Be Katie Zacharia:
> Graduate from Pepperdine Law in 2011.
> Reportedly fail the California bar and never retake it.
> Move to China. Work at a law firm.
> Build a career in conservative media.
> Describe yourself as a lawyer.
> Hold the title of “general counsel.”
> At 41, get named White House press secretary.
> Pretty significant promotion.
> Unfortunately, it includes a background check conducted by the entire internet.
> Tuesday: First White House briefing.
> Questions arise about your legal credentials.
> Where are you admitted?
> Normally a pretty short conversation.
> Texas. Florida. California.
> Yours requires an explanation involving China.
> By Thursday, explain that you were told you could call yourself a “lawyer,” but not an “attorney” or “esquire.”
> Your career is now depending on a distinction most people use a thesaurus to avoid.
> Appear on Hannity.
> You were hired to explain the president’s positions.
> You are explaining your résumé.
> Friday: Reports say you’re fired.
> Five days in the job.
> First briefing Tuesday. Out Friday.
> I’ve had longer email chains about whether to use “reasonable” or “commercially reasonable.”
> Everyone sees a career catastrophe.
> Fair.
> But look at what survives the termination.
> National name recognition.
> Footage behind the White House podium.
> A story every political podcast can ask you about.
> And a new line on your résumé: Former White House press secretary.
> No semantic debate required for that one.
> Actually held the job.
> The conference introduction probably won’t mention that it was shorter than the hotel’s cancellation policy.
> A book? A podcast? Paid speeches?
> Nothing guaranteed.
> But “former White House press secretary tells her side” is a much easier pitch than “political commentator available for bookings.”
> At 41, lose a job in five days.
> Potentially spend the next 20 years being introduced by it.
The job didn’t work out. But I suspect things will for her!
BREAKING: LOL! Country music megastar Kacey Musgraves verbally nukes MAGA dog-killer Kristi Noem after she attacked her for endorsing Democrat James Talarico.
This is worse than a third-degree burn...
"I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it," Musgraves wrote on X in response to a post by Noem.
The disgraced former DHS Secretary had written "I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day. And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico" in response to photos of Musgraves posing with Talarico at one of her concerts.
Noem infamously bragged in her book that she executed her dog Cricket in a gravel pit because he had an “aggressive personality” and she "hated" him. True to sadistic Republican form, she exploited the killing to claim that it displayed leadership skills. In reality, all it demonstrated was that she has a sociopathic lack of empathy.
In addition to being a noted dog-slayer, Noem is a downright crook. Trump removed her from her position at Homeland Security after the revelation that she misused government funds for TV ads and private luxury jets resulted in Congressional hearings. In other words, she's birds of a feather with Ken Paxton, who was impeached by his own party for accepting bribes as state attorney general. The entire Republican Party is one big criminal cartel.
For the record, Musgraves is from Texas and Noem is from South Dakota. She has no dog in this fight, other than helping out a fellow MAGA creep.
As for Ella Langley, who Noem tagged in her post, she has absolutely nothing to do with this spat. There is a meme going around right now in right-wing spheres which claims that liberals have never heard of Langley's hit song "Choosin' Texas." While true in some cases, plenty of liberals love that tune. And even if it were true, it would say nothing about Langley's personal politics. She has not endorsed Paxton nor voiced support for Noem.
This is yet another pathetic instance of a conservative desperately latching onto a successful cultural figure to try to shave off some of their popularity for themselves. And as usual, it backfired bigly.
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🚨NEW: Singer Kacey Musgraves has endorsed James Talarico for the U.S. Senate in Texas!
RETWEET if you stand with @KaceyMusgraves in support of Talarico!
This is the man who punched a woman in the face at a Trump rally for daring to ask Trump about Epstein from the crowd, as Trump and other attendees cheered him on.
Anyone know his name?
Let's make him famous.
😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.
A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.
Lets make this viral again 👇
"CHICKENSHIT. @KenPaxtonTX
Tonight was supposed to be debate night in Dallas. Ken Paxton — the criminal — never confirmed. Declined all three invitations, then went silent on WFAA.
He knew Talarico would embarrass him in front of the entire world.
His camp promised 'of course we are going to debate' back in July. Then ghosted.
16 years of hiding.
Tonight Texas saw why."
To those Americans in Nebraska at Trumps rally clapping and cheering for Iran to kill millions of Americans, you are pathetic. We saw your faces. You will forever wear the stench of Trump.
You are not patriots but TRAITORS to America.
May you never have a day of peace!
🚨Holy shit. Tim Scott is literally losing his mind on live television at Trump’s Trumpapalooza.
This man shouldn’t be anywhere near the Senate, he needs a fucking straitjacket!
BREAKING: KNOCKOUT! Governor JB Pritzker sucks the wind out of the Republican convention's sails with a BRUTAL takedown of Trump, Don Jr., RFK Jr., and "chief bootlicker" JD Vance.
This is EXACTLY how we want Democrats to talk about these monsters...
"From Texas, we have Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, and Ted Cruz, each one a poster child for bad governance, bad morals, and bad vibes, respectively," said Pritzker.
The Republicans kick off their midterms convention in Texas today in a desperate bid to generate some positive headlines as Trump's deeply unpopular presidency threatens to sink them all at the ballot box.
Since they have no actual policy plans to improve the lives of working-class Americans, they're going to rely on trotting out a coterie of sickos, quacks, and pedophiles to rant about "communism" and transgender athletes.
"We have RFK Jr., the Health Secretary that you can thank for the return of measles and unsafe food," said Pritzker. "We have Todd Blanche, the attorney general who wanted to give your tax dollars to reward Trump's insurrectionists."
"And we have Don Jr., the chief accomplice in his daddy's shakedown of the American people. And then we have JD Vance, Trump's chief bootlicker, who wants to hide the fact that he's the architect of Trump's endless war in Iran," said Pritzker.
"And of course, we have Donald Trump himself, a President suffering from dementia, who unleashed violence on our cities, who jacked up grocery prices, screwed our farmers, and now has you paying for his gaudy golden ballroom," the governor continued.
"I'm done pretending that these self-dealing, racist, misogynist grifters are an aberration of the Republican Party. They are the mainstream of the Republican Party now," he added.
This final point is absolutely crucial. These lunatics and fascists who would have once been considered fringe are now the beating rotten heart of the Republican Party. There is not a single moderate conservative left on the national stage and if we are ever going to return to a sane political climate, these cretins need to be totally and lastingly repudiated in November.
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Steve Harness: “When is a reporter gonna snap back and say don’t you fucking talk to me that way? I’m a goddamned adult. I’m here working. You work for us, asshole. Go fuck yourself. Somebody, for the love of God, I will buy the Pulitzer for you if you will just tell this man how fucking dare you, do not talk to me that way”
BREAKING: Trump commits his most pro-corruption crime yet by PERMANENTLY deleting the database that lists the "beneficial owners" of U.S. legal entities — meaning criminals can now easily hide behind shell companies.
"It's like Trump ordering the deletion of the FBI's fingerprint database," stated former Congressman Tom Malinowski.
We may as well have elected Al Capone to be President...
"I helped pass this law in 2020. It's purpose is to prevent drug traffickers, Russian & Chinese kleptocrats, and other international criminals from setting up anonymously owned companies to hide their money in the US. Trump's Treasury Dept. is doing this to help criminals," Malinowski wrote on X in response to the announcement from the Treasury Department.
In their post, Treasury touted the decision by their Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to "permanently" remove the requirement that entities report "beneficial ownership information." Worse still, FinCEN also stated that they "will delete previously reported information by U.S. persons from the beneficial ownership information database."
The White House didn't even bother to construct a plausible explanation for the world-shaking decision, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent instead offering up some platitudes about "common sense" and cutting "red tape."
But the motivation is painfully transparent. This administration is stuffed to the gills with white collar criminals. They're lining their pockets with sweetheart deals, running crypto scams, and constructing elaborate financial architectures for hiding and laundering money. This new decision makes it far more difficult for upstanding law enforcement agents to detect and prosecute these wrongdoings.
"'Beneficial ownership information'" is just a record of who actually owns a company. That's all that was being reported here, so that we didn't have LLCs in Delaware laundering millions of dollars through the US and into offshore banks on behalf of totally anonymous people," wrote Malinowski.
"Treasury deleting the beneficial ownership info it already gathered is utterly crazy. This database was not public -- it was just for law enforcement to use in investigating crimes. It's like Trump ordering the deletion of the FBI's fingerprint database," he continued.
"Why is the Trump administration doing this? I don't know. But it's certainly good news for rich Russians who want to buy his condos, or Gulf royals buying his fake crypto. The true identities of people he's done business with, if registered with Treasury, will now be deleted," he went on.
This particular point is crucial. Trump has been taking bribes out in the open (look no further than his Qatari jet) so one can only imagine what he and his family are raking in from foreign governments behind closed doors. By deleting this database, he makes it much easier for America's adversaries to funnel money to him and his cronies. This isn't just criminal, it's downright treasonous.
"Last but not least, this is totally illegal!" added Malinowski. "Congress passed a law -- with strong Republican support BTW -- saying Treasury had to collect and keep beneficial ownership info. The Trump administration cannot say 'we're just not going to do it.'"
"This will find its way to court. It will be struck down. But the deletion of data currently available to law enforcement may be irreversible," he concluded. "It's one of the most lawless and corrupt things this administration has done, and that's saying a lot."
The illegality would be relevant under any other President, but with Republican control of Congress we can safely presume no action will be taken until after the midterms when Democrats obtain subpoena power. And since we likely can't undo the database deletion, we need to investigate and prosecute everyone who was involved in it.
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14 year heroin addict who sounds like he’s gargling ground glass & has a serious case of the shakes spews lies about vaccines as the president sleeps & shits himself while the NodBot (no one knows who or what the fuck she is) nods & sways. Fucking surreal.