P.E. is off to California.

 

I'll be checking in now and then for some light posting.

Looking forward to spending 3 weeks with my daughter and grandsons!

Be excellent to each other!

Meanwhile, in Trump's immunity hearing at the SCOTUS:

 "In a question to Trump attorney, Sauer, Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor asked a simple hypothetical question: If the president ordered the military to assassinate a rival he views as corrupt, "is that within his official act for which he can get immunity?" Trump’s lawyer responded, “It would depend. We can see that could well be an official act." 

 WHAT? I am begging MAGA supporters to tell me that that is what our founding fathers wanted."

This is how a tyrant, king, or despot acts, not the head of a democratic republic.

Trumpublican Logic

 

House Republicans: “Biden Must do something about the border”

Biden: “Pass the Border Bill”

Trump: “Don’t pass the border bill, it may help Biden”

House Republicans: “No Border Bill if it's connected to the funding of Ukraine, which we don’t want”

Biden: “Pass the border bill”

House Republicans: “We just passed the Ukraine bill that we said we didn’t want and that we used as the reason for not passing the Border bill”

Biden: “Pass the border Bill”

Republicans: Crickets

BTW: Happy "Inject Disinfectant Into Your Veins Day," from Dr. Trump

 

It’s hilarious that Trump supporters actually defend him by saying:

“He did NOT tell people to inject bleach!!

He simply said doctors should experiment with injecting disinfectant directly into people’s lungs.” https://t.co/BvEsrukBZN

— Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) April 23, 2024

Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."

 

David Axelrod: 

 

“...As Trump sits and watches the criminal trial he hoped to avoid unfold, he must know that a potential reckoning he has spent a lifetime eluding could be coming. He has been reduced to a criminal defendant in a courtroom where someone else has absolute power and the rules very definitely apply. The weariness and vulnerability captured in those courtroom images betray a growing recognition that he could wind up as the thing his old man most reviled:” 

 A convicted criminal? No, worse. 

A loser.”

Writer Fiona Webster:

"To those who’ve known DJT a long time, or who used to work for him, it’s no surprise the gravity & process of this criminal trial would uniquely & severely grate on him. Stephanie Grisham, Trump's former WH press secretary, commented on his complaints of the courtroom being cold, saying, 'In his normal world, someone would have jumped up & run, not walked, to get the temperature perfect for him. This entire experience must be beyond uncomfortable for him—not just the fact that it dives into such personal details, but that he has absolutely no control for probably the 1st time since he was a young child.' ”

Miles Taylor:

"When Trump would see disaster strike around the country, it’s the President’s job sign these disaster declarations and send federal aid.. but if a disaster happened in a blue state, Trump saw an opportunity because he was like ‘this is the state where the governor doesn’t like me, people who didn’t vote for me, maybe I don’t sign that disaster declaration or maybe I call up the governor and see if he’s willing to cut me a deal.’ That was his mindset and we saw that happen in several circumstances. We talked him off of it but it’s the type of thing that will happen in a second term."

GOP Senator Marco Rubio: “For years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media and voters at large, that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump.”
(March 2016)
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— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 22, 2024

Tell us, Senator Rubio, HOW DID YOU FALL INTO THE TRUMP TRAP?

FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP...

 

has instructed his lawyers in his criminal trial to tell the Court that he wants to be referred to as "President Trump."

We have only ONE president at a time.

Trump is the FORMER president, who lost the 2020 election and never conceded to the winner (first time in our history.)

Trump doesn't deserve to be called "President Trump." He's NOT the president, and when he was, he incited an insurrection against his own government with the purpose of overturning a free and fair election, and he said his own vice president deserved to be hanged because Mike Pence wouldn't break the law to keep Trump in power.

Trump should be referred to as "Defendant Trump."

That's what he is. A defendant in a criminal trial.

Stormy arrives at the courthouse today. Quite a fashion statement!

(Mushrooms are photoshopped.)

The Defendant blames Biden for his bad behavior.

JoJo From Jerz:

“ This week alone, Donald The Godfarter Trump trended for ripping ass mid-snooze in court, he lost his bid to pause a string of civil lawsuits related to the Jan. 6th attack, he lost a motion to have Judge Merchan recuse, he lost every attempt to delay that trial, he found out he might be held in contempt for repeatedly violating his gag order, he got scolded for harassing a potential juror, his Truth Social stock went down faster than Lauren Boebert’s hand at a kids show, and he found out that the bond he said he had secured for his business fraud case will likely end up being voided because the bond company doesn’t actually have the funds to cover it.

All of this while being subjected to a fweeeezing cold courtroom and having to wait hours without his phone in between his feeding/Addy/accordion hands “witch hunt” tantrum times.

And then today, many of his MAGA minions turned on him and his daddy Vladdy by passing critical aid for Ukraine a few hours before he had to cancel his NC Hatefest due to bad weather.

Trial starts Monday.”

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN