John Oliver on the Plague of Pig Butchering Scams
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Our local grocery store used to sell half pigs. Which the butcher would cut into bits for you for a small fee.
WATCH: Mike Johnson says the United States isn’t a “democracy” but a “constitutional republic” based on “biblical” principles.
- Mike Johnson (2016 interview) @ashtonpittman
pic.twitter.com/7F1mCTXnT7— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) February 29, 2024
re: #2 gocart mozart
WATCH: Mike Johnson says the United States isn’t a “democracy” but a “constitutional republic” based on “biblical” principles.
Listed below are all the places where the Bible is mentioned in the Constitution:
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re: #2 gocart mozart
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It’s their go-to excuse for why they get to make the rules despite the will of the people.
re: #2 gocart mozart
Deuteronomy 25:11-12
If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.
Wow! The Kentucky Legislature is sure following Speaker Jesusbot’s Christian Principles!
Kentucky GOP bill would strip workers of their right to lunch breaks
That’s right folks—work 8 hours and you eat while you work!
re: #2 gocart mozart
How about this principle?
Leviticus 24:16
Whoever utters the name of the Lord must be put to death. The whole community must stone him whether alien or native. If he utters the name, he must be put to death.
I get 2-3 texts or whatsapp messages of this kind every week. It’s nuts.
Never respond - they go straight to trash. I don’t start comms with folks I don’t know from unsolicited texts. Period.
Far too many people fall for this, and lose everything. But many wont admit to being scammed, so they suffer in silence, which is why the toll from these scams is likely far greater than the $3 billion cited in the piece.
re: #7 jaunte
How about this principle?
Leviticus 24:16
Does that also apply to members of the Church of Shatnerology who dare speak the name of The Toupeed One?
re: #9 Joe Bacon ✅
I think they can, but only if preceded by a dramatic…
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…pause.
I remember back when all the Campus Crusaders for Christ were spewing this “We are a Christian Nation” talking point.
It was fucked up then and it is even more fucked up now as we have a Speaker of the House who is hell-bent on instituting a theocracy.
Breaking news: The House on Thursday approved legislation to extend the expiration date for federal funding later into March, sending the measure to prevent a partial government shutdown that was set for Saturday to the Senate, where it is expected the pass.
re: #11 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember back when all the Campus Crusaders for Christ were spewing this “We are a Christian Nation” talking point.
It was fucked up then and it is even more fucked up now as we have a Speaker of the House who is hell-bent on instituting a theocracy.
Why they sure did and at Pitt in 1976 they linked that Xtian Nation bullshit to Pruneface Reagan’s campaign to unseat Gawdless Ford who supported abortion.
re: #2 gocart mozart
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Name me a Biblical principle that our constitution is based on that exists in no document other than the Bible.
re: #8 lawhawk
Far too many people fall for this, and lose everything. But many wont admit to being scammed, so they suffer in silence, which is why the toll from these scams is likely far greater than the $3 billion cited in the piece.
If you back a year or so, to the segment that Oliver did about time-shares, the quotes that the poor old ladies who had been scammed out of all their money kept saying was “I’m ashamed to tell my kids that their entire inheritance is gone.”
These scammers are good, and they prey on the naivete of trusting Americans, many of whom have never traveled more than 50 miles from the spot they were born. They are a plague.
re: #12 Dr Lizardo
I just got the flash from the AP. All of these short term extensions are nuts.
re: #14 Belafon
Name me a Biblical principle that our constitution is based on that exists in no document other than the Bible.
Well I do believe the death penalty is mentioned in there…something to do with…treason…
re: #17 Joe Bacon ✅
Well I do believe the death penalty is mentioned in there…something to do with…treason…
But if they go Old Testament, then I’m going to suggest that we’re a Talmud based constitutional republic, and then we can talk about abortion.
re: #15 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
If you back a year or so, to the segment that Oliver did about time-shares, the quotes that the poor old ladies who had been scammed out of all their money kept saying was “I’m ashamed to tell my kids that their entire inheritance is gone.”
These scammers are good, and they prey on the naivete of trusting Americans, many of whom have never traveled more than 50 miles from the spot they were born. They are a plague.
We had a discussion about scammers in our engineering meeting this morning. A woman on the team and her husband are artists. When she posts an item, nine out of ten responses are scammers. When her husband does so, one out of ten are scammers.
Will Forte Sad After Finally Watching ‘Coyote vs. Acme’: “It’s Incredible”Actor Will Forte has posted an open letter to the cast and crew of Coyote vs. Acme after he finally got to watch his own film.
Amid heavy rumors the film is officially dead following Warner Bros. Discovery’s recent quarterly report that included a mysterious $115 million tax write-off, Forte admitted he assumed the film must have been “a hunk of junk … but then I saw it.” Forte’s comments also seem to confirm that the movie will not be released following Warners entertaining offers to sell it.
Writing on X, Forte began, “To the Cast and Crew of Coyote Vs Acme — I know that a lot of you haven’t gotten a chance to see our movie. And sadly, it’s looking like you never will. When I first heard that our movie was getting ‘deleted,’ I hadn’t seen it yet. So I was thinking what everyone else must have been thinking: this thing must be a hunk of junk. But then I saw it. And it’s incredible.”
Continued Forte: “Super funny throughout, visually stunning, sweet, sincere, and emotionally resonant in a very earned way. As the credits rolled, I just sat there thinking how lucky I was to be a part of something so special. That quickly turned to confusion and frustration. This was the movie they’re not going to release?
re: #18 Belafon
I think anyone who lops off the inconvenient parts of the second amendment relies on constitutional requirements about as much as they do biblical commandments.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Our local grocery store used to sell half pigs. Which the butcher would cut into bits for you for a small fee.
We bought a half pig from a local farm for about five years in a row. I miss doing that. We got lazy and stopped for some reason. Having 110lbs of pork in the freezer was nice.
re: #20 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
That’s a damn shame.
re: #2 gocart mozart
I never really knew “Constitutional Republic” meant outright Fascism until these throwback religious cretins scammed and lied their way into defining modern Republicanism.
Next thing you know “Original Constitution” means pretty much whatever they say it means.
Quick follow up on the parking comment from last thread:
$9.25 for 4 hours after 6PM in one of the downtown skyscrapers using Spot Hero.
Parking costs during the day in Center City are usually more in line with the Chicago and Boston prices quoted in the last post, but Philly deals can be had with parking apps, or if you’re willing to walk a bit to your destination.
re: #27 Florida Panhandler
I never really knew “Constitutional Republic” meant outright Fascism until these throwback religious cretins scammed and lied their way into defining modern Republicanism.
Next thing you know “Original Constitution” means pretty much whatever they say it means.
Legal originalism has always been 100% grade-A bullshit.
re: #27 Florida Panhandler
I never really knew “Constitutional Republic” meant outright Fascism until these throwback religious cretins scammed and lied their way into defining modern Republicanism.
Next thing you know “Original Constitution” means pretty much whatever they say it means.
Like the Bible, the Constitution is just something to abuse other people with to these creeps.
re: #26 darthstar
Need someone to leak a pirate copy
If it were my film, I’d make damn sure I secretly ripped a copy and then find a way to get it on The Pirate Bay. A little “fuck you” to the corporate hacks.
re: #31 Dr Lizardo
If it were my film, I’d make damn sure I secretly ripped a copy and then find a way to get it on The Pirate Bay. A little “fuck you” to the corporate hacks.
That can end a career and land a person in prison.
From the AP: Former US diplomat admits to secretly spying for Cuba for decades.
re: #32 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Oh, I know.
Unless WB changes their mind, looks like Coyote vs. Acme will become another “lost film”.
When looking at Mike Johnson and his fellow usurpers, it’s good to remember that when they say “Christianity” they just mean “what we want” and when they describe the nation’s basic philosophy of government they also mean “what we want.”
You can’t debate scripture with them, or shock/shame them with the ugliness of Deuteronomic law, because they don’t have a hermeneutic for the Bible that can be disassembled or criticized. It doesn’t matter what the Constitution says or doesn’t say. The only thing that matters is that they, as a superior kind of person, possess an entitlement to dictate the terms of meaning and thus control…everything.
They’re not cultists, they’re monarchists; some of them as calculating as a Shakespearean duke, others dully earnest in their notion that they are a kind of middling noble that must find the right ring to kiss. Cynical or sincere in their belief, everything they do is appetite, everything they cite is mystique emptied to substance.
The only belief that’s retained is that they are above the lower orders.
This is the latest manifestation of a recurring malady in the United States: little kings whose “freedoms” necessitate deprivation of freedom from others.
Another day, another lawsuit. I’m starting think Diaper Donnie *isn’t* very honest.
Trump Media co-founders sue company, alleging a scheme to dilute shares
The co-founders of former president Donald Trump’s media company filed a lawsuit Wednesday, claiming that Trump and other leaders had schemed to deprive them of a stake in the company that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The case could complicate a long-delayed bid by Trump Media & Technology Group, owner of the social network Truth Social, to merge with a special purpose acquisition company called Digital World Acquisition and become a publicly traded company.
I don’t understand the difference between destroying a movie vs. just releasing it to public domain via archive.org. Either way, it’s the same amount of money lost, the same tax write-off, right?
re: #35 Backwoods Sleuth
He avoided scrutiny for decades, despite a tip that came in that explicitly stated he was a Cuban agent - but the CIA, FBI, and State Department officials discounted the claims.
Officials told the AP that as early as 1987, the CIA was aware Castro had a “super mole” burrowed deep inside the U.S. government. Some now suspect it could have been Rocha and that since at least 2010 he may have been on a short list given to the FBI of possible Cuban spies high up in foreign policy circles.
Rocha’s attorney did not respond to messages seeking comment. The FBI and CIA declined to comment. The State Department said in a statement it will continue to work with relevant agencies to “fully assess the foreign policy and national security implications of these charges.”
re: #38 KingKenrod
I don’t understand the difference between destroying a movie vs. just releasing it to public domain via archive.org. Either way, it’s the same amount of money lost, the same tax write-off, right?
I assume that the laws do not allow release of a written off film, even for free.
They should require it. You get the write-off, and the film becomes public domain.
When Dimwit D’Stupid endlessly recites that the Democrats are the party of the KKK kindly remind that ass of this!
GOP candidate for governor outed as KKK member after cross burning photo emerges
In Missouri, far-right activist Darrell Leon McClanahan III has been seeking the GOP nomination in Missouri’s 2024 gubernatorial race. But the Missouri Republican Party has announced that it is taking steps to remove McClanahan from the ballot in response to reports that McClanahan has been active in the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
According to Riverfront Times reporter Ryan Krull, a 2019 photo shows McClanahan standing next to a KKK member in front of a burning cross. McClanahan was wearing street clothes in the photo, while the person standing next to him was in full KKK attire.
McClanahan has filed a lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which published the photo on their website in 2022 along with an article. McClanahan argued, in the lawsuit, that he was strictly an “honorary” KKK member -- not a full member — and that the photo showed a “Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony” instead of a full-fledged KKK cross burning ceremony.
BULLSHIT ALL YOU WANT, ASSHOLE! BUT YOU’RE BUSTED!
re: #42 Joe Bacon ✅
…But the Missouri Republican Party has announced that it is taking steps to remove McClanahan from the ballot in response to reports that McClanahan has been caught being active in the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Fixed that.
re: #41 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
I assume that the laws do not allow release of a written off film, even for free.
They should require it. You get the write-off, and the film becomes public domain.
What would probably happen then is that instead of releasing it public domain, the studios would just put it on the shelf indefinitely. It’s long been noted there’s plenty of films on studio shelves that’ll never see the light of day - not to mention films that got canned close to completion (Batgirl being a recent notorious example).
re: #38 KingKenrod
I don’t understand the difference between destroying a movie vs. just releasing it to public domain via archive.org. Either way, it’s the same amount of money lost, the same tax write-off, right?
What is likely is that a studio bigwig felt slighted by someone on the production team and that’s why the film is being banished to The Phantom Zone.
re: #2 gocart mozart
Mike Johnson says the United States isn’t a “democracy” but a “constitutional republic” based on “biblical” principles.
These guys would be shocked how little the Founding Fathers actually cared for Christianity…
Washington tended to prefer fox hunting on Sundays to church. Jefferson cut up a copy of the new testament to remove all the references to miracles and supernatural bullshit. Franklin was a deist and when he suggested the constitutional convention open with a common prayer, the motion never even came to a vote. Madison was instrumental in de-establishing the Church of England as the official state church of Virginia and for inclusion of the establishment clause in the first amendment.
re: #46 KGxvi
Unlike the founders, Mike Johnson can’t imagine being on the losing side of a religious war.
Four chosen letters only happens once every four years 😉
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re: #48 Belafon
That is a cute way of celebrating leap day. My local PBS station is mentioning it too.
Hint—The recipe for this cake did NOT originate in Germany.
It originated from a brilliant lady from Texas!
re: #46 KGxvi
Washington sent letters welcoming religious freedom to the Congregation at Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island. The Founders were generally far more tolerant of religious freedom after a number of the original 13 colonies were established to escape religious persecution (although a few were established with the intent to impose their own religious views on others).
re: #36 The Ghost of a Flea
All of this applies to that Alabama embryo ruling and the subsequent disavowals by IVF-supporting conservatives.
They don’t have an actual end-state in mind, just a vibe based on intense feelings that they are owed control—
reproduction is not the right of prospective parents, but a thing that must be sanctioned in accordance with the preferences of superior people…who by right can case-by-case declare who is worthy to have and raise children.
—so the minute they get what they say they want and the full systemic implications begin to churn they have to backpeddle: they’re not planning actual care for those embryos, or to constrain themselves from IVF, they’re acting on a fantasy that those embryos could be people…the kind of people they have use for. Anti-abortion tropes in general and “Embryos are people” in specific are contextualized by the unstated axiom “…but people are not equal.”
These ideas are as sensible and grounded as Frederick the Great’s regiment of giants; the systems they will build to meet their whims will be as orderly and just as the gangster kingdoms of Italian dukes.
Trump trying to put another billion shares of stock in his pocket.
Current plan was for 120 million shares. He wants to make it a billion and water down the investors shares.
Given I don’t get paid for the extra day, I was going to spend today’s leap year day sleeping. Then I remembered that I don’t get paid at all. And that I spend most of every day sleeping anyway.
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) February 29, 2024
re: #54 darthstar
Current plan was for 120 million shares. He wants to make it a billion and water down the investors shares.
I hope these investors win their lawsuit (and that this results in indefinitely bogging down the monetization of the Truth Social scam).
However, these investors are very, very stupid.
OH NO!
The Judge made her sad because he upheld the ruling that she got the boot!
Appeals court smacks down QAnon-promoting ex-GOP chair’s bid to overturn her firing
Ousted Michigan Republican Party chair Kristina Karamo has lost yet another bid in court to be reinstated to her job.
According to the Associated Press, “The Michigan Court of Appeals said it won’t suspend a lower court’s order affirming Kristina Karamo’s removal by party members. Karamo was hoping that a stay would clear the way for her to lead a meeting Saturday in Detroit to select presidential delegates for the party’s national convention.”
Won’t stop The New York Times from endlessly repeating that Joe is the one in big trouble with Michigan voters over Gaza…
re: #53 darthstar
I can’t be the only one who thinks “pump and dump scheme”, right?
re: #60 ckkatz
I think the moral foundations have already disappeared.
re: #61 jaunte
I think the moral foundations have already disappeared.
Sadly, there is a lot to support your conclusions.
Earlier this week, a wildly 2024 photo came across our desk: an image of a young bride standing with her groom, who’s donned one of Apple’s new Vision Pro headsets for their big day. The groom is notably smiling; the bride, meanwhile, looks a little less than pleased.We had to know more. Did he wear the roughly $3,500 spatial computing headset during the ceremony? Did he dream of one day strapping a 1.3-pound VR device to his face on his wedding day? And how did the bride really feel about it?
To find out, we got in touch with the newlyweds. And thankfully, we can confirm that the headset was only donned after the ceremony.
“I did not wear it in ceremony out of respect to God and to my wife,”
re: #62 jaunte
Or maybe I’m confusing ethical with moral.
Tbh, I do not think that I have ever seen you confused.
re: #59 Dr Lizardo
I can’t be the only one who thinks “pump and dump scheme”, right?
My first thought.
re: #65 ckkatz
On the internet, no one can tell you’re totally discombobulated.
re: #59 Dr Lizardo
I can’t be the only one who thinks “pump and dump scheme”, right?
I’ve always assumed that investors in tfg schemes are intentionally and essentially “donating in kind” to tfg.
re: #70 ckkatz
I’ve always assumed that investors in tfg schemes are intentionally and essentially “donating in kind” to tfg.
A safe assumption to make.
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
Alabama’s IVF ruling is tip of iceberg. A third of states have personhood laws that give embryos and a developing fetus rights that are completely out of whack with facts or medicine. That is especially true for those states that indicate that an embryo is a person regardless of the stage of pregnancy (meaning a clump of cells is a person, overriding the rights of the woman).
re: #74 lawhawk
BREAKING: HB 346 — the “Baby Olivia” Bill — passes out of its House committee.
HB 346 opens the door for misinformation, like the idea that life begins at fertilization, to be shown in schools.
Call your legislator & tell them to vote NO on HB 346.
➡️➡️➡️1-800-372-7181⬅️⬅️⬅️ pic.twitter.com/XGR0rqDsfS— ACLU of Kentucky (@ACLUofKY) February 29, 2024
KY State Rep. Nancy Tate (R) presents a bill advising schools to show the anti-abortion, computer-generated video “Meet Baby Olivia” to 8th graders.
TATE: There’s “confusion and misunderstanding being shared outside academia … For example … ‘fetus’ is Latin for ‘human baby.’” pic.twitter.com/AA97vS8thQ— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) February 29, 2024
re: #74 lawhawk
If we don’t protect those embryos now, they won’t be around to die treading down corn in 2037, or to commit atrocities against climate refuges in 2042.
re: #68 jaunte
On the internet, no one can tell you’re totally discombobulated.
Sounds like you have found a powerful tool:
“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
re: #2 gocart mozart
Mike Johnson says the United States isn’t a “democracy” but a “constitutional republic” based on “biblical” principles.
And yet the words “Christ”, “Christian, “Bible” and “Christianity” are completely absent in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
re: #41 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
I assume that the laws do not allow release of a written off film, even for free.
They should require it. You get the write-off, and the film becomes public domain.
Thats not gonna work. The guys that pay the bills have full ownership. Nobody gets to force them to give it away for free. What if its career damaging awful? Or has elements that will offend?
As I get older my tolerance gets lower. I often used to think, “this meeting could’ve been an email”, now it’s more, “this email could’ve been a thought you kept to yourself”.
— VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) February 29, 2024
re: #73 Backwoods Sleuth
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Listening to Katie Britt talk is like hearing nails running across a blackboard, but at a higher pitch.
Whoa. Border residents just told Donald Trump that he is “not welcome” today and that he must “change [his ways,” because he’s “hurting the people that need the most help.” People see right through what Donald Trump is doing & are calling him out for it.
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) February 29, 2024
“Mr. Trump, change your ways because what you’re doing is you’re hurting the people that need the most help. This unwanted attention, this unwanted militarization of our community is unwelcome. You’re not welcome.” pic.twitter.com/kkIu4xNgUb
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 29, 2024
gee, going to the border same day as President Biden kinda backfired on him
re: #80 Backwoods Sleuth
things that should have been an email:
1. this meeting
2. this phone call
3. this “drop in” chat
4. the email you are going to send after each of the above to recap what was discussed
things that you should have handled yourself instead of sending an email:
1. everything not listed above
re: #75 Backwoods Sleuth
These are the same people screeching about CRT which isn’t even taught in public schools. They’re not against propaganda — they want to push their propaganda on children.
re: #75 Backwoods Sleuth
Um, no, Tate, that’s not what fetus means.
re: #82 Backwoods Sleuth
I remain cautiously optimistic that November isn’t going to be close. We know his ceiling is about 46%, that’s where he’s been each of the last two elections. He’s done nothing to grow his base, and has probably done more to alienate voters who might be sympathetic to him.
I also have a strange feeling that the debate(s) will be Trump’s undoing. Either he goes full crazy and chases off anyone outside his base, or he goes too mellow and demoralizes his base.
re: #3 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Listed below are all the places where the Bible is mentioned in the Constitution:
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And vice versa
re: #31 Dr Lizardo
If it were my film, I’d make damn sure I secretly ripped a copy and then find a way to get it on The Pirate Bay. A little “fuck you” to the corporate hacks.
I didn’t know PB is still afloat
re: #78 Dr. Matt
And yet the words “Christ”, “Christian, “Bible” and “Christianity” are completely absent in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
Yeah but consider that they also ignore the contents of the Bible.
It’s not that they value the Word of God such that they’re willing to struggle with the text, it’s that the Bible can be wielded as a source of unanswerable authority. You don’t read the Bible, you quote-mine it, then bake the quotes to find occult meanings that coincidentally amount to…doing what you prefer to.
LOL
Say what?
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith blocks an attempt by Sen. Tammy Duckworth to enshrine access to IVF in federal law on Wednesday by saying it would legalize the creation of human cloning and “human-animal chimeras”
1) The bill does no such thing.
2) It’s not pronounced that way pic.twitter.com/0CbDd1LXGw— Marcus Baram (@mbaram) February 29, 2024
re: #36 The Ghost of a Flea
When looking at Mike Johnson and his fellow usurpers, it’s good to remember that when they say “Christianity” they just mean “what we want” and when they describe the nation’s basic philosophy of government they also mean “what we want.”
You can’t debate scripture with them, or shock/shame them with the ugliness of Deuteronomic law, because they don’t have a hermeneutic for the Bible that can be disassembled or criticized. It doesn’t matter what the Constitution says or doesn’t say. The only thing that matters is that they, as a superior kind of person, possess an entitlement to dictate the terms of meaning and thus control…everything.
They’re not cultists, they’re monarchists; some of them as calculating as a Shakespearean duke, others dully earnest in their notion that they are a kind of middling noble that must find the right ring to kiss. Cynical or sincere in their belief, everything they do is appetite, everything they cite is mystique emptied to substance.
The only belief that’s retained is that they are above the lower orders.
This is the latest manifestation of a recurring malady in the United States: little kings whose “freedoms” necessitate deprivation of freedom from others.
so it begins…
The Republican majority in the Arizona Senate passed a bill on Monday to ensure that any presidential candidate “may not be excluded or removed from the general election ballot on the basis of a claimed violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution” if that candidate is an official party nominee.
The bill — introduced in the state Senate by Republican Sens. Janae Shamp, Sonny Borrelli, Frank Carroll and David Gowan, and in the state House of Representatives by Republican Reps. Steve Montenegro and Austin Smith — aims to circumvent a possible Supreme Court ruling that could result in Trump being removed from the ballot in certain states.
Thus far, the former president has been removed from the primary ballot in three states — Colorado, Maine and Illinois — but those rulings are on pause until the nation’s high court rules on the Trump campaign’s appeal of the Colorado ruling. The Arizona bill comes after Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (R) has already said that Trump can’t be barred from the state’s ballot because of a 14th Amendment violation. As the Arizona Mirror notes, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that lawmakers — U.S. Reps. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar as well as state Rep. Mark Finchem — couldn’t be removed from office because of their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
re: #42 Joe Bacon ✅
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McClanahan has filed a lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which published the photo on their website in 2022 along with an article. McClanahan argued, in the lawsuit, that he was strictly an “honorary” KKK member -- not a full member — and that the photo showed a “Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony” instead of a full-fledged KKK cross burning ceremony.
BULLSHIT ALL YOU WANT, ASSHOLE! BUT YOU’RE BUSTED!
This is the equivalent of I never inhaled
re: #45 Joe Bacon ✅
What is likely is that a studio bigwig felt slighted by someone on the production team and that’s why the film is being banished to The Phantom Zone.
Could also have to do with crossing a contractual line. If it’s “released” then there are other obligations or requirements. Like promoting it properly/financially etc
re: #92 Backwoods Sleuth
so it begins…
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The GOP: we protect traitor ballot access. That’s a winning issue.
re: #84 Patricia Kayden
These are the same people screeching about CRT which isn’t even taught in public schools. They’re not against propaganda — they want to push their propaganda on children.
This always comes back to epistemology.
Things are true to conservatives because they feel they are true because they are amorphously superior and need not argue…internal conservative discourse being exclusively about the correct pyramidal stack of society.
The reality of what CRT is or who studies CRT does not matter: they are angry and afraid and the only solve for their anger and fear is that they are granted more control and more license. Whether their “fear” of CRT is genuine or cynical does not matter because it’s all the same claim: we are entitled to frame the world for everyone else, because the world exists to reproduce our appetites.
Whenever there seems to be a contradiction, the resolution is simply the higher-order axiom—we are owed everything, including “truth”—asserting itself.
Which is why downstream of their entitlement to propagandize children is the equally-important-but-said-quieter premise that they are entitled to hurt children who are noncompliant, because while “life” might be precious “life” has no inherent quality of dignity and people are still inherently unequal.
re: #60 ckkatz
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They’ve already destroyed the moral legal..etc by agreeing to consider it at all
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Nice headline.
Donald Trump is broke hahahaha
Did you hear the news? Donald Trump is broke as s—t! Sure, you already knew that the former president’s empire was built on bankrupt casinos, skyscrapers that are cratering in value, fake universities, fake shoes, unpaid vendors, dodged taxes, undrinkable wines and inedible steaks. You already knew that this man didn’t actually have an empire at all … that he was full of s—t the entire time.
But now it’s OFFICIAL, because New York Attorney General Letitia James was able to prove it in an enormous, victorious civil fraud suit against the former president. After presiding Judge Arthur F. Engoron first ruled last fall that Trump had manipulated his net worth and submitted documents to lenders that “clearly contain fraudulent valuations,” Engoron ruled two weeks ago that Trump owed the state of New York $355 million, plus interest, for a total of $450 million. The court gave Trump 30 days to either pay the fine himself (HAHAHA) or secure a bond for it.
Trump, of course, is no stranger to using other people’s money for his own benefit, so what was a $450 million bond between him and one of his wealthier friends or donors?
The answer: about $350 million too high.
re: #93 Dangerman
This is the equivalent of I never inhaled
Where would the American right be if it couldn’t comma-fuck its way out of all the Nazi rhetoric it borrowed post-1945.
— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) February 29, 2024
re: #103 jaunte
: #75 Backwoods Sleuth
life begins at fertilization
Bzzzt. Not Biblical
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Life begins when we say it begins.
Unless that becomes a rhetorical problem for us
Then life begins when we say it begins.
Gonna be an interesting first week in March. I wondered why the date March 8 was chosen. well, it allows Biden to give the SOTU speech on March 7 without a shut down government. If the government was shut down, the SOTU would likely be delayed.
So expect Biden to give a real stemwinder then.
re: #92 Backwoods Sleuth
Won’t matter, the Governor will veto it.
re: #42 Joe Bacon ✅
McClanahan has filed a lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which published the photo on their website in 2022 along with an article. McClanahan argued, in the lawsuit, that he was strictly an “honorary” KKK member -- not a full member — and that the photo showed a “Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony” instead of a full-fledged KKK cross burning ceremony.
So, if I’m reading this right, his claim is that he’s not a member of the klan, but instead is associated with the other white supremacist group that inspired neo-Nazi organizations like the Aryan Nations, and The Order?
Good luck with that one.
re: #104 gocart mozart
Trump’s a great demonstration of how this is all vibes such that there is no argument to argue against.
His statements no more need to make sense that the shooting script of a porn scene: the text exists to draw out pleasurable emotional discharge through a series of exciting images.
The above is…dumb and poorly composed…but it’s being presented to an audience for whom it becomes coherent and “true” because it confirms their axiom that they’ve been cheated of what they are owed by inferior people. The hyperbole to the point of incoherence is acceptable because it heightens the contempt…and the contempt is the foreplay, the tease, promising the domineering, pleasurable harm that will be inflicted.
Immigrants are brutes…and brutes can be treated in ways that Real People cannot, and it is right and good to enjoy bloodying the brutes.
They want their superiority, they want the license to be cruel and ugly, and that’s what Trump promises.
re: #73 Backwoods Sleuth
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So the Rs can’t even find an American?
They’re going with a an unqualified Britt?
Didn’t we win a war against them?
re: #73 Backwoods Sleuth
A privileged Republican cheerleader since childhood.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #89 The Ghost of a Flea
Yeah but consider that they also ignore the contents of the Bible.
It’s not that they value the Word of God such that they’re willing to struggle with the text, it’s that the Bible can be wielded as a source of unanswerable authority. You don’t read the Bible, you quote-mine it, then bake the quotes to find occult meanings that coincidentally amount to…doing what you prefer to.
“Might makes right” is what conservatism always converges to. The only variations are how blatant the power grab is, and which lies are told to “justify” the power grab.
re: #45 Joe Bacon ✅
What is likely is that a studio bigwig felt slighted by someone on the production team and that’s why the film is being banished to The Phantom Zone.
Completing a film is only a few steps along the very expensive road of releasing a film. Promotion, publicity, booking theatres for release, scheduling, the outgoings go on and on in the hope that the opening weekend will result in tickets sold and seats filled and black ink on the bottom line is a certainty.
The studio bigwigs are knowledgeable in such things having been burned by movies which didn’t make their nut and they maybe looked at this movie and thought “It’s based on sixty year old cartoons that amuse kids who don’t buy expensive theatre tickets” and that’s why they maybe gave it a pass. For every sleeper movie that made it big there’s an Ishtar as a horrible lesson to learn from.
re: #109 The Ghost of a Flea
This isn’t really new, either, it’s built into American and European discourse in ways that extend beyond modern conservatism.
You abstract the violence of the status quo, you personalize the violence of those resisting the status quo such that the disproportionate retaliation…and accompanying atrocities that myriad intimate acts of cruelty and domination…are seen as justice, but also as catharsis.
re: #111 jaunte
A privileged Republican cheerleader since childhood.
en.wikipedia.org
And, despite her (relatively) young age, a career Republican hack, with Senate “experience” (she was a protege of Shelby’s).
The GOP probably picked her because she’s young and female (and thus the maximum contrast to Creaky Old Joe): but who knows what stale tripe they’re planning for her to regurgitate….?
re: #112 EPR-radar
“Might makes right” is what conservatism always converges to. The only variations are how blatant the power grab is, and which lies are told to “justify” the power grab.
If they actually said “might makes right” aloud the correct response would be to beat them to death with a paving stone.
re: #116 The Ghost of a Flea
If they actually said “might makes right” aloud the correct response would be to beat them to death with a paving stone.
IMO it doesn’t matter what they say, since they are pathological liars anyway. When conservatives go far enough down the road of acting on a might makes right basis, then yes, responding in kind become obligatory.
Cue the meme of “a large number of violent antifa members” as a caption for a D-day beach photo.
re: #113 Nojay UK
Completing a film is only a few steps along the very expensive road of releasing a film. Promotion, publicity, booking theatres for release, scheduling, the outgoings go on and on in the hope that the opening weekend will result in tickets sold and seats filled and black ink on the bottom line is a certainty.
The studio bigwigs are knowledgeable in such things having been burned by movies which didn’t make their nut and they maybe looked at this movie and thought “It’s based on sixty year old cartoons that amuse kids who don’t buy expensive theatre tickets” and that’s why they maybe gave it a pass. For every sleeper movie that made it big there’s an Ishtar as a horrible lesson to learn from.
This here.
The idea someone shelved this out of spite is so ridiculous. Nobody is going to shelve something they already spent like 70 million dollars on out of spite. They offered it to Amazon, Netflix, and Paramount for 75-80 million so they weren’t opposed to it getting out, they weren’t willing to negotiate the price because they already had a sure thing with the tax write off.
re: #121 darthstar
They look adorable but I do not think it will work out.
The WNBA has an interesting opportunity unfolding…
Caitlin Clark has announced that she’s forgoing her covid season and entering the draft. She’ll likely be the first over all pick.
Angel Reese is also expected to forgo her covid season. ESPN has her going 6th (there’s 12 teams in the league).
There’s a lot of talent in the WNBA and in college basketball. But I have a feeling that Clark and Reese can be a Magic and Bird kind of rivalry/duo that could help take the sport to the next level.
re: #94 Dangerman
Could also have to do with crossing a contractual line. If it’s “released” then there are other obligations or requirements. Like promoting it properly/financially etc
and the writer, director, composer or some of the cast might be entitled to another chunk of salary upon release…
EF1 tornado yesterday morning:
Photos Show Damage to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Following Suspected Tornado
Several buildings at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, including a restoration hangar belonging to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, were damaged in a “suspected” tornado on Wednesday, officials said.
The museum’s Restoration Hangar 4 and several other buildings in the base’s southwestern Area B sustained damage when the tornado touched down amid what base officials characterized as several severe early morning storms, the 88th Air Base Wing said in a statement.
“Our initial assessment from this morning’s storm is the damage is isolated to the southern side of Area B,” Col. Travis Pond, the 88th Air Base Wing and installation commander, said in a statement. “Our initial focus right now is on safety and damage assessment.”
three miles from my youngest step-son’s house
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THIS PRO-RAPE CARTOON IS RACIST AF.
re: #104 gocart mozart
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there’s probably very few Americans who speak Nahuatl or Quecha, but they are real languages.
re: #96 Backwoods Sleuth
They will never catch that Sinaloa jefe.
re: #125 Backwoods Sleuth
re: #126 Vicious Babushka
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they couldn’t resist her nose shape either…
re: #117 EPR-radar
IMO it doesn’t matter what they say, since they are pathological liars anyway. When conservatives go far enough down the road of acting on a might makes right basis, then yes, responding in kind become obligatory.
Cue the meme of “a large number of violent antifa members” as a caption for a D-day beach photo.
Sen Britt is stupid enough to be Republican, smart enough to be dangerous. She’s our “Smart One”. Of course, the other one is Tuberville.
re: #38 KingKenrod
I don’t understand the difference between destroying a movie vs. just releasing it to public domain via archive.org. Either way, it’s the same amount of money lost, the same tax write-off, right?
I don’t know the Intellectual Property rules for movies, but I am familiar with software rules. In order to take a write off for tax purposes the software needs to be completely deleted from all servers otherwise nothing stops you from writing off the project then reviving it the next day. We had this situation arise with a $50m project that crapped out. So we deleted everything and took the current write off.
If it’s not completely gone, then the loss is not total.
re: #99 nines09
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re: #35 Backwoods Sleuth
Laffy
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social“A former U.S. ambassador said Thursday he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for communist #Cuba going back decades, bringing an unexpectedly fast resolution to a case prosecutors described as one of the most brazen betrayals in the history of the U.S. foreign service.”
He has committed the unforgivable sin in the South FL Cuban comunity. And his famiy are now social pariah.
re: #132 Decatur Deb
Sen Britt is stupid enough to be Republican, smart enough to be dangerous. She’s our “Smart One”. Of course, the other one is Tuberville.
IOW, she doesn’t need to wave sparklers to keep her audience’s attention, while she gives a speech.
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