"It doesn't matter, it was all AI generated by Antifa. Real Men Wear Diapers!"

You're off by a few years, but only a few.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/575962/donald-trump-tells-biographer-hes-same-now-first-grade

"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different."

D'Antonio also corroborated Trump's statement with evidence — from Trump's ex-wives.

"The little boy that still wants attention," explained Marla Maples, Trump's second wife.

It's ironic, because his future will include lots of bars.

We've heard today about Trump supporters looking to murder the judge and the jury in that case, but in this other case liberals just fire up their word processors and direct reasoned legal analysis to the proper authorities.

Today it is.

When Republicans make a concerted effort , they call for violence against their opponents. When Democrats do it, they write strongly worded letters.

That entire quote is proof that Mike Johnson believes that justice is for the poors, and rich, well-connected people have different rules than the rest of us. If, for some weird reason, the Court does find tortured logic to take up the case, there should be immediate hearings into what, exactly, Mike Johnson said to these justices to incentivize them to make them take up the case. After all, he is admitting to trying to sway their opinion on it.

.... and this is why we are much better off with Joe Biden as the Democratic Nominee than Dean Phillips.

I'm glad the jurors have been smart enough to stay quiet. Now that the verdict is in, there is nothing keeping them from going public with details about their deliberations, but they seem to have all agreed it is best to keep out of the public eye. I wonder if the two lawyers purported to be on the jury advised them of that.

Still, I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of them already has an advance to write a book about it, which we will see eventuallty. I wonder if they get to keep their notes.

If Trump wins, Biden will try to force things to a definitive conclusion before he leaves office

He'll only have two months. What do you suppose he could do in two months that can resolve this conflict which has taken years?

Hey, I can play this game, too! The real inflation rate is closer to 150%. Source: Bitcoin was $27k last year, now it's $67k

My source sucks, but so does yours

I hadn't heard about Johnson calling for that, so I looked it up:

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/31/mike-johnson-trump-supreme-court

"I think that the Justices on the court – I know many of them personally – I think they are deeply concerned about that, as we are. So I think they'll set this straight," the Louisiana Republican added.

I think that quote really puts into perspective that the GOP is no longer the party of law. If a jury hands down a decision we don't like, we get our friends in high places to overturn it. I bet his kids never have to worry about traffic tickets, either, they all get magically "fixed" with the right phone call.

Trump's allies are already plotting revenge, with one prospective Trump attorney general candidate telling Axios' Zach Basu and Sophia Cai that GOP prosecutors should go after Democrats in response.

You know what? If Democrats break the law, then prosecutors should go after them! Somehow, though, I don't think this is what they have in mind.

Yes, but historically Catholics and Protestants didn't get along. When one obtained power, they used it to club the other one. It's interesting that they've achieved this weird power-sharing agreement here that so obviously favors the doctrine of the smaller side. It's as if they have no problem setting aside their doctrinal differences if the end goal is subjugating women, and have agreed the Catholic approach is better for that.

From that link:

While Israeli officials did not comment on the specific terms outlined by Biden, a statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he had authorized the government's negotiating team to "present an outline" that included "the return of all our abductees and the elimination of Hamas’ military and governmental capabilities."

So there's at least some acknowledgement that Biden didn't just make it all up....

Maybe it's just my skewed view of things, but it amazes me how the Religious Right has started to latch into views that have typically been associated with Catholicism. Most Protestant churches frown upon elective abortion as a form of birth control, but do not seek to outlaw the process entirely, under all circumstances. (The Anglicans are the one exception I can recall off the top of my head). And, of course, we know that the Catholic Church takes a much harder line on other forms of birth control than most Protestants, too. It seems interesting that the GOP are pulling all these Protestants back closer to the Pope's views.

Now we have the GOP getting closer to the Catholic point of view on divorce as well. Not quite going so far as to push to ban it outright, but definitely making it harder. I wonder what Henry VIII would think of that.

I'm fully remote, with no clock to punch, but with co-workers all over the world. I try to focus most of my hours between 9 and 5, but don't sweat it too much because a few times a month I need to be on a call at 5 in the morning or 10 at night.

There is simply no good time to schedule meetings with someone 12 hours away.

He's not running as a Democrat. The deadline for filing as an independent in WV is August 1, and your application can be challenged if you changed parties in the last two months. So this move was purely to preserve his ability to step into the race for Governor or Senate at the last minute, if he thought he could win.

It turns out it was the brain worm who did all that heroin....

I think that's a coincidence. The real deadline is June 1, because there is another deadline in WV for independant candidates to file for the ballot on Aug 1, and those applications can be challenged if the candidate changes parties in the two months prior to the application. So by doing this as late as possible in May, he preserves the right to run for Governor or Senate as an Independant.

And like it or not, if he ran for either of those seats, he would win, and would be better than any Republican who might have won in his place. And if he ran for Senate and won, there is a very good chance that the party he decides to Caucus with will determine which side controls the Senate. So if he wins, he wil still be very popular with the establishment on both sides.

You can expect Chuck to give him any committee chairmanship he wants if it means Chuck can get to 50-50 (where committees are equally balanced, and the VP breaks ties) or 51-49 (which gives Democrats the majority on committees regardless of who is the VP). If Democrats keep all their seats then also gain TX or FL, then Manchin's vote is not as critical and Chuck is in better position to make him irrelevant.

Jail in NYC is Rikers Island, which is so notorious that they've been trying to close it down for years. He's not gaining anything with a short sentence.