Where the Women at? Jung – Traut – Shaw – Vargas –
Newman – Valencia – Strickland – Zahra – Kerr
Anaheim Dem Club meetings are a great place to catch up on the latest local political chismes. Between our special guest Supervisor Vince Sarmiento and various folks who dropped by from other Democrat Clubs to support us the other night, we heard a lot about who’s planning what for 2026. But this is a mere open thread, not a tome, so let’s get down to it!
Supervisor District 4
“So, who’s gonna run for Supervisor in North County’s District 4?” you ask, your impatience barely concealed. “Obviously district 1’s great Sarmiento and district 5’s worthy Katrina Foley are up for re-election, but who’s in line to take the place of the lethargic and mediocre (termed-out) Doug Chaffee?” I’d been hoping for Sharon Quirk-Silva, but she seems seriously sick of politics. But we have four answers for you, and it looks like it’ll be a real battle royale, one that’ll tear up the Parties but good!
The Democrats: Traut & Jung
Smooth, ambitious, and notoriously youthful, Buena Park’s Democratic Mayor Connor Traut jumped into the race with a splash this week, announcing his candidacy with the slogan “a new generation of leadership in Orange County,” and boasting of having already raised $100k. I looked through his long long list of endorsements, which seemed to be nearly every Democrat elected in his area, but noticed a few names oddly missing: Ashleigh Aitken (though Natalie R. was listed.) Fullerton’s Fred Jung and Ahmad Zahra (though Ahmad’s Fullerton ally Shana Charles was listed.) Sarmiento himself, although Chaffee and Foley have both endorsed Connor. Vince wants to talk to Connor more first and make sure he’s good on the issues Vince and his supporters care about. Good call.
Is there another north OC Democrat running for this seat? Why, yes, Fullerton’s Fred Jung, who is just the kind of independent, fiscally responsible, serious Democrat I tend to support (though I’m not sure if either Connor or Fred are what you or they would call “progressive.”) Fred isn’t concerned about Connor’s $100k, Fred has $300k. Partly through the magic of Korean-ness. And being Korean-American will really help him in this district, as will his record as Fullerton Mayor.
Connor’s endorsements? “That’s fine, nobody cares about endorsements.” Connor actually called Fred asking for his endorsement, not knowing he was running for the same seat. “But God bless you, you do what you have to do,” said Fred. “Are you going to try to get the DPOC endorsement?” queried Connor. “No,” laughed Fred, “I’m a proud Democrat but I don’t want anything to do with the DPOC.” That really threw Connor for a loop.
What about Zahra, Fred’s Fullerton nemesis, why didn’t he endorse Connor? Does that mean Zahra might run for Supervisor too? “No, I’ll tell you exactly why. When Connor called Ahmad, the first thing Ahmad asked was NOT why do you want to be Supervisor, what do you plan to do there, but ‘Do you get along with Fred Jung?’ ‘Sure, I think he’s great,’ Connor innocently responded.” WRONG ANSWER – no Zahra endorsement for Connor! LOL.
(Soon I WILL talk more in depth to both Connor and Fred about what they hope to accomplish as Supervisor, and we’ll probably have them both at the Club, but this is just a humble open thread, not a screed.)
The Republicans: Shaw & Vargas
Word is that Republican Tim Shaw (pictured at left, a LONG time ago) also has his eye on this seat. We had a soft spot for this La Habra conservative since he defied the kleptos on the OCTA and helped kill the Disney Streetcar a few years ago. Since then, some of his charm has worn off due to his years helping subvert public education on the OCBOE, but he IS an honest Republican. Which is why, with some reluctance, I supported him against Doug Chaffee for Supervisor 8 years ago, pissing off my Party one more time. Hey – being able to believe what someone says should be WAY up on the list of qualifications for office!
Then there’s the Brea Councilman who could be called a Perennial Candidate by now, Steve Vargas (below right.) Both crooked AND MAGA, Steve runs for this seat every four years and never makes it through the primary. If only his council colleagues would make him Mayor in 26, maybe he would do better with that as his ballot designation, pero no. Because, hearken:
The Sad & Parallel 2024 Stories of Vargas & Zahra.
Ambitious members of councils that have rotating mayors, councilmembers who want to try for higher office, strive to get named Mayor Pro-Tem the year before the next election, and then Mayor during the election, because silly voters are more likely to check off someone’s name that says “Mayor” next to it.
Except, sometimes your Council colleagues don’t like you, and sometimes for good reason, sometimes from knowing you up close and trying to work with you, they don’t think you SHOULD be in higher office, it’s bad enough you’re on Council, but they prefer not to lift a finger to help you rise higher where you could do even more damage.
And such is the sad case of both Vargas in Brea and Zahra in Fullerton. And both of them tried to do something about the problem this year. Brea voters didn’t see the name Vargas on their ballots, nor did Fullerton voters see Zahra’s name, but they were there – both men tried their best to defeat their uncooperative colleagues with candidates loyal to THEM. And both failed.
Vargas’ attempted coup was straightforward – he recruited two friends, one of whom (Bill Klovstad) was best known for having picketed gays in Orange with Fred Phelps and being the dad of Madcap Madison Miner. I’d see these challengers’ signs when I drove through Brea – “Time for a Change!” Except Brea voters preferred to keep their moderate incumbents Simonoff and Marick. So.. NO MAYOR VARGAS!
Zahra’s tactics in Fullerton were at once more baroque and more forlorn. There was the fake-Trumpy candidate Markovich meant to bleed votes from Linda Whitaker, Markovich who was busted by Spitzer for not even getting his own signatures. There was the strange guy they found to run as a fake Republican against Fred, and they even retrieved Jan Flory from somewhere to take on Nick Dunlap. THOSE attempts were forlorn. The only real, and legit, threat was the candidacy of Zahra-loyal Kitty Jaramillo, who came close to beating young Jung-backed Democrat Jamie Valencia… but not close enough. If Kitty had pulled it off, Ahmad would see “Mayor Zahra” in his near future… pero, again, no.
Zahra will certainly run for something, even hobbled without the honorific. My guess is the Assembly 65 seat, where Sharon is serving her last term. But let’s move on, this is only supposed to be an open thread, not some damn novel…
State Senate District 37
This north-county district is apparently open in ’26, where the corporatist-but-somewhat-decent Tom Umberg is termed out. But the seat has already drawn the attention of two powerhouse Democrat politicians – meteorically-rising Assemblyman Avelino Valencia and longtime Senator Josh Newman. Which one will the DPOC get behind is a good question! The County Party is crawling with folks who swear by Avelino night and day, but on the other hand LOTS of people love Josh. I bet that neither of them will get the required 60%, which’ll mean that Clubs like mine (where I haven’t been an officer since February) will be free to “support” one or the other. (Or if we lose our fight for our charter, I guess we could even “endorse” one or the other.)
I opposed Avelino when he first ran for Anaheim Council against real populist reformists, even wrote a scabrous song about him. Many of us in Anaheim still dream of having councilmembers who are not imposed on us by Disney, unions, and the DPOC. But he’s done good things in the assembly, many of them anti-corruption, he’s been friendly to me, and has spoken at our Club meetings unlike some of his many allies. As has Josh.
Josh’s Senate career has been beset by slings and arrows from the beginning, most of them undeserved. This blog backed him when he first ran in 2016 against a DPOC-backed carpetbagger from Irvine, and won. (Ironic that apparently BOTH Josh & Avelino will now have to move to run in district 37, but at least he has roots in Fullerton.) Josh was quickly recalled in 2018 by a gang of angry Republicans over being the “deciding vote” on a Gas Tax (how many Senators in a majority can actually be “the deciding vote?”) but he won his seat back from the ditzy Ling Ling Chang in 2020.
THEN CAME RE-DISTRICTING, Josh’s district 29 got moved eastward to Irvine and Orange, and he had to run this year in a district where nobody knew him. A big factor in his loss last month was a union – AFSCME 3299 – that spent over a million attacking him for one vote they didn’t like, and hence ended up electing Republican Steven Choi, who has a 6% record on supporting unions while Josh has 87%. Josh has voted 96% with that union for Christ’s sake! Hope AFSCME is proud of themselves. Now Josh is coming back to the area he’d originally represented, to get one last term. And everyone loves Josh, who has an ice cream truck, a bear suit, and a blimp.
Speaking of Choi, I never knew much about him except that he hates unions, loves Trump, mumbles a lot, and once faked a residence to run for assembly. But I heard an interesting story about him from a Republican recently. At some big OCGOP event he was asked what changes he would like to see in his Party, and he replied “Look around you. No Latinos, no Asians. Almost everyone here is white. We need to reach more minorities.” That’s right, the Asians you think you see in the GOP are the ones they run for office to get Asian votes!
HEY! If Avelino is running for Senate, that leaves an opening for Assembly District 69, doesn’t it? Where have you gone, Jose Moreno? A county turns its lonely eyes to you. Woo-hoo-hoo…
Other Races
State Senate District 36 Special Election
How many special elections has Janet Nguyen cost us taxpayers over the course of her whimsical and sleazy career? Well, here comes another one in March, in district 36, and Republican Tony Strickland, the tallest and tubbiest of Huntington Beach’s klepto-MAGAts, (who’s been in the State Senate before) has filed to take Janet’s place.
But what Democrat could go against him? What Democrat could run and win, in a special election, in HB and Little Saigon? No names come to mind. Derek Tran‘s victory against Michelle Steel was heroic and close, and he didn’t even have to worry about Huntington Beach. On the bright side, we Democrats wouldn’t actually be LOSING a seat, and Strickland won’t be able to do much in the super-minority, except maybe wave around some gavel with his belly bulging.
And the Surf City klepto-MAGAts can appoint another one of their own to fill Tony’s vacancy. Hell, maybe they can drag that snowflake Tito Ortiz back from Florida. Make him Mayor. Make the HB Clown Show truly complete.
CD-40
This was the only OC Congressional District that Democrats lost this year, with Joe Kerr coming in over 10% behind Republican Young Kim. The good news is the national party has now said that they’ll focus on that district, which they didn’t this time. The bad news is that Joe Kerr thinks that means they want him, and he filed to run again in ’26 as quickly as Michelle Steel did, and he fully intends to run again in ’26.
Could the expected 2018-style Blue Tsunami in reaction to Trump be strong enough to carry this undeserving, truth-challenged Fire Hero to victory this time? Nobody loves Joe Kerr except for some unions and his feisty wife China. Do Democrats HAVE anyone else there? When I mention it to Joe’s great 2024 primary opponent Allyson Damikolas, she sounds dismissive. Now I hear a chisme that she may be running for a position in the DPOC, and maybe that IS where she could do the most good. Whatever Allyson decides we’ll support her, because “her aim is true.”
Okay, this was not supposed to be a magnum opus, but a pinche Weekend Open Thread. So fire away!
Connor likes to endorse racists like Farrah Khan. Kudos to Fred for not caring about the DPOC but as being fiscally conservative – I guess that’s only with Fullerton money because his spending and conduct at the OCPA is fishy and less than forthcoming.
Chaffee and his sidekick Jabbar are racists.
District 4 will come down to identity politics. Will the DPOC Latino-Muslim collaborative with the likes of Mirvette Judeh and others help push Connor over the goal line? Connor made sure to be at the unveiling of the Little Arabia sign.
In other supervisor district 4 news. No elected official representing Irvine gave termed out Farrahkhan her flowers in public this month well except Larry Agran and other councilmembers who were apparently obligated to. Not Wagner, Foley, Petrie Norris, etc.
Chaffee did a half throated flower delivery sending Jabbar to do the dirty work. Funny though Chaffee didn’t publish the moment on his social media like he did re the Mayor of Brea.
https://www.instagram.com/supervisorchaffee/p/DDLQ6xJSHE8/
Thankfully it’s not my problem because neither Connor who likes endorsing racist Muslims because he thinks it will help him politically nor Jung who didn’t deny he was banging Tammy Kim while they were both directors of the OCPA cause much enthusiasm.
But if the OCPA goes down before the primaries, Jung’s future in politics in the immediate future and perhaps longer may be over.
Anyone who’s not morbidly obsessed with race and religion? (And Muslims like Mirvette do not have anywhere near the power in DPOC that Eric dreams of, in fact they are sidelined.)
“they even retrieved Jan Flory from somewhere”
The far end of the North Forty where the truck from the glue factory backs up.
This Traut weenie is another avatar of Jordan Brandname – ambitious to a fault with no discernable ability or redeeming commitment to anything but himself.
If Zahra thinks he’s got a chance at higher office he’s got another think coming. A avowed gay man marrying a woman in Arkansas to get into the country? That came out only a few months after he was re-elected, barely, with the help of a fake Lantino-named candidate, Tony Castro – courtesy of Ajay Mohan and Ada Briceno.
2026 “get your ticket NOW”!!
Betty Yee for Governor
Farrah Khan for Lt.Governor
Josh Newman for State Senate
Dr.Jose F.Moreno for State Assembly
Connor Traut for Supervisor 4th
November 2026
Re-Elect Ashleigh E.Aitken
Mayor of Anaheim
Ugh… FARRAH FOR LT GUV? Don’t tell me that’s a thing!
Melahat really IS out there behind the scenes!
Why would Farrah be a bad candidate for lieutenant governor, Vern, do tell? She checks so many progressive favored boxes.
And I suspect Kamala or Bonta will have something to say about Betty Yee.
‘Do you get along with Fred Jung?’ ‘Sure, I think he’s great,’ Connor innocently responded.” WRONG ANSWER – no Zahra endorsement for Connor! LOL.
Now that’s funny.
Fred knows very well that the DPOC is a clusterfuck that produced Tony Castro and Scott Markowitz and that tried to cram Kitty Jaramillo onto unsuspecting Fullerton. Jaramillo had lots and lots of endorsements from the usual suspects and ran a campaign that looked like one of those wallowing Spanish galleons loaded with treasure that couldn’t outrun Francis Drake.
Melahat is going to the ‘Joint’,
She won’t be around in ’26 …
Maybe she can get a pardon that’s the best she’s got.
What is taking so long? The Feds sure busted Do quickly why are they taking so long with their other investigations that are the fruit of Melahat’s singing?
Is Do sentenced? It seems we are waiting on EVERYBODY’s sentencing forever. Sidhu, Melahat, Ament, Do, Flint…
They haven’t brought in the trawling nets yet.
Isn’t weird that Chinese influence of local council members is more newsworthy than Turkish influence of local council members?
I wonder if Kirlikovali or Demiragci who Farrah Khan had on her mayoral advisory committee are registered In the U.S. as Turkish foreign agents.
https://youtu.be/hp1Q2pCl83M
Meanwhile, Ada the loser made her last visit to the White House before the Orange One resumes his reign of error and she forgot to take her lapdogs Gus and Gabriel again. Lol!
https://www.instagram.com/adabriceno/p/DDn18q5RxmJ/?img_index=1
I don’t think the DPOC is very powerful at all Vern. You do.
The Anaheim Dem Club’s membership voted, for a few reasons, to keep its charter and follow the bylaws, which we’ve done, so that has to be respected.
And the DPOC is *a* force in OC politics.
Tell it to Fred Jung and Larry Agran and Derek Tran among others how big and powerful the DPOC is.
Now Larry everybody likes me Agran and Fred the philanderer Jung are poised to go battle royale over the DPOC.
Ooooh!!!! I think you see a large shadow of Ada or Florice Hoffman drawn on a wall scary yes, a force, not so much!!!
I bet you Josh the Turd Newman doesn’t think they are so powerful now.
Speaking of the streaming Turd, Kathy schallhorn is reporting of his purported comeback but I don’t think she asked him if he thinks his pro-Azeri stance benefitted him this election against Korean-American Stephen Choi?
See that Choi-Newman race stacks up like the Connor I love endorsing ethnic immigrant racist Traut and Fred Jung.
Cracker v. Korean immigrant in ethnic plurality district.
Every time Eric trumpets his bigoted Armenian-extremist-centric views here to call people bigoted and excreta, an angel loses its wings. Worse, “The Neshanian Show” makes us lose readers.
Now that I’m back from my long work project I’m going to start messing with him again to make the site seem more palatable.
My regards to other good OC Armenians who don’t find it necessary to spit turdballs — yeah, you read that right — at other people’s heads to bring attention to their cause.
You wrote;
“Nobody loves Joe Kerr except for some unions and his feisty wife China.”
Except for the 170K people who voted for him.
Receiving more votes than Rep. Correa, Rep. (elect) Tran, Rep. (elect) Whitesides, Rep. (elect) Cisneros and DCCC Chair Rep. Aguilar. Among many others.
Also keep in mind that Young Kim spent almost $10M to fight off Kerr’s challenge. A weaker opponent might have enabled her to help her GOP colleagues like Scott Baugh or Michelle Steel. The latter would have loved an extra million or two into her campaign given her margin of loss.
I now know that basic research is not a skillset you posssess.
Have a good day.
I probably would have voted for him too if I were in that district. It was that important for Democrats to take back the House. Doesn’t mean I love him.
Thanks for reading all the way through to the end of my story, you have a good day too and I hope you’ve calmed down since I last saw you.
I was never worked up when I saw you. I just wrote it off as the ramblings of someone who is out of touch with reality.
Says a lot that you think about it that way.
Nor does it change my premise about your erroneous statement that “nobody loves him.”
Voting patterns state otherwise.
So does the volunteer base he inspired.
The two times I walked for him, he had over 100 volunteers walking precincts. The weekend before the election. That number was closer to 200.
Damn, all that love and so little to show for it.
And how many of those “volunteers” were union fire Heroes?
Vern, did you use hyperbole again? If I told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times not to do that!
Tony does make a good point that Young Kim had (or at least chose) to spend a lot of money to defend her seat, and that some of it could have otherwise gone to defeat Min and Tran.
But a better point would be that she might have had to spend $15 million to defeat the much more dangerous Allyson, which would have taken more money away from Baugh and Steel.
I’ll admit that Joe did better than I expected. How much was him and those he “activated” — if any of them weren’t already “activated” firefighters — and how much was simply a strong blue wave in OC generally is up for discussion. I think that telling people who might support Joe to instead give their money to Min and Tran was a good call. Even in retrospect, do you disagree?
By the way: you’d be a lot better candidate for office than Joe would. And I don’t mean that as faint praise.
Did Joker actually live in the district for a change?
Voting for someone doesn’t equate to love.
Tony: what’s love got to do with it? I got over 130,000 votes for State Senate in 2012, but none of them so much as sent me flowers.
Joe doesn’t get credit for heavy turnout that he got for running in an especially heavy turnout district. That’s the sort of surface plausible talking point that only impresses people who are blindly supposed to swallow it. The likelihood that you don’t realize it is pretty near zero.
Joe was better than his general election opponent. But he was worse than his talented and experienced primary opponent, who likely would have won the general election.
So, yeah — you and him probably did cost the Democrats a winnable seat.
I see Mirvette at the little Arabia sign unveiling but I don’t see Ada or any DPOC bootlickers. Which is odd.
https://voiceofoc.org/2024/09/welcome-to-anaheims-little-arabia-the-road-to-recognition-and-freeway-signs/
https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/tn-wknd-et-muslim-latino-collaboration-20170203-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-arab-latino-adv-20160609-snap-story.html
Like I said.
The DPOC chair was pushing a Muslim Latino collaboration while its leadership is a Jewish Latino one. Not sure that math worked or is gonna work going forward especially after 10/7.
It’s easier for the Arabs and Koreans to collaborate. See South Koreans owe a solid to the Turks and genocidal murder Kemal Ataturk. But then again, ottoman Turkey gave Mexico al pastor
On a rotating spit er souvlaki. The DPOC should throw a fusion taco party. That will solve everything!!!
I should’ve said, “hallucinogenically race-obsessed.”
And “Tacos for Every Mosque” is a Rida Hamida thing.
And now I hear (and it makes perfect sense as the Tom Daly comet-trail crowd plans things out WAY in advance) that Avelino already does have a hand-picked assembly replacement – the POA-friendly SA councilman David Penaloza, husband of Kim.
Still checking whether Avelino would have to move into SD 37. (Josh would.)
OK, checked, Avelino is living in Anaheim District 5, and would not have to move. We didn’t like it though when he suddenly showed up in District 4 in 2020 to take an empty seat when he coulda stayed home and run against Faessel.
And right on cue, Penaloza announces to take Avelino’s place.
https://theliberaloc.com/2024/12/18/santa-ana-councilmember-david-penaloza-launches-state-assembly-campaign/
Somebody should give him a run for his money. But at least if he goes to assembly, maybe SA voters can replace him on Council with someone who’s not a POA-backed yes man to Mayor Valerie.
And right on cue, David’s wife Kim begins to snark on Josh for not being “homegrown” like Avelino, and also being white, and not “young.”
https://x.com/votekimnguyen/status/1869518049264759107
“I personally love it when people decide to MOVE into a district where there is already a homegrown elected/leader stepping up to represent their district. Especially when it’s against a young person of color…”
PS. Homegrown leader STEPPING UP to represent. Such altruism amongst us!
PPS. Does Kim know that Avelino moved into district 4 in 2020 (from either district 5 or Long Beach, we’re not sure) to run against homegrown Jeanine and Annemarie? (Both “of color.”)
The whole “of color” is as a racist as “white is right”. Race to the bottom.
This counts towards your quota, non-of-color supremacist.
Okay, should that big piece about how Josh was targeted in Redistricting come out during the holidays? I think it would be best to wait until the first week of January.
Passed on without (much) comment, the Pink Toad spent an entire morning begging President Biden and VP Harris to pardon his good friend Melahat, and now begs his six readers to do the same. Does Biden pardon people accused of corruption and bribery, simply because they are Democrats, and Dan C’s good friend? And helped bust other corrupt politicians (half-assedly and under duress?) Well if Biden doesn’t comply, Dan will beg the Judge for Mercy.
https://theliberaloc.com/2024/12/18/it-starts-with-an-email/
In Dan’s view (which sounds somewhat MAGA) Chris Wray’s FBI is an unjust, draconian, undefeatable organization. I would think Melahat (and Sidhu) have a better chance of having their cases dropped under Kash Patel.
Remember, the public doesn’t even know WHAT-all the FBI has on Melahat, as the records are sealed (which we should fight, the public should know.) Dan does know more than the rest of us, being so close to Melahat, and says that her sentencing has been put off AGAIN to the Spring, just like Sidhu.
All I’m saying, this IS the Pink Toad.
Gonna keep touching the Pink Toad? Bad idea.
But, the spectacle!
While Leonard Peltier is still rotting in jail.
Yikes. She should be absolved because all she accomplished as a stool pigeon for the Feds?
That’s why she isn’t going to a State prison. Oh, yeah. And because Todd The Ever Vigilant.
This is getting embarrassing. Not for Spritzer, because malignant narcissists don’t have a sense of shame. But for the county.
Oh yeah. The Klepto-Scribe sings the praises of Connor. He also mentions Shaw. This story actually came out a day before mine. (I’d gotten out of the habit of checking Matt’s blogs, as he posts so rarely these days.)
https://www.anaheimobserver.com/2024/12/13/2026-elections-buena-park-vice-mayor-connor-traut-running-for-4th-supervisor-district/
At least klepto-scribe notes that all the money Connor “raised in 24 hours” came from a transfer from his Buena Park committee – meaning he hasn’t raised ANYTHING for this campaign.
Jung has a lot more than that and he can get a lot more. He rightly points out the absurdity of having a “raft” of endorsement from zombies nobody’s heard of before.
It’s hard to see Tim Shaw running again. He might get by a primary, but he won’t beat a centrist Democrat in this district nowadays.
Heh. Skimmed too quickly, missed that part. That’s rich. And this became a press release that Dan parroted, boasting of raising “$100K in the first 24 hours.” Some prestidigitation! Why didn’t he just go ahead and say he raised $100K in three minutes?
Or he prayed to Mammon and the hundred K appeared in a flash.
That Cherrmininski is a blithering idiot.
LOL, picturing all those school board trustees on a raft. Doesn’t sound like a good idea.
30 voyagers and not a single rower.
DPOC might tacitly support Shaw over Jung. The hatred runs strong.
4fs had both of you beat bring traut for district 4 to the masses on 12/11.
https://www.fullertonsfuture.org/2024/who-or-what-is-a-connor-traut/
Was GONNA say, it’s not some RACE to be like Dan and slap up the latest press release from some politician… but now I’ve read the FFFF piece, and damn it’s good! I daresay it’s as good as mine. Who, or what, is the Fullerton Harpoon?
Do you think MelaRAT considers the pink turd to be a friend or a tool?
And, drum roll please, you know the saying about learning about someone by looking at their friends, right?
If the pink turd is reduced to having frauds er friends like MelaRAT, it tells you all you need to know about his class and character.
Cannibilaistic humanoid underground dwellers.
Apparently everyone he knows thinks I’m a dick!!! Again, I’m doing something right.
Today Dan has already sunk to justifying a Melahat pardon with the pardons Trump gave to Bannon, Flynn, and Roger Stone. Because…
Is “sunk” really the right word, though? Might it even be “risen”?
You are a dick. But still preferable to some.
If you’re actually doing something right, try doing it here, instead of the usual.
Did Navarro get a pardon?? What about constitution law scholar Eastman? I rest my case.
What “case” is that? They didn’t have ties to influential Democrats (by which I don’t mean Chumley) the way Melahat does.
Nice to see the childlike antics of the OC Blogeshphere are alive and kicking!
Nice to see your grownup spelling! I don’t know if this is the usual troll, but you ARE the commenter who informed us in September that Jessie Lopez’ POA-backed Zionist-activist challenger Jeffrey Katz was gonna be having a party with Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum. “I am told they are close,” you simpered. (And this was ALMOST believable as Claudia is Jewish.)
https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2024/09/pre-presidential-debate-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-1493819
Ha, that was pure made-up bullshit. Jessie’s people laughed when I asked them about that. “If President Scheinbaum is aware of Santa Ana at all, she would be backing Jessie.” And hey! Your guy lost. Hanna Castillo er Alex Michael er Parker Lewis. (Talk about childlike antics)
https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2024/07/anaheim-the-4th-worst-city-in-nation-for-renters-needs-santa-ana-style-rent-control/comment-page-1/#comment-1489612
At least her (his? their? its?) antics aren’t “childlike.” Childish, yes.