Trump is tweeting at Bill Barr about Roger Stone again; this time calling for a mis-trial. Maybe now Barr will resign? He said last week that these tweets make it impossible to do his job…
In other news, and in no way serving as a metaphor, this year’s Daytona 500 - the lead lap of which was paced by Trump in the presidential limousine - ended in a giant fucking car wreck.
I’m well aware that debating abortion is a fool’s errand, but I’m obviously not going to allow some dumbass to distort and misrepresent the framework of the conversation.
And this is me still being serious - I pay pretty close attention to what you say.
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Without referencing Trump’s tweet, but following it chronologically, Judge Jackson confirmed that Roger Stone’s sentencing will go ahead on Thursday.
“No need to delay further” (paraphrasing). We’ll know what that actually means when the sentence is handed down; either it’s a “fuck you” or a “message received”.
More swamp draining. Trump commutes Blogojevic. Nothing says “I hate corruption” more than this.
Trump pardoned a few other choice characters, all of whom were in jail for various forms of corruption and abuse of office. He is laying the ground work for pardons for the likes of Stone and Flynn, in that when he dishes out those pardons, he can point to these and say it’s just consistency.
Meanwhile, multi-source reports from the DOJ said that Barr has considered resigning over Trump’s tweets. Of course, it’s not a principled position, it’s just that Barr wants to crime in the shadows and Trump keeps throwing on the klieg lights and crowing “Hey everybody! Look at the crimes my AG is doing for me!”
Barr’s reputation is in tatters. If he goes, we’ll just get someone more obviously corrupt and less spinnable than Barr was at his confirmation (some Dems confirmed him), and McConnell will jam him (it’ll be a him) through. It makes no difference now whether Barr stays or goes, the DOJ has been bent to Trump’s will and will stay that way if and until he is ousted.
Case in point, Manhattan’s lauded and legendary SDNY has been subsumed to Brooklyn’s EDNY for…well…everything. It no longer has autonomy over its own prosecutorial decisions, it has to run everything by EDNY, which is far more subservient to main Justice. The SDNY, which was running a series of high-profile investigations into TrumpWorld has, of course, jurisdiction over the Trump Organization.
In case you haven’t been keeping up with current events, where in some pretty shit now. The rule of law does not exist; Trump has broken it. Justice is what he says it is. We have one shot to save this experiment in self-governance: November. After that, it’ll be too far gone to redeem.
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Michael Milken, Bernie Kerik, amongst others
After Trump tweeted that Stone deserves a new trial, Judge Jackson has confirmed that she won’t send Stone to jail until such motions play out.
I have no idea whether this is customary or not but, given the president’s interference in the case, it’s very on the nose. Would you be allowed to stay out of jail pending appeal motions? Would I? I doubt that very much.
Because it’s a weekday, here’s more news of Trump’s corruption and abuse of office.
According to Julian Assange’s lawyer (salt…pinched), Trump - through cutout Dana Rohrebacker - offered Assange a pardon in exchange for him denying Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election interference.
Given that Trump is a global crusader against corruption, it does seem a little odd that he is happy to fling open the jail doors for those accused or convicted of corruption here. 
Scumbag Rush Limbaugh 12 years ago.
"RUSH: Hey, folks, it looks like the Obama pardon list is starting early. The office of the president-select can already start putting names on that pardon list. I’m sure that Rod Blagojevich is somebody that Obama barely knew and he probably never knew this Rod Blagojevich…
What is going on here with Blago is he was trying to sell the appointment for Barack Obama’s Senate seat, and one of the people he might have been trying to sell it to is the son of the Reverend Jackson.
You know, both parties engage in this stuff, but corruption is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party, always has been, always will be. We throw out our corrupt officials. We make tracks to do it. The Democrats circle the wagons for theirs. So here we have Blagojevich
Including himself, trying to sell the Senate seat for a big-paying labor job. Guess he’s just an average, ordinary guy, Rod Blagojevich, governor of Illinois. I mean, this is psychopathic.
12 years later…
You cant make up this kind of hypocrisy, it really needs its own word at this point.
Fuckpocrisy?
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A statement from Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson shows “Mr Rohrabacher going to see Mr Assange and saying, on instructions from the president, he was offering a pardon or some other way out, if Mr Assange … said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC [Democratic National Committee] leaks”, Fitzgerald told Westminster magistrates court.
And Assange was never even on Celebrity Apprentice
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Fun tidbit: by pardoning Kerik, rather than commuting his sentence, Trump wiped out Kerik’s debt to taxpayers of over $100,000.
#MAGA
The debate tonight has been lit.
Yeah, after watching the candidates, I’m now almost convinced Trump will win in 2020.
In 2016, the Republican primary was a shit show that included Trump claiming to have a normal-sized penis and Cruz eating a booger on live TV.
Primaries are messy.
I get that, but my logic is as follows:
Bloomberg looked terrible, but he’s not leaving soon. Bloomberg’s weakness means that all of the non-Bernie crowd was helped, which just ensures Bernie will have the most delegates and will be the nominee since the convention won’t nominate someone who comes in second.
I’m in the camp that Bernie will be a disaster as a nominee, but I could be wrong on this.
Bernie seems on the path to winning a plurality of delegates. But that doesn’t win him the nomination in the first ballot unless another major delegate holder pitches in with him. In a second ballot, 500 super-delegates crash the party and then it has the potential to get really bad.
If Bernie hasn’t closed out those still standing by more than a few hundred delegates, the supers could elevate one of the others to the nomination. If that happens, the Bernie Bros sack the convention and riot in the streets.
So, Bernie could be a bad nominee but a worse not-nominee. Bottom line: a poor candidate can win with a unified party while a good candidate can lose with a divided one.
2016 is a case in point, when a poor candidate in a divided party only just lost to the worst person in the world fronting a unified party.
I prefer it not be Bernie. But, if it is, I’m all in because a unified party can trounce a Trump.
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