Fani The Fearless

By Sniffles

Mark Meadows thought he should be given extra time to show up for his Georgia arraignment because he's been trying to walk his RICO case to a more friendly jurisdiction. After all, he no doubt mused, why bother to show up at the Fulton County jail on Friday if he succeeds in getting everything moved to federal court?

So via his lawyer, he asked DA Fani Willis for a huge favor: "Please, ma'am, delay my booking until I finish my judge- and jury-shopping."

Um, no. Here is a classic case of privileged white maleness coming up against implacable female, enforce-the-laws-equally Blackness. And losing. "Get your ass down to Atlanta like I told you, or get fitted for a comfy orange jumpsuit, mofo."

It would be shocking if Meadows, who is a total cretin, didn't choose to fight her tooth and nail right up to noon on Friday. And nobody knows whether he'll prevail in any of it. But in the meantime, how satisfying is it to see Willis speaking to these Trumpster traitors as no one has spoken to them before? We cats love it, and we PURR.

Randy's Singin' In The Arraign

Good thing Benedict Donald has those silly personalized umbrellas of his, because it's definitely arraigning. We cats PURR.

A Little Slice Of Heaven

 

For a number of reasons, we're pondering eternity these days. This works for us. We cats PURR.

Republicans' Week From Hell

 

It's always risky to accept anything Benedict Donald says as even remotely true. But it seems logical that he'll follow through with this.

What better way for Trump to spend his time this week than by 1) disrupting the GOP Presidential debate via Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, and then 2) stepping on any Thursday bounce a candidate might receive from a good performance?

But don't expect anyone to shine in Milwaukee. The "debate," with or without Trump, will be a silly clown-car event to begin with. And, if you accept this interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, completely pointless. We cats PURR.

Storm Warnings

By Hubie and Bertie

We cats have never been to Palm Springs, California, but is this sky bad? It looks bad.

Right now, as our paws type this, Tropical Storm Hilary is pounding Southern California, which has also just had an earthquake. Plus tornadoes. So, yeah, it's pretty bad.

Still, Californians might not have as nasty a week as the 19 co-defendants in Fulton County, Georgia. They must surrender as of this Friday — so everyone has to figure out on which day and at what time they will present themselves at the Fulton County Jail. Doubtless many of them will show up in the dead of night to avoid the press (the jail is open 24/7). But what will Benedict Donald do?

He's already agreed to an online interview with Tucker Carlson to compete with the silly GOP debate on Wednesday. But it's tempting to guess that he'll either turn himself in just as the debate gets underway, or leave everyone guessing until the last minute (to drive up ratings). As the world knows, he has no shame. But this Georgia thing isn't a game — it's got folks thinking that at some point, he could actually be a flight risk. Should be fun to watch. We cats PURR.

Happy Birthday To You, 42

By Miss Kubelik

Yep, Bill Clinton is 77 today. GASP! As we all watch the Republican Party descend into self-immolation — what with Benedict Donald tying them up in knots and the rest of the clown car trying to decide how to have their upcoming debate without him — it's fun to look back on forever-young Bill's two terms and everything he accomplished.

Top of that list is his ability to drive the GOP up the wall. You go, Bill! He certainly inspired the naked hate that defines what's left of the Republican Party today.

But it's not really new, is it? Republicans have been mean about us since at least 1976, when Bob Dole spent the Vice Presidential debate against Walter Mondale muttering darkly about "Democrat wars." But they really kicked into overdrive after Bill beat a GOP incumbent in 1992. (Goodness, it's like they believed they deserved to govern, no matter what the voters thought.) And now, post-Trump, the Clinton impeachment looks even sillier.

We hope that Bill (and Hillary) enjoyed many happy returns of the day. They're having a pleasant retirement, while the GOP's leading guy is staring at at least four (maybe more) indictments, and their party is held captive by nutcases. As we've often said, we'd rather be Us than Them. We cats PURR.

Pathetic

This makes us glad we no longer live in Virginia. Is the entire Republican Party run by 13-year-old boys? Because that's what it feels like.

Is this all they've got? We're going to win 2024 in a walk. We cats PURR.

On The Edge Of Disaster

By Zamboni

Everyone in Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, has been ordered to evacuate by noon tomorrow. That's 20,000 people — half the population of the territories.

That's because there are 236 wildfires currently burning in the NWT, and one fire could reach Yellowknife this weekend if it doesn't rain soon. Most evacuees are leaving by car on the one highway in and out of the city. Commercial airliners and the Royal Canadian Air Force are flying others out to Calgary. The few who are sheltering in place are cutting down trees around their homes to create fire breaks. Meanwhile, the right-wing leader of the Canadian Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, decided to make a speech at a PEI gas station yesterday.

If you've been as appalled by the stories out of Maui these last few days, you're probably tempted to say that at least Yellowknife got enough warning to get out. True. But can the entire world talk about climate change now? Fires everywhere, record heat on land and in the seas, and now four tropical systems marching across the southern Atlantic. What's it going to take, Conservatives and Republicans? We cats HISS.

P.S. Despite the many fire emergencies, Meta is still blocking Canadian news, so NWT evacuees and their loved ones can't communicate on the Face Thing. In case you thought Elon Musk was the worst social media billionaire, guess again. We cats HISS and dump our dirty litter box on Mark Zuckerberg's head.

Ron's Ripoff

By Baxter

Ron DeSantis has spent $13 million of Florida taxpayers' money in his hapless run for the GOP Presidential nomination. We cats don't even live in Florida any more, but this makes us want to hack up a hairball.

Note to the media — When a major party candidate for Florida Governor (say, Charlie Crist) asks his opponent in a debate to pledge he won't immediately turn around and run for higher office, you ought to pay attention. Particularly when the opponent refuses to answer.

Note to Charlie — When the opponent stays mum, the obvious follow-up question is this: "Since you have no trouble raising millions for your Presidential campaign, will you reimburse Florida 100 percent of the costs associated with the campaign you refused to admit you'd run?"

One more note to the media — Your next question to every Republican in the state legislature should be this: "What are you going to do about this $13 million bilking of Florida taxpayers?" We cats HISS.

Georgia On Everybody's Mind

By Sniffles

We cats didn't stay up for the big Georgia indictment reveal at midnight last night (we sleep 18 hours a day, you know), but we did happen to catch Judge Robert McBurney's reaction when the sealed documents were returned to him at about 9 pm.

Yeah, "Whoa!" indeed.

Nineteen co-defendants is a lot of people to keep track of. One glance at the list reveals a lot of non-household names, but quick research shows that a lot of them are false electors, or Coffee County vote-machine tamperers, or (the worst of the lot) assholes who terrorized elections workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. Of particular note was the inclusion of Mark Meadows, who everyone thought had flipped, and the exclusion of Lady Lindsey Graham, which disappointed a lot of the tweeps we follow.

It was also satisfying to see charges for the ever-obnoxious Bible banger Jenna Ellis, who today has tweeted that she's turning her case over to the Lord. Is He licensed to practice law in Georgia? (And she'll need Him, because Trump's PAC won't pay a nickel for her defense, LOL.)

Last but not least, aside from Benedict Donald himself — who now has an iron grip on the formerly-held-by-George-W.-Bush moniker Worst Person Who's Ever Lived — has anyone fallen farther than Rudy Giuliani? Remember when he was TIME's Person of the Year after 9/11? Now he's charged under the very RICO laws he famously used as a prosecutor.

Trump now faces 91 felony counts across his four indictments in New York, Washington, Miami and Atlanta. Nobody knows how he's going to keep his silly 2024 campaign going as all these trials unfold, but one thing is clear: He's not being prosecuted while he's running for President. He's running for President while he's being prosecuted. There's a difference. We cats PURR.