Ari Melber's breakdown of Trump's 2016 grab 'em tape moment

It's hard to remember how fast Trump spun out after the Access Hollywood tape broke. But check this video out starting at the 5 minute mark. I'd forgotten how much toast everyone assumed Stinky was at that moment.
The fact that he could get within 3 million votes of Clinton and even win squeakers in several rust belt states that we used to call the Blue Wall is just mind blowing.

I know a lot of DUers have moral objections to nuclear weapons

But I'd just like to point out that America has faced no aggression from Bikini Atoll since 1946

Xi is Carlos Marcello. Putin is Sam Giancana.

Trump is like their Bugsy Siegel, sent off on some side mission and getting all flashy, but not really part of the big scheme--a convenience if he works out but inconsequential if he flops or burns out.

I stand by this metaphor

a MN state senator was booked for breaking into her stepmother's home, but it turns out she's DFL, so I lost interest.

State Sen. Nicole Mitchell broke into the home to retrieve her late father's ashes. I was hoping she was GOP so I could make fun of her, but it turns out she's one of us. So there's probably a tragic story behind this perfectly understandable misjudgment and I think we should respect her privacy.

link, if you're a voyeur:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/23/senator-nicole-mitchell-minnesota-arrest-response/73431306007/

With all due respect to Mitt Romney...

...if Trump offered me $130,000 not to have sex with him, I'd take the deal.

TPM: "Nope. Fetterman Isn't Going Full Manchin. Not Even Close."

Nope. Fetterman Isn’t Going Full Manchin. Not Even Close.
April 23, 2024

....There’s no question that Israel and Gaza are very big issues for a lot of Democrats now. And if that’s people’s reason for being upset with Fetterman, that’s certainly fair. But what we see here is a pretty concerted effort to stretch and paste and papier-mâché his position on Israel into some general apostasy or emerging Manchinism when there’s really no evidence of that. Indeed, the HuffPost article makes clear that on universal health care, income inequality, LGBTQ rights, pot legalization and criminal justice reform, Fetterman remains outspokenly where he always was.

The only other scrap the Manchinism crowd has to work with is that Fetterman has said that tightening the southern border can’t or shouldn’t be a third rail for Democrats. But it’s hard to see how that’s any different from where President Biden is on the issue, or the bill he tried to get through Congress before Donald Trump put the kibosh on it in the House.

Where Fetterman has played into this is arguably at a rhetorical level. He’s pugilistic. Many of his comments on Israel have clearly been intentionally provocative. In response to progressive/Squad-like criticisms he’s said well, I’m not a progressive. That’s you, not me. I’m not woke. But this is really no different from the kind of shoot-from-the-hip regular guy-isms that have always been his brand. It’s just that he’s using it in a fight with a part of the party that’s in his face about his dogged support for Israel.

At the risk of stating the obvious, if you’re going to be a progressive Democrat (in the generic rather than the branded Squad copyrighted sense) it’s always been clear that you’re going to be at least tonally different if your base is outside of one of the big left-leaning metroplexes. The conceit of the beltway has often been that that means you need to be more “centrist,” more business and tax-cut oriented, a bit more traditionalist on topics like abortion and LGBTQ issues. But Fetterman’s shown fairly clearly that that isn’t really the case. Often quite the contrary, especially on fiscal policy and populist economics issues...

Stinky is literally stinking up the court

це про чортів час, you fucking Putin punks

How many people died because you dragged your feet?

On this day 1863, Robert E Lee shouted "Never fight uphill, me b'hoys!" ... So beautiful

I don't know who this lawyer dude is, but he does a good job explaining Trump's legal & financial situation

Caveat: the name of his podcast "Really America Network" is unbearably hokey. I almost didn't watch cause of that. But he's a clearspoken New York lawyer and rolls out the facts in simple nonlegalese. Thought a few would appreciate this. Kick, please, so our late night friends can catch up.

Speculates on Trump's drug use or lack thereof at 3:30
Explains the financial troubles at 4:00