makes me weep for the country and the remaining sane participants in what was once a democracy other nations aspired to. Dog, I'm glad I'm old.
Agreed. Some days old age seems like a blessing. But if you're up for some good news check out this week's Seniors Taking Action Speaker series which will feature a young man and his friends who have a bus they are taking across America to get young people registered to vote.
Check it out at SeniorsTakingAction.org (11 EST). It won't be wild, but it will be inspiring.
“That backdrop of cloying and slurping political parasites makes me weep for the country and the remaining sane participants in what was once a democracy other nations aspired to.” Brilliant! I look at an image of the political parasites outside the courthouse doors and I see COCKROACHES. 🪳🪳🪳🪳
They are using my tax money to fly to NYC and tell lies to make the King cockroach happy. Of course, he would say he didn’t tell them to do it so no fine or jail. Someone needs to stop that morning press event at the courthouse!!
Never thought I would have to apologize for insulting a cockroach but if they serve a purpose, they are definitely above orange amorali. Sorry, cockroaches everywhere.
I seem to recall Judge Juan Merchan's gag orders very specifically stating "or have others.."
$1,000 fine for contempt against Mike Johnson. Plus 30 hours incarceration for contempt against Donald Trump, to be served from 8pm Tuesday to 2am Thursday (covering a period when the defendant is not required to appear in court and which will not interfere with him attending weekend political rallies).
"p2. Defendant is directed to tefrain from: Making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foteseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this cnminal proceeding; is directed to refrain from: Making or directing others to make public statements about (1) counsel in the case other than the District Attorney, (2) members of the Court's staff and the District Attorney's staff, or (3) the family members of any counsel, staff member, the Court or District Attorney, if those statements are made to materially interfere with, or to cause others to materially interfere with, counsels or staff's work in this criminal case, or with the knowledge that such interference is likely to result;"
Exactly where is that fine line of definition between "suggesting" and "directing" during the regular phone conversations between Trump & Johnson?
*edit* my cell phone cut'n'paste skills failed me and I had to come back to place the information regarding witnesses (pertinent to Johnson's widely broadcast attack on Cohen?)
Thank you, splitting hairs is a new career field for chump’s lawyers and puppeteers. Just another effort to gum the works. In all our years of existence, as a country, never has there been one so devoted to test and defy every law, tradition, and expectation of a public figure (or even a human being).
In a sane traditional world, Honor had been held in esteem; yet in a few short decades, it has evaporated from the lexicon. No longer having value, shame has also retreated as a deterrent to Trumpish behavior as 30% of the country cheers on the villain in the World Wide Wrestling spectacle we now witness So invested in the villain, MAGA hoards see any opposition to Trump as a direct attack on their very survival, crushed they’d be like a locust underfoot
Excellent research! The judge has the law on his side to put the amoral orange creatures ass in jail! Fortunately, he’s out foxing the orange domestic terrorist!
Let us remember that Carl Hulse, the doyen of New York Times bothsidesism, did a piece about the bipartisanship of MAGA Mike Johnson. I did email his supposed bosses and the news-tips desk with the suggestion that maybe they should look into the reality. Of course that won't happen. The Times did a puff piece on Nancy Mace being a moderate and then had another reporter do a piece on how MAGA she is without saying they blew the first one. But for The Times to admit that its political coverage is the equivalent of Pravda's, as opposed to executive editor Joe The Poser Kahn lying by saying that's what Democrats want The Times to be, would mean The Times would have to admit error. That doesn't happen, except when they refer to someone as, say, Tom Cleaver instead of Thomas Cleaver.
Memo to the NY AG re People v Trump Gag Order Violations:
Dear Letitia, as KYLE CHENEY, Politico, reported this morning at 11:51 AM ET, the Defendant DJT, is barred by Judge Merchan's Gag Order from "directing others" to communicate Contempt Counts. The MAGATS area a no-show.
From Defendant, DJT, today, "I do have a lot of surrogates & they are speaking [present tense] beautifully ...." Surrogate Mike today: "I called President (sic)Trump & told him I wanted to be here myself... " [to broadcast Contempt Counts].
Letitia, the seditious surrogates have been identified, please seat a Grand Jury to gather evidence on the multiple attacks on the NY Courts.
Gah!!! The bullshit that Trump continuously spews is infuriating...and now he's calling in surrogates to say it for him. Surely this is illegal? It makes me almost incoherent with rage to watch this bullshittery.
Tom, you are, as usual, 100% correct: every damned republican--every single one--is nothing but a filthy scum-sucking arse-licker. Rick Scott (aka Skeletor), J.D. Vance, Vivek Rama'smarmy'. Each one of those miserable lickspittles is trying to audition for VP by proving the agility of their tongue to clean off the the gigantic ass cheeks of their "Maximum Leader". The spectacle is sickening.
Please do not hold your breath while waiting. I do not want to read an obituary about a woman asphyxiating herself while waiting for a congressman's response.
wow, Tom...I can't remember how long it's been since I saw people called "poltroons." great word, and a perfect time to use it.
yes, these scumbags showing up at the courthouse is incredibly sick, but to be in that so-called party, it looks like you need medical proof to demonstrate that 1) you were born with no shame gene or 2) you've had a procedure like one of those old-time ice pick lobotomies; the operation is much more refined now. they use a thin needle to seek out the place in the brain where the shame gene hormone is regulated and then they pith it like they pithed the frogs we dissected in junior high.
I'm torn between "we really are too stupid for democracy" and "please don't let it die once and for all before I do." And some pundits really do think President Biden should step down as a candidate because of the polls, because voters are too stupid to realize what a good job his administration is doing. Can I have both/and? We *are* too stupid for democracy but maybe it could hang on a while longer anyway?
I fear you are right. Lara Trump is right, they won’t back down. Logic, reason and decency are anathema to these cretins, the ones who are ignorant, the plain ole stupid, and the ones who know better and yet reject any loyalty to the country. They will destroy us and rejoice in their revenge. We have the most important job ever foisted on our citizens since Pearl Harbor.
Another terrific column. But, damn, I wish Trump would die so that these Congressional traitors would lose their organizing principal, and hopefully blow away in the next wind.
I learned a new word today - poltroon. Thanks TC. His supporters at court today were so pathetic. They'll do and say anything to stay in his good graces. They're just a bunch of scared little boys hoping for the pat on the head by their idol.
I grew up on Westerns. Saturday matinees with my father. I loved them. The West has always been a symbol of fierce determination.
I especially loved the ones with a loner taking on the big guy, wealthy, who was actually a weakling, who didn’t do his own dirty work, but paid a gang to bully the little people, and take bullets for him. Trump is a thug and a coward and these surrogates are the bullies but they don’t realize the bullets may come for them. First they are going to stand in front of mics with identical red ties, like the gangs of old Westerns with identical neck scarfs or some other symbol. When the bullets fly the dude they are willing to knock down the Constitution for will be hiding behind walls of his fortress and they will be fending for themselves. They will be relegated to the dustbins of history as traitors. The only reason Democrats backed up Johnson was so government could continue. Next time maybe they won’t.
I get the feeling it’s all a set up to make Mike Johnson VP, and leader of the Christian nationalists and the puppet for project 2025. It’s a baby step to the presidency from there. Trump is a nobody. The people standing behind him are mostly paid extras. The polls are fake when Trump shows well. His entire world is a lie that’s propped up by words coming from his mouth. Without his words he has no world and doesn’t exist. It’s all smoke and mirrors folks. If he is found guilty in a court of law for everything he is guilty of, there will be no civil war. His game is to make everyone think there will be, and that crossing him is playing with fire. He is using the tricks he must use to appear relevant and all powerful. He has no power and zero credibility whatsoever. Those followers of his are poltroons whose entire lives are also based on lies.
It would be helpful if some diligent reporter got into the NYC court archives and compiled a list of the thousands, yes, thousands of law suits Trump's been party to. Publish the list and ask the magas why the courts were going political on Trump during all the years before he ever became political. And those suits he himself initiated, well, ask why he weaponized the courts to go after his business opponents. Make the NY Times publish one of their Sunday supplements to contribute to history.
And thanks for your assessment of Vivek. He's clearly angling for VP (delusional) or cabinet post. That backdrop of cloying and slurping political parasites makes me weep for the country and the remaining sane participants in what was once a democracy other nations aspired to. Dog, I'm glad I'm old.
I love your vivid word painting.
Agreed. Some days old age seems like a blessing. But if you're up for some good news check out this week's Seniors Taking Action Speaker series which will feature a young man and his friends who have a bus they are taking across America to get young people registered to vote.
Check it out at SeniorsTakingAction.org (11 EST). It won't be wild, but it will be inspiring.
“That backdrop of cloying and slurping political parasites makes me weep for the country and the remaining sane participants in what was once a democracy other nations aspired to.” Brilliant! I look at an image of the political parasites outside the courthouse doors and I see COCKROACHES. 🪳🪳🪳🪳
They are using my tax money to fly to NYC and tell lies to make the King cockroach happy. Of course, he would say he didn’t tell them to do it so no fine or jail. Someone needs to stop that morning press event at the courthouse!!
Apologies to the cockroach class which has a purpose in the food chain, unlike these ‘castratoi who grovel at the amoral orange feet!
Never thought I would have to apologize for insulting a cockroach but if they serve a purpose, they are definitely above orange amorali. Sorry, cockroaches everywhere.
I thought that about Vivek since the first time I saw him at a debate. He's another one who sooo full of himself.
I seem to recall Judge Juan Merchan's gag orders very specifically stating "or have others.."
$1,000 fine for contempt against Mike Johnson. Plus 30 hours incarceration for contempt against Donald Trump, to be served from 8pm Tuesday to 2am Thursday (covering a period when the defendant is not required to appear in court and which will not interfere with him attending weekend political rallies).
Guess they're lucky I'm not a/the Judge.
Mr. Craig--oh, how I WISH!!!!
Thank you, Craig for this reminder. That photo shows the trumpster leading the parade with Johnson and smarmy following.
I'm pretty sure I saw something about "or having others", too. Cant remember where I saw it.
If only? Right?
Did it really state that…
I hunted down the precise text.
"p2. Defendant is directed to tefrain from: Making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foteseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this cnminal proceeding; is directed to refrain from: Making or directing others to make public statements about (1) counsel in the case other than the District Attorney, (2) members of the Court's staff and the District Attorney's staff, or (3) the family members of any counsel, staff member, the Court or District Attorney, if those statements are made to materially interfere with, or to cause others to materially interfere with, counsels or staff's work in this criminal case, or with the knowledge that such interference is likely to result;"
Exactly where is that fine line of definition between "suggesting" and "directing" during the regular phone conversations between Trump & Johnson?
*edit* my cell phone cut'n'paste skills failed me and I had to come back to place the information regarding witnesses (pertinent to Johnson's widely broadcast attack on Cohen?)
Thank you, splitting hairs is a new career field for chump’s lawyers and puppeteers. Just another effort to gum the works. In all our years of existence, as a country, never has there been one so devoted to test and defy every law, tradition, and expectation of a public figure (or even a human being).
In a sane traditional world, Honor had been held in esteem; yet in a few short decades, it has evaporated from the lexicon. No longer having value, shame has also retreated as a deterrent to Trumpish behavior as 30% of the country cheers on the villain in the World Wide Wrestling spectacle we now witness So invested in the villain, MAGA hoards see any opposition to Trump as a direct attack on their very survival, crushed they’d be like a locust underfoot
Be the foot
Dems had better be the foot, underfoot is the only other option. Sorry, Bill Maher, these are’t just policy differences.
Why is Bill Maher relevant?
Given the way the evangelical morons love him, he must be the Anti-Christ.
I'll sign on to that.
Excellent research! The judge has the law on his side to put the amoral orange creatures ass in jail! Fortunately, he’s out foxing the orange domestic terrorist!
After hearing the description of MAGA Mike's oration, I am moved to the only rational response I have:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0
That was great Bruce.
That could be the response to so so so many of these dipwads "statements". Its perfect.
I thought it had that 'je ne sais quoi'..... :-)
I'm thinking 'je ne sais quoi' description might be over the dipwad's "heads"!
I know, but it is so useful for so many regrettable current situations in American politics..... :-)
And there are SOOOO many of those right now!
Perfect.
Let us remember that Carl Hulse, the doyen of New York Times bothsidesism, did a piece about the bipartisanship of MAGA Mike Johnson. I did email his supposed bosses and the news-tips desk with the suggestion that maybe they should look into the reality. Of course that won't happen. The Times did a puff piece on Nancy Mace being a moderate and then had another reporter do a piece on how MAGA she is without saying they blew the first one. But for The Times to admit that its political coverage is the equivalent of Pravda's, as opposed to executive editor Joe The Poser Kahn lying by saying that's what Democrats want The Times to be, would mean The Times would have to admit error. That doesn't happen, except when they refer to someone as, say, Tom Cleaver instead of Thomas Cleaver.
That would be "Mr Thomas Cleaver" in the propriety of Times speak, :-)
Don't forget your middle initial.
Memo to the NY AG re People v Trump Gag Order Violations:
Dear Letitia, as KYLE CHENEY, Politico, reported this morning at 11:51 AM ET, the Defendant DJT, is barred by Judge Merchan's Gag Order from "directing others" to communicate Contempt Counts. The MAGATS area a no-show.
From Defendant, DJT, today, "I do have a lot of surrogates & they are speaking [present tense] beautifully ...." Surrogate Mike today: "I called President (sic)Trump & told him I wanted to be here myself... " [to broadcast Contempt Counts].
Letitia, the seditious surrogates have been identified, please seat a Grand Jury to gather evidence on the multiple attacks on the NY Courts.
I KNEW I had seen that somewhere. Thanks Bryan. Sadly, I feel doubtful that the judge will go there - as much as I'm SURE he would like to.
Exactly, that is why I mentioned a different NY Legal Tool to take action on the larger issue of orange co-conspirators -- :)
Gah!!! The bullshit that Trump continuously spews is infuriating...and now he's calling in surrogates to say it for him. Surely this is illegal? It makes me almost incoherent with rage to watch this bullshittery.
Tom, you are, as usual, 100% correct: every damned republican--every single one--is nothing but a filthy scum-sucking arse-licker. Rick Scott (aka Skeletor), J.D. Vance, Vivek Rama'smarmy'. Each one of those miserable lickspittles is trying to audition for VP by proving the agility of their tongue to clean off the the gigantic ass cheeks of their "Maximum Leader". The spectacle is sickening.
Love bullshittery. Best description ever…
You said it TL Mills! And with a much better vocabulary than I could ever muster! Thank you!
It's a strange way to audition for the thankless hanging job of Vice President butt-licker.
I am still waiting for my Congressman, LaHood, to o answer the text I sent him about whether he will vote to certify the election when Biden wins.
Please do not hold your breath while waiting. I do not want to read an obituary about a woman asphyxiating herself while waiting for a congressman's response.
I suspect you will be able to doze peacefully throughout his nonresponse should you choose to.
He is running unopposed, so if he doesn't commit it will not be because he fears the voters.
wow, Tom...I can't remember how long it's been since I saw people called "poltroons." great word, and a perfect time to use it.
yes, these scumbags showing up at the courthouse is incredibly sick, but to be in that so-called party, it looks like you need medical proof to demonstrate that 1) you were born with no shame gene or 2) you've had a procedure like one of those old-time ice pick lobotomies; the operation is much more refined now. they use a thin needle to seek out the place in the brain where the shame gene hormone is regulated and then they pith it like they pithed the frogs we dissected in junior high.
I'm torn between "we really are too stupid for democracy" and "please don't let it die once and for all before I do." And some pundits really do think President Biden should step down as a candidate because of the polls, because voters are too stupid to realize what a good job his administration is doing. Can I have both/and? We *are* too stupid for democracy but maybe it could hang on a while longer anyway?
I fear you are right. Lara Trump is right, they won’t back down. Logic, reason and decency are anathema to these cretins, the ones who are ignorant, the plain ole stupid, and the ones who know better and yet reject any loyalty to the country. They will destroy us and rejoice in their revenge. We have the most important job ever foisted on our citizens since Pearl Harbor.
Another terrific column. But, damn, I wish Trump would die so that these Congressional traitors would lose their organizing principal, and hopefully blow away in the next wind.
You and me both
I learned a new word today - poltroon. Thanks TC. His supporters at court today were so pathetic. They'll do and say anything to stay in his good graces. They're just a bunch of scared little boys hoping for the pat on the head by their idol.
"made guys" in the "family," performing public loyalty for the "Godfather."
I grew up on Westerns. Saturday matinees with my father. I loved them. The West has always been a symbol of fierce determination.
I especially loved the ones with a loner taking on the big guy, wealthy, who was actually a weakling, who didn’t do his own dirty work, but paid a gang to bully the little people, and take bullets for him. Trump is a thug and a coward and these surrogates are the bullies but they don’t realize the bullets may come for them. First they are going to stand in front of mics with identical red ties, like the gangs of old Westerns with identical neck scarfs or some other symbol. When the bullets fly the dude they are willing to knock down the Constitution for will be hiding behind walls of his fortress and they will be fending for themselves. They will be relegated to the dustbins of history as traitors. The only reason Democrats backed up Johnson was so government could continue. Next time maybe they won’t.
Exactly. All I know is that having people who thump bibles and believe, as it appears, the world never changes, should not be running our government.
I get the feeling it’s all a set up to make Mike Johnson VP, and leader of the Christian nationalists and the puppet for project 2025. It’s a baby step to the presidency from there. Trump is a nobody. The people standing behind him are mostly paid extras. The polls are fake when Trump shows well. His entire world is a lie that’s propped up by words coming from his mouth. Without his words he has no world and doesn’t exist. It’s all smoke and mirrors folks. If he is found guilty in a court of law for everything he is guilty of, there will be no civil war. His game is to make everyone think there will be, and that crossing him is playing with fire. He is using the tricks he must use to appear relevant and all powerful. He has no power and zero credibility whatsoever. Those followers of his are poltroons whose entire lives are also based on lies.
They’re wisps of smoke.
It’s a rant. So thanks for indulging me.