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And receding.

"Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars...."

What do you expect to happen when bean burritos are so cheap and plentiful.

If it votes like a duck....

It is a core value of right-wingers that they will NOT change their allegiances when confronted with evidence to the effect that their loyalty is not respected but abused. Many will even double down.

But that will change......nothing.

ANOTHER Russian Oligarch Dies Mysteriously in Putin’s Russia -Reuters Russian energy oligarch Igor Shkurko was found dead in a Siberian prison cell Tuesday after he was accused of taking a bribe. Shkurko, 49, was the deputy general director of energy company Yakutskenergo. He had reportedly submitted appeals against the bribery allegation the day before being found dead in his cell. Shkurko, who was a member of the pro-Putin United Russia party, is now one of many unexplained deaths that have occurred since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Experts estimate that at least 39 high-profile figures have died mysteriously since the start of the war. Russian authorities released no details surrounding Shkurko’s death, but said they saw no evidence of a “criminal death.” Shkurko was accused of demanding a bribe worth approximately $6,200. He was married with two sons.

National Security Officials Testify That Trump Tried To Seize Voting Machines In bombshell testimony to the special counsel grand jury, Trump administration national security officials testified that they had to tell Trump they didn’t have the authority to seize voting machines after the 2020 election. CNN reported: Chad Wolf, the former acting Homeland Security secretary, and his former deputy Ken Cuccinelli were asked about discussions inside the administration around DHS seizing voting machines when they appeared before the grand jury earlier this year, according to three people familiar with the proceedings. Cuccinelli testified that he “made clear at all times” that DHS did not have the authority to take such a step, one of the sources said. Trump’s former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, in a closed-door interview with federal prosecutors earlier this year, also recounted conversations about seizing voting machines after the 2020 election, including during a heated Oval Office meeting that Trump participated in, according to a source familiar with the matter. The fact that those conversations happened in the Oval Office suggests that Trump was trying to get the federal government to seize the voting machines in swing states so that he could claim that there had been fraud and stay in power.

90% of people will continue to call it "Bishop Grandin" for decades.

And proud of it.

AKA usual Albertabama politics.

And here I thought that the Harpers had left.

You mean sports a brush cut or afro?

Reads like a pretty generic statement. The Rings of Power was so bad that every week the ratings dropped and by the end of the story arc, they were having trouble finding people who bothered to watch. Peter Jackson's involvement gives some measure of optimism. We shall see.

But are we ever going to see epics like Lord Of The Rings or the Harry Potter movies again? The most recent Dune movie was pretty anemic by comparison.

At this point, Trump is living in a fantasy world and nothing is going to change that, even if he is convicted in one or all of the several criminal indictments he is facing. It will only crumble when he is behind bars and then his reactions are going to be something bizarre.

I LIKE this signing. If he can run, he ought to be a terror.

'A nightmare for Secret Service': Trump is hoping for 'kind of a Jesus Christ thing' with perp walk spectacle Former President Donald Trump is hoping his arraignment on Tuesday will be “kind of a Jesus Christ thing” as he plans to turn himself in during daylight hours at the Manhattan courthouse, Rolling Stone reports. According to a law enforcement official involved in security planning for the high-profile booking, Trump declined an option for a Zoom arraignment even as his Secret Service detail “argued in favor of holding the proceedings outside of court business hours, at night with minimal cameras and less risk.” “He wanted a perp walk, he wanted daylight hours,” the law enforcement official told Rolling Stone. “He wants to get out of the vehicle and walk up the stairs.” READ MORE:Trump believes being publicly 'handcuffed' for a 'perp walk' would be politically advantageous: report “This is a nightmare for Secret Service," the law enforcement source added. “But they can only strongly suggest — not order — that Trump enter through the secure tunnels.” A source “close to” the former president’s legal team said Trump is hoping to show his supporters that he’s “absorbing all this pain from all around from everywhere so you don’t have to. It’s kind of a Jesus Christ thing,” the legal team source said, describing it as “a powerful message” that tells the public “if they can do this to me they can do this to you.”

Justice Department Has New Evidence In Trump Classified Documents Probe: Report The Justice Department has gathered new evidence in its investigation into former President Donald Trump’s removal of classified documents from the White House that may point to possible obstruction, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Sources familiar with the matter told the newspaper investigators are homing in on whether Trump attempted to impede the government’s efforts to recover sensitive documents from his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida, or if he directed anyone to do so on his behalf. The Post reported federal investigators have gathered evidence that Trump might have sifted through boxes of documents after he received a subpoena to return them, possibly to keep some of the files despite the order. As part of the probe, the government has also obtained the emails and text messages of Molly Michael, a former assistant who worked for Trump in the White House and at Mar-a-Lago during the documents episode. Any case would hinge on investigators proving Trump intended to impede or obstruct the subpoena, which could prove difficult. The Post added the government has evidence the former president asked his lawyers for advice on how to keep the records he had in his possession, which could demonstrate his intent to do so. A Trump spokesman told the publication the ongoing investigation has “no basis in facts or law.” Trump "personally examined" boxes of docs out of a "desire to keep certain things in his possession," report says Special counsel Jack Smith's team has amassed new evidence of potential obstruction by former President Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation, according to The Washington Post. Justice Department and FBI investigators obtained "particularly helpful" emails and texts from Molly Michael, a former Trump White House aide who followed him to Mar-a-Lago before leaving the job last year, according to the report. The messages "provided investigators with a detailed understanding of the day-to-day activity at Mar-a-Lago at critical moments," according to the Post, and have used the messages to help understand Trump's actions last year. Investigators are particularly interested in whether Trump may have obstructed government efforts to collect and return all sensitive materials that he took home to Mar-a-Lago, according to the report. Investigators have spent much of their time looking at what happened after Trump's advisers received a subpoena in May demanding the return of all classified documents. Investigators have found evidence that Trump "looked through the contents of some of the boxes of documents in his home, apparently out of a desire to keep certain things in his possession," sources familiar with the investigation told the Post. The team now suspects that Trump "personally examined" at least some of the boxes moved from a Mar-a-Lago storage area after the subpoena was served, based on witness statements, security footage and documentary evidence, the sources said. Though Trump's team handed over some documents, the FBI later discovered. https://www.salon.com/2023/04/03/feels-obstruction-y-experts-say-it-may-be-game-over-after-aide-gives-doj-key-evidence/

Only two years too late.

But can you guarantee that all of the reports are completely true and objective? Have you not heard of copaganda?

Trump's supporters are blithely ignoring that Trump would sell them all out in a New York second to get 20 minutes off his sentence. On the other hand, they would do that to him if the situation was reversed.

But they loved to serve their fellow man.....

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for the prosecution of President Biden in response to the indictment of former president Trump. Greene tweeted: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG Impeach Biden. He’s given us every reason and the family banking records and more are giving us receipts. But now that the gloves are off.. Prosecute any and all crimes. Enough of this witch hunt bullshit. It has been a crazy couple of days in the news, but this tweet by Rep. Greene is worth looking at, not for her call to prosecute Biden, but for how she and many other Republicans view the justice system and American politics. Rep. Greene seems to want President Biden prosecuted because it would even the score with Trump. It is irrelevant that President Biden has not committed crimes. He must be prosecuted because Trump was indicted. In the view of Rep. Greene, the justice system isn’t about upholding the rule of law. The justice system in the United States exists to target political enemies and exact revenge for allies who will be potentially held responsible for wrongdoing.

Trump is being told by his former lawyer Jenna Ellis that he is at war and he should not surrender to the police. Ellis tweeted: Jenna Ellis @JennaEllisEsq Trump should refuse to surrender to New York and use this opportunity to work with DeSantis, who has said Florida will not assist an extradition request. If Trump is REALLY going to fight against weaponization of government on on behalf of America, take DeSantis’s offer and unify the Republican base. This is war. Ellis said that Trump should take DeSantis up on his offer not to assist in any extradition and refuse to surrender to the cops because Republicans are at war and they must unify the party. There is no evidence that DeSantis is trying to help Trump. He could be trying to get his rival for the 2024 Republican nomination locked up in jail because it is difficult to run for president from behind bars. Trump’s indictment has brought to the surface how lawless Republicans have become. Sen. Lindsey Graham advised Trump to go punch cops, and now Ellis is telling Trump to refuse to surrender and provoke a standoff with law enforcement. It is almost as if the people around Trump are trying to get him locked up because it would be good for the MAGA brand.