Author: Andrew Bradford

Proud progressive journalist and political adviser living behind enemy lines in Red America.

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Joe Exotic Brutally Trolls Trump From Prison As Donald’s Next Indictment Looms

“Tiger King” star Joe Exotic has been following recent headlines suggesting that failed former president Donald Trump’s ex-chief of staff, Mark Meadows, testified before a grand jury impaneled by Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, and he’s got a message for the Donald that’s certain to enrage the notoriously thin-skinned Trump.

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Meadows had indeed appeared before Smith’s grand jury:

One inquiry is focused on Mr. Trump’s efforts to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, culminating in the attack by a pro-Trump mob on the Capitol during congressional certification of the Electoral College results on Jan. 6, 2021. The other is an investigation into Mr. Trump’s handling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office and whether he obstructed efforts to retrieve them.

That led Exotic — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — to send a message to Trump via Twitter (and likely with the help of someone not currently incarcerated):

“Hey@realDonaldTrump – Ask @MarkMeadows for advice for your legal problems just like you let him dictate mine. I will save you a bunk and a bed roll. #JoeExotic2024“

Exotic is currently serving 22 years in prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill his rival, Carole Baskin.

The former animal trainer also sought a pardon from Trump, but was turned down, an issue that Exotic also addressed in an accompanying tweet on Tuesday.

As you probably noticed from the hashtag he used, Exotic is now running for president himself in the 2024 election, which seems fitting when you consider the rogue’s gallery of Republicans lining up be the next GOP presidential nominee.

 

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Capitol Insurrection Crime Donald Trump GOP

Mark Meadows Just Testified Before Jack Smith’s Grand Jury – Trump May Be Charged For Jan. 6

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has testified before a grand jury impaneled by Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, suggesting that failed ex-president Donald Trump may wind up being charged for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to the New York Times.

One inquiry is focused on Mr. Trump’s efforts to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, culminating in the attack by a pro-Trump mob on the Capitol during congressional certification of the Electoral College results on Jan. 6, 2021. The other is an investigation into Mr. Trump’s handling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office and whether he obstructed efforts to retrieve them.

It would certainly seem that Meadows is likely to have more information about what took place on Jan. 6 than what may have happened to classified documents the former president took with him to Mar-a-Lago in violation of federal law.

George Terwilliger, an attorney for Meadows, refused to confirm that his client had appeared before Smith’s grand jury.

“Without commenting on whether or not Mr. Meadows has testified before the grand jury or in any other proceeding, Mr. Meadows has maintained a commitment to tell the truth where he has a legal obligation to do so.”

Meadows has already been instrumental in helping investigators understand what was taking place inside the White House during the final days of the Trump administration, the Times notes.

Mr. Meadows was around for pivotal moments leading up to and after the 2020 election, as Mr. Trump plotted to try to stay in office and thwart Joseph R. Biden Jr. from being sworn in to succeed him. Some of them were described in hundreds of text messages that Mr. Meadows turned over to the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol before he decided to stop cooperating. Those texts served as a road map for House investigators.

It remains unclear what exactly the special counsel might charge Trump with for his activities surrounding the Capitol insurrection. Recent guilty verdicts against members of the Proud Boys, a domestic terrorist organization, for seditious conspiracy, have led some to suggest that Smith might also seek to prosecute Trump on a similar criminal complaint.

 

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: The US Is Unsafe For Migrants Because We Have So Many ‘Natural Disasters’

According to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), immigrants fleeing their home country due to climate change need to stay where they are because the United States has so many natural disasters that it might wind up being more dangerous than the nation they came from.

At a hearing of the House Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee, Greene was in full dumbass mode as she told Department of Homeland Security official Blas Nuñez-Neto, “Right here, it says that you say the reason why people are coming to America today is because of violence, food insecurity, severe poverty, corruption, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic. So we have homelessness here in America. Natural disasters, talk about climate change. This is the fourth largest country in the world. We have an extremely diverse climate. We have a wide range of natural disasters.”

“97 natural disasters occurred in 2021,” Greene added. “I don’t think this is very safe for migrants here in America. We had 97. How many are they having in their country?”

Greene then went on to name the sorts of disasters to be found in the U.S.

“Wildfires, heat waves, droughts, flash floods, winter storms, cold waves, tropical cyclones, and on and on and on.”

“But yet they need to come to our country because of climate change?” she asked. “It’s not a safe country either, by the way. In America, there were 1,313,000 violent crimes in the US, and that was in 2020.”

Well, damn, Marge! If things are so freaking dangerous in the United States, when you are planning to pack up your shit and move? They say Russia is lovely this time of year, provided you don’t dare say something negative about Putin and wind up “jumping” from a 10-story building.

Just when you think Margie can’t possibly get more bigoted or more ignorant, she opens her mouth yet again and proves otherwise.

Here’s the video:

 

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Social Media Calls BS On Fox Host’s Claim She Was Told To Leave A Restaurant For Praying Over Her Food

For years now, Fox “News” has suggested that there’s a war on Christians, Christianity, and the Christmas holiday, though the “proof” they usually supply to support such claims is tissue thin and downright laughable.

Such is the case with something Fox host Harris Faulkner said while hosting “Fox News Tonight” on Monday.

Faulkner told viewers, “For those of us who believe, we must be bold in our faith right now. When you gather in public spaces, pray thankfully over your food — even when the server gives you the stink eye or tells the manager that your peaceful grace is triggering them.”

She added, “I had it happen to me. I’ve been asked to leave a restaurant for openly bowing my head in prayer hands — in America. It’s all good. They don’t deserve my money anyway.”

Did that really happen? Hard to tell, especially since Fox is known to traffic in lies and conspiracy theories. That’s why they recently had to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for repeatedly lying about the 2020 election, which some of its hosts insisted was “stolen” from failed former president Donald Trump, despite there being no evidence to support such a claim.

Twitter users weren’t buying what Faulkner was selling.

 

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Twitter Users Point And Laugh When Trump Shows Up With Hair Horns And A Bad Makeup Job

It’s so damn easy to make fun of failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump. Especially when he provides all the material needed to mock and ridicule him.

It’s also easy to make fun of Trump because he’s a walking dichotomy.

He’s ignorant but pompous. Vain but somewhat slovenly. Rich but with hints of pure white trashiness.

So when he showed up in Iowa as part of the 2024 race for the White House, it was a big media event. And therein lies the problem for Donald.

He probably wanted to look his best for the good people of Iowa, but he only managed to look like a complete fool.

That brings us to this video from Friday, which was shared on Twitter by Ron Filipkowski:

Be sure and notice (how could you not?!) the hair horns he’s sporting, along with the orange makeup, which looks like it was applied with a damn trowel. It’s downright embarrassing, and you’d think he’d be ashamed to show himself in public looking like a damn clown, but as we learned some time ago, the man has no shame and will do absolutely anything for attention because he’s a malignant narcissist.

Twitter certainly noticed, and the mockery was absolutely delicious.