The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

 

The good:

Like a game of Monopoly, Donald Trump may be forced to sell off his iconic properties under a New York judge's ruling that he committed fraud for years while building his real estate empire.

In a civil trial starting Monday, Trump's lawyers will return to court to begin a trial to determine how much he and his companies will be penalized for the fraud. New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $250 million in damages. Potential witnesses include Trump, his children and former business associates.

At stake? Whether the former president will have to shutter or break up his namesake Trump Organization and sell off those famous properties − and whether he will have to pay millions.

Trump's lawyers vowed to appeal the ruling. Trump called the decision "ridiculous and untrue."

New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron on Tuesday canceled Trump's business certificates by ruling he committed fraud for years through "pure sophistry," a "fantasy world" of real-estate valuations that "can only be considered fraud."

In fact, Engoron quoted a Marx Brothers movie to ridicule Trump's explanations for altering objective data such as the size of an apartment − an unusual approach for a judge to take.

“Well, who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?” Engoron quoted Chico Marx from the movie "Duck Soup."

Engoron ruled that Trump valued his Mar-a-Lago resort at 20 times the tax assessment, that apartments at Trump Park Avenue gained millions of dollars on his corporate balance sheet beyond their appraised values, and that Trump falsely nearly tripled the square-footage of his own Trump Tower penthouse apartment to increase its value by calling the measurement "a subjective process."... (our emphasis)

Today, starts the process of divesting the Malignant Loser of what matters to him most:  his wealth and image as a "billionaire."  Let the fun begin!

The bad:

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be seen as a wild success. Over its 12 years of existence, it’s been responsible for returning more than $17 billion to Americans separated from their money by financial sector shenanigans.

Instead of being able to celebrate that achievement, the agency is in a fight for its life — and if it loses, we’ll all be poorer for it.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a case filed by a trade group of payday-loan lenders against the CFPB. Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit — considered by many the most right-wing court in the country — agreed with the plaintiffs’ argument that the funding mechanism for the agency is unconstitutional.

In the worst-case scenario, this could lead to not just an end to payday-loan regulations, the continued halting of CFPB cases across the country, or to the CFPB needing to find a new funding source. It could lead also to much of the agency’s past work being declared invalid. This is not simply a fear being felt by progressives. It’s in a brief submitted to the court jointly by the Mortgage Bankers Association, the National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Realtors, hardly anyone’s idea of the usual lefty suspects. While studiously not taking a side on the question of the bureau’s constitutionality, the groups point out that almost all residential real estate transactions are governed by CFPB rules, and that with a broad ruling, further court challenges might mean “the housing market could descend into chaos.”...

Will the corrupted Republican Supreme Court decide this one in favor of payday sharks or consumers? The suspense is killing us.

The ugly:

Every year, hordes of tourists descend upon Paris with a shortlist of concerns: pickpockets, steep hotel prices, how to get skip-the-line tickets and the most polite way to decline a stranger’s offer of a friendship bracelet outside the Sacré-Coeur.

But as the French capital prepares to welcome millions of visitors for the 2024 Summer Olympics, a different issue has caught the eye of government officials: bedbugs. Lots of them.

Apparent footage of the insects has gone viral on social media platforms such as TikTok, prompting some users to post videos of themselves standing on the metro instead of taking an open seat or warning about infestations in their Airbnbs. Social media posts appeared to show bedbugs on the metro and in public buses. One showed bedbug bites all over a person’s body, purportedly after visiting a movie theater.

Paris’s deputy mayor, Emmanuel Grégoire, wrote a letter last week to Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne calling for solutions to the bedbug problem, local media reported. “The state urgently needs to put an action plan in place against this scourge as France is preparing to welcome the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024,” Grégoire wrote, according to French TV news outlet TF1 Info.

The deputy mayor also attempted to reassure the public on social media, but he still made his warning clear: “No one is safe” from an infestation, he said...

 Sacré bleu! And a hearty zut alors!  We didn't know the Malignant Loser had properties in Paris!

Pic Of The Day -- Happy Birthday!

 

Celebrating President Jimmy Carter's 99th birthday today, the longest living President ever:

 (Photo:  Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images)

Across The Universe, Cont. -- The Name Game

 

(click on image to enlarge)

From NASA/ESA, September 25, 2023:  This Hubble Picture of the Week includes the pithily-named galaxy SDSS J103512.07+461412.2, visible in the centre of this image as a dispersed sweep of dust and stars with a denser, brighter core. SDSS J103512.07+461412.2 is located 23 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. The seemingly rambling name is because this galaxy was observed as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a massive survey that began in 2000 with the aim of observing and cataloguing vast numbers of astronomical objects. So far, it has recorded several hundred million astronomical objects.

In the early days of astronomy catalogues, astronomers painstakingly recorded individual objects one by one. As an example, the Messier catalogue includes only 110 objects, identified by the astronomer Charles Messier because they were all getting in the way of his comet-hunting efforts. As the Messier catalogue is so limited, it is sufficient to simply refer to those objects as M1 to M110. In contrast, when a survey as massive in scope as the SDSS is involved, and when huge volumes of data need to be processed in an automated manner, the names assigned to objects need to be both longer, and more informative. 

To that end, every SDSS object has a designation that follows the format of: ‘SDSS J’, followed by the right ascension (RA), and then the declination (Dec). RA and Dec define the position of an astronomical object in the night sky. RA is analogous to longitude here on Earth, whilst the Dec corresponds to latitude. To be more exact, RA measures the longitudinal distance of an astronomical object from the point where the celestial equator (the mid-point between the north and south celestial poles) intersects with the ecliptic (the plane in which Earth orbits around the Sun). The entire night sky is then carved into 24 slices, known as ‘hours’, measured eastwards from that starting point (which is designated as zero hour). This means that the RA can be expressed in ‘hours’, ‘minutes’ and ‘seconds’. Dec is the angle north or south of the celestial equator, and is expressed in degrees. The RA and Dec of the objects featured in each Hubble Picture of the Week can be found on the lower right side of the webpage!

Thus, the SDSS J103512.07+461412.2 name simply tells us that the galaxy can be found 10 hours, 35 minutes and 12 seconds east of the zero-hour point on the celestial equator, and just over 46 degrees to the north of the celestial equator. So that lengthy name is really an identifier and a detailed location in one!

[Image Description: A galaxy in the centre of a wide view of space. It is surrounded by a variety of differently-shaped small galaxies. A wide and very flat spiral galaxy, and one star with four prominent diffraction spikes, are noticeable. The galaxy itself is a broad horizontal streak of tiny stars, extending left and right from a dense and bright core of stars in the centre.]

Credit:  ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully

 

Today's Cartoons

 

(click on images to enlarge)

(Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News)

(Clay Jones, claytoonz.com)

(David Rowe, Financial Times, Sydney)

(Matt Wuerker, Politico)

(Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)

(Martyn Turner, Irish Times, Dublin)

(Ed Hall, Artizans.com)

(Scott Stantis, Chicago Tribune)

 (Ward Sutton, Boston Globe)

(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

(Dan Misdea, @dan_misdea)

QOTD -- The *Only* Election Story

 

Brian Klaas writes about the need to amplify the unhinged, dangerous musings of the Malignant Loser, rather than ignore them.  A brief excerpt:

...On Friday night, Donald Trump gave a chillingly dark speech which few Americans know about.

He pledged to get tough on crime by executing people for petty crimes like shoplifting.

He joked about Paul Pelosi, the elderly husband of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who was nearly beaten to death by a MAGA conspiracist who bludgeoned Pelosi’s skull with a hammer. (The baying crowd found Trump’s joke hilarious, laughing with glee at the prospect of an innocent elderly man nearly being assassinated).

Then, showing his intellectual acumen and flashing his firm grip on reality, Trump told the California crowd that he had an ingenious plan for fighting forest fires which involved…watering the forests so that the ground would be damp. (This is an additional strategy beyond his plan to “rake the forests,” which he previously suggested; American forests cover 800 million acres of land)...

He concludes with his reasoning for covering the Malignant Loser's violent rhetoric:

Bombarded by a constant stream of deranged authoritarian extremism from a man who might soon return to the presidency, we’ve lost all sense of scale and perspective. But neither the American press nor the public can afford to be lulled. The man who, as president, incited a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in order to overturn an election is again openly fomenting political violence while explicitly endorsing authoritarian strategies should he return to power. That is the story of the 2024 election. Everything else is just window dressing.

It's beyond the point now when ignoring the Malignant Loser will diminish him.  Whether or not his violent, addled rhetoric is covered, there will be MAGAts out there who will act on it.  That genie has been out of the bottle for some time.  The important thing now is to not be "lulled," but to be demonstrating over and over again what an unfit, damaged, existential danger the Malignant Loser poses to all of us.  That really is the only story of the 2024 election.

BONUS:  Check out these clips.

Putin Ally's Party Wins Election In Slovakia

 

 

Another Orbán may be coming to power in Central Europe, with serious consequences for NATO and the European Union:

A party headed by a pro-Kremlin figure came out top after securing more votes than expected in an election in Slovakia, preliminary results show, in what could pose a challenge to NATO and EU unity on Ukraine.

According to preliminary results released by Slovakia’s Statistical Office at 9 a.m. local time, Robert Fico’s populist SMER party won 22.9% of the vote.

Progressive Slovakia (PS), a liberal and pro-Ukrainian party won 17.9%.

Fico, a two-time former prime minister, now has a chance to regain the job but must first seek coalition partners as his party did not secure a big enough share of the vote to govern on its own.

The moderate-left Hlas party, led by a former SMER member and formed as an offshoot of SMER following internal disputes, came third with 14.7% of the vote, and could play kingmaker.

With seven political parties reaching the 5% threshold needed to enter the parliament, coalition negotiations will almost certainly include multiple players and could be long and messy...

The presence of pro- Putin parties in Europe (and the Republican Party's Putin caucus) is certainly disturbing, in that it demonstrates the fragility of liberal democracies in the fight against neo- fascist movements.  As for Slovakia, it's still possible that Fico's party will fail to put a government together, or if it does, that it won't last long (this would be the fifth prime minister in four years).  That's slim hope, but hope nonetheless.

(Photo:  What a Putin pal looks like / Vladimir Simicek, AFP/Getty Images)

Republicans In Disarray

 

The months-long drama over a Federal government shutdown has exposed deep cracks in the Republican / Forced Birth / Shooters party operation in Congress. Yesterday's last minute vote to pass a 45-day continuing resolution keeping the government open was done over the threats of Trumpian retribution from his hardcore cultists in the House, with House and Senate Republican leadership diminished. From the WaPo:

"In the span of three hours, rank-and-file Republicans bucked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, leaving both GOP leaders weakened Sunday heading into a critical legislative period.

First, after days of internal rebellion, McCarthy (R-Calif.) threw in the towel at a Saturday morning meeting. His leadership team had run the numbers, and at least six Republicans would oppose any plan to keep the government open by the midnight deadline.

With just four votes to spare on a GOP-only plan, McCarthy gave up and turned to Democrats to help pass a 'clean' resolution to keep the government open at current levels into mid-November. [snip]

Across the Capitol, McConnell had spent the month of September delivering floor speeches dedicated to the defense of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who visited the Capitol nine days earlier to rally support behind President Biden’s request for $24 billion in military and diplomatic support. He worked with Biden administration officials to pare back that request to $6 billion and ask for more funding later this year.

So when the Senate GOP gathered at lunchtime Saturday for a roughly 90-minute meeting, McConnell delivered a pitch to rally support for the original plan — a funding plan that included $6 billion for Ukraine.

His caucus overruled him. They preferred McCarthy’s plan to keep the government open by ditching the debate over Ukraine money until later this year.

The diminished stature for the two leaders could have big consequences."  (our emphasis)

The clear drift of authoritarian Republicans toward Russian thug and war criminal Vladimir Putin's aim of conquering Ukraine is especially repugnant and anti-American, but clearly what Putin stooge Trump wants. Squeaker of the House McCarthy, on the other hand, made the bed he finds himself in by desperately bartering his powers to the most fascistic members of his caucus in order to be Speaker (on 15 tortuous ballots). Now the Republicans voting to keep the Federal government operating will face the Malignant Loser's wrath, who wanted to shut down his Federal prosecutions and to cripple President Biden in the year before the Presidential elections. Sad!

The Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station

 

Cloquet, Minnesota, has a gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, with a lounge and a richly appointed restroom.  To quote a certain President, no joke: 

Today's Cartoons

 

(click on images to enlarge)

(Drew Sheneman, The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ)

(R.J. Matson, CQ/Roll Call)

(Marian Kamensky, caglecartoons.com)

(Patrick Chappatte, Le Temps, Geneva)

(Paul Noth, @PaulNoth)

(Ann Telnaes, Washington Post)

(Bart van Leeuwen, Oedipoes.com)

(Matt Davies, Newsday)

(Christopher Weyant, caglecartoons.com)

(Dave Whamond, caglecartoons.com)

(Clay Jones, claytoonz.com)

(Ellis Rosen, @EllisRosen)

Shutdown Avoided, For Now? (UPDATED)

 

Squeaker McCarthy (who may not be Squeaker for long after this) needed all House Democrats to pass a temporary continuing resolution to keep the Federal Government open for another 45 days. Now, the Senate needs to act:

House Republicans, after a week of struggling, found a bipartisan path to keeping the government open past tonight: jettisoning aid to Ukraine in a move critics say will embolden Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

The House voted 335 to 91 for a temporary funding bill to keep the government open until Nov. 17 and also fund disaster assistance. Two hundred and nine Democrats joined all [sic] 126 Republicans in voting for the package.

It now heads over to the Senate, where a bipartisan plan to keep the government open was stalled by Republicans who wanted to see what the House sent over.  [snip]

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has said there is enough Ukraine aid still in the pipeline for another 45 days. Aid could be attached to another bill later on, but would probably have to be more than the $6 billion that was at issue here and it’s unclear what bill it would have to be attached to in order to pass.

We hope this ends the current brinksmanship, at least until November, when the GQP crackpot caucus will again try to sabotage government operations.  The aid for Ukraine needs to get passed, though, as Democrats will demand.

How this will affect the Squeakership of Kevin McCarthy remains to be seen, but alleged child sex trafficker Rep. Matt Gaetz (MAGAt- FL) already has threatened to file a Motion to Vacate if McCarthy introduced a CR (you know, the one Gaetz left in the bathroom).  So that bridge has been crossed.  Ninety-one MAGAt Republicans voted against their Squeaker, following orders from the Malignant Loser, who has been pressuring his MAGAt followers to not pass a CR.  The ketchup will be flying this afternoon.  

Have any deals been made with House Democrats to give McCarthy cover for doing the CR?  It would be irresponsible not to speculate!

UPDATE:  The Senate passed the House CR and President Biden signed it before midnight.   Next deadline:  November 17.

UPDATE II:  Gaetz says he'll file a Motion to Vacate this week, to oust Squeaker McCarthy.

Tweets / Xeets Of The Day

Shut. Him. Up. --

 

MAJOR BREAKING: In a late-night filing, Special Counsel Jack Smith cites Trump's recent threats against General Mark Milley and others to support his request for a limited gag order, arguing that Trump has bolstered his argument for the order. https://t.co/IhJmA8vDzo

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) September 30, 2023

 

NEW: In 22-page Friday night filing in support of a limited gag order in Trump’s 2020 Election conspiracy case, Special Counsel Jack Smith includes this image ====> pic.twitter.com/6uWryST0Y8

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 30, 2023

Let. Him. Talk. -- 

 

The dominoes are beginning to fall. First defendant in Georgia RICO case has entered a guilty plea and agreed to cooperate against his co-defendants. He was part of the Coffee County voting equipment tampering scheme with Sidney Powell. https://t.co/fqs4ivNCes

— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) September 29, 2023

 

weird how no one wants to go to prison for Donald Trump. I look forward to watching Scott Hall sing his heart out on the witness stand. tick fucking tock, Donny

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) September 29, 2023

 

It's not the only thing the Malignant Loser overstates the size of -- 

REPORTER: So did you overstate the size of your apartment?

TRUMP: *Complains that NY AG Letitia James is racist against White-Americans* @atrupar
pic.twitter.com/JrPYSYY8Y0

— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) September 30, 2023

The Malignant Loser's most despicable statements downplayed by our broken media --  

that this speech is getting such little attention compared to Biden’s gait or footwear is proof positive of the media’s double standard. https://t.co/wnNZKw4o2S

— Eric Schultz (@EricSchultz) September 30, 2023

 

One candidate floated executing America’s top general, jokes about a man getting his skull bashed in with a hammer, incited an insurrection to overturn an election, committed fraud, is liable for rape, and is facing 91 indictments.

The other is 80 years old.

So, both sides.

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) September 29, 2023

 

but the major media run story after story that Biden is old. OK, Trump 3 years younger and mentally, morally and emotionally broken. They cannot say so unless they subscribe to "truthfulness, not neutrality." But they won't. https://t.co/yUxNl3Jiv4

— Jennifer Truthful, Not Neutral Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 30, 2023

That same broken media needs to come clean on the Government shutdown --  

political media: if only we could figure out who’s responsible https://t.co/ySQadX0Gey

— Doug Farrar ✍ (@NFL_DougFarrar) September 30, 2023

 

The 5 longest government shutdowns in US history all happened in the last 30 years.

ALL of them hurt America -- and ALL of them were caused by Republicans in Congress.

1) 2018-19 - 35 days
2) 1995-96 - 21 days
3) 2013 - 16 days
4) 1995 - 5 days
5) 2018 - 3 days

— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) September 30, 2023

Climate crisis evidence, part infinity --  

 

tell me now that climate issues are just in our imagination here in brooklyn pic.twitter.com/oIoIJ086AY

— Caroline Hagood (@CarolineHagood) September 29, 2023

 

🚨BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency in New York as NYC is inundated with over 4 inches of rain.

The last time I saw flooding like this was Superstorm Sandy.

Climate change is only going to make it worse.pic.twitter.com/eYw6CehPBD

— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) September 29, 2023

More cases of vodka to Russian air defense units in Ukraine, stat! --  

The Russian air defense shot down one of their own Su-35 planes last night near Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Confirmed by both sides.

Source: https://t.co/2IacQlOm1A#Ukraine #Zaporizhzhia #Tokmak pic.twitter.com/wHUXRAw78i

— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) September 29, 2023

Aww, just stop and give the little guy a hug --  

Can’t stop laughing.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/PSbIkEHdfv

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 29, 2023

 

Michigan Lawsuit Seeks To Bar Trump From Ballot

A lawsuit filed yesterday in Michigan seeks to bar the Malignant Loser from appearing on their 2024 ballot, citing the 14th Amendment prohibition against anyone who swore an oath to the Constitution and subsequently engaged in insurrection or rebellion. The Malignant Loser led the attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential election, culminating in the attack on the Capitol to obstruct the electoral count. From the Associated Press:

"A liberal group on Friday filed a lawsuit in Michigan contending that former president Donald Trump is disqualified from regaining his old job based on a rarely used, post-Civil War provision in the U.S. Constitution.

This is the first time an organization with significant legal resources has sought to block the GOP frontrunner’s campaign in a swing state.

Free Speech For People argued that Trump’s attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss and encouragement of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol violated section three of the 14th Amendment, which holds that anyone who swore an oath to uphold the constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against it is barred from holding office." (our emphasis)

In September, a group of Minnesota citizens filed a petition with the Minnesota Secretary of State seeking to bar the Malignant Loser from the ballot in that state. The Secretary of State said he would honor the court's ruling on the petition. 

With the expectation that the issue will ultimately be decided by the right-wing dominated Supreme Court, the likelihood of him being barred from ballots is almost nonexistent. Legal scholars from conservative Judge Michael Luttig to progressive Professor Laurence Tribe argue that the provisions must be applied to Trump. But to repeatedly take note of his sedition in the historical record, and to provide him and his cult with additional legal / political headaches, is worth it.

(photo: Trump exhorting his violent mob to "fight like hell" to overturn the election)

 

Trump Co-Defendant Pleads Guilty In Georgia RICO Case

 

Former Federal prosecutor Joyce Vance discusses the significance of the plea agreement made by one of the Malignant Loser's co- defendants in the Georgia election RICO case:

The standard practice for prosecutors who are trying to hold the leaders of a group of criminals accountable is to “go up the chain.” In a drug trafficking case, that means you start with lower level defendants, perhaps people engaged in hand-to-hand drug buys that are readily provable. Then the prosecutor “flips” that defendant to help prosecutors make a case on his supplier. They continue up the chain as far as they can, reaching larger and larger dealers, regional suppliers, and hopefully, depending on the type of case, they end up able to prosecute the leaders of the drug trafficking organization.  [snip]

That brings us to today and Scott Hall, an Atlanta-area bail bondsman who was facing seven charges in the Fulton County case, including a RICO violation and conspiring to steal sensitive election data in Coffee County. This afternoon, with little advance notice, Hall pled guilty to five misdemeanors, will serve five years of probation, pay a $5,000 fine, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. It’s the sort of deal that is so beneficial to a defendant that it suggests prosecutors believe his cooperation is valuable enough to merit the bargain.

So what might Hall be able to do? It’s not clear how important of a role he played in the overall scheme, and who he might have had direct communications with. But Hall was in the thick of things with Sidney Powell when she went to Coffee County, Georgia on January 7, the day after the insurrection, to carry out her scheme to illegally access voting machines. Hall’s cooperation is a bad sign for Powell. And Powell, in turn, had conversations about pursuing the Big Lie with others in the group and was in the room with Trump during some of the key conversations.

Sidney Powell isn't the only Trump co-defendant who should be concerned by Hall’s plea deal. Hall reportedly had an hour long call with Jeff Clark on January 2nd. That’s a long time for the Georgia bail bondsman to have been on the line with the Attorney General-wannabe who wanted to push states Biden won to call those results into question based on untrue allegations of fraud to try and swing the electoral vote call to Trump. It’s unlikely the call was just an hour of pleasantries. Precisely what was said and how good Hall’s recollection is—and whether or not he has contemporaneous notes or other verification of what took place during the call—remains to be seen...

Hall is unlikely to be the only co-defendant to accept a plea agreement in exchange for testimony. As the smaller fish look around and see others taking the off ramp while their personal resources dry up and blow away and prison terms loom, the compulsion to protect the Malignant Loser will fade quickly.  That's the beauty and brilliance of Fani Willis' bringing a racketeering case against this collection of seditionist misfits.  One by one, the misfits cut deals and the case gets stronger.

(Photo:  Hall / Fulton County Sheriff's Office)

Gen. Milley On Democracy And "Wannabe Dictators"

 

Gen. Mark Milley, speaking at his retirement ceremony yesterday, spoke forcefully about defending democracy and the proper role and allegiance of the military (excerpts):

QOTD -- Birdbrains

 

The Malignant Loser on the person he chose to be UN Ambassador, Nimarata"Nikki" Haley, today:

MAGA, or I, will never go for Birdbrain Nikki Haley. No loyalty, plenty of lies! “I will never run against our great President,” she said,“he has done an outstanding job.” To which I responded,“How nice of you to say, Nikki,” knowing full well that her words mean nothing. She even came to Mar-a-Lago with her family, “bearing gifts.” Anyway, Birdbrain doesn’t have the TALENT or TEMPERAMENT to do the job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Well, as we always were told, it takes one to know one.  Haley was one of the six craven candidates at the first Republican "debate" who said she'd still support the Malignant Loser even if he was a convicted felon, so...

We love birdbrain- on- birdbrain verbal violence!