The World Today Just Nuts: 5/1/24

Sunday, May 26, 2024

We need a new court -- one that does what it should

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO SPOKE TO THESE REPORTERS TONIGHT -- TAKING TIME OUT FROM GETTING A JASON ALDEAN TO DO SO. (A JASON ALDEAN? THAT'S WHEN YOU HAVE EXPLOSIVE DIAHREHA AND THEN GET A PROSTITUTE TO TOSS YOUR SALAD WITHOUT ANY WIPING TAKE PLACE.)

JUSTICE ALITO, IT'S BEEN REVEALED THAT YOU FLEW TWO FLAGS -- AN UPSIDE-DOWN STARS AND STRIPES AND THE SO-CALLED "APPEAL TO HEAVEN" FLAG -- TO SHOW YOUR BELIEF THAT THE 2020 ELECTION WAS STOLEN. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT?

SAMUEL ALITO: I DISPLAY LOTS OF FLAGS. FOR 6 MONTHS, I PUT UP A FLAG THAT READ "I'M NOT A COMPLETE IDIOT -- SOME OF MY PIECES ARE MISSING." AND A YEAR AGO, I HAD A HOMEMADE FLAG I PUT UP WITH ELMO'S FACE AND THE SLOGAN "TICKLE ME BALLS, ELMO."

JUSTICE ALITO, THESE FLAGS WERE CARRIED BY THE INSURRECTIONISTS WHO ATTEMPTED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT ON JANUARY 6, 2021. TREASON IS NOT A LIGHT TERM.

SAMUEL ALITO: WHEN I'M PAYING A PROSTITUTE FOR AN ALBERTO GONZALES, IT IS. THAT'S WHERE YOUR PARTNER -- PAID OR UNPAID -- APPLIES SEXUAL REFLEXOGLOGY TO YOUR STRESS POINTS AND CHOKES YOU WHILE YOU BEAT OFF.

IN ADDITION TO CONCERNS THAT THE FLAGS MEAN YOU SHOULD RECUSE YOURSELF FROM ALL JANUARY 6TH CASES, THERE ARE OTHER CONCERNS AS WELL. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU TOOK AN OATH TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, HOWEVER, THE "APPEAL TO HEAVEN" FLAG INDICATES THAT YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE LAW AND THAT YOU ARE SERVING SOME CULT THAT WANTS TO ROLL BACK THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE OF COLOR, WOMEN AND THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY. RYAN BORT, TESSA STUART AND ANDREW PEREZ (ROLLING STONE) NOTE:

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag is white with an evergreen tree at its center. The flag was initially a Revolutionary War banner, with the motto taken from philosopher John Locke. Recently, however, the flag has been co-opted by far-right Christian nationalists looking to impose their will on the United States by any means necessary. Rolling Stone reported last fall that House Speaker Mike Johnson flew the flag outside of his office in Congress, and that he has ties to the New Apostolic Reformation, a network of Christian leaders who believe that God has given Christians a “mandate” to “conquer” the government and other aspects of life.

JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO: I BELIEVE YOU HAVE MISUNDESTOOD ME SEVERELY. FIRST OFF, I SUPPORT WORKING WOMEN. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY I SPEND ON PROSTITUTES IN A SINGLE WEEK? AS FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR, I AM A VICTIM OF RACISM -- DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO BE ITALIAN IN 2024? AND, ON TOP OF THAT, ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS IS BLACK -- SORT OF. CLARENCE THOMAS IS KIND-OF BLACK, RIGHT? AS FOR THE GAYS, YOU DON'T GET MAGA. WE ARE ALL FOR THE GAYS. WE ARE ALL FOR -- CHECK US ON TWITTER -- YOU CAN GOOGLE "MAGA" AND "F*G" OR "RED PILL" -- AND YOU'LL SEE OUR PLAN INCLUDES AN AMERICA WITH THE GAYS. THEY'LL BE STRIPPED OF THEIR RIGHTS AND TURNED INTO SEX SLAVES FOR MEN LIKE ME. IT'S NOT GAY TO GET A BLOW JOB, JUST TO GIVE ONE. WE'RE GOING TO OVERTURN F*G RIGHTS AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT. AN INCLUSIVE AMERICA WHERE WE -- WHITE POWER FOR WHITE MEN -- WILL BE SITTING AT THE TOP AND EVERYONE ELSE WILL BE SERVING US AS THE INFERIORS THAT THEY ARE. NOW, IF YOU'LL EXCUSE ME, I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A JASON ALDEAN AND MY WET DUKEY ANUS ISN'T GOING TO LICK ITSELF.

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Monday, May 20, 2024

Burly MTG wants to dish

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

SWINGING ALLY CAT AND DIVORCEE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE IS BARING THE CLAWS AGAIN AFTER A HOUSE COLLEAGUE NOTED LAST WEEK HER "BUTCH" BODY.

SHE JUST CAN'T LET IT GO BECAUSE, IN THE PAST, SHE'S ALWAYS BEEN THE BULLY AND NOT THE BULLIED.

TODAY, THE FAILURE OF A CONGRESS WOMAN INSISTED, "YES, MY BODY IS BUILT!" TO WHICH PEOPLE PASSING BY SHOT BACK, "YEAH, WITH CHICKEN FAT!"

LUNCH LADY ARMS AND POSSESSING A BOTTLE BLOND BLEACH JOB THAT LEAVES HER HAIR LOOKING LIKE URINE, MARJORIE INSISTS SHE'S A CATCH.

AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A SOCIAL DISEASE, MARJORIE IS THE CATCH OF MILLEDGEVILLE.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Starting with legal news. Tariq Tahir (THE NATIONAL) reports, "Julian Assange has been granted the right to appeal against extradition to the US to face charges in connection with WikiLeaks' publication of hundreds of thousands of files relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." Ben Quinn (GUARDIAN) notes:

Assange had been granted permission to appeal only if the Biden administration was unable to provide the court with suitable assurances “that the applicant [Assange] is permitted to rely on the first amendment, that the applicant is not prejudiced at trial, including sentence, by reason of his nationality, that he is afforded the same first amendment [free speech] protections as a United States citizen, and that the death penalty is not imposed”.

Legal argument on Monday focused on the issue of whether Assange would be allowed first amendment protections. Assange’s team did not contest the assurance around the death penalty, accepting that it was an “unambiguous executive promise”.

BBC NEWS adds:

The decision means Mr Assange will be able to challenge US assurances over how his prospective trial would be conducted and whether his right to free speech would be infringed.

Mr Assange’s lawyers hugged each other in court after the ruling.

Earlier on Monday, the 52-year-old’s wife Stella Assange told the BBC that it would be a "decisive" day in the protracted legal battle.

In other legal news this morning, Ivana Kottasová and Madalena Araujo (CNN) reveal:

The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday.

Khan said the ICC is also seeking warrants for Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as two other top Hamas leaders — Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, the leader of the Al Qassem Brigades and better known as Mohammed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ political leader.

The warrants against the Israeli politicians mark the first time the ICC has targeted the top leader of a close ally of the United States. The decision puts Netanyahu in the company of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, for whom the ICC issued an arrest warrant over Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

A panel of ICC judges will now consider Khan’s application for the arrest warrants.

[. . .]

The charges against Netanyahu and Gallant include “causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, deliberately targeting civilians in conflict,” Khan told Amanpour.

THE FINANCIAL TIMES OF LONDON this morning features an article by Lord Justice Fulford, Judge Theodor Meron CMG, Amal Clooney, Danny Friedman KC, Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC supporting the prosecution of Israeli and Hamas leaders.

Sunday, US President Joe Biden spoke at Morehouse College. CNN has video here. REUTERS notes, "Some students wore keffiyehs -- the black-and-white head scarf that has become an emblem of solidarity with the Palestinian cause -- around their gowns. A handful of students turned their backs to Biden in silent protest. Morehouse's valedictorian also called for a permanent and immediate ceasefire, garnering Biden’s applause." John Bowden (THE INDEPENDENT) adds, "When he began speaking, one student held up a Palestinian flag and a handful turned their chairs away from him. One faculty member was seen turning her back to him and raising a fist, while standing in silent protest." POLITICO notes, "Some walked out when Biden was presented with an honorary degree. Many kept their heads down as he spoke and declined to stand or applaud." NDTV reminds, "A number of Morehouse students had called for Biden's speech to be canceled over the Gaza war but the ceremony went ahead without disruption."

Today, Nandita Bose (REUTERS) reports, "Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel's offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November's election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the president's policy on the war."

Hmm.

Well that's good to know. Then I don't have to vote for the Democratic Party nominee whomever it is, as I announced here last year that I would. Good to know my vote's not needed. I can do other things with it and with my time.

You do get that's the reaction you're going to sew.

Either this is an important election where every vote will count or it's not.

You don't get to tell the public that it's an important election and also that their feelings about an important issue don't matter.

It appears Joe Biden's campaign if staffed with idiots who have no clues.

Ishaan Tharoor (THE WASHINGTON POST) reports:

The war in Gaza rages on while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces mounting pressure from abroad and within. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan called on Netanyahu and other key Israeli officials in Jerusalem on Sunday, stressing the need for Netanyahu to agree to a “day after” plan for the Gaza Strip that he’s been long evading. As my colleagues reported, the Biden administration sees a strategic failure in Israel’s decision to invade the southernmost Gaza city of Rafah — a move long opposed by both Western governments and international humanitarian organizations — and fears Netanyahu’s current course “is not worth the cost in terms of human lives and destruction, cannot achieve its objective, and will ultimately undermine broader U.S. and Israeli goals in the Middle East.”

Netanyahu has scoffed at calls for plotting peace while fighting the war, arguing that it distracts from fully defeating Hamas. Experts warn that may be an impossibility and Israel’s own security establishment is getting increasingly vocal in its frustrations with the prime minister’s prevarications. On Saturday, Benny Gantz, Netanyahu’s erstwhile rival and current member of the country’s war cabinet, threatened to quit if the prime minister did not come forward with a “comprehensive” plan by next month prioritizing the release of hostages and an alternative governing structure for the territory, among other things.

Saturday, Laura Barron Lopez (PBS NEWS WEEKEND) explained, "Tonight, there is turmoil within Israel's government. Benny Gantz, a centrist in Benjamin Netanyahu's War Cabinet is threatening to quit if a government does not adopt a new plan for the war in Gaza by June 8th." AP noted, "His announcement on Saturday escalates a divide within Israel’s leadership more than seven months into a war in which it has yet to accomplish its stated goals of dismantling Hamas and returning scores of hostages abducted in the Oct. 7 attack." Daniel Estrin (NPR) added, "The ultimatum by Benny Gantz, a former army chief and current minister in Israel's three-member war cabinet, reflects growing discontent among Israel's leadership about the protracted war in Gaza and Netanyahu's far-right political partners. The move could pose a significant challenge to the stability of Netanyahu's government." Christy Cooney (BBC NEWS) provided this context, "Mr Gantz was speaking just days after another war cabinet member, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, urged Mr Netanyahu to state publicly that Israel had no plans to take over civilian and military rule in Gaza."

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"Iraq snapshot"

""Over 35,000 killed in the continued assault on Gaza

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"DEATH BECOMES HER"

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Monday, May 13, 2024

The continued whinings of Sinner Clarence

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

CROOKED CLARENCE THOMAS DECLARED AT A FRIDAY CONFERENCE, "WE'RE IN A WORLD AND WE -- CERTAINLY MY WIFE AND I THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS IT'S BEEN -- JUST NASTINESS AND THE LIES, IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE. BUT YOU HAVE SOME CHOICES. YOU DON'T GET TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM DOING HORRIBLE THINGS OR SAYING HORRIBLE THINGS. BUT ONE, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAN AND ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THEY CAN'T CHANGE YOU, UNLESS YOU PERMIT THAT."

REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS -- MUST CREDIT -- CROOKED CLARENCE ALTERNATED BETWEEN SOBBING AND RAGE.

"PEOPLE THINK I HAVE IT EASY," CROOKED CLARENCE SOBBED, "THEY DON'T KNOW ME! THEY DON'T ME! AND I'VE BEEN HURT SO BAD BY HARLAN CROW!!!"

YOU HAVE?

"PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW BAD OF A PAPER CUT YOU CAN GET WHEN SOMEONE PUTS 30 ONE-DOLLAR BILLS IN YOUR G-STRING ALL AT ONCE!"

AND THERE ARE OTHER PROBLEMS?

"YES! SO MUCH PAIN! DO YOU THINK ALL THE MONEY HARLAN CROW STUFFS IN MY PANTIES MAKES ME FORGET WHAT A FAILURE I AM? WHAT A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY? WHAT A TRAITOR TO MY OWN RACE?"

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT ENDING THE BRIBES AND BEHAVING ETHICALLY?

"NO! NO! THEY CAN'T CHANGE YOU UNLESS YOU PERMIT THAT! I SAID THAT FRIDAY. AND I'M NOT GOING OUT LIKE THAT! THEY'RE NOT GOING TO IMPOSE ANY ETHICS ON ME! I'M ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS! AND FAT WHITE WOMEN!"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Sunday a milestone was reached in the ongoing assault on Gaza as the death toll reached (and surpassed) 35,000. THE NATIONAL notes:

Four people, including a child, were killed when Israeli forces bombed a house in the eastern part of the southern city of Rafah, Palestinian state news agency Wafa reported.

The victims were taken to the Kuwaiti Hospital. Their deaths bring the overall toll in Gaza to 35,034 people, the enclave's health authorities said. The majority of the dead are women and children.

Over 14,000 of the dead are children. There are also medical workers and aid workers on the list as well as journalists. Yesterday, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a list of the journalists known to have been killed and, in the preface to the list, noted:

The Israel-Gaza war has taken a severe toll on journalists since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7 and Israel declared war on the militant Palestinian group, launching strikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip.

CPJ is investigating all reports of journalists and media workers killed, injured, or missing in the war, which has led to the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992.

As of May 12, 2024, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 97 journalists and media workers were among the more than 35,000 killed since the war began on October 7—with more than 34,000 Palestinian death s in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel.

The press would have you believe another milestone was reached: The US government standing on its hind legs. But it still crawls despite articles like this insisting "No ‘credible plan’: U.S.′ Blinken issues harshest criticism yet of Israel’s Gaza operations:"

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued harsh words for Israel, criticizing its operations in the Gaza Strip and saying it lacked a plan to protect civilian life ahead of an expected assault on the city of Rafah, where more than 1.2 million displaced Palestinians are sheltering.

“We believe two things,” Blinken said in an interview with CBS’ “Face The Nation” that aired Sunday.

“One, you have to have a clear, credible plan to protect civilians, which we haven’t seen. Second, we also need to see a plan for what happens after this conflict in Gaza is over, and we still haven’t seen that.”

That's the 'harshest' the administration has been in the seven months of killing? That's still mighty weak and mighty pathetic. This morning, THE NATIONAL notes:

amilies fleeing to Khan Younis amid Israeli attacks on Rafah are returning to "extensive damage" in the city, with no clean water available, according to the UN's relief agency for Palestinian refugees.

"A new level of desperation, unfolding under the world's watch," UNRWA said, publishing video footage of a badly-damaged UN shelter in the city.

Mitchell Plitnik (COMMON DREAMS) notes:

Over the seven months of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, the United States has worked vigorously to offer maximum support for Israel while trying to give the impression that it is concerned about the massive loss of Palestinian life. The performance has been difficult to maintain, as virtually every American action contradicts the occasional words of concern for the devastation being fully abetted and enabled by American policy.

In recent weeks, political pressures have forced President Joe Biden to try to take more concrete steps to deter what he considers “excessive” Israeli actions. Such Israeli actions—which apparently do not include killing over 35,000 people; wounding over 78,000 more; completely destroying the health, education, and civic infrastructure in Gaza; and a daily flow of war crimes—raise concerns in the White House that Israel’s image around the world is becoming one of a genocidal regime and that image is reflecting on its American patron.

Rafah has become the focal point of this concern. Biden was prepared to support the horrors of the past seven months, but with some 1.4 million people stuffed into Rafah (an area that was crowded when it was home to 275,000 people before Israel’s onslaught), he realizes that a full-scale ground invasion of the kind that we witnessed in most of Gaza will cause a horror show that even Americans and Europeans—most of them, anyway—will not be able to abide.

Israel’s closing of the Rafah crossing; its assault that has forced over 100,000 Palestinians, who had already been displaced, many multiple times, to flee once again; and its devastation of an already devastated area does not meet the American standard of a “major ground operation.”

So Biden made a statement. “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “I made it clear that if they go into Rafah—they haven’t gone in Rafah yet—if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities—that deal with that problem.”

Those words, in typical Biden fashion, were as clear as a muddy lake and left massive amounts of wiggle room for the White House to continue to arm Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. They also provided a roadmap for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to follow if he wishes to continue his genocidal campaign and not risk harming the one aspect of Israel’s relationship with the U.S. that Netanyahu cares about: the inexhaustible supply of arms.

Biden’s words are the latest in a series of statements and actions meant less to deter Netanyahu than to deter protesters and the voters who have been abandoning him in large numbers over his genocidal policy in Gaza. As we have seen over the past seven months, these words have, at best, pressed Israel to slow its genocidal attacks just a little and occasionally relent in some small, largely symbolic way, in its staunch efforts to block humanitarian aid from reaching the people in Gaza.

In related news, if there's something you want to be able to say you didn't hide it from the press, you release it on Friday in a Friday news dump so the corporate press will largely ignore it. That happens with the US State Dept report on the government of Israel's actions in Gaza.