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   As life constantly teaches us, no good deed goes unpunished and no major crime goes uncompensated. Ain't capitalism grand?

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     Meanwhile, in "liberal" Massachusetts...

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    "Zion Zioning Doodong Dadang." Anyone who votes for this blithering fucking idiot is also a blithering fucking idiot. Full stop. Fuck trying to "understand" these morons.

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     These are two headlines that appeared in the Washington Post on the same day. They provide a stark contrast between the parties. You can either choose good old pragmatism and responsible governance or fear and intimidation.

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     So now Dementia Don is going after others with dementia. I know, I'm shocked, SHOCKED.

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     So, press credentials to NBC and MSNBC were withheld but Nazis were allowed in without vetting. Gotcha.

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     Add a "d" to Turley's surname and you'll have his true identity.

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     Issa is just a half a step away from espousing the Great Replacement Theory.

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    Trump? "Selfless"? "Never considers himself"?! Boy, this woman doesn't just drink the Koolaid, she mainlines it straight into her arteries.

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     Meme intermission.

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     Oh no, no cognitive impairment at all.

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     Trump sandwich: All tongue, Russian dressing.

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    New explosive development: The magistrate who had Alexander Smirnov rearrested is now accusing his defense counsel of trying to help him flee the United States.

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     This was a sign that was spotted at CPAC. Read it and tell me what's wrong with it. I'll sit here and wait.

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     I suppose congratulations are in order for AI succeeding in bringing back Gertrude Stein.

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     Oops. The antediluvian Alabama Supreme Court once again said the quiet part out loud.

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     “But right now America needs the crazy uncle at Thanksgiving — not the snowflake niece.” Let's ask Mary Trump for her expert opinion on that. And finally...

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     They should offer him a deal: We'll pay all your legal fees with one condition:

     You drop out of the 2024 presidential race.

     Decisions, decisions.

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Alexander Smearnov: The Democratic Gift That Keeps on Giving

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

If House Republicans deliberately tried to find a worse chief witness for their Joe and Hunter Biden Salem Witch Hunt, they couldn't have possibly found one worse than Alexander Smirnov. In all honesty, if James Comer and Jim Jordan went out of their way to tank their own investigation into the president and his son Hunter, then Smirnov was the guy they would have picked to do it.

     Smirnov is such a shady character that if you were to do a Google image search on him, virtually all you'd get are pictures of the retired Russian figure skater of the same name. Only a serious refining of your search parameters would turn up even a handful of pictures of the actual Russian FBI informant after leaving a courthouse in Las Vegas yesterday after he was, incredibly, released from custody.

     And yet, not only this guy shadier than the margins of a Lautrec painting, but the FBI paid this guy undisclosed sums of money to be an informant for them without even vetting him or his claims. And then, just yesterday it was revealed that Smirnov had or has ties to Russian intelligence and got his Hunter Biden "dirt" from them.

    This was after telling his handler at the FBI that for four years, 2015-2019, he got it from Burisma executives.

   This whole Smirnov/Giuliani/Kostiantyn Kulyk/Andrii Derkach/GOP hit job on the Bidens is starting to look like a large jigsaw puzzle. A big section is put together, then another big section & pretty soon it's inevitable that the whole puzzle will be put together so we can see this for the conspiracy it is. So, yes, Smirnov was recently exposed as the George Santos of Russia.

     He lied about President Biden and Hunter getting $5,000,000 bribes apiece, he lied about Burisma hiring Hunter to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems” and he lied about the 17 recorded phone calls, text messages and two financial documents. He lied about everything.

    But you know who was telling the truth? Burisma's CEO, when he testified before Comer's committee. He categorically denied having any contact with Joe Biden or there being any payout. Lev Parnass, who was squarely in the middle of this character assassination plot, recently said on Twitter that he'll never forget the day he showed Giuliani the transcripts of the testimony. "(H)e turned red with anger and screamed 'bury it, get rid (of it)'”.

     Something you'd perfectly expect an ethical former federal prosecutor to say when confronted with incontrovertible evidence that queers the narrative.

    And, speaking of Smirnov and Giuliani, according to Parnass (who's teasing an upcoming book launch), the connection is there.

     And, it appears as if the FBI knew Smirnov was a liar at least as far back as 2019, which makes their own mendacity an even more bitter pill to swallow. Predictably, Republicans who were until very recently hip-deep in this shit show are now trying to crawl away from it all since Smirnov was arrested in Las Vegas and even madly deleting any references to it (Except for Chuck Grassley, another co-conspirator, whose Smirnov lies are still on his official Senate page).

 

     And now, it seems as if all Putin's stooges in the FSB had to do was stovepipe these lies straight to Republican congressional leadership and could assume they'd be swallowed hook, line and sinker. Which, of course, they were.

    

     But, regardless of all the Republican defections, there will always be the True Believers.

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     So, that's why I'm hearing calliopes in the distance.

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     Kari Lake: "I don’t want to sit and look backwards"? Since when?

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     Has the irony been lost on anyone that Smirnov was arrested at an airport named after a Democratic Senator?

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     I don't know whether to feel sorry for these people or laugh at them. But I will say that laughter is more therapeutic than sadness.

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    $400 for #TrumpSneakers? Save your money. Get some REAL knockoff kicks that are actually priced what they're worth.

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    No refunds. Delayed shipping times and vague delivery dates. Possible bait and switch. IOW, another typical bag over the head Trump con job. "Thanks for your hard-earned money, losers, now fuck off and die."

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     This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. A bunch of lower middle class people giving nearly $300,000 to bail out a so-called billionaire found guilty of fraud. And all to pay four days of the interest.

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     Meme intermission.

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     When they arrested Smirnov in Las Vegas, he'd just come back from overseas. Of course he's a flight risk.

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     Look at where Rudy is now. A drunken, broke-ass old clown. This is Alina Habba in 40 years. And, speaking of whom...

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     You know who else became a household name? Typhoid Mary.

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     What a sad, vain little man he is.

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     Oh how I wish Tucker had been there in person.

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     Since when the fuck were Republicans ever responsible and capable, Danny Boy? After the Civil War, I mean?

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    How can you sell out of something that doesn't exist?

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    That's because President Biden is a legitimate head of state and not a carnival barker looking to make a quick buck off his name to pay off hundreds of millions in fraud penalties.

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     I love the fact that Bannon can't keep a straight face listening to this lunatic. And finally...

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     Keep in mind, these allegations are coming from a guy who made sexual advances to a person applying for a job.

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     Nothing quite says "Jackass" like selling gold sneakers for $400 a pop the day after you're hit with a $450,000,000 fine for fraud.

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     So, the fat man got hit with a $364 million judgment plus he's barred from being an officer of a company in NY until he's 80.

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     By comparing Trump to Navalny, Lee Zeldin gives us yet another reason to be grateful that he's no longer in Congress.

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    Trump is, statistically, at the end of his life span. The fact this asshole is still shaping world events and scaring entire alliances compels me to conclude that the only thing keeping him alive and "relevant" is some bored and cruel Higher Being that has nothing else to do with its time. Looking at it from that perspective, Trump is, in a cosmic sense, the ultimate catfish.

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    Oh, testify sister! I could see the rank hypocrisy from the outset. And the stink got the most rank when the white judge told the black woman to essentially not to get too uppity when addressing the white woman.

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    Now just wait for these right wing button men to claim this is all part of "the deep state cracking down on conservative voices." Wait for it, wait for it...

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    This neither shocks nor surprises me because all these the principles in this sorry shit show are all grifters, liars and con artists. When are we finally going to reach that tipping point where we can finally write off these people on general principle?

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     Because the last thing we want to see is Angry Black Person Syndrome.

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    "When you throw out the word ‘racism,’ do me a favor. Have more evidence before you do it, so it can’t be dismissed via plausible deniability or something else."

     You're defending a woman who got fired for defending blackface. For good measure, she kept insisting Santa and Jesus were white. How's that for evidence, stupid? (Tip o' the tinfoil hat to Constant Reader, CC_

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     There is no God and if there is then He's a shareholder.

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     See you March 25th, asshole.

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     Ladies and gentlemen, Congresswoman I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own.

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     She has her uncle pegged and she doesn't need to be a clinical psychologist for that insight. People have called Trump a complex man but he's really not. He's wearisomely predictable and, after all these years of being in the political spotlight, many of us have him pegged as well as Mary Trump. But she's right on the money when she says that money and the illusion of his success are all that matters to him. He's a fraud and he may or may not know it or acknowledge that failing to himself. But at the center of his being, where most people have a soul, is a giant sucking need that no amount of lies, boasts or adulation could ever hope to fill. Trump is a humanoid-shaped black hole constantly in search of validation.

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     This is the fatal victim of yesterday's mass shooting at the KC Chief's rally yesterday.

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     Happy Valentine's Day. You're under arrest.

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     Another Republican profile in courage. And finally...

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     Oh Christ, this assclown again?

Five Dollars Goes a Long Way

     Just hours after Trump finally got hit with some long-delayed comeuppance for falsifying business records and cheating New York taxpayers, some Scientologist assholes by the names of Grant and Elena Cardone set up a Go Fund Me account for poor Donald Trump. Impossible as it is to believe, they thought if they set up a ridiculous goal of $355,000,000, they could count on average Americans to bail him out.

     Seriously, this looks like a Photoshopped parody of a Go Fund Me campaign. Aside from the cartoonishly high fundraising goal, the picture they picked is one of countless photos taken of Trump during one of his Manhattan civil court appearances in which he looks like he hasn't had a bowel movement in a month. There he is, looking as always like the miserable prick he always is, sitting next to Alina Habba, the worst lawyer who ever lived, and the one who single-handedly cost her client over a half a billion dollars. Yeah, of all the millions of pictures taken of Donnie Dumbo over the decades, that's exactly the one I would've picked for a fundraiser designed to play on the fear and paranoia of rubes to get them to chip in for a legal judgment of a guy who recently bragged about having $400,000,000.

     As of this moment, they've raised just over $70,000 for this shameless grifter, which you can probably find between the couch cushions of one of the waiting areas at Trump Tower. It's notable that out of the nearly 2000 suckers who've sincerely contributed to this latest grift, the Cardones are not among them, as far as I can see.

     In other words, like Trump, when they play the part of the Great Philanthropist, they keep their wallets firmly against their fat asses and expect others to do the giving. However, last night I began looking at the comments and noted some people were chipping in the minimum five dollars so they could speak their mind. These are 16 of the choicest comments I've found so far.

     Note who the latest contributor at the time was.