Seth takes a closer look at Democratic Congresswoman Katie Porter making a powerful speech to her colleagues about solving the cost-of-living crisis and Donald Trump wanting to bomb Mexico and pretend it wasn’t us.
As this seems to have been the last comment on the previous thread…
re: #7 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Binance may not have their 500 mil to invest anymore.
Binance is backing Elon Musk’s Twitter bid, boosting crypto believers’ vision of a ‘decentralized’ web CNBC
Talk about a massive dose of irony. Twitter’s walled garden is the EXACT OPPOSITE of a ‘decentralized’ web.
⚡️Ukrainska Pravda identifies Russian soldier bragging about war crimes in intercepted phone call.
Ukrainska Pravda, an online newspaper, has identified a Russian soldier who told his wife he shot civilians in the head even when they begged for mercy.— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) May 13, 2022
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has made strides toward gender equality in the workplace in recent years, announcing a global study in 2019 that showed men and women at the company received the same pay for the same work. Two years later, the company hired a chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer.As a business, Pfizer has created products that are essential for reproductive health. It markets contraceptives as well as Cytotec, a drug that assists patients in expelling an embryo or fetus from the uterus during an abortion or miscarriage.
Despite this profile, Pfizer is one of the most generous corporate supporters of lawmakers behind the political movement to criminalize abortion, an Insider investigation has found. It’s one of dozens of companies and associations in the
healthcare sector
that have given money to politicians behind so-called trigger laws that will ban abortion in 13 states if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
re: #1 aatharuv
As this seems to have been the last comment on the previous thread…
Talk about a massive dose of irony. Twitter’s walled garden is the EXACT OPPOSITE of a ‘decentralized’ web.
Musk is trying to buy Twitter’s users. A Twitter he gets his hands on may be entirely different from what exists today.
Ronny gets things going early on Fridays. pic.twitter.com/Wwk6dyfbPn
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 13, 2022
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
Again with the crack pipes? Jesus. Ronny really needs to lay off his, or Biden’s gonna have to send him a new one.
re: #4 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Musk is trying to buy Twitter’s users. A Twitter he gets his hands on may be entirely different from what exists today.
Well, anybody who’s sold a couple of properties can smell an asshole trying to weasel out of a deal, and that’s what this all smells like now. I’m pretty sure the deal’s going to be called off, by “mutual consent”, with nobody paying anybody a billion bucks, and we’ll all pretend this never happened.
Were a I corrupt doctor known for handing out drugs like candy, I wouldn’t derp about crack pipes while talking about a completely different topic, but I’m not you. At least you didn’t cry out for the starvation of babies in US custody unlike some other far-right sociopaths.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 13, 2022
Let them fight:
If you want to see how abusively @TuckerCarlson and his @FoxNews team deal with people, read this thread. It’s an exchange between me and Tucker’s executive producer @justinbwells
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) May 13, 2022
Notice how quickly this “starve the brown babies” talking point was picked up by the entire right wing hate machine.
They love nothing more than racist cruelty.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2022
re: #9 ckkatz
Let them fight:
It’s funny when grifting sociopaths, who make their living lying to idiots to undermine America with disinformation, turn on each other.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 13, 2022
They wonder why we don’t believe them when they say overturning Roe is about stopping the “killing of babies” — when they’re literally advocating for killing babies.#EliseStarvefanik https://t.co/Mk7IpiNF5y
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) May 13, 2022
Let them fight too:
If @SeanHannity wants to claim his show is “fair and balanced,” then bring me on, in-studio with @DrOz and let’s have a fair and balanced discussion.
I’m blocking out 9pm on Monday, just for you Sean.
Ratings will be huge! See you then.— Kathy Barnette (@Kathy4Truth) May 12, 2022
It’s sad when racist assholes fight.
(Disclaimer: not actually sad.) https://t.co/KadQ7YBdyn— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2022
Right wingers don’t just hate the left - they hate each other too.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2022
re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg
They’re not racist. They just hate illegals and moochers.
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But not the Irish!
/yet
#Skeksishttps://t.co/izkPgjGgwO
— Charles Gaba 🇺🇦 (@charles_gaba) May 13, 2022
It’s all part of the grift. https://t.co/UeYSPprKsy
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2022
re: #9 ckkatz
Dinesh is mad because neither Fox nor Newsmax would publicize his Election Fraud Film Mega-Epic 2000 Mules, because even they found it completely unsubstantiated by facts and too over the top.
re: #16 Charles Johnson
Which is how books and movies generally portray evil. I guess they get it right.
Then again, the far left has a thing about the left as well.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
>It’s all part of the grift.
Maybe, but the child sex trafficking makes me think that Gaetz is actually as stupid as he looks and acts, while other Republicans just put on a show for the rubes.
These people don’t know how anything works, so it all seems like magic to them. Computers, the internet, Twitter, women, science, it’s all incomprehensible magic.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2022
re: #25 Charles Johnson
It’s incomprehensible to them that maybe, just maybe, they’re NOT POPULAR. They live in a bubble of their own design, where their colleagues laugh at their jokes and encourage their worst behaviors, and their constituents raucously cheer their approval and tweet ever more insane demands for even worse. They are deliberately out of touch with reality, and when they look at a tweet and see that it doesn’t have the expected outreach, they take umbrage because I’m a goddamn U.S. House Representative, I deserve to be NOTICED! Why aren’t people liking my stuff?! I must be SHADOW BANNED!
Let them fight…
Republican Alabama Senate candidate. Sounds like oppo research -
Mike Durant needs to explain what happened with his sister
*snip*
Durant’s father, Leon, molested Durant’s sister, Mary, for most of her childhood and almost daily when she was a teenager, according to a lawsuit she filed in 1994, but she had confronted her family and her father about it before filing the suit.Durant asked his father to explain what had happened and the elder Durant confessed. Durant wrote letters to his sister in which he described confronting their father and their father’s confession. In those letters, he told his sister he was sorry for what happened.
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When Mary went public with her accusations through the lawsuit, Mike Durant strangely sided with his dad publicly and told the TV show “American Journal” that he didn’t believe his sister. She must have manufactured her memories, he said on the program in 1994, according to AP. The video is no longer available.
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re: #25 Charles Johnson
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re: #29 Charles Johnson
It would be amusing to see Twitter become a black owned business.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
They’re morons. Extremely dangerous morons who want to lie to other morons in a complete absence of fact-checking to undermine America.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 13, 2022
re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg
It would be amusing to see Twitter become a black owned business.
How many right-wingers would quit Twitter if one of Those People (tm) were in charge?
#Lavrov got hackled by peacocks while visiting Tadzhikistan.
That’s all you need to know about #Russian diplomacy today.#StopRussia #RussiaUkraineConflict #StandWithUkraine pic.twitter.com/1rkgULt9eC— olexander scherba🇺🇦 (@olex_scherba) May 13, 2022
In the annals of the bizarre:
(I wonder if this is a distraction attempt by the Durant Campaign. If not, I have no idea what is happening here.)
1/ Mike:
Let’s be clear.
I didn’t send that card to you, not did I direct anyone else to, either.
I haven’t been in Seattle in over a year, that’s not my handwriting, and most importantly, I don’t have a single fuck to give about you and haven’t bothered to follow your race. https://t.co/82KpY90bk6— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 12, 2022
re: #28 sagehen
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
—Arthur C Clarke
Proving once again that all things are measured relative to other factors.
For those folks, a pocket calculator is indistinguishable from magic.
Pssst, Ben? That’s not God you’re listening to. https://t.co/hy8cm9Pd0I
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2022
re: #28 sagehen
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
—Arthur C Clarke
A sufficiently ignorant person will not try to differentiate reality from magic.
re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg
It would be amusing to see Twitter become a black owned business.
It would, but all things being relative, Snoop is far too poor to do that.
re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Dinesh is mad because neither Fox nor Newsmax would publicize his Election Fraud Film Mega-Epic 2000 Mules, because even they found it completely unsubstantiated by facts and too over the top.
An additional reason, I suspect, is that the only way he can get any attention is to try and cause a fight with someone far better known than he. And he knows he has nothing to offer beyond noise and commotion.
re: #39 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It would, but all things being relative, Snoop is far too poor to do that.
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Twitter Board: After our smoke filled and very enjoyable meeting with Snoop, we’ve decided that he would be a good owner.
re: #42 ckkatz
An additional reason, I suspect, is that the only way he can get any attention is to try and cause a fight with someone far better known than he. And he knows he has nothing to offer beyond noise and commotion.
It’s Twitter
These people think scads of other people are watching this, forming opinions, taking sides.
Hint: they arent
re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg
It would be amusing to see Twitter become a black owned business.
Yup! He’s having fun with this:
Gonna replace the board of directors with Jimmy from my corner Fish Fry, Tommy Chung and tha guy with the ponytail on CNBC.
— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) May 13, 2022
Particularly the “Hoards of Insects”:
Prohibited items @mngop state convention #State2022 pic.twitter.com/JABR3oHTG7
— Jennifer DeJournett (@JenDeJournett) May 12, 2022
re: #4 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Musk is trying to buy Twitter’s users. A Twitter he gets his hands on may be entirely different from what exists today.
A Twitter which is decentralized is by definition something which cannot be owned by Musk. As long as it is decentralized, Musk doesn’t own you. The only thing that Musk can do is ban people from whatever nodes he controls. And if he has more control than that…. well, it isn’t truly decentralized in terms of control.
re: #46 ckkatz
Particularly the “Hoards of Insects”:
Aw man. What am I supposed to do with all these locusts now?
/
Oh yes…
Happy Friday the Thirteenth to those who celebrate it. :/
re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg
Aw man. What am I supposed to do with all these locusts now?
/
Hoard those hordes?
Awaiting @POTUS in the Rose Garden pic.twitter.com/j3tXJKpVZy
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 13, 2022
re: #48 aatharuv
A Twitter which is decentralized is by definition something which cannot be owned by Musk. As long as it is decentralized, Musk doesn’t own you. The only thing that Musk can do is ban people from whatever nodes he controls. And if he has more control than that…. well, it isn’t truly decentralized in terms of control.
Decentralized in terms of storage and processing and decentralized in terms of control are different things. If they decentralize, I expect Musk to maintain control while offloading expenses.
Only if you rename it Twizzle.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 13, 2022
I’m sorry, but this is disgusting and morally reprehensible and nothing to be proud of. She should be ashamed of herself for her unsanitary and unconscionable choices.
NOBODY decent should publish in the New York Post. pic.twitter.com/a85TshrvkT— FreshMouthHat (@Popehat) May 12, 2022
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I’m trying to imagine how I’d feel if I woke up and saw my daughter had written for the Post
— FreshMouthHat (@Popehat) May 13, 2022
re: #53 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Decentralized in terms of storage and processing and decentralized in terms of control are different things. If they decentralize, I expect Musk to maintain control while offloading expenses.
Completely agreed.
But if Musk retains control, it’s just a walled garden with a distributed architecture. The original internet (which is what was based off of distributed architectures, and open protocols), and even the Bitcoin peeps are theoretically against walled gardens.
re: #38 Dangerman
A sufficiently ignorant person will not try to differentiate reality from magic.
Any sufficiently advanced magic can be indistinguishable from technology.
re: #39 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It would, but all things being relative, Snoop is far too poor to do that.
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Never say never. Plenty of huge tech companies were eventually sold for peanuts.
re: #57 JC1
Any sufficiently advanced magic can be indistinguishable from technology.
Any sufficiently advanced satire can be indistinguishable from reality.
Hey Ronny, 2 out of 2 in the lie department. Meanwhile how’s that investigation going about you using campaign funds illegally for your social club dues and drinks? https://t.co/zYd2e6PM4i
— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) May 13, 2022
Took some time to make a word out of the scraps I had left.
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9 pounds, 1 ounce. Name tbd. Welcome to the world, buddy. (Mom is doing great too.) pic.twitter.com/Qac7Tft7hX
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 13, 2022
Third-ranking House Republican describing “as pedo grifters” people who think that maybe starving babies in U.S. custody is a bad idea, there really is no bottom. pic.twitter.com/eGccq8eqnQ
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 13, 2022
If Pizzagate happened today, there’d be half a dozen Republican members of Congress holding a press conference outside Comet Ping Pong demanding to be allowed to inspect its basement for trafficked children.
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 13, 2022
walk this way
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He took his beatings like a man and never got tired of coming back for more. I’ll give him that. pic.twitter.com/AP7m2Bisp6
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 13, 2022
End of an era in the Brady briefing room! Good luck, @jrpsaki pic.twitter.com/xr8bzLaA65
— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) May 13, 2022
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trash.
People this insane should not be in Congress. If the Republican party was at all healthy, they would not be, but it’s a fascist party now, hallucinating communists under their beds. Liz Cheney told the truth and suffered for it. Elise was ready to step up and lie about everything
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 13, 2022
If they want a steady supply of domestic infants, their gonna hafta fix the formula supply. Purina Infant Chow?
He makes $1 million a year pushing propaganda for Fox News. You bet he kept coming back for more. https://t.co/OjaDQoIywZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2022
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s 6’5”.
Crypto bros yesterday vs. Crypto bros today #welcomeaboard pic.twitter.com/w7gSUE1DJI
— Ryanair (@Ryanair) May 13, 2022
Only liberals think Peter Doocy got “beatings” from Jen Psaki.
To the Fox News audience, he’s a courageous hero who asked the tough questions none of the liberal media would ask.
Not exaggerating.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2022
re: #68 wrenchwench
If they want a steady supply of domestic infants, their gonna hafta fix the formula supply. Purina Infant Chow?
No go, dog food has been short as well. This is the dog food isle in my local Stop&Shop, It has been sparse for a while, but this is the barest I have seen.
re: #70 Punish Domestic Terrorists
He’s 6’5”.
I was about to comment that you could almost stack another Jenn on top.
re: #73 danarchy
No go, dog food has been short as well. This is the dog food isle in my local Stop&Shop, It has been sparse for a while, but this is the barest I have seen.
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Dogs exercise more versatility in their chow, than infants, generally. Once they hit 1.5 or 2 years, no problem. kids’ll eat dirt or whatever they can lift to mouth.
This collegial attitude toward Fox News propagandists who are pushing vicious racist hatred to millions of brainwashed right wing zombies makes me weary.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2022
“My big issue with this is I think it’s all a big fugazi. I think that he’s used it as a big ruse, as an excuse to sell a lot of Tesla stock, which he has done. He started selling last fall. He put out a tweet saying, ‘Should I sell Tesla stock to pay taxes?’ Then he put out a tweet a couple months ago, ‘Should I sell Tesla stock to buy Twitter stock?’ And so the stock has gone down. The stock was trading at 1150 a little more than a month ago. Right now, it’s about 745. That’s hundreds of billions of dollars in market cap that’s gone. If it goes much lower, he will not be able to buy Twitter. And I think he used Twitter as a big excuse to sell Tesla stock.”And, Nathan predicts, don’t count on the deal closing in three months as Musk has said it will, since, “Anybody who’s been following Tesla over the last 15 years knows Elon Musk is not particularly good at forecasting timelines.
What if Elon Musk’s Twitter Grab Is All ‘a Big Fugazi’? (The Daily Beast Podcast The New Abnormal)
Slide decks hide can shallow thinking. Narratively structured memos are harder to write because they require better thinking. It’s worth it. https://t.co/vIUX5I8QPl
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) May 13, 2022
That’s how it starts. https://t.co/4SbBgjAyle
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 13, 2022
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
Presentations are great but prose has a unique value in clarifying thought and creating an unambiguous record.
It gave us “covfefe”
re: #39 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It would, but all things being relative, Snoop is far too poor to do that.
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But Diddy, Dre, Jay-Z, Oprah and Robert Johnson, all added together, could absolutely attract enough financing. Isn’t George Lucas married to a super-rich black venture capitalist?
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
A sales/marketing guy I used to have to work with frequently was incapable of organizing his thoughts farther than a kind of stream-of-consciousness bullet point list.
Disjointed babbling wearing an outline costume.
He loved Powerpoint when it came out.
Right wing media and Fox News in particular have declared total scorched earth war against the left, but establishment Democrats continue to treat them like work buddies.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2022
re: #80 sagehen
But Diddy, Dre, Jay-Z, Oprah and Robert Johnson, all added together, could absolutely attract enough financing. Isn’t George Lucas married to a super-rich black venture capitalist?
All of those people together have a net worth less than 10 billion and I just don’t see them drawing that much financing for twitter. It just isn’t a good investment, maybe Musk could get away with it as a vanity project, but as a serious investment? Not until they can show proven returns or at least a real roadmap to solid returns.
re: #35 ckkatz
In the annals of the bizarre:
(I wonder if this is a distraction attempt by the Durant Campaign. If not, I have no idea what is happening here.)
It looks to me like the (Anonymous) postcard sender (from Seattle) was attributing the quote, “Everything Trump touches dies,” to Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project, and that Mike Durant made the very understandable assumption that that the post card was written and signed by Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project.
Twitter needs this.. 😊
🎥 IG: concerningparrots pic.twitter.com/3xkVB8x2oM— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 13, 2022
re: #81 jaunte
A sales/marketing guy I used to have to work with frequently was incapable of organizing his thoughts farther than a kind of stream-of-consciousness bullet point list.
Disjointed babbling wearing an outline costume.
He loved Powerpoint when it came out.
My company is the best of both worlds: Divide a long explanatory memo into a bunch of crowded slides.
I’ve never heard anyone call a presentation a “slide deck”. I had to look it up.
Everyone has forgotten it now but about 15 years ago every minute on the rig they talked about CA as a failed liberal state everyone was leaving https://t.co/n8pKJAiBhW
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 13, 2022
Greg Abbott is still repeating that message.
re: #87 KingKenrod
I’ve never heard anyone call a presentation a “slide deck”. I had to look it up.
You sound young. These presentations used to come via slide projector, and old language often carries over to new tech.
re: #88 jaunte
I hope we get another generalized tax refund.
For a while there the governor was proposing $400 for every car owner, to offset the allegedly high price of gasoline.
Which IMO is a very bad move. We shouldn’t be pushing more gasoline consumption.
Better to give people a $400 voucher to buy an electric or hybrid vehicle.
re: #87 KingKenrod
I’ve never heard anyone call a presentation a “slide deck”. I had to look it up.
Could be a consultant thing, as well. We always did when I was in that racket.
re: #82 Charles Johnson
related:
The Pennsylvania Senate’s swearing-in ceremony devolved into a chaotic scene when state GOP senators refused to seat a Democratic member who had won reelection and seized control of the proceedings from the Democratic Lt Gov after his objections. https://t.co/igR29T5O6E
— jonn mccly (@JMccly) May 13, 2022
re: #89 Punish Domestic Terrorists
You sound young. These presentations used to come via slide projector, and old language often carries over to new tech.
Hah, I wish. I’ve been an SW engineer for 25 years. We used to call those foils because back in the olde days they were literally made of foil (before my time).
Maybe it’s a regional or occupational difference?
The Republican Party is fighting a civil war, state by state.
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— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2022
re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg
Snoop is no dummy. Dude knows his business.
re: #88 jaunte
Greg Abbott is still repeating that message.
“Then why are there so many homeless! Texas doesn’t have that!”
re: #93 KingKenrod
Hah, I wish. I’ve been an SW engineer for 25 years. We used to call those foils because back in the olde days they were literally made of foil (before my time).
Maybe it’s a regional or occupational difference?
I don’t think I’ve heard it since I was at Sears headquarters 25 years ago, but I heard it a lot then when computer presentation tech was new. It may have died out for the most part.
re: #98 Belafon
We just move them into the “illegals” column.
I was listening to Science Friday on a drive back from Boston this afternoon and turned it on just in time to catch talk of a new theory on the dinosaur extinction event. The science writer said the latest idea is that the meteor impact was so large that it generated tremendous heat but that rock and debris that was generated floated in the atmosphere long enough to trap the heat. He said it was probably around 500F for as long as the debris remained airborne and that broiled most dinosaurs like chicken—and then the cold atmosphere began.
And then I got a call from my wife telling me that a parking garage attendant in Boston had found my wallet where I left it in front of the payment machine. I was near the NH border, so I kept going—not going to do late Friday traffic when I can return tomorrow and maybe make a day of it with my wife. Anyway, I missed the rest of the show, so I don’t know how things turned out evolutionarily. So, cheers to the Boston garage attendant!! (He actually found my library card, called the library, they gave him my home number and that’s how he contacted my wife.)
re: #96 Charles Johnson
If it doesn’t involve oppressing women to try to push them back into the limited roles they were allowed before decent people moved America forward, the cruel theocratic right-wing authoritarians are not interested.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 13, 2022
re: #90 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I hope we get another generalized tax refund.
For a while there the governor was proposing $400 for every car owner, to offset the allegedly high price of gasoline.
Which IMO is a very bad move. We shouldn’t be pushing more gasoline consumption.
Better to give people a $400 voucher to buy an electric or hybrid vehicle.
A $400 voucher towards an electric vehicle is only going to help people who can already afford to buy an electric vehicle.
Article does not mention action taken against the Nazis they found.
Over a three-year period, 327 employees of Germany’s federal and state security authorities have been found to have links to right-wing extremism.
The figures are from the Federal Ministry of the Interior’s second situation report on right-wing extremism in the security agencies, due to be published on Friday and seen by the DPA news agency.
The report looks at July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2021 and observes, for example, participation in extremist events or Nazi “Heil Hitler” chants.
The information was compiled by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s domestic intelligence service.
Germany finds hundreds of Nazi-linked staff in security agencies (Aljazeera)
re: #103 danarchy
A $400 voucher towards an electric vehicle is only going to help people who can already afford to buy an electric vehicle.
I have a pretty good income, well above the national average, and I consider them to be too expensive. I also wouldn’t have a place to plug them in, which is true for anyone who doesn’t own or rent a house.
We’re nowhere near the point where electric vehicles will work for the masses.
Sigh. This tweet seems to have prompted a lot of point-missing.
Yes, you are exaggerating. The ‘tough” questions were always “got ya” ones that he never got her on. And to be honest, some of his questions were downright silly.
— Habitual Linestepper (@MsGail101) May 13, 2022
One of the cars matches her outfit.
LVMPD: Woman steals Tesla from Las Vegas resort, collides with another Tesla at charging station (Fox 5)
re: #106 Charles Johnson
Sigh. This tweet seems to have prompted a lot of point-missing.
You chose to deal with the public. That’s what you get when you deal with the public.
A Vicar and a Muggeridge attack Palin and Cleese over their new movie “Life of Brian”. The PC/Cancel Culture mob was out of control back in 1979.
My DMs are open @FIJIWater 😉 pic.twitter.com/vSbx6GQWgF
— Mavis Staples (@mavisstaples) May 12, 2022
re: #96 Charles Johnson
Come on Republicans!
Are the babies criminals or are they valuable life worth protecting?
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re: #112 Punish Domestic Terrorists
See Jerry Falwell for an American example of this.
Local theater in the village I lived in then refused to show it since they were threatened to be picketed by the local Catholic organizations.
re: #89 Punish Domestic Terrorists
old language often carries over to new tech.
Did you ever drop a dime on someone you wanted to get into trouble?
re: #90 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I hope we get another generalized tax refund.
For a while there the governor was proposing $400 for every car owner, to offset the allegedly high price of gasoline.
Which IMO is a very bad move. We shouldn’t be pushing more gasoline consumption.
Better to give people a $400 voucher to buy an electric or hybrid vehicle.
Howzabout build a bunch of new schools in the districts where overcrowding is the worst?
re: #115 sagehen
Howzabout build a bunch of new schools in the districts where overcrowding is the worst?
Yeah, there are some of those.
But enrollments are declining, I think.
Also, California law requires that once the surplus passes a certain level (I think it is $10B) then the state needs to return money. I suppose the state could spend it if they spent if fast enough.
re: #106 Charles Johnson
Too many well-meaning people have yet to figure out how right-wing propaganda works.
Someone needs to start a smear campaign against Christopher Rufo.
The Russian DJ Nina Kraviz, who has expressed support for Putin in the past, has come under fire from other electronic musicians for her silence on Ukraine. I broke down the debate over her and other cultural boycotts:
https://t.co/o7BTRfrwgX— Andrew Chow (@andrewrchow) May 13, 2022
re: #105 Punish Domestic Terrorists
We’re nowhere near the point where electric vehicles will work for the masses.
California law is that new vehicles by 2035 have to be 100% zero emission.
I expect a lot of landlords of apartment buildings to install outdoor outlets.
And raise the rent.
re: #111 Eclectic Cyborg
Come on Republicans!
Are the babies criminals or are they valuable life worth protecting?
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There’s a test for that.
re: #119 Barefoot Grin
Someone needs to start a smear campaign against Christopher Rufo.
Just publicize the truth of what he’s (always) been promoting. That should be “smear” enough….
I’m now on the chapter in Snyder’s Bloodlands detailing the period of the Great Terror. The attitude toward the Poles and the Ukrainians—they’re filth that must be exterminated—echoes so strongly today.
re: #123 Jay C
Just publicize the truth of what he’s (always) been promoting. That should be “smear” enough….
That’s the problem with smear campaigns using BS like “pedo” from the left. Most see through it and just want the truth.
re: #117 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yeah, there are some of those.
But enrollments are declining, I think.
Also, California law requires that once the surplus passes a certain level (I think it is $10B) then the state needs to return money. I suppose the state could spend it if they spent if fast enough.
If the laws permit, the quickest/fairest/cheapest ploy is to suspend sales tax for a while.
re: #103 danarchy
A $400 voucher towards an electric vehicle is only going to help people who can already afford to buy an electric vehicle.
Yeah I know. But anything is a plus. Could California do $4k vouchers? That would make more of an impact.
But….. economics being what they are, and supply and demand ruling the day, giving out big vouchers may just lead to the raising of prices for cars.
re: #126 Decatur Deb
If the laws permit, the quickest/fairest/cheapest ploy is to suspend sales tax for a while.
A chunk of the sales taxes go for local entities though, not just the Franchise Tax Board. So suspending sales taxes will hurt local communities.
In conclusion, I think just refunding $1000 to each taxpayer who filed 2021 is the easiest thing to do.
re: #129 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
In conclusion, I think just refunding $1000 to each taxpayer who filed 2021 is the easiest thing to do.
When Texas finally rerouted part of a local state highway road through our neighborhood, something that was planned back when the neighborhood was started 20 years ago, they “bought” some of the land from the neighborhood, and we had to figure out a way to distribute it. There was some debate of waving everyone’s HOA dues for a while, but the simplest thing turned out to be to just send every house a check.
re: #128 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
A chunk of the sales taxes go for local entities though, not just the Franchise Tax Board. So suspending sales taxes will hurt local communities.
Just suspend the CA share.
re: #127 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yeah I know. But anything is a plus. Could California do $4k vouchers? That would make more of an impact.
But….. economics being what they are, and supply and demand ruling the day, giving out big vouchers may just lead to the raising of prices for cars.
4k would certainly get some fence sitters to jump, but it wouldn’t help the waitress driving a 15 year old used car and those are the people most affected by the high gas prices. Even a used nissan leaf runs $25k these days and IMO buying a used electric car is a dubious proposition unless you have guarantees the batteries have already been replaced.
re: #132 Decatur Deb
Also, that would mean spending CA tax surplus on people coming from NV and AZ on shopping trips, also denying those states of tax revenue.
Chocolate Chip Cookies #ShabbatShalom pic.twitter.com/AGbw4vhpp5
— Liddle Pizza Pie 🇺🇦🌻🌈🍕 (@Pie_Overlord) May 13, 2022
Not even on the job for two years:
Jen Psaki leaves the White House after holding 224 briefings — more than all of Trump’s press secretaries combined https://t.co/9uH4EplrpV
— Politics Insider (@PoliticsInsider) May 13, 2022
re: #137 Belafon
The only thing that Trump’s press secretaries did was lie, and they were lazy about doing that.
.@Poynter: “@PressSec has restored honor, dignity and class to the White House briefing room.”
“Psaki was consistently prepared, effective in communicating for the president and, even when sparring with media members, always respectful.” https://t.co/0ZmP7e2Epp— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) May 12, 2022
re: #139 Belafon
But according to the media she was “unfortunately, very good at her job.”.
According to the yokel folk wisdom here in Texas, California is a hellscape of confiscatory taxes, entitled foreigners, warzone crime levels, and mandatory communist indoctrination. That, they explain, is why decent folk are fleeing to Texas in droves.
There are quite a few of them arriving but they appear to me to be mostly lepertarian grifters, legacy bigots and the unfortunate employees of corporations that are dodging regulation because they can only function profitably in an environment of reduced accountability.
The announced budget surplus would turn their world upside down but RW media have prepared for that by indoctrinating the goobers to treat all contrary information as lib propaganda
I may yet retire and move back to Cali after I help turn Texas blue, bot not before.
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
But according to the media she was “unfortunately, very good at her job.”.
Being good at her job meant not lying, which is pretty boring most of the time.
Our media would rather have an entertaining liar telling lie after lie after lie. And then let them get away with it.
re: #139 Belafon
What’s good about being “always” respectful to a diverse set of media people? IMO it would be much better for the presidential press secretary to model that both respect and disrespect are earned. Real people with real questions get respect, and clowns with clown questions get the Yakety Sax clips, and the “may God have mercy on you soul” clips on special occasions.
Wholesale electricity prices have been super high most of the afternoon, as power has become increasingly scarce. pic.twitter.com/GF3RykDHXj
— Matt Largey (@mattlargey) May 13, 2022
Well this would suck. Glad I didn’t do my various land nav courses up there…
Soldier killed by brown bear on JBER was marking course for navigation training
The soldier who was killed by a bear Tuesday afternoon at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson was setting a course through the woods for navigation training at the time of the attack, according to the U.S. Army Alaska.
The soldier was part of a group of three scouting the area west of the Anchorage Regional Landfill. Investigators determined a sow with two cubs attacked the group, said Alaska Wildlife Trooper Capt. Derek DeGraaf. A den was found nearby, he said.
“We don’t know if it was an original den, or the sow had moved and just stashed the bears there — we don’t know, but it was clearly a dugout in the ground,” he said.
The New York Times reported the soldiers’ arrival prompted the sow to crawl out of the den, knock down one soldier and attack a second. The soldier knocked down was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and released, according to the newspaper.
The soldier killed was identified by the U.S. Army Alaska on Thursday as 30-year-old Staff Sgt. Seth Michael Plant, an infantryman from the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Plant, from Florida, joined the active-duty Army in January 2015 and served in Georgia and North Carolina before arriving to JBER in July 2021.
On Tuesday, Plant was medevaced from the scene of the bear attack in a National Guard helicopter to JBER Hospital, where he was declared dead, said John Pennell, a spokesperson for U.S. Army Alaska.
Okay, turned the AC off. We’ll see how good the insulation is.
re: #146 jaunte
Okay, turned the AC off. We’ll see how good the insulation is.
The AAA batteries in my thermostat died today. They lasted five years, which is a pretty good life for a AAA battery. It probably only draws a tiny amount of power except when my electricity goes out.
Okay, this settles it. No Mar-a-Lago membership for me. pic.twitter.com/WAwkVEtd1v
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) May 13, 2022
Who could have predicted increased power demand when it gets hot?
re: #141 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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I may yet retire and move back to Cali after I help turn Texas blue, bot not before.
“Fight in the corner where you are.” Learned that in Sunday School.
It’s incredibly worrying that the Border Patrol union—the people in charge of caring for babies in custody at the border—is calling for permission to starve the babies.
The union used to tout the “humanitarian” work their agents did caring for babies. Now they want them starved. pic.twitter.com/z4DeF0fPrQ— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) May 13, 2022
re: #142 Florida Panhandler
Being good at her job meant not lying, which is pretty boring most of the time.
Our media would rather have an entertaining liar telling lie after lie after lie. And then let them get away with it.
She never sniped at any of the media directly, sent antogonizing tweets, attacked anybody, etc.
A class act the whole time.
Like it always was until, suddenly it wasnt.
And now is again.
Until,well, you know
Are people aware of William F. Buckley’s review of THE GODFATHER? It’s something!
“…will be as quickly forgotten as it deserves to be.” pic.twitter.com/ivPranIBBa— Sam Rosenfeld (@sam_rosenfeld) May 13, 2022
WFB was a popular Thurston Howell, III impersonator in the 1970’s and 80s who has been largely forgotten by history.
— Gocart Mozart (@EdMix13) May 13, 2022
Our Alaska politicians are trying to buy votes. Oil prices go up and the State gets some extra dollars the pols can’t wait to spend. Never mind that they spent over $15B from the budget reserves over the past few years. The current budget reserve is enough for about a year of over spending. No one’s smart enough to add some dollars back into the piggy bank.
House delays vote on budget that could send $5,500 to Alaskans and drain state savings
re: #153 gocart mozart
Projection: Buckley accusing Brando of being “tough-banal” is a true confession.
re: #153 gocart mozart
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I sometimes watched WFB’s show, so it’s a hoot to hear him go off on Brando for making himself physically and vocally unattractive. WFB had smoke-stained teeth and wax-paper skin, and he had this unnerving habit of licking his lips like Jabba.
I don’t get it, we proposed starving the brown and Black babies at the border, investigated trans families and banned abortion…why isn’t the grid working??? https://t.co/9zMjDpYEgK
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) May 13, 2022
If the only lesson the Texas elite learned after their failing grid plunged the state into darkness and killed hundreds of people is that they get to make billions of dollars, they will 100% do it again. https://t.co/gSChqyhEmW
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) May 13, 2022
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mocks *other Republicans* for kissing up to Donald Trump while campaigning for PA Senate candidate Dave McCormick (R). pic.twitter.com/f3Dk043s3m
— The Recount (@therecount) May 13, 2022
Oh there is not enough laughter in the world.
Or self awareness, I guess
re: #133 danarchy
4k would certainly get some fence sitters to jump, but it wouldn’t help the waitress driving a 15 year old used car and those are the people most affected by the high gas prices. Even a used nissan leaf runs $25k these days and IMO buying a used electric car is a dubious proposition unless you have guarantees the batteries have already been replaced.
In my experience in the SF Bay Area, the waitress, chef, or cleaning person who can is driving a used Prius so they can commute in from the exurbs and worry less about gas prices. Okay, not as nice as going straight to an electric car, but it’s a step up in terms of reducing carbon emissions and eventual cost savings from a gas guzzler.
Maybe a tax credit for people who buy vehicles with above a certain fuel efficiency, regardless of type, phasing out at a certain income.
re: #144 jaunte
Do you have a link showing the down generators?
re: #148 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Who wore it better, Divine or whatever that is…
Divine. Period. EOS.
re: #153 gocart mozart
Look at that, WFB got his knickers in a twist because the final scenes of the Godfather had a religious hypocrite in church for a baptism while his killers were off murdering competing mob bosses.
It must have hit too close to home.
Seriously, his review is just like a present day 1-star review of some work of fiction a right wing nut job objected to for showing an example of an evil the right routinely practices.
re: #160 aatharuv
In my experience in the SF Bay Area, the waitress, chef, or cleaning person who can is driving a used Prius so they can commute in from the exurbs and worry less about gas prices. Okay, not as nice as going straight to an electric car, but it’s a step up in terms of reducing carbon emissions and eventual cost savings from a gas guzzler.
Maybe a tax credit for people who buy vehicles with above a certain fuel efficiency, regardless of type, phasing out at a certain income.
That’s what I drive, if I can be said to drive these days. It was about 8 grand used.
I used to fill the tank about once a month commuting to work. Now I fill it once every couple of years working from home and having groceries delivered.
re: #148 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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At first I thought the one in red might be a drag queen but drag queens have good taste.
— darth™ (@darth) May 13, 2022
i am going to check out this doorway
for science pic.twitter.com/ic6rmLKqpa— darth™ (@darth) May 13, 2022
what is this
a doorway for ants pic.twitter.com/Ua8qamCK6O— darth™ (@darth) May 13, 2022
lots of obligatory potato comments in the responses.
Boo hoo. There’s literally a church on every street corner. https://t.co/aN3SF62lkw
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) May 13, 2022
re: #127 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yeah I know. But anything is a plus. Could California do $4k vouchers? That would make more of an impact.
But….. economics being what they are, and supply and demand ruling the day, giving out big vouchers may just lead to the raising of prices for cars.
The cheapest EVs that are worth a damn are over 40k. 4k would technically be a “down payment” but there’s more to EV ownership than going to the dealer, signing some papers and driving it home. $400 would be insulting.
Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades” is about the only song I can name that is simultaneously heavy metal, punk, dirthead biker rock, and has lyrics that could be in a country song.
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am sick and tired of so-called Christians saying they are treated like second class citizens. If you do not like it leave the country.
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
re: #153 gocart mozart
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NEW YORK (AP) — A Colorado judge on Friday denied motions to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by an election systems worker against former President Donald Trump’s campaign, two of its lawyers and a handful of conservative media figures and outlets.District Court Judge Marie Avery Moses, in a 136-page decision, rejected various arguments to throw out the lawsuit filed by Eric Coomer, who was security director at the Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems. Coomer said he faced death threats after he was baselessly accused of trying to rig the 2020 presidential election in favor of President Joe Biden.
Judge refuses to drop elections suit against Trump, media (AP via MSN)
re: #172 PhillyPretzel
I am sick and tired of so-called Christians saying they are treated like second class citizens. If you do not like it leave the country.
These assclowns give Christianity a very bad reputation by whining about persecution whenever they aren’t allowed to burn people at the stake.
That pretty much was the reason the pilgrims left England and founded the Massachusetts colony.
Imitation Game: Please god tell me it didn’t really take this band of geniuses six months to figure out that the first message every morning is the weather report to the U boats, and the end of every message is Heil Hitler.
re: #175 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I really wish everyone with a stake in this would sue the Clown Show and it’s associated rogues gallery.
Then Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, and anyone else should sue the Red Hat Entertainment Complex into the ground for vaccine disinformation.
re: #96 Charles Johnson
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— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) May 13, 2022
re: #177 steve_davis
Imitation Game: Please god tell me it didn’t really take this band of geniuses six months to figure out that the first message every morning is the weather report to the U boats, and the end of every message is Heil Hitler.
that’s what happens when you let straight men try to solve problems.
Things went much better when the gay guy and women were given authority to make decisions.
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