Month: January 2022

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Melania Trump WTF?!

Melania Trump Decided To Endorse Ben Carson’s New Book – Big Mistake

Remember Ben Carson? Sure you do. He’s the guy who went from doing brain surgery on kids to being the worst Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in U.S. history. Carson’s only qualification for the post was that as a child he’d lived in government housing because his family was poor.

And now Dr. Carson is back, but not to save anyone’s life, which he’s really good at, but to plug a book he’s written entitled Why America Matters.

What’s the book about? Here’s a brief synopsis from Google Books, which was likely written by Carson’s publisher:

Why America Matters is a children’s book about the Judeo-Christian values of America and its founding, and the importance of the Four Pillars of the American Cornerstone Institute: Faith, Liberty, Community, Life.

Through rhymes and colorful illustrations, readers understand how our founding values continue with today’s patriotic Americans.

That certainly sounds like a very noble endeavor. The “pillars” of faith, liberty, community, and life have indeed been essential to this republic since we declared our independence from Great Britain back in 1776.

Is Ben Carson the best person to write such a book? That’s debatable, but he has as much right to pen a tome as anyone, and he is indeed a well-known man who has a accomplished a great deal in his life.

To help sell the book, former First Lady Melania Trump decided to write a glowing “review” on Twitter (along with a staged photo sitting next to Carson that looks like something both of them probably hated immensely.)

Also, Melania’s review of the book consists of two sentences she tweeted along with the photo:

If you look closely at those two sentences, you’ll notice that Melania didn’t even manage to get the book title correct. She has it as Why American Matters. Is her English really that bad even though she’s been living here for decades?

Also, be sure and catch the two hashtags Mel used: #FosteringTheFuture #BeBest.

Here’s one she needs to add: #IDontRead. That would cover her and the dunce she’s married to.

Want to know why America matters? Because when this country takes a turn towards fascism and autocracy, we vote the grifting douchebags out of office.

Yeah, that includes you, too, Melania.

 

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Capitol Insurrection Crime The Trump Adminstration

Former Federal Prosecutor Says He Expects A Criminal Indictment Of Mark Meadows Any Day Now

According to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, there’s a criminal indictment waiting to be handed down by the Justice Department with the name of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on it.

The recent ruling from the Supreme Court that said failed, one-term former President Donald Trump cannot exert executive privilege, Kirschner noted, applies to Meadows, too, meaning that he can either cooperate with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection or he can be charged with a crime:

“We now know that the Department of Justice is factoring in the Supreme Court’s rejection of Donald Trump’s executive privilege claim. And that clears the decks for an indictment of Mark Meadows.”

Kirschner then explained why the Supreme Court ruling is so devastating for Meadows and other former aides who served in the Trump administration:

“Because if Donald Trump doesn’t have an executive privilege claim, then Mark Meadows can’t invoke Trump’s by extension. I was kind of hoping today [Friday] would be the day — the day that Mark Meadows was indicted. Why? Because today is day 45. Forty-five days since Congress referred Mark Meadows for criminal prosecution.”

However, Kirschner concluded that he expects we won’t have to wait much longer to see Meadows indicted for criminal contempt:

“It looks like we’ll have to wait. At least another couple of days because nobody gets indicted on the weekend, so Monday will be day 48. And if we have to wait another couple of days, or couple of weeks, so be it as long as that indictment comes.”

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Capitol Insurrection GOP U.S. Senate

Ted Cruz Gets Hit With Blowback For Fundraising Email Claiming The FBI Orchestrated January 6

You probably recall that back during the 2016 race for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump routinely insulted Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz and members of his family, insinuating that Cruz’s wife, Heidi, was ugly compared to Melania Trump and that his Cuban-born father had played a role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Cruz was outraged by those attacks on his family, but later paid homage to Trump at the Republican National Convention and has been a subservient lapdog for the Donald ever since.

As a matter of fact, Cruz has now adopted Trump’s tactics and is trying to raise money from a conspiracy theory that has been circulating all over right-wing media suggesting that the FBI planned and carried out the January 6 attack on the U.S.Capitol.

David Corn of Mother Jones reports:

A few days ago, Cruz sent out a fundraising email embracing the right-wing crackpot notion that the insurrectionist January 6 attack on the US Capitol was orchestrated by the FBI or another government agency. Hardcore Trumpists, most notably Fox host Tucker Carlson, have pushed the fact-free idea that the Deep State engineered the assault on Congress to discredit Trump and his political movement. And Cruz has rushed to the front of the loony train. 

The email reads:

“Did ANY FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events that day? We know the FBI has been misused in the past to target President Trump and our conservative movement and run interference for the Democrats.”

We know that? Actually, we don’t, because there’s not a sliver of actual evidence to support such an absurd notion. But hey, who needs facts when you’re shearing cash from the gullible right-wing sheep that populate today’s Republican Party? Facts would only get in the way of the overall grift.

Later in that same email, Cruz adds more layers to the complex conspiracy theory he’s spinning in order to get as many greenbacks as possible:

“What are they trying to hide now about the events of January 6, 2021? I’m working hard to expose the full truth and shine a light on whether there was any FBI involvement on that day… and the liberal media can’t stand it!”

Got that? Cruz now has the FBI and the “liberal media” in the same wild fantasy he’s concocted for the sole purpose of getting people to shill out tens and twenties for his crusade against the evil enemy, even though that enemy consists of other Americans, some of whom work night and day to keep this country safe.

But Cruz didn’t get away with his ruse unscathed. He received plenty of blowback for his complex web of lies. Take a look:

https://twitter.com/NorrinR06303580/status/1484930643884589061?s=20&t=taTVvWi6d-chCZCOmA9coA
https://twitter.com/JMarieT03/status/1484927097458118657?s=20&t=taTVvWi6d-chCZCOmA9coA

Ted Cruz needs to be subpoenaed by the House Select Committee on Jan. 6. If he refuses to comply, that will prove he’s one of the insurrectionists and needs to be charged with multiple federal crimes.

 

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Melania Trump WTF?!

The Auction Of Melania’s ‘Iconic’ White Hat Results In Totally Humiliating Her

Just like her husband, former First Lady Melania Trump really only cares about one thing: The Almighty Dollar.

Sure, Mel pretends to care about issues such as children and cyber bullying, yet she never criticized the Trump administration’s policy of ripping immigrant infants from their parents and placing them into modern-day concentration camps. And she never once criticized her husband’s constant bullying of others via Twitter that eventually led to him being banned from the social media platform.

Melania was dreaming of big bucks today as the online auction of what is known as her “iconic” white hat was being held, which was reported by USA Today:

The centerpiece of the auction, the custom white hat, which Trump has signed, was created for Trump by her personal stylist, Hervé Pierre, to match the $2,105 white crepe Michael Kors Collection suit Trump wore for the daytime ceremonies at the White House attended by Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron.

However, you can’t actually buy the hat. Instead, you bid on something called nonfungible tokens (NFTs.) What’s an NFT? It’s digital money of a sort:

An NFT is a piece of data verifying that you have ownership of a digital item, such as a piece of artwork. The items can also include a video clip, a tweet and more.  

NFTs are recorded using blockchain technology. A blockchain is a decentralized, digital ledger that tracks transactions of items and assets.  

The hat, along with the other two items, was going for an opening bid of $250,000, which was set by the seller.

But with just a few hours left for people to bid, The Washington Post notes, bidding fell far below the jackpot Melania had been hoping for:

When The Washington Post checked the hat auction exactly two days before its indeterminate ending time (advertised as Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time — 2:59 a.m. Wednesday in the East — although a countdown clock on the website ran 24 hours faster than that), the starting bid had dropped to $155,916, and continued to fluctuate around that level. At an earlier point in the 14-day auction, the bids had reached more than $275,000.

Oh, and one other snag the hat auction encountered: Bids could only be made in one specific form of cryptocurrency, the value of which has fallen greatly in recently:

The only cryptocurrency accepted on Trump’s website is Solana (SOL), which has been one of the hardest-hit, falling more than 40 percent over the previous week. The Solana blockchain (a distributed database that stores a secure and decentralized record of digital transactions) also had an outage on Friday and Saturday, further adding to its free fall. Had this auction taken place in December 2021, Trump would have been accepting bids in Solana during a surge in which its value had increased 11,150 percent since the beginning of the year.

Seems there’s one other thing Mel has in common with her husband: They’re both terrible businesspeople who can’t make a buck to save their lives.

Oh well, if things get bad enough, maybe Mrs. Trump can do some more nude photo shoots and see if anyone is desperate enough to pay more than 50 cents to catch a glimpse.

 

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Donald Trump Jr. Social Media WTF?!

According To Donald Trump Jr., Women Who Dye Their Hair Are ‘Poisonous’

With multiple criminal investigations closing in on him, his father, and his two oldest siblings, Donald Trump Jr. is trying to remain relevant and post as much mindless bullshit as possible on social media, because he won’t have access to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram when he gets to prison.

Junior’s latest target? Women who dare to color their hair. He attacked them by comparing then to animals who “develop bright colors” to “warn others of their toxicity.

WTF?! If someone dares to color their hair, that makes them poisonous? Does his father know that, because it’s quite clear the old man uses some sort of coloring in that rat’s nest sitting atop his head.

What about Ivanka? I’m willing to be she also colors her hair and has since she was a teenager.

One good thing did come from Don Jr’s moronic posting: The beating he took on social media.