Amazing. Not only is Celine Dion pissed that Dampnut and J. Divans are misusing her music, she’s baffled by them misusing that particular song. And, really, she’s not wrong, it’s a thoroughly wrong song for any political campaign, it’s a big romantic number about an old person looking back at a long-ago love; it’s not something you can really make a political message out of… I mean, “Don’t Stop” by Fleetwood Mac is a song about Christine McVie moving on from John McVie (who, hilariously, didn’t realise until years later the song was about him), but Bill Clinton’s campaign back in ’92 correctly recognised it had potential for messaging, which, frankly, “My Heart Will Go On” doesn’t. Oh Trump, you’re surrounded by idiots… but you don’t deserve any better.
There’s a meme about Jesus coming back to Earth and being appalled by Christians wearing crosses as a symbol of him, cos why the hell would he want to be reminded of the means of his death (even considering how little effect it had on him)? This gives me a sense of similar energy, or at least it might if Trump looked like he had any idea what he was staring at. Adin Ross is best known for being an Andrew Taint wannabe and for inadvertently announcing the latter’s plan to escape from Romania before his trial there started, whereupon he was promptly arrested again and served with a new warrant… and for being an all-round piece of shit, like so many of these chuds made famous by the Internet seem to be. I’ve seen a suggestion that this incongruous meeting of alleged minds was an idea by Barron Dampnut, which if true kind of spoils any hope we ever had that he might not grow up to be a cunt like his dad; but The Verge offers a much more interesting idea:
At one point in the interview, Ross presented Trump with Rolex watch. Shortly after gifting him the watch, Ross brought up Fani Willis, a district attorney in the state of Georgia, who has filed an indictment against Trump for alleged election interference during the 2020 presidential election.
“I have a friend who’s currently being treated very unfair by [District Attorney Willis]. He’s a rapper named Young Thug,” Ross said during the livestream, referencing Williams’ racketeering case against the rapper. “I was just wondering if there’s a way that we could make sure he gets treated fair?”
Donald Trump has a precedent for getting rappers out of sticky legal situations. At the end of his term in 2021, Trump pardoned the rapper Lil Wayne after he pled guilty to illegal gun possession. He also commuted the sentence for rapper Kodak Black, who was sentenced to 46 months after lying on federal forms in an attempt to purchase firearms.
Trump didn’t directly respond to Ross’ question, saying, “He’s gotta be treated fair.” As the details of the stream spread across social media, observers wondered if Ross was attempting to bribe Trump or whether accepting such an expensive gift constituted some kind of campaign finance violation.
Hmmm! But the most interesting part of this peculiar story for me is this other photo from the gathering:
What. The. FUCK? I mean, I’ve seen it said for years that Trump has often demonstrated a very… odd way of standing, and I’ve even seen evidence of it; there’s debates over whether his posture is a medical issue or is he just weird sometimes about how he insists on standing. This… I can only assume this is evidence for the latter case. I don’t even stand like that when I go for a piss; I know, cos I had to go and do one while writing this nonsense and checked myself. I mean, I’m not going to mock if it is a physical problem he genuinely had… but this just looks, you know, weird.
Alas for Don Don, that’s not quite how this situation turned out, cos Gershkovich just got released well ahead of the election. It wasn’t exactly for free, to be sure, a number of Russian prisoners had to be exchanged for him and a bunch of others freed at the same time (and I’m not exactly thrilled that this guy was part of the exchange)… but Putin didn’t do it for Trump, he did it for Biden. I’d feel rejected if I were Dampnut.
I did find this part of the article slightly odd, though:
The exchange is emblematic of a new era of state-sponsored hostage-taking by autocratic governments seeking leverage over rivals. It was negotiated as tensions soared between Russia and the West over the war in Ukraine.
It also offers sobering evidence of the asymmetry between the U.S. and Russia in this new, piratical order. Putin can order foreigners plucked from restaurants and hotels and given lengthy prison sentences on spurious charges—something an American leader can’t do.
Does the WSJ honestly think American leaders HAVEN’T done exactly this sort of thing? Never heard of extraordinary rendition? More to the point, does the WSJ expect its readers to believe that bullshit?
Donald Trump’s campaign is desperately trying to clean up his latest mess after he bombed Wednesday while speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists Wednesday.
In a racist tirade, Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of playing cynical games with her heritage.
“She was Indian all the way,” he said, “then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went—she became a Black person.”
The campaign knew it was a disaster before it was even over. What was supposed to be an hour-long question-and-answer session was abruptly cut short by Trump’s campaign after just 34 minutes—“an indication of how much of a train wreck it was for him,” tweeted Axios reporter Sophia Cai, “and also how good the questioning was.”
Jesus FUCK, this was a catastrophe even by HIS limited standards. Apparently there was a lot of anger at the NABJ inviting him at all, and I totally understand why, and I’ve seen some suggestions that they hardly covered themselves in glory… but GODDAMN they didn’t cover themselves in shit like Dampnut did. All they did was ask him questions that should’ve been asked ages ago…
I mean…FUCKING LOOK, if you can stomach it (I could only manage five or six minutes even of this cutdown). The delay problem wasn’t their equipment, by the way, it was him and his team harrumphing over the NABJ panel wanting to fact-check him in real time, cos you know, fact-checking him at all is the height of rudeness. This is the sort of thing that, had it been anyone else, would’ve ended their career. And, you know, Dampnut has the cult behind him, so, though his campaign team may be rightly aghast (the whole thing ends hilariously with one of the journalists noting that the Trump team is giving them the order to wind it up, and she very specifically names them rather than just making a vague statement about being out of time or something) they probably can’t do much about him… but I suspect even he might suffer some harm from this. I look forward to it happening.
It’s been kind of amusing to see the Democrats leaning recently into the idea that there’s something basically strange about the Republicans… Minnesota governor Tim Walz seems to have kicked it off in a TV interview and the Harris campaign quickly picked up on it:
“Old and quite weird” indeed. The Republicans aren’t particularly happy at being picked on like this:
Is there a Democrat equivalent of this dickhead?
And, to be sure, it’s really not the most refined political argument, but then again the Republicans don’t have much in their armoury either that’s better. “Ron DeSanctimonious” was about as sophisticated as Trump got, and someone probably had to come up with it for him. And, as someone says in that Politico piece, people understand Trump being weird better than they understand “an existential threat to democracy”. The latter is, of course, still correct, but “weird” certainly does hit harder in a way.
And let’s face it, THIS shit IS weird. There isn’t any other way to fairly describe whatever the fuck this is if it’s not meant to be some sort of parody of the cult’s iconography. Cos on the face of it, it’s so deranged it looks like it has to be parodic, and indeed I thought it had to be when I first looked at it when someone posted it on Bluesky. But then I saw Tim Pool’s name at the top of the post. Yes, Grim Fool posted this monstrosity (obviously didn’t create it, though, cos that would’ve required him to have talent). I couldn’t believe that either and thought someone must have photoshopped it… no, they didn’t, I went to Tim’s Twitter and, well, that’s exactly what I found there. And Tim is incapable of irony, so he posted this thing with a straight face. Fuck me dead. These people have no sense of their own absurdity.
I mean, look at this silly old chud here. There was a bunch of people like him at the recent Republican convention at which Drumpf appeared with a frankly unnecessarily large bandage covering his putative war wound from that shooting, whereupon it became like a badge for other people there. This is not normal. Weird is the word. I don’t see John Fetterman’s admirers having strokes as a sign of support for him, for example. And see this fuckwit too:
Well, at least her father probably wasn’t a leader in the fucking Ku Klux Klan, which is rather more than can be said for Rod Dreher’s dad. Also, I wonder if she ever published private pictures from a teenage girl’s private Instagram in a major magazine while accusing said girl unjustly of sexually harrassing other girls at her school, cos Rod DEFINITELY did that. That’s clearly weird behaviour on his part. People with normal moral compasses know better than that.
Obviously the left has been kind of tut-tutty about the “weird” thing, too, like the clown I saw harrumphing on Mastodon the other day about how everyone laughing at the couch-fucking thing distracts us from realising that J. Divans (saw him called that on Twitter today and thought it was FUCKING MARVELLOUS) is in fact a monstrous human being… Jesus FUCK, you idiot, NO ONE who’s paying attention thinks Vance isn’t a piece of shit, we know exactly what he thinks. Piss off with your indignation, let the rest of us laugh at the cunt like he deserves. Make him look stupid. Make him look weird.
But the choice of the term “weird” has also drawn some criticism on the grounds of ableism or something like that, which I understand a little better. By the same token, I also understand the arguments I’ve seen some make that the Left deploying “weird” like this gets in the way of the Right defining themselves as “normality”, and about the distinction between “good weird” and “bad weird”… but the latter does kind of assume people’s willingness to actually make it, and I did see someone (wish I could recall who) say something about how what we should really be calling them isn’t so much weird as creepy…
…and, frankly, Malsh Walsh here makes a good argument for that. Let’s face it: the idea that he expresses here (a girl raped by her father should have to give birth so the father’s crime will be discovered) is not only weird and illogical, it’s FUCKING MONSTROUS. Not only is Walsh full of shit, he’s being actively evil here. And I can see why some are saying we should be emphasising their badness more than their oddness, and frankly that’s a line of thought I’m increasingly coming round to myself…
…and the authors of this astounding bit of work have latched onto that aspect of the whole thing; this is profoundly disquieting, nailing the essential unpleasantness of these people, and it’s one of the best political ads I’ve ever seen. The casting is just brilliant, and the SWEAT… oh gods, the SWEAT. I think the increasing amount of sweat is a good way to finally round this post off.
It’s been a few days now since that shooting, we should check in on the orange one…
…aaaaand he’s fine. Nothing wrong with him except morally, as ever. Good to see that coming so close to death has made him realise the preciousness of life and driven him to focus on stuff that actually matters.
And he’s got friends looking after him too:
Insofar as the mask was ever on, it’s irretrievably off now. I can’t wait to find out just what Oolong expects from Glorious Bleeder for this, though, cos I’m sure that 45 million has strings attached.
And, well, sometimes you’ve got to feel sorry for the guy:
Frankly even I can’t work out what Trump has done to deserve this. Personally I can only hope Farrago’s new constituents in Clacton don’t mind him abandoning them immediately like this, I mean, it’s only a week or so since they voted him in and he’s already shirking his responsibilities to them to go and gently cup the balls of some elderly American man who isn’t even a resident of the country, let alone the constituency. Still, they voted for him, they deserve whatever they get…
Meanwhile on RM Brown’s channel:
There’s a couple of issues about this theory that God saved Trump (apart from the fact that it presupposes God’s existence, obviously) that I find problematic:
One, if God was protecting Trump, why did he let the shooting happen at all? Why didn’t he stop the shooter from firing in the first place?
Two… frankly, someone died. And another man apparently required multiple surgeries for the injuries he sustained, plus two others were apparently hit as well. Why didn’t God protect THEM? Did he decide they could just go fuck themselves? These pricks gushing about God saving Trump aren’t making as good a case for God as they think they are…
So I’ve said before I don’t want to talk so much about politics on here (which is partly why I never said anything about the frankly grim Biden/Trump debate of a few weeks ago), but that’s kind of hard to avoid after today’s events… going to stick this behind a cut cos it’s a long one.
New Yorker was ready for this well in advance. Art by John Cuneo
In news that actually does surprise me, Drumpf just got found guilty of all 34 charges he was facing in the Stormy Daniels case. JESUS FUCK. I actually am kind of stunned by this. TRUMP, of all people, actually being held responsible for something? Who even knew it was possible? Joe, my housemate, told me he was tempted to wake me up with the news when he read it this morning, and I almost wished he had; what a way to start the day…
Anyway, the cult of Convicted Felon Donald Trump are reacting as predictably as you might expect, and I have a feeling the election is going to get REALLY ugly… there’s been a few Republican figures who have been hesitant in interviews about whether or not they’ll accept the election results, and I think this will just solidify the “no” position; there will be few if any Republicans that will accept if the election goes Biden’s way. And I kind of understand Steve Shives’ hesitancy to get too excited if an appeal makes it to the Supreme Court, which has been bought and paid for by the Republicans to save them from this sort of thing. Whatever actually happens, they won’t let this pass easily. At the same time, Steve’s right: let’s enjoy the moment nonetheless, cos Convicted Felon Trump’s got a ton of other charges in other trials still to come, and mocking him is never not fun…
I kind of feel like if your film about Trump paints him as anything less than God, he’s not going to even watch it to decide whether he does in fact like it or not.
There’s nothing I’ve really wanted to say about the Orange One’s legal woes, cos I prefer to have as little to say about him as possible, but there was an interesting development in the hush money trial:
So Trump keeps violating the gag order that’s been put on him by pissing and moaning on Truth Social, and there’s been a lot of discourse about why he isn’t in jail for it. Cos, you know, like everything else about Trump’s legal situation, ANYONE ELSE would’ve been in jail ages ago… anyway, though, Judge Merchan has finally raised the spectre of Orange Man having to wear the orange suit. So this is quite a move forward.
At least it will be if Merchan actually takes it; while noting that the $1000 fines he applied to each of the nine times he’s been allowed to violate the gag order have been useless as a deterrent, on the tenth violation he just fined him the thousand bucks again. And he’s said outright he doesn’t actually want to jail Trump either, all of which kind of begs the question: at what point does Merchan actually intend to consider the jail option? And when he does consider it, will he actually pack Trump off to a cell? Cos, obviously, ANYONE ELSE, like I said, would’ve been in one long before this. Amazing what leniency you can purchase just by having been president…
I kind of feel like if your film about Trump paints him as anything less than God, he’s not going to even watch it to decide whether he does in fact like it or not.
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