“I can hear those champagne bottle corks popping in Moscow — like it’s Christmas every fucking day": US Politics, February 2024

Mitch McConnell has announced that he'll be stepping down in November.

Mike Johnson has taken all the joy from Mitch's life of crime.

No way that guy wants to deal with Trump again

has to be one of the most evil and effective u.s. politicians of all time

has to be one of the most evil and effective u.s. politicians of all time

― z_tbd, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 12:44 PM (four minutes ago

The Senate version of Pelosi.

the Garland holdup was the most egregious bullshit maneuver of all time, may he burn in Lexington forever

Encouraging results in the Michigan primary, shouldn’t be a problem in November.

xp It was a total baller move, and a milestone in Mitch's pet project of destroying the independent federal judiciary.

couldn't write in a protest vote in the Virginia Dem primary, unfortunately.

voted for Marianne

Some quality schadenfreude:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/its-time-for-you-to-grow-up-judge-sentences-ny-chimney-repairman-to-3-years-in-prison-for-role-in-capitol-riot-brandon-fellows/65-605c9753-4d44-4e7f-93ad-61009e814229

“You have repeatedly made a mockery of these proceedings,” McFadden said, noting Fellows had shown the “height of contempt” for all three branches of government and had “flagrantly lied” on the stand at trial. McFadden also pushed back against Fellows’ belief that he was the victim of a “grand conspiracy” against him.

“It is, rather, your defiance of any and every attempt to try to get your actions to conform to what the law requires that has gotten you to this point,” McFadden said, adding in exasperation a short time later, “It’s time for you to grow up!”

Kind of wish that most of the GOP was forced to walk around with this on a sandwich board.

The end of that news story provides less reason for glee:

Fellows will receive credit for approximately 32 months already spent in detention but will have to serve an additional five months behind bars for criminal contempt after the time from his Jan. 6 sentence is completed. McFadden ordered Fellows to spend three years under supervision following his release.

Any bets he'll flip off "supervision" and skip town as soon as he's released?

I don't think so. These guys are pathetic cowards.

His courtroom conduct argues he's too far up his own ass to realize that cowardice is his best option.

It's too bad because "Mr. Brightside" was a banger.

(joke)

With time served, he'll be out before election day and ready to rumble.

Alabama passed some bullshit CYA thing in response to their own state banning IVF, which resulted in this line in the WaPo story, summing up the state of the GOP:

“Is it not possible to do IVF in a pro-life way that treats embryos as children, which they are?” Republican Rep. Ernie Yarbrough said, quoting both scripture and Vanilla Ice.

quoting both scripture and Vanilla Ice

the GOP today: you either believe Joe Biden is legitimately president, or you took a dump on Pelosi's desk

He went on to say, "If there's a problem, yo, I'll solve it."

I want to know when Alabama will start issuing birth certificates for embryos? Also, how will they know what to put down as the date of birth?

I'm sure they neglected to issue death certificates for each of the embryos that got accidentally dropped and unfrozen thus prompting this court ruling, but now that the county registrar knows it's necessary, surely they'll correct that oversight.

Will the US census begin to count embryos toward Alabama's population, possibly granting the state greater representation in Congress?

This story about Crystal Clanton and the Thomases is just ... so weird.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-scandal-of-clarence-thomass-new-clerk

lol “If the revised story is a lie, then it threatens to implicate not just Justice Thomas, who has endorsed it, but several lower-court federal judges and the leader of a major political group aligned with former President Donald Trump.”

I’m sure they’re all quaking at this possibility!

If those embryos are children, why we keeping them locked up in freezers? 🤨🤔

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-asks-delay-federal-classified-documents-trial-until-after-2024-2024-02-29/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

His appointed judge Aileen Cannon may give him what he wants on document case; US Supreme Court has delayed J6 trial

Tobo, that's where I usually keep my children. They are pretty cool.

I think the local guy who was in prison for J6 stuff is somehow close to release already. His public statement via his attorney was very much “I’ve seen the error of my ways” but I think there’s a close to zero chance that he doesn’t do something else dumb.

He violated his pre-trial terms once by using his wife’s phone to watch the mypillow guy’s conference

lol, that's probably one of the saddest sentences I've ever read. Imagine risking more jail time to watch the fuckin' mypillow guy rant.

put the mypillow guy in jail and everyone wins

Idiot wind is blowing gale force through many trees these days.

Hey what's the March thread title going to be?
I vote "Uncommitmentum"

What was that thing Trump's on to now, "Languages nobody's ever heard of before"?

"We have languages coming into our country. We have nobody that even speaks those languages. They’re truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them, and they’re pouring into our country, and they’re bringing with them tremendous problems, including medical problems, as you know.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvOoR8m0oms

The whole Hunter Biden transcript is full of fun stuff:

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Hunter-Biden-Transcript_Redacted.pdf

US Politics, March 2024: The house of illuminati will NOT be holding any other event in the foreseeable future.