Blue Beetle is a standard superhero movie except when grandma gets a gun.
re: #4 Eventual Carrion
‘Zilla a little low on fuel
“Mmmrrl crrrrn.”
“I think he’s saying, ‘oil can!’”
Laffy had some choice quotes from Judge Chutkan indicating that she is entirely out of fucks to give for Trump’s feelings.
https://t.co/6xdkNKPsLI pic.twitter.com/d1E0hILd6U
— Dad 2.0 - doing my best (@DadaBaseThought) December 1, 2023
My latest page is posted.
Behind the Curtain: Trump Allies Pre-Screen Loyalists for Unprecedented Power Grab
Because the owners of the other platforms don’t promote anti-semitic ideas like you fo.
— James William Garrett 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@JamesWGarrett1) December 1, 2023
Reupping
re: #33 GlutenFreeJesus
I missed it. Did you get a Concept2, or another rower?
Yes concept 2.
And im liking it.
re: #10 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
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Where’d he even pull that chart from? What’s the data set behind it?
re: #10 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
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So then why is Disney boycotting 𝕏, yet spending millions on other platforms
*You* told them to fuck off
“Every President will face difficult decisions; whether to intentionally commit a federal crime should not be one of them.”
re: #13 Dangerman
*You* told them to fuck off
I was going to bring that up. So Elon’s reverse psychology didn’t work like he thought it would?
re: #14 jaunte
“Every President will face difficult decisions; whether to intentionally commit a federal crime should not be one of them.”
“Defendant’s four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens.” DAYUM, GURRRL.
Behind the Curtain — Scoop: The Trump job applications revealed
“…The Heritage Foundation told us Project 2025 officials have collected more than 5,000 applications — months before a Republican nominee is locked in.”axios.com
It’s important to the country that this list of tyrants-in-waiting be leaked.
And as for Kissinger I’ll just comment with the words of Mark Twain.
“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.”
re: #19 Eventual Carrion
I will say it was considerate of Sandra Day O’Connor to hold Kissinger’s TV coverage to a day and a half.
re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
BREAKING: George Santos vows to “expose” key members of the GOP so that they never win another election, in retaliation for his expulsion
It’s not enough to have a monkey wrench, ya gotta know when to use it.
re: #24 BeenHereAwhile
I believe the “pics” or it didn’t happen are pretty much a de facto requirement in this instance….
Where’d he even pull that chart from? What’s the data set behind it?
This guy:
Because the owners of the other platforms don’t promote anti-semitic ideas like you fo.
— James William Garrett 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@JamesWGarrett1) December 1, 2023
Who has also posted stuff like this:
Literally you a few months ago; pic.twitter.com/QQE8kfAR45
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) December 1, 2023
He’s also been on top of the kid at a KC Chefs game wearing blackface and a headdress, claiming the kid was merely wearing Chef’s colors, when the Chefs colors are red and gold.
Hence, thusly, and ergo, The Rabbit Hole is a racist shitbag.
The setlist of the first Grateful Dead show Mom & Dad attended together, seven months before they got married. They were married until Dad died last month.
re: #26 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
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He’s also been on top of the kid at a KC Chefs game wearing blackface and a headdress, claiming the kid was merely wearing Chef’s colors, when the Chefs colors are red and gold.
Hence, thusly, and ergo, The Rabbit Hole is a racist shitbag.
re: #15 darthstar
I was going to bring that up. So Elon’s reverse psychology didn’t work like he thought it would?
A child with multiple billions of dollars.
re: #25 piratedan
I believe the “pics” or it didn’t happen are pretty much a de facto requirement in this instance….
Even if Santos has a monkey wrench - threatening to use it diminishes its effect.
re: #30 BeenHereAwhile
Even if Santos has a monkey wrench - threatening to use it diminishes its effect.
Use it or don’t. His window to do retaliatory damage is very small. In two weeks he’ll just be another criminal defendant without a platform to raise money and he’ll be looking for plea deals.
Plus he’s got congressmen lining up to testify against him in his criminal trial after he put campaign donations on their credit cards without their knowledge.
Changing the locks in George Santos former office … pic.twitter.com/ZpfcnLLTGp
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) December 1, 2023
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I can’t really upding because, as much as Derek Chauvin is a bad guy, he didn’t deserve 22 stab wounds in federal prison. I’m sorry.
re: #35 darthstar
No one should be celebrating a prisoner being stabbed 22 times by a fellow prisoner.
America is a sick fucking culture.
re: #37 teleskiguy
No one should be celebrating a prisoner being stabbed 22 times by a fellow prisoner.
America is a sick fucking culture.
Good point…pulling it down.
I was very pleased today that John Eastman was disbarred today.
What an ass.
re: #43 austin_blue
I was very pleased today that John Eastman was disbarred today.
What an ass.
I’m looking for any confirmation that Eastman was disbarred. So far all I see is that he took the stand in his own defense. Still looking…
re: #42 Captain Ron
that brings up a reply dialogue in firefox.
Oh yeah…same with Brave. I forgot Charles repurposed some shortcut keys.
re: #44 Joe Bacon ✅
I’m looking for any confirmation that Eastman was disbarred. So far all I see is that he took the stand in his own defense. Still looking…
Same here. Have not seen anything that affirms that a decision has been reached. I will certainly celebrate such a conclusion to the case.
My wife is “fluffing” our Christmas tree, something I didn’t know was a thing. We got an artificial tree this year.
re: #47 Captain Ron
My wife is “fluffing” our Christmas tree, something I didn’t know was a thing. We got an artificial tree this year.
Get the flock outta here
re: #46 Hecuba’s daughter
Same here. Have not seen anything that affirms that a decision has been reached. I will certainly celebrate such a conclusion to the case.
Sorry all, I was reading the final filing and thought it was a judgement:
He’s still alive, legally.
He’s still an ass.
re: #49 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
That doesn’t even have any tits, so I’m not surprised that they didn’t love it.
For sure, boobs bring top prizes in AI image generators.
She Who Must Be Obeyed had a gig in San Antonio tonight. She just called and is on the way home. Ninety minutes. I’m going to take a cat nap and then help move a 100 pound full concert harp into the house, and then move a small 23 pound Clarsach into the house (I’ll hold the screen door).
Night all, sweet scaly dreams.
re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
For sure, boobs bring top prizes in AI image generators.
Beware the AI generated grandma porn. Ain’t no grandmas built like that.
re: #53 Captain Ron
So my wife is done with the bottom third. She asked what I thought of our tree. I said, It looks like a shrubbery.
re: #15 darthstar
I was going to bring that up. So Elon’s reverse psychology didn’t work like he thought it would?
And it was just so brilliant. The stuff of true game changers
re: #57 sizzzzlerz
And it was just so brilliant. The stuff of true game changers
He really did look proud of himself at that moment…with the head of Disney right there in the audience. He’s already written off his losses from X though. This is just an exercise in self gratification.
Binged a couple of episodes of Picard, Season 3 tonite and I’m really liking what I see. They’re really doing a number on the old “we’re getting the band back together” for one last time. My preliminary rating is a solid 8. If they keep it up, it may be my favorite post-ST:TOS series.
re: #58 darthstar
He really did look proud of himself at that moment…with the head of Disney right there in the audience. He’s already written off his losses from X though. This is just an exercise in self gratification.
Just like a toddler that gets a #2 into the toilet instead of on the floor. For the first time.
re: #50 austin_blue
Sorry all, I was reading the final filing and thought it was a judgement:
He’s still alive, legally.
He’s still an ass.
Closing arguments were held today, during which Eastman’s lawyer urged that he had a duty to his client to advocate that Pence end American democracy. The hearing officer has 90 days to issue a ruling.
WARNING: This is the Trumpification of the American White Male. Trump promises to destroy the Constitution & every disgraced White Guy like @ChrisCuomo pull a full Joe Rogan. They take a long bong hit & assure you it will be OK … and it will be … for the stupidest White Men… https://t.co/9mSeju3pS6
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) December 1, 2023
re: #60 JC1
My wordle streak is at 100.
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The fickle finger of fours. I have one of those.
re: #62 No Malarkey!
From the article:
Eastman’s attorney, Randall Miller, however argued at a State Bar Court courtroom in downtown Los Angeles that his client should not be found culpability and should face no discipline or sanctions.
Miller argued that as the courts were not providing any sort of relief for Eastman’s client he turned to “other potential remedies not foreclosed by clearly established precedent.”
Miller added that it was still an “open question” whether the vice president has the authority to delay or halt the certification of the electors. He said Eastman engaged in a “good-faith interpretation of the historical record” that was “not foreclosed by precedent…”
He added that “every lawyer is ethically and by oath obligated to pursue a matter on behalf of a client despite opposition, obstruction or personal inconvenience to the lawyer, and take whatever lawful and ethical measures are required to vindicate a client’s cause or endeavor. And with commitment and dedication to the interests of the client and with zeal in advocacy upon the client’s behalf. That principle, the law for 225 years, teeters under the weight of this Bar proceeding.”
Miller argued that his client has First Amendment protection when he alleged fraud in the election. Miller also discounted the public claims from Barr and others regarding the integrity of the election.
Except they all knew it was bullshit. All of them.
It sounds like Eastman’s attorney should be disbarred as well.
A member of the Mexican Mafia and former FBI informant stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times on Black Friday, he said in solidarity with the BLM movement. He was scheduled for release in 2026 at age 55, but I guess he wanted to stay institutionalized, because now he is going to die in prison. I don’t know how to keep high profile inmates like Chauvin safe except to isolate them since the general prison population is full of violent, dangerous men, but solitary confinement is its own form of cruel punishment.
re: #65 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
From the article:
Except they all knew it was bullshit. All of them.
It sounds like Eastman’s attorney should be disbarred as well.
Even the guilty are entitled to a defense, and the defense his attorney is presenting, while contemptible, is colorable in a legalistic way, so he won’t face bar discipline, nor should he, imho.
re: #67 No Malarkey!
Even the guilty are entitled to a defense, and the defense his attorney is presenting, while contemptible, is colorable in a legalistic way, so he won’t face bar discipline, nor should he, imho.
I don’t think a bad faith conflation of zealously defending a client and aiding and abetting said client’s treason should be given this level of deference.
But it is fair to say the disbarment of Eastman’s lawyer isn’t as clear-cut a case as Eastman’s case (no brainer for lifetime disbarment).
re: #67 No Malarkey!
Even the guilty are entitled to a defense, and the defense his attorney is presenting, while contemptible, is colorable in a legalistic way, so he won’t face bar discipline, nor should he, imho.
This is why I said that.
He added that “every lawyer is ethically and by oath obligated to pursue a matter on behalf of a client despite opposition, obstruction or personal inconvenience to the lawyer, and take whatever lawful and ethical measures are required to vindicate a client’s cause or endeavor.
I don’t feel any of what Eastman did was lawful or ethical and his attorney is doing the same. There’s a difference between rigorous defense and rigorous defense that skirts the boundaries of law and ethics. I think the latter wasn’t skirted but stomped on.
re: #69 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I don’t feel any of what Eastman did was lawful or ethical and his attorney is doing the same. There’s a difference between rigorous defense and rigorous defense that skirts the boundaries of law and ethics. I think the latter wasn’t skirted but stomped on.
BTW, If you read the article, his attorney says The Big Lie was justification for Eastman doing what he did and it was righteous. THAT’S why I said he deserved the same fate.
re: #70 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
BTW, If you read the article, his attorney says The Big Lie was justification for Eastman doing what he did and it was righteous. THAT’S why I said he deserved the same fate.
I understand how you feel completely. Attorneys using their legal skills to overthrow democracy in favor of fascism is outrageous. And Eastman’s lawyer’s argument is nonsense; the government officials who told Trump he lost the election were officials in Trump’s own government, appointed by Trump himself, so presenting Trump as a little guy fighting for his rights as big gubmint tries to trample on him is utterly ludicrous. Eastman and Trump working under a joint delusion that there was a massive conspiracy to steal the election from him does not in any way justify an attempted coup. However, I don’t want to go down a slippery slope where a defendant can’t get an attorney to present a defense for him in court for fear that the defense attorney will himself become subject to bar discipline for doing so.
So, Colours of Ostrava managed to snag some well-known names for next year’s festival. Next year, we’ll be treated to Sam Smith, Lenny Kravitz and Queens of the Stone Age.
Not bad at all.
re: #71 No Malarkey!
I understand how you feel completely. Attorneys using their legal skills to overthrow democracy in favor of fascism is outrageous. And Eastman’s lawyer’s argument is nonsense; the government officials who told Trump he lost the election were officials in Trump’s own government, appointed by Trump himself, so presenting Trump as a little guy fighting for his rights as big gubmint tries to trample on him is utterly ludicrous. Eastman and Trump working under a joint delusion (1) that there was a massive conspiracy to steal the election from him does not in any way justify an attempted coup. However, I don’t want to go down a slippery slope where a defendant can’t get an attorney to present a defense for him (2) in court for fear that the defense attorney will himself become subject to bar discipline for doing so.
1. It wasn’t a joint delusion. They both knew it was a lie. That’s not a delusion.
2. So a lawyer can just make up any bullshit, knowing it’s a lie, knowing it’s bullshit, knowing it’s unethical, knowing that it’s - at best skirting, more likely stomping on - actual laws and that’s ok?
I’m in favor of a rigorous defense. I’m not in favor of beaches in and of law and ethics.
re: #75 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
1. It wasn’t a joint delusion. They both knew it was a lie. That’s not a delusion.
2. So a lawyer can just make up any bullshit, knowing it’s a lie, knowing it’s bullshit, knowing it’s unethical, knowing that it’s - at best skirting, more likely stomping on - actual laws and that’s ok?
I’m in favor of a rigorous defense. I’m not in favor of beaches in and of law and ethics.
I’ll say this: Eastman and Trump both claim to believe the election was stolen, so I wouldn’t ding Eastman’s attorney for saying in court his client believes the election was stolen; the hearing officer can judge Eastman’s credibility. Technically there is no court precedent on point saying that the VP cannot take the election decision away from the electoral college and make it himself. We know the reason for this is that its a ludicrous assertion that no-one has ever made before, but I wouldn’t disbar a lawyer for pointing out that there is no case law in defense of Eastman. Eastman, otoh, participated in a conspiracy to commit criminal acts, and should be disbarred.
So, here in Czech Republic, we’re experiencing the snowpocalypse. Storm Ciro has dumped more snow on us than any storm in the 60 years.
This link is from the Czech tabloid Blesk, and it’s in Czech (naturally) but there’s some photos there in the online live coverage, and this storm is causing chaos here from West to East.
re: #47 Captain Ron
My wife is “fluffing” our Christmas tree, something I didn’t know was a thing. We got an artificial tree this year.
I thought that was no longer necessary since they invented treeagra.
re: #59 sizzzzlerz
Binged a couple of episodes of Picard, Season 3 tonite and I’m really liking what I see. They’re really doing a number on the old “we’re getting the band back together” for one last time. My preliminary rating is a solid 8. If they keep it up, it may be my favorite post-ST:TOS series.
I nearly gave up in the middle of season 1 as it was so slow and boring but the series really picked up by the end and was quite enjoyable.
I am struck that in the same week that one of the greatest war criminals died, so too did one of my favorite singers - Shane McGowen of the Pogues. Because he sang, to my mind, the best rendition of one of the best anti-war Vietnam songs ever written - “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”. Produced by Elvis Costello it demonstrated the power of punk - not just anger but also so god-damned weary.
And while it is ostensibly about WW1, it was written wrt the Vietnam War in 1971.Some covers are very pretty (such as Joan Baez’) Shane’s version is ugly and harsh, sung by someone just sick at heart. More dirge than anything else. Raw.
It is a great rebuttal to Kissinger’s view of the world and I wish it would be sung at his funeral.
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I nearly gave up in the middle of season 1 as it was so slow and boring but the series really picked up by the end and was quite enjoyable.
Where I enjoyed one and two and found three just another rehash of the same old same old. At least the first two seasons tried. The last one just phoned it in, to me.
My favorite Kissinger dig was from Doonesbury, in a series of strips that featured students attending a seminar led by Kissinger at Harvard where he puts his 1,521-page memoirs on the reading list, to which a student comments, “Hell, Albert Speer only needed 500 pages!”
Also on a horse with no name….
Multiple cars stranded after Google Maps leads them ‘straight into the desert with no road’
re: #83 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Also on a horse with no name….
Multiple cars stranded after Google Maps leads them ‘straight into the desert with no road’
I still prefer a nice paper map and a compass to navigate by. I have two very detailed spiral bound map books of Wisconsin for when I go driving around looking for photos.
re: #84 William Lewis
I still prefer a nice paper map and a compass to navigate by. I have two very detailed spiral bound map books of Wisconsin for when I go driving around looking for photos.
Wisconsin bound, indeed!
I know this is from the Daily Mirror, but this is a story I hadn’t heard about until just now.
Five homeless people were shot, leaving two dead, in Las Vegas - just hours after cops revealed they are hunting for a serial killer who murdered another three in Los Angeles.
A lone gunman opened fire on the group of homeless people at 5.30pm near a highway overpass in the northern part of Vegas. Two died and the other three suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
The Vegas bloodbath came on the same day LA officials revealed they are hunting for a serial killer who shot three homeless people dead in their sleep in alleyways during separate attacks on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday.
The Californian killings led to an unprecedented warning from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who told the city’s homeless population: “Our message to the unhoused community is clear - do not sleep alone tonight.”
Big yikes - apparently, there’s a serial killer running around between California and Nevada, targeting the homeless in spree shooting attacks.
re: #86 Dr Lizardo
I know this is from the Daily Mirror, but this is a story I hadn’t heard about until just now.
Big yikes - apparently, there’s a serial killer running around between California and Nevada, targeting the homeless in spree shooting attacks.
The logical 2nd Amendment solution would be to arm the homeless, right?
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The logical 2nd Amendment solution would be to arm the homeless, right?
Give them AR’s and body armor. They need it more than food or housing!
re: #90 Dr Lizardo
Saw stuff like this for years in western PA after a snowfall. I live on a cul-de-sac that ran up a hill and thus got lots of practice trying to get up (or down) a snowy road on a slope.
In loose snow on a road the heavier cars did better as I think they could compact the snow easier to a point that they got grip without creating ice under the tires. The lighter cars seemed to ride “on” the loose snow and couldn’t maintain momentum, etc.
Once it was packed snow on the road the lighter cars did better on the slopes since they appeared to have grip without creating the pressure to cause the snow to get icy. The heavier cars caused the snow to convert to ice and then couldn’t maintain momentum and simply spun their tires.
Neighbor had a big Lincoln so I got to see comparison is handling the hill with my Mazda 323. Until the day he was struggling up the hill and had an engine fire right at the top. My boss was a bit disbelieving when I called in and said I’d be late to work due to the road being blocked by my neighbor’s burning car. (Fire was out quickly, but still a fire truck turned up and we had to wait for a tow truck.)
re: #86 Dr Lizardo
I know this is from the Daily Mirror, but this is a story I hadn’t heard about until just now.
Big yikes - apparently, there’s a serial killer running around between California and Nevada, targeting the homeless in spree shooting attacks.
There is a decades-long story about a serial killer preying on hobos who ride the freight trains, mostly in the western states. I lost track of it some time ago.
Yes—there is still a hobo culture on the rails.
en.wikipedia.org
Wasn’t hard to recover the trail:
Suspected murderer Robert Silveria has recanted his confession of murdering dozens of fellow drifters creates confusion in the case and sheds light on other violence possibly perpetrated by a train-riding gang.
We need to bring back Baneposting because my man is crashing this plane with no survivors. pic.twitter.com/3soAAvpFGE
— Open Source Stupidity (OSSTU) Starfish (@IRHotTakes) December 2, 2023
Our fave ex-congresscritter, while taking some time from his busy touring schedule as prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, is going nuclear on his former buds. Since congressional goopers seem to have more skeletons than a medical supply company, this could be most unfortunate. If I were Santos, I’d stay away from windows, electrical outlets, bathtubs, stairs, and perhaps generally everything.
Of course.
5 Alabama Republicans vote against expelling George Santos from Congress
al.com
We only have 6.
re: #49 Eventual Carrion
Get the flock outta here
Ah, so am I not the only one to remember that famous line in a 6 Million Dollar Man episode?
Good morning. It’s wood splitting Saturday!
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Hey Charlie Pierce! Tell us what you really think of Congressional Republicans!
This is from his Saturday e-mail:
What is this country coming to when even a legendary Baruch College volleyball star can’t hold onto a seat in Congress? Are our standards just a bit too high these days? On Thursday, the House of Representatives, in which still sit Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Clay Higgins, and other undisciplined fauna, expelled Rep. George Santos (D-Fantasy Island) on charges of aggravated mopery. More Republicans voted to keep him than voted to 86 him, but 105 of them bucked their leadership to vote yes on the motion to expel. Speaker Mike Johnson dithered and then offered Santos some tepid support, but he did vote against expelling him, as did Steve Scalise and Elise Stefanik, both members of the Republican leadership team in the House.
Thus ends the saga. Santos burned a remarkable trail through a remarkable political age. He lied about almost everything in his public life. He brought into our political ecology several entertaining species, and all of them him. There was the volleyball star, the stoic child of a 9/11 victim, the good “Jew-ish” boy, the party boy dancing in drag in Brazil, self-described Republican “It Girl,” self-described “Mary Magdalene of the Congress,” and the vengeful victim of selective justice. Back on November 24, Santos took to Xwitter to announce his intention to bring the temple down on his own head.
“I have colleagues who are more worried about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyist that they’re gonna screw and pretend like none of us know what’s going on, and sell off the American people, not show up to vote because they’re too hungover or whatever the reason is, or not show up to vote at all and just give their card out like fucking candy for someone else to vote for them. This shit happens every single week. Where are the ethics investigations?”
It was one of the latter that did him in. He’d already dodged expulsion once. Then the House Ethics Committee released its report on his staggering record of corruption. From CNN:
In December 2021, Santos put taxi and hotel charges from Las Vegas on the campaign credit card, even though that was a time when he told his campaign staff he was on his honeymoon and there were no campaign events on his calendar. A Federal Election Commission report listed a July 7, 2022, $3,332.81 Airbnb expenditure as “Hotel stay,” when the campaign’s calendar revealed Santos was “off at [the] Hampton’s for the weekend.” Santos also spent $2,281.52 at resorts in Atlantic City from July 23 to July 24, 2022, a day when his calendar revealed he had one event at 8pm on the 24th entitled “NRCC Candidate.”
Examples in the report include: $1,400 at Virtual Skin Spa in Jericho, New York, in July 2022; $225 at CityMD in Huntington, New York, on August 27, 2022; $1,500 purchase on the campaign debit card in 2020 was made at Mirza Aesthetics, which was not reported to the FEC and was noted as “Botox” in expense spreadsheets; $1,400 charge at Virtual Skin Spa was a campaign debit card purchase that was also described as “Botox” in the spreadsheets; an unreported PayPal payment of $1,029.30 to an esthetician associated with a spa in Rhinebeck, New York[ $4,127.80 purchase at Hermes, Smaller purchases at Only Fans, Sephora, meals, and parking.
The report also cited some of the more egregious of the barefaced non-facts about his biography in which Santos trafficked.
Topping the vulnerability report are Santos’ lies about his education - that he graduated with an MBA from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Baruch College. “The registrar offices at both institutions said there was no record of Santos earning any degree from either university,” the report said. The report also detailed “at least three housing eviction lawsuits were filed against Santos and his family in Queens, New York” between 2014 and 2017, and notes that Santos has had “multiple civil judgments filed against him for owing thousands of dollars to creditors.”
In its report, the committee concluded that there “is substantial evidence” that most of the nearly $800,000 that Santos reported making in personal loans to his campaign committee and to an aligned leadership PAC in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles “were not actually made or properly disclosed” to regulators at the Federal Election Commission, known as the FEC. (Santos ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2020 before winning his Long Island seat last year.) Additionally, the investigators found that Santos was improperly “reimbursed” with donors’ money for campaign loans he didn’t make.
The House was not amused. And Thursday’s events inevitably ensued. Santos leaves the House with a 23-count federal indictment hanging over his unemployed head. The Justice Department charged him with using contributors’ credit cards to the tune of $44,000. That, too, failed to amuse the House. Santos now joins five other people on the roster of people declared unfit to work in the same body as Mark Foley or Lauren Boebert. Three of them were expelled for fighting on behalf of the Confederate States of America. One of the others went out for involvement in the ABSCAM scandal in 1980. An attempt to expel several members of Congress entangled in the Congressional page sex scandal in 1983 was short-circuited by a congressional censure of the offending congressmen.
re: #84 William Lewis
I still prefer a nice paper map and a compass to navigate by. I have two very detailed spiral bound map books of Wisconsin for when I go driving around looking for photos.
I look over the route in Google Maps before I leave, to make sure it makes sense to me and that I would more or less be able to navigate it on my own. It’s for precisely this reason, in fact; I’ve heard enough stories about navigation apps (especially Apple Maps, but Google Maps is not immune) to refuse to trust them explicitly.
The long-delayed reveal of Tesla’s Cybertruck left many critics fuming about the “disappointing range” and “abusive pricing” of Elon Musk’s strange-looking electric pickup.Tesla finally provided Cybertrucks to a handful of owners — including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian — during a flashy event at the company’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, on Thursday.
The roughly 30-minute presentation was livestreamed on X and hosted by Musk, who described the stealth bomber-esque vehicle as Tesla’s “best product” and the “finest in apocalypse technology.”
Tesla fans, however, were left with sticker shock and another year of delays before the stainless-steel trucks rumbled off assembly lines.
The entry-level, rear-wheel-drive version of the Cybertruck costs $60,990 and is not expected to ship until 2025. The mid-tier Cybertruck with all-wheel drive costs $79,990, and the top-tier “Cyberbeast” costs $99,990.
re: #94 ericblair
We need to bring back Baneposting because my man is crashing this plane with no survivors.
That made me laugh uncontrollably. Like drooling laughing.
Go with God, George. (Not that anyone will believe you.)
re: #102 Nerdy Fish
I look over the route in Google Maps before I leave, to make sure it makes sense to me and that I would more or less be able to navigate it on my own. It’s for precisely this reason, in fact; I’ve heard enough stories about navigation apps (especially Apple Maps, but Google Maps is not immune) to refuse to trust them explicitly.
I love google maps most of the time, and usually “pre drive” a route via street view when going somewhere new.
re: #103 Nerdy Fish
It took some thought.
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re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That made me laugh uncontrollably. Like drooling laughing.
Go with God, George. (Not that anyone will believe you.)
Let him enjoy his fifteen minutes of flame out.
Gah… c dot im needs to be embeddable…this one is a set of 12 sunrises from the same location over a year.
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re: #102 Nerdy Fish
That’s one of the reasons I use HERE app (formerly Nokia maps)
Here is now owned by a consolidation of auto manufacturers.
If you’ve ever driven around the Phillipines, there’s a huge waterfront community of poor people almost everywhere you look. From Manila down the coast there are villages built on docks.
re: #101 Joe Bacon ✅
santos committed crimes to win the nomination and ultimately to get the job.
we’ve had a lot of crappy, nasty, vile, dangerous politicians. today’s electoral-vote.com has a list in response to a letter under “History”. some of them were just scummy people and used their power when they got it. i dont know the story of each of them or what they did to get elected.
we know all campaigning politicians lie to some extent. it’s the nature of the beast.
even tfg, while campaigning lied brazenly, left, right and center, he didnt try to hide it. most of it was exposed and written about. his newfound base just didnt care.
and except for some ‘light’ FEC violations, his machine was probably not actively criming in furtherance of winning the election in 2015/2016.
that’s why i think santos belongs in a separate category.
he had to commit fraud to win. he didnt belong there.
re: #102 Nerdy Fish
I look at the visual map of the roads and put that image in my mind. The route often changes as I go.
I remember in the Rand McNally days driving off the bottom of a page only to find myself on top of a page several pages away.
re: #117 Dangerman
And he’s not exactly a reliable witness. Congressmen can dismiss his ethics complaints against them with “The lying little bitch said what?” and laugh and that will be good enough for the media (and the committee as they want to put this behind them) especially in the cases where there are actual serious ethical violations.
Life is so hard!
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos was told that his new mega-yacht was too big for the marina in Florida this week.
The third richest man in the world found out this week that his $500million (around £393million) schooner was too big to be moored with the other private yachts in Port Everglades, Florida.
The ship, which stands at a staggering 416ft, had to be moored with oil tankers and other general container ships.
re: #115 Captain Magic
That’s one of the reasons I use HERE app (formerly Nokia maps)
Here is now owned by a consolidation of auto manufacturers.
They rerouted a state highway near me, and ended part of the old route in a cul-de-sac. It took about 4 months for Google to update, but four years later I’m still seeing cars and semis fly down that road until they realize it’s a dead end and have to turn around.
re: #99 Dave In Austin
Make connections with like-minded, health-conscious, mRNA-free humans.
Uhn, if you’re mRNA free, you’re dead.
re: #120 Shropshire Slasher
Life is so hard!
A big reason I probably don’t have $10 billion to my name is that I would actually build a smaller house than the one I have now, it would just hace a lot of features my current one doesn’t have, my lack of need of trophies that large is a hindrance to going as far as they do.
re: #120 Shropshire Slasher
Life is so hard!
Didn’t he have a hard time getting that thing out to sea? The mast was too tall to go under a bridge so he asked that the bridge be removed? Rotterdam told him to go pound sand and he had to dis-mast it first.
Fuck…bullet not dodged. Get your Red Cross donations ready.
re: #123 Belafon
A big reason I probably don’t have $10 billion to my name is that I would actually build a smaller house than the one I have now, it would just hace a lot of features my current one doesn’t have, my lack of need of trophies that large is a hindrance to going as far as they do.
If I had enough money for the house of my wildest dreams… the house wouldn’t be particularly expansive. But the grounds, OMG the grounds.
re: #123 Belafon
A big reason I probably don’t have $10 billion to my name is that I would actually build a smaller house than the one I have now, it would just hace a lot of features my current one doesn’t have, my lack of need of trophies that large is a hindrance to going as far as they do.
When we bought our house, the real estate agent kept pushing us to look at bigger houses.
I had recently read an article where a person noted they walked into a room in their house and realized they hadn’t been in that room in months. Leading to the question “why am i paying for, heating/cooling and furnishing a room I don’t use?”
Every room in our house is used regularly, so we avoided that pitfall.
As an armchair Mall Santa, I would take fighting cats and dogs over vomiting kids any day.
re: #131 Shropshire Slasher
As an armchair Mall Santa, I would take fighting cats and dogs over vomiting kids any day.
One of my stoner buddies from college is now a mall Santa every year - sweetheart of a guy…taking care of his dad (who is 95). Back in the day I took a break from visiting him as he was selling blow (and we’d stay up all night doing it) and I got to his apartment and he was sitting on the couch with several thousand dollars and a gun on the coffee table. I said, “What the fuck?” and he said he wasn’t comfortable moving up to this volume.
He cleaned up his act and now does mall Santa shit every year and is a lovely guy.
Palau looks like it could get hit. Gonna be a bunch of rich Americans whining on TV later.
Pretty good rescue using an inflatable.
re: #124 darthstar
Didn’t he have a hard time getting that thing out to sea? The mast was too tall to go under a bridge so he asked that the bridge be removed? Rotterdam told him to go pound sand and he had to dis-mast it first.
Basically, yeah. But IIRC, Bezos offered to pay to have the obstructing bridge removed, then re-built after he had towed his behemoth downriver, but they still said no. So they launched the thing mastless, and sent it to another shipyard to have the masts installed.
Which is how I thought sailing ships were built anyway (hull first, masts and rigging last), but not my area of knowledge.
But Jeez, 416 feet?
re: #136 Jay C
…Bezos … launched the thing mastless, and sent it to another shipyard to have the masts installed.
Which is how I thought sailing ships were built anyway (hull first, masts and rigging last), but not my area of knowledge.But Jeez, 416 feet?
mast turbation
Another par day (too many possibilities).
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re: #139 darthstar
Yes, it looks like Asian caricature of tigers.
Fuck it…stealing that image so it is easier to see.
I had a feeling McCarthy would bail. He should quit over Xmas.
re: #135 darthstar
Pretty good rescue using an inflatable.
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re: #146 darthstar
That reminds me. I should put deer whistles on our cars again. I’ve seen a few hit deer headed to our place in Monte Rio.
re: #148 darthstar
That reminds me. I should put deer whistles on our cars again. I’ve seen a few hit deer headed to our place in Monte Rio.
Remember, aim for the ass.
re: #21 darthstar
Spotify pays Weird Al $12 for 80 million streams.
Yet Spotify gave Joe Blowgan $100 million to be the new Rush Limbaugh.
Another reason I avoid Spotify.
re: #148 darthstar
That reminds me. I should put deer whistles on our cars again. I’ve seen a few hit deer headed to our place in Monte Rio.
Couldn’t you just wrap your car to look like a mountain lion?
re: #124 darthstar
Didn’t he have a hard time getting that thing out to sea? The mast was too tall to go under a bridge so he asked that the bridge be removed? Rotterdam told him to go pound sand and he had to dis-mast it first.
Actually, I was just in Rotterdam and heard the story. They would have lifted the bridge out of the way (that river was used to transport cargo, so a lot of the bridges can be raised), but when they told him what it would cost him, he decided to go with removing the mast.
Sinema got $27K from student loan industry after helping GOP kill Biden’s debt forgiveness plan
Earlier this year, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Arizona) voted with Senate Republicans for legislation to kill President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness proposal. In the months following that vote, she was a major recipient of the student loan industry’s largesse.
The bill itself, H.J. Res 45, would have blocked Biden’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt per borrower, though the president promised to veto it if it reached his desk, and the Supreme Court ultimately struck down the proposal at the end of its 2023 session. The bill narrowly passed the Senate in June, with 52 votes in favor and 46 in opposition. Sinema joined forces with all Senate Republicans to give the bill the narrow majority it needed for passage. Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) and Jon Tester (D-Montana) also voted with the GOP to pass the measure.
According to the Phoenix New Times, Sinema proceeded to rake in thousands of dollars in contributions from various donors connected to student loan servicers, for-profit colleges, banks and debt collectors after her vote.
The New Times combed through Sinema’s campaign finance disclosure forms on the Federal Election Commission database and learned that the Arizona senator received approximately $27,000 in PAC donations between June and September of 2023. That includes a $5,000 contribution from NelNet PAC, which is a political action committee representing the interests of the second-largest provider of federally backed loans given by private lenders. Sinema also received $5,000 from a PAC connected to private lender Sallie Mae and $5,000 from a PAC run by the board chair of a for-profit Arizona college.
Smaller donations from the industry during that time period include a $2,500 donation from debt collector Portfolio Recovery Associates, $2,500 from a Washington, DC-based trade association representing the interests of for-profit colleges, and a combined $7,000 in donations from three PACs run by banks.
Despite her fundraising activity, Arizona’s senior US senator has not yet indicated if she plans to run for reelection in 2024. She currently faces opposition from Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Arizona) and failed 2022 Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who campaigned as a vociferous supporter of former President Donald Trump.
Current polls show a virtual dead heat between the three candidates, with Gallego having a slight edge over his two opponents. Gallego brought in more than $3 million in donations during the third quarter of 2023, with an average donation amount of $28.
re: #154 Joe Bacon ✅
No matter what he does they will continue to worship The Talking Asshole!
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All three of those options in the following order. Disqualified, imprisoned for life and then dead works just fine for me.
re: #156 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
That works too.
re: #66 No Malarkey!
A member of the Mexican Mafia and former FBI informant stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times on Black Friday, he said in solidarity with the BLM movement. He was scheduled for release in 2026 at age 55, but I guess he wanted to stay institutionalized, because now he is going to die in prison. I don’t know how to keep high profile inmates like Chauvin safe except to isolate them since the general prison population is full of violent, dangerous men, but solitary confinement is its own form of cruel punishment.
I recall a “dangerous” criminal put in isolation: Susan McDougal— because she wouldn’t tell Kenneth Starr the story he wanted.
re: #158 Hecuba’s daughter
I recall a “dangerous” criminal put in isolation: Susan McDougal— because she wouldn’t tell Kenneth Starr the story he wanted.
And don’t forget what that evil thug Starr did to Julie Hiatt Steele.
re: #89 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Took me forever to figure out the word
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Wordle 896 4/6
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re: #109 Eventual Carrion
4/6 here
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It is a good thing that my local PBS station live streams their shows. I am going to continue to stream their shows for right now. I hope they get their signal back.
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
Par for me too.
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re: #166 wrenchwench
I went all the way. Wordle 896 X/6*
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Par. Fortunately, my 3rd word left me with only one possibility I could think of. It worked.
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… In Los Angeles, Dr. Wood soon found, the environmental variability was also based on neighborhoods’ socioeconomic status.
He and others recently surveyed birds across the sprawling metropolis and analyzed the findings against redlining maps. They found that predominantly white neighborhoods, which were often the ones “greenlined” on the HOLC maps, hosted a greater abundance of birds that generally live in forests, such as warblers, wrens and bluebirds.
In contrast, areas that today are predominantly Hispanic and were previously redlined have fewer of those forest birds and more “synanthropic” species, those often found in dense urban areas. (These include pigeons and sparrows but also crows and ravens, mourning doves, house finches and even a type of hummingbird.) In an article last month in the journal Ornithological Applications, the researchers wrote that the distribution of birds in Los Angeles today reflected “patterns of income inequality, both past and present, that carry over to influence urban biodiversity.”
As examples, Dr. Wood compared Beverly Hills, where the average home price is more than $3.6 million, according to Zillow, with Boyle Heights, a largely Hispanic neighborhood where the average home price is $628,000; it shows up as a large red blob on the HOLC map and has far fewer trees and green spaces. “You get loads of these birds that require insects for their life history, and they go to a place like Beverly Hills because there are trees and flowers,” he said.
… The birds were “an indicator of these broader conditions that are effectively bad for people.”
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re: #168 Dr Lizardo
Indeed. And the next season of The Boys.
Yep…having just finished Gen V I’m ready for it. I like this franchise - it’s so much more heartwarming and realistic than the DC MC universe of bad CGI and overwrought sound effects.
What’s the worst that can happen?
Yanking the post because it’s bullshit. I didn’t think to click through to the Daily Dot until after pasting.
re: #176 darthstar
What’s the worst that can happen?
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TFW your tik-tok video gets used as evidence in a big ass lawsuit.
re: #159 Joe Bacon ✅
And don’t forget what that evil thug Starr did to Julie Hiatt Steele.
Embarrassed here: was unfamiliar with that story.
re: #176 darthstar
What’s the worst that can happen?
My small local pharmacy has only one pharmacist on duty most of the time with a couple more staff doing the retail over-the-counter sales. They have a poster on the door saying they can’t dispense prescriptions when the pharmacist is on lunch break, come back later if you need to.
re: #179 Nojay UK
My small local pharmacy has only one pharmacist on duty most of the time with a couple more staff doing the retail over-the-counter sales. They have a poster on the door saying they can’t dispense prescriptions when the pharmacist is on lunch break, come back later if you need to.
Yeah, I just updated the post to remove the video. It’s clickbait BS.
re: #182 A Cranky One
I ask Alexa to play the Grateful Dead channel for an hour or so when I leave the dogs at home…mostly for the cat. She likes the Dead.
re: #182 A Cranky One
Minnie and Buddy get to listen to the local 90s rock station when we are gone.
I would expect them to stick to day games and limited capacity…Putin would love to hit a stadium full of people with rockets.
re: #186 Dr Lizardo
This was the kind of music my dog liked when he had to leave her at home.
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Unusual dog.
Did you learn this by leaving a stack of vinyl on the floor and returning to find it playing?
re: #185 darthstar
Don’t wear that on the street in LA or the cops might burn your stuff.
re: #188 darthstar
Did you learn this by leaving a stack of vinyl on the floor and returning to find it playing?
LOL no, one day my dad put it on the record player and my dog (a miniature schnauzer) was just absolutely mesmerized by it. So when we had to go somewhere, we’d just put some 101 Strings on the turntable.
re: #66 No Malarkey!
A member of the Mexican Mafia and former FBI informant stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times on Black Friday, he said in solidarity with the BLM movement. He was scheduled for release in 2026 at age 55, but I guess he wanted to stay institutionalized, because now he is going to die in prison. I don’t know how to keep high profile inmates like Chauvin safe except to isolate them since the general prison population is full of violent, dangerous men, but solitary confinement is its own form of cruel punishment.
Any inmate who is serving a lengthy sentence while known as an LEO or DOJ informant by the general population and still alive; is a very bad man.
re: #69 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This is why I said that.
I don’t feel any of what Eastman did was lawful or ethical and his attorney is doing the same. There’s a difference between rigorous defense and rigorous defense that skirts the boundaries of law and ethics. I think the latter wasn’t skirted but stomped on.
The only person under oath to tell the truth in a court of law is the witness on the stand.
re: #145 darthstar
I had a feeling McCarthy would bail. He should quit over Xmas.
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Macho ‘super-pols’ who can’t take demotion….
Newt quit; Livingston quit; Hastert is in the POKEY; Boehner RAN away; Ryan quit; now McCarthy…
Nancy Pelosi GAVE UP power and it appeared to me she managed NOT to overshadow Hakeem Jeffries and he blossomed.
Nancy Pelosi ON HER OWN is a more complete human person than ANY of these Macho-Pretenders.
re: #193 Dr Lizardo
LOL no, one day my dad put it on the record player and my dog (a miniature schnauzer) was just absolutely mesmerized by it. So when we had to go somewhere, we’d just put some 101 Strings on the turntable.
That’s how I learned cats like the Dead. The cat will come out and lie on the floor in front of the speaker.
re: #197 darthstar
That’s how I learned cats like the Dead. The cat will come out and lie on the floor in front of the speaker.
My college roommate’s dog LOVED David Letterman’s Stupid Pet Tricks. If David said “after the commercial, we’ll be back with stupid pet tricks, the dog would come tearing through the house and park himself in front of the TV.
re: #196 Dangerman
There’s a chance that a few more Republicans could quit over the holidays - it’s happened before (in both parties)…we could see a Speaker Jeffries in January or February. That would be epic as Congress could punch through a bunch of great policies and Ukraine aid and help solidify President Biden’s reelection.
re: #199 darthstar
There’s a chance that a few more Republicans could quit over the holidays - it’s happened before (in both parties)…we could see a Speaker Jeffries in January or February. That would be epic as Congress could punch through a bunch of great policies and Ukraine aid and help solidify President Biden’s reelection.
Imagine being known as the R who caused the house to flip mid-session
CPAC: Accused of sexual assault
Moms4Liberty: Accused of sexual assault
Trump: Accused of sexual assault
TPUSA: Accused of sexual misconduct
Club for Growth: Accused of sexual misconduct
NRA: Accused of sexual harassment
FRC: Accused of sexual misconduct
Did I miss any?— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) December 2, 2023
Ps Trump is past “accused”
Ummmm..WOW!
Gladys Ingle climbs from one plane to another to change out a faulty tire in mid-air, 1926 pic.twitter.com/n7nMDG37s1
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) December 2, 2023
re: #200 Dangerman
Imagine being known as the R who caused the house to flip mid-session
In a saner world, half a dozen would have already switched parties to stop the extremists in their own party.
re: #203 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Ummmm..WOW!
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re: #203 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Ummmm..WOW!
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Ingle was the fourth licensed woman pilot from the United States.[1] She began performing jumps from balloons for the C.P.O. Aerial Circus in 1921. By 1922 she had begun doing stunts involving airplanes. Through her performances in the 1920s and 1930s, she became world-renowned for her aerobatics and wing walking.
re: #206 darthstar
It should be noted that no man has ever attemped or completed that task.
Per the Intertubes, she did it more than once, a barnstorming shtick.
The Texas-OSU game is on. Texas had 422 yards of offense in the first half.
We are going to see more and more prosecutions of women for miscarriages and abortions.
A forensic pathologist testified that the autopsy found no injury to the fetus — the unborn fetus had died BEFORE passing through the birth canal — and that the woman had visited the hospital 2X before the delivery.
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) December 2, 2023
re: #203 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I was somewhat surprised to learn that Gladys lived to be 82, given her preferred career (also including motorcycle racing). Good for her…..
re: #209 Belafon
The Texas-OSU game is on. Texas had 422 yards of offense in the first half.
And the field is only 100 yards.
re: #211 Jay C
I was somewhat surprised to learn that Gladys lived to be 82, given her preferred career (also including motorcycle racing). Good for her…..
She was a pretty amazing Lady. That’s for sure.