Well, the Russians have completed their “investigation” into whether or not Putin’s enemy was on an airplane, apparently shot down (or blown up) in Russian airspace. Yes, Prigozhin was on the plane. I suppose that’s good. If you’re willing to bring down an entire plane just to get one guy (okay, they actually got three guys they wanted, Prigozhin and two of his top guys) it’s good that you at least got the guy you wanted. Seven passengers, three crew on the plane.

After the “crash,” the only conversation I heard was speculation on what took Putin so long. Nobody, but NOBODY (well, Putin loving MAGAs excepted) believes this “crash” was an accident and the world started saying so. Fortunately, Putin set us all straight.
“That’s an absolute lie!” Putin said in a statement released by the Kremlin.
Oh, well, then. It couldn’t have been Putin, right? He said it was an “absolute” lie. Had he only said a “lie,” I might not have believed him. But since he added “absolute,” I guess the families of the dead can relax…

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Well, AP seems to be getting tired of his crap. They’ve done an article covering his litany of lies. I’m not sure why. Thinking Americans know the truth about these things. Anti-American MAGA cons won’t read the article and wouldn’t believe it if they did. They DARE NOT receive information contrary to the dogma. But, just so YOU know…
– Reviews and Recounts confirm Biden’s victory.
– AP investigation finds minimal voter fraud in swing states.
– Trump’s own administration found no widespread fraud.
– Courts heard Trump’s legal challenges and rejected them.
– Conspiracy theories about voting machines were unfounded.
– Claims involving suitcases and ballot mules are debunked.

Those are the headers for each section of their story, ‘Trump’s drumbeat of Lies about the 2020 election keeps getting louder and louder. Here are the facts.’ They add all the detailed supporting information after each header. On the one hand, it seems redundant to review the details of the Big Lie. On the other, I think it kind of helps to keep track of which lie is which from time to time. If obfuscation and confusion are his tools, clarity is his Kryptonite…

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I imagine the MAGAs think his mug shot looks strong and resolute. I suspect that’s the look he was trying for. To me? He looks like a homicidal maniac, about to attack the cops taking the photo. Fox Not-News started complaining that Biden was fund-raising on the arrest. Their crack team of intrepid story-tellers seem to have completely missed Trump’s own fund-raising from his arrest. And his last arrest. And the arrest before that. Not to mention, the arrest before that.
“Hey, I got arrested for my crooked business practices. Send me some money!”
“Hey, I got arrested for misusing campaign funds to pay off a woman I slept with while my wife was pregnant. Send me some money!”
“Hey, I got arrested for trying to overthrow the government. Send me some money!”
“Hey, I got arrested for stealing government documents that weren’t mine to take. Send me some money!”
“Hey, I got arrested AGAIN for pressuring a state official to try to help me overthrow the government. Send me some money!”

Faith is an amazingly blinding thing, I guess. His supporters will keep sending him money until they’re standing out on a street corner with a little cardboard sign. Meanwhile, his biggest concern (because he certainly does NOT care about the fate of the MAGAs he steals from) is how his trials are going to interfere with his campaign schedule.

I’ll tell you this: I suspect the convictions are going to interfere with his schedule even more…

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Well, word is that Bob Barker has passed, aged 99 years. Sorry to hear it. He was good at what he did. RIP, Bob…

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Yesterday was the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s march on Washington, DC and his “I Have A Dream” speech 60 years earlier. Technically, I guess there HAS been progress on the racism front. That is, until the trumpster reared HIS ugly head and brought blatant racism back into style. But it sure seems to me that the black community is STILL fighting for most of the same equality issues they were fighting for back then. (And, likely, for the previous 400 years…)

I’ll tell you this: sometimes, I really, really don’t understand what’s wrong with people. Yesterday, I wrote about the world trying to get back to the moon and we’re still judging people based on how brown their skin is? (And we love to hold ourselves up as the most “intelligent” species. I suppose we earn the title be being the ONLY species allowed to vote! Oh, crap! It was rigged…)