Bristol Palin is now using Down Syndrome Day to promote her crappy weight loss product?

Family time with my favorite little guys as we celebrate this World Down Syndrome Day. I'm relying on my @teamiblends Energy tea to give me the energy I need to keep up with these two! Can't wait to start detoxing again once the baby comes 💪🏼 Use my code BRISTOL for $ off your tea! #teamimommi #thankyouteami #teami

A post shared by Bristol Meyer (@bsmp2) on Mar 21, 2017 at 5:47pm PDT

Wow, I think she has even outdone her grifting mother on this one. That is pretty damn low.

Speaking of low, as you may have heard the protective order against Track Palin has been dismissed and the case has been ordered confidential.

As for his child custody case with Jordan Loewe it appears that it has also been settled, and yes the court ordered it to remain confidential as well.

If you are wondering if there was some kind of pay off I think that would be a safe assumption, though it is unlikely that we will ever hear any details.

And finally yes Dakota did say in an online Facebook Q&A that he is moving to Austin, Texas, and yes it appears that Bristol and the kids are going as well.

That is all I know about this right now.

And another Palin family member jumps on the grift gravy train.

You know I cannot imagine that this energy tea selling gig can be that lucrative, perhaps the Palin gals should think about branching off.

I understand that Japanese men will pay a high premium for unwashed panties, perhaps that is a way to go.

Because honestly is that really anymore pathetic than this?

In wake of the new SarahPAC numbers Bristol Palin is turning her grift up to eleven. "Let's bring in the kids."

There's nothing like family time to finish off the work week. Helping Tripp with his homework, and cuddles with Sailor. Can't get much better! I'm also still drinking my @teamiblends skinny tea because it honestly has been a life saver. I need the energy in the evening without loads of caffeine! If you'd like to check them out, they offered me a discount code "BRISTOL" #thankyouteami

A photo posted by Bristol Meyer (@bsmp2) on Oct 6, 2016 at 5:10pm PDT

You know I was trying to avoid posting anything with Tripp's face in it, however I thought it was important to illustrate how Bristol is using her kids to convince people to buy this shitty energy so that she can receive a kick back.

In some ways it's hard to blame her because Sarah has used children for everything, including as a human shield, a distraction for the media, an excuse not to do her job, attempts to raise money, and even as leverage to control certain family members.

However in another way it is perfectly reasonable to blame Bristol because she is a grown ass woman who went through this herself and should know how to shield her children from a similar experience.

It's called a job Bristol, most everybody has to get one, a real one, at some point in their life. 

So SarahPAC only has $154,347 left?

I refuse to accept that my fifteen minutes of fame has finally come to an end.

Today the October quarterly report came out, and let's just say that Palin's days of living off the mentally challenged in this country are all but over.

When the quarter began the fund had $171,686.

It brought in a measly $166,090 over a three month period.

And it spent $183,429. (Including $20,000 to political campaigns.)

Leaving it with only $154,347 at the time of this report.

Remember that in the last quarterly report we learned that the PAC started with $267,574, brought in $149,246, and spent $245,136.

We thought THAT was pathetic, and it was, but this report essentially proves that it is all over but the crying.

I did a quick rundown of some of the numbers and found the expenditures to be much the same as they have been all along, Though there are significantly less of them.

Consultants pocketed a cool $57,000. (And yes it is still Northstar Strategies and Tim Crawford who are receiving that money. Crawford and Northstar were also reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses.)

Postage and direct mail still approximately cost SarahPAC a whopping $51,000. (Can you say "money laundering?")

They spent about $1,670 on fundraising. (What a waste.)

The fund is also still paying Marilyn Lane and Carol Ryan for "clerical" work.

And attorney fees cost them $6.738, with the largest portion going to the law offices of Baker and Hostetler which apparently is the firm representing SarahPAC.

At some point soon the operating costs for this slush fund will far exceed the amount that Palin can still squeeze out of the pockets of these poor ignorant slobs and then completely drain the few dollars left behind each month.

I imagine when that finally happens we will see this sad little grifting operation finally come to an end.

 Then Track Palin will have to start paying his own attorney fees. Bummer!

So I guess I've been identified as a sucker as well.

This showed up in my e-mail box the other day: 

Do you remember the moment Bernie kicked off the political revolution? 

Bernie Sanders has spent his life fighting against injustice and inequality. But it was his eight-hour long filibuster in 2010 that turned him into a national leader. As Charles Chamberlain explains in the email below, Bernie took to the Senate floor to challenge a deal President Obama had cut with Republicans that included an extension of George W. Bush's tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. 

His speech wasn't just about that bad deal. He used his time to speak about corporate greed, the recently announced Citizens United decision, and the decline of the middle class. His speech laid out his early vision that became the people-powered campaign that rocked the foundations of the Democratic Party. Bernie's vision should still motivate us today -- and that's why DFA is offering a chance to read this amazing document while helping build a political revolution. 

Do you want to read the speech that started the "political revolution"? Pitch in $37 or more now to support DFA and we will send you your very own copy of Bernie's "The Speech: On Corporate Greed and the Decline of the Middle Class" -- we will even cover the shipping charges for you! 

Your donation will not only get you this historic book by Bernie -- it will also help DFA continue the work we began during the primary. We're building the political revolution across the country, and fighting for candidates who share Bernie's values. We're even training thousands of activists to help win in November and beyond. 

Thank you for spreading the word about Bernie's speech -- and helping change America. 

I am not going to bother sharing all of it with you but it goes on to accuse President Obama of "cutting a deal with the Republicans that was filled with goodies for the 1%," smears all "Washington politicians," and of course makes Sanders out to be some kind of modern folk hero.

It also continues to push the meme that Bernie and his supporters are going to change politics in this country and that it can all be done if they just keep donating to the "revolution" and of course buying his books.

Of course all of us here have seen this before, and we know how it ends.

And lines like this, "Every penny of your donation will go toward helping elect Bernie-style truth-tellers to every level of government, from City Council to the U.S. Senate, this November and beyond," should not fool anybody.

I know that the true believers will have difficulty accepting this, but this political grift has been going on for years now.

We have already seen the damage that it can do as evidenced by the Republican party.

We just don't need to see it happen on the Democratic side.

If we want to change how money influences politics we need to overturn Citizens United, which can eventually happen with the help of Clinton selected Supreme Court justices, and work to pass campaign finance reform, for which we need more Democrats.

We don't need a revolution, we just need to keep our eye on the ball and continue making the same kind of progress that President Obama has already helped to put into motion.

Bernie Sanders buys $600,000 summer home in Vermont, while continuing to accept donations for his "revolution."

Courtesy of The Hill:  

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has purchased a nearly $600,000 summer retreat on Vermont’s Champlain Islands, the Vermont newspaper Seven Days reported Monday. 

“We’ve traveled up to the islands many times over the years — almost always on day trips,” Jane Sanders, the former White House contender's wife, said in a statement. "The entire family is very excited about it.” 

The Sanders family also owns a row house on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and a house in Burlington, Vt..

Well for a Democratic Socialist Bernie does pretty well for himself.

But where does this kind of money come from?

(Update: According to Snopes the money for this house came from the sale of a house they inherited. That information was not readily available when I wrote this post several hours ago, and I apologize for anything misleading I may have insinuated. However instead of deleting it I will leave it here as I think the second part down below is still worthy of conversation.)

 Courtesy of the Washington Post:

When he endorsed Hillary Clinton and spoke on her behalf at the somewhat-contentious Democratic convention last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) pledged "to do all that I can" to make sure she defeated Donald Trump this fall. Since the convention, his new group, "Our Revolution," seems to be devoting its energy to … defeating the Democratic Party establishment that backed Clinton. 

Sanders has sent at least two emails to his army of grass-roots supporters since the convention ended, asking for money to continue his "revolution," a critical element of his primary-season pitch. The emails mentioned the Democratic National Committee, former committee chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the Democratic Party, and the Democratic establishment multiple times. They did not mention Clinton, Trump or the Republican Party (which would need to suffer a crushing defeat for Democrats to gain the majority Sanders would need for his progressive priorities to make it through Congress.)

I'm just going to leave this here without comment.

After all I wouldn't want to be accused of being a "Bernie Sanders hater" now would I?

Update 2: By the way if the Sanders' sold a house they inherited why did that money not go towards funding his "revolution" rather than use the money toward the purchase of a third house?

After all how many houses does a socialist Senator from Vermont need anyhow?

So the SarahPAC quarterly report came out, and it certainly appears that Palin's days as a grifter are coming to an end.

The highlights first.

The PAC started with the embarrassingly low amount of $267,574.69 as "cash on hand."

By the end of the quarter that had been reduced to $171,686.19

Total donations amounted to a piddly $149,246.57 and they spent a whopping $245,136.03.

Fiscally conservative my ass!

Consultants ran her about $113,000.

Postage/Mail was in $66,900 range.

Marilyn Lane and Carol Ryan each continued receiving $2,000 per month for "clerical."

Palin is also paying a Becky Tessier to be her "travel agent" at $500 a pop, yet the PAC's lawyer Tiemessen only received $340.00 this go around.

And only two candidates, Darryl Glenn and Paul Nehlen, received the usual $5,000 donation apiece to provide cover for the slush fund.

There were some other minor expenses for car rentals and airfare, but the vast majority of the money continues to go for consultants, which at this point is clearly a euphemism for something else, and postage which we have always known was a euphemism.

It is a money laundering operation pure and simple, and Palin will continue to use it to finance her lifestyle until it is bone dry.

And that day of dryness is clearly coming up fast.

Palin has been spending more than she is taking in for well over a year now, and seems to have only minimally reduced those expenditures.

At this rate she is probably only good for another two quarter or so and then there will be nothing but dust wafting through the halls of SarahPAC.

Here is the link to the FEC report so you guys can do a little more research if you want.

Child support from two baby daddies is apparently not enough so Bristol Palin returns to hawking diet shakes.

So many of you have been asking me where to get your own #310Shake , You can get a free sample and shaker cup like mine at www.try310shake.com! 🙆🏻🗻

A photo posted by Bristol Palin (@bsmp2) on May 16, 2016 at 6:07am PDT

Now why does that pose look familiar?

Oh yeah, that's right.

Well I guess everyday Bristol becomes more and more her mother's child.

Is Bristol Palin now reduced to hawking weight loss products?

Courtesy of the Daily Mail: 

Bristol Palin may have only given birth less than two months ago, but she is on a mission to shed her 'last few pregnancy pounds' amid the bitter custody battles she is embroiled in with her ex fiances Levi Johnston and Dakota Meyer. 

The 25-year-old took to Instagram on Monday to share a photo of herself grabbing her morning weight loss shake before walking out the door with her six-week-old daughter Sailor Grace in tow. 

'Exercising and #310shake to lose the last few pregnancy lbs! @310nutrition #sp #fitnessgoals [sic],' she wrote, tagging the shank company 310 Nutrition. 

My favorite part of this is that DM uses it as an excuse to once again bring up Bristol's ongoing custody and child support battles with Dakota Meyer and Levi Johnston. 

As for the weight loss shake, I can't say I am at all surprised to see Bristol using her fleeting reflected "fame" to get a few endorsement deals. And I long suspected that both she and her mother would be hawking products on QVC before they finally faded from the public eye.

Besides didn't her mom once claim that she was going to write a weight-loss book?

Whatever happened to that?

I guess nobody told the folks in charge of SarahPAC that we're all on to their con job.

Via Sarah PAC and Sarah Palin[DONOR],Wow.We are overwhelmed by the response we have received since we announced our...
Posted by US for Palin on Friday, February 5, 2016

So is THIS where that $43,869.00 in fundraising dollars gets spent?

Hey, you have to hand it to Tim Crawford and Palin, they certainly will not let a simple thing like total exposure interfere with their grift.

But then again, what else do they have?

You would have to be a real lowlife to use the Pope's visit to raise money for your own personal slush fund. So of course Sarah Palin did so.

I received this SarahPAC email from a loyal reader. Here take look:

Dear (name redacted.), 

Today, in a historic speech to a joint session of Congress, Pope Francis addressed the issue of marriage and the value of life. 

A couple quotes: 

“The Golden rule also reminds us to our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development.” 

“It is my wish that throughout my visit, the family should be a recurrent theme. How essential the family has been to the building of this country! Yet I cannot hide my concern for the family, which is threatened perhaps as more before, from within and without. Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.” 

STAND FOR LIFE. STAND FOR FAMILY. STAND FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE. DONATE TODAY! 

Friend, with these words to heart, we must take a stand for the life of the unborn while defending marriage between one man and one woman. Please join SarahPAC today as we support conservative leaders who aren’t afraid to do the right thing. 

Liberals have made clear their opposition to the life of the unborn ("Opposition to the life of the unborn?" Where in the hell does she get this stuff?) and the right to believe in traditional marriage. Help stand against them by contributing today. 

Regards, SarahPAC

Hmm it seems that Palin only heard the parts of the Pope's speech with which she agreed.

Where is the part about climate change, and helping the needy, and his shout out to the socialist Dorothy Day?

After all the Pope was rather vague about the whole pro-life and pro-traditional family part of his speech but much more pointed when he talked about immigration and climate change.

But I guess that does not fit in well with Palin's agenda and does serve her attempts to grift pocket change from her dwindling handful of supporters.

In fact there was one portion of the Pope's remarks to which I thought Sarah Palin should pay special attention:

A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps. We know that in the attempt to be freed of the enemy without, we can be tempted to feed the enemy within. To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

You know you could almost imagine the Pope thinking specifically of Sarah Palin and others like her on the religious right when he wrote those words.

But did she hear them?

Of course not, because as Todd Palin says, "What's in it for us?"

New image released showing one of the zombies from the new AMC series "Fear the Walking Dead" based in California. Kinda looks familiar.

Wait, that's not one of the hideous creatures from that new TV series.

That's the hideous creature who used to live in Wasilla, Alaska.

WTF is she doing in California?

Hang on I found the source:

Cheetah444 8 hours ago Good morning! 

Not sure this was posted here or not, but here is a photo of Sarah in San Diego earlier this week. Never heard of Pearson Sharp, but he's an author and Sarah is holding a copy of his newest book entitled The Sovereign. Sharp also works at One America Network News in San Diego. 

Pearson Sharp ‏@PearsonSharp 20h 

Got to meet @SarahPalinUSA at work! #Oann #theSovereign 

Okay well you have to admit that it was an honest mistake.

Gee could Palin be looking to get a job with this conservative One America News Network?

Could be, after all she certainly doesn't have much of anything else going for her right now.

If she gets the job we can start a pool as to how long she will last THIS time.

My money's on not more than a year tops.

But if you think Palin's planning to go legit, and leave her grifting ways behind, well you my friend do NOT know Sarah Palin.

Here is the twenty two minute long Palin infomercial recently released by SarahPAC :

Did anybody else notice how old most of that footage was?

Here was Wonkette's take on the video.

As of August first the Sarah Palin Channel will be free.

"How come nobody wants to give me any money?"

Courtesy of the Sarah Palin Channel:

Thank you for your subscription to the Sarah Palin Channel. 

Effective August 1st, the Governor will be making all of her content free on her Facebook page and at SarahPac.com. 

• If you are a monthly subscriber here on SarahPalinChannel.com, you will not be charged anything after this month. There’s nothing that you need to do. 

• If you are an annual subscriber, you can have the balance of your subscription refunded to your credit card or you can roll your subscription into one of the other channels on our network.  

So does this mean that Palin is quitting again?

Kinda sounds like it.

I think that we know Palin well enough to realize that the ONLY reason that she is now making the content free is because she was not making any money through subscriptions anyhow.

Which, by the way, is something that most of us predicted on the day the channel made its debut.

I wonder if that is why the content had been, shall we say, less than plentiful as of late?

And now with no money coming in at all, do we really think she is going to bother making those insipid little videos for free? 

So to sum up, Sarah PAC is now running on fumes, Fox is no longer paying her to babble incoherently on their cable news channel, she can only get paid to speak about once every four or five months, nobody, and I mean NOBODY, is interested in any more of her ghostwritten books, and she cannot make any money through subscriptions to her internet "channel."

Gee, what is a washed up old political has been to do?

Well, there is always that I guess.

P.S. For those of you wondering, yes the folks at the Sea O'Pee absolutely think this is a sign that Palin is running for President.  But then again, they think every time she blows her nose it is a sign she is running for President.

On Rand Paul's website he will sell you a copy of your own country's constitution that he autographed for only $1,000 of your dollars. Merica!

From the Rand Paul website:

It's hard to find a greater defender of the U.S. Constitution in the Halls of Congress than Rand Paul. As a Constitutional conservative, he makes it the core of everything he does in Washington. If you would like a signed Constitution in a neatly bound book, contribute $1,000 and we will send you one. It's size is perfect for comfortable carrying in the pocket of a sport coat, a purse, laptop bag or in the back pocket of some worn out jeans.

You know you can purchase a copy of the United Stares Constitution on Amazon for less than seven dollars. 

So one has to wonder if Rand Paul is SO arrogant as to believe that his rubber stamped signature is worth an additional $993.00?

Actually there are a number of overpriced items on the Rand Paul website, under "Fun Stuff." (Though none quite so egregious as the pocket size Constitution.)

For instance they have an eye chart (Get it? It's because he's an eye surgeon.) that spells out "Dr. Rand Paul for President. Defeat the Washington Machine Unleash the American Dream."

I assume that Randy is the "American Dream" in that scenario.

Oh yeah, that thing on his head is certainly going to haunt MY dreams!

There are also beer cozies, tote bags, sandals, beer steins, hand fans, and something called the "NSA Spy Cam Blocker," which is actually a little plastic tab that you can slide over the built in camera on your MAC.

Man I have to tell you Randy has really taken political grifting to an all new level.

I mean by comparison the offerings from Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, and Marco Rubio are really limp. (Though to be fair Rubio does have a Rubio for President hot sauce. Cause he's Hispanic and wants to make sure nobody forgets that.)

You know if I were a more suspicious person I would almost think that some of these guys are really in this whole political game just to make a fast buck, and sell a couple of books, and have no REAL intention of ever being elected to the White House.

You know if I were a suspicious person that is.

Kinda makes me wonder how this one managed to fall so far behind in the grifting category.

Gee, don't you hate it when you have an idea and everybody just steals it and then makes it better leaving you in the dust?