Look, this is very strange, but I’m playing along with it. I was preparing a story on the possibility of Trump going Caligula on his own party, to loosely paraphrase a story in “TheHill.com,” when all of the sudden smoke started coming out of my computer, there was a flash of red light and a sound like the tusks being sawed off of a dead elephant, and a TRANSOM just APPEARED out of nowhere above my monitor — and suddenly the message below popped up onscreen!

I’m not going to mess around with this “Baugh Humbug” memo. (I take it from his being listed first that “Future Baugh” is its likely author.) I’m just going to publish it and then try to get the hell out of here before another one comes!
* U * R * G * E * N * T * ! * SENT: DECEMBER 24, 2022 RECEIVED: JUNE 24, 2022 FROM: YOUR FUTURE SELVES! TO: SCOTT BAUGH (CA-47), ERIC CHING (CA-38), YOUNG KIM (CA-40), MICHELLE STEEL (CA-45), CHRISTOPHER J GONZALES (CA-46), BRYAN MARYOTT (CA-49), MITCH CLEMMONS (SD-30), KELLY SEYARTO (SD-32), RHONDA SHADER (SD-34), JANET NGUYEN (SD-36), MATT GUNDERSON (SD-38), PHILLIP CHEN (AD-59), RAUL ORTIZ JR (CA-64), SOO YOO (AD-67), MIKE TARDIF (AD-68), TRI TA (AD-70), DIANE DIXON (AD-72), STEVE CHOI (AD-73), AND LAURIE DAVIES (AD-74) CC: BRIAN DAHLE, ANGELA E. UNDERWOOD JACOBS, ROB BERNOSKY, LANHEE CHAN, JACK M. GUERRERO. NATHAN HOCHMAN, LANCE RAY CHRISTENSEN, AND MARK MEUSER RE: 10 DAYS TO JUMP OFF THE TRUMP TRAIN! THIS IS A MEMO FROM YOUR FUTURE SELVES. WE ARE CONTACTING YOU ON CHRISTMAS EVE -- YES, LIKE IN DICKINS.THE CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY PHYSICS DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN WORKING FEVERISHLY ON TECHNOLOGY ALLOWING MESSAGES TO BE SENT BACK IN TIME, TO WARN THE TRUSTEES NOT TO HIRE JOHN EASTMAN AS LAW DEAN. THEY ARE ALLOWING US TO TEST THE SYSTEM WITH A 6-MONTH REACH. BY JULY 4, YOU WILL BE PERMANENTLY TIED IN VOTERS' MINDS TO FORMER PRESIDENT D. J. TRUMP. (WE NO LONGER USE HIS FULL NAME.) THE JAN. 6 COMMITTEE HEARINGS WERE DEVESTATING. TRUMP TURNED ON FELLOW REPUBLICANS. WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY MORE; TOO BIG OF A TIMELINE RIFT. WE BEG OF YOU, AS THE ONES WHO WILL HAVE TO LIVE WITH YOUR DECISION, CLEARLY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY STATE THAT YOU ARE NOW OPPOSED TO TRUMP AFTER THE REVELATIONS ABOUT HIM FROM BACK IN JUNE. THE BEST PLACE FOR YOU TO LEAVE YOUR STATEMENT IS APPARENTLY ON THE ORANGE JUICE BLOG'S FACEBOOK PAGE, OR ON COMMENTS TO THE POST WHERE THIS MESSAGE WILL HOPEFULLY OCCUR. WE ASK THAT READERS POST THIS PLEA ON THE SITES OF YOUR VARIOUS CAMPAIGNS TO MAKE SURE YOU SEE IT.
Well, we don’t know what the hell that is about, let alone how it gone here, but we’re doing as they say. Republican campaigns: contact us to state whether you abjure Donald Trump in all of his manifestations!
Among other things, this is your Weekend Open Thread! Talk about that, or whatever else you want, within broad bounds of decency, decorum and —
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ONE MORE THING. YOU SHOULD ALL ENDORSE DAVID DOBSON FOR BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. WE ARE TOTALLY SERIOUS ABOUT THAT.
DAMN, that transom is scary as hell! Chapman Physics team you really need to fix thaAAAAAAAAAAA —
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HELLO PREVIOUS ME! THIS IS MICHELLE STEEL! I TOOK CONTROL. JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU, THEY SAID NOT TO GIVE INTERVIEWS AND NOT MEANS NONE! NOT! EVEN!! ONE!!! STUPID YOU.
UPDATE 6/30: When I woke up today and checked my computer — though I luckily averting another encounter with the transom — I found this additional message:
SORRY, WE WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT WAS HAPPENING DURING THE WEEK AFTER THE ONE TO WHICH WE SENT OUR MESSAGE. NO WONDER YOU'VE BEEN BUSY, YOU POOR BASTARDS. AGAIN: JUMP OFF THE TRUMP TRAIN NOW! THIS GETS WORSE! DO NOT PRESUME THAT DEMOCRATS WILL ALWAYS BE TOO DUMB TO SHARE THIS POST!
Now this is funny. Mayor Khan is running her “consulting” business out of an Irvine residential address with no business license. Typical!! F’ing Mickey Mouse!!!
https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/api/report/GetImageByNum/220218120000216166191211024044041019058078209220 (Horizon Consulting USA LLC)
https://www.horizonconsultingusa.com/home (Find her Perty mouth)
https://secure.cityofirvine.org/websearch/ (No license hit on her residential address identified as designated office, her name or the business name)
https://youtu.be/UAYCp1VFql0
It’s a misdemeanor to do business In Irvine without a business license. Irv. Mun. Code sec. 4-6-203.
*Anyone who supports The Trumpster now…….needs to go. Anyone who wants to cover for The Trumpster needs to make amends for five lifetimes. Flip over the Monopoly Board, Throw your dishes against the Fireplace, rip the tablecloth off the dinner table. Who is this person? How could anyone be worse than LBJ? Pretty amazing you Patriots standing with your American Flags on the hollowed ground of the Capitol on January 6th.
We all have things we just “can’t get over” with Trump. We probably all have a lot of them, I know I do.
I have a new one today.
He knew the Jan 6 insurrectionists were armed; but since they “weren’t a danger to *MEEEEE*”, he insisted that they be let in. Because they were only a danger to OTHERS, not to Donald Trump.
To him, he is the whole world.
“MIKE TARDIF (AD-68)” – Whoever or whatever this banner apparition is can FRO. There is no Trump Train to jump off of. I think the majority of conservatives are just fine with wading into the primaries and see who emerges on top. Trump is not anointed at this point, nor should he be.
As for the “armed” participants of the January 6th justified civil unrest story – you likely do not have the full story. Suppose the “they have guns” statement refers to the fact that Trump supporters “own” guns and there is no direct knowledge that anyone is carrying during the rally. That scenario seems likely, as the Secret Service would not allow Trump on the stage if there was direct knowledge that people were carrying.That changes the narrative, doesn’t it?
Do you credit Cassidy Hutchison’s testimony about what Trump told the Secret Service to do regarding letting people into the area where he was speaking? (This assumes that your are familiar with what she said — and no, this is not the part about him grabbing for a wheel or neck.)
The spirits have not returned, and may indeed have “Flown Right Off,” but I’ll let you know if they do. Meanwhile, your degree of resistance to any drive for re-election has been noted.
No. 1 – Cassidy is a she. No. 2 – What is the “Sexret” Service? Sounds provocative. No. 3 – I know what she said and it is second hand, completely unclear & no where near dispositive.
No. 4 the “F” is NOT for “Flown.”
Thank you for the copy editing. The errors identified above have been corrected.
As I recall, she was a percipient witness of Trump saying “take down the F—n’ mags” (meaning magnetometers.) And that was not “Flown either,” you _lown.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/28/magnetometer-mags-definition-trump-january-6/7759067001/
This is entirely clear. Is it “dispositive”? Of course not — it’s not supposed to be! It’s a specific piece of evidence presented. although not — thank you, Kevin McCarthy! — under cross-examination. And, in fact, the crowd outside the area was NOT allowed in while bearing arms — due to those mags! They remained outside, preparing to march to the Capitol with Trump as their protection. Now, he had wanted them in the area to make the crowd look bigger — and that’s why he told them to “take down the effin’ mags.” Why does that matter? One likely possibility that Trump knew that it was the presence of the mags that was keeping them out — because he knew that they were armed.
(Maybe you should watch the hearings yourself rather than relying on whatever media you favor.)
It’s the testimony about his grabbing at a wheel and a neck is where hearsay comes into play. She is a percipient witness to a person who was in the car telling her that, and that it all she had to be: her testimony makes it likely to conclude that someone who was well-positioned to know actually said this. The possibility exists that she could be telling the truth and that the source was just making up a story about President “Tough on china” for the giggles of it. But does that seem likely? Well, they’ll probably testify, so we’ll likely find out. And all evidence suggests that, yes, he did want to go to and lead the march, Mussolini-style.
Wait, you “corrected” an error that wasn’t an error, that was just Tardif’s sloppy quick misreading.
You did not call Cassidy a “he.” You wrote “Do you credit Cassidy Hutchison’s testimony about what he told the Secret Service to do…” The “he” was Trump.
Never assume Tardif is right about anything.
(By the way, Avelino is still refusing to debate him.)
I just changed it to Trump. I also left out another word later, but that’s fixed too.
Avelino can do what he wants; I just wish that Tardif wasn’t campaigning quite so hard for him.
*Having the Putin Court in place is a serious game changer. These folks have to go.
What is the procedure for Juris Impeachment of the Supreme Court? Perhaps Dr. D.,
could enlighten us on that subject. We know that in CA we got rid of Rose Bird and two
others that over-turned the Death Penalty and saved Charles Manson from the Gas Chamber. That was a successful Impeachment of State Supreme Court Justices….but
what about the USCOTUS? There are four that get direct text messaging from the Trumpster on a daily basis…..no doubt! Gini Thomas does Face Time, we are sure!
You can’t get that many decisions “Screwing the Poochlike” without help!
I believe that Rose Bird and her colleagues were recalled rather than impeached. There is no provision for the recall of federal judges.
Some have been impeached, but you tell me how we get to a 2/3 majority of the Senate before we try. This is why the focus is on court expansion rather than impeachment.
Justice Bird was neither recalled nor impeached.
Voters in November 1986 declined to retain her (and Grodin and Reynoso).
Point well taken, Curmudgeon. I should have just said “not impeached.”
*This all sounds too hopeless for words. Perhaps, just having the Protesters gathering in front of their homes in Connecticut for now until forever might be the best strategy. They seem pretty sensitive to having their daily trips to the grocery stores upended with Protesters throwing eggs and tomatoes at their vehicles……especially of their family members.
If they think that conduct is untenable….then maybe they can just resign?
*Or better, do everything you can to support your local Democrat – that’s Katie Porter, isn’t it?
You guys are still Republicans? Make a group called “Pro-Choice Republicans for Porter.” Or at least pretend to. Make a banner for your front yard and car saying that. Maybe your neighbors will ask how they can join.
And if you have extra money, give to some of the great Senate candidates around the country like Fetterman and Warnock and Mandela Barnes. We can’t do ANYTHING until the Democrats get the Senate, which we DON’T have now because Manchin and Sinema don’t count.
*We have Katie’s back……no doubt. However, the issues are bigger….much bigger….when it comes to the SCOTUS. These people are mental at best, but most likely just plain evil.
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In other news, I can’t publish my final results for legislative districts that include OC because some of our districts are shared with San Diego — and literally 80.4% of California’s votes that still to be counted over the next 12 days are from San Diego County. San Diego’s just a little larger than OC — with roughly 121,500 more voters and 36,400 more submitted ballots — but while OC finished on June 14, three weeks later San Diego still has 68,500 ballots left.
What’s up, San Diego? U OK?