Some might recall that nearly a year ago, we reported on a series of local school board actions that resulted in a recall campaign.

Remember? Three right-wing evangelical individuals were elected to the 5-member Temecula Valley board in 2022 with the backing of a local church pastor. The new majority’s first act was to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory at all of their schools.

CRT is not taught in K-12 schools in California, but that didn’t stop them from outlawing it anyway. Boy, I bet it sure felt good.

Later, the board majority turned the heat up as they rejected a state-approved social studies curriculum solely because it mentioned the life of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay San Francisco City Supervisor whom they labeled a “pedophile”.

And then all H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks broke loose.

A committee was formed to recall the 3 new board members. They launched a petition drive. Midway through that, one of their targets, Danny Gonzalez, stepped down and moved back to Texas. Of the remaining two, only the board president, Joe Komrosky, got tagged for a recall.

Now, you might think this was just another local yawner election in Hicksville, California, and you could have been right. But the Trumps could not leave this one alone.

No, seriously.

On May 22, TFG’s middle son, Eric Trump, smiled his gummy smile for the cameras at the Temecula Stampede, a local venue hired for the purpose of staging a show of support for the beleaguered board member and president. He brought encouraging words to the assembled throng: “I’m sorry you have to live in communism.” He even brought his wife’s botox twin, Alina Habba, to help out. As it turns out, it was Habba that convinced the Trump scion to throw his family’s support to the beleaguered board trustee.

All for naught.

Because yesterday was election day in Temecula Valley Unified School District Trustee Area 4. Joe Komrosky’s area.

The county sent Area 4 voters a total of 21,578 recall ballots last month, and mail-in ballots have been trickling in for a month now. Combined with yesterday’s in-person vote, a total of 7,521 votes were cast, and Komrosky, who had a soccer ref-like system of yellow and red cards to warn and then oust citizen-speakers at school board meetings, got red carded by citizen-voters.

That’s 4,024 Yes votes to 3,491 No votes.

(For folks from non-referendum and recall states, a “Yes” vote is a vote to fire the man’s a-double-scribble.)

What’s a MAGAn to do? I doubt that Alina will be able to drag Eric out for another tilt at another windmill. So far, it has been crickets from the recall target. So I guess it’s up to me to fill in the deafening silence.

IT WAS RIGGED! THE WHOLE THING IS A HOAX! WE WON BIGLY! THERE WERE SUITCASES OF BALLOTS! WHOLE SUITCASES!
(repeat for effect)

What do you do when a bill for half a billion samoleons crosses your gilded desk? Just as much as can do with a retired federal judge looking over your shoulder, apparently.

Retired federal judge Barbara Jones has been tagged with the task of overseeing TFG’s (The Felonious Guy’s) finances since 2022. She has purview over “any transfers above $5 million”.

You can sell anything, just keep it under 5 mil.

So when you sell your 27-year old Cessna Citation X 9-passenger executive jet, and you don’t want to file a report with Judge Jones, you got to keep it under the limit, right?

No problem. All you have to do is sell it to one of your major donors for the fire sale price of $2.5 million, as reported here.

MM Fleet Holdings out of Farmer’s Branch, Texas bought The Felon’s Junior Jet, serial number 750-0023, in March 2024. The buying agent is Mehrdad Moayedi, who is president and CEO of Centurion American Development Group, which has the same Farmer’s Branch address. Like TFG, Moayedi is a real estate developer. Unlike TFG, Moayedi has never declared bankruptcy.

But among Moayedi’s 241 political contributions, he has contributed $245,000 to Trump Victory PAC from 2019 to 2020 and $2,800 times two to the campaign in 2019.

2.5 mil for a Cessna Citation is a pretty sweet deal when you think of it. EVO Jets estimates the value of the jet as somewhere between $9 and $10 million.

I guess it’s just a little odd, though, that the plane is still listed, at this writing, as one of The Felon’s fleet on the Trump Aviation website (scroll to the bottom).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“What’s good for the goose is also good for the gander.” — Proverb

This is a piece I am dedicating to my conservative friends and family. So, feel free to read from that perspective. Consider this a love letter of sorts. If you are calling this a sham trial I have only one thing to tell you. If you would be screaming for a Democrat to be prosecuted under the same circumstances then you have no leg to stand on and I would politely invite you to shut the hell up. There is a reason why I opened with the proverb I did.

If you don’t believe me then I invite you to consider the drawn out case of John Edwards. I didn’t hear anyone at the time scream political prosecution. I certainly didn’t hear that for Rob Blagojevich was sent to the slammer. Current senator Bob Menedez is in the midst of his own corruption trial. I don’t hear anyone screaming about political sham trials there.

As we sit, the Republican party is being led by a convicted felon. An independent district attorney’s office decided to bring charges. An independent judge presided over the case. Twelve independent citizens listened to the evidence and cross examinations and voted unanimously to convict. It’s time to stop this fantasy of Joe Biden being both a drooling mental deficient and mastermind that controls every Democratically elected district attorney in the country. It cannot be both. You have to choose one. Choose carefully.

The answer is that the second one definitely isn’t true. This has always been Trump induced projection. He wanted to control the justice department. He wanted them to be his own personal attorneys. He strong armed them into doing things they shouldn’t have done. So, he naturally assumes everyone does it. He assumes it because he has no idea how any of this is supposed to work.

Here is my plea. It is not too late. On July 15th we will likely know what the Trump penalty will be when the Republican National Convention is underway. Nominate anyone else. Nikki Haley would appear to be the most logical choice but it could really be anyone at that point. You can cite any reason you like, but the reason should be that you don’t want a felon as your party’s leader.

Since I know this is not likely to happen I have a secondary plea. I know the calendar won’t be your friend here, so you can feel free to do this the Wednesday after the election, but it is time for a Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, or a Jeff Flake to step up and form a new conservative party. Their ideals could be simple and fairly similar to what Republicans used to stand for.

Would Nikki Haley do better than Trump at the polls? My political instincts and training say likely not. The hardcore MAGAs would likely stay home and depress the GOP vote. You may even see some show up and vote for the lower ticket races and leave that spot blank in protest. She would get people worried about Biden’s age and mental acumen that would still vote for him if it were Trump running against him. That’s a hard race to predict for these reasons.

What I will say is that you wouldn’t be poisoning yourself for 2028. You would remain a viable party and if you were able to either silence or shun the rest of MAGA then your party could return to normal and possibly survive. If you don’t do this you become a zombie party if you haven’t become that already. Sure, you take some seats due to gerrymandering and demographic advantages in certain areas of the country, but you cease to be a governing party.

This event is one of those cataclysmic events that turns an entire election on its ear. My personal belief is that Trump will have reverse coattails. He will cost Republicans down ballot races. A Nikki Haley might not. She might not galvanize the forces for a red wave, but she will stave off a blue wave. That might be your best bet and your best hope right now.

What a kick in the Shitzenpantz, huh?

Last week, we visited the Brave Books website to see how DJTJ’s main squeeze, Kimberley Guilfoyle, had published a children’s book.

If anyone has been beset by Brave Books ads on your favorite social media because I urged you to visit their site(s), I am heartily sorry. I also have a similar affliction.

But to make up for it, I have some screenshots of the bottom of Guilfoyle’s ad: the customer reviews.

I did this for 2 reasons:
1) You can see them without having to login to the site and therefore reset the resulting deluge of ads they will send to you, and
2) who knows when the website authors will see the reviews and take them down.

Here they are in order of their appearance on the website.

This last one reads both horizontally and vertically (with apologies to Juanita Jean’s mama).

No one said this couldn’t be fun.