This is what the rest of us are up against.

Thank you to Ten Bears for the link, his link below.

Doonesbury Comic Strip for June 02, 2024

Jon Stewart Assures Young Voters That Their Voice Matters | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart reminds young people that they have an incredible amount of power in deciding the future of America in this

Is America Competitive?

Trump thinks American wages are too HIGH for us to be “competitive”. My question is: Competitive for whom and by what metric?

TRUMP FINALLY CONVICTED! Guilty AF | Christopher Titus | Armageddon Update

One Tin Soldier

This song was recently posted by Angela on her blog post of the same name.  Link below as if I put it here WordPress wipes out all I have written and removes the classic bock. 

This song was one I sang to myself in my worst time growing up, wishing my abusers and the fighting dysfunctional family I had been adopted into would listen and understand it.  They would kill each to win an argument, to gain more money or power.  This was the version I learned, I guess there are several others.  Hugs.  Scottie

Over the last few days I have been busy trying to read news and set up new browsers. Here are some links to Joe My God stories that stood out for their pushing Christian hate on everyone. Plus some other hates from the tRump cult.

Little claims he’s been targeted for harassment and retaliation over his lawsuit. He’s being represented by the anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Thomas More Society, who claims that Little has a First Amendment right not to have the flag within his sight.

Per reports, Little’s salary is more than $200,000. In 2021, a Long Beach lifeguard tower decked out for Pride was destroyed in arson, much to the delight of commenters on the YouTube clip below.
Last year the group’s founder claimed to The Federalist that his foie gras business was boycotted by local restaurants after he posted an anti-LGBTQ screed on Instagram, putting his family in a “dire financial situation.” In the clip below, he talks about that supposed betrayal and rants about “sexual degeneracy.”

Cultists are also raging in the comments of Walmart’s Instagram post. Sample reply: “Walmart and Pride whatever it is, I hate all this because you glorify everything in this world except what God has created to be from the beginning, which is a family, man married to a woman and their children!! Why don’t you give a true family unit a special month??? This evil agenda to shove all that’s unnatural down our throat will be your downfall one day!! God will not be mocked!! Yes, everyone has a right to choose how you live but why does it have to be glorified for a month??? Just wrong!!!”


If the goal was to make “Pride” toxic for brands, as conservative Matt Walsh urged, then mission accomplished. Now, thanks to Bud Light and so many other casualties of excessive Pride, Americans have started to realize how much power they have to change the corporate landscape.








And now for the tRump cult out cries about that guilty verdict. 

I love how every accusation they make about Biden and the democrats / left turns out to be a confession by the republicans.  For example they claim that Biden has weaponized the Department Of Justice and is controlling the AG Merrick Garland.  But the republicans and trump have been calling for the locking up of his pollical opponent since his first run in 2016.  He and his supporters have long called for locking up Biden.  These people don’t want to run a country, they want to rule the country and everyone in it.  They want to raid the treasury and hammer anyone who tries to stop them.  Simply put they wrongly claim no one has ever been charged with this same crime, but it has been charged over 9,000 times.  But they are now a cult and if the dear leader says it it must be so, reality be damned.   Hugs.  Scottie

JMG: Regarding Kelly’s lie about E. Jean Carroll, New York’s 2022 Adult Survivors Act was certainly not passed with her in mind and in fact resulted in lawsuits against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, NYC Mayor Eric Adams, and rapper Sean Combs. In total, nearly 3000 suits were filed before the law expired in 2023.
believe that the woman in the back shouting “fuck the king and the queen” is the same one seen below bouncing her enormous bare tits earlier today.

The Washington Post has a fact check:

Trump called it ridiculous, unconstitutional and un-American “that the highly Conflicted, Radical Left Judge is not requiring a unanimous decision on the fake charges against me.” At first glance, it might appear that the former president doesn’t understand one of the basic tenets of the legal system: that guilty verdicts in criminal cases have to be unanimous.

The jury must be unanimous when it comes to determining whether Trump is guilty or not guilty of each specific falsifying business records count, and whether he did so in an effort to unlawfully impact an election, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said.

He added, however, that the panel did not have to be unanimous about which of those three types of crimes could serve as the underlying violation that brings the state election charge into play. In Trump’s case, prosecutors have offered three types of crimes that would make the state election-meddling charge come into play: federal election law crimes, tax crimes or false business records.

 
Leavitt went on to claim that President Joe Biden has targeted “innocent” Americans such as the Jan. 6 rioters charged for their roles in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. “They’ve thrown [them] in the gulag in Washington, D.C.,” said Leavitt, who added that Trump said he’d pardon the rioters on “day one” of a second term.

And now for a few just off the wall … weird world.  Hugs.  Scottie

He heads the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, which opened after Justice Barrett joined the high court.
Rumors of Trump using the N-word during production of The Apprentice have swirled for years. Executive producer Mark Burnett has long refused to release any outtakes from the show. In 2018, Trump tweeted that the N-word “does not exist in my vocabulary and never has” and that Burnett backs him on this “fake news.”

Read the full article. Per Reuters, Yullo acted in response to the Parkland mass shooting. Yullo also fined insurers $13 million for providing the NRA’s “Carry Guard” coverage for members accused of wrongful death shootings.

Something on my mind…

Hmm.. Israel appears to be committing a whole lot of “mistakes” that always result in forfeiting Palestinian lives.

Newsmax Host: We’re Going To Out Names Of Jurors

Ron and I were just talking about this.  This is the maga thug way.  Make people too afraid to oppose them and make legal authorities / judges afraid to charge or convict him.  Remember what Romney said about the impeachment?  He said other republicans told them they wanted to vote to convict but their wives and kids had gotten death threats and when Romney told them he was going to vote to convict the were shocked saying he shouldn’t do that as the tRump supports would kill him.   Hugs.  Scottie

 

“There is nothing normal about this. This is not Venezuela. This is not El Salvador at the peak of criminality. This is America. And there are so many blatant violations to this that every person sees this.

“I’ve been talking to people all day that have been waiting for this decision, that are devout Trump haters and they are like, yeah, I think this is a little bit crazy. And even they are worried about what this does to our institutional fortitude in America.

“This is a horrific day. I cannot imagine. But the other thing too, is you now have 12 jurors that basically are going — look, we’re going to find out who these jurors are in the next 24 hours. Some are going to speak, some are not going to speak.

“But you’ve ruined their lives, Alvin Bragg. They can never hold a normal job again. They can never go anywhere without worry about being harassed.” – Carl Higbie.

From Wikipedia:

In 2018, Higbie was forced to resign as the Chief of External Affairs for the Corporation for National and Community Service (an organization which runs AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, Senior Corps, and other national service initiatives), a position to which Trump had appointed him. His ousting occurred after CNN discovered Higbie’s racist and inflammatory remarks (on a 2013 radio talk show) about Black Americans, Muslims, women, LGBT people, veterans suffering from PTSD, welfare recipients, and immigrants, which included suggesting withdrawing the right to vote from welfare recipients, and advocating free rein for all to go and shoot undocumented immigrants at the southern USA border. Higbie had also repeatedly stated his belief that Barack Obama is Muslim and not a U.S. citizen.

 

Newsmax: We’re going to incite violence.

Because that is exactly what terrorists and wanna-be fascists would do: murder people who do things they don’t like.

Isn’t even the threat a form of illegal intimidation?

I fear for the safety of the jurors should they be publicly identified.

that every person sees this

Republicans never understand that they are a MINORITY.

“But you’ve ruined their lives, Alvin Bragg. They can never hold a normal job again. They can never go anywhere without worry about being harassed.” – Carl Higbie.

Oh yeah, right: it’s BRAGG who’s going to (trying to) “ruin their lives”!

SUE this POS into the ground!

 

Some Joe My God posts I wanted to share but was busy for two days changing my computer browsers.

So what started out to be a simple fix of a malware problem on the blogging computer I used to completely change all my old Chrome tabs into Firefox tabs.  I don’t like the new agreements on Chrome about information gathering no matter who you make your settings to prevent.  Basically everything you do is recorded and sent to Google.  It is frustrating.  Firefox has less work ability and on Chrome I could always recover old tabs if I did not delete them in entire windows, even on other devices.  So far Firefox doesn’t seem to have the same ability.  If I start to lose to many pages or comments, then I will have to switch back.  While privacy is important I need function much more.  I need to be able to switch open tabs from one computer to the other to clean them.   I will try this but it may not last.

Here are the open Joe  My God posts I wanted to share before this all happened.   Enjoy. 

Read the full article. Earlier this week and this morning it was reported that Florida educators are receiving state training on teaching Christian nationalism and teaching that genocides such as the one committed by Joseph Stalin are examples of cancel culture.

Florida Teacher Training Calls Joseph Stalin’s Execution Of 750,000 Dissidents “The Original Cancel Culture”

Read the full article. There more. Photo: Florida education chief Manny Diaz.

And is the republican party dead and reborn as the tRump cult … here is this.

Read the full platform [PDF]. The 2024 platform echoes many of the anti-LGBTQ items seen in the 2022 platform. The platform also contains the many attacks on trans youth now codified into law in nearly two dozen states. Photo: Newly elected Texas GOP chairman Abraham George.

And it total partisan Christian Nationalist news ….

 

And in bigotry thuggish maga right wing behavior wins news … But think about this.  We have normalized and now accept that people going into a store and destroying the merchandise and attacking the staff is OK as long as it fits our religious or political beliefs.  Is this what a civilized society is or has become?

Cultists are also raging in the comments of Walmart’s Instagram post. Sample reply: “Walmart and Pride whatever it is, I hate all this because you glorify everything in this world except what God has created to be from the beginning, which is a family, man married to a woman and their children!! Why don’t you give a true family unit a special month??? This evil agenda to shove all that’s unnatural down our throat will be your downfall one day!! God will not be mocked!! Yes, everyone has a right to choose how you live but why does it have to be glorified for a month??? Just wrong!!!”

Lastly in the SCOTUS corruption news.