Rep. Raskin Slams Republicans for Aiding Trump's Plans for Retribution: "An Absolute Betrayal"

Rep. Raskin Slams Republicans for Aiding Trump’s Plans for Retribution: “An Absolute Betrayal”

Sometimes it seems like the only leading Democrat willing to call out the fascist insanity of the Republican Party is Jamie Raskin. I’m grateful to him for it, but where is the rest of the party? Why aren’t they all raising the alarm?

New reporting about how Trump could weaponize U.S. spy services against domestic political enemies if he wins a second term is fueling new concerns about Trump abusing the government for self-serving purposes. Rep. Jamie Raskin joins Ali Velshi to discuss the implications of Trump’s plan to increase executive authority and how Republicans are aiding him in the process. “They’re quite overtly talking about a post-constitutional America,” Rep. Raskin warns. “They’re trying to do what Donald Trump has repeatedly urged, which is to set the Constitution aside and that’s an absolute betrayal of our entire history.”

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Belafon Jun 9, 2024 • 11:59:49am

Dr. Dog - Talk Is Cheap [Official Music Video]

darthstar Jun 9, 2024 • 12:03:40pm

Mastodon

Charles Johnson Jun 9, 2024 • 12:03:57pm

Talk may be cheap, but silence is expensive.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 12:09:21pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Republican Silence Is Complicity

Charles Johnson Jun 9, 2024 • 12:19:12pm

re: #2 darthstar

Unfortunately, this won’t do much to stop Netanyahu, but it’s a sign that his days are numbered.

Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 12:23:15pm

re: #289 Hecuba’s daughter

I’m sure the actual penalty won’t be 10 years — and probably not even prison time. But just because there was no intention to harm anyone doesn’t mean that something couldn’t go terribly wrong and cause serious injuries or damage.

I’m late to this party
Wrt any kind of firearm/2a discussion, adjudication must be based on the potential damage or destruction
yes somewhat mitigated by intent..reckless vs careless vs oops

We can’t have people out in public brandishing or pointing/aiming weapons or actually discharging them and then saying “no one got hit so no harm no foul”

Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 12:30:09pm

when you momentarily forget which “rigged” thing you’re talking about pic.twitter.com/DWR4m9VzSc

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 9, 2024

Unabogie Jun 9, 2024 • 12:33:08pm

re: #6 Dangerman

I’m late to this party
Wrt any kind of firearm/2a discussion, adjudication must be based on the potential damage or destruction
yes somewhat mitigated by intent..reckless vs careless vs oops

We can’t have people out in public brandishing or pointing/aiming weapons or actually discharging them and then saying “no one got hit so no harm no foul”

Yeah, even libertarians understand that your freedom to fire an incendiary device ends where the possible fire destroying my home begins. Throw the book at this asshole.

Unabogie Jun 9, 2024 • 12:37:22pm

re: #7 Dangerman

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A while back we saw discussion of Katie Britt’s “baby fundie voice” and how that was a deliberate effort by right wing christian women to appear submissive to the men around them. I’d like to see more discussion of the “fundie glamour” look that all the Trumpy women take on. Lara Trump, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, Kim Guillfoyle, Kristie Noem, and so many others have this same look of massive amounts of makeup, twirled long hair, and puffed up lips. And you see the women who show up in photos of the parties at Mar a Lago, and it’s more of the same.

It’s cultish.

GlutenFreeJesus Jun 9, 2024 • 12:39:09pm

Cicadas out en force today.

Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 12:40:22pm

Opinion | Donald Trump is a martyr who was only put on trial for political purposes. Here’s why Hunter Biden should be in prison for owning an unloaded gun for 11 days.

Charles Johnson Jun 9, 2024 • 12:40:47pm

re: #10 GlutenFreeJesus

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Cicadas out en force today.

Wow, that’s loud!

Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 12:41:31pm

re: #9 Unabogie

A while back we saw discussion of Katie Britt’s “baby fundie voice” and how that was a deliberate effort by right wing christian women to appear submissive to the men around them. I’d like to see more discussion of the “fundie glamour” look that all the Trumpy women take on. Lara Trump, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, Kim Guillfoyle, Kristie Noem, and so many others have this same look of massive amounts of makeup, twirled long hair, and puffed up lips. And you see the women who show up in photos of the parties at Mar a Lago, and it’s more of the same.

It’s cultish.

Definitely creepy

Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 12:42:37pm

re: #11 Dangerman

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Opinion | Donald Trump is a martyr who was only put on trial for political purposes. Here’s why Hunter Biden should be in prison for owning an unloaded gun for 11 days.

Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 12:43:58pm

re: #9 Unabogie

A while back we saw discussion of Katie Britt’s “baby fundie voice” and how that was a deliberate effort by right wing christian women to appear submissive to the men around them. I’d like to see more discussion of the “fundie glamour” look that all the Trumpy women take on. Lara Trump, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, Kim Guillfoyle, Kristie Noem, and so many others have this same look of massive amounts of makeup, twirled long hair, and puffed up lips. And you see the women who show up in photos of the parties at Mar a Lago, and it’s more of the same.

It’s cultish.

FFS the chair of the Nevada GOP just said they were at the Trump rally to ‘worship’ Trump.

That’s f*cking insane.

pic.twitter.com/yiAx4TOKXM

— Peter Henlein (@SwissWatchGuy) June 9, 2024

Charles Johnson Jun 9, 2024 • 12:45:54pm

re: #9 Unabogie

A while back we saw discussion of Katie Britt’s “baby fundie voice” and how that was a deliberate effort by right wing christian women to appear submissive to the men around them. I’d like to see more discussion of the “fundie glamour” look that all the Trumpy women take on. Lara Trump, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, Kim Guillfoyle, Kristie Noem, and so many others have this same look of massive amounts of makeup, twirled long hair, and puffed up lips. And you see the women who show up in photos of the parties at Mar a Lago, and it’s more of the same.

It’s cultish.

They’re submission-signaling.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 12:46:12pm

re: #15 Dangerman

They come out and say it out loud. Trump is their God!

jaunte Jun 9, 2024 • 12:49:03pm

abcnews.go.com

jaunte Jun 9, 2024 • 12:51:12pm

this same look of massive amounts of makeup, twirled long hair, and puffed up lips

Warning, toxic.

Belafon Jun 9, 2024 • 12:51:21pm

re: #15 Dangerman

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According to the clip, they are there to worship and bring back Trump (I’m not going to quote the stupid shit he said referring to Trump). Thus a clear mixing of religion and politics.

Eventual Carrion Jun 9, 2024 • 12:51:54pm

re: #14 Dangerman

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And they seem so worried about Hunter using while submitting the form, maybe we should just have everyone submitting the form be drug tested.

BigPapa Jun 9, 2024 • 12:52:58pm

Why are men such good cooks? Because with two eggs and a sausage we can fill a tummy for 9 months.

jaunte Jun 9, 2024 • 12:53:39pm

re: #21 Eventual Carrion

This would be a smart step in gun purchasing, so it will go on the list of things the industry lobby NRA will fight tooth and nail against.

BigPapa Jun 9, 2024 • 12:54:50pm

Hunter had a plea deal and they blew it up. Now he may get off. Keystone Kops stupidity.

Charmingly Persistent Jun 9, 2024 • 12:55:01pm

Samson giving his cat a pill

Charles Johnson Jun 9, 2024 • 12:56:13pm

Just thought everyone might like to see Alex Jones weeping.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-09T19:55:49.000Z

jaunte Jun 9, 2024 • 12:56:38pm

re: #25 Charmingly Persistent

This is the kind of muscle definition that comes from cleaning out a giant cat box.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 12:59:47pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

I’d prefer to see Alex Jones in a pine condo with a stake driven thru his heart.

A Cranky One Jun 9, 2024 • 1:00:41pm

Eventual Carrion Jun 9, 2024 • 1:01:41pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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Well Alex, FUCK YOUR FEELINGS!

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 9, 2024 • 1:01:54pm

From the top by Mr. Johnson:

Sometimes it seems like the only leading Democrat willing to call out the fascist insanity of the Republican Party is Jamie Raskin. I’m grateful to him for it, but where is the rest of the party? Why aren’t they all raising the alarm?

There are others such as Rep. Jasmine Crockett and Rep. Jared Moskowitz, but the whole party should be doing this.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 1:03:33pm

re: #10 GlutenFreeJesus

We got none of this swarm.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 9, 2024 • 1:04:00pm

re: #9 Unabogie

A while back we saw discussion of Katie Britt’s “baby fundie voice” and how that was a deliberate effort by right wing christian women to appear submissive to the men around them. I’d like to see more discussion of the “fundie glamour” look that all the Trumpy women take on. Lara Trump, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, Kim Guillfoyle, Kristie Noem, and so many others have this same look of massive amounts of makeup, twirled long hair, and puffed up lips. And you see the women who show up in photos of the parties at Mar a Lago, and it’s more of the same.

It’s cultish.

They can all aspire to be Tammy Faye Bakker, but they will never achieve her greatness. /s

Charles Johnson Jun 9, 2024 • 1:06:15pm

— N.N. Scott (@nnscott.com) 2024-06-09T20:05:12.947Z

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 9, 2024 • 1:06:56pm

re: #15 Dangerman

Like two thousand years ago, we are witnessing the birth of a new religion.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 9, 2024 • 1:08:31pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

They’re submission-signaling.

Kinks are fine, but they should keep them to themselves.

jaunte Jun 9, 2024 • 1:10:00pm

Trump: “It would be suicide before Biden, right?”
threads.net

Now that’s submission.

Vicious Babushka Jun 9, 2024 • 1:11:52pm

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Belafon Jun 9, 2024 • 1:11:57pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

I expect Alex’s new show “War Info” to start up the day after the deal is concluded.

jaunte Jun 9, 2024 • 1:12:12pm

Threatened criminal says what?

“He’s a deranged, dumb guy. He’s a dumb son of a bitch” — Trump on Special Counsel Jack Smith

Vicious Babushka Jun 9, 2024 • 1:12:49pm

re: #40 jaunte

Threatened criminal says what?

“He’s a deranged, dumb guy. He’s a dumb son of a bitch” — Trump on Special Counsel Jack Smith

PLAIIOS!S!!S!!!*

*Projecting Like An Imax In Outer Space! SPACE!! SPAAACE!!!

Belafon Jun 9, 2024 • 1:15:42pm

re: #38 Vicious Babushka

That could be true, but OSINTdefender is not a reliable source.

Jay C Jun 9, 2024 • 1:15:49pm

re: #9 Unabogie

A while back we saw discussion of Katie Britt’s “baby fundie voice” and how that was a deliberate effort by right wing christian women to appear submissive to the men around them. I’d like to see more discussion of the “fundie glamour” look that all the Trumpy women take on. Lara Trump, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, Kim Guillfoyle, Kristie Noem, and so many others have this same look of massive amounts of makeup, twirled long hair, and puffed up lips. And you see the women who show up in photos of the parties at Mar a Lago, and it’s more of the same.

It’s cultish.

Spot-on about the *look* - it IS amazing how many of the women in the Trump circle look - or try to look - alike: but just IMO, the look is a lot less “fundie” and more “P***Hub”.
Though in MAGA-land it’s probably about the same.

dat_said Jun 9, 2024 • 1:17:31pm

re: #9 Unabogie

A while back we saw discussion of Katie Britt’s “baby fundie voice” and how that was a deliberate effort by right wing christian women to appear submissive to the men around them. I’d like to see more discussion of the “fundie glamour” look that all the Trumpy women take on. Lara Trump, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, Kim Guillfoyle, Kristie Noem, and so many others have this same look of massive amounts of makeup, twirled long hair, and puffed up lips. And you see the women who show up in photos of the parties at Mar a Lago, and it’s more of the same.

It’s cultish.

Link to Reddit as the Fargo InForum article is fire-walled; about former ND state representative Luke Simmons - old.reddit.com

She claims that Luke accused her of being deficient in her “Bible studies” because she was “missing the part about wives being submissive to their husbands.” She says Luke claims she was talking “with a bad attitude just like liberal Democrats.”

Some simply beyond disturbing things in that article and I don’t want to highlight any of them. ND MAGA Republicans still defending him and saying due process wasn’t used to remove him from office.

BeachDem Jun 9, 2024 • 1:19:58pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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He’s almost as believable as Kyle Rittenhouse.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 9, 2024 • 1:20:08pm

re: #42 Belafon

That could be true, but OSINTdefender is not a reliable source.

And even if it is true, you could be a deluded person hiding people from the army or police thinking you’re doing the right thing.

There was a thing going around yesterday about how allegedly Israeli troops were hiding in vehicles marked with international aid societies like the Red Crescent so they could rescue hostages.

The argument they weren’t really aid vehicles (therefore no harm no foul) was that some had commercial logos on them. (No aid agency has ever rented or used a commercial vehicle before. /s)

What it would take would be an independent investigation, which neither Hamas nor Israel is going to allow.

jeffreyw Jun 9, 2024 • 1:20:47pm

re: #40 jaunte

Threatened criminal says what?

“He’s a deranged, dumb guy. He’s a dumb son of a bitch” — Trump on Special Counsel Jack Smith

Eclectic Cyborg Jun 9, 2024 • 1:20:49pm

re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From the top by Mr. Johnson:

There are others such as Rep. Jasmine Crockett and Rep. Jared Moskowitz, but the whole party should be doing this.

Eric Swalwell, too. Also John Fetterman.

Nerdy Fish Jun 9, 2024 • 1:21:03pm

Seen on Bluesky (Josh Friedman doesn’t allow embeds, so just typing text): The former guy is going to do his pre-sentencing hearing tomorrow, via videoconference from Mar-a-Lago. How many other convicted felons would get that luxury? He should be hauled into the hearing in handcuffs by the NYPD.

Charles Johnson Jun 9, 2024 • 1:21:26pm

Trump to undergo probation interview Monday, a required step before his New York sentencing | AP News

jaunte Jun 9, 2024 • 1:22:52pm

re: #49 Nerdy Fish

How do you take a confirmed DNA swab over skype?

Nerdy Fish Jun 9, 2024 • 1:23:40pm

re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s a very long and detailed Bluesky thread going from Akiva Cohen about what is and isn’t true about the Israeli raid. Aid vehicles are right out. The civilian marked vehicle they used was for extraction only; the soldiers went in disguised, rescued the hostages, and attempted to make their way out in the truck, only for Hamas fighters to take out the truck and force the soldiers to fight their way out. All of which is pretty standard, and would probably make for a pretty good movie, after the fact.

BigPapa Jun 9, 2024 • 1:26:57pm

re: #51 jaunte

How do you take a confirmed DNA swab over skype?

Use a program called Swype.

jeffreyw Jun 9, 2024 • 1:27:02pm

re: #52 Nerdy Fish

There’s a very long and detailed Bluesky thread going from Akiva Cohen about what is and isn’t true about the Israeli raid. Aid vehicles are right out. The civilian marked vehicle they used was for extraction only; the soldiers went in disguised, rescued the hostages, and attempted to make their way out in the truck, only for Hamas fighters to take out the truck and force the soldiers to fight their way out. All of which is pretty standard, and would probably make for a pretty good movie, after the fact.

Or an episode of Fauda.

dat_said Jun 9, 2024 • 1:28:36pm

Neo- Nazis Blood Tribe marched in SD. If you check the pictures, you’ll see they thoughtfully brought their own crossing guard (one of the Star Trek red clad brought his own safety vest)

BigPapa Jun 9, 2024 • 1:29:26pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Trump to undergo probation interview Monday, a required step before his New York sentencing | AP News

I’m sure he’s going to ace it. The best probation interview in the history of probably interviews. Everyone said it was the best probation interview they’ve ever even seen in the history of the world.

darthstar Jun 9, 2024 • 1:31:19pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Trump to undergo probation interview Monday, a required step before his New York sentencing | AP News

This is the fun part:

It is also a chance for a defendant to say why they think they deserve a lighter punishment.

This is where Blanche should excuse himself from the room and let Trump talk.

Vicious Babushka Jun 9, 2024 • 1:31:20pm

Here is a longer article from The Times of Israel confirming that Noa Argamani was held at the home of Abdullah Al-Jamal.

Unabogie Jun 9, 2024 • 1:31:55pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Trump to undergo probation interview Monday, a required step before his New York sentencing | AP News

Having never been convicted of 34 felonies, does it matter if he admits to the crime or not? It would be hilarious if he admits to the crime while in court but not when on TV.

Teukka Jun 9, 2024 • 1:35:27pm

re: #56 BigPapa

I’m sure he’s going to ace it. The best probation interview in the history of probably interviews. Every said it was the best probation interview they’ve ever even seen in the history of the world.

mmmirele Jun 9, 2024 • 1:36:05pm

re: #20 Belafon

According to the clip, they are there to worship and bring back Trump (I’m not going to quote the stupid shit he said referring to Trump). Thus a clear mixing of religion and politics.

I’m not a great Christian, but holy crap, that’s some serious idol worship going on there and it should scare everyone who may even remotely call themselves Christian. Wow.

jaunte Jun 9, 2024 • 1:40:10pm

Aaron Rupar:
Trump is now ranting about batteries and shark attacks.

Dave In Austin Jun 9, 2024 • 1:55:13pm

WOW! Trump just went MASK OFF and said “We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote. I don’t care.” You hear that, America? Trump doesn’t care about you at all. He just wants you to vote for him. Disgraceful. pic.twitter.com/J0JqKm7kg5

— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) June 9, 2024

Belafon Jun 9, 2024 • 1:56:01pm

re: #62 jaunte

Trump: Those shark-eating batteries are going to make you panty mustard bagel.
MAGA: YAY! Exactly! Watch those libs cry!

Nerdy Fish Jun 9, 2024 • 2:00:52pm

re: #63 Dave In Austin

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And yet, millions of people will enthusiastically vote for him, because they don’t care if he cares about them, he wants to hurt the people they want to see hurt - Blacks, Muslims, women, gays, transgenders, liberals, woke, and more. When all you care about is revenge, it doesn’t matter if the bully you hired actually cares about you or not, you just want to see them smash somebody’s face in.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 9, 2024 • 2:02:09pm

A Christian group teaches public school students during the school day. Their footprint is growing (Yahoo!, yesterday)

Your tax dollars at work promoting one specific interpretation of one religion. I would think other Christian sects would rally to oppose such things (but they rarely do).

A Christian group teaches public school students during the school day. Their footprint is growing.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Ohio nonprofit that provides off-site Bible instruction to public school students during classroom hours says it will triple its programs in Indiana this fall after new legislation forced school districts to comply.

To participating families, nondenominational LifeWise Academy programs supplement religious instruction. But critics in Indiana worry the programs spend public school resources on religion, proselytize to students of other faiths and remove children from class in a state already struggling with literacy.

LifeWise founder and CEO Joel Penton told The Associated Press that many parents want religious instruction to be part of their children’s education.

“Values of faith and the Bible are absolutely central to many families,” Penton said. “And so they want to demonstrate to their children that it is central to their lives.”

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Yet again it will probably take a lawsuit by atheists to stop it (as long as we still have civil rights).

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 2:07:26pm

re: #62 jaunte

Context, please.

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jun 9, 2024 • 2:07:41pm

Afternoon Lizards. An update on getting the Egg back on the road. I mentioned this morning that the battery pack was totally depleted (4.5 VDC). Well not even my 72 VDC, 40 amp charger could bring it up to voltage. Hell, I had to shut it off because it was over heating. So I’m now having to charge each battery individually. I also ordered a 100 Amp load tester to check each battery to see if any of them need to be replaced. I just so happen to have 2 of the same type of batteries that I purchased for the ill fated RV project on hand. So if replacement(s) is/are necessary, I at least have them on hand.

jeffreyw Jun 9, 2024 • 2:08:25pm

Marjorie Taylor Greene at the Trump rally in Las Vegas complains that "if you think gas prices are high now, just wait until you're forced to drive an electric vehicle."

Does she ... does she think EVs are powered by gas?

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.bsky.social) 2024-06-09T18:33:44.075Z

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 2:10:55pm

re: #69 jeffreyw

The sun is frying her “brains.”

Charles Johnson Jun 9, 2024 • 2:12:53pm

“So this probation officer, big strong guy, comes up to me with tears running down his face saying, ‘Sir, I’m sorry but I have to ask you to pee in this cup.’ And everybody who saw it said was the best pee they’d ever seen!”

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-09T21:12:11.000Z

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 2:15:04pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Trump to undergo probation interview Monday, a required step before his New York sentencing | AP News

To be a fly on the wall and hear Smellvis endlessly shooting his mouth off about “crooked Joe Biden” “Rigged jury” “Hunter Biden’s Laptop” “Stolen election” “Jack Smith is a dumb son of a bitch” “I didn’t pay her off” “I was framed”…

jeffreyw Jun 9, 2024 • 2:16:56pm

#Portugal

— Michael Edward (@michaeledward.bsky.social) 2024-06-09T13:25:28.203Z

Charles Johnson Jun 9, 2024 • 2:18:48pm

re: #73 jeffreyw

STAIR SNEK

Jay C Jun 9, 2024 • 2:21:04pm

re: #73 jeffreyw

NO TRED ON SNEK!

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 2:22:21pm

Say what??????????

‘They don’t work!’ Trump goes on furious rant about broken teleprompters

How could anyone tell?

Donald Trump’s Sunday rally in Nevada started rocky because the former president’s teleprompters were broken. And he let the crowd know he wasn’t happy about it.

Oh boo hoo fuckhead boo hoo!

rawstory.com

sizzzzlerz Jun 9, 2024 • 2:23:09pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

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Strong flow. Certainly stronger than what Crooked Joe Biden can produce. And no dribbles afterward. When I’m done, it’s done. Unlike Leaky Joe.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 2:27:21pm

This Gold Star Father Would Like To Know Just What The Fuck Does He Mean By This?

rawstory.com

A nuanced attempt by Sen. Linsey Graham (R-SC) to assert that the U.S. should never have been in the position to have to launch the Normandy invasion 80 years ago fell with a thud on Sunday morning after he told a CBS host that D-Day was a “failure.”

Discussing battling Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, Graham tried to compare that war with fighting Nazi Germany.

Referencing the massive invasion that was a pivotal battle that helped lead to the end of the war with Nazi Germany, Graham stated, “We celebrated the 80th anniversary of D-Day. It was a failure. It was the ‘unnecessary war, ’ described by Winston Churchill. We had a dozen chances to stop Hitler. It’s not about NATO. It’s not about American weapons in Ukraine. It’s about a megalomaniac wanting to create the Russian Empire by force of arms.”

FUCK YOU, Lindsay Graham! FUCK YOU!

mmmirele Jun 9, 2024 • 2:27:51pm

re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This is “release time” and our Supreme Court has allowed it, as long as it’s not on school campuses. Parents have to give permission for children to attend. In other places, churches send buses to the schools to take the kiddoes away. Here in Arizona (and also in Utah, when I lived there), the Mormon (LDS) church has “seminaries” next to or across the street from high schools for their release time program. This has been permitted for *years*.

Oklahoma just passed another law (it’s already legal, this was performative) allowing release time. The Satanic Temple is likely to sue, but not to get rid of it. More to embarrass the hell out of the state and local school districts to get their HAIL (Hellion Academy of Independent Learning) program into districts where parents have requested it. (Not sure how that will work out in places where anyone who isn’t Baptist / Methodist / Presbyterian is already a minority, even if they are Catholic or Episcopalian.)

Anyway, the logo for HAIL is cute.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 2:28:53pm

re: #70 PhillyPretzel ✅

The sun is frying her “brains cell.”

Vicious Babushka Jun 9, 2024 • 2:29:24pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon ✅

Say what??????????

‘They don’t work!’ Trump goes on furious rant about broken teleprompters

How could anyone tell?

Donald Trump’s Sunday rally in Nevada started rocky because the former president’s teleprompters were broken. And he let the crowd know he wasn’t happy about it.

Oh boo hoo fuckhead boo hoo!

rawstory.com

But but but I thought that he is proud of his “ability” to riff on random shit for hours on end.

Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 2:31:39pm

re: #49 Nerdy Fish

Seen on Bluesky (Josh Friedman doesn’t allow embeds, so just typing text): The former guy is going to do his pre-sentencing hearing tomorrow, via videoconference from Mar-a-Lago. How many other convicted felons would get that luxury? He should be hauled into the hearing in handcuffs by the NYPD.

*if* any footage is ever released we’ll know who did it

Charles Johnson Jun 9, 2024 • 2:32:02pm

Kaho Kiss: I Checked Your Cellphone

(((Archangel1))) Jun 9, 2024 • 2:32:21pm

Donald Trump at his Vegas rally: “I don’t care about you. I just want your vote.”

He finally said the truth. pic.twitter.com/FIIl5IGful

— Luke Beasley (@lukepbeasley) June 9, 2024

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 2:32:59pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon ✅

Say what??????????

‘They don’t work!’ Trump goes on furious rant about broken teleprompters

How could anyone tell?

Donald Trump’s Sunday rally in Nevada started rocky because the former president’s teleprompters were broken. And he let the crowd know he wasn’t happy about it.

Oh boo hoo fuckhead boo hoo!

rawstory.com

That sounds like a techproblem; the fact the orangius can’t speak coherentally Isa him problem.

sagehen Jun 9, 2024 • 2:33:08pm

re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A Christian group teaches public school students during the school day. Their footprint is growing (Yahoo!, yesterday)

Your tax dollars at work promoting one specific interpretation of one religion. I would think other Christian sects would rally to oppose such things (but they rarely do).

A Christian group teaches public school students during the school day. Their footprint is growing.

(more)

Yet again it will probably take a lawsuit by atheists to stop it (as long as we still have civil rights).

“Values of faith and the Bible are absolutely central to many families,” Penton said. “And so they want to demonstrate to their children that it is central to their lives.”

If it’s so central to their lives, why aren’t they teaching those values to their children themselves, in their own homes?

Vicious Babushka Jun 9, 2024 • 2:34:09pm

re: #86 sagehen

If it’s so central to their lives, why aren’t they teaching those values to their children themselves, in their own homes?

Their own kids are already indoctrinated. They want to indoctrinate YOUR kids.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 2:34:12pm

re: #86 sagehen

Because their not dismilar to the house cat libertarian

Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 2:36:27pm

re: #61 mmmirele

I’m not a great Christian, but holy crap, that’s some serious idol worship going on there and it should scare everyone who may even remotely call themselves Christian. Wow.

As long as his Christian supporters get what they want out of him they don’t gaf what he says or how nutso or contradictory it is

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 2:36:46pm

A supporter of Donald Trump attending a MAGA rally in sweltering Las Vegas stumped MSNBC host Alex Witt on Sunday when he responded to a question about the former president promising retribution against his enemies by linking him to Jesus spreading “love.”

MSNBC 06 09 2024 14 02 27

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 2:38:48pm

re: #89 Dangerman

As long as his Christian supporters get what they want out of him they don’t gaf what he says or how nutso or contradictory it is

His Xtian supporters want retribution.

They want their enemies eliminated.

Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 2:39:42pm

re: #64 Belafon

Trump: Those shark-eating batteries are going to make you panty mustard bagel.
MAGA: YAY! Exactly! Watch those libs cry!

In the 70s Steve Martin got paid to make up stuff like this.
he was funnier:

“can I mambo dogface to the banana patch?”

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jun 9, 2024 • 2:40:17pm

re: #79 mmmirele

This is “release time” and our Supreme Court has allowed it, as long as it’s not on school campuses. Parents have to give permission for children to attend. In other places, churches send buses to the schools to take the kiddoes away. Here in Arizona (and also in Utah, when I lived there), the Mormon (LDS) church has “seminaries” next to or across the street from high schools for their release time program. This has been permitted for *years*.

Oklahoma just passed another law (it’s already legal, this was performative) allowing release time. The Satanic Temple is likely to sue, but not to get rid of it. More to embarrass the hell out of the state and local school districts to get their HAIL (Hellion Academy of Independent Learning) program into districts where parents have requested it. (Not sure how that will work out in places where anyone who isn’t Baptist / Methodist / Presbyterian is already a minority, even if they are Catholic or Episcopalian.)

Anyway, the logo for HAIL is cute.

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Idaho is the same. The classes are elective and are held off campus and require parental approval. As a Pagan Witch, I don’t have a problem with this. The students who choose to attend do so “voluntarily” and receive no credits toward graduation as they are not part of the approved curriculum.

jaunte Jun 9, 2024 • 2:41:04pm

re: #67 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Context, please.

Bizarre hypothetical about choosing between battery-powered boat electrocution and deadly sharks.
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jaunte Jun 9, 2024 • 2:41:37pm

Trump’s going to end electric vehicles because sharks.

Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 2:42:09pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon ✅

Say what??????????

‘They don’t work!’ Trump goes on furious rant about broken teleprompters

How could anyone tell?

Donald Trump’s Sunday rally in Nevada started rocky because the former president’s teleprompters were broken. And he let the crowd know he wasn’t happy about it.

Oh boo hoo fuckhead boo hoo!

rawstory.com

Remember when he ranted about Obama and teleprompter s?
It was such an innocent time

Joe Bacon ✅ Jun 9, 2024 • 2:42:42pm

re: #95 jaunte

Trumps going to end electric vehicles because sharks.

Did he promise to bring back Candygrams?

Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 2:47:27pm

re: #78 Joe Bacon ✅

This Gold Star Father Would Like To Know Just What The Fuck Does He Mean By This?

rawstory.com

A nuanced attempt by Sen. Linsey Graham (R-SC) to assert that the U.S. should never have been in the position to have to launch the Normandy invasion 80 years ago fell with a thud on Sunday morning after he told a CBS host that D-Day was a “failure.”

Discussing battling Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, Graham tried to compare that war with fighting Nazi Germany.

Referencing the massive invasion that was a pivotal battle that helped lead to the end of the war with Nazi Germany, Graham stated, “We celebrated the 80th anniversary of D-Day. It was a failure. It was the ‘unnecessary war, ’ described by Winston Churchill. We had a dozen chances to stop Hitler. It’s not about NATO. It’s not about American weapons in Ukraine. It’s about a megalomaniac wanting to create the Russian Empire by force of arms.”

FUCK YOU, Lindsay Graham! FUCK YOU!

Lindsay’s been talking to Byron

jeffreyw Jun 9, 2024 • 2:51:14pm

"Shall not be infringed!"

— (@jeffreyw.bsky.social) 2024-06-09T21:49:20.344Z

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Eventual Carrion Jun 9, 2024 • 2:54:21pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon ✅

Say what??????????

‘They don’t work!’ Trump goes on furious rant about broken teleprompters

How could anyone tell?

Donald Trump’s Sunday rally in Nevada started rocky because the former president’s teleprompters were broken. And he let the crowd know he wasn’t happy about it.

Oh boo hoo fuckhead boo hoo!

rawstory.com

I’m old enough to remember back when Obama was in office hearing that Obama couldn’t speak without a teleprompter. Now they are cool with them I guess. They are very consistent with their inconsistencies.

“If you use it now, you’re like Obama,” Davis said. “It’s a negative because it’s a sign of inauthenticity. It’s a sign that you can’t speak on your own two feet. It’s a sign that you have handlers behind you telling you what to say.”

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Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 2:54:38pm

re: #93 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Idaho is the same. The classes are elective and are held off campus and require parental approval. As a Pagan Witch, I don’t have a problem with this. The students who choose to attend do so “voluntarily” and receive no credits toward graduation as they are not part of the approved curriculum.

in NY in the 60’s catholic kids ‘got to leave’ early on wednesdays to go for religious their education

we had religious school two days a week (plus sundays). it didnt start until 4.30 tues and thurs because no way they were gonna let us out early

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austin_blue Jun 9, 2024 • 2:56:51pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

Wow, that’s loud!

‘Tis!

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Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 2:58:03pm

re: #100 Eventual Carrion

I’m old enough to remember back when Obama was in office hearing that Obama couldn’t speak without a teleprompter. Now they are cool with them I guess. They are very consistent with their inconsistencies.

“If you use it now, you’re like Obama,” Davis said. “It’s a negative because it’s a sign of inauthenticity. It’s a sign that you can’t speak on your own two feet. It’s a sign that you have handlers behind you telling you what to say.”

As i said above I remember this
Because presidents never write or edit their speeches

Well I guess we know tfg doesnt/cant

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Eclectic Cyborg Jun 9, 2024 • 2:59:48pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Trump to undergo probation interview Monday, a required step before his New York sentencing | AP News

“Alright. One of you poor bastards has to do this. Who’s gonna take one for the team?”

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Dangerman Jun 9, 2024 • 3:00:10pm

re: #92 Dangerman

In the 70s Steve Martin got paid to make up stuff like this.
he was funnier:

“can I mambo dogface to the banana patch?”

Ps this quote is in the Urban Dictionary

Though I’mi sure covfefe probably is too now

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Charles Johnson Jun 9, 2024 • 3:04:19pm

The Age of the Drone Police Is Here | WIRED

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 9, 2024 • 3:04:19pm

re: #78 Joe Bacon ✅

This Gold Star Father Would Like To Know Just What The Fuck Does He Mean By This?

This Gold Star Son knows conservatives have hated us for a very long time.

Recall when Sen. Tim Kaine was attacked in 2016 for “wearing a Honduras flag pin by the South Carolina GOP?” (It was a Blue Star Family pin.)

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Vicious Babushka Jun 9, 2024 • 3:08:04pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 9, 2024 • 3:10:16pm

re: #86 sagehen

If it’s so central to their lives, why aren’t they teaching those values to their children themselves, in their own homes?

Because they want to teach other people their values. Voluntarily if allowed, by force if necessary.

Their religion became one of the world’s largest not by the force of its arguments but by the force of its arms.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jun 9, 2024 • 3:12:09pm

re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s Cult 101: inculcate the next generation.

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Lancelot Link Returns! Jun 9, 2024 • 3:12:37pm

re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They can all aspire to be Tammy Faye Bakker, but they will never achieve her greatness. /s

Yes, but Tammy Faye Bakker became a much better person

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jeffreyw Jun 9, 2024 • 3:13:05pm

113

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jun 9, 2024 • 3:14:20pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Trump to undergo probation interview Monday, a required step before his New York sentencing | AP News

Is he now prohibited from associating with known felons?

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austin_blue Jun 9, 2024 • 3:18:02pm

re: #73 jeffreyw

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Great Mural! Too bad they got the head wrong. It needs to have cat eyes and needs pits (hence pit vipers like Rattling Snakes).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 9, 2024 • 3:20:11pm

re: #111 Lancelot Link Returns!

Yes, but Tammy Faye Bakker became a much better person

I wasn’t aware she paid back all the money she and her first husband stole from the PTL Club and Heritage, USA.

Her second hub Roe Messner (a property developer) was also sent to prison for bankruptcy fraud. She didn’t do anything to pay back that $30MM fraud either.

About the only thing she didn’t do as an Evangelical is condemn LGBT+ people.

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Belafon Jun 9, 2024 • 3:31:23pm

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I wasn’t aware she paid back all the money she and her first husband stole from the PTL Club and Heritage, USA.

Her second hub Roe Messner (a property developer) was also sent to prison for bankruptcy fraud. She didn’t do anything to pay back that $30MM fraud either.

About the only thing she didn’t do as an Evangelical is condemn LGBT+ people.

It wasn’t a very high bar to clear.

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jeffreyw Jun 9, 2024 • 3:33:22pm

re: #114 austin_blue

I noticed the round pupils. Not sure if Portugal has rattlers so I’m giving the artist a pass.

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jeffreyw Jun 9, 2024 • 3:35:10pm

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I wasn’t aware she paid back all the money she and her first husband stole from the PTL Club and Heritage, USA.

Her second hub Roe Messner (a property developer) was also sent to prison for bankruptcy fraud. She didn’t do anything to pay back that $30MM fraud either.

About the only thing she didn’t do as an Evangelical is condemn LGBT+ people.

I think the reference may be to her unlamented demise.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jun 9, 2024 • 3:38:05pm

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stumbles into a correct decision.

Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’ (today, The Guardian)

“Conservative-dominated court restores books denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’ to school libraries”

An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries simply because they mention “butt and fart” and other content which some state officials may dislike.

The fifth US circuit court of appeals issued its decision on Thursday in a 76-page majority opinion, which was written by Judge Jacques Wiener Jr and opened with a quote from American poet Walt Whitman: “The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.”

In its decision, the appellate court declared that “government actors may not remove books from a public library with the intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree”.

It added: “This court has declared that officials may not ‘remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the idea contained in those books and seek by their removal to prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion.’”

(more)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jun 9, 2024 • 3:43:35pm

re: #113 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Is he now prohibited from associating with known felons?

That’ll eliminate pretty much every person trump knows.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Jun 9, 2024 • 3:45:00pm

re: #64 Belafon

Trump: Those shark-eating batteries are going to make you panty mustard bagel.
MAGA: YAY! Exactly! Watch those libs cry!

Is that what he calls the contents of his diaper? 🤮

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Hecuba's daughter Jun 9, 2024 • 3:47:14pm

re: #30 Eventual Carrion

Well Alex, FUCK YOUR FEELINGS!

Crocodile tears — nothing real about them. Third rate actor pretending.

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austin_blue Jun 9, 2024 • 4:02:58pm

re: #117 jeffreyw

I noticed the round pupils. Not sure if Portugal has rattlers so I’m giving the artist a pass.

All RattlingSnakes are pit vipers, but not all pit vipers are RattlingSnakes (see Agkistrodons -Copperheads and Water Moccasins) and the S. American Fer De Lance (Bothros sp).

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jun 9, 2024 • 5:18:55pm

re: #86 sagehen

If it’s so central to their lives, why aren’t they teaching those values to their children themselves, in their own homes?

Because they want to instill said “values” in *your* children.

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