Officially Spring sprang last night at 11:06 EDT.
The first day of spring is earlier than typical years. Here’s why. (msn.com)
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Officially Spring sprang last night at 11:06 EDT.
The first day of spring is earlier than typical years. Here’s why. (msn.com)
that which hasn’t/haven’t sprung yet — to help out dear old daddy warbucks-less — is/are javanka aka the spawn and spawn-in-law even though it was reported they made $640 million during his WH days.
Donald Trump’s Financial Woes Have Everyone Saying The Same Thing About Ivanka & Jared (thelist.com)
here’s jimmy
Today is the official first day of Spring, we have a very big special Dre Day edition of our show tonight in honor of Dr. Dre getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, today was the first day of the NCAA Basketball Tournament, officials running the Olympic villages have lifted the intamacy ban that was put in place for athletes in 2021, there were primaries in five states today, Trump went on Sebastian Gorka’s web “show” yesterday to make his compelling pitch to Jewish voters, he posted on Instagram about winning two golf tournaments at Trump International, the first of his many criminal trials will be the Stormy Daniels hush money case and the judge ruled yesterday that both Michael Cohen and Stormy are allowed to testify, Donald reportedly wants Paul Manafort to oversee the Republican National Convention, he spent some time weighing in on the Kate Middleton drama, and Dr. Dre is coming out with a new show this fall on ABC!
Attribution: That’s Rich by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com
Attribution: Repo Man by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian
A quick look at yesterday’s results shows the orange idiot is not doing great. High fifties to middle sixties is not what you expect for a “popular” former president running against air.
20% of FL Repug voters voted for a candidate named “Anyone Else” in the presidential primary rather than for Dumbass. Florida, isn’t that where Dumbass lives? And that was his best result yesterday. His worst result in a swingish state? AZ. 77.9%.
more than likely, drumpf not only inherited his daddy’s wealth but also his health Trump’s experience with father’s dementia colors his political attacks on Biden – The Washington Post Donald Trump invited his extended family to Mar-a-Lago in the mid-1990s. As the clan gathered at the palatial Florida estate, though, his father was badly struggling, according to Mary L. Trump, Donald’s niece. Fred Trump Sr., the pugnacious developer then in his late 80s, didn’t recognize two of his children at the party, recalled Mary L. Trump, who attended the gathering. And when he did recognize Donald, the family patriarch approached his son with a picture of a Cadillac that he wanted to buy — as if he needed his son’s permission. The incident, Mary L. Trump said, left Donald Trump visibly upset at his father’s descent into dementia, which medical records show had been diagnosed several years earlier. Trump reflected his anguish in an interview around that time, with Playboy in 1997 reporting that seeing his father “addled with Alzheimer’s” had left him wondering “out loud about the senselessness of life.” […] Today, as the 77-year-old Trump seeks to return to the White House, he is still focused on the ravages of dementia — but this time he is using the condition as a political weapon, alleging without medical proof that President Biden, 81, is “cognitively impaired.” Those attacks follow a long pattern for the former president, who for years has bashed enemies as mentally frail while boasting in public about “acing” the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a basic test that flags signs of early dementia. Trump regularly claims to have passed the test twice, but through a spokesman, his campaign declined to release his test results or to specify when he most recently took it. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.), the former White House physician, said in an interview this month that he administered it to Trump once, in January 2018. Trump in November released a three-paragraph letter in which Bruce Aronwald, a doctor of osteopathy, said that Trump’s health was excellent and that “cognitive exams were exceptional” but provided no details. Aronwald did not respond to… Read more »
“The Trump family has a history of helping one another out when financial matters are concerned.”
yeah? tell that to niece mary who has another book coming out about how the family treated her father, mother and her.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/donald-trumps-niece-mary-l-trump-to-publish-new-book-about-her-family/ar-BB1kb6T4
Hello Spring! Have noticed increase in our neighborhood Dove population, thought it must be close.
more from the WAPO article above: In October 1991, around the time Fred Trump Sr. turned 86 years old, he visited his doctor, C. Ronald MacKenzie. In a report about that visit, the physician wrote that he had “significant memory impairment” with “early signs of dementia” and “obvious memory decline in recent years,” according to records disclosed in the court case. Months later, a second doctor wrote in a neuropsychological evaluation that Fred Trump Sr. “did not know his birth date, was unsure of his age, and turned to his son [Robert] for help in responding to questions.” The exam by Rajendra Jutagir found that Fred Trump Sr.’s cognitive ability was below the 15th percentile for a person in his age group. He could only recall three of the previous nine U.S. presidents and could not draw the hands of a clock to show the time. Those detailed medical reports, later entered into court filings, paint an early picture of what would be a long decline for Fred Trump Sr. — one that his son claimed not to notice for years. “Do you recall your father suffering from any memory lapses in 1991?” an attorney asked Trump in a deposition conducted in 2000. “No,” Trump responded. “Do you recall him being diagnosed as having senile dementia in 1991?” the attorney said. “No, I don’t,” Trump said in the deposition. To the contrary, Trump said that his father was “very, very sharp.” Mary L. Trump said those claims were contradicted by other family members. Robert Trump, Donald’s younger brother, said that their father was in “notable decline” by 1990, as recounted by Mary L. Trump in a lawsuit over the will. Trump’s sister, Maryanne Barry, later was secretly recorded by Mary L. Trump as saying that “it was basically taking the whole estate and giving it to Donald” at a time when “Dad was in dementia.” (Maryanne Barry, who died last year, did not respond to a request for comment when The Post first revealed the secret tapes in 2020; Robert died in 2020.) Regardless, by the mid-’90s even Donald Trump was publicly acknowledging the… Read more »
nothing like the threat of losing one’s wealth as well as one’s mind to ruin one’s day, huh Donald?
Trump left a lot of GOP votes on the table last night in two must-win states for the the GOP. At the very least the numbers suggest a better-funded Biden campaign could afford to force Trump to spend money needed for battleground states.
200,000 Florida Republicans did not vote for Trump. If half are Never Trumpers in November and abortion rights gets on the ballot (state Supreme Court is reviewing) the state could be in play. Trump won FL in 2020 by 370,000 votes.
220,000 Ohio Republicans voted against Trump. Abortion rights is on the ballot in November. Trump won Ohio in 2020 by 475,000 votes.
Why not test that hypothesis?
It’s a beautiful spring day in EB, sunny, 50s – and it should stay that way until … tonight, when the temps are dropping into the low 20s. As they say here (and everywhere else) if you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.
Our spring started last month.
Funny—my dad had a lemon tree (very pretty) but could NEVER get a lemon to grow on it. Now my Brudder has one which sports ‘em by the dozen. It’s like we moved to Florida or something.
GOP primary votes against Trump yesterday:
Kansas – 25%
Arizona – 25%
Ohio – 21%
Illinois – 19%
Florida – 19%
Yeah, sturg, we had spring for the past month – on and off – More on than off. Daffodils are in full bloom. flowering cherry trees, almost all the blooming bushes are in full bloom and the fucking grass at the office already needs to be cut.
To politics, Dumbass’ biggest worry from yesterday is probably that he got only 77.9% of the vote in Maricopa County. He lost AZ the last time around and doesn’t look like he has a commanding lead there this time around.
today’s meme…
As he arrives at latest Hunter Biden hearing, Rep Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) wears Putin mask to highlight GOP reliance on Russian propaganda in the probe.
Springsteen endorses Biden
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/president-joe-biden-dfw-fundraiser-wednesday/287-7f5cd3d7-cb62-48c2-8b2b-86f3b223a247
“President Joe Biden is bringing his re-election campaign to North Texas on Thursday for a fundraiser following a stop through the Sun Belt where he has been trying to court Latino voters.”
“Air Force One is scheduled to land at DFW Airport at 5:25 p.m. on Wednesday.”
I should drive to my old office to watch A1 coming in for a landing, but not around rush hour.
Glad to have you here, POTUS Joe!
Biden/Harris 2024!
Biden is delivering 30,000 jobs today, while Trump desperately searches for cash for himself.. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-intel-chips-8-5-billion-investment-arizona-ohio-new-mexico-oregon/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=366329413
4 years ago
Love the doves! Good luck with your pair’s nesting, Craig!
Is the Springsteen meme real? What are the maggers going to do now, turn on The Boss too?
Ivy… yes the Springsteen meme is real.
Springsteen
Knowing that no one reputable will post bond for tRUMPsky, if that money does ever show up, I’m sure there will be a bright spotlight on the who/where/why it appears.
Who owns him? Where are his benefactors from? Why did they pony up/what do they want in return?
If JarJar were to offer to bail out his FIL, wouldn’t there be even more scrutiny in why the Saudis have him $2 BILLION?
JarJar’s comments about banishing Palestinians to the Negev desert for ever, and developing the oceanfront property where Netanyahu has pretty much competed the demolition phase, should also be scrutinized.
Since Dumbass says the cases against him are just for the purpose of election interference, would using Saudi money to post bail be an unlawful foreign contribution to the Dumbass campaign?
What a day. I woke up feeling very crummy. At least I stayed awake to take one of my cats, Chunky, to the vet. She has been lethargic and not eating. A cough and just something wrong. She has cancer, and it has taken over her body. A decision had to be made. She was not going to get better so it was time she went to sleep forever.
She was a feral cat which ended up being a puddy cat. A sweet heart who loved to have her head petted. My seven dollar cat which ended up costing thousands for lots of care. She used to weigh twenty pounds plus. Today, she was just over seven pounds. The cancer was all through her. Now is the time I say goodbye to a sweetheart.
BB
Just went through that with our Charlie. He held on being loving until it just got too difficult. It took $4,000 to give him an extra year. You have my sympathies.
Living on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay in the D.C. region, we hear about a loose cow or horse or other critter. But nothing like back in the West, where I used to live. Here a herd decided the grass looked better over there. Being Bison the pretty much walked the fence down and moved.
Jamie & BB – I’m so sorry for your losses.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/texts-reveal-more-russia-ties-for-tony-bobulinski-key-anti-biden-witness
“Former Hunter Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski has provided testimony riddled with inconsistencies, including statements that contradict claims in the FBI’s write-up of their interview with him just ahead of the 2020 election.”
“One central issue in the Bobulinski timeline—his long-standing connections to a sanctioned Russian oligarch behind state-controlled energy company Rosneft—appears far more close and complex than he has suggested, including in his House testimony.”
“On May 19, 2017, Hunter Biden and Bobulinski had a confrontation over the SinoHawk deal. WhatsApp messages show Biden invoking Bobulinski’s ties to Vekselberg, blasting him as immature and insulting, and at one point threatening to break his jaw.”
“I’ll say it one final time. I don’t care how much money you’ve made what teams you were captain of or how many soulless oligarchs you call friend,” Hunter Biden wrote. “Money doesn’t interest me winning is ephemeral and fleeting and I have no interest spending my days on a super yacht measuring my dick with the people on the super yacht next to me.”
“Separately in the hearing, Bobulinski also attacked Cassidy Hutchinson’s claims about him in her recent memoir. Hutchinson wrote that she saw Bobulinski meet with former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows while wearing a ski mask at an October 2020 campaign event, where Meadows gave Bobulinski an envelope of some kind. Bobulinski, however, called her a “fraud and a liar,” denied being handed anything, and denied wearing a ski mask.”
“In response, Hutchinson released what she said was a photo from the event showing Meadows next to Bobulinski in a black ski mask. Days later, Bobulinski sued Hutchinson for defamation.”
Bobulinski has dug himself a grave with his mouth. It was fun listening to AOC go after him.
This first of spring feels weird. It still seems like lunchtime. Where has the day gone?
Donate to save Trump Tower
Blue Bronc: what a beauty your puddy ‘tat was. So sad for your loss, we have been there and know the pain.
The buffalo do roam, albeit in small numbers, but I have seen them not far from our new home on the range. I still miss that peak of the Chesapeake, though, you are in a good place.
Lol, I do not know any maggers who are not the cheapest of all cheapskates. Who among them are loosening their pursestrings and why???
It’s beyond tragic when a so-called parent cares more about himself than his children. Where else have we seen that dynamic?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nikki-haley-joe-biden-donald-trump-donors-b2515924.html
POTUS Joe has landed for a couple of fundraisers in DFW. The local news guy said Nikki Hayley’s “campaign bundlers” are backing Biden. So, I had to look up “bundler.”
“One of the Haley backers who have been pulled over to the Biden side is Harry Sloan, a former MGM executive. He got a call from Jeffrey Katzenberg, a media proprietor and former chair of Walt Disney Studios, about helping Mr Biden win the 2024 election. ”
“People I know who are generally business Republicans, they’re going to hear from me,” Mr Sloan told CNBC about fundraising for Mr Biden.”
“Mr Sloan is one of several former Haley bundlers – top campaign fundraisers – who have joined the Biden cause instead of boosting the Trump campaign, the outlet reported.”
Wow, the paranoid baiting the paranoid.
They’re actually after you, I’m just protecting you.
The level of desperation is sad, but he did it to himself.
“Karma’s a relaxing thought. Aren’t you envious that for you it’s not?”
-Psy-Op TayTay
In over her head. Cannon is attempting to cover-up her own level of incompetence for the job, hoping she can make it all magically go away.
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/one-cut-at-a-time-judge-cannon-trump-order?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The Exploding “Devil Comet” Flying Past Earth has a spiral core
Currently visible
whoops, admitted Biden won
Local weather said that the historical average for sunny skies in DFW on April 8th, is only 14%. Overcast/stormy skies were 38%. Partly cloudy skies or high, thin clouds fell between the two. Hope folks who travel here for the eclipse aren’t disappointed.
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