Friday, May 09, 2025

David Souter, former Supreme Court justice

A major passing.  Dan Manga (CNBC) reports:


Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire, the court said in a statement. He was 85 years old.

Souter, who was appointed to the high court in 1990 by by his fellow Republican, President George H.W. Bush, retired in 2009.

Souter, while serving on the court, often vexed Bush and other Republicans by aligning himself with liberal justices in decisions on cases.
And his retirement at a relatively young age allowed a new, Democratic president, Barack Obama, to appoint a liberal justice to replace him: Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

After he retired, Souter for more than a decade regularly sat as a judge on the U.S Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which handles cases arising out of federal district courts in New Hampshire, as well as Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Puerto Rico.





Once named by The Washington Post as one of Washington's 10 Most Eligible Bachelors,[6] Souter has never married, though he was once engaged.[50] He is an Episcopalian.[60]

Souter was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1994,[61] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.[62]

In 2004, Souter was mugged while jogging between his home and the Fort Lesley J. McNair Army Base in Washington, D.C.. He suffered minor injuries from the event, visiting the MedStar Washington Hospital Center for treatment.[63] News of the attack led to public scrutiny of the Supreme Court Police's security detail, which was not present at the time.[64]

According to Jeffrey Toobin's 2007 book The Nine, Souter had a decidedly low-tech lifestyle: he wrote with a fountain pen, does not use email, and has no cellphone or answering machine. While serving on the Supreme Court, he preferred to drive back to New Hampshire for the summer, where he enjoyed mountain climbing.[6] Souter also did his own home repairs[65] and was known for his daily lunch of an apple and unflavored yogurt.[66]

Former Supreme Court correspondent Linda Greenhouse wrote of Souter: "to focus on his eccentricities—his daily lunch of yogurt and an apple, core and all; the absence of a computer in his personal office—is to miss the essence of a man who in fact is perfectly suited to his job, just not to its trappings. His polite but persistent questioning of lawyers who appear before the court displays his meticulous preparation and his mastery of the case at hand and the cases relevant to it. Far from being out of touch with the modern world, he has simply refused to surrender to it control over aspects of his own life that give him deep contentment: hiking, sailing, time with old friends, reading history."[67]

In early August 2009, Souter moved from his family farmhouse in Weare to a Cape Cod-style single-floor house in nearby Hopkinton, New Hampshire, a town in Merrimack County northeast of Weare and immediately west of the state capital of Concord. Souter told a disappointed Weare neighbor that the two-story family farmhouse was not structurally sound enough to support the thousands of books he owns and that he wished to live on one level.[68]

Over the years, Souter served on hospital boards and civic committees.[69][70] He was a former honorary co-chair of the We the People National Advisory Committee.[71]

Souter died at his home on May 8, 2025, at the age of 85.[72][73]

From the moment he was nominated and confirmed, there was always the rumor that Souter was gay.  

I can already hear some homophobe e-mailing me and complaining that I brought it up.  Did you also complain when he was considered an eligilbe ladies' man?

To me that's more offensive since there were never photos of him with a woman on a date despite all the years in the public spotlight.

There's nothing wrong with being gay -- my brother is -- and it is a detail that needs to be noted.

He was an unmarried man in a more homophobic time -- much more -- who never married.  He might have been straight, he might have been gay, he might have been bi, he might not have been interested in sex with anyone at all.  

The 'Souter is gay' rumor became especially intense when conservatives did not like his rulings -- a frequent occurrence.  ABC notes:

In more than 19 years on the bench, he authored notable opinions on abortion, religion and property rights.

His moderate positions surprised and disappointed many Republicans, who had hoped Souter would solidify as conservative the seat vacated by Justice William Brennan, a longtime leader of the court's liberal wing.
Just five years after his appointment, the conservative Weekly Standard branded Souter a "stealth justice," excoriating his position as "one of the staunchest liberals on the court."

For many conservatives, Souter became a symbol of what future Republican presidents should avoid in a nominee.
His most controversial opinion came in 1992, jointly authored by Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, reaffirming the right to abortion under Roe v. Wade and creating an "undue burden" standard for judging state restrictions on the procedure.

"To overrule under fire, in the absence of the most compelling reason to re-examine a watershed decision, would subvert the Court's legitimacy beyond any serious question," the three justices wrote in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

Souter's defenders have long denied he was a secret liberal, emphasizing his respect for precedent and the philosophy of "originalism," which emphasizes the historical meaning behind constitutional clauses and federal laws.





Maybe someone on the right on the Supreme Court right now will surprise us and show real independence?  Maybe that will be Justice Amy Coney Barrett?  She's recused herself from at least one case which shows more ethics and belief in rule of law that Alito's ever demonstrated in all of his years on the Court.  Souter deserves to be celebrated as an independent voice who wrestled with the law when making his decisions.  

Former Justice Stephen Bryer is 86.  If he is still alive when the next president is sworn into office, that president (regardless of party) needs to appoint Bryer to head a committee to come up with a set of ethics -- with real teeth -- for the Supreme Court.  





"The snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Friday, May 9, 2025.  Two -- count 'em -- two Chump nominees flame out in the same day, Chump admits how weak and tired he truly is yet pulls it together long enough to try to con people on 'deals' he's making, and much more. 

Lawrence O'Donnell broke down reality last night on MSNBC.




Lawrence O'Donnell:  And today Donald Trump surrendered and withdrew his choice for confirmation of that position.  And while he was at it, Donald Trump admitted that, in effect, that he's just too old and too weak to do his job.

Donald Chump: I can only lift that little phone so many times in a day 

Lawrence O'Donnell: That's how Donald Trump explained his inability to get the fifty votes he needs from Republican senators plus the vice president to achieve the senate confirmation.  And, you know, he only had to make one phone call to get that nomination through the Senate.  That would be a phone call to Republican Senator Thom Tillis on the Senate Judiciary Committee who publicly came out and defied Donald Trump as we reported to you here last night.  Because Donald Trump is now so politically weak among Republicans in the United States Senate, Thom Tillis said no publicly -- "I will not vote for Donald Trump's choice."  And today, Donald Trump just publicly and meekly surrendered to Thom Tillis -- to that one Republican senator who stood in his way with Donald Trump saying "I can only lift that little phone so many times in a day."  The singelest stupid explanation a president has ever for being unable to achieve a Senate confirmation. 


To be clear, Lawrence was not talking about Janette Nesheliwat.   That was his nominee for Surgeon General.  Was. 

Because yesterday, he withdrew her nomination and is currently going with Casey Means.  

That move resulted in low-rent courtesan Nicole Shanahan crawling out from under her semen encrusted mattress to rail at Chump and Robert Kennedy Junior.  See the group humor post from last night:




Nicole is spitting mad.

What made Chump and Junior think she would just swallow this?

Past behavior?

Well not this time, fellows, this time she's spitting it out of her mouth.  And she's accusing Junior of lying to her -- his former running mate from his failed presidential bid.  He lied to her.  She explain that there was a deal in place: Janette Nesheliwat gets named Surgeon General and she, Nicole, uses all of her 'power' to back Junior for Secretary of Health and Human Services.

All of her 'power'? 

Oh, Nicole, did you learn nothing from Heidi Fleiss?  Please, please tell us you didn't also keep a black book with clients' names in it.

Janette, like Matt Gaetz before her, is now a failed Chump nominee.  And, as Lawrence O'Donnell was noting, so now is Ed Martin.


As Kat notes in "Nazi Ed Martin keeps lying," Ed couldn't stop lying.  And this time, the Senate just wasn't in the mood for it.  Dan Friedman (MOTHER JONES) observes:

As US attorney, Martin fireddemoted, and investigated January 6 prosecutors, threatened to prosecute congressional Democrats for hyperbolic political statements, suggested his office would investigate DOGE critics and former prosecutors faulted by Trump, and harassed medical journals, Wikipedia and Georgetown’s law school with threats to punish them over their speech.

Martin’s remarks at the community meeting justified these actions as merely the GOP-version of what Democratic prosecutors did under Biden. I don’t know if Martin really believes that, but it’s not true.

US attorneys do pursue the policies of presidents who pick them, but within legal and normative limits set by the Constitution, Congress, and longstanding practice. No US attorney, until Martin, volunteered to use his office against critics of government policies, including those who “acted simply unethically” and “chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable.” No other US attorney has reportedly attempted to present a grand jury with evidence for a criminal case against the Minority Leader of the US Senate based on five-year-old criticism of the Supreme Court. Nor has a US attorney personally attempted to use criminal investigative power to seize money from environmental groups awarded contracts by the past administration without having any evidence of a crime.

Martin’s Democrats-did-it-first rationalization for debasing his office is not just his. It is the lie justifying Trump’s broader effort to weaponize the Justice Department and turn the entire federal government into an instrument of his personal interest.

Martin, though only an acting US Attorney, got a torrent of negative press coverage in part because he loudly volunteered himself as the leader of Trump’s crusade to use the DOJ against his political enemies. As we wrote in a March: “In a new administration defined by a mixture of malevolence and ineptitude, Martin has emerged as an avatar: a typo-spewing henchman of the moment, eager to help Trump transform the Justice Department into a political tool—and unable to shut up about it.”

The evident defeat of Martin’s nomination is a loss, though by no means a death knell, for proponents of the unitary executive theory’s claim that Justice Department prosecutors are the president’s lawyers, and have always been.







Meanwhile, the economy remains in the toilet where Chump dropped it.  So Chump's lied about a deal with the UK.  Stephanie Ruhle addressed the reality last night on THE 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE. 





"Pure theater."  "Just a show."  Also see Paul Krugman's "Will Trump Pretend to Fix What He Broke?."


Returning to a topic from yesterday . . . 

Only a fool, radical Socialist, MAGA or idiot -- or a working of multiples of the prior listing -- would look at DOGE as a good thing.  It has destroyed so much and it did not achieve anything but destruction. Bryan Metzger (BUSINESS INSIDER) notes:



Bill Gates sharply criticized Elon Musk in an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday, calling out the Tesla cofounder's role in cutting foreign aid as part of his Department of Government Efficiency initiative.
The Microsoft cofounder said that cuts made to foreign aid, particular programs administered by the now-shuttered US Agency for International Development, were "stunning."

"He's the one who cut the USAID budget. He put it in the wood chipper, because he didn't go to a party that weekend," Gates told the Times of Musk. "The world's richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world's poorest children."

Gates also referred to an instance early in President Donald Trump's term in which administration officials said that the US had been sending condoms to Gaza via foreign aid. In reality, the US had been providing contraceptives to a province in the African country of Mozambique.

"They cut the money to Gaza Province in Mozambique. That is really for drugs, so mothers don't give their babies HIV," Gates said. "But the people doing the cutting are so geographically illiterate, they think it's Gaza and condoms. Will they go meet those babies who got HIV because that money was cut? Probably not."


This is what Ben Cohen is applauding.  See Marcia's "MAGA and Jerry ice cream? Pass and pass on the hideous Ben Cohen" and grasp how disgusting Ben Cohen has become.  DOGE was a fake ass scheme to destroy jobs, to destroy needed government oversight, to destroy the economy and to allow Chump to go after the safety net.  It was all smoke and mirrors.   Jessica Riedl (THE ATLANTIC) notes realities on 'savings' from DOGE:


Musk initially promised that he would eliminate $2 trillion of the $7 trillion federal budget, before scaling back his ambitions to $1 trillion, and then $150 billion. Even that revised target is highly improbable.

Precisely measuring the budgetary effects of the Musk experiment remains difficult, but we can begin by looking at the claims made by DOGE itself. In late February, its website claimed to have achieved $55 billion in annual-spending reductions. However, its “wall of receipts” detailed only $16.5 billion of this total. Half of that figure came from a typo claiming $8 billion in savings from terminating an $8 million contract. As The New York Times has reported, that was far from the only accounting error. Once such mistakes as false contract cancellations, triple counts of the same reform, and the inclusion of contracts that expired decades ago were fixed, verified budget savings stood at just $2 billion.
The DOGE website now claims $165 billion in savings. However, it still details only a fraction of the supposed cuts, and earlier accounting errors have given way to new ones. A common sleight of hand is canceling a “blanket purchase agreement”—in which the recipient had been given the equivalent of a credit limit to incur necessary costs on a project—and then claiming savings of the full credit limit rather than the (in many cases substantially lower) amount that was actually spent. Even assuming that the website’s stated savings have become twice as accurate as they were in February, annual savings would reach perhaps $15 billion, or 0.2 percent of federal spending.

Fortunately, more reliable sources than DOGE’s self-reported figures exist. The best is the Treasury Department’s monthly accounting of spending by agency and program. Any true DOGE spending reductions should show up in these budget totals, as should the results of other White House initiatives, including cuts to public-health spending and the ongoing efforts to eliminate USAID and the Department of Education.
These spending data do not flatter the Musk project. Total federal outlays in February and March were $86 billion (or 7 percent) higher than the levels from the same months a year ago, when adjusted for timing shifts. This spending growth—approximately $500 billion at an annualized rate—continues to be driven by the three-quarters of federal spending allocated to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense, veterans’ benefits, and interest costs. These massive expenses have been untouched by DOGE’s focus on small but controversial targets such as DEI contracts and Politico subscriptions.

We can see this by looking at Treasury’s breakdowns of monthly spending by agency. Short-term program spending can fluctuate greatly, and sustained trends might not be fully apparent for several months, but the early data are nonetheless revealing. Perhaps the highest-profile cuts under the Trump administration so far have been to public-health spending and foreign aid. And yet, even here, the numbers are rounding errors in the context of the federal budget. Public-health spending, previously about $8.2 billion monthly, fell to $7.1 billion in March, led by cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the Health Resources and Services Administration, the latter of which funds state and local health grants to serve underprivileged families.

Monthly spending on targeted foreign-assistance programs has fallen from $2.4 billion to $1.4 billion. This includes spending on “Global Health and Child Survival” programs—which includes highly effective funding to combat HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and other illnesses in less developed countries—falling in half to $400 million a month. Payments to “International Organizations and Conferences,” such as the United Nations, have fallen to zero. And monthly USAID spending has fluctuated wildly but overall declined by one-third in the first quarter of 2025.

These cuts have already been highly disruptive to beneficiaries, contractors, and employees, and they threaten immense long-term harm. And yet, their total monthly savings have totaled just $2.1 billion. At the Department of Education, another shutdown target, spending has remained steady aside from the early termination of post-pandemic funding that was already scheduled to phase out over the next year.

Cost reductions from laying off federal employees have been too small to show up in the data. This is not surprising, because even laying off one quarter of the 2.3 million federal civilian employees would shave off just 1 percent of federal spending. To be fair to DOGE, more savings will materialize in October, when the salaries of the 75,000 federal employees who took a buyout come off the books. That should save Washington $10 billion a year, or 0.1 percent of federal spending—except even that is an overestimate, because Washington will surely end up hiring contractors to perform at least some of the work previously handled by those civil servants, and many contractors cost more than employees.


DOGE was destructive and it destroyed many people's lives.  DOGE motivated Americans across the country to take to the streets and protest.  That is the strength of democracy.  I point that out -- and do so at the start -- to remind those of us on the left that Socialist Ben Cohen is not our friend.  See Marcia's "."  Grasp that he's gone to the other side.  He was a believer in The Politics of Destruction so it was easy for him to turn around and hop onto The Politics of Destruction and praise DOGE at his Twitter side, at the Twitter handle he created just for DOGE and at the pro-DOGE website he started.  He is not our friend.  He is not a friend of democracy.

In 2024, The Politics of Destruction made the call that it was more important that Kamala Harris lose.  So you got those working against We The People like Jill Stein going on any outlet that would have her and attacking Kamala non-stop while going easy on Donald Chump.  Amy Goodman was part of that campaign and played footsie with her in a ridiculous interview.  Mehdi Hasan did actual journalism and those who attacked him for that exposed themselves for the fake asses that they were.  The people who worked to stop Kamala are not to be trusted.  

This country is in crisis right now because Chump is back in the White House.  I try to dole out a little reality at a time here because it is overwhelming.  The midterms matter so much.  Democrats need one house of Congress.  I am pulling for both.  Donald Chump is a threat to the country and those of you on the left who refused to pull together better STFU about us pulling together for your pet cause.  You don't matter right now if you worked to put Chump in the White House.  You made that choice.  So Palestine or whatever you've lept onto in the minutes since the election?  Doesn't matter.

What matters is saving this country.  To do that we need control of at least one house of Congress.

I don't care that you want universal healthcare.  I want that too.  But that's not what 2026 is about.  2026 is about getting control of at least one House so that we can push back against Chump.

That's all it's about.

Rashida Tlaib and her groupies betrayed this country.  

We don't have time for their right now.  People of color are under attack in this country.  People who are immigrants -- with the paperwork or without -- or look like they could be immigrants are under attack.  LGBTQIA+ people are under attack.Seniors are under attack.  You betrayed all of those communities by working to put Chump back in office.  You had the gall to object to Adam Kinzingler and Liz Cheney campaigning for Kamala.  The gall.  As we in the Black community have repeatedly noted you got a different standard for Bernie.  You had your pet issue and you screwed the whole damn country.

Guess what?  Everything's on hold now.  This is not Poppy Bush is in the White House, this is not Ronald Reagan is in the White House.  This is not about someone we disagree with on basic issues.  This is a deranged convicted criminal who openly defies the Constitution and the court system.  

The house is on fire.  This is not the time for you to worry where you'd like to put the new couch.  This is the time to put out the fire.  And we do that only by taking control of at least one House.

So if that means incumbent Center Centerist who is in love with the Israeli government gets re-elected, that's what it means.

The house is on fire.  We do not have time right now to focus on renovations.  We have to stop the fire.  

You didn't take the threat of Donald Chump seriously in the lead up to 2024.  So sit your ass down now because we can't afford more of your 'help' or more of your 'brilliance.'

Wasting 20 million dollars to defeat Democratic Party incumbents?  We can't afford your bulls**t, White boy.  You're  putting us a risk, not yourself.  Sit your ass down.

All money going to the Democratic Party should be about defeating Republicans.  That means you take that 20 million and you donate to incumbent Dems and you take that money and you donate to people like the Democratic candidate in Arizona's sixth district.  They will be running against a weak Republican incumbent. 

 

 Arizona has six districts.  Four of those districts went to Republicans.  Andy Biggs won with 60.4% of the vote, Eli Crane won with 54.5% of the vote, David Schwelikert won with 51.9% of the vote and Ciscomani won with 50.0% of the vote.


He is the easiest to pick off.  Until the Democratic incumbent decided not to run for re-election in 2022, the seat was held by a Democrat.  He is the weakest Republican Arizona has in the House.  He got even less votes than Chump.  Mid-terms are usually change elections if the same party controls the House and the White House.  

Currently the candidates for 6th district's Democratic Party primary are Johnathan Burma, Chris Donat, Mo Goldman, JoAnna Mendoza and Samantha Severson. You want to weigh in on a primary, you can help with that one.  That's how the money needs to be spent.  Not challenging incumbent Democrats but picking off the weakest Republicans and pouring money into their opponents.

Again, the house is on fire.  I think David Hogg's strategy is a losing strategy but get Chump out of the White House and you can do whatever you want and I honestly won't care.  If you hadn't screwed us all over in 2024, I wouldn't care now. If we had Kamala in the White House, you could do whatever crazy scheme you wanted no matter how many times it has failed in the past.  But we don't have that luxury, you ensured that when you didn't vote for Kamala in 2024.


We can't afford you right now.  In 2023, I announced here that I would be voting for the Democratic Party's presidential candidate whomever it was.  And that's because some of us are smart enough to know that a convicted felon who has already attempted an insurrection in his first term is a clear and present danger to our country.  You weren't smart enough to grasp that or you just didn't care.  So you really need to sit your asses down because 'all you did' in 2024 (which was more than enough) was hurt the country.  In 2026, you might hurt yourself -- yes, even you White Karens -- male and female -- could be harmed.  Most of you haven't been yet which is why you can be so cavalier to think that the best use of campaign donations would be to target incumbent Democrats.  But we lose in 2026 and even the various privileges your White skin brings you might get revoked.  


In the meantime, AP reported yesterday, "Russia and Ukraine both reported attacks on their forces Thursday on the first day of a 72-hour ceasefire called by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Ukrainian lawmakers unanimously approved a landmark minerals deal with the U.S."  Don't know what to tell you there except when you put a Chump in the White House, Putin's going to make a chump of the Chump. 

The world laughs at Donald Chump and his terrible twos -- one crying fit after another as he does his second term as president.  Waaah!  Waaah! cries Chump and the world responds, "Just let him wear himself out.  We're using the Ferber method." 

 
Unlike David Hogg, I'm not the queen of tiddly winks.  While I'm not a sports fan, I did go to my children's games and root for their teams.  So I know at least that you don't decide in the middle of the game to toss out all the plays that you've practiced and instead just have everyone do whatever they feel like. 

Hogg has no plan.  He has only a sketch and he wants to ignore reality and past performance and history because he just knows he's right.  We can't afford his lack of education or lack of experience.  He needs to go find a closet, hide in there and text and make videos.  He can handle that, if nothing else. 



ZorrolittoTheElder / Melissa
‪@zorrolittotheelder.bsky.social‬
Dear David Hogg, white men, ProHammies, SJD, far left populists and antisemites:
“Now isn’t the time for infighting! We need to join together!” Wait, so before anything affected you, that was the time for infighting? You felt no need to join together until you needed help, and now that the impending crisis is here, we should all pile in the back of our own car so you can drive?
May 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM


We'll wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:




Trump administration abused Death Master File to purge at least 6,300 Social Security numbers, including children and seniors

Letter to SSA Acting Commissioner | Letter to SSA Assistant Inspector General for Audit 

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and 11 Senate Democrats, slammed the Social Security Administration (SSA) for transferring thousands of Social Security numbers associated with immigrants to the SSA’s Death Master File, marking them as dead to pressure “self-deportation,” and demanded the agency’s watchdog launch a full investigation into the decision.

Exploiting Social Security’s Death Master File to terminate the SSN of living individuals without full due process violates bedrock constitutional rights. The Trump administration’s actions, which amount to falsifying government records, also violate the Privacy Act. Even Trump’s lawyers reportedly agreed

“This decision will result in the ‘financial murder’ of living individuals improperly placed in the file, with everything from their credit cards and banking to their ability to access healthcare and housing being ripped out from under them,” wrote the senators.

The senators also called on the SSA Office of the Inspector General to launch a full investigation into the agency’s decision to begin using the Death Master File for this purpose, including how an individual gets targeted, who at the agency has decision-making authority, and how those who have had their SSNs nullified through this process can get it fixed if there is a mistake.

The Trump administration’s abuse of Social Security and its flagrant violation of constitutional guarantees of due process set a precedent that could endanger the rights of all Americans. It also undermines the accuracy of the Social Security Administration’s data, which could lead to more mistakes that limit a person’s access to benefits, regardless of their immigration status. 

“The purpose of SSA is to provide for the welfare of number-holders and their dependents, not to serve as an arm of President Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. This move degrades the solvency, reliability, and accuracy of SSA systems and programs. It is as cruel as it is thoughtless—the impact will be felt in communities across the country and in the future of SSA programs themselves,” concluded the senators to Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek. 

The letter was signed by Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawai’i), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Angus King (I-Maine), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.). 

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Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Stop Fingering My Corn Bread" went up last night.  The following sites updated:



  • Thursday, May 08, 2025

    Nicole Shanahan thought someone needed to hear from her

     BULLY BOY PRESS CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB  & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS  & THE COMMON ILLS  -- THE KOOL AID TABLE  

    PASS AROUND PARTY THING NICOLE SHANAHAN CRAWLED OUT FROM HER SEMEN ENCRUSTED MATTRESS TODAY TO DECLARE HER OUTRAGE OVER FOX NEWS PERSONALITY JANETTE NESHELIWAT BING TUGGED OFF THE FIELD 1 DAY BEFORE SHE WAS TO FACE A SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING THAT COULD HAVE MADE HER DONALD CHUMP'S SURGEON GENERAL AND SCOURGE OF MODERN MEDICINE.


    WHILE SOME OF US WERE DEPRESSED BY THE NEWS BECAUSE WE WERE LONGING TO HEAR THE NOMINEE EXPLAIN HOW SHE SHOT HER FATHER DEAD WHEN SHE WAS 14.

    WE ALSO WANTED TO HEAR HER  TAKE QUESTIONS ON WHY, IF SHE BELIEVES IN "MIRACLES IN MEDICINE" AS SHE SUBTITLED A BAD BOOK SHE CHURNED OUT, DIDN'T JESUS SAVE HER INNOCENT FATHER FROM HER FATAL SHOOTING?

    AND WE WANTED TO HEAR HOW BECOMING A DERTMATOLOGIST WAS 'HONORING' HER DEAD FATHER AFTER SHE KILLED HIM?


    DID HE HAVE OILY COMBINATION SKIN?

    NICOLE DOES AND SHE EXPLAINED THE MYSTERIOUS RASH THAT SHE REGULARLY GETS "ALL AROUND MY HOO-HAAA AND BOTH KNEES AND BOTH ELBOWS.  I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THAT SKIN IS ALWAYS SO RUFF AND WORKED OVER.  DR JANA-YETTE [SIC: THAT IS NICOLE'S PRONUNCIATION] ALWAYS KNEW WHAT CREAM TO USE EVEN WHEN I SOMEHOW GOT ATHLETE'S FOOT IN MY HOO-HAAA.  I SAID MY HOO-HAAA!  THAT'S H-O-O AND THEN H-A-A-A."

    BUT MIGHT THE NEW NOMINEE, CASEY MEANS, BE ABLE TO HELP NICOLE WITH THOSE SKIN ISSUES AND POSSIBLY EVEN SOCIAL DISEASES AS NEEDED?


    "WAIT,"  THESE REPORTERS ASKED -- MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB  & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS  & THE COMMON ILLS  --  "ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU TOOK SOME SORT OF A BRIBE?  THAT YOU AGREED TO PUBLICLY SUPPORT JUNIOR ONLY IF YOU WERE BRIBED?"


    NICOLE WAIVED US AWAY AS SHE GRABBED HER PHONE, DIALED A NUMBER AND SAID, "SERGEY, IT'S NICOLE.  I COULD USE A QUICK FIFTY.  YOU GOT A COMMUTER FOR ME?"


    FROM THE TCI WIRE:



    Speaking of fake asses, Ben Cohen.  Please read Marcia's "MAGA and Jerry ice cream? Pass and pass on the hideous Ben Cohen" to grasp the right wing turn that Cohen has made.  And, no, there's no excuse for it.  And when you look at all the damage DOGE has done, to grasp that Cohen has cheered them on and has set up a pro-DOGE website?  This is why DSA can't be trusted.  Ben was a Socialist.  He was not a Democrat.  And it's so very easy of those two factions -- MAGA and DSA -- to flip.  Look at Naomi Wolf, for another example.








    Ben Cohen is not our friend.  He is part of The Politics of Destruction.  And his eagerness to see the system torn down allows him to applaud DOGE which has left and will leave millions of Americans suffering.  But that's okay to these freaks.  That's why they didn't rally you to vote for Kamala Harris.  They're okay with the suffering, they're okay with the destruction Chump is carrying out.

    And that's why you need to be suspicious when Socialists are brought on air and not identified as such.  Their little circle jerk where they protect each other and put one over on you put Chump back in the White House.  Journalism requires disclosure but their circle jerk opposes it.  


    Ben's revealed himself and only an idiot's going to listen to him ever again.


    Grifters don't do work, they're lazy.  If you doubt look to the Oval Office and you'll see how lazy grifters truly are.  And the inability to actually work results in really poor choices.  We see that in his Cabinet.  Steve Benen (MADDOW BLOG) offers:

    In the abstract, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seem like the kind of Cabinet officials who’d get along. They’re both middle-aged Republicans from the Midwest. They’re both former Fox News personalities. They’re both married to women who also used to work at Fox News. They were both confirmed to important jobs they’re unqualified to hold.

    Two peas in a pod, right?

    As it turns out, no. The headline in Politico read, “Duffy vs. Hegseth: Friction over air safety erupts in Trump’s Cabinet.”

    The trouble appears to have begun in earnest on Monday night, following an incident in which a military helicopter caused two commercial flights to be diverted near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Fox News’ Laura Ingraham pressed Duffy on who was responsible, and the secretary replied, “The FAA doesn’t know, we asked the DOD.”

    In an apparent rhetorical shot at Hegseth and his Pentagon team, Duffy added, “The DOD has promised radical transparency, they should tell us who is qualified to take a helicopter out of the Pentagon. I don’t know, but they have to tell us.”

    A day later, Duffy returned to Fox News and took a softer tone, but he nevertheless reiterated that the Defense Department hadn’t provided him with the details he requested. 

    Two TV personalities who never should have been put into any presidential Cabinet.  This is a Cabinet built to dismantle everything.  Every one is at risk.  MAGA will put aside any pretense of support for veterans so even veterans are at risk.  Ashley Murray (INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) notes:


    Veterans and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday protested the Trump administration’s planned cuts for the Department of Veterans Affairs that include slashing some 80,000 jobs, which many worry will affect the massive agency’s delivery of medical care and benefits.
    The group rallied outside the U.S. Capitol shortly after VA Secretary Doug Collins finished lengthy questioning before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, where he defended the cuts as necessary to improve the department’s efficiency.

    Holding signs that read “Veterans Healthcare Not For Sale,” a crowd of former service members joined by senators and representatives decried that argument as “nonsensical,” as Sen. Richard Blumenthal, top Democrat on the Veterans Affairs Committee, put it.

    “We’re not going to allow veterans to be betrayed by this administration,” Blumenthal, of Connecticut, said. “I’ve just come from a hearing with the VA secretary, and to say it was a disappointment is a huge understatement. That hearing was a disgrace.”

    Chump is the destruction of the system.  And some Socialists want to pretend like that destruction doesn't mean the destruction of the safety net but it does.  


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  • "The Snapshot:"

    "The Chump Criminal Syndicate"

    "Chump would like to disappear us all"

    "Mush brain Chump"

    "Maybe Marjorie Taylor Green can mud wrestle for the Senate seat?"

    "And she thinks she's ready for the Senate"

    "Nancy Mace, she's a big disgrace"

    "junior finally wins an 'honor' he's actually earned"

    "chump's rewarding all the crooks and criminals"

    "honoring some 1 who stood up for democracy"

    "TV, racism, silence on racism, Doo-Doo DeSantis and more"

    "The 'gift' Rashida gave us all"

    "The losers: Fetty Crap, Doo-Doo DeSantis and Fudgy Pants Cory Mills"

    "NETFLIX"

    "Seven more shows get the axe"

    "Weekend box office"

    "Chump wants us to ignore science and stick our heads in the sand"

    "Pam Bondi looks the other way intentionally"

    "Chump's lost the only thing that ever mattered to him"

    "All these decades later Jim Bakker can't stop work..."

    "The whole world hates Musk"

    "Somebody better yell timber because the wood has f..."

    "You take Ed Martin to the curb in a trash bag, you don't confirm him"

    "The Who did the what?"

    "Lady Gaga's new record"

    "MAGA and Jerry ice cream? Pass and pass on the hideous Ben Cohen"

    "Books, Shatner and more"

    "Chump and Junior are destroying America's future"

    "Comedy in the Kitchen?"

    "Blue Cheese Wedge Salad in the Kitchen"

    "Chickpea Salad Sandwiches in the Kitchen"

    "Media: The glorification of Tina Fey remains unwarranted"

    "Chump's lost the only thing that ever mattered to him"

    "He's now the ultimate soft guy"

    "His nickname is Noodles"

    "Somebody better yell timber because the wood has fallen"

    "At least the ladies will be happy"

    "THIS JUST IN! LIEFELESS BELOW THE NAVEL! "