“It’s bad enough being flown upside down from from the Alitos flagpole, but this was galactically humiliating.” The American Flag, on filing suit against Donald Trump for sexual assault June 15, 2024
Early this morning in a Florida courthouse, the American Flag filed a civil suit against Donald Trump for damages from an alleged sexual assault during Donald Trump’s June 14th 78th birthday party. It is alleged that during Mr. Trump’s Palm Beach party,
“On numerous occasions during the evening of June 14, 2024 Mr. Trump did, (1) with both diminutive hands and without permission or warning, fondle, squeeze, and crush the defenseless complainant American Flag, and (2) with both lips and with tongue outstretched and without permission or warning, forcefully kiss the defenseless complainant American Flag.
Complainant seeks judgement and monetary damages for: (1) sexual assault, (2) mental distress, (3) damage to reputation, (4) medically bruised lips, (5) medical effects of severe vomiting in the wake of the assault, and (6) removal of Mr. Trump’s sweat stains from complainant American Flag’s body.”
Civil Doc. No. FL061424-666, June 16, 2024.”
The Trump campaign denies this occurred, despite being witnessed by numerous other American flags at the venue. Candidate Trump briefly deployed his oft-repeated criticisms that “Sleepy Joe Biden thought this up and paid the American Flag to bring this rigged lawsuit. Pelosi, witch hunts, election interference, it’s another Biden crime family crime spree!”
The Biden campaign, for its part, maintained, “Yet another set of lies from the disgraced felonious former fathead president. Democracy, Bidenomics, E. Jean Carroll, Russia, Russia, Russia, and where’s Melania?!”
Despite the full plate of Trump indictments and pending trials, we will strive to follow every lead in this new Trump-induced ludicrosity.
In a video posted on Truth Social last Tuesday, Trump laid out another spoil sport diatribe even more maniacal than usual. This in the wake of President Biden’s recent Presidential Proclamation that closes the southern border depending on the number of border encounters. This will dramatically reduce the pressure on the border. The policy will allow Biden to close the border between points of entry once there is an average of 2,500 crossings over the past week preceding a given day. Trump preposterously claims that this will “make the invasion worse.” Of course, that’s logically categorical bullsh*t. What Biden’s action may make worse – hopefully – is Trump’s ability to own the immigration issue.
That Biden makes me so mad!!!
Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country by far, has totally surrendered our southern border. His weakness and extremism have resulted in a border invasion like we have never seen before,” began Trump. “Other countries have emptied out their prisons, insane asylums and mental institutions and sent us drug dealers, human traffickers, and terrorists. Millions of people have poured into our country and now, after nearly four years of his failed, weak leadership, pathetic leadership, Crooked Joe Biden is pretending to finally do something about the border.
But in fact, it’s all about Joe because he knows we have a debate coming up in three weeks. The truth is that Joe Biden’s executive order won’t stop the invasion. It’s weak and it’s pathetic; it will actually make the invasion worse. Millions of people a year will continue to pour across our border and be released into our country. And we recently learned Biden is secretly granting mass amnesty to hundreds of thousands of these illegal aliens, along with welfare and government benefits, work permits and jobs. He’s not doing that, however, for our veterans. He’s not doing that for our homeless. He’s giving illegal aliens far more than our veterans get, far more than our homeless get.
Many of the left are even pushing for illegal aliens to vote in our elections, which is what this is all about. That’s why they’re allowing up to 20 million people since he took office. When I was president, we built over 500 miles of border wall, stopped the flood of criminals, and we had the safest border in the history of our country. We need to secure our border once again. We need to secure our border once and for all. Crooked Joe will never get the job done. He doesn’t want to get the job done. It’s just words and misinformation because he could have done it very easily. All he had to do is say, “Close the border.” That’s the power of the presidency.
But when I’m elected, it will be my top priority. On day one, I will seal the border, stop the invasion, and send Joe Biden’s illegal aliens back home. They have to be sent back home because no country can sustain the damage that our country is sustaining. All over the world, crime rates are going down because all over the world, not just South America, they are sending criminals into the United States of America. They’re taking their drug dealers and their people in jail, lots of people in jail. They’re taking their murderers, killers, they’re taking them all and sending them into the United States. In Venezuela crime is down a staggering 67%. Because if you go to Caracas, if you go to different places, they’re sending their criminals into the United States. It’s a horrible thing. And that’s happening all over the world, many, many places, many countries.
We’re not going to let it continue. We’re going to get them out. We’re going to bring our country back to safety. We’re going to make America great again, greater than ever before. Thank you very much.
During August 2023 I wrote of ProPublica’s investigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s creative moral and legal accounting on his yearly financial statements. His failure to disclose two all-expense paid trips during 2019 to Indonesia and to the Bohemian Grove, an all-male retreat in northern California, were each financed entirely by billionaire Harlan Crow, a cofounder of Club for Growth and a major donor to the GOP. Well, today the self-fashioned untouchable, unshakeable Supreme Court justice filed a financial disclosure document that (quite belatedly) described a come to Jesus change of attitude, if only for a moment.
This is quite a turnaround. Recall that at the time of ProPublica’s April 2023 exposé, Thomas characterized his trips – as did benefactor Crow – as “hospitality” which he maintained was not reportable on his 2019 financial disclosure report. I fact, he took high road that only lifetime tenure in one’s government job offers by maintaining that all of this was just Mr. Crow’s hospitable way of spending some of his billions. And apparently Justice Thomas was also hospitable enough to accept free hospitality. And, despite the many many thousand dollars spent by Crow, Thomas maintained that hospitality doesn’t count as income or as a gift, noe would it sully his judicial neutrality should a case come forth impacting Harlan Crow or his buddies. And, what are you going to do about it, he seemed to say, “impeach me?” Well, actually, some suggested it.
Excedrin headache number 1 . . .
This has caused Thomas many headaches for the past two years. He wasn’t helped to escape the spotlight by his hospitable brethren Justice Sam Alito (who also got ensnared in the hospitality trap, see here). Moreover, lately, the upside down American flag catastrophe didn’t exactly cover Alito in a garland of roses. The public doesn’t seem to care for juvenile delinquents sitting on the highest court. Moreover, Rhode Island’s Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has been incessantly irritating the Court to produce an enforceable code of ethics, finding no joy there. So, it’s possible that Thomas thought that disclosing, four years late, his 2019 antics now would lighten his load a bit despite how miffed he must be at having to carry a load at all. Regardless, whether what amounts to a confession of wrongdoing will actually lighten his load, his belated report is directly below (emphasis added).
Let’s see how this is received by us, the public. The fact that Thomas pleads “inadvertently” to his failure to file in 2019 – after having had a world class team of lawyers advising him – wouldn’t be accepted as a plea for mercy by a judge, for example, like Sam “Hang ’em High” Alito, arguably, Thomas’s Old Gangster crony. So, from a PR standpoint, it would have been helpful have issued a press release explaining that he “regrets” something, anything related to what I’d guess he still believes to be a small faux pas.
Perhaps, like Alito vis-a-vis the upside flag episode, he could simply blame his wife . . . Yes, Clarence, let’s try blaming Ginni.
Countries rejoicing in the news that Donald Trump will not be visiting anytime soon now that he’s a convicted felon include Australia, China, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, India, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. There are exceptions, however, and Russia and Hungary, two of his favorite authoritarian vacation destinations, are among them. Also, in some countries, UK being one of them, after he (hopefully) serves his prison sentence and clears probation, he’ll be able to visit (except spoil-sport Canada where there a very few exceptions).
Come what may, Trump is on the face of it barred from personally sullying the countries of approximately 2.5 billion souls. Finally, he’s a billionaire!!
Full list of countries that restrict visits from felons
Yesterday, during MSNBC’s coverage of the Trump transformation from “first criminally indicted former president” to “first criminally convicted former president,” Jen Psaki – with the general agreement of the polite panel (except the always reliable Joy Reed) – advised viewers that she wasn’t about dancing in the street over the news of Trump’s 34 count conviction. Apparently, that would be too impolite and incivil. Being an aging baby boomer I am delighted by impolite, and a schadenfreude admirer regarding enemies of the state, so, I took a pass on Psaki’s advice. One needs to celebrate a victory, especially since Trump has for decades avoided such a comeuppance. So, here’s my attempt at schadenfreudish happy feet:
Lest we forget in the midst of Donald Trump’s New York trial for messing with the 2016 election, we’re still in the midst of doling out indictments for 2020 election mischief. Among the states still trying to clear up their 2020 election schemes, Arizona has finally succeeded in serving Rudy Giuliani with his indictment, the worst birthday surprise. In a real sense, Kristen Mayes, Arizona’s AG, bagged the best and biggest prize. . . Awkward. How did he come to this pass? Well, it was an iconic Rudy self-own, among many, perhaps his finest hour.
Until yesterday, during his Palm Beach shindig, Rudy was the only one of eleven indictments that had not been successfully served. In fact, he tauntedArizona officials trying to find and serve him since the indictment was handed down in late April. Yesterday was, in fact, the final day that Arizona could serve him, so the clock was on Giuliani’s side. But he outed himself as only Giuliani can, stupidly broadcasting on Twitter/X during his birthday bash. At 7:06 pm, with his galactically unearned overconfidence he posted this, with an “I win/You lose” accent.
Why is this man smiling?! And why is he with the Palm Beach H.S. cheerleading squad?! Oh, and how has his house not been seized?! Does he have pants on?!
Well, by shortly after eleven o’clock the bigmouth was served on his way to a car. He was full, one supposes, of his jubilant sense of (1) having made it to his 80th year at home rather than prison, and (2) having bamboozled the Arizona judicial system. In fact, he zoomed from penthouse to doghouse, clutching in his paws an indictment birthday gift grab bag full of lovely felonies:
1) FRAUDULENT SCHEMES AND ARTIFICES, in violation of A.R.S. §13-2310{A); 2) FRAUDULENT SCHEMES AND PRACTICES, in violation of A.R.S. §13-2311{A); 3) FORGERY, in violation of A.R.S. § 13-2002{A){1) & {A){3); 4) CHANGING VOTE OF ELECTOR BY CORRUPT MEANS OR INDUCEMENT, in violation of A.R.S. § 16-1006{A){3); 5) TAMPERING WITH A PUBLIC RECORD, in violation A.R.S. § 13-2407{A){3); 6) PRESENTMENT OF FALSE INSTRUMENT FOR FILING, in violation of A.R.S. § 39-161.
Now for the denouement: Attorney General Mayes, with great aplomb posted this:
05-09-2024, 1:54 p.m., A News Network, Pierre, SD. Governor’s Office, for immediate release.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem released this statement:
My Dear South Dakota friends and supporters, I have recently ended my book tour which is among the most tragic events that this farm girl has ever suffered. It was caused by liars and vicious reporters in the extreme left wing commie-fascist media. Their claims about the deaths of my dog and goat that they say were included in my new book are untrue. Even the excerpts they’ve manufactured are fictitious. So powerful and sinister is the extreme left wing that they’ve managed to brainwash millions. It is, therefore, time for me to go on the offensive and attack our foes with the truth, the truth as I and God understand it.
No gross executions of my dog and goat took place. The truth is quite the opposite: In fact, it was I who was fired on first. I neither sought nor welcomed armed conflict and only did so as a self defense measure. My disgruntled 14-month-old dog Cricket and his vicious co-conspirator, an obnoxious old goat who strutted on the wrong side of the barnyard, chose to arm themselves with military grade weapons and, by trickery, ambush me for obviously Biden-inspired political reasons.
They began by secreting themselves on a chicken farm belonging to my dear neighbors. There, from their hiding places in a gravel pit, they opened fire on a dozen or more defenseless chickens, loading, shooting, and reloading 16-shot clips until they had devastated the chicken herd. When I was informed and arrived at the scene, I called out to them and asked that they cease their killing fire, instead, they turned their attention to me, their primary target, in a blood lust. They fired a dozen rounds as I hit the dirt and drew from my holsters one each of the several pistols and hand grenades I carry with me whenever I visit neighbors. I did not seek this confrontation. Yet, being a South Dakota farm girl I knew that firefights with livestock were a normal life activity, not to be shied away from, particularly by a strong governor who deserves higher office.
It was not long before Cricket began a flanking maneuver while the old craven goat laid down covering fire. I tossed a grenade, I fired my Glock, I nearly took a bullet as I ducked into the gravel pit only to be confronted by that devil goat looking for a gunfight, old western movie style. He hopped toward me, I dove to the left and drew my weapon, firing instinctively as I had done so many times before in shootouts with other farm animals. Being the kind of person South Dakotans want for Vice President in the coming election, I dropped that goat stone dead. Someone had to do it.
Meantime, Cricket had circled around me and growled that fake puppy sound that is meant to disguise their true intentions, but tells a South Dakota farmer that there was death in the offing, either for me or for Cricket. I turned on him and fired, he fired, then, we fought hand to paw, rolling in the sharp gravel that broke each of my fingernails clean off. Cricket tried the old cowards tactic of licking my face, a fake peace entreaty and far too late. A gunshot rang out. For a moment neither of us knew who’d been shot, if shot at all. After a moment I could see. And Cricket was no more. Someone had to do it.
This summary rebuttal of the vile left wing tampering with the text of my book will allow me to resume my nationwide book tour as of this evening when I will appear in Pierre’s Shotgun Shell Bar & Rifle Range, from 8:00 – 9:00 pm. Free beer for all the ladies! I am proud to be your governor until something better materializes. God bless & pass the ammo!
The walking, talking, vacuum Marjorie Taylor Greene has again and again fashioned herself as the guardian-at-arms of her self-appointed House leadership office: Lady High Executioner of the Speaker of the House. She’s not yet met one she didn’t have her fangs out for, and she rarely shuts up about it, demanding attention. attention, and attention. In fact, she’s lately filed a so-called motion to vacate the chair, i.e., the Speaker’s chair, along with its ceremonial gavel. One suspects that she covets that prize – goodbye gavel, hello AR15. Nonetheless, yesterday, in her best dungeon speaking voice she laid down the law to House membership, especially to Mike Johnson, the present Speaker who was then trying to shepherd a group of military assistance bills through the House:
“I don’t care if the Speaker’s office becomes a revolving door. If that’s exactly what needs to happen, then let it be. But the days are over of the old Republican Party that wants to fund foreign wars and murder people in foreign lands, while they stab the American people in their face.”*
How’s that for high dudgeon? Though many in her own party wish she’d simply shut up and resign, they also know she’s a Trump favorite, perhaps on the short list of VP candidates. Of course, that’s ludicrous, but that’s where we are, isn’t it? Would you want an exceedingly bad tempered AR15 packing VP in your White House?
Although sentient beings criticize MTG for her magnetic attraction to conspiracy theories and for her abhorrence to what many for thousands of years have called facts, her indestructible armor has held up well. Media Matter’s Eric Hannoki, among other duties, seems tasked with keeping tabs on MTG’s various research endeavours, which resulted in what might be called a well worth reading citizen’s annotated guide to her disclosures on various murky matters, listing 28 areas where she has plenty to say. Here’s the kicker: his list is only complete through February 2, 2021! Imagine if, in the intervening years, she put her mind to it! And she did.
In 2022, she told supporters: “The government totally wants to provide surveillance on every part of your life. They want to know when you’re eating. They want to know if you’re eating a cheeseburger, which is very bad because Bill Gates wants you to eat his fake meat, which is grown in a peach tree dish. So you’ll probably get a little zap inside your body and that’s saying, ‘No no! Don’t eat a real cheeseburger, you need to eat the fake, the fake burger, the fake meat from Bill Gates.’”
I haven’t touched a cheeseburger since.
Also, in 2022, when criticizing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of spying on her colleagues, she confused the name of the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, with a delicious Spanish chilled tomato soup, Gazpacho. With that, she sparked a boom in Gazpacho Police tee shirts, jewelry, and Nazi-themed soups, like Blitzkrieg Chili.
But Wait! There’s More!
Her conspiracy IQ, high as it is, is matched by her grasp of lawmaking, where one’s imagination needs some restraint if legislative proposals are to recognized, approved, and passed. And here, she’s covered herself in glory. In the present 118th Congress she’s sponsored some obviously essential proposals, including:
H.J.Res.95 – Declaring a state of war between certain cartels and the United States of America and making provision to prosecute the same.
H.Res.538 – Expunging the December 18, 2019, impeachment of President Donald John Trump. And, showcasing her principled and consistent stand on the concept and law of constitutional impeachment, she’s sponsored four eminently readable and well-thought out bills calling for the impeachment of President Biden, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Matthew M. Graves, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose Senate trial concluded with both charges dismissed on day one.
H.R.5636 – Protect Children’s Innocence Act, o prohibit gender affirming care of minors.
H.Res.829 – Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for antisemitic activity, sympathizing with terrorist organizations, and leading an insurrection at the United States Capitol Complex.
But, Wait Again! There’s Still More!!
Continuing her Jewish space lasers crusade, MTG has offered this amendment to the Israel aid package, but not for Israel’s defense needs, but, rather, to build an anti-immigrant laser defense system on our southwest border in order to deep fry illegal border invaders. Some in Congress do not take her seriously.
Israel has some of the best unmanned defense systems in the world.
I’ve previously voted to fund space lasers for Israel’s defense.
America needs to take our national security seriously and deserves the same type of defense for our border that Israel has and proudly uses. pic.twitter.com/oDeDqTXvQQ
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 18, 2024
