Republicans are experts at gaming, rigging and gerrymandering voting districts. They are also adept at offering bribes, accepting bribes, coercion and intimidation.

This greedy motherfucking MAGA patriot in Ohio got his just rewards yesterday, the 29th.

https://www.rawstory.com/larry-householder/

CINCINNATI — Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder spent possibly his last moments as a free man around 2:30 p.m. Thursday and they couldn’t have been pleasant.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Black gave the Glenford Republican the maximum possible sentence of 20 years and then ordered blue-shirted U.S. Marshals to immediately take him into custody. He rose, put his hands behind his back, the marshals cuffed him and led the once-powerful pol away.

But before that humiliation, the judge blistered Householder for being the ringleader of a racketeering scandal in which Akron-based FirstEnergy paid him more than $59 million in bribes in exchange for a $1.3 billion bailout, most of which was intended to save two failing nuclear plants in Northern Ohio.

Ratepayers could have used that money for things like education, health care or to start businesses, the judge said.

“You handed that money to suits in private jets,” Black said.

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I suspected this was true. FBI failed 'at fundamental level' before Capitol riot, Senate report claims

The FBI and other US government agencies failed "at a fundamental level" to assess the potential for violence ahead of the Capitol riot on 6 January 2021, a new report claims.

Democrats on a Senate panel found the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) "downplayed" the risks and so did not properly prepare.

Hmmm... Which presidential administration had been working over the FBI for 4 years (firing Comey, replacing with Wray) and generally causing the CIA, NSA, FBI, the Secret Service, the Pentagon, the ATF, the DEA, the Border Patrol all manner of chaos....

Pick any federal agency - what did they all have in common before Sleepy Joe won the 2020 election and then moved into the office on January 20, 2021.

A traitorous President who was hell bent on absconding with as much top secret info as he could - for whatever inane or traitorous reasons he still hasn't provided - other than THEY ARE MINE ALL MINE AND YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM! And during this little trip, Trump was going to make all those agencies loyal to only him... he did that partly by installing ACTING dudes who were littered all over the government.

Acting FBI director, Acting CIA director, Acting dudes in the Pentagon, Acting Directors littered the entire federal landscape. Trump was actively trying to turn the entire government on its head and set himself up for a dictatorship at worst - and a criminal enterprise at best.

The Durham report was as long, dubious and even less successful than the Ken Starr Whitewater investigation which the Republicans of the 1990s dreamed up to harass President Clinton.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-indictment-documents-maralago-lawyers-1234780389/

Trump’s lawyers told him he was on the cusp of a federal indictment in the classified documents case. But the former president still wanted “my documents” and “my boxes” back, asking some of his lawyers if they could get them from the federal government, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter and two other people briefed on it.

It’s one of many such conversations Trump has had over the past few months, the sources say. In these conversations, Trump also claimed it was “illegal” that he could no longer have the documents seized in the Mar-a-Lago raid. Those materials, Trump insisted, belonged to “me.” Trump has also asked if there are any other possible legal maneuvers or court filings they could try to accomplish this that they hadn’t thought of yet.

Get your popcorn popped!

https://www.businessinsider.com/lukashenko-humiliating-putin-brags-stopped-wagner-group-armed-rebellion-experts-2023-6

Cockroaches don't like a light shining on them.

Crocodiles prey on the infirm, preferring to target their prey - in tight situations, rendering them vulnerable, which benefits the hunter.

These ripoff specialist/motherfuckers deserve a fate worse than death.

https://www.propublica.org/article/we-buy-ugly-houses-homevestors-david-hicks-ceo-retirement

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Well, l have bungee jumped. And l have sky dived. Sky diving is scary as shit! I don't think l'll sky dive again.

Quite sure l won't be going 2 miles deep in the ocean in a submarine. Just average scubadiving depth is good enough.

****

I am thinking one if these space launches carrying the super rich is going to go wrong before long. I hope not, but just saying...

I'm not interested in jumping out of a perfectly operating airplane, I don't wish to go swimming anywhere which harbors larger predators which may be in a hunting mode.

I quit playing chicken with locomotives around age 11.

But if you ever get a chance to ride something like this at an amusement park... Go for it, it's a blast.

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Why would NATO have to do that?

By all accounts I've read, Prigozhin sounds like he's as much if not more of a calculating butcher/terrorist/dictator wannabe than Putin.

Eventually NATO is going to have to confront either one in open warfare, IMO

America has already squandered their opportunities with regard to assisting and helping Russia from the ashes of the Soviet Union...if more attention and assistance had been offered all throughout the 1990s, we (the world) might not be having to deal with Putin or other expansionist nationalist strongmen, now.

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I figured as much. It makes a ton of sense here. The further from urban areas you get, the only jobs available are in agriculture, most of which are quite physical.

Add in the rural hospital closures all across America - being instigated by Red State republican senators and congressmen for the last 22 years. There just isn't a comparable level of care for those who live outside of the larger metropolitan areas.

When your nearest hospital is 3 hours away and there's one LIFEFLIGHT helicopter on station (and maybe it's busy on another call) - there's a glaring problem. Epecially in an area where one or two or three smaller regional hospitals have closed shop in the last decade.

The Dumbing Down of America, which began during the first Reagan term in 1981 - has come full circle, at last. The GOP has achieved one of their goals, and Ms Cheney explains how -

U.S. consumer confidence races to 17 month high - https://nordot.app/1046409478587727882?c=592622757532812385

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence increased in June to the highest level in nearly 1-1/2 years amid renewed labor market optimism, while business spending appeared to hold up in May, indicating the economy remained on solid footing despite fears of a recession.

"The U.S. economy continues to steadily defy expectations and the fact that it is doing so without lots of hoopla is a good thing," said Jennifer Lee, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.

The Wagner revolt may be over, but the chaos in Russia has likely only begun.

In a brief and, at times, contradictory speech Monday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin cast doubt on the tenuous peace deal the Kremlin struck with Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin on Saturday after the mercenary leader spearheaded a short-lived revolt against Russia's defense ministry.

https://www.businessinsider.com/truce-that-stopped-prigozhin-revolt-against-kremlin-already-faltering-2023-6

https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-yevgeny-prigozhin-just-get-disappeared-by-duplicitous-putin

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-air-force-wagner-troops-down-6-russian-army-helicopters-1-plane-on-june-24/

An online forum, where dispair seems ready to spill out of every individual story -

https://phalloboards.info/general-forum/general-discussion.html

The great irony — lost on few — was that, after getting surgery to stop thinking about their penises, these men were now thinking about their penises all the time.

https://www.propublica.org/article/penis-enlargement-enhancement-procedures-implants

...A truck driver whose device dug into his pubic bone told me that he felt like a “prisoner in my own body.” An executive at an adhesive company, who hid his newly bulging crotch behind a shopping bag when walking the dog, began to have nightmares in which he castrated himself. A sales specialist at an industrial­ supply store sent me his diary, which imagined Elist as its addressee. “I wish you would have told me I would lose erect length,” he wrote. “I wish you would have told me it could shift and pinch my urethra and make it difficult to urinate.”

It was tricky to bend over to tie the laces of winter boots, tricky to slip on a condom, tricky to sleep in a comfortable position, tricky to stretch, tricky to spoon. “It makes you look like you’re always semi-­erect,” a health-­spa vice­ president said of his Penuma. “I couldn’t let my kids sit on my lap. I couldn’t jump on the trampoline with them. I even felt like a pervert hugging my friends. And God forbid you get an actual erection, because then you have to run and hide it.”

Not everyone minded. Kaelan Strouse, a 35-year-­old life coach, was thrilled by both the “restaurant-­size pepper mill” between his legs and the kilts he began wearing to accommodate it. Richard Hague Jr., a 74-year-old pastor at a Baptist church in Niagara Falls, said his implant made him feel like “a wild stallion.” Contented customers told me they were feeling better about their bodies and having better sex, too. But even they acknowledged that getting a Penuma could require adjusting not just to a different appendage but to a different way of life. As one pleased Elist patient counseled others, “You have to treat your penis like a Rolex.”

Not really too concerned with US forces facing off against Russian Mercs.

They are easily picked off with American tech and at long distance.

I guess our guys always need live fire target practice.

It often takes a monster to defeat other monsters. Ukraine would not be a safer vacation destination with Prigozhin all large & in charge.

Putin was forced to eat dog shit by his Wagner boss, in front of the world - but more importantly - to the citizens of Russia. Then he was forced to make concessions and utilize an intermediary (Belarus).

I wouldn't be surprised to wake up one day this week to read about a relatively small, strategic suitcase nuke having gone off in whichever region Putin can determine that Prigozhin is camping out within.

There can be only one.

An interesting 'making of' video...

Aside from the CEO of OceanGate, who seems to have developed an unscratchable itch to BE somebody important - be be remembered as an adventurous explorer as well as a shadetree mechanic...it appears many people with working brain cells stayed the fuck away from that company.

After watching several videos over the last week, it is easy to agree with film director James Cameron's opinions and technical prowess. He's been down to Titanic over 30 times in the last 30 years.

Maybe Hawley can come to the Western side of his state's constituency and referee the no-holds-barred bare-knuckle boxing match between the Liberty Mayor and the racist prick/resident who is appalled that a Jim Crow era, confederate flag image displayed on a carved granite cemetery monument is being discussed for removal by the city council.

I'm sure Hawley would side with the unruly redneck. The redneck is claiming he's defending the graves of some of his distant family, who died long before his own parents were even born.

https://www.kmbc.com/article/liberty-mayor-resident-confront-each-other-at-meeting-over-confederate-cemetery-marker/44191307

The comments from the peanut gallery below this article, is where the good stuff is, as usual: https://www.rawstory.com/greg-canuteson/

Confederate soldiers were not American patriots.

Black confederate soldiers were still chattel and hostages, used as cannon fodder by Confederate forces.

I love listening to rednecks like the first moron - trying to whitewash history as if he's the sharpest pencil in the drawer.

I would welcome a Russian Civil War right about now. But, then NATO'd have to go in and mop up Prigozhin & his criminals.

https://www.businessinsider.com/defiant-prigozhin-says-men-patriots-will-not-surrender-2023-6

https://www.thedailybeast.com/feud-between-moscow-and-wagner-group-turns-to-all-out-war

Civil war in Russia?

https://twitter.com/BStardAlan/status/1672545876340875264/photo/1

We know who the usual rat fuckers are, they can't seem to dodge the limelight. We have Roger Stone as the Chief rat fucker, I think he's been grooming Steve Bannon for the last 20 years in the art of fucking people over anonymously. Stone and Bannon are quite proud of their various evolving rat fuckery... They are the cream of the crop. They've both been milking Donald J Trump for years, Stone - for decades.

Then we see numerous other obvious rookies and neophyte rat fucker wannabees. It's a regular murderers row of morons, half-wits, imbeciles and goat fuckers who can't figure out how to successfully rat fuck someone over.

Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Boebert, Josh Hawley, Greene, the dirtbag senators from Arizona and Wisconsin, Georgia, Texas....

We're surrounded by them. They multiply like unchecked cockroaches and they do most of their damage out of sight, certainly out of sight of Johnny Law and the Authorities -- and with these SUPER PACS, they can really rat fuck people over.

Here's a group of them in action now - promoting DEMOCRAT RFK Jr. They want him to siphon off momentum & actual votes from Sleepy Joe. This is a variation on the Republican ALTERNATE ELECTOR criming which the GQP has become quite adept at practicing.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rfk-kennedy-trump-maga-biden-2024-election-1234777035/

Pro-RFK Jr. Super PAC Has Deep Ties to Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos

The Super PAC is just one example of the nominally Democratic candidate running a campaign that's awash in support from backers of Donald Trump

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Is it OK if I use the term "Snowbilly Grifter"?

Be my guest.

Who deserves it from you?

https://www.trustsignals.com/blog/benefit-of-the-doubt-meaning-origin-importance-examples

The original Snowbilly Grifter is still wining and whinging Truth to Power - 8 years later, about that time when Fox News shitcanned her in 2015.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sarah-palin-goes-on-newsmax-to-say-fox-canceled-her

Newsmax host Eric Bolling on Friday mentioned how, after a Fox News chyron from earlier this week called President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator,” the producer responsible for it is no longer at the network, as The Daily Beast reported Thursday. That occurrence was proof that Fox “no longer believes in free speech,” as Newsmax’s own chyron declared.

Bolling claimed that “the old Fox” would’ve had no issue with slapping that label on the president. “But now, for some reason, they’re pushing away real conservative values, aren’t they?”

Palin agreed.

I admire a Real American Hero who can nurture and hold, then sharpen a grudge for nearly 8 years...

https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2015/06/exclusive-fox-drops-contract-with-sarah-palin-christie-to-announce-soon-power-partnership-labolt-vietor-favreau-merge-firms-212543

This goofball falls prey to his ego, loses his job of ten years, and walks out like he's the boss. Of Nothinburgerville.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-parts-ways-with-producer-responsible-for-wannabe-dictator-chyron