Fight the Power

Yesterday I had lyrics from a Paul Simon song stuck in my head.

Yesterday, it was my birthday
I hung one more year on the line
I should be depressed
My life’s a mess
But I’m having a good time

I’ve been loving and loving
And loving
I’m exhausted from loving so well
I should go to bed
But a voice in my head
Says “Ah, What the hell”

Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time

Why? It wasn’t my birthday — that’s a few months off. My life isn’t any more messy than usual. In fact, physical crapoli aside, I’m doing pretty damn well. So then, am I having a carefree good time?

Is that really the right question though? While the world is being turned into a vat of hot, fried sewage courtesy of a bunch of zed-headed oligarchs, plutocrats, and other assorted gilded garbage humans, how am I having a good time?

Monday two teens, Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez, walked up to the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in the county, with 30 guns, a crossbow, a 75 page long, plagiarized and AI written haterific, white supremacist “manifesto"/suicide note, a gas can with a Nazi SS symbol on it and proceeded to kill three people. 

They filmed themselves as they murdered Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad, then posted the video to some ultra sick site online.

The video investigators found was posted to a website which has been on the FBI's radar amid a disturbing trend of young people engaging with what's called the "True Crime Community," or TCC, an online movement that glorifies mass shooters and encourages violence and self-harm.

A source familiar with the investigation said he believes the video was initially recorded on Discord, a popular online platform for gaming. (source) 

It’s the week before Eid al-Adha, the "Festival of Sacrifice," the second major holiday in Islam. There were approximately 140 children and teachers inside the Islamic Center’s school when these bastards began their rampage. If not for the security guard, Amin Abdullah, calling in a lock down before he was murdered, a lot more people – kids – would have died.

These two murderous fuckers weren’t just after Muslims either. Nope, their masturbatory “manifesto” went off on how much they despised Jews, the LGBTQ+ community, Black people, women (whilst whining about how they can’t score – no, I’m not making that up.). 

Who told these absolutely-consumed-by-hatred teens that Muslims, Jews, Blacks, LGBTQ+ folks, and women are horrible, less than human, to blame for everything that’s not perfect in their lives, and deserve to die? Was it their parents? Possibly. Their president, his cabinet and his faithful cult? DEFINITELY!!! It’s also the shock jocks, podcast bros, and other online mini-dicked idiots who make bank on exploiting and inflaming young (and not so young) disaffected and embittered white men’s insecurities, fears, and prejudices. They may not specifically say “go out and kill!” (plausible deniability and all) but they create the conducive vibe.

Who does this ultimately serve? The powerful and power-adjacent people. The same ones who are responsible for the minimum wage remaining at $7.25 per hour in 20 states. It’s been $7.25 for 17 years – since 2009. Meanwhile, the cost of living has risen 55.23%. A microwave oven you bought for $100 in 2009, would cost you $155.23 now. Your paycheck is still stuck in 2009 though. No one can afford to exist in America on a minimum wage job. 

The powerful and power-adjacent need us to not be looking at them, not be blaming them – the decision makers – while we chase health insurance, wallow in medical debt, education bills, housing, food, and transportation costs. If we’re blaming and hating someone we can possibly perceive as weaker than ourselves, we’re not paying attention to the rich fucks stealing our wallets and our lives.

Look! Over there! The Muslim! The Jew! The immigrant! The gay kid! The Black family! The Latin family! THEM! THEM! THEM! They are the reason your life is hard. They are why your town is dying. They are why you can’t afford college and your insulin costs so much and your factory closed and your church is empty and your country doesn’t feel like your country anymore. IT’S THEIR FAULT.
~ Mo Husseini 

To answer my original question – how am I having a good-ish time in this era of Trumpian hate and horror? As my father once said (to my great dismay), I have the personality of a cheerleader (how totally unhip!!!). Perhaps, more accurately, I'm a manifestation of the Chumbawamba song, Tubthumping. You know, I get knocked down but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down. Also, I sing the songs that remind me of the good times. God, I love that tune!

They can’t, fuck with us
Once they realize we’re all on the same side
They can’t, split us up
And let them prosper off the divide

Don’t fall for the bait and switch
Racism is real, but not it
They fuck whoever can’t fight back
But now we gotta change all that
The people have had enough
Right now, it’s them against us
This shit is ugly to the core
When it comes to the poor
No lives matter
Body Count – No Lives Matter 

 Public Enemy – Fight the Power 

March of the Maniacs

A variation on an old Soviet secret police joke:

Q: Why do the ICE agents patrol in groups of three?
A: That way there’s always one who can read, and one who can write.
Q: What about the third?
A: Someone’s got to keep an eye on the two dangerous intellectuals. 

Dementia Donnie is apparently looking to create another secret police force in addition to his existing band of murderous ICE thugs. He's, at the least, sending the scumbag signal to his psycho insurrectionist squads that he'll always have their backs. He pays his goon squads...supposedly. We'll see. I'm betting that the $1.8 billion goes straight into an offshore account.

Unsurprisingly, Pedo’s setting this up before the midterms where, even with his faithful renfieldian cult of congresscritters gerrymandering the fuck outta their states, the Guardians Of Pedophiles are gonna lose monster big. Diaper Don, the infamous, lying sack of weasel shit child rapist, has made sure of that.
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That doctor overseeing hantavirus outbreak? He's an Alabama urologist known for penile‑implant surgery. THIS is the doctor who’s been put in charge of stopping a deadly respiratory virus.

What are Dr. Brian Christine’s qualifications to handle the outbreak and prevent the potential vast spread of a virus?

•  He’s big into far-right conspiracy theories, especially those about COVID-19. Of course.
•  He’s viscerally transphobic. Naturally.
•  He hosts a YouTube show called “Erection Connection” where he talks about erectile dysfunction. No surprise.
•  He had another YouTube show called “Common Sense” where he claimed health responses from the federal government and organized medicine injected “liberal and left values” to exert more government control. Should've called it Common Nonsense.
•  Christine’s stated that, essentially, the use of mail-in ballots in the 2020 elections is why Trump lost. Basically, he's admitting that Trump’s toadies (*cough* Elon *cough*) had somehow fixed the vote but this was foiled by so many people doing mail-in due to COVID. No surprise that Pedo’s so against mail-in voting, is it? 

We can probably assume Christine knows what a virus is. Rather, we can really, really hope, he knows that a virus is different from a penis. Right? This is the wholly incompetent Pedo administration though – him knowing is def not a lock.

Remember, Bri Bri, wieners are the things you operate on and make bigger. Viruses are things you want to contain and make smaller. See? It’s simple, Doc! 

Gustav Klimt, Hope II

Someone ring up Dr. YouTube Trump Asslicker and give him the 411, K?
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Have you read about Samantha Randazzo? She’s the woman who was forced to give birth on a Brooklyn courtroom bench. This was at her arraignment. She had been in custody for 24 hours.

Randazzo was surrounded by law enforcement, prosecutors and courtroom staff, some of whom reportedly laughed and joked at the situation, the group claimed.
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“Ms. Randazzo had reportedly recently been discharged from a hospital despite being nine months pregnant before being returned to custody and brought to Brooklyn arraignments, where she went into labor in open court,” according to Saturday night’s joint statement from The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Defender Services, New York County Defender Services, The Bronx Defenders and Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem.

“That should horrify every New Yorker,” the statement continued,” they said. “No person should ever be forced to give birth in handcuffs or endure labor while restrained, exposed, and denied basic medical care and human dignity." (source) 

Gustav Klimt, Hope I

How about Tiffany McElroy – hear about her? She was arrested, put in an Alabama jail when she went into labor. Her water broke and her jailers did nothing to help then or in the following 24 hours of labor. With the assistance of her fellow inmates she gave birth. 

“This unmedicated labor was the most terrible pain Tiffany has ever felt,” the complaint alleged.  “For over five hours, she felt as though every bone in her body was breaking and her body was slowly being pulled apart.”

The other inmates then helped resuscitate the baby, who was not breathing, as they shouted and banged on a table to alert the guards, the complaint alleged. 

Eventually, officers came to wrap the baby in blankets and place McElroy in a wheelchair. (source) 

Alabama? Pro life? Yeah, not so’s you’d notice. 

What were Tina and Samantha in jail for? It doesn't fucking matter! They're sentient beings going through intense, life-threatening, traumatic experiences. Did those newborns deserve to come into this already horrifying existence in such a barbaric, callous, merciless way? Fucking NO, I don't think so!

The maternal mortality rate in the US is already significantly higher than it is in first world countries. Fer instance, on average, in the US it's 22 women dead per 100,000 live births. In Norway: ~0 to 2. Netherlands: ~3 to 5. Sweden: ~4. Germany: ~7. United Kingdom: ~6 to 9. And Bast forbid you be an expectant Black woman in the US. The maternal mortality rate for Black women in America is about 55.3 per 100,000 live births.

The US really hates women – obviously. We make up slightly more than 50% of the population. What would happen if we united and voted these oppressive, abusive fucks out, hmmmmm?

KVETCH!

It’s that time of year in New England when all of a bloody sudden the hot weather HITS. Overnight we go from wearing warm sweaters and wool socks to shorts and our thinnest T-shirts.

Somehow the first hot night always takes me by surprise. (could be that I live in denial of the temperatures I don't approve of) I never have the winter bedding switched out to the spring quilt when the heat arrives. Last night I was up every hour throwing off the quilt entirely or pulling it back around me or something in between (left leg sticking out up to the knee with both arms entirely out and other assorted combinations).

Tuesday and Wednesday are supposed to be near 90º here. Jesus Wading Pool Christ and what the actual FUCK! It’s mid May and this is Boston not Phoenix, DAMMIT! This is 12 kinds of smelly bullshit. I'm tellin' you...

Down here on the water we normally have a solid stiff breeze going on. It better be clocked in this week – that’s all I’ve got to say.

I lieu of more I-slept-worse-than-the-idiot-orange-clown-in-the-WH kvetching, here, have some editorial cartoons. 

Yur welcome.

Mike Luckovich

Nick Anderson

David Horsey

Joel Pett

Nick Anderson

Michael Ramirez

Bill Bramhall

Jack Ohman

Bill Bramhall

Body Count

I don’t remember any of their songs but then, in 1991, I wasn’t into rap or thrash metal. Apart from hometown Boston bands (Concussion Ensemble, The Zulus, Mission of Burma, etc, etc.), I was into Talking Heads, Pearl Jam (Ten had just come out), Paul Simon (Rhythm of the Saints came out the year before), Morphine (a Boston band, by the by) and the more experimental sounds of Brian Eno, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Kronos Quartet, etc.

Back to Body Count though — their biggest hits were Cop Killer, Body Count's in the House, Institutionalized 2014, Talk Shit, Get Shot, No Lives Matter, and their heavy version of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb. 

Jesus, I would do serious damage to be able to hear all of these right now!

WHY does this come up this morning? I saw another one of those ultra obvi, I’m-so-desperately-insecure-and-I-listen-to-WAY-too many-“alpha”-brocasts-about-how-to-get-girls-and-make-them-my-sex-slave/mother-replacement. 

Here’s the post:

Friend is in an absolute pickle rn…

He’s been on like 7+ dates with this girl, really likes her, everything’s going great.

Then last night for whatever reason he asked her body count.

70+.

Now he wants to end it immediately.

She’s 27, he’s 30.

Is this valid or is he being soft?

Dude is clearly asking for himself. He’s looking for support for his knee-jerk mysogynistic, micro-dicked, red pill/Andrew Tate influenced ego but doesn’t want to expose himself to the ridicule he so richly deserves. What gives the game away?

He’s dead specific about the number of dates his “friend” had with the woman – seven. If he really was asking for advice about a chum, he’d be more general. e.g., “a few dates” or “several dates.”

The “friend” asks the body count question for “whatever reason” – implying that the answer holds no weight – they're just curious – but on hearing an answer that intimidates, he wants to run away. THIS is the big reveal. The aged out hemotional teen is wearing an ultra thin cloak of I’m-hip-I’m-cool-just-curious but it blew right off with a light breeze of reality.

Threads gave him the advice he deserved. Some examples:

I mean, he can call it off if he wants but give me her number because 70+ murders without getting caught is a spectacular run.

If you drew a Venn diagram of "Dudes who question & judge body-count" and "Dudes who get shitty if a woman doesn't "put out" by the second date" it would be a circle.

Wow, she got away with that many and hasn’t been caught yet? My question is – where did she put the bodies??

If a guy asks my body count, I'm saying 1,000 and he can fuck all the way off as I've just lost all interest.

Did she go to an assassin school taught by Black Widow? 70+ is impressive at the tender age of 27, without being caught. He should be impressed!!!

I mean, clearly she's a pro. Over 70+ murders and not caught by age 27? She's definitely an elite assassin or a mastermind serial killer. Bro is already cooked if it's the latter and she's on the hunt for her next target.

Best of luck to him surviving.

What sane, mature adult could take a body count question seriously? How fucking puerile!

No one’s ever asked me but if they had, I probably would have answered “I stopped counting after the first hundred” and then walked right out the door. 

What I really wanna know is this – are reviews involved? Can they be? If/when men ask for your body count can you respond that you will answer him as soon as he submits his numbers along with the corresponding Yelp, Google, and Consumer Reports reviews/reports?

What’s good for the gander/goose is good for the goose/gander, amiright?

Always Learning

Things I’ve learned this week:

The Thucydides Trap is a theory, put forward by Harvard political scientist Graham Allison, that when a rising power threatens to replace an existing power, the conflict between the two tends to spark a war. (source) 

Gee, this came up during Pedo’s rather embarrassing trip to China. The US was an existing power until the man who could fuck up a free lunch before it was even ordered got elected not once but twice. The fact that Dimbulb Donnie exists will always be a humanitarian humiliation.

The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog. (source) 

Interesting how this comes about so soon after Pissdrunk Pete the Secretary of War Crimes ordered the missile strike on the little girls school in Iran which killed 175, mostly children. Huh.

Reported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – on May 12, Israeli forces attacked paramedics with a drone strike in Lebanon, killing two out of three. Paramedics, ffs. Emergency health care workers who are out there saving lives, easing pain and suffering!

The May 12 incident is part of an alarming pattern. Over recent weeks, MSF teams in Lebanon have been witnessing the consequences of airstrikes, drone strikes, and artillery fire, which are damaging hospitals, ambulances, and medical equipment, and killing or injuring civilians, health workers, and first responders. Lebanese health authorities, media, and other humanitarian organizations have also reported this kind of violence, including repeated attacks while paramedics are rescuing people.
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According to the World Health Organization, there were 161 attacks against health care recorded between March 2 and May 12, resulting in 110 deaths and 252 injuries. This includes 15 attacks resulting in 12 deaths and 21 injuries that occurred after the start of the ceasefire on April 17, which has not led to a cessation of hostilities and has not allowed displaced populations to return home or people stranded in heavily targeted areas to seek safety. (source) 

Nick Anderson

Thanks to Pedo’s Supreme Court of Sycophants, Jim Crow is back. Maybe not in full…YET…but it won’t be long. They’ve gutted the Voting Rights Act which has triggered a run on Southern states redistricting to eliminate majority-Black districts. The courts aren’t stopping white Republican officials from gerrymandering the fuck out of their states but, Bast forbid, actual not-rich  citizens VOTE on a new congressional map. If it doesn’t favor Pedo’s party of cheats, warmongers, and abusers *GASP* it MUST be illegal according to the black robed Klan! 

Giant manta rays are an endangered species. The barely, (not so’s you’d really notice), civilized state of Florida, actually allows any old asshole to capture and kidnap them out of the ocean – their goddamn home. Still, Florida politicians are patting themselves on the back for making a slight tweak to tighten policies as to where and when the giant mantas can be stolen. This only after a video went viral of a captured ray in severe distress. 

Humans – we really, totally suck. Alright, that’s not something I learned just this week. 

Michael de Adder

Hairsplitting and Knitpicking

I have knits to be picked this morning.

Okay, okay…it’s nits NOT knits. And NO I don’t mean this in the original sense – picking the eggs of a lice out of anyone’s hair. EWWWW! I mean it, fully, in the Christ-she’s-going-off-on-another-pedantic-rant way. You know, as is my habit and shit.

It’s “sleight of hand”  not “slight of hand.” 

Sleight – skill, dexterity
Slight – something small in degree or a deliberate act of disrespect

See the difference? Of course you do!

It’s “bated breath" not “baited breath,” unless your lungs are on a fishhook trying to catch trout. 

Bated – being in a state of suspended or subdued breathing due to extreme excitement, anticipation, anxiety, or nervousness. 

The phrase was coined by our old buddy Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice and spoken by Shylock. 

Shall I bend low and in a bondman’s key,
With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;
‘Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;
You spurn’d me such a day; another time
You call’d me dog; and for these courtesies
I’ll lend you thus much moneys?

It’s “lo and behold” not “low and behold,” which sounds a bit like a cut-rate yoga position. Downward facing dog for those who can't afford the studio fee?

Lo 
     interjection
early 13c., from Old English la, exclamation of surprise, grief, joy, or mere greeting

It’s “brass tacks” not “brass tax,” which sounds like a Victorian levy on trumpets and flugelhorns. 

19th century fabric merchants hammered brass tacks into their counters to measure cloth. So, to "get down to brass tacks" meant to reach the precise, final measurement.

Rein
     noun 
1 : a strap fastened to a bit by which a rider or driver controls an animal 
2 a : a restraining influence she kept a tight rein on the proceedings
   b : controlling or guiding power reins of government
3 : opportunity for unhampered activity or use she had free rein to use her imagination on the project

It’s not “free reign” unless you’re saying the monarchy is unrestrained. 

Do you "toe the line" or "tow the line?"

“Toe the line,” according to Naval History & Heritage, comes from the practice of waterproofing between deck boards with a layer of oakum, pitch and tar, thus creating a striped deck; when the crew was ordered to fall in at quarters they would line up at their designated area of the deck, toes to the line to ensure a neat line for inspection.  Toeing the line was also used as a form of punishment for lighter misdemeanours aboard a ship, such as younger crew members talking at the wrong time; they were made to stand at the line for a specified amount of time to remind them to behave.  A logical leap later and we have our idiom, because the young lads were warned to “toe the line” – they were to mentally toe the line to avoid getting in trouble. (source) 

It's "bear with me” not "bare with me." Same for "bear witness" not "bare” witness." Unless you wanna get nekkid.

Bear 
     verb
: to accept or endure especially without succumbing : put up with

Bare
    adjective
: lacking clothing

It’s "pique my interest" not "peak (or peek) my interest." dammit...

This one makes me want to scream – it’s "I couldn’t care less" NOT "I could care less." If you could care less that means you still care, goddamnit!

For all intensive purposes...ahhh, NO.

It's intents and purposes, unless you're talking about campers on a beach – then everyone's in tents, looking for porpoises.

There are no isles in the grocery store but there are aisles.

It’s "buck naked," not "butt naked." Origin of "buck naked?" Uncertain but it was first used in the early 1900s, and may have come about because human skin kind of looks like the smooth skin of a buck, a male deer. Ya know, if you’re high.

I’ll accept "butt nekkid" instead though

Naked is to be without clothes, nekkid is to be without clothes and up to something. 
~ Lewis Grizzard 

It's "you've got another think coming," meaning "think again." It’s not "you've got another thing coming." Rather, it wasn’t. 

It’s "going rogue" not "going rouge." Going rogue means you stop following rules, abandon a formal, organized group, and/or act unpredictably on your own terms.
"Going rouge" suggests makeup skills gone wild. We’re talking Maybelline mania!

Strait, straits, straight. 

Strait
     noun 
1 a : a comparatively narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water—often used in plural

2 :  a situation of perplexity or distress—often used in plural 

Straight
     adjective
1 a : free from curves, bends, angles, or irregularities

There’s the straitjacket – an unfashionable, unless you’re into B&D, top with long, closed sleeves designed to immobilize a person's arms. Once your arms are inserted, sleeves are crossed over the chest and tied behind the back. 

We have the Pedo banjaxed Strait of Hormuz.

You can be in dire straits – a no good, very bad, difficult situation

And don’t forget the band Dire Straits. 

Strait(s) and straight – NOT the same thing.

Historical: an event in the past
Historic: a significant event

Just FYI and shit.

The Tabloid Edition

You’ve heard the tale of Kouri Richins? She’s the skeevy real estate agent and predatory house flipper whose business was going down the toilet. She was close to $2mil in debt on the day her husband died (with a big assist).

Unless you’re a Musk or a Bezos, that’s a wickedly worrisome amount of dough to owe – ya know, to say the very least. Girl seemed to have a real Trumpian head for business but lacked the financial luck of having a rich, slimy, KKK father, the NYC mob, and Russian oligarchs on speed dial. How unlucky for Eric Richins.

One of the things that stands out to me, before they got married in June of 2013, they signed a prenuptial agreement. Eric held 50% interest in C&E Stone Masonry. The prenup, amongst other things, specifically stipulated that in the event of divorce his share in the business would remain solely in his possession. He went even farther, noting that, in the event of his death, his share of the biz would not go to Kouri. Interesting, no?

Sounds like Eric definitely did NOT trust Kouri from the get-go and rightly so. Why did he even consider marrying her then? Maybe it's just me – I know I totally have trust issues – but I def would have made different choices.

In 2019 she somehow “borrowed” $250Gs from one of Eric’s accounts. They were just six years into the marriage. Eric met with a divorce lawyer and an estate planner.

In October of 2020 he had the little thief removed as beneficiary of his $500,000 life insurance policy. He also created the Eric Richins Living Trust so his estate and business would be under the control of one of his sisters with all money going to his three kids.

Good thing he did that but, given the obvious rising levels of distrust, why not a physical separation too? I know, I know, hindsight is always crisp and crystal clear.

More financial shenanigans

• June 29, 2021: To obtain a loan, prosecutors say, Richins submitted a falsified bank statement to a financial institution using balance details and transaction descriptions from her husband’s company. When a bank representative flagged that her credit appeared lower than expected, she said she was in the “process of separation” from her husband, documents state. 
• Aug. 2, 2021: Richins submitted another falsified bank statement to another financial institution to obtain a loan, according to charging documents.
• Jan. 29, 2022: Richins applied for a life insurance policy for Eric and named herself as the beneficiary, according to charging documents. Eric had “no affiliation with this account,” and his signature on the application is a forgery, prosecutors say. (source) 

AND, in 2020, while Kouri’s out flipping houses, she started an affair with one of her employees – Robert “Josh” Grossman. She’d been married to Eric for about six and a half years. Their youngest of three children was three-years-old.

It seems Eric didn’t tell Kouri that he put everything – his money, the business, AND the house they lived in – into a trust with one Eric’s sisters as trustee. On March 6th of ’22 Kouri assaulted another of Eric’s sisters, Amy Richins, in an argument about the house/trust issue. This was just a month after her first failed attempt to poison Eric (the old poison sammich trick) and a few months before the overkill five-times-the-lethal-dose poisoned lemon drop and Moscow Mule execution.

Kouri – NOT a bright murderer. I mean, bitch totally left a mile wide trail of breadcrumbs and put neon lights around herself.

• April 16, 2022: Prosecutors said that by April 16, Richins had used a cellphone to research “what happens to deleted messages,” “how do police and forensic analysts recover deleted data from phones,” and “signs of being under federal investigation.” She had also read an article titled “cause of death usually does not impact life insurance payment,” according to the charging documents.
• June 6, 2022: By June 6, Richins used the same cellphone to research “what is a lethal dose of fentanyl,” and “how long do life insurance companies take to pay,” among other things, charging documents state. (source) 

I only mention it but this, at right, is Kouri’s former attorney Skye Lazaro (GREAT name!). Does she look like a Disney villain or what?!!! Honestly, found with a bloody machete in my grip, I’d have full confidence of being found innocent of slaughtering a city full of baby kittens and puppies as long as this woman was defending me. She just looks THAT competent, capable, and dynamic. Also viciously focused. Admirable qualities in a defense lawyer (as long as you’re one of the the good guys).

Why is Ms. Lazaro her former lawyer? Because Lazaro's firm, Ray Quinney & Nebeker, withdrew from her case citing “an irreconcilable and nonwaivable situation.” I don’t know what that means but I’m guessing it translates as:

“She’s totally guilty. Losing this case will make us look bad. Winning this case would make us look worse. We quit."

Kouri was instead repped by a couple of public defenders. She's been sentenced to life without parole. Could be worse – she could have been sentenced to share a cell with Diaper Don or some other billionaire narcissist who thinks he’s god. 

What's the Orange Failzilla up to today?

I wonder if Pedo’s ever so faithful cultists took note of this:

Speaking on the White House South Lawn before departing for a diplomatic trip to China, Trump was asked to what extent “Americans’ financial situations” were motivating him to make a deal with Iran.

“Not even a little bit,” Trump replied. “The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran — they can’t have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing — we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all.” (source) 

This war has never ever been about Iran’s nonexistent nukes. It has always been about Pedo playing patty cake with Netanyahu. Why? Maybe Bibi’s got juicy blackmailable dirt on the old orange kid rapist? Perhaps, like Venezuela, he’s just after Iran’s oil and minerals? Possibly Delulu Donnie thought bombing Iran would be a great twofer — a distraction from that nasty child raping habit of his AND he would get to play tough guy, strongman, king of the world? Being president is all perks and cosplay to this slimiest of pea-brained swindlers ever to be born on this planet. 

I expect Donnie Dimbulb’s reasoning for ripping up and shitting all over the excellent and brilliantly worked out agreement that Obama made with Iran made sense in Donnie’s little syphilitic, rat infested outhouse of a brain. Seems insanely illogical to me but I don’t get my news from racist fools meeting in stank-ass porta-potties at KKK/MAGA rallies. He apparently does.

And WHY can’t the Orange Failzilla get over Obama? On Monday night, between 10:15 PM and 1:13 AM he made 55 posts on his social media laundry site, Truth Toilet. That’s, on average, one post every three minutes.

Some excerpts from Harry Sisson’s X accounting: 

10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016 
10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump 
10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
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10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?)
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10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes 
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10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
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10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
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10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way

At night, without his fawning sycophants feeding him flattering lies, he can't keep out of his mind how much of an astoundingly horrifying and embarrassing failure he is. His father’s mocking and excoriating voice rings in his ears, "how could this idiot son of mine let these people outclass him."

President Trump seems to have an insatiable need to be the center of attention. International relations are a serious matter; they concern people’s lives and the stability of entire regions.

At times, it feels as though the whole world is being forced to take part in a multibillion-dollar therapy session to compensate for the attention he may not have received in childhood.
~ Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif

Yup. 

FYI – yesterday was George Carlin’s birthday. If he was still alive, he’d be 87-years old. 

A few words of wisdom from him:

In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class men off to die.

Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.

Careful, if you think too much, they’ll take you away.

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens,  you’re going to have selfish, ignorant leaders.

Religion is just mind control. 

Again...yup.