“Donald Trump does not deserve the benefit of the doubt and this isn’t a f***ing joke. His statement is both a threat and a promise. The corporate media needs to start acting accordingly.”
John Oliver says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas still has less than 48 hours to accept his million-dollar offer to quit the court.
During a February episode of “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver promised Thomas $1 million a year to leave the SCOTUS bench. The comedian said he would gift Thomas a $2.4 million luxury motorcoach as part of the deal.
“This is not a joke. This is real. A million dollars a year until you or I die,” Oliver said then, adding that the offer would only be valid for the next 30 days.
On Sunday, Oliver was doing his show about the US student debt crisis when he dropped a reminder to Thomas.
“Another banger decision from the gavel gang, who are really playing the hits these days,” Oliver said, referencing the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling against President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan.
“Honestly, you guys should probably take this show on the road. And if you do, I’ve actually got the perfect tour bus. For another 48 hours, it can be yours. Well, one of yours. If the rest of you get invited is kind of up to him,” Oliver said while gesturing at a photo of Thomas.
Oliver extended the lucrative offer to Thomas during the season premiere of his Emmy-winning show on February 18.
During a segment discussing the Supreme Court, Oliver accused Thomas of having various conflicts of interest, including accepting expensive vacations from a GOP megadonor and refusing to recuse himself on cases involving his wife, Ginni.
[continues]
Is he saying that he will direct his AG if elected to prosecute Liz Cheney, or is this just a random musing about automobiles? I want to make sure we get the context right.
I just wonder what the the underworld chatter is in tRUMPsky-land with regard to their directive “bloodbath”?
The Daily Show interviews MAGAts at rallies and there was even a 50 or 60-something woman saying it would come to violence if he didn’t win…and that was long before the Ohio rally.
“Hi Donald: you know these are lies. You have had all the grand jury & J6 transcripts for many months. You’re trying to halt your 1/6 trial because your VP, WH counsel, WH aides, campaign & DOJ officials etc will testify against you. You’re afraid of the truth and you should be,” she said on X, formerly Twitter.
[…]
And then after Trump again shared another story on his social media website, Truth Social, Cheney again responded: “Lying in all caps doesn’t make it true, Donald. You know you and your lawyers have long had the evidence.”
[continues]
“Trump neither inherited a nearly dead auto industry nor revived it. Experts say the Bush and Obama administrations helped boost the industry while Trump administration actions hurt it.”
Amazing how half of the country cannot see today what Alexander Hamilton saw coming more than two centuries ago, writing in 1792 to George Washington:
“The only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. . . When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper … is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity … It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’”
Former Pres. Trump is facing “insurmountable difficulties” in obtaining a bond to satisfy the $464 million civil fraud judgment, his attorneys told court, asking for delay.
Apparently the problem is the bond companies want cash, not property, for collateral. It is funny — trying to get a half billion dollars in loans to pay for lying to lenders.
Trump is unable to make $464 million bond in civil fraud case, his lawyers tell court
Updated 10:59 AM EDT March 18, 2024
Former President Donald Trump can’t find an insurance company to underwrite his bond to cover the massive judgment against him in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud case, his lawyers told a New York appeals court.
Trump’s attorneys said he has approached 30 underwriters to back the bond, which is due by the end of this month.
“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” Trump’s lawyers wrote. (Trump himself was fined $454 million; the $464 million includes the disgorgement for his adult sons Don Jr. and Eric.)
[…]
Pity. Maybe he shouldn’t have lied to lenders and the state.
NEW: The Biden campaign just released a new ad that gives the RNC & Republicans the context they need — showing exactly who Donald Trump using his own words, from his rallies & speeches. It’s so good. This is how it’s done. Watch & share.
So the fat old orange idiot cannot get the russian oligarchs or the Saudi princes to cough up a bond this time. Looks like they be taking their money and going home. That is a major change in operations. He and his lawyer, rudie the ripper, can go find a cardboard box together.
Maybe I am trying too hard to find a bright side in months of polls showing Biden below his 2020 numbers, but when you look at his slippage since then a lot of it is actually in blue states he will win, especially among Black and Hispanic voters.
Meanwhile Trump is running up the score in red state base, helping him pull even or better nationally.
It is imaginable that Biden can still win the Electoral College despite losing the popular voter IF he hangs on to the big blue wall: PA/MI/WI. He could then lose GA/AZ/NM and still get to 270, despite losing the popular vote.
BB, perhaps all the talk about bringing manafort back for campaign help (aka getting more money from very dark sources) hints to where he’ll eventually find the dough.
… the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Manafort “represented a grave counterintelligence threat” in 2016 due to his relationship with a Russian intelligence officer.
“The Committee found that Manafort’s presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump campaign,” the Senate report added.
When the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report literally pointed to a “direct tie between senior Trump Campaign officials and the Russian intelligence services,” it was referring in part to Manafort “directly and indirectly” communicating with an accused Russian intelligence officer, a Russian oligarch, and several pro-Russian oligarchs in Ukraine.
Two years ago this week — around the time he announced that he was getting back intothe consulting business— Manafort wasremoved from a planeat Miami International Airport before it departed for Dubai because he was carrying a revoked passport.
A month later, NBC News reported the Justice Department was again targeting Manafort over allegations that he “failed to report interest in foreign bank accounts.”
As for why Trump might be “determined to bring Manafort back into the fold,” despite this recent history, I am eagerly looking forward to hearing the explanation.
one simple explanation: $$$, a half Billion give or take.
We drove out to the burbs for dinner BiD and passed by several cherry blossom trees. They are remarkable, all blooms, no leaves. But must admit the highlight of our outing was Red Lobster’s Endless Shrimp, a very good deal.
the disproportionately overrepresented, relatively underpopulated hillbilly regions
Bink, you left out undereducated – take it from one (of 3 mixers right off the top of my head) in those regions, undereducated deserves a prominent mention when referring to voters in the “overrepresented, relatively underpopulated hillbilly regions”.
Poobah, PA, WI and MI takes it. As for popular vote, unless those 1067 calls are to/from folks in proportion to each state’s population (and I doubt that) the smaller states will be overrepresented and the larger ones underrepresented from a popular vote perspective, but even that doesn’t really tell the tale since the very large states are underrepresented anyhow. It’s why polling doesn’t get it right much of the time.
Dems needs to take control of the messaging on both Heather Heyer and Ashli Babbitt. Donald Trump is responsible for both their deaths. Katie Britt is a hypocrite with her false tears for the safety of young women and girls.
“Senate Bill 4, signed into law by Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in December, immediately raised concerns among immigration advocates of increased racial profiling as well as detentions and attempted deportations by state authorities in Texas, where Latinos represent 40% of the population.”
“The Supreme Court has temporarily halted enforcement of SB 4, but it didn’t halt Texas’ pre-existing authority to arrest for criminal trespass and other violations of the law,” Abbott said in a statement Monday, adding that “Texas will continue utilizing every tool and strategy to respond to this Biden-made border crisis.”
Nah, it’s Orange Adolf who won’t let his congressional minions sign the border bill.
By the way, is the government shutting down on Friday?
It must be tough to borrow a half billion dollars to pay a judgement for defrauding lenders.
“The Bonding Companies have never heard of such a bond, of this size, before, nor do they have the ability to post such a bond, even if they wanted to.”
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Mar 18, 2024, 7:05 PM
I built a Magnificent Business, which helped rebuild New York City and State, with Amazing, Unparalleled, Historic Properties and tons of CASH, which Crooked Joe Biden and his Maniac Persecutors are trying to wrongfully and illegally take from me. A bond of the size set by the Democrat Club-controlled Judge, in Corrupt, Racist Letitia James’ unlawful Witch Hunt, is unConstitutional, un-American, unprecedented, and practically impossible for ANY Company, including one as successful as mine. The Bonding Companies have never heard of such a bond, of this size, before, nor do they have the ability to post such a bond, even if they wanted to.
The statute used to attack me has never been used for such a purpose before – No Jury allowed, ridiculous $18 Million Value for Mar-a-Lago, the Judge ignored the Statute of Limitations Decision by the Appellate Court, Ironclad Disclaimer Clauses, No Damages, No Victims – A Disgraceful “Case!” This Sham is forcing companies and people to flee New York, and stopping companies from entering – If they did, they would be crazy, because they don’t need the Communist China, or old Soviet Union, model of business to interfere with their Prosperity and Success. We will fight and defeat this Hoax, and all of the other Crooked Joe-directed Hoaxes, once and for all. If I wasn’t running for President of the United States, and leading by a lot, this kind of Witch Hunt would never have happened!
The man needs mental health intervention and none of his family or friends are helping him. His voters who purport to love him are making him sicker with their enabling. The last thing he needs is votes.
Okay, class listen up for a lesson in NY civil procedure. Ok, wake up. From Mr. Bink’s linked article: “It’s not entirely clear whether Trump would have been entitled to a jury trial under New York law – that would depend on nuanced legal determinations about the nature of the remedy sought by the attorney general,” said Elie Honig, a CNN senior legal analyst and former federal and New Jersey prosecutor. “But Trump’s legal team absolutely could have requested a jury, litigated the issue, and then appealed had they lost.” At the start of the trial, Engoron noted that no parties in the case requested a jury trial and that the law mandated a “bench trial” decided by a judge. “You have probably noticed or already read that this case has no jury,” Engoron said. “Neither side asked for one and, in any event, the remedies sought are all equitable in nature, mandating that the trial be a bench trial, one that a judge alone decides.” Trump’s lawyers have pushed back on the notion that they failed to request a jury trial, as some have suggested based on paperwork filed in the case. “Under 63 (12), which is what this case is, you don’t have a right, an absolute right to a jury,” Trump lawyer Alina Habba said on Fox News this week. A Trump spokesperson said that the attorney general “filed this case under a consumer protection statute that denies the right to a jury.” In other legal cases that the former president has faced, however, Trump and his attorneys have lamented that he is unable to receive a fair verdict from a jury in New York. After a New York jury found that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in 1996, attorney Joe Tacopina said that Trump is “firm in his belief” that he cannot get a fair trial in New York City “based on the jury pool.” What bullshit. Can’t get what you don’t ask for. Hint to Dumbass, choose lawyers on basis of lawyer skills instead of cheek bones. And give Alina Melania my regards. (If you… Read more »
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When is ‘a bloodbath’ not a bloodbath? – POLITICO
Mary T twiXted about the bloodbath remark:
“Donald Trump does not deserve the benefit of the doubt and this isn’t a f***ing joke. His statement is both a threat and a promise. The corporate media needs to start acting accordingly.”
consequences of when their word for “justice” might mean otherwise
John Oliver: Clarence Thomas Has 48 Hours Left to Take $1 Million Deal (businessinsider.com)
Groupies
Of
Putin
Is he saying that he will direct his AG if elected to prosecute Liz Cheney, or is this just a random musing about automobiles? I want to make sure we get the context right.
I just wonder what the the underworld chatter is in tRUMPsky-land with regard to their directive “bloodbath”?
The Daily Show interviews MAGAts at rallies and there was even a 50 or 60-something woman saying it would come to violence if he didn’t win…and that was long before the Ohio rally.
Want context? Only one candidate constantly predicts violence if he doesn’t win. That’s the context.
Liz Cheney’s response to Donald Trump saying she ‘should go to jail’ – nj.com
But the alleged context for his bloodbath provocation is actually a big lie.
Fact-check: Donald Trump’s repeated falsehood that he saved the U.S. auto industry https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2023/10/08/fact-check-trumps-repeated-falsehood-that-he-saved-u-s-auto-industry/71084440007/
“Trump neither inherited a nearly dead auto industry nor revived it. Experts say the Bush and Obama administrations helped boost the industry while Trump administration actions hurt it.”
craig, their new Orwellian word for “context” is “lies”
correction: Huxley not Orwell in re brave new world references.
The sane Kennedys got together with Joe Biden yesterday for St. Patrick’s Day party at the White House.
This is incredibly wild — Van Gogh paintings brought to life on video…
https://x.com/JamesLucasIT/status/1769427378940330301?s=20
https://x.com/JamesLucasIT/status/1769427378940330301?s=20
LP: Country Over Party “FUNERAL”
Love to the Kennedys for supporting POTUS Joe. 🍀
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ban5gi/we_all_know_about_shrinkflation_can_i_coin_the/?rdt=40397
Meet Shrinkflation’s cousin, Trickflation.
today’s meme…
I hope Biden does not recognize Putin as legitimately elected, unlike Trump as president calling to congratulate him on his last electoral charade.
Amazing how half of the country cannot see today what Alexander Hamilton saw coming more than two centuries ago, writing in 1792 to George Washington:
Letitia a step closer to owning Trump Tower.
Former Pres. Trump is facing “insurmountable difficulties” in obtaining a bond to satisfy the $464 million civil fraud judgment, his attorneys told court, asking for delay.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/donald-trump-insurmountable-difficulties-securing-464m-bond-civil-fraud-case/story?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashhudson.com/abcnews/library/media/391035800&id=108243028
Apparently the problem is the bond companies want cash, not property, for collateral. It is funny — trying to get a half billion dollars in loans to pay for lying to lenders.
CNN:
Pity. Maybe he shouldn’t have lied to lenders and the state.
Guess that means another bloodbath.
sigh
Biden “bloodbath” ad on air..
So the fat old orange idiot cannot get the russian oligarchs or the Saudi princes to cough up a bond this time. Looks like they be taking their money and going home. That is a major change in operations. He and his lawyer, rudie the ripper, can go find a cardboard box together.
Could Biden Win Without Popular Vote?
Maybe I am trying too hard to find a bright side in months of polls showing Biden below his 2020 numbers, but when you look at his slippage since then a lot of it is actually in blue states he will win, especially among Black and Hispanic voters.
Meanwhile Trump is running up the score in red state base, helping him pull even or better nationally.
It is imaginable that Biden can still win the Electoral College despite losing the popular voter IF he hangs on to the big blue wall: PA/MI/WI. He could then lose GA/AZ/NM and still get to 270, despite losing the popular vote.
BB, perhaps all the talk about bringing manafort back for campaign help (aka getting more money from very dark sources) hints to where he’ll eventually find the dough.
connect the dots from frump to mani to some of our foreign frenemies according to Maddow Blog | Paul Manafort reportedly being eyed for new role on Team Trump (msn.com)
one simple explanation: $$$, a half Billion give or take.
Biden’s not going to lose the popular vote
He’ll lose in the disproportionately overrepresented, relatively underpopulated hillbilly regions
POTUS Joe will win both the popular and EC vote. Polls are garbage. Polls are garbage. Polls are garbage.
I hear the cherry blossoms are at peak in DC and hope you get out to see them.
i want tight polls, don’t want progressives getting complacent
We drove out to the burbs for dinner BiD and passed by several cherry blossom trees. They are remarkable, all blooms, no leaves. But must admit the highlight of our outing was Red Lobster’s Endless Shrimp, a very good deal.
Bink, you left out undereducated – take it from one (of 3 mixers right off the top of my head) in those regions, undereducated deserves a prominent mention when referring to voters in the “overrepresented, relatively underpopulated hillbilly regions”.
Poobah, PA, WI and MI takes it. As for popular vote, unless those 1067 calls are to/from folks in proportion to each state’s population (and I doubt that) the smaller states will be overrepresented and the larger ones underrepresented from a popular vote perspective, but even that doesn’t really tell the tale since the very large states are underrepresented anyhow. It’s why polling doesn’t get it right much of the time.
Goons
On
Parade
Dems needs to take control of the messaging on both Heather Heyer and Ashli Babbitt. Donald Trump is responsible for both their deaths. Katie Britt is a hypocrite with her false tears for the safety of young women and girls.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/supreme-court-texas-immigration-sb4/index.html
“Senate Bill 4, signed into law by Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in December, immediately raised concerns among immigration advocates of increased racial profiling as well as detentions and attempted deportations by state authorities in Texas, where Latinos represent 40% of the population.”
“The Supreme Court has temporarily halted enforcement of SB 4, but it didn’t halt Texas’ pre-existing authority to arrest for criminal trespass and other violations of the law,” Abbott said in a statement Monday, adding that “Texas will continue utilizing every tool and strategy to respond to this Biden-made border crisis.”
Nah, it’s Orange Adolf who won’t let his congressional minions sign the border bill.
By the way, is the government shutting down on Friday?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/17/biden-congress-government-shutdown-border/
“Border security deadlock heightens risk of government shutdown”
~Awesome~
It must be tough to borrow a half billion dollars to pay a judgement for defrauding lenders.
“The Bonding Companies have never heard of such a bond, of this size, before, nor do they have the ability to post such a bond, even if they wanted to.”
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Mar 18, 2024, 7:05 PM
I built a Magnificent Business, which helped rebuild New York City and State, with Amazing, Unparalleled, Historic Properties and tons of CASH, which Crooked Joe Biden and his Maniac Persecutors are trying to wrongfully and illegally take from me. A bond of the size set by the Democrat Club-controlled Judge, in Corrupt, Racist Letitia James’ unlawful Witch Hunt, is unConstitutional, un-American, unprecedented, and practically impossible for ANY Company, including one as successful as mine. The Bonding Companies have never heard of such a bond, of this size, before, nor do they have the ability to post such a bond, even if they wanted to.
The statute used to attack me has never been used for such a purpose before – No Jury allowed, ridiculous $18 Million Value for Mar-a-Lago, the Judge ignored the Statute of Limitations Decision by the Appellate Court, Ironclad Disclaimer Clauses, No Damages, No Victims – A Disgraceful “Case!” This Sham is forcing companies and people to flee New York, and stopping companies from entering – If they did, they would be crazy, because they don’t need the Communist China, or old Soviet Union, model of business to interfere with their Prosperity and Success. We will fight and defeat this Hoax, and all of the other Crooked Joe-directed Hoaxes, once and for all. If I wasn’t running for President of the United States, and leading by a lot, this kind of Witch Hunt would never have happened!
The man needs mental health intervention and none of his family or friends are helping him. His voters who purport to love him are making him sicker with their enabling. The last thing he needs is votes.
Soops typically don’t intervene in death penalty cases.
So, drop out of the race & test your hypothesis, Adolf.
If he actually has “tons of CASH,” then he should be able to put up some or all of the bond himself.
If I’m understanding Rachel, it sounds like Plumpty will get his money from Putin with Manafort as the middle man?
Why there is no jury in the New York civil case against Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/politics/trump-new-york-case-no-jury/index.html
Okay, class listen up for a lesson in NY civil procedure. Ok, wake up. From Mr. Bink’s linked article: “It’s not entirely clear whether Trump would have been entitled to a jury trial under New York law – that would depend on nuanced legal determinations about the nature of the remedy sought by the attorney general,” said Elie Honig, a CNN senior legal analyst and former federal and New Jersey prosecutor. “But Trump’s legal team absolutely could have requested a jury, litigated the issue, and then appealed had they lost.” At the start of the trial, Engoron noted that no parties in the case requested a jury trial and that the law mandated a “bench trial” decided by a judge. “You have probably noticed or already read that this case has no jury,” Engoron said. “Neither side asked for one and, in any event, the remedies sought are all equitable in nature, mandating that the trial be a bench trial, one that a judge alone decides.” Trump’s lawyers have pushed back on the notion that they failed to request a jury trial, as some have suggested based on paperwork filed in the case. “Under 63 (12), which is what this case is, you don’t have a right, an absolute right to a jury,” Trump lawyer Alina Habba said on Fox News this week. A Trump spokesperson said that the attorney general “filed this case under a consumer protection statute that denies the right to a jury.” In other legal cases that the former president has faced, however, Trump and his attorneys have lamented that he is unable to receive a fair verdict from a jury in New York. After a New York jury found that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in 1996, attorney Joe Tacopina said that Trump is “firm in his belief” that he cannot get a fair trial in New York City “based on the jury pool.” What bullshit. Can’t get what you don’t ask for. Hint to Dumbass, choose lawyers on basis of lawyer skills instead of cheek bones. And give Alina Melania my regards. (If you… Read more »
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