Banging These Down, Here

Maybe the Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago Can Find A Lawyer Who Won't Mind Being Disbarred.

President Donald Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN.

The president is “furious” with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend. They added that based on his criticisms of her, they find it “highly likely she’s removed from her job.”

As I pointed out yesterday, Pirro and her subordinates know the risks of charging people without evidence. Trump doesn't care, of course. Odds are good that a new US attorney who brings charges unsupported by evidence on Trump's say-so is going to be disbarred. For I have a feeling that the judges and the bar associations have had their fill of this stupid shit.

Not the Civil War

It was, as this article points out, the Rebellion of the Slave-Owners.

Need proof? How about the infamous "Tweny Slave Law", which exempted slaveowners from being drafted to fight in their war. But they drafted hardscrabble farmers (read BadTux's comment to this post), leaving their families facing starvation.

It was no noble cause. It was a war waged by slaveowners, using poor white men as cannon fodder, to preserve their system.

And it is no accident that, once the Union Army began occupying plantations, the attitude of the soldiers went from "why are we fighting for this" to "burn the motherfucking South to the ground."

Reality and Fantasy Collide Over the Reflecting Pool

President Donald Trump on Saturday sharply criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s assessment that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of shoddy construction and not the work of vandals, as he claims.

Pirro’s office, in a court filing on Friday, moved to drop criminal charges against a former Olympian, David Hearn, who had been accused of deliberately damaging the pool after it underwent a renovation ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration last month.

Trump, in a posting on social media, acknowledged that there “may have been some contractor difficulty” in the installation of a new pool liner. But he continues to insist “the major damage was caused by VANDALS!”

Donnie Demento and his suckups like Burgham can continue to lie and spin and fuss all they want. And I'm sure that Pirro would like to sing along with the Fabualist Choir of Asskissers, but she has a real problem. Both she and the attorneys working for her are answerable to judges and to state bar ethics committees. And neither are impressed by hype and lies.

Pirro is licensed in New York, I believe, and this is what the professional responsibility statutes have to say about that:

If they persist with charges that are patently false and unsupported by evidence, there can be trouble. A number of the Bloated Lying Orange Boss's attorneys have lost their law licenses for lying to courts and for bringing absurd claims pushed by Cade Bone Spurs.

Pirro, and the attorneys working for her, are well aware of that. They also know that those who sacrifice themselves for Don Snoreleone don't end up well. And so they aren't going to do that.

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

A gaggle of Spitfires:

Caturday

An asphalt driveway would seem to make a hard bed for Speck,

Who's the Biggest Crybaby?

You know who it is, of course.

Trump at a Cabinet meeting today: "I probably was abused more than anybody in the history of our country."

Right. The spirits of those who were part of the Long Walk of the Navajo would, if they could, shed tears for Crybaby Donnie.

So would this man, Peter:

Or this man:

Or Emmett Till:

But none of those people would matter to Weeping Donnie, the Biggest Narcissist Since Nero, because he is just so, so abused and anyway, those folks were not white.

The sad thing is that nobody at that meeting had the stones to stand up and sy: "Sir, you're just crazy. I quit."

Because It's Friday

Not all steam locomotives operational nowadays are massive Northerns.

Nineteen Years

21,000+ posts, 57,000+ comments.

BFD, eh?

Carding These Down, Here