Look, Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan didn’t want to lie to courts. They just wanted to please their Precious, so they had no choice. He wanted to harass someone who once irritated him so he ordered a baseless and frivolous prosecution. (Suddenly, conservatives LOVE baseless and frivolous prosecutions.) Pam likely knew there was no legal basis to do what Donny had demanded. Lindsey knows insurance law.

Neither wanted to tell Donny he couldn’t follow his whim because it was illegal. Donny effin’ HATES the truth. Instead, they did what they had to do to comply. Fake an indictment? Why not? Lie to courts? Sure, easy. Lose our licenses to practice law? Oh, crap, we hadn’t considered that!

Not being an attorney, I’m not familiar with the ins and outs of the details of the bar association and how that works. But I DO know that officers of the court are not allowed to lie to the court. Team Evil’s Rudi Guiliani lied to courts and lost HIS license. Now, Bondi lied in twice submitting affirmations to the court about the propriety of Halligan’s Grand Jury presentation – only to discover that Halligan’s Grand Jury presentation was improper enough to get HER disbarred, too.

No one knows for sure if Halligan failed so spectacularly because she’s a complete incompetent, in WAY over her head, or if she KNEW what she was doing was wrong, but couldn’t find another way to please Dim Leader, but she, too, tried to deceive the courts in an effort to harass a private citizen and for no other reason. It seems disbarment is the best, perhaps only, remaining option…

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Here’s another reason I think we should keep communicating with our MAGA counterparts: I asked a friend of mine, one who consumes MAGA media, if media on his side of the dial was showing the times Donny nods off during events. He (my friend, not Donny) looked at me kind of funny, like he was expecting a punchline, and when none was forthcoming, he told me, “No.”

I told him that he should look for them on the internet. I told him I think they’re funny and that, now that he’s falling asleep all the time, no matter where he is, he needs to give up the “Sleepy Joe” bit. I never once saw Biden fall asleep during events, although that “debate” might be arguable.

The point is, MAGA is fed a steady diet of carefully curated media to make Donny look good in the same way the left is fed a steady diet of carefully curated media to make Donny look bad. He’s a buffoon so left-leaning media has it easier. When 47 delivers a message that comes out like a word salad, MAGA media simply reports that Donny “spoke on such-and-such subject.” They don’t show the word salad. When Donny falls asleep during meetings and briefings, nobody TELLS MAGA. Those soundbites you see where someone is clearly lying? Yeah, those aren’t for you. They’re for MAGA and MAGA doesn’t know any better. They never get to see how their Precious is slipping. So if you cut off contact, and their media won’t tell them, how do they find out?

Don’t try to prove you’re right. Just point out what your “side of the dial” – and that’s how I describe it – showed you and ask if their side showed them. That’s it. It creates an opportunity to compare notes without making anyone feel defensive. It opens communication, if only a crack. Give it a try. You don’t want or need to prove you’re right and they’re wrong. You can’t do that. Just create an atmosphere in which you can compare what each side is being told. It’s rather enlightening and, who knows, maybe you’ll learn something, too…

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Donny keeps insisting he’s getting great poll numbers. I know, weird, right? I’ve seen the poll numbers. Either he thinks all the minuses are a good thing, or somebody is giving him “results” only HE can see. Honestly, I suspect that latter. The ONE THING we know about Donny is that he does NOT want to hear any bad news.

When a bad jobs report came out – you know, because he sucks at this Presidentin’ thing – he fired the person who put out the numbers and replaced her with a toady. Now the numbers, when available, are looking fine. So how long does it take a lick-spittle to figure it out? They start telling him he has great numbers. He believes them. This is exactly what ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ is about. Tell a fool something he wants to believe and he’ll believe – no matter how unbelievable the story might be…

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I don’t know why corporate media uses euphemisms to explain things. Why not call a thing what it is? Trump’s murderous attacks on boats out on the water doing whatever it is people in boats do on water are NOT “extrajudicial killings.” They’re murders, straight up. Why not CALL them murders?

I’m reading a Guardian article right now titled, ‘Supreme court blocks order that found Texas congressional map was likely racially biased.’ It’s all about how the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Court has put a hold on a lower courts ruling blocking Texas from using their new maps, as predicted in these pages when I wrote: “Texas, you will not be surprised to hear, is asking the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court to overturn the lower court’s ruling, which they likely will because it’s what their Precious wants.” Why, yes. Corruption IS predictable in this regime.

The Guardian article includes this line: “Texas redrew its congressional map in the summer as part of Trump’s efforts to preserve a slim Republican majority in the House in next year’s elections, touching off a nationwide redistricting battle.” (Emphasis added.) It should read: “…Trump’s efforts to steal five more House seats through gerrymandering.” See how easy that is? And it’s FAR more accurate. I really want to see corporate media be better but, hey, it’s corporate media in a Capitalist society. Profit is all, accuracy if it’s not too inconvenient.

Still, I DO find the Guardian a pretty solid news source and in fairness to them, they also wrote: “The new redistricting map was engineered to give Republicans five additional House seats, but a panel of federal judges in El Paso ruled 2-1 on Tuesday that the civil rights groups that challenged the map on behalf of Black and Hispanic voters were likely to win their case.”

California’s new, gerrymandered maps are also facing legal challenges suggesting they were based on race as well. I don’t know how the Supremely Corrupt Court can rule in favor of Texas’ maps based on race but strike down California’s map based on race – especially if California can prove their gerrymandering is NOT based on race. It’s all a pretty big mess. Corruption does that.

My guess? The Roberts court will find a way to give their Precious what he wants AND they’ll likely find a way to stop California. Texas’ compliance makes Donny happy. California’s defiance does not. That’s all the corrupt cons on the court need to know. None of it has anything to do with the Constitution, of course, but the SCOTUS stopped attending THAT quaint and outdated document years ago and there’s no reason to suddenly start now…