It’s been several months since Ivanka Trump made any public appearances, and that alone is unusual for her because she, much like her father, revels in attention from the media.
But Vanky is back, and she’s singing her own praises about a donation of 1 million meals she supposedly helped arrange for the nation of Ukraine, according to the Mercury News:
On Friday, Ivanka Trump returned to social media after a two-month absence to thank everyone who was involved the 1 million meal-delivery effort. She also told Fox News: “The Ukrainian people have shown inspiring courage and resilience during the invasion of their country by Russia. With this food, I hope to provide a small source of comfort and nourishment for Ukrainians who are suffering so greatly.”
Thank you to the Pastors, Rabbis, truck drivers & volunteers who are risking their lives to deliver 1M meals.
Grateful for all they’re doing as we provide a small source of comfort & nourishment to Ukrainians who are suffering so unjustly from Russia's invasion of their country. pic.twitter.com/PKR30WAIfH
What Ivanka neglected to mention is that her father may be partially responsible for what’s currently happening in Ukraine. After all, he deliberately delayed military aid to the country in an effort to get dirt on his 2020 Democratic opponent, Joe Biden.
Trump also repeatedly caved into demands and requests from Russian mass murderer Vladimir Putin, even refusing to chastise Putin for interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
Twitter had some choice words for Ivanka.
Her daddy/husband dangled life saving military aid as part of a quid pro quo to help himself politically, and this self-serving twat makes a hushed voice, self-fellating bullshit video patting herself on the back? Fuck this & fuck her. She’s the rotten fruit from a poison tree.
My mom used to bake all weekend for a yearly fundraiser in town. She told no one, just delivered a few dozen pies and some pastries and went back home. She did it to help, not for recognition. Trumps would donate exactly ZERO if they couldn’t get a pat on the back for it.
If you watched any of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, then you probably came away with two unmistakable reactions:
Judge Jackson is eminently qualified for the high court and deserves to be confirmed, which she likely will be
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee acted like the biggest douchebags on the face of the planet
One of the most annoying performances was handed in by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who sits on the Judiciary Committee even though she isn’t an attorney, doesn’t have a law degree, and graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelor’s degree in home economics.
In the midst of the confirmation hearings, Blackburn also sent out a tweet that wound up getting her loads of social media mockery:
The Constitution grants us rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – not abortions.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) March 23, 2022
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are not found in the Constitution. Instead, they come from the Declaration of Independence.
“Blackburn attempted to extol virtues of American democracy last week tweeting the Constitution grants us rights to ‘life, liberty and pursuit of happiness not abortions.’ Problem is that the phrase ‘life, liberty and pursuit of happiness’ appears in the Declaration of Independence. Not the Constitution. Blackburn should know that and should have deleted that tweet three scores and seven years ago. Last time we checked, it’s still up on her Twitter account.
“Not exactly a shining moment for American democracy.”
Marsha Blackburn is a raving idiot. She’s too stupid to be allowed out in public, let alone in the United States Senate where life and death issues are discussed.
If it wasn’t enough that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had to face criticism from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week about the sentences she imposed on those convicted of possessing child pornography, now a woman whose husband allegedly flashed his penis at an underage girl is trying to suggest that Judge Jackson is part of a larger conspiracy inside the Democratic party.
On Friday, police in Maine arrested former independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler on child porn charges:
Prominent Maine political figure Eliot Cutler was arrested Friday on child pornography charges.
Cutler is facing four counts of possession of unlawful sexually explicit materials Class C, which means subjects are younger than 12-years-old, Matthew J. Foster, district attorney for Hancock and Washington counties, told NEWS CENTER Maine.
Even though Judge Jackson has absolutely no connection to Cutler, that didn’t stop Boebert from tweeting out this disgusting tidbit:
“A well known Democrat megadonor in Maine was arrested on… …You guessed it! Child pornography charges! The reason KJB was picked becomes more and more obvious as the days go on.”
A well known Democrat megadonor in Maine was arrested on…
…You guessed it!
Child pornography charges!
The reason KJB was picked becomes more and more obvious as the days go on.
As Jamelle Bouie noted in the New York Times, such specious allegations by Republicans are no accident:
“The belief that Democrats are pedophiles — and that at its top levels the Democratic Party is an elaborate pedophilia ring — looms large in the QAnon conspiracy theory, which is something like orthodoxy for a substantial portion of the Republican base. In a poll taken just before the 2020 election, half of Donald Trump supporters agreed that ‘top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings.’ And in a poll taken last year by the Public Religion Research Institute, 15 percent of Americans say that ‘the levers of power are controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles.'”
Twitter wasted no time calling out Boebert for her bullshit and blatant hypocrisy:
Boebert do you really care because your voting record proves differently. You voted no on “H.R.485 – Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act” along with 72 of your fellow republicans. Tell us how you care as I don’t see it other than using those kids for political gain.
Even if this was true, which it isn’t, KBJ will be one judge on the Court. She won’t shift the 6-3 conservative balance. In other words, this take is just plain silly.
A well known Republican strategist who worked on tRump's campaign and for the RNC was charged with distributing child pornography. https://t.co/1kKeB3Mp9u
Proving that his sense of timing is almost as pathetic as his business acumen and taste in clothes, failed, twice-impeached former President Donald Trump decided he’d reference a new poll from Nevada showing him beating President Joe Biden in an election that’s 32 months away.
Since he no longer has access to Twitter, Trump sent out notice of the poll via his official spokesperson, Liz Harrington.
“Wow! We love you Nevada and I will be seeing you all very soon!” – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/qSPZlZBYjt
What use is a poll that’s not even going to be proven right or wrong for over two years? A lot can change in that amount of time, especially in the political world.
The tweet brings to mind some of the absurd claims Trump made during the 2020 election. Even then he claimed the polls had him winning big. For example:
U.S. President Donald Trump told Reuters on Wednesday he does not believe opinion polls showing his likely Democratic opponent Joe Biden leads him in the 2020 race for the White House.
During an Oval Office interview, the Republican president said he did not expect the election to be a referendum on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and voiced surprise the former vice president was doing well.
“I don’t believe the polls,” Trump said. “I believe the people of this country are smart. And I don’t think that they will put a man in who’s incompetent.” (Reuters, April 29, 2021)
Or consider this:
President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked a growing chorus of polls that do not anticipate a favorable outcome for him on Election Day following the release of new numbers that suggest a critical swing state is all but out of his reach.
“There’s tremendous support. Poll numbers are very good,” Trump said during a press conference in Nevada. “You don’t see the real poll numbers.” (US News & World Report, October 28, 2020)
But hey, that 2024 Nevada poll looks solid!
It didn’t take long before social media ridicule and mockery began.
2024 polls this far out is next to worthless.
— I'm not a smart man, but… (@TheSmartGump) March 26, 2022
Those polled were 70% white. Nevada is 47% white. Sit down.
The Supreme Court ruled that President Joe Biden in indeed commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces, which has been true for every president in history, as clearly laid out in the Constitution.
However, the decision wasn’t unanimous, which suggests that three of the most conservative justices either think Biden isn’t commander-in-chief or haven’t bothered to read the document they swore to “preserve, protect, and defend” before they took their seat on the highest court in the country.
Vox reports that the 6-3 decision is a troubling sign that the judicial branch has become more political than ever:
The Court’s decision in Austin v. U.S. Navy SEALs 1-26 largely halted a lower court order that permitted certain sailors to defy a direct order. A group of Navy special operations personnel sought an exemption from the Pentagon’s requirement that all active duty service members get vaccinated against Covid-19, claiming that they should receive a religious exemption.
A majority of the Court effectively ruled that, yes, in fact, troops do have to follow orders, including an order to take a vaccine.
The decision is undeniably a win for the balance of power between the executive branch and the judiciary that has prevailed for many decades. But the fact that the Court had to weigh in on this at all — not to mention that three justices, Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch, dissented from the majority — is a worrisome sign about America’s judiciary.
Alito’s reasoning in his dissent is nothing short of tortured logic. According to him, members of the armed services should have the right to disobey orders handed down by their commanders, including the president of the United States, because the vaccination order didn’t provide a strong enough rationale for a religious exemption to refuse the COVID vaccine.
“In order to win at trial,” Alito wrote in response to the Navy’s warnings, “it would not be enough for the Government to posit that sending an unvaccinated Seal on such a mission might produce such consequences.” Rather, the Navy would have to prove that requiring vaccination “is the least restrictive means of furthering the interest it asserts in light of the present nature of the pandemic, what is known about the spread of the virus and the effectiveness of the vaccines, prevalent practices, and the physical characteristics of Navy Seals and others in the Special Warfare community.”
But as Vox notes, allowing one servicemember to disobey a direct order opens the proverbial barn door, which would allow every military member to do the same, and that would lead to chaos and total anarchy in the armed forces. Does that sound like it would be conducive to an orderly and strong military?
Alito’s dissent is also directly in conflict with prior decisions on matters of orders and the military:
As the Supreme Court held in Goldman v. Weinberger (1986), “the essence of military service ‘is the subordination of the desires and interests of the individual to the needs of the service.’”
Surprisingly, it was Justice Brett Kavanaugh who provided the perfect counterbalance to Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch.
The Constitution is very clear about who is at the top of that chain. It says, in unambiguous terms, that “the President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.”
