Welcome Back to Pottersville: April 2021

Friday, April 30, 2021

Pottersville Digest

(Senate Minority Leader, get thee behind me!)

The FBI began rounding up rioters within days after January 6th. And it took them four years to find out who this miscreant was... why?

Lin Wood really ought to write for the National Enquirer.

Mr. Meghan McCain wasn't taken by the president's speech.

"Trump quizzes aides for updates about the process multiple times a day, advisers said, expressing particular interest in the use of UV lights to scrutinize Maricopa's ballots..."

"Maybe if you take a UV light and insert it into the voting machines or through some other way...?"

"No wonder Stacey Abrams is whipping GA Republicans ass."

The stopped clock of Marjorie Taylor-Greene's brain is finally right.

“I believe the right thing to do would be to hang a black cloth over the photo and that no honor be given to him until he repents before God and man.”

In other words, the black cloth would be permanent.

Because what America really needs is another regressive in the WH.

The main takeaway I got from this wasn't Greenberg confessing he and Gaetz paid for sex with an underage girl. We knew that. What we didn't know was he was willing to bribe Roger Stone with up to $300,000 for a pardon from Trump.

When does a school turn into a cult? At this point.

This is all the right wing has on Biden.

The GOP is just a street gang of armed thugs and pedophiles.

Jim Justice awkwardly tries to rationalize signing a hood ornament issue into law.

WTF is with this right wing obsession with UV light?

If Giuliani's telling the truth here, and that's always problematic at best, then this means Bill Barr signed off on the search warrant on him while he was defending Trump during the first impeachment.

More anti-Asian violence. What I can't understand is why it's taking police so long to get this asshole when they know his license number and the state where it's registered. This attack happened on Dec. 5th last year.

Christian family values. Josh Duggar got picked up last for downloading kiddie porn.

White privilege in action. Meanwhile, a black woman cast an ineligible ballot by accident and got five years in prison.

The FBI warned Giuliani the Russians were planning to meddle in the 2020 election. They warned Ron Johnson that he was being used to spread Russian talking points. They ignored them. So, they don't have the right to complain about being caught by surprise about this DOJ investigation.

Yes, the Arizona audit is literally the "Crazy Times Carnival".

If Trump's backing her, then I wouldn't vote for her. Still, don't resort to lies about the woman.

Your Brad o' the day.

I doubt he'll get the full 10 years and $250,000 fine but at least he'll never be allowed to work in law enforcement again.

"The latest incident of vandalism took place either on Sunday or Monday, where someone wrote 'white power' across the rock's anthropomorphic figures, misspelling and crossing out their first attempt at the word 'white.' Someone also drew an ejaculating penis and scribbled sexual vulgarities on the rock." The Master Race, ladies and gentlemen. And finally...

“Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them.”

"(T)hat wasn’t a position of the Republican Party."

Since when?

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Pottersville Digest

I'm totally surprised this took place in Tennessee, how about you?

Bible study group, huh? Two words: Study harder.

"We heard about an injection of a tracking device," Wagner said. "Is that being done anywhere in Orange County?"

"Chau did not immediately respond, and then the microphone picked up his audible laughter."

And lawyers wonder why they're so reviled.

CEOs at two of the three largest cruise ship companies saw their pay go up while they stopped paying their stranded crew and even charged them for basic necessities such as soap and shampoo.

"After decrying Republican tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited the rich and corporations, some Democrats, including progressive House members, are pushing to revise President Biden's infrastructure proposal to include tax breaks that will largely flow to the wealthy."

Then stop calling them "progressives."

Yeah. who cares about the will of the people? That's so 20th century.

Rat fucker just keeps fucking the rat.

Looks as if the biggest broken window belongs to Rudy.

"UM. SO GIULIANI AND TOENSING AND DIGENOVA WERE SIMULTANEOUSLY UNREGISTERED AGENTS OF UKRAINE *WHILE ON THE PAYROLL OF RUSSIAN MOB BOSS DMITRO FIRTASH* - while working for Trump. When he was President. And they all were conspiring with Russian intelligence."

Yep, that about covers it. All this, plus Devin Nunes.

"A New York jury is deciding whether Americans, at a time of extreme political tensions, can call for the killing of US lawmakers under sacrosanct freedom of expression laws..."

Excuse me, what? How and when did this country slip to the point where this is even up for debate? You cannot and should not threaten the lives of public officials, especially members of Congress. Aren't there laws prohibiting that?

Go away, kid, you bother me.

But, but... Hunter Biden's laptop!

Three hours? I'm amazed it took the jury that long. This is all the right wing has: Malcontent incels and their impotent death threats on shithole right wing social media sites.

"Redirected him to the floor"?

Sounds as if President Biden's speech last night owned the right wingers.

"If you're teaching, if you're having a discussion on, whatever the case may be, on slavery, and you can talk about everything dealing with slavery. The good, the bad, the ugly, the whole ..."

There WAS no good to slavery. It was just bad and ugly.

Another very fine Trump fan heard from.

Another fine son of the soil heard from.

One year ago, we'd already lost 60,000 Americans to COVID-19.

Since then, we've lost nearly 10 times that many.

Nazi android rips the president's speech for lack of "human warmth."

This is exactly the way the DOJ should work: Independent of the WH and free from its control or influence. And Republicans are going out of their minds as if they honestly can't remember a time when the Department of Justice wasn't the president's law firm.

Last night during the president's speech, the Tinfoil Caucus was in full force last night. And finally...

A plot to kidnap the governor, decapitate her on live TV, burn down the state Capitol in Lansing at full occupancy, blow up a bridge? Yep, sounds like terrorism to me, folks.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Pottersville Digest

("I... I was adopted?")

Where's the beef?

Oh, they're sportsmen, now, are they?

Yes, you read that right. New York lost a congressional seat and an electoral vote because of 89 assholes (that you can bet are mostly if not all right wingers).

Arizona Republicans couldn't put any more hair and warts on this if they tried.

Kevin McCarthy will never be mistaken for a profile in courage.

"After the House chamber was evacuated on Jan. 6, Mr. McCarthy retreated to his Capitol office with a colleague, Representative Bruce Westerman, Republican of Arkansas. When it became evident the rioters were breaking in, Mr. McCarthy's security detail insisted he leave. But Mr. Westerman was left behind in Mr. McCarthy's inner work area..."

Black people shouldn't have to live as if they're under siege, yet that's exactly the kind of world we live in, in which they have to fire weapons fending off home invaders like 19th century homesteaders.

Your Brad & Karen o' the day.

Your co-Brad & Karen o' the day.

"No more fucking lockdowns – let the bodies pile high in their thousands." How nice it is to finally have some pity to spare for other countries.

Lin Wood is just a glorified bleacher bum at this point.

Well, he's got the Unabomber look down pat.

Good. They should.

No shame, no irony, no brains. No thanks, Josh.

These morons are truly surprised that America hasn't greeted them as liberators.

Said POS just lost his job as CEO of a telehealth company. Kudos to Dalton Stevens for standing up for himself.

"Throughout the 74-year-old’s single term, his Turnberry resort alone received close to £300,000 from the Secret Service."

Does this really surprise anyone?

Amanda Chase could turn out to be Marjorie Taylor Greene on anabolic steroids.

"The SCV membership database we are releasing includes one current member of Georgia’s State Senate and several in the Georgia House of Representatives."

Good on you, guys, Keep up the good work.

"Duncan Christopher Trimmell, 23 of Austin, Texas, and Brandon Gregory Ashley, 21 of Hayden, Alabama, face charges of animal cruelty related to the alleged theft and ritual beheading of a ram or goat on Halloween 2019, according to an indictment handed down by a Floyd County grand jury earlier this month." Oh, throw not just the book but the entire Harvard law library at these Nazi assholes.

This is what these idiots are doing instead of keeping their communities safe: Making TikTok videos that bash liberals.

Lies and damned lies.

Fredo lied? Well, I'm just shocked seven ways to Sunday, how about you?

I couldn't even watch a minute of this video. Please put this "man" away for life.

Fat fascist rapidly running out of places to hide.

She'd learned nothing from this. Absolutely nothing.

Our "finest in blue" are little more than racist street gangs with coffee pots and pensions.

"We're all going to die anyway, at some point. But we're all going to be killed! We're all going to be killed! We are all going to die, and hopefully go to heaven. But we will all be killed. I mean, they will expedite the death process. We will not be dying of old age. We will be dying of Black person bonking you in the head with some foreign object. You'll be dying of — I don't know — some COVID vaccination squad shooting a tranquilizer dart in your throat."

And people give this lunatic hundreds of thousands of dollars. And finally...

"Dear police, Stop responding to these Black neighborhoods. They will eventually kill each other, and the fake news won’t have a story.”

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Where's the Beef?

(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)

Dr. Seuss. Mr. Potato Head. Rigged elections. Cannibal pedophile Satan worshipers. Vice President Kamala Harris' book. Meat rations.

You don't need to be a Poli Sci major, a very dedicated news aggregator or even a consumer of it to know what the above "topics" are- They're every right wing conspiracy theory that's gained traction since the 2020 election. And that's precisely what they are- Conspiracy theories that don't even rise to the level of hood ornament issues.

Those at least are issues that mean a great deal to at least one side, such as gay marriage, transgender rights, Native American land sovereignty, the minimum wage or 1000 other things. At least hood ornament issues involve those that actually exist and are of importance, especially to those who are on the right side of those issues.

But no "woke corporation" took away Dr. Seuss. The 2020 election was not rigged and was, in fact, according to Chris Krebs, the most secure one in history. Hillary Clinton is not a satanic pedophile cannibal either in or out of a pizzeria. And, no, President Biden isn't going to ration meat to four pounds a year (and how the government could enforce that is anyone's guess).

If we lived in a reasonable country, with actual, sane people that held legitimate political beliefs on either side of the spectrum and in between, these things wouldn't need to be said, much less denied. But we don't live in a universally reasonable nation, much less a world. Instead, we live in one in which major figures of a major political party subscribe to conspiracy theories. It's easy to draw an unbroken line between the lunatic fringe of the Tea Party that 11 years ago were screaming about death panels to those who'd stormed the Capitol on January 6th or not so silently cheered on those who had.

To those official conspiracy theorists in government, this is just an ongoing cynical ploy to fundraise. Trump did it, Marjorie Taylor-Greene did it, Ted Cruz is doing it, Matt Gaetz is doing it. With the exception of MTG, we can be reasonably sure none of them believe half the shit they trowel out on a daily basis. To a party completely apathetic to charges of hypocrisy and completely blind to optics no matter how horrible, it doesn't matter what they believe. All that matters is that those goobers on the receiving end of those panicky, sweaty fundraising emails believe in the conspiracy theory of the month long enough to write out a check before they go back to worrying about liberals they refuse to elect taking their money.

A Little Objectivity, Please?

Perhaps if more of us stepped back a bit and appraised the right wing for what it is, we'd come away with the same conclusions the rest of us had: That the most radical faction of the right wing comes off looking like a bunch of screaming, pin-headed, thick-necked morons screaming for red meat and more guns that the president isn't trying to take away. Can Carl's Jr. and energy drinks be far behind?

Unfair, grossly exaggerated caricature? Perhaps, perhaps not but then again so are the conspiracy theories that are no longer the domain of UHF, local cable access channels and pirate radio. It's the bread and butter of multi billion dollar right wing media corporations such as Sinclair, the ironically-named Clear Channel and Rupert Murdoch's News Corps. It's what brings out the parishioners in Republican Party fund raising emails and mailers screaming about the homosexual agenda or the latest "proof" of Joe Biden's Socialism.

And now it's threatening to subsume the establishment GOP to the point where party insiders fear that Marjorie Taylor-Greene will be the pin-headed, thick-necked face of the GOP by 2022. And if she isn't enough to worry about, there's Amanda Chase running for Governor in Virginia (she's the top GOP contender for Ralph Northam's seat),

Chase once, ironically, accused Democrats of treason and recently had a suit tossed out that her own party's nomination rules for picking gubernatorial candidates was illegal under coronavirus regulations (marking perhaps the first time a Republican has gone on record as supporting such a thing). And if that wasn't enough to establish her far right wing bona fides, she's also been traveling around with armed escorts comprised of Three Percenters, Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. Because, you know, you can't be too sure about them antifa ninja assassins.

At best, these liars and professional conspiracy theorists are hucksters who cynically milk the right wing rubes who listen to them with slack-jawed devotion. Or they're morally-supine ineffectual "leaders" like Kevin McCarthy, who, as the rioters were breaching the Capitol Building, abandoned Republican Congressman Bruce Westerman in his inner office to leave him to fend for himself in his toilet clutching a toy sword while McCarthy's security detail hustled him to safety.

Republicans look silly to the rest of us in the reality-based community as we watch them try to fend off illegal voters, zombie voters and multiple voters, antifa rioters and meat rations even as the real threats swarm around them (Maybe Bruce Westerman can tell you all about that, maybe not). And now the adults have taken back control and, thus far, Republicans haven't given us on reason to give control back to them.

Monday, April 26, 2021

Pottersville Digest

So, who was running the illegal side of the Trump Organizarion's money flow?

Can we spell "insider trading", boys and girls?

Now you know why the governor is just the 4th most important official in Texas.

Articles like this read like satire because billionaires are such incurable sociopaths.

Big, strong men.

Of course he's not racist. Of course some of his best friends are black. Of course the hospital has a "liberal agenda." Of course he's a southerner.

To borrow a phrase from the late Molly Ivins, Kevin McCarthy is weaker than bus station chili.

At least we won't have to worry about seeing this screaming assclown for at least a while.

"Donald Trump has told associates he’s so angry about Doug Ducey not overturning the Arizona election results that he’d campaign for the Democrat if Ducey ran for Senate."

This is the asshole to whom the GOP is groveling. When are they going to realize he never gave a shit about their party?

In case you were still wondering why it was so easy for rioters to sack the Capitol January 6th...

Another day, another murder of an unarmed black person, the day after Chauvin's conviction.

"The Republicans abandoned democracy after the twin shocks of 2008, Barack Obama’s election and the financial panic. Inside a democratic context, conservatism can be healthy. On the outside, it’s not. Outside the rule of the majority, it becomes barbarism."

Fuckbook's internal documents shows they didn't do shit about the insurrectionists. But they sure are good at coming down on people like me, aren't they?

I have never been more glad to live so far away from Florida as I am right now.

Opinions are what social media is for, Sidney. Courts of law deal in facts and evidence.

"His company helped finance the opposition to the three referendums approved by Key West voters by wide margins in November. The effort involved a disinformation campaign, funded in party by a 'dark money' scheme that included contributions from the cruise industry, which publicly stayed out of the campaign."

Strictly a happy coincidence, I'm sure. I'm also sure he gave that million dollars to DeSantis out of the goodness of his heart.

Rick Santorum (R-Froth) on the birth of a nation: "We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture."

The five centuries of genocide was just incidental and necessary, don'cha know? And finally...

Cops always piss and moan about "lack of context" when brief videos of their crimes are shown. So it doesn't help their cause any when they only show 20 seconds of body cam footage to their victims' families. Also, keep in mind that as horrifying as this very brief clip is, imagine what they're NOT showing the family.

Sunday, April 25, 2021

Pottersville Digest

(They'll no doubt go down in history as the Magnificent 11.)

Oh, they didn't die in vain? OK, show me one lasting positive accomplishment we'd achieved in that two decade-long multi-trillion dollar boondoggle that saw the Taliban retake key cities and provinces in Afghanistan.

You'd have to go back to 19th century Tammany Hall in NYC to find cruder forms of electoral fraud than what's going on in Arizona right now. The press isn't allowed to audit the audit (except for OAN), there's apparently no security and the "auditors" are using blue pens that could invalidate the ballots. Oh, and there's Lin Wood and dark money funding this sham of an audit. The right wing simply will not stop trying to push this square pg into the round hole.

Why do so many of these nutjobs have to come from Queens?

Both siderism at the USAF Academy. Well, the grads aren't having it.

I've been saying all year that the only thing that'll save this republic from the extreme right wing is its stupidity.

I see Donnie Dumbo is still holding Cabinet meetings at Mar a Lago with his grandchildrens' stuffed animals and action figures.

Sorry, asshole. There's no do-overs in politics.

How dare these assholes? They don't know what persecution is.

Actually, this Republican's Corvette was found "parked under a mini-van."

Florida Man strikes again.

No comment needed. Just go read Chauncey.

Next to their reaction to Obama's eight year-long presidency, this may be the longest right wing temper tantrum in history.

This was racial profiling at its worst and nothing was done about it... until now.

White Republicans have been losing in droves over the last few years so it's predictable that they're literally changing the laws to unconstitutional degrees to claw back a bit of their former dominance. But they'll only wind up hurting their own voters moreso than Democratic voters.

Your Karen o' the day.

Chris Christie: Just as stupid as he ever was.

After all the crimes he's committed, this psychopath's still looking at no more than five years in prison.

As always, Rand Paul displays his brain-numbing ignorance on every subject under the sun like a playground flasher showing his junk.

If you live in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut, then this is very good news, indeed. At this point a year ago, NY, NJ and MA were 1,2,3 in the nation

"Two Kansas women who said they traveled to the nation’s capital on Jan. 6 for a peaceful protest supporting Donald Trump have now been arrested in connection to the deadly riot that followed the former president’s speech and tweets." Bullshit. No one travels from Kansas to DC on short notice for "a peaceful protest", especially if they're right wingers.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Kansas...

"Sometime after a January 2017 drug bust near Interstate 70's main exit for President Dwight Eisenhower's boyhood Kansas home, $72,000 in cash seized by the local sheriff's department disappeared."

The money shot:

"No criminal charges have been filed over the missing $72,000. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation closed an inquiry into the former sheriff in October 2019 and the missing funds were 'fully investigated,” spokesperson Melissa Underwood said'."

Senator Skeletor is "disappointed with Democrats".

I guess Democratic voters were disappointed enough in Republicans to take away their control of the Senate and the White House. And finally...

Words of wisdom from Dr. Fauci. We don't need to repeat Trump's lies about coronavirus. It'd just further muddy the waters.

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Pottersville Digest

"I mean, you know, the freaking Al Qaeda Magazine, when it used to exist, used to advise Al Qaeda adherents that a great way to terrorize lots of Americans is to use a readily available large tool, namely a car or a truck, to run down Americans as a way of committing terrorist attacks in this country." -Rachel Maddow

God, I wish I'd thought of this. So let us call Florida's HB1 "the Al Qaeda Terrorism bill."

For the second time in as many nights, Tucker Carlson has erupted in maniacal laughter on his show. Methinks he's been dodging the nice lady with the paper cup, again.

Your Brad o' the day.

As the tee shirt says, Fuck your feelings.

Why we can't have nice things.

If Democrats have to grab power, it's because Republicans aren't wielding theirs responsibly.

Yes, Richard Grenell is that colossally stupid.

It'd be difficult for even a casual political observer to see how clinging to Trump's rotting political corpse has any upside.

Wednesday, Ted Cruz was screaming about the nonexistent Green New Deal. Thursday, he was screaming about the DOA court packing movement. I suppose tomorrow he'll be screaming about the danger posed by the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires.

The ironic thing is, the mother is white.

Meanwhile, here in "liberal" Massachusetts...

For littering.

LITTERING.

Another day, another insane right wing conspiracy theory.

My son was at these protests last year.

Is this racist cop bullshit ever going to end?

The GOP isn't the party of Lincoln. It's the party of Alex Jones.

"And while Greene has railed against big government, the AJC found that the family’s North Fulton construction business profited for years from work on taxpayer-subsidized low-income housing."

In other words, she's a sawed-off, Appalachian version of Fred Trump.

Yes, please keep backing the blue by shamelessly documenting your crimes on Facebook.

Does entry into the GOP require a lobotomy?

Your co-Brad o' the day.

Sure, why NOT pile on the son of a bitch?

We seriously need to get rid of "qualified immunity". This essentially allows cops to evade civil accountability as long as they feel they're doing something legal even when they aren't. Because God forbid we should expect our constabulary to know the laws they enforce.

"Oklahoma has passed legislation that offers protections to motorists caught in riots who unintentionally kill or injure rioters. The bill also increases penalties for blocking roadways during demonstrations."

"I didn't intend to kill those 12 black protesters with my truck, officer."

"OK, y'all are free to go."

Mr. "Quality over Quantity" got shot down on CNN yesterday.

So, the Senate passed a hate crimes bill designed to protect Asian Americans from violence. It passed 94-1. Guess who the lone holdout was. I'll give you a clue- He loves to give fist pumps to terrorists just before they sack the Capitol.

US Fighter jets against US protesters? Seriously?

Not only had this Trump-loving terrorist gotten just a year in jail, they're also crediting him with 108 days of time served, meaning he'll be on the loose again in less than nine months. And finally...

Fake president admits to casting fake vote for fake candidate.