Asked by a reporter if the president has the power to pardon himself, Texas Senator Ted Cruz was silent for 18 full damn seconds before replying, “That’s not a constitutional I’ve studied so I will withhold judgement.”

What he really wanted to say is, “Are your freeking nuts?  Of course not.” But he was afraid Trump would call his wife ugly and give away the family secrets about his Dad killing Kennedy.”

Yeah, there’s an audio.

By the way, I hear there’s members of congress who would pay a mess of money to hear Ted Cruz be silent for 18 seconds, and a couple of them just lost a $10 bet that he could could even do it.

The cake argument is not about cake.  It’s about celebrating being judgmental and hypocritical.  Oddly enough, those are the two things Sweet Jesus had the strongest feelings about.

There wasn’t any decision about cakes for mixed race couples, or for couples with multi divorces.

The Court went two inches away from allowing restaurants to refuse service to African Americans because the owner has a strongly held belief that African Americans don’t deserve service.

Or maybe a company can refuse to hire to hire women because the owner has a strongly held religious belief that women shouldn’t work outside the home.

The sumbitches are saying this is “a huge win for religious freedom.”  No, it is not. It is only a win for religions who do not believe that we are our brother’s keepers, that we should judge other people harshly, and that being mean is a sacrament.

They were gay people in Jesus’ time. He had not one single word to say against them. Not one word. And I bet he would have eaten their cake or multiplied their fishes.

It’s kinda sad this decision came down to kick off Pride month.

Okay, now they are just jacking with us.

Then, Rudy Attorney at Law, why do we ever have anybody testify if recollection is a fleeting thing?  And why do we waste time in a court of law to instruct a jury that they are not to assume facts not in evidence?

Does Rudy Attorney at Law understand how this courtroom stuff works?

Okay, so he could shoot somebody, and I think he means even you, and not be indicted for it?

Okay, I think he means that you can’t indict a president while he’s in office (which ain’t anywhere in the Constitution) but you’d have to impeach him first and then indict him.  Okay, so what if the president controls both houses of congress and the Supreme Court?  Does he automatically become Joseph Stalin?

If you have a president who the House won’t impeach, you’ve got a President who can dress like the Terminator, kill all the Democrats in the country for 8 years and then pardon himself the day before his terms ends.

Y’all, Rudy makes Trump look sane.

The business press is now widely reporting that Trump, after wrecking relationships with all of our allies, is now poised to further urinate on German relations by slapping a 25% tariff on imported German cars.   German automakers’ stocks have fallen over $20 billion since Trump started his most recent attack on trading partners.  Business Insider is reporting that Trump told French president Macron in April that he’s going to keep the tariffs on until there are “No more Mercedes models rolling down 5th Avenue.”

What an idiot.

And it wasn’t even that good a back flip.

Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.

One of the reasons Trump is so hated by normal people is his fleeting relationship with truth.  In a town where lying is almost more common than breathing, this guy spews falsehood at an even more breathtaking pace than any politician in history.  This week, the Washington Post updated its lie tracker which now sums to 3,251 lies since taking office.

As one of our patrons pointed out yesterday, Philip Roth’s description of Trump says it best:

“I found much that was alarming about being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. But, whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything like as humanly impoverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English.”

Amen.  Pass the earplugs.