" -down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world."
Haven't thought about Carl Hiaasen in a long time! You made me wonder how he'd do with this material and turns about he visited it in his latest, Squeeze Me:
"At the height of Palm Beach’s charity ball season, Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, a prominent member of geriatric high society, suddenly vanishes during a swank gala. Kiki Pew was a founding member of the Potussies, a group of women dedicated to supporting the President, who spends half the year at the “Winter White House” just down the road. Meanwhile, Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, is called to the island to deal with a monster-sized Burmese python that has taken residency in a tree. "
Indicting Natua to get him to flip would be pretty standard practice for the Feds. With a stick that big you don't need the carrot.
Some of you may remember a bit Chris Rock did years ago about Michael Jackson possibly going to prison for child molestation, saying it would be a sad day when Jackson’s hair started to grow out gray and nappy, when he “didn’t have the Crayola people to do his face” anymore.
That’s what I want to see with Trump. I want the jumpsuit to be orange, not the spray tan. I want to see him pasty and without the yellow hair dye and lacquer, without the male shapewear supporting and reining in his girth. Do I think this will happen? No. But I can dream.
I imagine a deal where our good friends the Saudis agree to take him off our hands on the condition that he stop causing trouble. You know, like Idi Amin.
Scene: USP Lee, a maximum security federal prison facility in rural southern Virginia
The at-risk section of the facility houses only a handful of the over 1100 prisoners. Access is thru a single sally port at the end of a long corridor, isolated from the rest of the facility by another sally port that is staffed 24/7 by armed guard.
The second sally port, also staffed by prison guards, opens to a small, clean-but-spartan recreation area, a bare room with a couple of benches bolted to the floor and a ‘track’ along the perimeter marked out with tape on the floor. Ceiling, walls and floor are complementary shades of grey. Lighting is via high ceiling, low wattage lamps, providing enough light to see more or less clearly but not bright enough to irritate any of the most excitable inmates. 3 small corridors branch off from this room, leading to the 36 individual cells for maximum security inmates.
2 uniformed men sit on one of the benches. They are the only people presently in the room. From this bench they can see down one of the 12-cell corridors, and the sally port. Both men are trim, one slightly overbuff, the other slender but muscled like a pro cyclist. They wear jackets labeled ‘Secret Service’. They are armed with securely holstered handguns. They are shallow in conversation.
"Bayani's toast," says the buff one. "Nothing left but black crumbs."
"He'll be OK," replies the cyclist, "as long as Florida Man's goons don't get to him. Anyway, not my job – got enough keeping Donnie in one piece."
From down the corridor comes a sound like cards on bicycle spokes, or over-acted death rattles. "Hey feds! Bring me another!" The empty plastic coke bottle flaps against the cell door again.
But Idi was Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. He could never cause any trouble
Imagine how much smoke Trump is blowing up Nauta's ass these days to keep him loyal? And close -- he's probably got a cot in the Master's Chambers. "Don't worry Walt, we got a lawyer for you."
I knew Florida was full of dangerous wildlife like alligators, crocodiles, boa constrictors, Florida Men, Nazis and Trump, but I didn’t know until this morning they have bears, too. Anyway, I’ll never understand the attraction Trump holds for people. He speaks like an angry, hoarse 4th grader, looks like an old, tired drag queen, and lacks loyalty to anyone but himself and Ivanka. The idea that this inarticulate fatso could physically threaten someone is hilarious. The way I was raised, if he tried to intimidate me, I’d laugh in his face (quasi-pacifist, yes; silent victim, no). Just another reason not to respect these MAGA fascists.
When a huge portion of your political base DEMANDS to be lied to, DEMANDS to be ripped off, you'd be the fool to not accommodate them. And Trump does that like no one else. Plus, he rubs their aggrieved nature exactly the right way.
Yes, and: He spent 5 years (campaign; in office) learning, at his "rallies," what lines and postures work--i.e., what they NEED him to be. Their opinion of him is as accurate as their opinion of Jesus. And the more they needed, the more he learned how to satisfy the need. This has nothing to do with the real Trump or the real world, of course--any more than their Christianity does.
A couple of years ago a toddler was killed by an alligator at a Disney property in Florida. My wife observed that this would probably be the only Nebraska resident to die in this fashion in all of 2021. At the risk—OK, the certainty—of seeming insensitive, I was sort of hoping it would turn out to have been an 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 alligator.
As his fans constantly tell us, he says what they feel inside. And I think your description of him is accurate, so he's not threatening. To them. He's a sort of MAGA foole, a clown who dares to tell the truth to the Elites and Deep State, those shadowy powers untouchable and out of reach by Real Americans, but the foole can insult the King to his face and get a laugh instead of beheaded. So when those shadowy powers come at the foole, you can bet they feel threatened.
I've actually seen the defense that of course he took the secret documents, because he doesn't want the big bad government keeping secrets from the people.
That's the story his minions like Kash Patel and John Solomon were pitching, all those secret.docs that prove Russia Russia Russia was a hoax and the people needed to know. And they're going to release them any day now, they kept saying.
He also doesn't want the big bad government stealin' your money, so he'll take your money and... put it somewhere safe, yeah, that's it. Somewhere safe.
The cringe from this former Federal records manager.
Banker's boxes--they should be in standard FRC boxes. No box lists, so no idea what's actually in them. Not temperature and humidity controlled area. Anyone up to and including Marc Mayhem (what I call the Allstate man) can see them vs "eyes only." Multiple violations of the Federal Records Act, not just the Presidential Records Act. This is "send the Archivist of the United States on a five-day bender" territory.
(An aside but the automatic assumption by White people that all Pacific Islanders know each other is, to this Black observer, distressingly familiar.)
"the automatic assumption by White people that all Pacific Islanders know each other" Lenny Bruce said it best in How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties: "ya... ya know the guy on the Cream of Wheat box?"
This is what gets me, the National Archives are basically librarians, they're not looking to put anyone in jail, just return the book you took out. Oh, sure, it's all a plot by the Satan-worshipping pedophile Deep State to get Donald Trump, let's send the librarians.
“I don’t care what music a man listens to…rock was never my bag. But let me tell you something, mister—you put on a pair of shoes when you come in the New York Public Library!”
Some idjit in my Twitter feed was trying to make the case that because they sent the librarians, that proves none of the crimes are serious. "This is nothing but process crimes," he kept saying, showing off a term he read somewhere once and did not understand, and ignoring half the words in the term.
Funny how no one has connected the boxes laying around with the stories running awhile back about how the place was infested with foreign intelligence agents. Pretty good bet most of the world has seen what’s in those boxes.
I sure hope somebody at the DoJ is looking real hard at Jared, but as for the Orange One, it's clear that for the spy-on-a-budget the most unctuous of sweet talk perhaps delivered in the vicinity of a push-up bra is more than enough to get a peek at Israel's nuclear arms roster.
Sooo... Prosecutor is experienced with this stuff. Defendant is using the classic mobster defense that has limited success, mostly when it’s an open and shut case.
That was ...chilling.
Nicely done!
I would swear Waltine Nauta was one of Blondell Wayne Tatum's associates in a Carl Hiasson book.
Roy speaks goon a little too well....
You can tell he's put some thought into it.
Or he's had some practice.
I lived in New York a long time. Not usually surrounded by toffs.
Down these mean streets -
https://downthesemeanstreetspodcast.libsyn.com/
" -down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world."
- R Chandler
Sounds like Roy.
"
From Out of the Past (not by Raymond Chandler)
-- Why me?
-- Well, I know a lot of smart guys and a few honest ones, and you're both.
Haven't thought about Carl Hiaasen in a long time! You made me wonder how he'd do with this material and turns about he visited it in his latest, Squeeze Me:
"At the height of Palm Beach’s charity ball season, Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, a prominent member of geriatric high society, suddenly vanishes during a swank gala. Kiki Pew was a founding member of the Potussies, a group of women dedicated to supporting the President, who spends half the year at the “Winter White House” just down the road. Meanwhile, Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, is called to the island to deal with a monster-sized Burmese python that has taken residency in a tree. "
Soon to be a major motion picture, the part of the python is played by Stephen Miller.
Indicting Natua to get him to flip would be pretty standard practice for the Feds. With a stick that big you don't need the carrot.
Some of you may remember a bit Chris Rock did years ago about Michael Jackson possibly going to prison for child molestation, saying it would be a sad day when Jackson’s hair started to grow out gray and nappy, when he “didn’t have the Crayola people to do his face” anymore.
That’s what I want to see with Trump. I want the jumpsuit to be orange, not the spray tan. I want to see him pasty and without the yellow hair dye and lacquer, without the male shapewear supporting and reining in his girth. Do I think this will happen? No. But I can dream.
I imagine a deal where our good friends the Saudis agree to take him off our hands on the condition that he stop causing trouble. You know, like Idi Amin.
Do you think Melania would come along?
roy did mention a pool boy...
CPOTUS Plots His Comeback
Scene: USP Lee, a maximum security federal prison facility in rural southern Virginia
The at-risk section of the facility houses only a handful of the over 1100 prisoners. Access is thru a single sally port at the end of a long corridor, isolated from the rest of the facility by another sally port that is staffed 24/7 by armed guard.
The second sally port, also staffed by prison guards, opens to a small, clean-but-spartan recreation area, a bare room with a couple of benches bolted to the floor and a ‘track’ along the perimeter marked out with tape on the floor. Ceiling, walls and floor are complementary shades of grey. Lighting is via high ceiling, low wattage lamps, providing enough light to see more or less clearly but not bright enough to irritate any of the most excitable inmates. 3 small corridors branch off from this room, leading to the 36 individual cells for maximum security inmates.
2 uniformed men sit on one of the benches. They are the only people presently in the room. From this bench they can see down one of the 12-cell corridors, and the sally port. Both men are trim, one slightly overbuff, the other slender but muscled like a pro cyclist. They wear jackets labeled ‘Secret Service’. They are armed with securely holstered handguns. They are shallow in conversation.
"Bayani's toast," says the buff one. "Nothing left but black crumbs."
"He'll be OK," replies the cyclist, "as long as Florida Man's goons don't get to him. Anyway, not my job – got enough keeping Donnie in one piece."
From down the corridor comes a sound like cards on bicycle spokes, or over-acted death rattles. "Hey feds! Bring me another!" The empty plastic coke bottle flaps against the cell door again.
But Idi was Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. He could never cause any trouble
My husband's dream is a 24/7 live cam so we can watch his misery in real time.
MSNBC's not enough for him?
Boxes, ballrooms and bathrooms, jinga-linga
Hear Walt Nauta sing, singa-linga
Imagine how much smoke Trump is blowing up Nauta's ass these days to keep him loyal? And close -- he's probably got a cot in the Master's Chambers. "Don't worry Walt, we got a lawyer for you."
"Thanks, but I'll pass. I don't want amateurs – I want someone who fully intends to get paid."
I knew Florida was full of dangerous wildlife like alligators, crocodiles, boa constrictors, Florida Men, Nazis and Trump, but I didn’t know until this morning they have bears, too. Anyway, I’ll never understand the attraction Trump holds for people. He speaks like an angry, hoarse 4th grader, looks like an old, tired drag queen, and lacks loyalty to anyone but himself and Ivanka. The idea that this inarticulate fatso could physically threaten someone is hilarious. The way I was raised, if he tried to intimidate me, I’d laugh in his face (quasi-pacifist, yes; silent victim, no). Just another reason not to respect these MAGA fascists.
When a huge portion of your political base DEMANDS to be lied to, DEMANDS to be ripped off, you'd be the fool to not accommodate them. And Trump does that like no one else. Plus, he rubs their aggrieved nature exactly the right way.
Yes, and: He spent 5 years (campaign; in office) learning, at his "rallies," what lines and postures work--i.e., what they NEED him to be. Their opinion of him is as accurate as their opinion of Jesus. And the more they needed, the more he learned how to satisfy the need. This has nothing to do with the real Trump or the real world, of course--any more than their Christianity does.
All good but "angry, hoarse 4th grader" is a new one and very accurate
It does capture that weird, fading sing-song thing he does, where he almost trails off into a Jiminy Glick voice.
He's a generational talent.
When he said "We're all going down to the CAAA-PITOL" it was like Jerry Lewis saying "LAAA-DY"
A couple of years ago a toddler was killed by an alligator at a Disney property in Florida. My wife observed that this would probably be the only Nebraska resident to die in this fashion in all of 2021. At the risk—OK, the certainty—of seeming insensitive, I was sort of hoping it would turn out to have been an 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 alligator.
That's Woke Disney for ya, feedin' children to alligators because they refuse to be transed.
So woke, he dead.
As his fans constantly tell us, he says what they feel inside. And I think your description of him is accurate, so he's not threatening. To them. He's a sort of MAGA foole, a clown who dares to tell the truth to the Elites and Deep State, those shadowy powers untouchable and out of reach by Real Americans, but the foole can insult the King to his face and get a laugh instead of beheaded. So when those shadowy powers come at the foole, you can bet they feel threatened.
I've actually seen the defense that of course he took the secret documents, because he doesn't want the big bad government keeping secrets from the people.
That's the story his minions like Kash Patel and John Solomon were pitching, all those secret.docs that prove Russia Russia Russia was a hoax and the people needed to know. And they're going to release them any day now, they kept saying.
They could release 50,000 pages of lorem ipsum and all of MAGA would declare it proof of Deep State collusion.
He also doesn't want the big bad government stealin' your money, so he'll take your money and... put it somewhere safe, yeah, that's it. Somewhere safe.
The cringe from this former Federal records manager.
Banker's boxes--they should be in standard FRC boxes. No box lists, so no idea what's actually in them. Not temperature and humidity controlled area. Anyone up to and including Marc Mayhem (what I call the Allstate man) can see them vs "eyes only." Multiple violations of the Federal Records Act, not just the Presidential Records Act. This is "send the Archivist of the United States on a five-day bender" territory.
(An aside but the automatic assumption by White people that all Pacific Islanders know each other is, to this Black observer, distressingly familiar.)
"the automatic assumption by White people that all Pacific Islanders know each other" Lenny Bruce said it best in How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties: "ya... ya know the guy on the Cream of Wheat box?"
Dear Abby -
I like this but I hate Cream of Wheat.
Whatever should I do?!
Eat Malt-o-Meal
Definition of hard pass.
This is what gets me, the National Archives are basically librarians, they're not looking to put anyone in jail, just return the book you took out. Oh, sure, it's all a plot by the Satan-worshipping pedophile Deep State to get Donald Trump, let's send the librarians.
NARA’s concerns are just the trigger as it were for counterintelligence issues. (Not a defense for our IC.)
Meanwhile, there’s an argument for locking FPOTUS up pending trial.
You mean a legal one, not just that we the people deserve it for all the shit we've put up with.
😂
Of course.
They need to send the library cop from “Seinfeld.”
“I don’t care what music a man listens to…rock was never my bag. But let me tell you something, mister—you put on a pair of shoes when you come in the New York Public Library!”
Some idjit in my Twitter feed was trying to make the case that because they sent the librarians, that proves none of the crimes are serious. "This is nothing but process crimes," he kept saying, showing off a term he read somewhere once and did not understand, and ignoring half the words in the term.
Never mind the librarians, what about the various intelligence communities who have to try to figure out who saw this stuff?
Funny how no one has connected the boxes laying around with the stories running awhile back about how the place was infested with foreign intelligence agents. Pretty good bet most of the world has seen what’s in those boxes.
I sure hope somebody at the DoJ is looking real hard at Jared, but as for the Orange One, it's clear that for the spy-on-a-budget the most unctuous of sweet talk perhaps delivered in the vicinity of a push-up bra is more than enough to get a peek at Israel's nuclear arms roster.
Sooo... Prosecutor is experienced with this stuff. Defendant is using the classic mobster defense that has limited success, mostly when it’s an open and shut case.
So if this can be tried before October 2024...
Interesting times and all that.
He'll change his legal team constantly to create delays.
Of course they will. Normally, I’d doubt a verdict before 10/24, but the court here seems to push cases and DECISIONS J would likely support it.
But running the clock is the only real defense Trump has.
The bonus is that just keeping this in the news during campaign season is huge in itself.
It would be interesting and no doubt depressing to know how much money he makes off of this.
This judge will, I suspect, entertain that and every type of chicanery the defense attempts.
"Your honor, we can't reconvene in six weeks because the defendant has an anti-court rally scheduled two days prior and will be tired."
"Very well, let's reconvene in eleven months."
"the sauce they have" is perfection.