Lawyers representing the United States at Julian Assange’s extradition trial in Britain have accepted the claim that the WikiLeaks founder was offered a presidential pardon by GOP Congressman Dana Rohrabacher in exchange for helping cover up Russia’s involvement in hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee.

Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer for WikiLeaks, told the court that she had attended a meeting between Assange, Rohrabacher, and pro-_____ troll Charles Johnson at Assange’s hide-out, inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

Robinson said the two men claimed to be emissaries from Washington and “wanted us to believe they were acting on behalf of [_____].” She says Rohrabacher and Johnson told Assange that they could help grant him a pardon in exchange for him revealing information about the source of the WikiLeaks information that proved it was not the Russians who hacked Democratic emails.

Assange and his team of lawyers rejected the deal.

While the White House denies that ______ took part in any such plan, Assange’s lawyers previewed the allegation in a pre-trial hearing in February and now Robinson’s testimony has been heard in full. After her testimony, lawyers representing the U.S. accepted the witness statement as accurate and confirmed they had no intention of cross-examining the claim. They did dispute, however, that _____ gave his blessing for the pardon offer, And offered up some lame theory; US attorney James Lewis said:

“The position of the government is we don't contest these things were said. We obviously do not accept the truth of what was said by others.”’

Yes, these things were said, but they aren’t true? Then why accept them at all?

Oh, right … swamp.

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Reasons Not To Vote Republican #62158

Florida GOP Congressman, Gus Bilirakis is “excited” to announce his first “annual” summit for women that will feature “relevant topics” for women “that have a direct impact on their lives.”

Like gardening. And weight loss. Yup. And nope; he’s not kidding.

Bilirakis opposes Obamacare, a health care law supported by most Americans, but one that especially benefits women by making their basic health care, including contraceptive care, more accessible and affordable. He doesn’t like that part, so instead he’ll give gardening tips.

Bilirakis also voted many times against reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program [SCHIP] which provides access to health care for children of low-income families., but, hey, he has some low-cal recipes for y’all.

The summit also features financial planning advice for women, even though Bilirakis voted against equal pay bill in 2007, and voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

Bilirakis also opposes marriage equality. And he voted against the Violence Against Women Act. And against paid parental leave for federal workers.

But again, he’ll tell you how to grow your own salad.

Balenciaga—Spanish for “suckers will buy anything”—already pranked fash-holes with a $2,145 hideous knock-off of the luxurious IKEA bag and created CROCS on steroids, has a new shirt for y’all.

Balenciaga’s website is selling the “double” shirt; the one on the left sells for $1,490) and the one on the right is the cheaper version, for $1,290.

And, no, you’re not seeing things: the shirts are button-down dress shirts sewn onto t-shirts.

That’s all.

Reasons Not To Vote Republican #79631

Complicit _____ has been keeping a lower profile lately, well, at least after her cheerful smiling selfies in Jerusalem while children were being murdered a few miles away.

But this week she reappeared on social media and posted a picture of herself with one of her children … while Daddy’s Corrupt Administration is fighting off rumors that they lost 1500 immigrant children that they took away from their parents.

Out of touch doesn’t begin to explain it …

Mitt Romney revealed this week that he voted for his wife, Ann “Let Them Eat Cake” Romney in the 2016 presidential election because he couldn’t vote for _____ or Clinton.

His wife also revealed this week that she didn’t vote for Mitt in the 2012 presidential election.

Reasons Not To Vote Republican #91456

Alabama GOP Congressman Mo Brooks, who just a week ago claimed rising sea levels was due to rocks falling into the oceans, now claims that “people who lead good lives” don’t have pre-existing conditions, and people without pre-existing conditions have “done things the right way.”

So, you know, if you get cancer, it’s your fault.

If you have a heart attack you’re to blame.

Basically, Books is claiming that people don’t deserve affordable healthcare because “people who lead good lives” don’t have pre-existing conditions; and if you do have a pre-existing condition, you probably deserve it because you have not been living a “good” life.

Again, the GOP does not care about anyone but themselves and their donors.

Kim Kardastrophe met with _____ this week at the White House to discuss prison reform.

Seriously. Two of the bigest asses in the world in the same room!

Reasons Not To Vote Republican #12866

GOP Congressman Dana Rohrabacher told a group of Realtors that homeowners should be able to refuse to sell their property to LGBT buyers:

“Every homeowner should be able to make a decision not to sell their home to someone (if) they don’t agree with their lifestyle. We’ve drawn a line on racism, but I don’t think we should extend that line. A homeowner should not be required to be in business with someone they think is doing something that is immoral.”

His ignorance ignited a protest by a Realtor gay-rights group, prompting the National Association of Realtors to withdraw its recommendation that members send campaign contributions to Rohrabacher.

Perhaps we should suggest that homeowners be allowed not to sell properties to Republicans?

I have been sharing this everywhere because it makes me giggle … It was posted on this here blog in my post about Roseanne by Debra She Who Seeks, and she said...

The best joke I've heard so far about this is:

Use "Ambien" in a sentence, Roseanne.

"I Ambien a racist!"

I’m still giggling.

 Reasons Not To Vote Republican #17311

New York Republican Congressman Peter King had a _____-sized Twitter meltdown last week when New York Jets acting owner Christopher Johnson said he would pay the fines for any of his players who continued to kneel during the national anthem:

“Disgraceful that @nyjets owner will pay fines for players who kneel for National Anthem. Encouraging a movement premised on lies vs. police. Would he support all player protests? Would he pay fines of players giving Nazi salutes or spew racism? It’s time to say goodbye to Jets!”

Yes, he equated a peaceful, nonviolent protest against racism and discrimination in America with being a Nazi.

On this rainy Memorial Day weekend, at a home in Smallville, one husband said to the other husband …

“You wanna see a movie today? There’s a documentary on Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Nickelodeon in Columbia. We could go and them have lunch at Michael’s after.”

Long pause and then the other husband says …

“What do you wanna do today?’

I know!

Not to be outdone in the GOP Idiocy Contest, we have a Democrat …

Democratic Florida state Congresswoman Kim Daniels, an exorcist preacher whose bill requiring all public schools to display “In God We Trust” goes into effect this summer, has some thoughts about dolls:

 “Most idolatry is rooted in fetishism. Simply put, a fetish is an object with a spirit attached to it. If we’re not vigilant, we can open doors to familiar spirits in our lives and homes simply by the items we possess and the practices we keep.”

Dolls have filled with sprits invading our homes from toy stores.

Last year Daniels went on Facebook Live to pray against the witches attacking Trump, and she also made news this year when she thanked God for slavery because otherwise she “might be somewhere in Africa worshiping a tree.”

Seriously, shouldn’t she be a Republican?

Okay, I posted my bit about Roseanne, but the same day that happened, we learned that 79-times as many people as we thought had died died in Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria.

Over 4,000 people dead.

Keep that in your head and let Roseanne wash away.

Reasons Not To Vote Republican #21916

Republican Missouri Governor Eric Greitens resigned this week amid a sexual misconduct scandal and allegations of misuse of a charity donor list; Greitens had previously said he would not quit his post despite the allegations against him and a possible impeachment,.

The traditional family values candidate, and _____ lover, was accused of taking and transmitting a non-consensual—partially nude—photo of a woman with whom he was having an affair.

What? A family values Republican cheating on his wife? Who’d a thunk it?

We stared watching Trust this week, the story of the Getty family. It stars Donald Sutherland so, yeah, it’s good. But the butler, Bullimore, played by Silas Carson is kinda tickling my ivories.

We’re also watching Genius: Picasso, and Charlie Carrick plays one of Pablo’s mentors; he could mentor me any day. Am I using that word right?

And on this washout weekend, I watched Mark Felt: The Man Who Took Down The White House and loved, for all the right reasons, Marton Csokas as acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray; he could interrogate me any time.

Just sayin’.

ISBL Asshat of the Week: GOP Congressman Dana Rohrabacher

California Republican Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher believes that the Charlottesville rally by white supremacists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, the KKK and other members of the "alt-right" was a "total hoax" designed by liberals to bait _____ and make him look bad.

Oh, honey, that tool doesn’t need our help to look bad; it’s the easiest thing he does.

Rohrabacher, who represents California’s very conservative Orange County, "thinks the Charlottesville riots were a “total hoax” staged by liberals.

Yes, he believes that a group of liberals created the march and pretended to be alt-right asshats and neo-Nazi wingnuts, and white supremacist f**kmonkeys just because we somehow knew that _____ would handle the whole thing badly, say the wrong thing and look like a bigot.

Of course, we didn’t mean to have one of our stand-in haters run down and murder Heather Heyer, who was protesting the neo-Nazis.

Rohrabacher is waist "deep into" his Charlottesville conspiracy theory sh*t-fest and claims to know "that Democrats were behind [the] white nationalist riots” because a former “Hillary and Bernie supporter” got Civil War re-enactors to gather under the guise of protecting a Robert E. Lee statue. 

“It was a setup for these dumb Civil War re-enactors. It was left-wingers who were manipulating them in order to have this confrontation [and] to put our president on the spot.” 

Yes, there were no neo-Nazis or Klan members or alt-right loons or white supremacists in Charlottesville that day; it was liberals dressed up as racists to make _____ look bad.

Seriously. A costume drama? But then, please to explain, all the known white supremacists and neo-Nazis who showed up that day and were interviewed by the media and seen on television marching and shouting their hate speech?

Can you explain that you idiot?

Of course not, and that is why Dana Rohrabacher is the ISBL Asshat of the Week.

PS He believes that global warming is a "total fraud" used by liberals to "create global government." 

Those damned liberals; we dress up as Nazis to make _____ look like an idiot and we created these epic storms to build a global power government.

Someone needs to take off his tinfoil hat, eh, Dana?

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GOP Congressman Wants US To Join Forces With ISIS ... Are We Really Surprised By That?

Gosh, just as more and more of us are understanding that _____ is an uninformed, ill-qualified, mentally defective bully, along comes another Republican to try and wrestle the crown from that nest of muskrat fur atop the president’s head.

And I’m looking at you, California GOP Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.

See, Dana recently praised the ISIS attack in Tehran as a “good thing” and then actually suggested that the United States work with the terrorist organization. Yup, a Republican wants America to join forces with a radical organization that beheads civilians, rapes and sells women, and burns people alive. Isn’t that fun?

“We have recently seen an attack on Iran, and the Iranian government, the mullahs, believe that Sunni forces have attacked them. This may signal a ratcheting up of certain commitments by the United States of America. As far as I’m concerned, I just want to make this point and see what you think, isn’t it a good thing for us to have the United States finally backing up Sunnis who will attack Hezbollah and the Shiite threat to us? Isn’t that a good thing?”

Yup, he wants a US-ISIS coalition because, as long as ISIS is attacking the “right” people, we oughta help, and that, ladies and gentleladies, is the GOP finally coming clean as a wannabe terrorist organization.

And yet, should we be surprised at the idea of Republicans as terrorists? This is the GOP, and their tribal mentality, that their agenda comes before the country ... party over people. And as long as a Republican sits in the White House, as long as the GOP controls the Congress, hooking up with terrorists is a “good thing”.

Any political group that holds this thought—that ISIS can become an ally if they do something to further the GOP anti-Muslim “ideology”—is a party that has no morals, no sense of right and wrong, and that party is the GOP.

That’s why they are dead-set to destroy health care for millions in order to give millionaires a tax break; that’s why they are out to destroy public lands, national parks, and Native American lands, for a few extra coins in their pockets; that’s why they shed crocodile tears at the amount of gun violence and dead Americans while cashing those NRA checks; that’s why they can cut off  funding programs for children’s health ...  for the poor ... for the elderly ... for veterans ... without so much as a second-thought.

That’s the GOP, and goddess help us all while they are in power.

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