Originally published at: Judge Eviscerates Trump DOJ Over US Attorney Fiasco
Presumption of Irregularity Attorney General Pam Bondi’s elaborate attempts to bypass Senate confirmation and federal judges in appointing U.S. attorneys blew up in spectacular fashion Monday in a sentencing hearing in a child pornography case. A federal judge in New Jersey absolutely let rip in the hearing, first reported by the NYT, over the leaderless…
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I once thought that the Bush-Cheney invasion of Iraq was the worst foreign policy mistake in US history with respect to its impact on the whole world, but Trump’s misadventure in Iran could be far worse.
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Morning Memo. The early edition!
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The MM made the point the WH is trying to improve their image by being less nasty and mean-spirited in hopes of assuaging the less hardcore MAGAts and MAHAs.
But I warn folks, as the election draws near…the stuff that has most animated RW voters and plenty of others in past elections is the Trans crap they spew. They still have that card to play (and probably really lean hard on their Fake Christian Schtick as well) as November approaches. We should be prepared with good rebuttals.
They are underwater on most of their big hits…the economy, immigration, war. The other option is to keep the war simmering and try to explode it into a Holy War by November.
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OT: Sorry for the rant, but I had to channel my inner Lewis Black and the rant is due.
I was reading Dave Dubya’s Freedom Rants this morning and found myself irked for no apparent reason. It dawned on me that this framing for the Iran War was the cause:
- “We won!”
- “We’re winning!”
- “Send help!”
This is my sense of modern conservatism, the GOP, MAGA, and ultimately White Christian Nationalism. Do you remember when the pejorative attached to liberal was usually “Knee Jerk” implying that there was a reaction without thought? Explain to me how the last 10 years if not more have not been knee jerk reaction from the entire spectrum of the right including “libertarians?” That little snippet has been the response to every stupid thing they’ve done, jubilation, self soothing, dawning horror.
I don’t think the left is immune, but since 1995 the right has cultivated the “Act in haste, repent in leisure” style of government. Crank up the outrage machine start a culture war, do some stupid stuff and say “This wasn’t what we meant,” when the inevitable happens. @txlawyer said doomsplaining is tiresome to me yesterday. I almost certainly deserved it. The modern right is tiresome, and looking at it seems to inevitably lead to doomsplaining.
Sure the actions benefit the morbidly rich, but the morbidly rich can count on a large pool of people who see or hear very specific trigger words and loose their shit. People who truly will vote for Voldemort if he promises to hurt the people they don’t like, oops he’s hurting them too? Collateral damage.
It’s not rational, the left such as it is needs to come to terms with this. The right has created a very effective operant conditioning system for a huge swath of the population and they will not or cannot leave the experiment.
Oh, and what’s the dick way to sign off on one of these? Thank you for your attention to this.
OK. I feel better. Off for an early ride today.
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Money line in NY Times comparing drug prices under TrumpRX with other parts of the world:
“That means that TrumpRx prices can count as cheaper, even when the price is higher.“
Life is good in Bizarro world.
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Try DulcoLax
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To be fair, the increase in the chocolate ration from 30 grams to 20 grams is proving very popular…
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None of this should be taken at face value because Bibi knows the regime won’t be overthrown without boots on the ground, but it’s the “plan” he’s pushing to keep Trump from taking a quick off-ramp. Free gifted link:
Netanyahu Hopes Strikes on Iran Will Lead to Uprising and Regime Change
Israeli attacks have targeted the command centers of Iran’s repressive, internal security forces in hopes that Iranians will overthrow their rulers. Some see that as wishful thinking.
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Headlines we’d like to see:
Washington D.C., March 17 2026:
A federal judge used a ceremonial sword to disembowel President Donald Trump on the floor of his courtroom this afternoon.
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She needs to go with something stronger. Maybe a stick of dynamite.
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I get a regular email newsletter from a Russian who’s been observing his country’s decline with typical Russian black humor. His recent missives seem to think that the ground underneath Putin is cracking, as more people are speaking up against him, even if not very loudly.
Though MAGA is despicable, I wonder if the same is happening here.
Thin reeds, I know. I’ll take ‘em where I can get ‘em, though it will be a long way to put this behind us for whatever new world is being born.
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Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will face a deficit of missiles it is using to fight Russia due to the war in the Middle East.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the Ukrainian president said Russia’s Vladimir Putin wanted a “long war” between the US, Israel and Iran because it would weaken Kyiv, with US resources being directed elsewhere.
Zelensky also claimed that US President Donald Trump was not on “any side” in the war between Russia and Ukraine and did not want to “irritate” Putin.
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Today’s Heather & Paul:
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What’s that saying about Trump:
“He lies all the time, about everything.”
And boy howdie that man can’t keep a story straight, let alone facts mean nothing to him.
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First this
And this
Now this
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Yeah, after I wrote that I was thinking maybe ‘Gentle Relief’ shouldn’t be our goal.
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The comments are interesting as well. Thanks for sharing.
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