Disparate Treatment 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, law professor Samantha Buckingham wonders how Donald Trump’s numerous criminal trials might have gone if he were not protected by his (reputed) wealth.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments on the Youtube page:
Mangy Fetlocks is a proud Wisconsinite, and although he wasn’t REALLY asked to write the official Republican National Convention Song, he learned from Trump that it’s not what you do, but what you SAY you do that matters in our post-truth MAGA America, and Mangy SAYS he wrote the National Convention Song and Mangy has been an official in a children’s soccer game once, so his claim is just as honest as Trump’s pussy-grabbing statements or his “I never took any documents” claims.
Republican Unreality Theatre 0
Seth discusses the Trumpification of the GOP.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes a child to politeness.
Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the gun was between the mattress and the box spring, accessible at eye level to the child. The father reportedly kept the firearm for safety reasons but did not secure it properly.
Just another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
Our Surveillance Society 0
In related news, the EFF wants you to know that your car may be watching you.
QOTD 0
John HOpe Franklin:
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
Aside:
Which is precisely why so many of the New Secesh are attempting (again) to erase the past.
Stray Thought 0
“Yes, but will it hold up in court?” is no longer a valid rhetorical question.
We have seen that, with the application of enough juice for a long enough time to the correct vulnerable points, anything, regardless of legality or morality, will hold up in court.
The Party’s Over . . . 0
Thom argues that the Republican Party of Eisenhower, Dirksen, and, yes, even Reagan, is no more. It’s been replaced by a xenophobic racist establishmentarian personality cult.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymmoronic “responsible gun owner.”
Yet another gun that (is claimed to have) fired itself.
The bullet went through the wall and struck the girl, authorities said.
Emergency personnel airlifted the teen to an area hospital.
We are a society of stupid.
Immunity Impunity
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James D. Zirin takes a close look at the Supreme Supremacist Court’s free pass for Donald Trump.
No summary or excerpt will do it justice. Just go read it.
Hoist on Their Own Petard 0
Sam and the crew delight in Mike Johnson’s fleeing the stage and at Senator Ron Johnson’s giving the wrong speech when their teleprompters misbehaved, this after years of Republicans ridiculing Democrats for using–wait for it–teleprompters.