We're all bridge experts now, aren't we?

Here is a fascinating analysis of the Baltimore bridge disaster, by someone who actually does know a lot about ships and bridges:

   

 My bet is they will get some shipping lanes cleared within two weeks -- the Army Corps of Engineers already has a thousand experts working on it, and it wouldn't surprise me if vessels from Halifax to Sao Paulo are already on their way to Baltimore to help tow the girders out of the way and dredge that channel deeper.

Meanwhile, here's some of the day's less crazy commentary:
 

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The Wire producer David Simon spent the day lambasting various idiots who blamed the disaster on everything from immigrants to vaccines. His twitter feed is pretty funny:

You useless squib. The correct answer is the IDF's abduction of the first mate, coupled with a draining of the ship's power by Jewish space lasers.
Also no ship's captain, collapsed or otherwise, is ever at the helm in Baltimore harbor. Licensed Bay pilots have control of ships. https://t.co/mzqAMCC0qz

— David Simon (@AoDespair) March 27, 2024

Here's some more:

Does anyone know if either the ship or the bridge were vaccinated? If so, mystery solved.

#baltimorebridge

— Scottacular (@Scottcrates) March 26, 2024

So far, Repubshave tried their darnedest to blame the #baltimorebridge disaster on:
1- DEI initiatives
2- Covid lockdowns
3- Drug policy
4- Biden’s infrastructure bill

These are not serious people.

— UTDemoLatterDaySaint (@UTDemLttrDaySnt) March 27, 2024

Canada is re-thinking Mulroney today. And maybe Poilievre, too

Canada is buzzing about Brian Mulroney's funeral -- so many profound, moving and memorable moments: 

Good God… when Marc Hervieux and Mulroney’s granddaughter Elizabeth Lapham stopped to let a recording of Brian Mulroney finish singing When Irish Eyes are Smiling — man, how moving. pic.twitter.com/Qr1YwfNk95

— Bryan Passifiume (@BryanPassifiume) March 23, 2024

But life goes on, as Pierre Poilievre is going to find out -- he seemed to think the Mulroney funeral should be just another campaign stop, and Canada is not impressed:

Re: Brian Mulroney.
I watch funerals, not because of religion. I find these interactions fascinating.

And, it was nice to see grown up politicians being kind to each other no matter their stripe.

And then Pierre Poilievre opened his mouth 😡#cdnpoli

— G Godwin (@gill_godwin) March 23, 2024

The late Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was a great man and leader and I’m outraged to learn his funeral cost 87% more because of the costly coalition’s carbon tax. Common sense conservatives will axe the tax and bring home more affordable funerals for hardworking Canadians. pic.twitter.com/v7QzszRAVU

— Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions (@mynamesnotgordy) March 23, 2024

Saw the weasel, Poilievre speak as he entered the Basilica for Mulroney's funeral. He repeated exactly what he said in the House & then turned it into a political attack on the Liberals. The man is despicable & completely without class. #NeverPoilievre #NeverVoteConservative

— D. J. R. 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇦 (@Cool2bCorgi) March 23, 2024

PP, you won't get a second chance to make a first impression on Canada. Everybody found you appalling:

The late Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s funeral was briefly interrupted today when Pierre Poilievre’s T-shirt cannon accidentally fired off six Axe the Tax T-shirts during the singing of Amazing Grace.

— Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions (@mynamesnotgordy) March 23, 2024

Trending tonight: #ScrapTheCrap and #22Minutes

[With thanks to Journo Dale Smith.]

So today Pierre Poilievre was getting lots of media attention due to his ridiculous "threat" of a non-confidence motion -- did he think the NDP would actually want to fight an election this spring? 

Not. 

#ScrapTheCrap #ScrapTheCrapPoilievre #PierrePoilievreBaloneyFactory #BaloneyFactory #HandsOffMyRebate #IStandWithTrudeau pic.twitter.com/xDCjFTUM2Q

— Carla⚡️⚡️⚡️ #IStandWithTrudeau (@CarlaMeckelborg) March 20, 2024

This dingus just called the NDP and Bloc childish names and then asked them to join the #CPC in their vote of non-confidence.

Nothing says you're serious about the vote like calling everyone else childish names.#ModiMuppet #ScrapTheCrap #BaloneyFactory #cdnpoli #QP pic.twitter.com/jGT6WFeQeM

— Jason Pugh 🏳️‍🌈 (@TheJasonPugh) March 20, 2024

Has America finally reached its gag limit with Trump?

I try to ignore just about everything Trump babbles. 

But tonight he is quoted by activist and former Labour Secretary Robert Reich in a post titled Trump is out of his mind, and desperate

At a rally today outside the Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, Trump warned that “if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blood bath … for the country.”

He also warned that if he didn’t win, “I don’t think you’re going to have another election, or certainly not an election that’s meaningful.”

In the rest of the speech he repeated his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, which have been utterly discredited.

He praised the people serving sentences in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol — calling them “hostages” and “unbelievable patriots,” commending their spirit, and promising to help them if elected in November.

He cast migrants as threats to American citizens — claiming without evidence that other countries were emptying their prisons of “young people” and sending them across the border. “I don’t know if you call them ‘people,’ in some cases,” he said. “They’re not people, in my opinion.” He later referred to them as “animals.”

Trump is clearly desperate. He knows that his future freedom and his fortune both depend on winning in November. He has no qualms about turning Americans against Americans to achieve this goal. Apparently he is even willing to fuel violence, a second civil war.

Wow! 

And finally -- FINALLY -- that "bloodbath" remark seems to have triggered America's gag reflex. 

I'm seeing tweets and columns about it all over.

"If I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country"

He's taken a political party and transformed it into a cult of political violence & chaos. The only way to stop the madness is to vote against him in Nov. pic.twitter.com/EaFR2RfkYB

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) March 16, 2024

Insurrectionist orange traitor has now issued a threat today at his MAGA hate rally in Ohio that if he isn’t given access to our White House again, he foresees a bloodbath throughout the US.

He needs to be in jail for the rest of his disgusting existence. Period.

— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) March 17, 2024

Trump is threatening a “bloodbath” if he loses in November. You know what I say to that? Screw you, Trump. The American people will not be intimidated by your threats and your lies. We will show up, vote, and make sure that Trump NEVER gets into the Oval Office again.

— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) March 17, 2024

The Golden Calf and the Three Little Pigs

In America, Trump is the Golden Calf - because he has no philosophy or morals or principles himself, he can only reflect the hatreds and prejudices of his worshipers. And they love him for it.

Here in Canada, we're dealing with out own fairy tale. Poilievre's three-word solutions --Ax the Tax, Build the Homes -- and his frothing hatred of Trudeau makes him a kindred spirit to people who want shouting and slogans and fist-raising rallys but who don't know what his slogans actually mean. 

Mulroney knew the real Poilievre, as does Kim Campbell. 

"SMOKE THE TOKE" "FLOAT THE BOAT" "SPLASH THE CASH"
Any other #PierrePoilievre slogans come to mind? https://t.co/t4dIIN2iqU

— RF 🇺🇦 (@dipbrat70) March 12, 2024

Now his MPs are following in his footsteps:

Dirty tricks politics. They are not the loyal opposition. Looks like each Con MP has been tasked to fabricate a scandal and hammer away at it whether it is one or not.

— Colleen 🟦 (@wildplumbay) March 11, 2024

#Kate-Gate: maybe she just exited, pursued by a bear

Oh, wouldn't you know that the Kate Middleton story is now so big it just had to become "Kate-Gate"!

The Princess of Wales is missing and the spare Prince is in exile and the King is treating his cancer with herbs. If this were the 1300s France would be looking to invade.

— Stefan Smith (@TheStefanSmith) March 11, 2024

if I was kate middleton I would tweet “they got me” and then log off

— empress sissi (@historicalfits) March 13, 2024

I got about 8 seconds into explaining the Kate Middleton situation to my French husband before he told me, in the Frenchest voice imaginable, "ah yes, that's why we decided not to have those sorts of people anymore"

— Janel Comeau (@VeryBadLlama) March 14, 2024

Husband: “So what’s the deal with all the Kate Middleton”

Me: “I thought you’d never ask.” *pulls out projector for my professional grade power point presentation*#KateGate #WhereIsKateMiddleton

— 📣Cheryl B (@forevermrsccbb) March 13, 2024

Imagine they bring Kate out to prove she’s fine but then they cut into her & it turns out she’s actually Cake Middleton instead. Will the horrors never cease

— Gwdihŵ 🦉 (@youwouldknow) March 14, 2024

Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri has a whole list of possibilities [gift link] -- from turning into a giant bug, to stepping into a mysterious wardrobe, to falling down a rabbit hole, or just "exited, pursued by a bear" (ie, she left William). 

The late night TV talk shows are getting into the swing of things too:

The cover-up is always worse than the crime. #WhereIsKate #KateGate

pic.twitter.com/eSfnj4Q4mt

— LC (@lc1_summit) March 13, 2024

We also didn't warn them about the Boston Tea Party or the Battle of Yorktown and they both turned out pretty well, too.

Stephen Colbert owed the British monarchy nothing and the arrogance of such a statement is disgusting.

— Carla Pace (@carlapaceNY) March 14, 2024

"Say....what????" moments -- with Campbell, Middleton, Moe, and LA

Several "Say....what????" moments tonight: 

First, Kim Campbell called Pierre Poilievre a liar and a hatemonger. Wow!

Kim Campbell. Brian Mulroney. Flora MacDonald.

Back when Conservativism was actually just a different way of trying to make a country better...not take it backwards. #cdnpoli https://t.co/yGVpuylyOb

— Mark Gerretsen 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 (@MarkGerretsen) March 10, 2024

Former Conservative Leader, Kim Campbell, says she won’t vote for Poilievre because he is “a liar and a hate monger”, & a “climate denier”, and he doesn’t address
Russia & plays footsie with Donald Trump!

This guy is risky and reckless, and reasonable people know it! #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/XjFKEb1kev

— MP Ryan Turnbull 🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@TurnbullWhitby) March 9, 2024

Hey Canadian media!!!
The story here isn't that Kim Campbell called Poilievre a "liar and a hate monger". The story is that Poilievre is a liar and a hate monger.#CdnMediaFailed

— Christopher Byrne 🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@CBinVAN) March 10, 2024

@AKimCampbell called @PierrePoilievre a liar and a hatemonger and Conservative clapping seals attacked her mercilessly BUT....not one came out and said Pierre wasn't a liar OR a hatemonger. Not one. Think about that.

— LightningCatcherExtraordinaire (@ButlerLonney) March 10, 2024

And on a side note, isn't this the truth?

Even weirder, there really isn’t anything out there showing him with ANY actual human interests. No sports, no music, no favourite books - his entire personality seems to be hating Trudeau. https://t.co/NHzxOwPigI

— Diamond Jim Lowe (Parody. Maybe.) (@DiamondJimLowe) March 6, 2024

Wow, wasn't that a great State Of The Union?

Dark Brandon was in the House tonight!

President Joseph R. Biden kicked ass.

— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) March 8, 2024

Enjoyed watching Biden dancing the hully gully on Mike Johnson’s Adam’s Apple. #StateOfTheUnion

— Al Franken (@alfranken) March 8, 2024

Let this be absolutely clear: that wasn't just a great speech for President Biden. That was a great speech for anyone. The President gave brilliant rhetoric, but moreover, he directly engaged heckling Republicans with disarming humor, making them look small and petty and weak.

— Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) March 8, 2024

WOW. CNN just found 64% of their SOTU viewers had a positive reaction to President Biden’s speech & that 62% now think Biden policies will move U.S. in the right direction—which is 17 points HIGHER than pre-speech. Joe Biden won the night. He will win this election. Amazing.

— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) March 8, 2024

The Republican response from their Senator Kitchen Barbie was long and lurid - especially the way-too detailed gang rape anecdote with her whispery, overly-dramatic voice:

Kate Britt sounds like an out of touch lunatic.

— ❤️🧡💛ᗰia💚💙💜 (@mommamia1217) March 8, 2024

This makes Bobby Jindal's response look like the Finest Hour speech.

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) March 8, 2024

More great stuff -- from #snowmageddon to dogs to Amish barn-raising

We got a huge dump of snow this weekend - its #Snowmageddon2024 -and our street is now impassable. So we'll be cocooning at home for the next several days:

#Saskatoon #Saskatchewan 🇨🇦 is closed 🔒 DON'T even try to get around without a 4 x 4 with #winter tires 🛻 AWD pretty much useless with low clearance 😐 Cars 🚗 stranded everywhere 🤦‍♂️ #CantFixStupid Hardly any ploughs out either 🤬 #StayHome #skstorm #Snowmageddon2024 pic.twitter.com/VPGAo0xC2t

— George - Bulls Club 🐂 🌾 💪 🇨🇦 (@Big_G_09) March 4, 2024

Latest from the highways in Saskatchewan as of 10:30AM today. Find something to binge and cancel your plans. #skstorm #yxe #yqr pic.twitter.com/FmcOhIHiKE

— Pat Dubois (@patdubois) March 3, 2024 

Let's continue with some dogs, bruh!

My pupper loves the snow and especially when we shovel! Happy snow day for her! #skstorm #lightsnow pic.twitter.com/0ObbJ29L83

— Hntrss🫎&Fshr🐟 (@hamiltond3) March 3, 2024

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Here's some great stuff - from the solar system to dogs, bruh!

Amazing!

This is how our Solar system is.. ❤️🔥pic.twitter.com/zOXqT87Hob

— The Random Guy (@RandomTheGuy_) February 27, 2024

You've seen me share a few maps and videos of the Panama Canal. I love that engineering marvel. This animation shows a map and a timelapsed journey through the canal. 15 seconds worth watching! pic.twitter.com/NcAuOe4tSH

— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) February 19, 2024

Never beaten. That’s why you love the #WorldBollardAssociation
pic.twitter.com/emDIIIsJ3r

— World Bollard Association™ (@WorldBollard) February 3, 2024

Poilievre wants Canadian Porn Constables -- our new CPC!

Sorry for the lack of posts this week -- my laptop was in the shop. 

But tonight I'm back to it again, and just in time! 

Because it was one of those weeks when Christ, what an asshole! should have been trending. 

I don't know why Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre decided to turn his focus away from actual election issues -- housing, consumer prices -- and toward culture war craziness like transgender bathroom usage and starting a federal Jerk-Off registration agency. But he is getting horselaughs across the country.

I think we should call this the new CPC - Canadian Porn Constables:

Poilievre features prominently on the editorial page of today’s Winnipeg Free Press. When he tells us who he his, we must believe him. pic.twitter.com/JVQiKngjPi

— Judith Richardson 🇨🇦 😷💉🇺🇦🌻🇺🇦 (@juderich59) February 23, 2024

"If Pierre Poilievre wants to know what presents a clear and present danger to young people in Canada, perhaps he should stop thinking about pornography and look in the mirror." https://t.co/rgDvovfqGT

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) February 23, 2024

Even media who smile and nod when someone is lambasting Trudeau are mystified by Poilievre's new porn policing ID idea:

"I want to see what the Freedom Movement does with the Jerk Off Police." - @mattgurney https://t.co/cY8yVRBe5Q

— The Line (@the_lineca) February 23, 2024

Hope journos will now demand specifics from Poilievre. How does he propose keeping trans people from using appropriate bathrooms? Will everyone need to carry special birth-sex ID? Who’ll be allowed to demand to see it? Who’ll be deputized to enforce? What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/UOt3hq36Jh

— Tabatha Southey 🇺🇦 (@TabathaSouthey) February 22, 2024

Evan Scrimshaw, Poilievre's Graphic Gambit a Needless Gamble: 

... On a week that started with Justin Trudeau standing beside David Eby announcing a big Federal support for a provincial housebuilding program, the end of the week is focused on showing ID to watch porn and what bathroom trans people can use because the Tory leader wants us focused on that. As a matter of motivating the Liberals and getting them back in gear, this has helped. As a matter of potentially reinvigorating the PPC, Poilievre has given them an issue. 

...Poilievre is taking the Tories off of an economic message that has worked for them into culture war fights there’s no guarantee they can win. And that’s a stupid thing to do when you could cruise control to the government benches. ...Going on flights of bigotry about trans bathrooms...is just an excuse to those who are thinking about voting for Poilievre but don’t like it to come home....The porn flight of fancy is even dumber, because it’s a massive encroachment of civil liberties that threatens to give Max Bernier a defining issue at the next election,...

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Today's News: A Nelson moment for Canadian Press

via GIPHY

So Canadian Press did their research. 

As Poilievre launched into attacking Trudeau for giving Bell Media a $40 million fee reduction in spite of firing journalists across the country, the Canadian Press found out this reduction was actually a Conservative idea. 

Ha ha!

Conservative and NDP MPs backed a 2022 amendment to the Online Streaming Act, opposed by the governing Liberals, that allowed Canada’s private broadcasters to save about $120 million a year in regulatory fees.

Bell’s share of those savings was $40 million — the precise total of annual operating losses the broadcaster’s parent, BCE Inc., cited when it slashed 4,800 jobs last week.

But Poilievre is now blaming Justin Trudeau for those cuts, calling on the prime minister to claw back some of his government’s federal grants to media companies.

...The June 2022 motion, introduced by Conservative MP John Nater, passed with the support of New Democrat and Bloc Québécois MPs on the House of Commons heritage committee without debate.

The motion sought to amend the Liberals' update to broadcasting law, the Online Streaming Act, so that it would abolish certain licensing fees....

So, when @theJagmeetSingh and @PierrePoilievre claim @JustinTrudeau gave $40 million to @Bell, they're lying.

Why is Singh lying like Poilievre? https://t.co/Jv9rxXH3Um

— Stephen Best (@BestStephenD) February 13, 2024

Today's News: Speculatively smearing Biden

In nine months, we will know whether Biden and the Democrats can win the American election. 

Though in 2020 Biden won the popular vote by millions, he only won the Electoral College distribution by less than 100,000 votes. Now we're into 2024, and this race is going to be a shitshow every step of the way. 

Trump the Orange Felon is desperate to get Biden impeached somehow. And he desperately wants to get Biden charged with some crime. 

So today Special Counsel Robert Hur at the US Justice Department issued an awful report on the so-called Biden document scandal. Even though Hur couldn't charge Biden after Biden reported that government documents from 2009-2016 were found in his garage, that didn't stop Hur from smearing Biden anyway by blue-skying about how maybe Biden could play the age card to a hypothetical jury in a hypothetical courtroom if - speaking speculatively you know - Biden actually were to be charged with a hypothetical crime. 

Over at Balloon Juice, John Cole summarizes it:

 ...the Justice Department has provided the media and Republicans with a both sides defense on documents to use in their fluffery of Trump, with a bonus dig at Biden’s mental health. So that’s fucking awesome. I remain very concerned about the Fall election. It’s clear that it does not matter how well things are going or anything concrete, a lot of people just want to burn shit to the ground and a lot of people just want to carry out their vengeance porn on the poor and minorities and those different than them. 

Some other comments here:

Hur did his version of Comey's "I have no case but need to slap 'em around a little" routine

as for Biden's mental fitness, I talked to him one-on-one at the White House 10 days before Hur did

here's the video; judge for yourselfhttps://t.co/uZHiWLjCo6

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) February 8, 2024

Apparently Biden's meeting with the prosecutor came the day after the Hamas Massacre in Israel -- seems to me Biden might well have been a little distracted that day, with, you know, the possibility of war in the Middle East and all...

Robert Hur's interviews with Biden were on October 8th and October 9th...days if not hours after the October 7th Hamas attack. If he seemed distracted, there is a pretty good reason why that doesn't require Hur to speculate on what conclusion a fictitious jury might have.

— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) February 8, 2024

At Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall writes: 

...this is another example of the universal rule: Republican special counsels are chosen to investigate Democrats. And Republican special counsels are chosen to investigate Republicans. It may not have been a great idea for Merrick Garland to have a two-time Trump appointee investigate Joe Biden. But here we are. Robert Hur totally slimed Biden with these gratuitous comments about his mental acuity and memory, referring to him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Even if you assume they are the product of a good faith evaluation they are still wildly inappropriate. 

DOJ guidelines make clear that if you’re not bringing charges you don’t bash the subject of the investigation in your announcement (a la James Comey). 

You certainly aren’t supposed to affirmatively attempt to demean the subject of the investigation with clearly political attacks that aren’t even related to what you’re investigating. Hur might as well have called him “Fake News Joe Biden.” It’s really that transparent and that bad.

Parker failed to mention that Hur is a former Trump administration official. That's a fairly significant omission..

— Dennis P. Crawford (@DennisPCrawford) February 8, 2024

Finally, this:

ding ding ding https://t.co/PRJukyOkeu

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 9, 2024

Today's News: Is Poilievre actually Mr. Roboto?

I thought yesterday's clip of Poilievre being interviewed by several reporters was very strange. 

Now, the questions from the reporters were odd too -- they seemed incredibly intimidated by Poilievre, fumbling and mumbling, their voices trembling as they tentatively asked questions. 

But what I really thought was bizarre was Poilievre's Robot-like answers -- he kept repeating his lines like a mantra - "Axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, stop the crime, ..." and he kept repeating his Trudeau smears word-for-word "crime wave across the country, 2 million people using food banks". It sounded like he has carefully memorized four lines of attack and has to just keep repeating them over and over, on some kind of bizarre endless loop.

Reporters asked @PierrePoilievre why he sent a memo to @CPC_HQ MPs not to comment on @ABDanielleSmith's policies regarding transgenderism and what his parties stance on the issues are.

I'm not going to give my opinion, I want to know what you think of his answers.

Watch 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/L2HkIrdmtd

— Bret 🍁 (@Bret_Sears) February 5, 2024

So now I'm wondering, is Pierre Poilievre actually just a robot?

He even looks a little like Mr. Roboto too, doesn't he? 

In his tweet about this clip, Charles Adler asks 

Is this slogan salad what the CPC leader misidentifies as common sense? Before wasting your time filling the reply box with the same tedious labels, listen to Poilievre's words and ask whether you have any friends in the real world who ghoulishly & foolishly speak like bots. 

Words of Wisdom -- from Dark Brandon to Ford v Trudeau to Taylor Swift to Wikipedia's finest moment

Some interesting columns this week 

First, there was this controversy:

Isn't this why Trump voters like him though https://t.co/c0eXBjuKdF

— Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly) (@drewmckevitt) February 2, 2024

In Everyone is Entitled to My Opinion, Jeff Tiedrich writes Donald Trump’s a sick fuck, this I know — because Joe Biden tells me so hey Joe — tell us how you really feel:

we already know that Dark Brandon loves him some f-bombs...

...answer me this, you defenders of Dear Leader: where is the lie?

of course Trump’s a sick fuck. who else would look at a department store dressing room and think gosh, what a great place to rape someone.

of course he’s a fucking asshole. just look at … his entire fucking life.

but Donald John Diaperstain is more than just a sick fucking asshole. he’s also a quadrice-indicted twice-impeached popular-vote-losing adderall-huffing insurrection-leading testimony-ducking judge-threatening lawyer-ignoring witness-tampering day-one-dictatoring disabled-veteran-dishonoring inheritance-squandering clown-makeup-smearing language-mangling serial-sexual-predating draft-dodging casino-bankrupting butler-bullying daughter-perving hush-money-paying real-estate-scamming bone-spur-faking ketchup-hurling justice-obstructing classified-war-plan-thieving golf-cheating weather-map-defacing horse-paste-promoting paper-towel-flinging race-baiting tax-evading evidence-destroying charity-defrauding money-laundering diaper-filling 91-count fluorescent tangerine felony factory.