Satchel

Has anybody seen pics of Trump’s 5 children from 3 baby mamas all gathered at the Florida compound to celebrate the joys of Christmas and the loving f their doting father?

It’s notable that Trump only won by 6 even as Democrats didn’t spend one dime in the state. I think we could move the needle with a sizable investment in voter engagement centered around those most negatively impacted by Republican policies.

Poll: Texas abortion case is a warning sign for Republicans: https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-texas-abortion-case-is-a-warning-sign-for-republicans-193548558.html

Absolutely is. But as I wrote earlier, no other help is coming. Texans will either learn to vote while they still can or live permanently under fascism.

Alright, textualists. You’re on the clock.

This is the kind of government that we have allowed to be created in our names as citizens of Texas. If there is to be change, we have to do it. No other help is coming.

Check the coffin for the missing classified info.

Would the poison to which he refers include that of his children sired with immigrant women?

The latest from the populist: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-bemoans-record-stock-market-014448274.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall (Reuters) - Donald Trump, who predicted three years ago that if Democratic President Joe Biden won the White House in 2020 markets would crash, said on Sunday that stock markets hitting record highs were just making "rich people richer." Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, often took credit for a rising stock market when he was president between 2017 and 2021. He was mocked by Biden last week for wrongly predicting a crash when they campaigned against each other in 2020.

Changing the focus momentarily, what must our allies be thinking that a 10” binder of shared secret Intel is missing and nobody will admit to having it or knowing where it is?

So, they won’t get a chance to explore the possibility of Trump’s involvement in the disappearance of these classified docs?

The J6 trial promises to be a doozy https://newrepublic.com/post/177606/binder-highly-classified-russian-intel-went-missing-trump A 10-inch thick binder of highly classified raw data regarding Russian election interference went missing in the final days of the Trump administration, a new report reveals. The loss of the massive binder, which has yet to be found two years after it was first reported missing, included details on Russian agents that informed the government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin had worked to help Trump win the 2016 election, according to a sprawling CNN investigation… …In the waning hours of the administration, Trump ordered a host of documents, including the binder, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for mass declassification in a scheme to prove that the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation into his 2016 campaign ties was a hoax. Republican aides spent days scrubbing the binder, redacting the most sensitive details so that an abridged version could be released to the public, even against the behest of other top Trump administration officials who repeatedly attempted to block the former president from releasing its contents, according to the outlet. A day before his term was set to end, Trump issued an order to preemptively declassify most of the binder’s contents well before it was ready and regardless of some of the redactions. Multiple copies of the redacted version had been created inside the White House, with plans to hand them off to Republicans and right-wing journalists. But that’s not what happened. Instead, White House lawyers scrambled, forcing an immediate retrieval of some documents that had already been sent off, and demanding that the documents be stripped down more… “The Crossfire Hurricane binders are a complete disaster. They’re still full of classified information,” White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson recalled a White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, telling her. “Those binders need to come back to the White House. Like, now.” With minutes to spare before Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows hand-delivered a redacted copy of the binder to the Justice Department for a final review… …“I personally went through every page, to make sure that the President’s declassification would not inadvertently disclose sources and methods,” he wrote in his book detailing his time as Trump’s chief. Meanwhile, the original, unredacted version had gone missing. But Hutchinson believed she had a clue as to its location. In a closed-door testimony before the January 6 committee, Hutchinson pointed a finger directly at her old boss in relation to the possible whereabouts of the original binder. “I am almost positive it went home with Mr. Meadows,” Hutchinson said, according to transcripts.

Anybody planning to buy pieces of Trump’s mugshot suit? https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-selling-pieces-mugshot-suit-read-the-fine-print-2023-12 A new promotion guarantees a piece of Trump's suit if you buy 47 $99 NFTs. The $4,653 purchase also promises a dinner at Mar-a-Lago with the former president. The fine print on the website, however, says there's no guarantee you'll get either

Dems should really raise hell about Thomas not recusing himself: https://www.wate.com/hill-politics/senate-democrats-press-thomas-to-recuse-himself-from-trump-immunity-case/#:~:text=Senate Democrats are calling on,he committed while in office. Senate Democrats are calling on conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from ruling on former President Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and other Democrats on the panel argue that Thomas faces a conflict of interest because his wife Ginni was outspoken in support of Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. “There are so many unanswered questions about the relationship of the justice and his family with the Trump administration that I think in the interests of justice, he should recuse himself,” Durbin said.

Beyond being mean and hateful, the GOP obsession with Hunter is just downright creepy.

Yeah, well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/20/abortion-miscarriage-texas-fetus-stell/ Marlena Stell’s happiness turned to heartbreak after she found out about 9½ weeks into her pregnancy that she had suffered a miscarriage. After she was told last year that the fetus did not have a heartbeat and she no longer had a viable pregnancy, the Texas woman asked her doctor to perform a dilation and curettage, or D and C — a standard procedure to remove the fetus following a miscarriage to help prevent infection or long-term health problems. Stell had the procedure after her first miscarriage in 2018 in Washington state, when she felt so much pain that she could not walk, and she wanted to go through with it again before trying again for a second child, she told The Washington Post. But Stell was even more devastated to learn that because the procedure is also used during abortions, which a Texas law had greatly restricted, the doctor did not want to perform a D and C. Stell would be forced to carry her dead fetus for two weeks before she could find a provider to give her the medical intervention that physicians had denied her.

Good grief. What in the world has happened to this state?

Do we need a law governing the criminal exposure of women who spontaneously abort and their fetuses end up in the toilet?

So, this woman is a felon? https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-woman-miscarriage-results-felony-152114292.html The country’s war against Roe v. Wade has taken a complicated turn in the case of Brittany Watts, 33, a Warren, Ohio woman headed to grand jury on charges that she allegedly attempted to discard the remains of her baby. Watts was handed a felony charge after the traumatizing events of Sept. 22, when she sat on the toilet at 22 weeks of pregnancy and felt the baby passing through, according to the Warren Police Department. Watts heard a “big splash,” a detective said in court last month. By the time police responded to her home, they said the fetus’ remains were stuck in the toilet.

Texans are some of the worst citizens to be found anywhere. That we allow this kind of crap to go on in our names is shameful.

This guy could be gone too, leaving the GOP with a one vote cushion in the House: With little forewarning, YSU's trustees selected Congressman Bill Johnson — one of five Ohio Republican congressmen to back a bogus Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate millions of legitimate votes in the 2020 election — as the university's new president.

Or Wednesday in America. Multiple victims being reported.

Very much so. They’re the ones behind the right wing think tanks taking root on Texas campuses.

This is what’s in store for Texas universities: https://www.salon.com/2023/12/04/dystopian-desantis-appointee-brags-about-college-professors-fleeing-state-over-open-hostility/ Liberal-leaning professors at Florida's public universities are giving up their positions — many of them coveted tenure roles — and blaming their departures on Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' efforts to reconfigure the state's higher education system to align with his conservative principles. According to The New York Times — which interviewed a dozen academics in an array of fields who have left the state's public colleges or given their notice and, in some cases, plan to move to liberal areas — those professors, while acknowledging the hundreds of top academics who remain in the state, have raised concerns that the governor's policies have become indefensible to scholars and students. Just four years after he started at the University of Florida, Dr. Neil H. Buchanan, a prominent economist and tax law scholar, has given up his tenured position and moved north to teach in Toronto. Buchanan left George Washington University to work for the Florida college in 2019 shortly after DeSantis took office that year

If as Jamie Dimon suggests that Texas is no longer a business friendly state, then what the hell is it, since it has a well earned reputation of being anti consumer?