#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

[danielravennest]

Ah yes, it is backing to think it did more. Ok, specifically what over 3.5 years that was better than being the first president after winning our fight to even BE a country? Or winning the civil war. Or maybe buying most of the country for practically peanuts? Or kicking off the whole idea of national parks? Or our highway system? What about the whole moon thing?

He's put more Americans out of work than anyone in history.

 

[Kara Spengler]

You should ask Jim that and see if you don't get made fun of or blocked.

You mean stonekettle? The one time I replied to him he did not like it. I consider the more maggots that block me the better as it lessens the chance of us interacting though.

 

[Beebo Brink]

You should ask Jim that and see if you don't get made fun of or blocked.

Any chance you could translate what Kara said into something that makes sense to me? I read her comment three times and still couldn't figure out what she meant. I was left with the general impression that she was at odds with Jim Wright, which is odd because he's usually spot on with his insights.

 

[Beebo Brink]

You mean stonekettle? The one time I replied to him he did not like it. I consider the more maggots that block me the better as it lessens the chance of us interacting though.

You consider Jim Wright a "maggot"? What planet are you living on?

 

[Kara Spengler]

You consider Jim Wright a "maggot"? What planet are you living on?

Actually, I typed that sentence while still figuring out who Jim was. No, I do not consider him a maga type but surprise surprise I do consider him to the right of me.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Any chance you could translate what Kara said into something that makes sense to me?

No. It looked like verbal diarrhea. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

You mean stonekettle? The one time I replied to him he did not like it. I consider the more maggots that block me the better as it lessens the chance of us interacting though.

Wait - what? Stonekettle's part of the resistance. He's far from being a MAGAt!

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Any chance you could translate what Kara said into something that makes sense to me? I read her comment three times and still couldn't figure out what she meant. I was left with the general impression that she was at odds with Jim Wright, which is odd because he's usually spot on with his insights.

The gist of it was that Trump was claiming to have done more in the last 3.5 years than any other president in history. Kara listed a few past presidents' accomplishments, facetiously asking if Trump's "accomplishments" were greater than those.

Using the pronoun "it" to refer to the Orange Fuckasaurus, however appropriate, does kind of weird the sentences a bit.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Wait - what? Stonekettle's part of the resistance.

He'd yell at you for that accusation too.

 

[Free]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Such is the way of narcissists. If he can't get his fill of praise and adoration from his cult, he starts falling apart.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Trump administration replaces Manhattan U.S. Attorney | Washington Post

The Trump administration announced Friday night that Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, whose office has handled a number of investigations involving the president or his campaign, will be leaving that job.

Attorney General William P. Barr announced the change, saying the president plans to nominate the current chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, for the job.
Berman’s office has been conducting a criminal investigation of President Trump’s lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in a campaign finance case that has already led to charges against two of Giuliani’s associates.

Anyone else smell a rat?

 

[Kara Spengler]

Wait - what? Stonekettle's part of the resistance. He's far from being a MAGAt!

No, but he is to the right of me. Anyways, that sentence about maga people was more in general than about him.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Actually, I typed that sentence while still figuring out who Jim was. No, I do not consider him a maga type but surprise surprise I do consider him to the right of me.

Well, I'm to the right of you, too, so that covers a lot of territory.

 

[Romana]

Trump administration replaces Manhattan U.S. Attorney | Washington Post


Anyone else smell a rat?

He thinks this will scuttle ask the investigations into his finances and stuff. I'm betting not.
At least, I'm hoping.

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Trump administration replaces Manhattan U.S. Attorney | Washington Post


Anyone else smell a rat?

Looks like he's not going out without a fight:

Powerful US attorney who investigated Trump associates refuses to step down after Barr tries to push him out

In a fast-escalating crisis Friday night, Attorney General William Barr tried to oust Geoffrey Berman, the powerful US attorney for the Southern District of New York who has investigated a number of associates of President Donald Trump, but Berman defied him by refusing to step down.

www.cnn.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Beebo Brink]

According to the NYT article referenced in a post above, Trump did NOT appoint Berman, which is why he's not leaving.

A Republican who contributed to the president’s campaign and worked at the same law firm as Mr. Giuliani, Mr. Berman was never formally nominated for the position by Mr. Trump or confirmed by the Senate, as is normal protocol for United States attorneys.

In 2018, the attorney general at the time, Jeff Sessions, appointed Mr. Berman as interim United States attorney in Manhattan.

But Mr. Trump never formally sent Mr. Berman’s nomination to the Senate. After 120 days, his formal appointment to the post was made by the judges of the United States District Court.

Mr. Berman took note of the nature of his appointment to the position in explaining why he was refusing to step down.

“I was appointed by the judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York,” Mr. Berman said in his statement. “I will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate. Until then, our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption.”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I'm not sure when this story was written -- before Covid-19, obviously -- but it gives a frightening picture of the florid craziness that is a Trump rally and the MAGA movement as a whole:

“He’s the Chosen One to Run America”: Inside the Cult of Trump, His Rallies Are Church and He Is the Gospel

Trump’s rallies—a bizarre mishmash of numerology, tweetology, and white supremacy—are the rituals by which he stamps his name on the American dream. As he prepares to resume them for the first time in months, his followers are ready to receive.

www.vanityfair.com

Later, as I listened to my recording of our conversation (made with Diane’s permission) I found myself thinking, I can’t use any of this. It’s too much. This doesn’t represent anything but one woman’s delusions. Then I googled the Las Vegas shooting. And holy shit—Diane is far from alone. The belief that the Vegas massacre was the work of a nefarious “they” is actually much closer to the world most of us inhabit than the outer reaches of QAnon. It began with Alex Jones, then gathered force via a 51-page PowerPoint document by a retired senior CIA officer and Rich Higgins, Trump’s former director of strategic planning for the National Security Council. The theory notes that the Islamic State claimed credit for the attack; that a man on the same floor as the shooter had reportedly eaten Turkish kebab; and that this man was also known to have supported transgender rights on his Facebook page. Which adds up to—obviously—an ISIS-antifa attack on American soil. From Jones to Higgins and then to Tucker Carlson, who several months after the shooting invited Scott Perry, a GOP congressman and retired Army National Guard brigadier general, onto his show to promulgate what he described as “credible evidence of a possible terrorist nexus” behind the massacre.

Which may seem to you insane. But it is also, compared to this article, “mainstream.” Carlson’s show alone has three times the viewership of this magazine’s print circulation. Add to that Jones’s Infowars empire, and countless tweets, posts, and threads online—not to mention the conspiratorial anti-Muslim musings of Trump himself—and what you get is this: Diane is not fringe. She may be closer to the new center of American life than you are.