This was the day America learned that it’s difficult for a woman to be sure whether Ex-President Trump is actually RAPING her, or if that is just his tiny little fingers down there still. Important to know, in case that ever happens to you!
But this is an OPEN thread, such as we haven’t had in a few weeks, so you don’t HAVE to talk about President Sex-Assault, there are other things happening. On the national stage, Neshanian the Angry Armenian-American Twitter Habitué brings our attention to:
- National punch line George Santos charged by Justice Dept, Speaker McCarthy unsure what to say about it.
Reporter: Congressman Santos has been charged by federal prosecutors. Do you believe that he should be removed from Congress?
McCarthy: I’ll look at the charges. pic.twitter.com/MUoYOVGTr5— Acyn (@Acyn) May 9, 2023
[UPDATE WEDNESDAY: Boy George is ARRESTED!]
- Displaced White Supremacist Tucker Carlson enthused about inaugurating a Twitter hatefest.
We’re back. pic.twitter.com/sG5t9gr60O
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 9, 2023
- PILLOW GUY whines about not being able to welch on his promise to pay $5 million to anyone who could prove he’s a fucking Election Liar.
Mike Lindell griped about his “$5 million fiasco” after an arbitration panel ordered him to pay a software engineer who debunked his election claims. He plans to challenge the arbitration in court. pic.twitter.com/rwuM6yOumJ
— David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) May 9, 2023
- I GOT ONE! Sorrow-inducing shambling relic Dianne Feinstein returns to the Senate today. Most of us have been trying to get her to resign for a long time, but some Senator was saying on TV that even if she did, asshole Judiciary Republicans could and would still prevent any replacement on that Committee, so whatever, if that’s true then this is the best woeful outcome.
- Closer to home, I see that perennial carpetbagging Democratic candidate Joe Kerr has thrown his hat into the ring against Young Kim, in the northeastern CD-40. Wait – does Joe even live in that district?
No, Coto de Caza is NOT in that district. Well, that’s perfect I guess, as 1) it’s Joe Kerr,and 2) I’m pretty sure Young Kim doesn’t live there either.UPDATE – he actually moved into the district, to Trabuco. Good for him. I promise not to say anything bad about Joe this time, since we need as many Democrats in Congress as possible. And who knows – the folks in hazardous Silverado and Anaheim Hills might DIG a Fire Hero! [Although update – I’m told there will be another, female Democrat candidate – don’t know who yet.]
- Let’s update some of our recent stories here, like this one on OCPA’s Probolsky firing: The Voice reports that the Board is just “over the moon” about their new TEMPORARY CEO – their old Communications Guy – and they drop plenty of hints they’d like him to apply to be permanent. A communications guy really? Well, he does look like he has more experience in the field than Probolsky did, which is saying nothing, but good luck to the fellow. (His name is Mosca? The Fly? Oh to be on the wall at those meetings. I’m told Treseder just confided to the public that her name is Cornish for “Keeper of the Trees,” and now I can’t stop thinking about Cornish Game Hen. Mmmm…)
- We wrote about the Homelessness Prevention Act, SB 567, and with horror watched it get gutted by Umberg and Min in the Senate Judiciary Committee (obviously setting in motion some rotten karma but we won’t get into that right now.) The bill is still worth fighting for, as it strengthens eviction protections AND enforceability of existing renter-protection laws, and it goes next Monday to the Appropriations Committee, which features no OC Senators, which is probably a good thing unless it was Josh Newman.
- At Varsity we happened to run into the protagonist of my “Biking While Black, in Anaheim” story (which is currently at 2,903 readers) and he gave us permission to use his name. And no wonder, as it is a way cool name – it is Jack White. Turns out that, after making him wait 25 minutes and trying unsuccessfully to convince him they were entitled to “pat him down for weapons,” the APD gave him a ticket for $360-something – pretty draconian and punitive for allegedly riding a bike on the wrong side of the road, and WALKING a bike against a red arrow. Meanwhile I think it’s fair to say that Donna’s video featured in that story has GONE VIRAL at 60,000 views and counting. But more importantly, how can Jack White fight that ticket?
Take it away Jack White!
So, talk about that or anything! Except, as usual, your sexual or violent fantasies about us OJ Bloggers (or anyone else) will find a final resting place in our trash folder.
Here’s what I wrote on a friend’s Facebook page who said that he’d been found guilty, revised a bit as I edited it here:
Trump was *morally* guilty, absolutely. *Legally* guilty? The question didn’t even come up: the statute of limitations had run and it was too late to prosecute him for it.
One applies a different standard in criminal vs. civil trials — “beyond a reasonable doubt” versus “more likely happened than not.” This wasn’t even close on the “more likely than not” question for sexual battery — and I don’t think that there’s any doubt that the jury would have found him guilty of sexual battery in a civil trial.
It’s sad that his duped fans will say that he was “acquitted” of rape — not, he wasn’t, because that too would have required a criminal trial. But what do we know about this oaf is that he was completely willing to go up to a stranger (according to him) who was not sexually aroused — in fact, was repulsed — and try to jam as many of his fingers as would fit up her unprepared vagina.
This would satisfy some definitions of rape and would definitely satisfy the crime of sexual battery — probably aggravated — what would be called “rape by instrumentation.”
I looked up the NY Criminal Code while writing this, and I found this:
https://newyork.public.law/laws/n.y._penal_law_section_130.70
If Trump wants to say that he would have been cleared of rape in a criminal trial, he can tell the attorney that he waives his right to invoke a statute of limitations defense — then we can all find out.
And for anyone who thinks that Carroll was proven wrong about the rape occurring — she was overcome at the moment with two main things — fear and pain — and given what this sociopath was doing to her, and the fact that she was surely battered and bruised after the fact, it makes perfect sense that she’d think she had been raped.
One other thing: We also know at this point that Donald Trump know less about female sexuality than almost anyone else in the world — including celibate monks.
Umm Treseder has a totally different meaning in the urban dictionary.
Push the link(s) that immediately follow at your own risk (I.e. you want to refrain from drinking anything immediately before doing so lest you want to blow it out your nose). You’ve been warned.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Treseder
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tresidder
And, I could only confirm that Tresidder means “farm of the archer” in Cornish.
So maybe mushroom girl was exaggerating to be relevant during Agran’s urban forest agenda item presentation last night.
https://one-name.org/name_profile/tresidder/
P.S. Tresidder is a variant of Treseder and vice versa.
Joe Kerr? Not again. Talk about clueless. Now those people will have to hear all about how he ran TOWARD danger and how he jumped in and got the boy out of the pool.
Hero Deserves.
And yes, the OCPA is now run by ANOTHER political operative, a former elected politician, a lawyer with ZERO technical or managerial experience. Well done.
There must be a psychological term for this sort of serial clam-like behavior. And we have not seen the last of The Probe® – not by a long shot.
What do the Grey Wolves and UCI have an in common? They both use the same hand signal. Truly bizarre and equally sickening. It’s the equivalent of a Nazi salute.
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/do-turkeys-grey-wolves-deserve-terrorist-designation/
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/05/will-turkeys-grey-wolves-land-eu-terror-list
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/grey-wolves-france
http://folklore.usc.edu/gesture-university-of-california-irvine/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/04/25/mevlut-cavusoglu-gray-wolves/?amp (Turkish foreign minister making grey wolves salute)
https://sites.uci.edu/graduateinterconnect/2017/06/29/zot-zot-zot-written-by-rajesh-padgilwar/ (Obama giving grey wolves salute)
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Obama_UC_Irvine_Rip_em_Anteaters_hand_sign.jpg (Obama practicing grey wolves salute!)
https://en.armradio.am/2020/12/10/azerbaijani-general-making-the-grey-wolves-sign-during-baku-parade/ (Azeri General making grey wolves salute)
https://news.uci.edu/2023/04/11/state-lt-gov-eleni-kounalakis-visits-uci/ (Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis giving grey wolves salute)
https://twitter.com/UCIPubAffairs/status/1656015429133901854/photo/2 (Farrah Khan and Zot doing grey wolves salute)
The a-ok sign bad, the Indian tomahawk chop bad, sign of ultranationalist Muslim terrorist organization just fine.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Maybe somebody misinterpreted the word anteater.
In case wonders, this happened to be the comment that broke the camel’s back.
City of Irvine put on notice they are in bed with Genocide deniers.
https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/6140?view_id=68&redirect=true&h=5cc4dd5a599f5a024bd72d8cd31db4a6 (Queue to 55:22)
Maybe someone got UCI to adopt the propaganda of an ultranationalist terrorist organization.
Update on Joe Kerr: I’m told he moved from Coto to Trabuco so he IS in the district. Giving him an advantage over Young Kim who is NOT.
Still he was a Poseidon backer who was put on the Santa Ana Regional Water Board just for that purpose by Newsom, and wouldn’t listen to a single argument against it.
I only say because I’m also told there’ll be another Dem candidate there, a female. Don’t know who yet. But we gotta replace Young Kim, not because SHE is so terrible, but because the Republican majority is.
That sounds like bullshit to me. Coto Joe moving to Trabuco? Hmm. Where have I seen this movie before?
Maybe but I was sent his voter registration info. When these people fake a residence in order to run, do they falsify that too? Apart from the fact that, for Congress, you don’t really have to.
Yeah I know where you saw the movie before. He was gonna have a beer with me at his place in Fullerton or something (2018) and then decided we should meet at a Placentia fire station instead because you know he’s such a fire guy, and I didn’t bother.
Looks like Trabuco Canyon is 5 or 6 miles inland from Coto.
Of course they falsify it. It’s a sworn statement, too.
He can register anyplace. Did he sell his house in Coto de Caza? Bet not. Born to be a carpetbagger, or in this case, which is worse – a phony one.
Female alternative to Coto Joe, it turns out, is Allyson Muñiz Damikolas, a Tustin school board trustee. Another strange name, but people seem to think the world of her.
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/05/25/tustin-school-board-trustee-sets-her-sights-on-congress/
Vance Ulrich works for Redistricting Partners. Pretty sad @inminivanhell is retweeting his slur of the opposition.
https://twitter.com/inminivanhell/status/1656311572665622528?cxt=HHwWgIDT4bGms_wtAAAA
“But a preliminary 2021 results map from Vance Ulrich, of the nonpartisan consulting firm Redistricting Partners, shows Mr. Newsom’s anti-recall campaign succeeding in places like Garden Grove, Westminster and Santa Ana, cities where Mr. Trump had improved his performance in 2020. Majority-Vietnamese precincts swung heavily from their support of Mr. Trump in 2020 to opposing the recall, Mr. Ulrich said.“
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/us/california-recall-orange-county.html
https://islamism.news/2023/04/20/irvine-mayor-farrah-khan-courts-pakistani-terror-ambassador/
Why is Tammy Kim still trying to undermine and deligitimize the districting process in Irvine? She too retweet redistriciting partners’ employee tweet critical of the opposition who is handling Irvine’s districting process. Rather than encouraging her constituents and residents to participate robustly in the districting process, she still tries to railroad the city’s mandate to expand the council and transition to district voting.
https://twitter.com/VanceUlrich/status/1656117247021322242?cxt=HHwWhMDU8ZL32vstAAAA
Your excessive tags that have nothing to do with your post and multiple online ad interruptions in reading the whole thing betray you guys as whores for google ads instead of honest brokers Fuck all of you but you’ll can my comment or edit it because you’re so fucking afraid of actual honesty
Have a nice day!
You could say that using your own identity, Tags, if you weren’t “so fucking afraid of actual honesty.”
I, not Vern, will be the one to trash this, because we don’t need whining by anonymous cowards.
I vote for letting anonymous cowards make asses of themselves publicly.
There is no “of themselves.” All they do is make asses of a disposable pseudonym. But it’s your choice.
Anthony Kuo is blurbing this political field work firm, C3 Public Strategies.
I’m putting this here now so we can all search for it later and think: Anthony Kuo???
https://c3publicstrategies.com/
We are Anaheim! Come join us but don’t expect us to be honest or transparent! Former federal prosecutor is pandering and obfuscating at the same time. Where was local news coverage of Sidhu resignation, Melahat prosecution or Anaheim investigation??
https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1660112699316129797?cxt=HHwWisDSnYrt84kuAAAA