37 thoughts on “Looking on Today’s Bright Side – More or Less”

  1. for example: enjoy the relative coolness of your today ’cause all your tomorrows are likely getting hotter according to Washington Post’s

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  2. zip the lip-er

    Special counsel accuses Trump of statements that could prejudice jury pool in election subversion case | CNN Politics

    Special counsel Jack Smith said in a court filing Tuesday that former President Donald Trump has made “daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool” in the 2020 election subversion case.
    The allegation arose in a court fight that remains largely under seal, so additional details are not public. The brief reference to Trump’s statements affecting the jury pool at the Washington, DC, courthouse came in a public filing in the federal criminal case.
    Smith’s office has been sparring with Trump’s team over how much of the underlying sealed dispute should be made public.
    Prosecutors tried earlier Tuesday to file court documents partially under seal – and partially on the public docket.
    But Trump’s team argued that the filings should not be posted to the court’s public docket until they have 14 days to respond – the amount of time set out by default court rules.
    Smith’s team shot back in the public filing: “Such a requirement would grind litigation in this case to a halt, which is particularly infeasible given the pressing matters before the Court — including the defendant’s daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool in this case, as described in the Government’s motion.”
    US District Judge Tanya Chutkan has ordered both sides to file additional legal briefs on whether and how the underlying Smith submission should be posted on the docket, with a Trump brief due on September 11 and a reply brief due from prosecutors on September 13.
    Chutkan said that either party may file their brief under seal.

  3. Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee and conservative Federalist Society member, yesterday handed out the longest sentence so far in the J6 cases — 22 years for Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio. The federal judge’s description of Tarrio could be said of Trump when he gets sentenced: “the clear, singular leader of a seditious conspiracy that threatened the transfer of power.”

  4. Baltimore Gas and Electric has decreed today as a day of share the pain.  During the heat of the day my A/C will be cut back “up to fifty percent”.  Been through this before, it gets warm in here. 
     
    Don’t know why the criminals are crying, they are getting half the recommended sentences.  Hope they find a big fiance to protect them.

  5. BB, I suspect that they will be hailed as heroes in federal prison.  I could be wrong but I bet almost every FCI is full of Trump prison tats.

  6. This clip is an enjoyable and informative five minutes. It sounds like our neighbors to the north aren’t in any better shape than the US, and wow, Freudian slip from Trudeau.
    “Canada is a major oil and gas producing company, err, country.”

  7. It’s all fun and games until you’re sent to the big house. 
    You cry when you realize how much better off you’d be if you’d just stayed home and grilled some burgers and sucked down a few brewskis instead of dressing up like a fucking moron and joining a vicious mob in support of a nasty little pissant from Queens.   

    I think in prison they will be hailed as what they are:
    A bunch of dumbasses .

  8. CNN is carrying Atlanta hearing live starting 1pm. Among other things, judge to consider prosecution motion to try all defendants, including Trump, together in October.

  9. An early lesson learned: Do NOT EVER Let Yourself Become Leader of the Pack.  ANY pack.  
    Lesson #2:  Avoid packs as if they were the plague.  

  10. Advice to the pack:  It’s time to flip on the leader; he’s not going to save you.  There are no pardons coming until another Republican is in the WH, and Alito made sure that won’t happen.

  11. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/04/football/rubiales-complaints-intl/index.html

    Nope, not SFB. It’s a bruja hunt!

    “When the furor over the kiss broke, Spain’s prosecutor had already been investigating Rubiales for influence peddling and bribery since last summer…”

    “As the scandal grows, even members of Rubiales’ own family have turned against him. His uncle, and former chief of staff, Juan Rubiales, told Spanish newspaper El Mundo that he had witnessed his nephew using RFEF funds to host private parties and romantic getaways, as well as soliciting commissions from Saudi officials to host Spain’s Super Cup in Saudi Arabia.”

    “I was not surprised by that at all,” Juan Rubiales told El Mundo of the kiss. “He is an extremely arrogant man who has not acted as a President should. Instead of being a political leader, he wanted to be a warrior who sees ghosts and enemies everywhere. In the end, his own worst enemy was himself.”

  12. https://www.salon.com/2023/09/05/dark-right-wing-network-recruits-maga-army-to-replace-50k-workers-plans-to-purge/

    “Dark” right-wing network recruits MAGA “army” to replace 50K federal workers Trump plans to purge”

    “Organized by the Heritage Foundation, the sweeping new initiative called Project 2025, offers a policy agenda, transition plan, a playbook for the first 180 days and a personnel database for the next GOP president to access from the very beginning to take control, reform, and eliminate what Republicans criticize as the “deep state” bureaucracy. Their plan includes the possibility of firing as many as 50,000 federal employees.”

    “Democracy experts view Project 2025 as an authoritarian attempt to seize power by filling the federal government, including the Department of Justice and the FBI, with unwavering Trump supporters, which could potentially erode the country’s system of checks and balances.”

    “…the purging of federal employees,” as he described it, or the project’s plans to fire and replace federal workers en masse in an effort to dismantle the “deep state.”

    “In basically one fell swoop – if this plan were to be implemented – we would, as a society, lose many of the people who help [the federal government] function and also the people who are not subjected to the whims of the president,” Dallek said.

    “This would make it difficult for agencies like the FBI, the DOJ or the CIA to carry out their nonpartisan missions and to fulfill their oath of office and oath to the Constitution, Dallek explained.”

    We have to make sure the next election isn’t even close, because SCOTUS has already been corrupted.

  13. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article278975959.html

    “Citing lack of remorse, prosecutors seek prison for Jan. 6 defendant from California”

    “As Jorge Aaron Riley prepared to travel to Washington, D.C., ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory, he bought six ninja combat throwing knives and left a will leaving behind the knives and “anything in my house.”

    “The 45-year-old Army veteran and corresponding secretary of the California Republican Assembly had been preparing for the trip for weeks, posting about his plans on social media and declaring “Joe Biden IS NOT MY PRESIDENT.”

    “I’m going for the war,” Riley declared in one post.

    “Riley’s lawyer, longtime Sacramento defense attorney Tim Zindel, sees it differently, arguing that his client “didn’t board the plane to Washington on January 5th expecting to return home a felon” and that Riley did not actually take his throwing knives or any other weapons to Washington.”

    Because he knew he couldn’t get them through TSA?

    “Zindel argues that Riley deserves leniency because he believed Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, and that Riley was following the urging of his commander-in-chief when he entered the Capitol.”

    All fingers point to tRUMPsky.

    “While the law condemns Mr. Riley’s actions and requires the Court to impose just punishment, millions of citizens would regard Mr. Riley as a patriot who was motivated by the greater good.”

    A “patriot”? The “greater good”?

    “Eight days after the insurrection, as video of Riley describing his actions at the Capitol began to surface, the Sacramento and California Republican Assemblies emailed him demanding his immediate resignation because of “your illegal, felony actions at the U.S. Capitol,” court records say.”

    “Riley replied to the demand citing Republican leaders as “Unpatriotic Non-Veterans Judging Me.”

    “I will at the request of you cowardly do-nothing unpatriotic bastards resign my post so that I don’t ‘Embarrass’ you do-nothing cowards,” he wrote, according to court filings. “It was my honor to serve my country and my party that apparently left me.”

    “The government argues that “Riley has now technically accepted responsibility by pleading guilty,” but notes that at the March hearing during which he pleaded guilty he “demonstrated a complete lack of remorse.”

    “At the end of his plea hearing, he announced to the court that he ‘wore his best Trump tie’ before leaving the courtroom,” prosecutors wrote. “After the hearing, Riley promptly attended a nightly vigil for January 6 defendants outside of the D.C. Jail, talking with inmates on the phone, joining in chants and songs with them, and standing under a ‘Prisoner of War – J6 – You Are Not Forgotten’ flag.”

  14. Trump is guilty again in the EJ Carroll second suit — all the jury has to decide is how much!

    OOPS Bid already posted this very good news.

  15. Most ridiculous argument in the hearing…

    Sydney Powell lawyer: “the state wants to make this case about Donald Trump.  That’s their plan.  Not fair to drag Chesebro and Powell into that.”

    Well then they shouldn’t have committed crimes for him. They chose to “drag” themselves into his criminal conspiracy, not the prosecutors.

  16. I thought living through the Nixon years was the wildest time and a Constitutional crisis.  Whew, not even close to today.
     
    There are all sorts of acts by states that are trying to break the Constitution.  Two that are immediate and in courts trying to force compliance with the Constitution.  Alabama is trying to suppress the votes of People of Color by redistricting them out of the voting booth.  The court formerly known as the Supreme has declared Alabama must redistrict to give more voting representation to Black voters.  They came back with a big single finger salute.  The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division was not happy and said the courts special master could do the job.
     
    Just a little bit ago U.S. District Judge David Ezra of Texas told the governor to remove the barriers on the border.  This will most likely be appealed. 
     

  17. Purging DOJ has become his top campaign priority…

    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump

    Right now Republicans in Congress and the Senate have to get tough, and put everything together in one big, neat package, because I will be President in one and a half years, and we will pick the strongest, toughest, and most respected Attorney General, and if guilty, we will put them all in jail where they belong, just as they are trying to do to me based on NOTHING. They spied on my Campaign, Impeached me twice, had the Russia, Russia Hoax, the Fake Dossier Hoax, FISA Fraud, Election Fraud, the “No Collusion” Mueller Hoax, and so much more. I was innocent on all counts. If I am elected, they will be brought to JUSTICE, something that Republicans have always been afraid to do.

  18. if you have a streaming stick, Jamie, check out “the Detectorists”,  BBC dramedy about metal-detecting hobbyists

  19. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/06/politics/mar-a-lago-it-worker/index.html

    “Mar-a-Lago IT worker struck cooperation agreement with special counsel, his former lawyer says”

    *former

    “The filing marks the first public acknowledgment that special counsel Jack Smith has won the cooperation of key witnesses as part of his prosecution of Trump, his longtime valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira.”

    “Prosecutors have argued that Woodward, who now represents Nauta, could face conflicts of interest – particularly if the defense lawyer has to cross-examine his former client – and that the judge overseeing the case should scrutinize those potential conflicts.”

    “Woodward wrote in the filing Wednesday that he “played no role” in Taveras’ cooperation and said that prosecutors did not offer Taveras the cooperation deal until after Taveras got a different lawyer.”

  20. Hoping the power grid holds.  ERCOT just sent a text for everyone to raise their thermostats. 
    It’s supposed to be 106 tomorrow, and 107 on Friday.

  21. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/06/mexico-supreme-court-decriminalizes-abortion-nationwide-00114327

    “Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide”

    “Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin America’s trend of widening abortion access.”

    “The ruling will require the federal public health service and all federal health institutions to offer abortion to anyone who requests it.”

    *anyone – Women from the US?

    “No woman or pregnant person, nor any health worker, will be able to be punished for abortion,”…

    “But others in the highly religious country decried the decision. Irma Barrientos, director of the Civil Association for the Rights of the Conceived, said opponents will continue the fight against expanded abortion access.”

  22. https://www.businessinsider.com/fetterman-biden-impeachment-circlejerk-fringe-right-hunter-biden-fetish-2023-9

    “Hunter Biden is a fixation of the right echo chamber, and he’s not… on the ballot,” said Fetterman. “I’m more focused on getting [Pennsylvania Democratic Senator] Bob Casey re-elected… and Joe Biden re-elected.”

    Exactly. Hunter Biden is not on the ballot. The Republicans’ guy, Orange Adolf, operated and operates in a corrupt circle. Eventually, all of the crime family chickens will come home to roost.

    “Karma is my boyfriend.” -T Swift

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