Saturday Late Morning Tabs and Takes
Trump and Trump-adjacent stories for this round of Tabs.
- Shot fired in fantasy land (via NBC): Nikki Haley says she would ‘maybe’ consider Ron DeSantis as her running mate. (Maybe the newsfeed from Earth 2 is leaking through).
- Via the AP: The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies. This ruling allows the law to stay in place pending a full hearing of the case. I must confess that the choice to allow the law to stay in force, instead of erring on the side of women in medical need (similar to the case in Texas late last year) lends substantial empirical heft to the notion that these laws are about forced birth and are anti-women. Reasonable people can disagree about te morality of abortion, but it is quite clear that these laws are ideological and are not taking medical truths seriously.
- Via The Hill comes the latest example of Lindsey Graham’s intellectual courage and consistency: Graham backtracks on earlier Jan. 6 criticism of Trump: ‘It depends on what the conduct is’.
- Via the NY Post: Bankrupt ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani regrets not having a NYC pension.
Giuliani, 79, failed to apply for the benefits, according to city payroll records obtained by the taxpayer watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy and his official disclosure filings.
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When asked why he never applied for a pension, Giuliani told The Post: “Giving back to the city I love. Although I would like to take it now.”
He then admitted, “I don’t know how to go about it.”
Because, of course, he did (via the NYT gift link): Trump Received Millions From Foreign Governments as President, Report Finds.
Donald J. Trump’s businesses received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments during his presidency, according to new documents released by House Democrats on Thursday that show how much he received from overseas transactions while he was in the White House, most of it from China.
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Using documents produced through a court fight, the report describes how foreign governments and their controlled entities, including a top U.S. adversary, interacted with Trump businesses while he was president. They paid millions to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.; Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas; Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York; and Trump World Tower at 845 United Nations Plaza in New York.
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House Republicans also dismissed the revelations, arguing that there was nothing wrong with Mr. Trump receiving revenue from foreign governments while he was president but that Mr. Biden’s family’s business was corrupt.
- Beyond “thoughts and prayers” I guess.
These tabs are all yet more proof that all y’all are way better off with Luddite not being in charge.
You idiots in the SC get out of my yard! And stay out of my flowers!!! (stomps inside and slams door).
ETA get over it? GET OVER IT??? You morons actually want this feckless feck for President? Arrrrrrrggggghhhhhh!!!
Oh, I don’t know about that. I think I might enjoy it. For a while anyway.
@OzarkHillbilly:..For a while anyway…
At least for a day…
No blood sacrifice is too great for somebody else to make in service to their gods. I still don’t understand how the whole of the GOP is not in prison for practicing medicine without a license.
@Mister Bluster: Hmmm… A full 24 hours might be stretching it.
@OzarkHillbilly: “No blood sacrifice is too great for somebody else to make in service to their gods. ”
You mean no sacrifice of someone else’s blood.
So why can’t we recognize that there will be no consensus on the morality, stop debating a pointless question, and deal with the real question – do those who do believe abortion is evil get to impose their belief, and their practice, on the rest of us?
@OzarkHillbilly:
Nah. I’m persuaded that Trump neither thinks nor prays, so offering thoughts and prayers would be outside his experience.
@wr: Who offers their own blood for a sacrifice? Serious question!
A little better than Earth 69. In that one, every government office is occupied by clones of Gaetz.
Please enjoy Trump channeling his inner Insane Clown Posse to offer an explanation of “Magnets, how do they work?”
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-presents-interesting-theory-magnets-155136264.html
@gVOR10:
Why should people who believe that it is evil to sacrifice virgins to the volcano god impose their belief, and their practice, on me?
A lot of people buy into the “but they’re innocent babies!” nonsense* and from that perspective it is no longer you doing whatever you want that doesn’t affect anyone else.
There’s no way to square the circle without breaking that unscientific and religiously ahistorical belief. Your argument only makes sense to people who already agree with you.
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*: they’re not innocent. They just take and take, and they don’t give anything back except for waste products that the expectant mother must process with her very body.
@Gustopher: Yikes! That was even more incoherent than I’d have imagined it could be. WA!
@Just nutha ignint cracker: “Who offers their own blood for a sacrifice? Serious question!”
Isn’t that the definition of a martyr?
@wr: I wouldn’t say so myself, because it’s not clear in the case of martyrdom that the person doing the killing is doing it to appease a deity. But if you think so, follow your muse wherever it takes you.