We respond…
I am flat out of f#cks to give… about these awful humans.
They cannot head to the memory care centers of America soon enough.
Or, maybe we can get all of them nice retirement tenements, in Minsk or Moscow.
Either way — I can’t wait.
Here is Scott Johnson’s latest add — to Poweline’s “who cares about Ukraine people” party. That makes it… a hat trick — so I’ll oblige, again.
O U T.
I have yet to see anyone at Powerline take the butchering actions of Putin seriously — since Paul M. fell silent. There are now hundreds dead, in the invasion — many of them civilian casualties.
Each of these remaining decrepit mediocre white guys must all be getting some form of real benefit, either from Tangerine, or from Russians directly — as even a decade ago, they strongly held that expansion by the new Russia was always in truth the “old Soviets” trying to rebuild their empire.
But not now. Now these morons are on the take. And it is more important to them to “pwn libs” than to stand for their own nation. Disgusting.
Here’s the crazy — in all its glory.
Without a voice of relative reason (in the oddly-placed lawn gnome that was Paul) we may find this site dead — and unreadable soon. That might, as irony would have it, be a good thing.
Cheers. Or should I say… “Do svidaniya“?
DФS-VЇDДЙЇҰД, Comrade.
I will remark here mostly just to… celebrate.
Let progress abide — she’ll be the only former public defender, on the court.
Let her confirmation come on swift wings. Here’s a bit — but she will be confirmed:
…Biden nominated Jackson, 51, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last summer. Jackson had served as a district judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia since 2013, previously working as a public defender, the vice chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission and a clerk under retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Jackson attended Harvard for both undergrad and law school and if confirmed would be the first federal public defender to serve on the court.
Jackson was confirmed to her current post by the Senate in a 53-44 vote, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina voting in her favor….
It is well-past time.
Onward!
Hinderaker, Trump, Owens — all of them in various ways, praising Putin… putting their funding / favors from Russia ahead of their patriotic duties.
John didn’t “guess” wrong. He got paid (in one form or another) — sold out his own national interests; and like Candace and Trump… cannot bring himself to condemn the murderous dictator.
He knows Trump weakened NATO, and made a deplorable deal with the Taliban, to help Putin protect his back door. He know Trump would have let Putin carve up Ukraine.
He also knows Trump refused to send the Congressional aid voted for Ukraine, lest it anger Putin.
All of this… (the hard right’s shilling — for Putin) is about the cash Tangerine owes. All of it. So it was no “mistake”. Putin played each one of them. Period.
Damn each and every one of them.
Mistake?! Nope. Liar. Out.
Obviously, Steve cannot mention four of the last five years, here (for fear of provoking Tangerine’s endless, scorched Earth- and forever-unbridled rage!).
No, he must pay a largely-grudging knee bent token of “respect” to the Mitt Romney of 2012. He does so, so he can poke some fun at BHO 44’s remark diminishing (also from 2012), the global importance of… Putin. No matter that, in 2012, with the US economy here bangin’, our role in the world as a moral leader being re-established, and Russia running solely on vapors, it was looking like Putin might end up being suicided by his own KGB alums. [No mention of Trump at Helsinki — a far more proximate causa belli. Shocking that silence, from Steve. Not really.]
No, Heyward (knows he must) conveniently forgets all the “building” Tangerine did — FOR PUTIN — while at 1600 Penn. Here’s the brilliant EmptyWheel, just this morning, in fact — laying the Trump near-treason bare:
“…Republican members of Congress genuinely came to believe — because they had to! — that criticism of Trump’s refusal to spend the money in support of Ukraine they had appropriated was just another Democratic attack on Trump and not an attempt to save the integrity of American democracy. All this culminated in Stop the Steal… a literal attack on American democracy; Republican fealty to Trump forced them — more reluctantly at first and driven in large part by real terror — to defend an assault on Congress.
By February 13, 2021, the date the Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump of inciting an attack on Congress, Republicans had put loyalty to Donald Trump over defense of the country and the Capitol in which they worked.
Sure, Putin didn’t get Trump to carve up Ukraine as President. But he got so much more from Trump’s presidency.
Putin did get Trump to do real damage to NATO. He got Trump to largely abandon Syria. Trump made a humiliating deal with the Taliban that would result in the US withdrawing its military from Russia’s back door. After years of Russia having to work hard to highlight American hypocrisy on human rights, Trump did things like pardon war criminals, forever tainting America’s claim to be exceptional.
And through it all, Trump created his own authoritarian-supporting militias, heavily armed troops inspired by resentment who have the ability to make the United States ungovernable. Trumpist Republicans are making localized efforts to dismantle democracy….”
She is — as ever — spot on here. This Ukraine atrocity, should it so unfold… belongs to Tangerine’s cowardly enabling, all to keep his hotels’ loans afloat. And Steve Heyward is right there, in favor of it all — because Baby T says he… must obey.
Disgusting.
The rule was, when one left the Oval Office, one did not carp about one’s successor — even on domestic economic matters. That time is long gone.
But there was an almost military / chain of command / religious precept, rooted in our nation’s shared destiny, that former guys NEVER questioned — let alone criticized — the current POTUS, not in public (during say, the ill-starred Bay of Pigs matter), while the current guy was facing down an enemy dictator — even diplomatically.
And NEVER, EVER — if tanks or heavy artillery guns and jets were on the move.
The shocking lengths that Hinderaker now reaches for, trying to paper over Trump’s deplorable lack of any patriotic sense of duty to his own nation’s goals… says an awful lot about Hinderaker. We expect narcissistic blather from Tangerine… but Hinderaker… theoretically knows better.
I thought he respected Eisenhower, even if he did not respect Kennedy.
That’s… disgusting. And ominous — for the future of the GOP.
On that score, Paul Mirengoff will very likely find… that history paints him as very wise, for shaking the dust off his sandals — from the Powerliners’ village — as he departed… with at least some remaining integrity.
Yes. You read that correctly.
I will not link her tweet. It has been the fodder of meme-nation, mercilessly so — all day. One could not miss it, if one tried.
So, I’ll just offer my own twist on our lil’ comrade, at left.
If true, it explains… so, so much.
Out, grinning.
UPDATED @ 8:30 PM EST — Not content to be proven wrong by his own boss-man (Tangerine), John doubled down with a new post, using a very late night tweet from Prof. Tribe as his supposed foil, this time. He did so, because as is clear below… his ravings cannot withstand a moment’s analysis — as to Col. Vindman.
So — Hinderaker just… changed the subject. Now his complaint is that Prof. Tribe shouldn’t call what Tucker and Trump are saying… treason. Perhaps not. But it is a far cry from the strong condemnations we saw by the Obama administration in similar circumstances. Trump? He’s a lap poodle for Putin. See below. Very droll. End, update.
The far-right morons (like John) are both malevolent, and singularly unaware of what their leader is up to, moment to moment.
Never more so, than today. This afternoon, Hinderaker took pot-shots at a fine man, true patriot and Army Ranger (but I repeat myself), who stood up to Tangerine, now two years ago.
But John’s criticism today claims that Col. Vindman doesn’t understand reality in foreign policy — particularly as regards the current Ukraine / Putin extremism. Never mind that Col. Vindman speaks Russian and Ukrainian, and was born in Soviet Russia, before becoming a US citizen, in Brighton Beach, New York — and then enlisting, becoming a Ranger and ultimately being awarded a Purple Heart, among many other distinctions.
That’s… all very precious (John dodged the draft in the Vietnam era). See what Tangerine himself put out, as an official gab.com statement imaged, at above right. [Now that sanctions exist, Trump cannot borrow at the Russian window.]
But here we see… Hinderaker taking Col. Vindman to task for saying that some hard-right GOP folk are too complicit in aiding Putin’s imperial whims. John forgets to mention that Trump likely owes close to $700 million in loans of now-dubious collectibility (in hard currencies at least), to buddies of Putin — as of last week (on his wildly overstated properties). So, Tangerine is leading the band for the GOP in saying “Putin is my friend, but he’s helping US Democrats — going into mid-terms” by annexing parts of Ukraine.
So — when a guy with a Purple Heart says it, it is “risable“ according to John — but when Tangerine… goes well beyond that… Hinderaker falls silent.
Charming.
Late night update — it seems Trump made even more outrageous, un-American statements yesterday, during a radio call-in interview — which were just covered (and reprinted) this evening, by The Hill:
…In an interview on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,” Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics in eastern Ukraine on Monday was “smart” and “pretty savvy.”
“I went in yesterday, and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius,'” he said. “Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.”
“I said, ‘How smart is that?’ He’s going to go in and be a peacekeeper,” added Trump, who regularly praised and sought close ties with Putin during his time in office. “That’s the strongest peace force. We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen….
Yet Hinderaker? Crickets….
That is no surprise — at all. Her defamation and tortious interference suits are… STILL dead. Gone. DOA.
And it is only slightly less “not-surprising” (heh!) that she is STILL funderaising off of this suit she lost in the middle of last year — one in which the Supreme Court of Delaware just said it is manifestly evident that the trial court got it right — she had, and has… no case:
…This 22nd day of February 2022, after careful consideration of the parties’ briefs and the record below, and following oral argument, we find it evident that the judgment of the Superior Court should be affirmed on the basis of and for the reasons stated in its Memorandum Opinion and Order dated July 20, 2021….
But in true grifting fashion — as I said, above — she still begs for donations, to cover her legal fees for a case that was over in July of 2021.
People — this woman is a… Jezebel. Through and through.
We do not — in any manner — wish to encourage “exploration” by people of good will, over at what purports to be a Tangerine-sponsored alternate social media site/app he is calling “Truth Social”. [So nope, we will be providing no links to it.]
Erh… Riiiiiight — this must be where irony goes… to die.
But true to form, as in the filching of Eddy Grant’s 1980s “Electric Avenue” hit (for his political smear of Joe Biden in the 2020 election cycle) — Baby T. has apparently lifted his logo for that new “service”… from a well-regarded U.K. solar power start up firm.
Y A W N.
That firm will recover damages from him, just as Eddy Grant will.
The name of the U.K. company is Trailar. See the comparison, at below right. Clearly Trailar is prior in time, and thus prior in right — just as the REAL Lady A was/is. Here’s a bit from the British papers — The Guardian UK:
…It is unclear how many people were actually successful at getting on “Truth” Social — although the Guardian has reported that at least one Catholic priest managed to join. The fact that you, apparently, needed God on your side to secure an account wasn’t the only issue with the launch: the app has also run into potential legal trouble.
It turns out Truth Social may not have just taken inspiration from Twitter, the app’s logo looks suspiciously like that of a British solar power startup called Trailar. “Great to see Donald Trump supporting a growing sustainability business!” Trailar tweeted on Monday. “Maybe ask next time?”
…”Based on recent news brought to our attention by various media outlets, showcasing the similarities between our own Trailar logo and the Truth Social logo, we are now seeking legal advice to understand next steps and options available to protect our brand,” said Matthew Summers, head of marketing, Trailar….
What a completely moronic dime-store hood/crook this guy is. Damnation — out, grinning.
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