Seth takes a closer look at Republicans trying to cancel everyone in the wake of both Georgia’s draconian voter suppression law and also the rise of coronavirus cases.
Murderous cops are murderous cops.
It will not change until they are all arrested, charged, and imprisoned for their crimes.
re: #1 austin_blue
The whole policing system in this country needs to be torn down and rebuilt.
I’m off for the rack.
We are a society that really believed, at some fundamental level, that we all loved each other. It fell into chaos.
Every time I see and hear Rand Paul there is a risk of an attack of Rand Paul Neighbor Syndrome.
re: #3 austin_blue
I’m off for the rack.
We are a society that really believed, at some fundamental level, that we all loved each other. It fell into chaos.
There are those that believe that humanity is born innately good, and those who believe that humanity is born evil. Rand Paul is an exceedingly compelling argument in favor of the latter.
re: #2 plansbandc
It’s the whole “warrior cop” shit that made all this a normal way of being a cop. It’s always been there, it’s just become to prevalent to hide anymore. We need to insist on community policing again. Where the cops know the neighborhood, the local businesses, the schools and where attention is needed.
We’re facing a huge crisis in this country with a shortage of mental health professionals as well as medical. Many police calls could be minimized if there were social workers and therapists going with the cops to keep things under control and get help where it’s needed most right now. But when you overwhelm the professionals we do have and they burn out, what happens then? It’s happening now. This isn’t good.
Vaccine hesitancy among Republicans is a stubborn thing.https://t.co/brxVdNP0RA pic.twitter.com/DBSF7vo8cp
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 15, 2021
I’d love to see this pass and President Biden pack the courts. I fear that it’s dead on arrival because of Manchin and Sinema though. Sigh.
Democrats to introduce bill to expand Supreme Court from 9 to 13 justices https://t.co/cIEt5Q8ptq
— Rod (@rodimusprime) April 15, 2021
None of these people “just complied” with the police, and they all got to go home alive that night. pic.twitter.com/DO91dWqx8k
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) April 13, 2021
re: #8 Patricia Kayden
I’d love to see this pass and President Biden pack the courts. I fear that it’s dead on arrival because of Manchin and Sinema though. Sigh.
and the next time the Republicans have WH/Sen/House, you know they’ll do it. And we won’t be able to complain, because we’re the ones who came up with the idea and tried it.
Republicans, like you, were against confirming a SCOTUS justice in an election year. Remember?
I do. That’s only one reason why the word of an R elected official is worthless. As is your sanctimonious outrage https://t.co/9Iw1st8kT6— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) April 15, 2021
From last thread:
re: #33 steve_davis
by the way, pro tip: when operating from zoom, it’s tacky to have your family photos behind you. just do like the rest of us and have the bookcases, demonstrating that you know how to read.
My electronics workbench is my Zoom background!
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re: #10 Patricia Kayden
Well, except the guy who tased himself in the balls.
https://t.co/AbvotV7qZk pic.twitter.com/8pT9vN97V5
— Matt Davies (@MatttDavies) April 13, 2021
re: #14 Renaissance_Man
Well, except the guy who tased himself in the balls.
And the woman who was killed.
Dear @RepScottPerry: Native-born Americans like you are no more American, and no less American, than an immigrant like me. And with every passing year, there will be more people who look like me in the US. You can’t stop it. So take your racist replacement theory and shove it. https://t.co/By1d2OBzv9
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 15, 2021
You’re part of the reason they are there pic.twitter.com/tS6oid0bK7
— Erik Halvorsen (@erikhalvorsen18) April 15, 2021
He’s part of the (T)REASON they are there.
— Dee “That Shrew” Holmes (@mmmirele) April 15, 2021
Sometimes you just get an idea and it works.
The grift will continue, the carneys will make sure of that:
Linda McMahon to co-chair new populist non-profit with former Trump officials
[…]
The organization, known as the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), is “bipartisan, which means we will put forward every policy we know puts America first and Americans first,” according to Larry Kudlow, former White House economic advisor and vice-chair for the organization. AFPI will begin with an initial first-year budget of 20 million dollars. […]
AFPI has 20 different policy focuses, including a tougher stance on China, returning to “classic American values,” and stronger boarder restrictions. […]
Fascism rides in on the backs of populism.
Trump was just a symptom.
My new hero. Kid rolls up and asks adult to remove racist Confederate flag. Adult proves he’s an idiot who would fly a Confederate flag. pic.twitter.com/KXRicfbqg9
— TheDaily (@StopTheCriminal) April 14, 2021
Biden is set to retaliate against Russia tomorrow with steep financial penalties, including new prohibitions on banks trading Russian government debt. Dozens of Russian firms and individuals will be designated for supporting hacking and elex meddling.https://t.co/JBf0qOGrsf
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) April 15, 2021
The anticipated actions will include the formal accusation against Moscow’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, holding it responsible for the SolarWinds hack https://t.co/JBf0qOGrsf
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) April 15, 2021
Via Reddit, the latest from Jack Piece-of-Shit:
BREAKING: CNN Insider admits they hyped COVID to drive ratings. Hoped more people died. pic.twitter.com/U2PYlXNF0k
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 14, 2021
Ten Russian officials will be expelled from the U.S.
re: #26 jaunte
Ten Russian officials will be expelled from the U.S.
Should be many more. And their embassies would suffer “incidents”.
We gave everything we had to give. We reasoned, we shouted, we pleaded, we cried, we broke down & left the House Floor. But today, FL Republicans passed a bill not only banning trans kids from playing sports but subjecting kids whose sex may be disputed to genital inspections.
— Rep. Omari Hardy (@OmariJHardy) April 15, 2021
The party of obsessive creeps.
Lawyers for Wisconsin @GovEvers say ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s “nonsensical” motion opposing sanctions for her failed election-overturning lawsuit didn’t follow local court rules so “is itself sanctionable by this Court.” https://t.co/B8E2rlv480 pic.twitter.com/E9ZBAQYtkF
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 14, 2021
re: #28 jaunte
Another reason why I will never set foot in Florida.
re: #28 jaunte
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The party of obsessive creeps.
re: #31 plansbandc
Just vile. Those poor kids.
The GOP platform just seems to be one of tacit genocide against Trans kids, as well as sexually assaulting and traumatizing kids in general to reinforce their own personal draconian gender norms because ‘Murica.
And as I and others have pointed out before, this is all with the intentional backslide into making homophobia both legally and socially acceptable again.
re: #31 plansbandc
Just vile. Those poor kids.
Every kid. The bill says any child who’s biological sex is challenged.
Conservatives are legalising child sexual exploitation.
Let’s see how many churches line up behind it.
Shut this punk down.
A 23-Year-Old Coder Kept QAnon Online When No One Else Would
Nick Lim provides tech support to the U.S. networks of White nationalists and conspiracy theorists banned by the likes of Amazon.
No, $12k Is Not Enough To Make Me Move Back to West Virginia (Wonkette)
West Virginia is desperate for people. It is the only state in the country that has seen its population decline over the last 70 years. It’s about to lose one of its three congressional seats. And it has a particularly difficult time both keeping and attracting young, educated people.
Now, the state is trying a new way to get new residents: cash.
This week, the state announced a program called Ascend WV, which will give people who agree to move to West Virginia $12,000 cash. It also offers applicants other perks, including a year of passes to public hiking trails, rock climbing, and outdoor space with access to outdoor gear rentals, free access to a co-working space for a year, and continuing ed programs at WVU.
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Maybe if they didn’t pass some of the worst laws in the nation, and do things like threaten to kill the children of atheists, they might do a bit better.
Genital inspections is Republican speak for sanctioned pedophelia. https://t.co/pgvm6JsaCq
— JK Weston (@WestonJK) April 15, 2021
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
No, $12k Is Not Enough To Make Me Move Back to West Virginia (Wonkette)
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Maybe if they didn’t pass some of the worst laws in the nation, and do things like threaten to kill the children of atheists, they might do a bit better.
$12,000 isn’t enough to get me to move to West Virginia.
Even $120 million wouldn’t get me to set foot in such a backward place!
The actual text of Florida’s Sexually Assault Girls Act (PDF, five pages).
It only applies to assaulting girls.
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Every kid. The bill says any child who’s biological sex is challenged.
Conservatives are legalising child sexual exploitation.
Let’s see how many churches line up behind it.
We know the answer.
The overwhelming majority of churches will praise Jay-Zuss that Floridumb passed this sick perverted piece of crap!
re: #40 🌹UOJB!
We know the answer.
The overwhelming majority of churches will praise Jay-Zuss that Floridumb passed this sick perverted piece of crap!
But remember, we’re the immoral ones.
The South Dakota governor is falling all over herself in the past few days, trying to outdo Trump.
This is just the beginning, I think.
Perhaps it’s more the middle, if we think of the JBS and their era as the beginning of serious attempts to thwart modernism is post WWII America. WWII I’m taking as the inflection point in American history.
South Dakota - land of the hyper religious descendants of European immigrants, squatting on Native American land, with a governor who says she won’t let immigrants into her state.
re: #28 jaunte
The party of obsessive creeps.
Seems the only legislation that is ever passed by republican states relates to sex in some form or another. They are fixated by it.
re: #21 jaunte
Kid rolls up and asks adult to remove racist Confederate flag. Adult proves he’s an idiot who would fly a Confederate flag.
If you want to fly a Confederate flag as a private citizen on private property, I guess that is your good right. Even if you live in Wisconsin and it has f*ck all to do with tradition or heritage.
I just draw the line at using official property or funds to venerate and fetishize Confederate regalia and cancel the culture of slavery and sedition that it stands for.
So, in Czech COVID-related news, looks like Prague has achieved so-called “herd immunity”, according to two top epidemiologists. In addition, Cheb and Trutnov, two smallish towns near the Czech-German border, have almost certainly achieved it by now as well. In a way, not really a surprise, at least to me, as the virus has burned through the country like wildfire over the last year. I don’t know a single person who hasn’t had it.
A tsunami of lawsuits are now in the hands of the Administrative and Constitutional courts; most likely, everything will open up in the coming weeks as the Constitutional Court ruled last year that a plethora of the ongoing restrictions are, in fact, unconstitutional (mostly related to the closure of retail and service establishments, and those closures have been continued in defiance of the aforementioned ruling) and the government here is now bracing to pay out compensation to the tune of billions of dollars (well, in Czech koruna, not dollars, of course).
Oy vey, what a mess this is gonna be.
re: #45 Dr Lizardo
Prague has achieved herd immunity only if having it once confers lifetime immunity. Which doesn’t look likely. (I don’t know anyone who hasn’t had the flu at one time or another.)
re: #46 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Prague has achieved herd immunity only if having it once confers lifetime immunity. Which doesn’t look likely. (I don’t know anyone who hasn’t had the flu at one time or another.)
True. In any event, the “social end” of the epidemic is nigh. People are no longer following restrictions and yesterday, the head of the Czech police straight-up said they will no longer enforce most of the restrictions, as their lawyers told them the restrictions are unconstitutional.
And the way it works here, the Police Praesidium theoretically answers to the Interior Minister - unless a situation arises in which the Police Praesidium believes that the Interior Minister is issuing unconstitutional orders, in which case, the police are free to ignore such orders, which is what happened yesterday. And there’s not a damn thing the Interior Minister (or indeed, anyone else) can do about it.
One of these days I’ll actually be in position to post when people are actually awake.
Today is not this day, though I may be tempted to signal boost this one if I am up and online in 12 hours.
I don’t have a vote because when my family moved here 20 years ago, we INTENTIONALLY stayed outside town limits. I THINK she’s the frontrunner in her race, though.
I love the countryside here, but despise more of the PEOPLE every day.— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) 🏳️⚧️ (@chrysicat) April 15, 2021
As a reminder, I am in a bad place—the county was the one whose commission made the whole “the pandemic is over” press conference on the 13th—but said bad place is in Colorado.
That she’s able to appeal to those national identities is extra bad.
The rent cap in Berlin has been overturned by the German Constitutional Court.
Via GoogleTranslate:
According to information from Business Insider, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has ruled: The Berlin rent cap is unconstitutional. The Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court considers the law to be incompatible with the Basic Law and has therefore declared it null and void.
The reason: Regulations on the rent level for freely financed living space that can be offered on the free housing market fall under the competing legislative competence. The states are only authorized to legislate as long as and to the extent that the federal government has not made final use of its legislative competence. But that is exactly what the federal legislature finally regulated with the rental price law in paragraphs 556 to 561 BGB. Due to the blocking effect of federal law, there is no room for the legislative power of the states. Since the rent cap also essentially regulates the rent for unbound living space, it is void overall.
The red-red-green governed state of Berlin pushed ahead last year to curb the recent sharp rise in rents in the capital. The Berlin rent cap is so far unique in Germany. The law has always been hotly contested. Real estate groups and landlords’ associations doubted its legality and purpose.
The rent cap had the following effect in Berlin: Since February 23, 2020, rents for 1.5 million apartments have been frozen at the June 2019 level. From 2022 onwards, they may increase by a maximum of 1.3 percent annually. If an apartment is re-let, the landlord must adhere to new state-set upper limits and the last rent demanded. The second stage took effect on November 23, 2020: rents that are more than 20 percent above the upper limits are now prohibited by law. The regulation is limited to five years. This does not include new apartments that were ready for occupancy from January 1, 2014.
In May 2020, members of the Bundestag from the FDP and CDU / CSU submitted a norm review application to the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. A total of 284 MPs believe that the State of Berlin has exceeded its powers - tenancy law is a matter for the federal legislature. The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has now confirmed this view.
Source, in German: businessinsider.de
re: #50 Dr Lizardo
The rent cap in Berlin has been overturned by the German Constitutional Court.
Via GoogleTranslate:
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This is what you get when you let Americans write your Basic Law with an eye towards making communism forever illegal, maybe?
And if so, is there any process for amending the thing that would still allow you to keep the various N*zi symbols illegal?
re: #48 Chrysicat
OK, today is “this day” by definition.
Today, however, is not “that day”.
And I should really get to bed because if I’m making simple mistakes like that, my brain is 10 percent shut down already.
re: #51 Chrysicat
Even worse, apparently the hapless tenants are now going to have to pay back the difference to their landlords. Oof.
I lived in Berlin for a couple years. When I left, in 2011, Berlin was still pretty affordable (at least the Kreuzberg district was back then) but obviously, it looks like things have changed for the worse.
re: #53 Dr Lizardo
Even worse, apparently the hapless tenants are now going to have to pay back the difference to their landlords. Oof.
I lived in Berlin for a couple years. When I left, in 2011, Berlin was still pretty affordable (at least the Kreuzberg district was back then) but obviously, it looks like things have changed for the worse.
It is a very attractive market for investors, often international investors and it is going the way of London or Singapore.
Frankfurt is much the same, especially with the European Central Bank headquarters there
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is a very attractive market for investors, often international investors and it is going the way of London or Singapore.
That explains it.
Glad I live in a relatively unattractive city then. And the building itself is a bytové družstvo, IOW a collective owned by the people who own the apartments. That’s still fairly common in my neck of the woods.
So here’s some numbers from the Czech Ministry of Health. Breaks down as follows:
Age group: Female/ Male / Total number of deaths (then as a %)
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0-14: 1 (0.0%) / 1 (0.0%) / 2 (0.0%)
15-24: 1 (0.0%) / 3 (0.0%) / 4 (0.0%)
25-34: 17 (0.1%) / 35 (0.2%) / 52 (0.2%)
35-44: 63 (0.5%) / 105 (0.7%) / 168 (0.6%)
45-54: 204 (1.7%) / 368 (2.3%) / 572 (2.0%)
55-64: 593 (5.0%) / 1,357 (8.4%) / 1,950 (7.0%)
65-74: 2,357 (19.8%) / 4,781 (29.7%) / 7,138 (25.5%)
75-84: 4,427 (37.2%) / 6,165 (38.3%) / 10,592 (37.8%)
85 and older: 4,241 (35.6%) / 3,293 (20.4%) / 7,534 (26.9%)
From the age of 65 and above, 25,263 people died in the Czech Republic; that is 90.2% of the total number of deaths in the Czech Republic from the COVID-19 pandemic. The hardest hit demographic were men between 75 - 84.
And for those wondering why Czechs often make dark-humored jokes along the lines of “Pension reform at last!”….well, there you have it. The overwhelming majority of the dead here are senior citizens - the only thing the stats don’t show is that a significant percentage of those seniors who died were residing in retirement homes.
Governor Ricketts needs another job.
Gov. Ricketts designates Nebraska as ‘sanctuary state’ for gun rights (Omaha World-Herald)
LINCOLN — Doubling down on his pro-gun rights credentials, Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a symbolic proclamation Wednesday designating Nebraska as a “Second Amendment Sanctuary State.”
The proclamation comes as President Joe Biden recently announced a plan to address gun violence.
A growing number of Nebraska counties have adopted similar “sanctuary” resolutions. A bill also is pending in the Nebraska Legislature to allow counties to opt out of the state requirement that gun owners register and take a gun safety course to carry concealed weapons.
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My county was the first in the state to adopt so-called “sanctuary” laws.
If my county went in on opting out of safety courses, I might have to beg y’all to help us move the hell out of here.
Texas Senate votes 27-4 to approve SB 20, giving hotel guests with a license to carry the right keep guns in hotel rooms, transport them from their cars.
Hotels could not ban guns but could require guns to be carried concealed or in cases.#txlege— Chuck Lindell (@chucklindell) April 14, 2021
private property rights are inviolable eh?
re: #59 Dangerman
Texas Senate votes 27-4 to approve SB 20, giving hotel guests with a license to carry the right keep guns in hotel rooms, transport them from their cars
If you want to own a gun to defend your home and family I guess that is your good right. But if you feel unsafe in a motel without a gun, then it is best that you just stay home with your comforting Arsenal of Freedom
re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If you want to own a gun to defend your home and family I guess that is your good right. But if you feel unsafe in a motel without a gun, then it is best that you just stay home with your comforting Arsenal of Freedom
American ‘gun rights’ have never been about self defence or safety. They have always been about preserving the right of white men to kill people they don’t like.
re: #62 Renaissance_Man
American ‘gun rights’ have never been about self defence or safety. They have always been about preserving the right of white men to kill people they don’t like.
there is nothing about unrestricted right to carry that has anything to do with a well regulated militia.
and not unlike the slaveholders of the old south, the right to export that practice to wherever they go
re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
there is nothing about unrestricted right to carry that has anything to do with a well regulated militia.
Their argument, such as it is, is that this refers to training and has no bearing on any restriction of the right to keep and bear arms itself. I, of course, find this argument to be utter bullshit, but “originalist” court interpretation has consistently held this opinion.
re: #64 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Their argument, such as it is, is that this refers to training and has no bearing on any restriction of the right to keep and bear arms itself. I, of course, find this argument to be utter bullshit, but “originalist” court interpretation has consistently held this opinion.
It clearly indicates that there are certain regulations and restrictions that accompany the Right to Bear Arms.
re: #62 Renaissance_Man
American ‘gun rights’ have never been about self defence or safety. They have always been about preserving the right of white men to kill unarmed people they don’t like.
re: #66 Dangerman
American ‘gun rights’ have never been about self defence or safety. They have always been about preserving the right of white men to kill unarmed people they don’t like.
Stand Your Ground!!!
re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It clearly indicates that there are certain regulations and restrictions that accompany the Right to Bear Arms.
this is why i never bother to argue the 2A.
the other side will never change their bastardized interpretation
approaching this as gun accountability rather than gun control by enforcing personal responsibility - control your weapon at all times, or else lose your freedom, finances and future - works exactly the same no matter how you interpret the 2A
re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It clearly indicates that there are certain regulations and restrictions that accompany the Right to Bear Arms.
See, you know that, and I know that, but the vast unwashed totally paper over that and focus on the “shall not be infringed” part and refuse to admit that every other right in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights has been restricted in some form or fashion by legislation or the Supreme Court. There is literally no legal justification for saying the Second Amendment is the only thing in the Most Holy Constitution that cannot be regulated.
re: #69 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
See, you know that, and I know that, but the vast unwashed totally paper over that and focus on the “shall not be infringed” part and refuse to admit that every other right in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights has been restricted in some form or fashion by legislation or the Supreme Court. There is literally no legal justification for saying the Second Amendment is the only thing in the Most Holy Constitution that cannot be regulated.
No, because the words of the Second Amendment aren’t relevant. The deeper meaning has always been that white men can do as they please, including killing others. Changing the words doesn’t do anything. Changing the laws might be more useful, but only up to a point, because at some point the law runs up against the deepest principle of American law, which is, again, white men can do as they please, including killing others.
re: #69 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
See, you know that, and I know that, but the vast unwashed totally paper over that and focus on the “shall not be infringed” part and refuse to admit that every other right in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights has been restricted in some form or fashion by legislation or the Supreme Court. There is literally no legal justification for saying the Second Amendment is the only thing in the Most Holy Constitution that cannot be regulated.
hold them accountable when the fuck up
severely
After a few cases, the lazy and merely careless will clean up their act - they will learn to take their personal responsibility more seriously - or else.
The rest of us, who were already mostly responsible, won’t have to do anything at all.
re: #71 Dangerman
hold them accountable when the fuck up
severelyAfter a few cases, the lazy and merely careless will clean up their act - they will learn to take their personal responsibility more seriously - or else.
The rest of us, who were already mostly responsible, won’t have to do anything at all.
This will not happen though. I mean, look at the fact that people can leave guns laying around and have kids kill themselves or others “playing” with them and NOTHING happens to the parents. If they won’t care about the kids do you really think there will ever be enough political will to change anything?
Kim Godwin, an African American woman, is going to be the head of ABC news.
re: #72 William Lewis
This will not happen though. I mean, look at the fact that people can leave guns laying around and have kids kill themselves or others “playing” with them and NOTHING happens to the parents. If they won’t care about the kids do you really think there will ever be enough political will to change anything?
you are right, this is the uphill battle.
imo it’s way more possible to win this one rather than bans, limits, databases, registration, insurance and all the other common sense but not a chance issues.
Pitting responsible gun owners against irresponsible gun owners is an easier argument to make because (imo) it doesn’t touch off the instant visceral reactions. and it can easily be compared to cars and understood as i dont lose my car or license when someone else goes to jail for dui.
i’ve been saying for years if responsible gun owners would help weed out the demonstrably irresponsible, we’d all be better off.
start by flipping the script
Republicans protect mass shooters, the careless and the reckless.
Democrats want to protect everybody.
R’s are against law enforcement.
They will find any excuse not to do anything at all.
They hate the second amendment. They don’t understand it, so they have perverted it.
Democrats are pro 2nd amendment. We want to protect responsible gun owners, non owners, and get early help for those who need it before they act out.
re: #72 William Lewis
look at the fact that people can leave guns laying around and have kids kill themselves or others “playing” with them and NOTHING happens to the parents.
How can you liberals be so heartless? Isn’t the loss of their children punishment enough?
I really hope @mattgatez isn’t paying for sex with any sort of campaign funds… pic.twitter.com/E9L8pufYv3
— Trevor is Proudly Blocked By David Sirota (@ObamaClintonDem) April 14, 2021
re: #77 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Something hawkish about the feeder this morning.
Pretty sure it’s a Cooper’s hawk.
re: #17 jaunte
Native Born Americans.
Native Americans can’t be reached for comment. White guys who came from Europe tried wiping them out and were highly successful in expropriating territory - nearly all of the US for their own purposes.
We’ve got fuckers like Noem in South Dakota railing about immigrants and native born Americans all while actual Native Americans are sidelined on reservations and the US government refusing to uphold treaties ceding land to the Native Americans because they found gold in them thar hills. See Black Hills, Treaty of Laramie, etc.
re: #79 jeffreyw
Pretty sure it’s a Cooper’s hawk.
Likely. If not than a Sharp-shinned would be my second guess. If I recall correctly the main thing to look for to differentiate them is the shape of the bottom of the tail.
You’re the fucking reason they have to be there. Did no one explain that to you? https://t.co/Q1GOCw5XgM
— steven pasquale (@StevePasquale) April 15, 2021
re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How can you liberals be so heartless? Isn’t the loss of their children punishment enough?
You’re sarcastic, but this is what I think. If parents are going to let their little kids shoot themselves based on “God’s Will”, if they care so little for them to let them die for their death cult, then I don’t care either.
People call me cruel for that, but, how could I care for their children, if they don’t?
re: #88 Sherlock Hound
You’re sarcastic, but this is what I think. If parents are going to let their little kids shoot themselves based on “God’s Will”, if they care so little for them to let them die for their death cult, then I don’t care either.
People call me cruel for that, but, how could I care for their children, if they don’t?
The problem is that kind of carelessness with guns threatens other people’s safety too
Just like anti-vaxers don’t only threaten other anti-vaxers
One of the weirdest things I’ve seen is Playbook leading with a poll showing Americans agree with Biden’s definition of infrastructure, not theirs, then immediately condemning Biden as some Orwellian manipulator for using that same definition. pic.twitter.com/HcPZ9L6nd2
— Jesse Lee (@JesseCharlesLee) April 15, 2021
Wow. This was missing link.
Connects Manafort providing data to Kilimnik to Russian Intel:
“During the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, Kilimnik provided the Russian Intelligence Services with sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy”
h/t @justinhendrix https://t.co/RwpX3H3NYJ— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) April 15, 2021
Raise your hand if you never paid $1000 for ice cream or salad.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 15, 2021
Being a good public performer is not the same as excelling at governance, @paulwaldman1 writes.
“If Trump taught us anything, it’s that you can put on a captivating show and still be a disaster of a president.” https://t.co/9N6sVIz796— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) April 13, 2021
A quick check-in with U.S. adults reveals that contrary to the prevailing view on Twitter, the decision to pause the J&J vaccine💉 due to a small number of blood clotting issues actually makes Americans more, not less, confident in the COVID-19 vaccines. pic.twitter.com/S8KtiVyOXR
— Echelon Insights (@EchelonInsights) April 14, 2021
re: #94 Belafon
Trump was awful as a showman. He was the proverbial train wreck that everyone watched because they were watching the bodies piling up and getting pulled out of the wreckage. It was morbid curiosity, and the media lapped it up because they didn’t have to work for juicy quotes. Trump openly gave it because he didn’t care about facts, logic, reasoning, or considered consideration.
He was a conman. He was a criminal. None of that changed when he entered the WH. His crimes just got wider in scope and scale.
re: #96 lawhawk
Trump was nonetheless skilled at manipulating the media and getting them to accept his madness and blovating as if it were somehow normal and acceptable because it was coming from the White House.
SARSCoV2 is viable for 21 days in blood, mucus, semen and urine, but just 24 hours in breast milk. It also remains infectious longer during winter, spring, and fall conditions than in summer. New research https://t.co/IX7sNfc5el pic.twitter.com/ihbrO2nv2C
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) April 14, 2021
re: #96 lawhawk
Trump was awful as a showman. He was the proverbial train wreck that everyone watched because they were watching the bodies piling up and getting pulled out of the wreckage. It was morbid curiosity, and the media lapped it up because they didn’t have to work for juicy quotes. Trump openly gave it because he didn’t care about facts, logic, reasoning, or considered consideration.
He was a conman. He was a criminal. None of that changed when he entered the WH. His crimes just got wider in scope and scale.
And now they miss it. Even the Republicans in office miss it. They complain that Biden doesn’t have any scandals. By mid-April of 2017, Trump already had six high level resignations/firings, including his first National Security Advisor. It was good cover for not having to do anything in office for them.
Headlines: Thousands of cases of “breakthrough infections” cause concern.
Reality: There were always going to be breakthrough cases, but 6000 out of more than 66 million vaccinated shows that we’re getting more than 99% vaccination protection against infection.
CDC identifies only 5,800 Covid-19 infections after the final vaccine, out of more than 66 million. And those who got it had mild cases. https://t.co/gvBu6s1mlQ
— Eliza Collins (@elizacollins1) April 15, 2021
re: #74 Dangerman
What I’ll suggest is to look at the fight to license cars and drivers in the early 20th century. The libertarians of the time screamed that it was unconstitutional to license either because that limited peoples freedom to travel. Eventually they lost. A similar approach might work with firearms now.
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump was nonetheless skilled at manipulating the media and getting them to accept his madness and blovating as if it were somehow normal and acceptable because it was coming from the White House.
The Presstitutes loved Trump because he made lots of $$$$$ for them. They loved documenting every outrageous thing that traitor did. They glorified him for being an asshole.
Which is why they hate Joe. Joe does what we sent him to the Oval Office for. He does his job with dignity and respect.
So did any PoC and most whites north of Charleston.
And then suddenly all of the above finally grasped that 5 generations of southern whites either did NOT agree it was a settled concept, or were going to take advantage of its being so to basically take Alabama’s laws national.— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) 🏳️⚧️ (@chrysicat) April 15, 2021
It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you work together.
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ポスターを貼ったりチラシを置きはじめたりしました！#GodzillaVsKong #ゴジスト#どっちもお仕事中#コングもいるよ#GODZILLA #コング#5月14日公開#公開楽しみ pic.twitter.com/koqR3iwSPM— ゴジラ・ストアTokyo (@GodzillaS_Tokyo) April 15, 2021
re: #105 Dangerman
There were 1000s who should have been arrested for storming the Capitol. That’s the bottom line. The FBI wants to cheerlead that they’ve tracked down a couple hundred of them.
They should never have been allowed to slink away - walking through the police/security cordon to flee to all over the country. And those responsible for inciting the crowds are still free to continue inciting (see also, Trump, DJ; Trump DJ Jr., etc.)
Prediction:
Evangelical Twitter is going to come stark staring unglued next Tuesday when Beth Allison Barr’s book “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” comes out. Here’s an interview with her on NPR this morning:
Direct link: https://t.co/ISLoJl15Gz
— Kristin Du Mez (@kkdumez) April 15, 2021
I know for some of you this interview is going to sound “Jesusy” but keep with it, she’s going to rip complementarianism a new asshole towards the end. I’ve been making the argument for years now that comp’s promoters and defenders can’t describe how comp works for single, divorced or widowed women because, at bottom, comp is just repurposed patriarchy. And if the promoters of complementarianism just flat out said that every woman is under the authority of any man, the cat would be out of the bag.
Currently, I’m going after Tim Keller, former pastor of a big Evangelical church in NYC, and someone Nick Kristof (NYTimes columnist) uncritically interviews for his column about once a year. Keller’s been going on for two weeks now about how sex outside of marriage is dehumanizing. He’s been mixing it up for the last day or so with Chrissy Stroop. Just going to throw in one exchange:
We covered this Chrissy. Are you saying that to tell people they wrong about sexuality- is doing violence? If someone says to you “I don’t need to accept my sexual desires—I will suppress them”—won’t you tell them that they are wrong to do that?
— Timothy Keller (@timkellernyc) April 14, 2021
Got it. So you would never tell people that they are wrong in how they are interpreting their sexual feelings?
— Timothy Keller (@timkellernyc) April 14, 2021
Keller’s been part of pushing comp since the beginning of the “Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood” and I hijacked the discussion to ask Keller bluntly about his endorsement of complementarianism and how it’s supposed to work for not-married women. He hasn’t responded, which is is no damned surprise whatsoever.
re: #110 lawhawk
There were 1000s who should have been arrested for storming the Capitol. That’s the bottom line. The FBI wants to cheerlead that they’ve tracked down a couple hundred of them.
They should never have been allowed to slink away - walking through the police/security cordon to flee to all over the country. And those responsible for inciting the crowds are still free to continue inciting (see also, Trump, DJ; Trump DJ Jr., etc.)
And Hee Hawley can continue with his sedition.
re: #110 lawhawk
There were 1000s who should have been arrested for storming the Capitol. That’s the bottom line. The FBI wants to cheerlead that they’ve tracked down a couple hundred of them.
They should never have been allowed to slink away - walking through the police/security cordon to flee to all over the country. And those responsible for inciting the crowds are still free to continue inciting (see also, Trump, DJ; Trump DJ Jr., etc.)
It would have taken only a few hours to scan the ID and cite every person as they left the capitol. Follow up arrests would have been a breeze.
⚠️BREAKING:
*U.S. JOBLESS CLAIMS RISE BY 576,000 LAST WEEK; EST. 700,000
*U.S. RETAIL SALES JUMP +9.8% IN MARCH; EST. +5.9%
*U.S. CORE RETAIL SALES SURGE +8.4% IN MARCH, EST. +5.0%$DIA $SPY $QQQ pic.twitter.com/dVmxxDcNO8
re: #106 🌹UOJB!
The Presstitutes loved Trump because he made lots of $$$$$ for them. They loved documenting every outrageous thing that traitor did*. They glorified him for being an asshole.
Which is why they hate Joe. Joe does what we sent him to the Oval Office for. He does his job with dignity and respect.
*but they reported on it all as “normal”
re: #114 darthstar
Nice to see but unsustainable. There is such a thing as too hot of an economy. We haven’t had problems with inflation for quite some time, but at this rate of growth it’s probably unavoidable.
re: #83 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Likely. If not than a Sharp-shinned would be my second guess. If I recall correctly the main thing to look for to differentiate them is the shape of the bottom of the tail.
I was going by size - cooper’s are crow sized. Sharpies are closer to bluejays. I don’t see light tips on the tail feathers but juvenile coloration confounds, not to mention the low rez and poorly lit. It could be a female sharpie, they are larger than the males.
re: #116 JC1
Nice to see but unsustainable. There is such a thing as too hot of an economy. We haven’t had problems with inflation for quite some time, but at this rate of growth it’s probably unavoidable.
True, but how much of this economic “growth” is simply a rebound back to “normal” levels of activity after an entire year of pandemic-related crashing?
(Factors which I am sure most economists have already figured into their estimates and forecasts)
re: #118 Jay C
True, but how much of this economic “growth” is simply a rebound back to “normal” levels of activity after an entire year of pandemic-related crashing?
(Factors which I am sure most economists have already figured into their estimates and forecasts)
There must be a lot of pent-up demand: people have been buying little else but groceries and ordering from Amazon for a year now.
re: #116 JC1
Nice to see but unsustainable. There is such a thing as too hot of an economy. We haven’t had problems with inflation for quite some time, but at this rate of growth it’s probably unavoidable.
We are nowhere close to those conditions. Let me know when minimum wage job salaries are growing at 5+% per year.
re: #116 JC1
Nice to see but unsustainable. There is such a thing as too hot of an economy. We haven’t had problems with inflation for quite some time, but at this rate of growth it’s probably unavoidable.
re: #118 Jay C
True, but how much of this economic “growth” is simply a rebound back to “normal” levels of activity after an entire year of pandemic-related crashing?
(Factors which I am sure most economists have already figured into their estimates and forecasts)
Inflation of any materiality will lag. A lot.
Won’t show up/be detectable for 2-3 years (imo)
re: #111 mmmirele
Who the actual fuck is that asshat Timothy Keller to tell someone else how they should interpret their sexual feelings? Who died and made him the Supreme Being?
Timmy can blow it straight out his ass.
re: #122 Dr Lizardo
Who the actual fuck is that asshat Timothy Keller to tell someone else how they should interpret their sexual feelings? Who died and made him the Supreme Being?
Timmy can blow out straight out his ass.
Someone should ask Keller about Gaetz.
re: #122 Dr Lizardo
Who the actual fuck is that asshat Timothy Keller to tell someone else how they should interpret their sexual feelings? Who died and made him the Supreme Being?
Timmy can blow it straight out his ass.
Isn’t that pretty much what the priesthood has set itself up to be since history began?
Those who are interpreting the Divine Will of the Supreme Being(s) and thus are their proxy (who should be obeyed without question) on this material plane?
re: #110 lawhawk
There were 1000s who should have been arrested for storming the Capitol. That’s the bottom line. The FBI wants to cheerlead that they’ve tracked down a couple hundred of them.
They should never have been allowed to slink away - walking through the police/security cordon to flee to all over the country. And those responsible for inciting the crowds are still free to continue inciting (see also, Trump, DJ; Trump DJ Jr., etc.)
I remain sceptical that any of them will serve significant time at all. Even those that are in custody now are going to get time served or acquitted. American laws and norms just don’t think their actions are crimes if done by white people.
re: #122 Dr Lizardo
Who the actual fuck is that asshat Timothy Keller to tell someone else how they should interpret their sexual feelings? Who died and made him the Supreme Being?
Timmy can blow it straight out his ass.
Just another Pulpit Pimp who has a lot of kinky skeletons in his closet.
re: #104 William Lewis
What I’ll suggest is to look at the fight to license cars and drivers in the early 20th century. The libertarians of the time screamed that it was unconstitutional to license either because that limited peoples freedom to travel. Eventually they lost. A similar approach might work with firearms now.
i get the idea.
imo not gonna work
- there werent already 3-400m cars in existence
- “eventually” requires a continued commitment
- cars arent explicitly in the constitution - protected or otherwise
and we’re dealing with this, symbolic though it is at the moment:
Doubling down on his pro-gun rights credentials, Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) signed a symbolic proclamation designating Nebraska as a “Second Amendment Sanctuary State,” the Omaha World-Herald reports.
Such a resolution means “that a state, county or city will not enforce federal gun laws they consider to be too restrictive.”
let the governor argue against ‘clearly, though every gun owner is personally responsible for what happens with his gun, right?’
no matter what convoluted idea these people come up with, “all rights come with responsibilities” is something they can’t argue away
and again - the goal is to reduce the number of deaths and injuries by culling out only the nutters, careless, and reckless, leaving the rest of us alone
re: #128 🌹UOJB!
Just another Pulpit Pimp who has a lot of kinky skeletons in his closet.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
re: #127 Renaissance_Man
I remain sceptical that any of them will serve significant time at all. Even those that are in custody now are going to get time served or acquitted. American laws and norms just don’t think their actions are crimes if done by white people.
But they went after white people. They killed a white cop.
Derek Chauvin speaks for first time at his murder trial, says he won’t testify as defense rests its case https://t.co/hFgi2zPOJu
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) April 15, 2021
Invokes the 5A.
Up next? Closing arguments. Defense effort to try and distract with everything including the Chewbacca defense and the kitchen sink might not be enough to convince the jury that he murdered George Floyd. Prosecutors will have the last say in closing. They’ll get to sum up all the evidence, facts, and show that Chauvin violated policy and practice, and those actions killed Floyd.
re: #120 Belafon
We are nowhere close to those conditions. Let me know when minimum wage job salaries are growing at 5+% per year.
Wages are a small component of inflation, and may never grow that quickly in the US given increased automation and globalization. Wealth for people in the market or in real estate is growing that quickly. I agree that we’re not there yet, but there are some concerning developments like lumber and copper prices trading at all time highs.
CPI hasn’t budged much yet, but at this rate of growth and stimulus there will be at least a short term spike. The question is what happens once the stimulus measures expire and how the FED reacts.
We’re back with this baffling bulkshit again?
BREAKING: U.S. Govt trafficks baby parts for science experiments. @ediemheipel highlights some of the horrors found in @JudicialWatch’s discovery today in the @FDRLSThttps://t.co/O1gEXayqv9
— Rachel Semmel (@rachelsemmel) April 15, 2021
re: #126 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Isn’t that pretty much what the priesthood has set itself up to be since history began?
Those who are interpreting the Divine Will of the Supreme Being(s) and thus are their proxy (who should be obeyed without question) on this material plane?
does each generation get it ab initio from the supreme being, or is it handed down from the last generation
if it’s the former, they’re saying they, and only they, hear god talking to them directly.
non religious folk have a word for that
if it’s the latter then they don’t ‘know’ anything. Everything they think they know about religion was taught to them. By someone else. How did they learn it to teach it to you?
None of these generations heard or saw anything first hand. It’s just interpreting what other people maybe saw and mostly just what they say that other people before them heard or saw or told them.
It’s appeal to apparent authority. And not even that good authority because it was generation upon generation of interpretations of a questionable and multiple times translated, edited, and reorganized book. Those interpretations and translations themselves were argued about and *compromised* and evolved over time.
re: #134 lawhawk
We’re back with this baffling bulkshit again?
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It’s from the assholes at “Judicial Watch”.
Just waiting for another O’Queef edited video.
re: #131 Belafon
But they went after white people. They killed a white cop.
Doesn’t matter. The greater goal is what matters, and the greater goal was to reassert their place as the dominant caste, to violently overthrow the usurpers who would take that dominant position from them. And in America, that’s not a crime, it’s just their natural right.
Michigan is the worst Covid hotspot in the country right now. Cases and hospitalisations are through the roof, despite vaccinations being on pace with the national average. But there are no restrictions, because the Governor is rightly scared that imposing more restrictions will lead to violence against her. White terrorists tried to kidnap her violently the last time she did the right thing, and they haven’t faced consequences, so she doesn’t want to risk herself or her family again.The message is clear to all of us - trying to make white conservatives subject to laws is not what America is about. White conservatives don’t have to follow laws set by the rest of you, regardless of elections, regardless of pandemics, because America belongs to them, not you.
In America, these terrorists win.
re: #122 Dr Lizardo
Who the actual fuck is that asshat Timothy Keller to tell someone else how they should interpret their sexual feelings? Who died and made him the Supreme Being?
Timmy can blow it straight out his ass.
He is basing that on his patriarchal interpretation of the Bible.
Remember that the Biblical view of society is based on a group of migratory Middle Eastern animal herders, and believes that approach is totally relevant and applicable to our modern lives.
Judge in Chauvin case warns that a mistrial may be called if the prosecutors use their rebuttal witness to attack defense claims around CO poisoning. It’s a procedural thing - prosecutors can’t get two bites of the apple when you’re putting on your case, but prosecutors are trying to claim that the defense opened the door by claiming this. Defense argues that they had already indicated that they might go this route pre-trial.
Prosecution would like to recall pulmonologist Dr. Tobin to bring the point home. Defense doesn’t want that to happen. #DerekChauvinTrial #GeorgeFloyd
— Laura Coates (@thelauracoates) April 15, 2021
How Scandal-Plagued Matt Gaetz Became ‘Excommunicado’ at Fox News
Sucks to be you, Matt!
While some House Democrats have drafted legislation expanding the Supreme Court to 13, Speaker Pelosi has quashed that effort, instead referring to the Biden commission instead.
News: PELOSI says she does not support the bill to expand the supreme court, and won’t bring it to the floor.
says she supports the president’s commission.— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) April 15, 2021
This is likely to prevent the GOP from doing ads that the Democrats want to pack the courts, but commissions are also a way for a politician to claim that they’re doing something without any interest in doing the thing they’re studying.
With a razor thin margin, Democratic leaders have to pick and choose their spots, especially with Manchin and Sinema both playing games with the process by continuing to support the horrible filibuster process that means that reconciliation is the only way to get key legislation done. Regular order is not possible thanks to the obstructionist/sabotaging GOP.
re: #137 Renaissance_Man
But you’re missing the other important ingredient: They will be tried in DC.
TFG was ILLEGITIMATE from day one.
He was never the rightful or duly elected president of the United States.
He was an asset of our enemy, and did more damage to the United States than all of its previous presidents COMBINED.
He was a selfish, callous, ignorant moron who https://t.co/4t5Vh9dXQ8— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) April 15, 2021
That’s some serious gun control right there… imagine the horror if this theocratic dumbass shot himself or one of his staffers on live tv.
FFS! Finger off the damn trigger, you theocratic chucklehead. https://t.co/X1uD8YpLbP
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 15, 2021
re: #75 jeffreyw
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re: #144 lawhawk
That’s some serious gun control right there… imagine the horror if this theocratic dumbass shot himself on live tv.
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Aw shit. He didn’t do the R. Budd Dwyer Thing on live TV.
re: #145 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Western good morning!
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That’s Henry.
/no, sorry
re: #145 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Western good morning!
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It’s a lupine. Maybe L. succulentus?
re: #110 lawhawk
There were 1000s who should have been arrested for storming the Capitol. That’s the bottom line. The FBI wants to cheerlead that they’ve tracked down a couple hundred of them.
They should never have been allowed to slink away - walking through the police/security cordon to flee to all over the country. And those responsible for inciting the crowds are still free to continue inciting (see also, Trump, DJ; Trump DJ Jr., etc.)
There were only about 800 who stormed the Capitol — at least, that’s the number I keep seeing — but I’d have been thrilled to see them arrested as they left.
(Did the police have the numbers to do that? I hear that there was someone hampering all the attempts to do anything.)
re: #149 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
There were only about 800 who stormed the Capitol — at least, that’s the number I keep seeing — but I’d have been thrilled to see them arrested as they left.
(Did the police have the numbers to do that? I hear that there was someone hampering all the attempts to do anything.)
17 requests for backup in 78 minutes.
Gee, I wonder who ignored those requests for help?????
re: #110 lawhawk
There were 1000s who should have been arrested for storming the Capitol. …
They should never have been allowed to slink away - walking through the police/security cordon to flee to all over the country.
That is one of those questions that make my head hurt. Would have been dead easy to ID or even detain them at that point once things had calmed down and additional security was available.
Or was it?
re: #148 calochortus
It’s a lupine. Maybe L. succulentus?
obligatory:
Dennis Moore: Don’t try to play for time.
Parson: I’m not, you mean the flower lupin?
re: #139 lawhawk
Judge in Chauvin case warns that a mistrial may be called if the prosecutors use their rebuttal witness to attack defense claims around CO poisoning. It’s a procedural thing - prosecutors can’t get two bites of the apple when you’re putting on your case, but prosecutors are trying to claim that the defense opened the door by claiming this. Defense argues that they had already indicated that they might go this route pre-trial.
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Can they mention who was holding him down in a place where CO was going to poison him?
re: #144 lawhawk
That’s some serious gun control right there… imagine the horror if this theocratic dumbass shot himself or one of his staffers on live tv.
Damnit! I’m in friggin’ Sweden, even I know the commandment:
“Thou shalt keep thy finger on the finger guard until thou are ready to fire the firearm”
re: #154 Teukka
Damnit! I’m in friggin’ Sweden, even I know the commandment:
“Thou shalt keep thy finger on the finger guard until thou are ready to fire the firearm”
He’s got his finger on the trigger of both the firearm and the taser.
The prosecution and defense have now rested in the Derek Chauvin case. The closing arguments and jury deliberations will begin on Monday.
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 15, 2021
re: #153 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Can they mention who was holding him down in a place where CO was going to poison him?
The person who made the defense claims around CO poisoning couldn’t even say whether the nearest car was running.
re: #153 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Can they mention who was holding him down in a place where CO was going to poison him?
the defense witness himself doesn’t think it’s all that plausable
- speculated
- contributed
- factor was one of several…that could have played a role
his testimony goes downhill from there
re: #144 lawhawk
That’s some serious gun control right there… imagine the horror if this theocratic dumbass shot himself or one of his staffers on live tv.
I realise that this is totally normal here, but it always makes me cringe to note that this is a totally normal thing for an American preacher to address. Because in America, white supremacy, guns, American Christianity, and police violence aren’t separate issues - they’re all part of the same issue.
re: #158 Dangerman
the defense witness himself doesn’t think it’s all that plausable
- speculated
- contributed
- factor was one of several…that could have played a rolehis testimony goes downhill from there
I heard the testimony… but I was referring to what the defense might say about it — if they can’t call someone to out-and-out refute it.
re: #155 lawhawk
He’s got his finger on the trigger of both the firearm and the taser.
:headdesks violently:
Some more good news.
We’ve reached a tentative agreement with Holtec International to safely, thoroughly, and rapidly dismantle the Indian Point nuclear power facility in the Hudson Valley.
This plan is responsible, exceeds federal standards, and will ensure the safety of millions of New Yorkers.— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) April 15, 2021
re: #144 lawhawk
That’s some serious gun control right there… imagine the horror if this theocratic dumbass shot himself or one of his staffers on live tv.
I continue to be amazed that Pat Robertson is still alive.
re: #162 nines09
In the interim, this will mean an increase in natgas reliance - more COx, NOx emissions.
re: #163 Dangerman
is it ok if i was praying instead of headdesking?
Depends on the prayer in question…
@mattgaetz - is this about right or am I missing anything? pic.twitter.com/GULkiCXxbb
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 15, 2021
hi
I just got back from the cardiologist. As you can see, I lived.
The VA failed to send any of the medical paperwork so I got another EKG this morning. Everything was fine. I will be doing a stress test in a couple weeks. The doc here comes from Colorado twice a month.
re: #167 darthstar
FYI - one of the developers I work with turned me onto this site as I needed to do a technical design diagram and I suck at dragging and dropping flow chart shapes. But I can script it quite easily.
Couldn’t resist…
Dammit, I’m in friggin’ Sweden, and even I know the commandment “Thou shalt keep thy finger on the finger guard until thou are ready to fire the firearm”… Or the taser, for that matter…
— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) April 15, 2021
re: #167 darthstar
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was this just an inside joke, trying to be clever/cute?
or an actual attempt to set up something defensible?
@mattgaetz - is this about right or am I missing anything? pic.twitter.com/GULkiCXxbb
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 15, 2021
re: #171 Dangerman
was this just an inside joke, trying to be clever/cute?
or an actual attempt to set up something defensible?
I don’t know…but I plan on creating pie charts every time he comes up with a new excuse now that I have an easy way to script them out.
Today’s shape… cuttlefish. Also saw a celebrity… @50cent ! pic.twitter.com/FpvlKlVZIX
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 15, 2021
re: #133 JC1
Wages are a small component of inflation, and may never grow that quickly in the US given increased automation and globalization. Wealth for people in the market or in real estate is growing that quickly. I agree that we’re not there yet, but there are some concerning developments like lumber and copper prices trading at all time highs.
CPI hasn’t budged much yet, but at this rate of growth and stimulus there will be at least a short term spike. The question is what happens once the stimulus measures expire and how the FED reacts.
The fed has made it clear they will not raise rates until CPI is above 2% for more than just one or two months.
re: #144 lawhawk
That’s some serious gun control right there… imagine the horror if this theocratic dumbass shot himself or one of his staffers on live tv.
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re: #173 darthstar
What app do you use to record your path?
Yesterday, we heard all sorts of theories of why #GeorgeFloyd died -other than being killed by #DerekChauvin kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes, 29 seconds.
Defense testimony about to get started for day. Today, they’ll blame phases of the moon and Hillary Clinton’s emails.— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) April 15, 2021
re: #114 darthstar
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*U.S. JOBLESS CLAIMS RISE BY 576,000 LAST WEEK; EST. 700,000
*U.S. RETAIL SALES JUMP +9.8% IN MARCH; EST. +5.9%
*U.S. CORE RETAIL SALES SURGE +8.4% IN MARCH, EST. +5.0%$DIA $SPY $QQQ pic.twitter.com/dVmxxDcNO8
im not understanding this jobless claims rise by 576k in the tweet.
i think it’s backwards
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits tumbled last week to 576,000, a post-COVID low and a hopeful sign that layoffs are easing as the economy recovers from the pandemic recession.
The Labor Department said Thursday that applications plummeted by 193,000 from a revised 769,000 a week earlier. Jobless claims are now down sharply from a peak of 900,000 in early January.
re: #176 Belafon
What was his point?
Why does a voice boom “Thou shalt not test The LORD thy God” in my head? 🤔
This 23-year-old has kept QAnon, the Daily Stormer, and the far right online when no one else would https://t.co/byHVBnYEht
— Businessweek (@BW) April 14, 2021
re: #159 Renaissance_Man
I realise that this is totally normal here, but it always makes me cringe to note that this is a totally normal thing for an American preacher to address. Because in America, white supremacy, guns, American Christianity, and police violence aren’t separate issues - they’re all part of the same issue.
Sometimes a picture says it all. Bless these guns in the name of JC and his Sonshine Band!
re: #144 lawhawk
The taser is missing its “cartridge”, a black plastic assembly in front that fires the wires and needles into the target do deliver a sometimes disabling (and occasionally lethal) shock. The pistol gun weapon thing in his other hand is a toy, maybe made out of plastic but I can’t tell from the picture (look at the back sight and the barrel). It may be a water pistol, IDK.
Or when Trump himself coordinates the release of hacked Russian emails through Roger Stone.
If only the English language had a word that could describe that….— Nunca Trumpismo (@NeverTrumpTexan) April 15, 2021
re: #139 lawhawk
Chauvin pinning down Floyd’s neck so that he breathed in carbon monoxide poison for nearly ten minutes doesn’t sound like a winning argument to me but I assume this nonsensical theory is for the White men and women on the jury.
re: #173 darthstar
Mmmmmmmm, Cuttlefish. Nom nom nom.
re: #177 Belafon
What app do you use to record your path?
I know I’m not Day, but… I use the Under Armor apps. The all synch well with the Apple stuff I use; Watch and iPhone.
re: #186 Patricia Kayden
Chauvin pinning down Floyd’s neck so that he breathed in carbon monoxide poison for nearly ten minutes doesn’t sound like a winning argument to me but I assume this nonsensical theory is for the White men and women on the jury.
I think the whole “throw every theory at the wall” defense was made so that someone in the jury can argue that they really don’t know why Floyd died beyond a reasonable doubt, and thus can’t pin it on Chauvin.
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