John Oliver on the Dubious Nature of Supreme Court Ethics
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there’s really only two ways to deal with judicial ethics:
1. make disclosures mandatory and include criminal penalties
2. use the impeachment power
Vigorous use of the checks and balances, in other words.
re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅
That really makes me angry.
re: #3 KGxvi
One thing the past few years have taught us is that no system of checks and balances can indefinitely withstand the Republican menace. They must be crushed in elections as long as it takes to force a reform.
re: #4 retired cynic
That really makes me angry.
I’ll see your Maga Pinball Machine and raise you a full fledged Traitor,
#JackPosobiec #CPAC “I just wanted to say welcome to the end of democracy. We’re here to overthrow it completely, we didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here, we’ll replace it with this right here.” pic.twitter.com/QfJe3CvypP
— Bryan Baca (@TheBryanBaca) February 21, 2024
re: #4 retired cynic
That really makes me angry.
Massive retaliation is the only option: An Ashli Babbitt shooting gallery.
Things I learned on the previous thread:
A woman can be VP, but only if she isn’t too girly.
I really hope to God this person isn’t serious and I’m somehow getting this wrong.
re: #6 Dave In Austin
I’ll see your Maga Pinball Machine and raise you a full fledged Traitor,
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At some point, when do these self-admitted traitors face the consequences? Screw the free speech bullshit. They are committing to the overthrow of our government.
re: #6 Dave In Austin
When they tell you what they are, believe them.
re: #10 Mattand
I think Kamala Harris is just fine the way she is and if others do not like that it is their problem.
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re: #13 PhillyPretzel ✅
I think Kamala Harris is just fine the way she is and if others do not like that it is their problem.
Ditto with Biden. But it has to be remembered that the mainstream media is all-in on creating a horse race for the election, so they are spreading narratives like “Biden is too old” and “let’s suggest the Democrats do something stupid.”
I cannot find any Ashli Babbitt pistol targets for sale. This probably just shows that Democrats are not savages, since plenty of them do own guns (contrary to fascist propaganda).
re: #13 PhillyPretzel ✅
I think Kamala Harris is just fine the way she is and if others do not like that it is their problem.
I love her!
As for the DC Press Corpse they can take their racism and misogamy and shove it where the sun don’t shine…
It seems to me that there has been a tremendous amount of social and cultural changes since the US stopped being a rural nation.
A lot of folks harsh on Obama for not being progressive enough.
But it seems to me that he had two important tasks. First to successfully lead our country. But second, also to destroy the argument that an Afro-American man could not be a national leader.
And I think that he successfully accomplished both for the majority of the US population. And still managed to make some excellent progress on good governance.
I think that Kamala Harris is facing an even more daunting challenge. There is no nationally agreed upon US template for the idea of a successful female National leader. I think that she is up to that tremendous challenge.
And I hope to give her the opportunity.
But we are in a diverse coalition. Others may have concerns, whether founded or unfounded. It seems to me that it is best to offer solid and convincing arguments for our position.
re: #16 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
More importantly they know how to use them.
I suspect most of the wingnuts entire knowledge of firearms consists of, “The bang comes out of this end.” They probably skimp on range time and maintenance as well.
re: #19 Romantic Heretic
More importantly they know how to use them.
I suspect most of the wingnuts entire knowledge of firearms consists of, “The bang comes out of this end.” They probably skimp on range time and maintenance as well.
Worshipping guns and/or making sexual fetishes out of them is usually inconsistent with properly maintaining them as the tools that they are and using them competently.
re: #18 ckkatz
A lot of folks harsh on Obama for not being progressive enough.
But it seems to me that he had two important tasks. First to successfully lead our country. But second, also to destroy the argument that an Afro-American man could not be a national leader.
when he was elected a few weeks after the economic collapse, Iraq and Afghanistan both quagmired, the Onion headline was “Black Man Gets Worst Job in the World.”
re: #17 Joe Bacon ✅
I love her!
As for the DC Press Corpse they can take their racism and misogamy and shove it where the sun don’t shine…
I love Hilary. Change my mind.
re: #18 ckkatz
But we are in a diverse coalition. Others may have concerns, whether founded or unfounded. It seems to me that it is best to offer solid and convincing arguments for our position.
Another factor to consider is whether those so-called “concerns” are coming from a place of classic ignorance (e.g. the typical low-info voter who simply doesn’t know) vs willful ignorance/bad faith (concern trolls, bots, etc).
If the former, Rachel Bitecofer has the best advice:
Bitecofer’s most basic point is simple: Democrats as a whole — despite their “reality-based” self-image — have been unable or unwilling “to accept that the American voter is, at best, rough clay,” and to work with it accordingly. On the other hand, she writes, “Republicans have long understood this and have built an electioneering system that shapes the electorate and meets voters where they actually are.” The point of “Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts” is to convince Democrats to change their strategic approach while there’s still time to rescue democracy, and to focus relentlessly on the threat posed by Republicans in terms that hit voters where they are.
re: #23 Interesting Times
I love Rachel Bitecofer, too. I just can’t spell her name.
re: #19 Romantic Heretic
More importantly they know how to use them.
I suspect most of the wingnuts entire knowledge of firearms consists of, “The bang comes out of this end.” They probably skimp on range time and maintenance as well.
And judging by the amount of their own young kids shooting themselves accidentally, gun safes.
re: #21 sagehen
when he was elected a few weeks after the economic collapse, Iraq and Afghanistan both quagmired, the Onion headline was “Black Man Gets Worst Job in the World.”
I think it also included the word “Again”.
re: #18 ckkatz
I think that Kamala Harris is facing an even more daunting challenge. There is no nationally agreed upon US template for the idea of a successful female National leader. I think that she is up to that tremendous challenge.
there are currently 12 female governors serving in office, 4 of whom are Republicans. Another 20 have served since 2000. I think there is something of a template out, but it will take the right woman to fill it out.
What they discuss every time they meet
How they plan to take over the world— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) February 22, 2024
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Tuberville acknowledges ‘hard’ situation for women after Alabama IVF ruling
Tactless as usual!
re: #33 Joe Bacon ✅
You expected something different from him? I didn’t.
Grief is tough, man.
I just can’t bring myself to remove my grandmother from the contact list on my phone…
re: #35 Nerdy Fish
“Some of you women may die, but that’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.”
re: #39 Teddy’s Person
Amen. I like the way you think. :)
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
Grief is tough, man.
I just can’t bring myself to remove my grandmother from the contact list on my phone…
My mom passed in Dec. 2019, and she stayed in my phone for a couple of years. I just checked my phone. She is no longer there, but I don’t remember deleting it.
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
Grief is tough, man.
I just can’t bring myself to remove my grandmother from the contact list on my phone…
My deep apologies. I was unaware of your post when I posted. I hope that I did not cause any further grief.
And yes, losing a loved one really sucks. I wish you peace and hope that one day you will find joy in remembering your grandmother.
Eta: I think that I will delete the contents of my post above. For those asking, it was a message about how the ATT outage has now been resolved.
re: #40 PhillyPretzel ✅
Amen. I like the way you think. :)
I like to think I’m not a violent person, but man, these MAGA men and women just bring it out in me.
re: #43 Teddy’s Person
You are not the only one.
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
Grief is tough, man.
I just can’t bring myself to remove my grandmother from the contact list on my phone…
it’s tough, weird, personal
take it in steps
take it as it comes, as you can
{{{EC}}}
re: #19 Romantic Heretic
More importantly they know how to use them.
I suspect most of the wingnuts entire knowledge of firearms consists of, “The bang comes out of this end.” They probably skimp on range time and maintenance as well.
They certainly have no idea how ballistics actually work. I have seen ammosexuals declare with categorical certainty that you could not hit a target 250 yards away with a .45 pistol. It isn’t easy because of the extreme elevation required but it can be done and, more importantly, it is a consequence of the natural laws of motion.
re: #5 EPR-radar
One thing the past few years have taught us is that no system of checks and balances can indefinitely withstand the Republican menace. They must be crushed in elections as long as it takes to force a reform.
the funny (not funny haha, but funny huh) thing about a lot of our so called conservatives is that they like to think they’re the heirs to the Founders/Framers, yet that generation of political leaders were absolutely warning against the sort of partisanship that Republicans are engaging in today when they talked about factionalism.
re: #500 Jay C
Grover Cleveland, but who’s counting?
Grover Cleveland was the Bill Clinton of the 19th Century. He married a 21-year-old hottie in the White House Rose Garden. And his campaign opponents taunted him about his child by a woman he wasn’t married to (not the hottie he married)
Ma ma where’s my Pa?
Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!
re: #29 Joe Bacon ✅
When talking about the modern GOP that “the call’s coming from inside the house” line never gets old.
Once again today, Joe Biden failed to crush the stock markets.
re: #50 Decatur Deb
According to Kitco all of the major indices went up.
re: #28 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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“So the plan is agreed: At the signal, we simultaneously run in front of the hairless apes and trip them.”
re: #47 KGxvi
the funny (not funny haha, but funny huh) thing about a lot of our so called conservatives is that they like to think they’re the heirs to the Founders/Framers, yet that generation of political leaders were absolutely warning against the sort of partisanship that Republicans are engaging in today when they talked about factionalism.
True, what they are the heirs of is mudslinging.
In the 1796 election, the Democratic-Republicans accused Federalist John Adams’ “running mate” Thomas Pickney of going to England to procure two mistresses, one for himself and one for Adams. Adams was supposed to have replied, “if he got two, he kept them both for himself”. They left that out of Hamilton.
In the 1828 election, the Adams faction of the Democratic-Republicans went after Andrew Jackson’s wife Rachel. They claimed that Rachel was already married (there were timing issues with her divorce) when she wed Andrew. She died before he was inaugurated and he blamed the Adamsites. He was wife-boated so to speak.
re: #46 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
They certainly have no idea how ballistics actually work. I have seen ammosexuals declare with categorical certainty that you could not hit a target 250 yards away with a .45 pistol. It isn’t easy because of the extreme elevation required but it can be done and, more importantly, it is a consequence of the natural laws of motion.
Ignoring wind, that only requires a bullet to be traveling at 260mph if you aim at 45 degrees, or 366 if you aim at 30 degrees.
Edit: Don’t take these as real. I think I did it wrong. I shouldn’t physics and work. I’ll figure the values out later.
A serial grifter, assaulter, pedophile, liar, and troll walk into a bar and the bartender says, ‘Hey, guys… I didn’t know we were hosting a Republican convention.’
re: #54 Belafon
Ignoring wind, that only requires a bullet to be traveling at 260mph if you aim at 45 degrees, or 366 if you aim at 30 degrees.
I was assured there would be no math.
re: #55 Joe Bacon ✅
A serial grifter, assaulter, pedophile, liar, and troll walk into a bar and the bartender says, ‘Hey,
guysDude… I didn’t know we were hosting a Republican convention.’
re: #52 Targetpractice
“So the plan is agreed: At the signal, we simultaneously run in front of the hairless apes and trip them.”
My cat Squeak used run up on me, leap into the air, and slam sideways (hip check) into the side of my knee.
She almost took me down a few times
re: #57 Targetpractice
I was assured there would be no math.
not, math, just physics… which, I guess is really just applied math, so…
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — The owner of a San Jose small business says she’s taken a big hit after Tesla placed an order worth thousands of dollars, then canceled unexpectedly.
The Giving Pies is a beloved business in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood, but it’s not just local residents in love with the pies - they’ve also caught the attention of Silicon Valley’s biggest corporations.
”We work with Google, Apple, Adobe, Intuit - all of them,” said owner Voahangy Rasetarinera.
Rasetarinera said Tesla reached out to her on Valentine’s Day to place an order of 2,000 mini pies to be delivered the following Tuesday and Thursday which is short notice for the business.
Full story here
TL;DR - Someone in Elmo-land ordered several thousand mini pies from this lady and she went ahead and made them WITHOUT HAVING BEEN PAID.
Seems like House of Musk was media shamed into contacting the owner again, but they still haven’t paid up:
ABC7 News reached out to Tesla and did not hear back, but while at The Giving Pies doing a late afternoon interview, someone with Tesla finally reached out to her.
”Explaining to me what happened that it was miscommunication that the employee, Laura, had no authority to promise any payment,” Rasetarinera said.
They offered to find a way to still buy pies from her, something she said she may consider but for now is hesitant to commit to.
Keep it classy, Elon.
re: #54 Belafon
I added this as a reply:
Don’t take these as real. I think I did it wrong. I shouldn’t physics and work. I’ll figure the values out later.
Walmart hiked prices on its Great Value food brands.
The result? $16.3 billion in earnings, up 44% from the prior year.
Walmart also rewarded shareholders with $5.9 billion in buybacks and dividends.
When I say price gouging is driving inflation, this is what I mean.— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 22, 2024
re: #46 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
They certainly have no idea how ballistics actually work. I have seen ammosexuals declare with categorical certainty that you could not hit a target 250 yards away with a .45 pistol.
I had the opportunity to shoot in long-range pistol competitions a few times and I could get a hit on a body target at 300 metres with about half my shots using the standard iron sights on my Model 29 S&W in .44 Magnum. On a bad day I’d miss some shots at 100 metres.
re: #70 William Lewis
Very nice picture. I did not get the first one.
Church for ‘praying patriots’ baptizes Proud Boys into Christian nationalism
re: #71 PhillyPretzel ✅
Very nice picture. I did not get the first one.
I didn’t see anything in the first posting either.
In the second post, the picture is very cool.
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
Grief is tough, man.
I just can’t bring myself to remove my grandmother from the contact list on my phone…
Dad will always be in my list of contacts. It isn’t sentimental. I’m just not “deleting’ my dad.
re: #55 Joe Bacon ✅
A serial grifter, assaulter, pedophile, liar, and troll walk into a bar and the bartender says,
“Seems like CPAC is getting to be a weekly thing, right?”
re: #75 Joe Bacon ✅
Insert “this is my shocked face” meme
re: #71 PhillyPretzel ✅
Very nice picture. I did not get the first one.
I liked the first one because it looked like the crawfish was clutching the bike rack in it’s claw. Apparently not obvious!
re: #77 Teddy’s Person
Insert “this is my shocked face” meme
Gabbard always was a Republican. This just proves it for the terminally clueless.
re: #74 steve_davis
Dad will always be in my list of contacts. It isn’t sentimental. I’m just not “deleting’ my dad.
Mom is still in my contacts.
re: #75 Joe Bacon ✅
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so I guess she’s not calling herself a Democrat anymore.
Isn’t she the one Hillary said was being groomed as a Russian asset?
TIL that the Countess of Castiglione (1837-1899) was very involved in early experimental photography.
She was apparently also an effective diplomat. She is thought to have successfully influenced Napoleon III to support the Unification of Italy. And to have dissuaded Otto von Bismarck from occupying Paris after the Franco-German War.
She was certainly a great early communicator using the new medium of photography.
She was involved in a child custody dispute with her husband and successfully resolved it through photography.
Her husband threatened to take their child Giorgio. She responded with this single photograph. After this, her husband ceased to protest. (True story)
re: #405 dat_said
Yahoo News: German bishops: far-right politics incompatible with Christian values
Well, it’s true. Christian Nationalists are Hamas’ first cousins.
re: #80 Vicious Babushka
i hear ya. the only reason my mom isn’t in my contacts is because she died a few years before I had a cellphone. I don’t know if my students can really envision that when I went to New Orleans to teach, I did so with 50 dollars in my pocket and no credit cards, and no cellphone. I had to actually get to New Orleans before I could close out my local checking account and move the money, which took a couple of weeks. Now that I think about it, I don’t think I got a cellphone until I got a blackberry, and it was incredibly cool because you could do this thing where email could be pushed to the phone. No internet, but still, that was really nifty in the early 2000s.
re: #29 Joe Bacon ✅
Conservative lawyer whacks MAGA C-SPAN caller for comparing Trump to Navalny
Some yahoo at the Putinversteher site was comparing Navalny to Soviet General Vlasov, who defected during WW2 with his entire army to the Nazi side.
Which is entirely the same as campaigning against someone for public office.
re: #81 sagehen
so I guess she’s not calling herself a Democrat anymore.
Isn’t she the one Hillary said was being groomed as a Russian asset?
Yes.
It’s official. Vice as a website is dead, hundreds laid off starting next week. No word on the archives.
So far 3 Alabama fertility clinics have put IVF on hold. One of them is migrating its storage to Minnesota.
re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg
Tick tock, tick tock…
Isn’t it enough for him to have the fines? Does he really have to pay them too?
Why didn’t DJT have the business sense to demand a 50% kickback on all the money Jared earned from the Saudis while serving in his administration and working for his company?
That would have covered his fines and left him with a tidy campaign nest egg as well.
DOJ is trying to keep Comer’s informant Smirnov alive. They also know he can walk into any Israeli embassy and pick up a new passport and an Uber to a private flight out of the country any time he wants…so he’s a literal flight risk. And Israel has a pretty good history of giving shelter to Israeli passport holders wanted for crimes in the US.
re: #90 darthstar
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Shorter Judge Engoron: “No, ‘because I said so’ is not good enough to get out of paying your fines.”
re: #97 darthstar
DOJ is trying to keep Comer’s informant Smirnov alive. They also know he can walk into any Israeli embassy and pick up a new passport and an Uber to a private flight out of the country any time he wants…so he’s a literal flight risk. And Israel has a pretty good history of giving shelter to Israeli passport holders wanted for crimes in the US.
I assume that you are referring to this:
re: #98 Nerdy Fish
Shorter Judge Engoron: “No, ‘because I said so’ is not good enough to get out of paying your fines.”
Even shorter Engoron: “Pay up, asshole.”
re: #82 ckkatz
I like this pic of “Nini” better (aka Countess Virginia di Castiglione):
Image: File:Pierson_castiglione.jpg
like Man Ray’s grandma…..
And I like the fact that she was able to negotiate both Italian Reunification AND the Franco-Prussian War because she had been the mistress of both Napoleon III, and Victor Emmanuel II (though not at the same time: Ginny DID have some standards….)
re: #10 Mattand
Things I learned on the previous thread:
A woman can be VP, but only if she isn’t too girly.
I really hope to God this person isn’t serious and I’m somehow getting this wrong.
Before giving him a hard time please remember he just turned 90 IIRC and I think about my dad, who was an awesome person but had some fucked up “values” that came with his age.
“I just want our military to be GI Joe again” — Byron Donalds at CPAC pic.twitter.com/pZTAJ89ccm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 22, 2024
Classic pic.twitter.com/BSdOjMRna6
— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) February 22, 2024
re: #100 ckkatz
I assume that you are referring to this:
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Putin won’t want him breathing oxygen. Republicans who may have collaborated with him won’t want him breathing oxygen. He’s been an FBI informant for 14 years or something like that - there are people in prison based on his testimony who probably resent his breathing oxygen.
The best chance for Republicans is that he doesn’t make it to trial and they can call him President Biden’s Vince Foster.
re: #104 ckkatz
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actually, no
they do not have ‘a lot of receipts’ on hunter or jim biden
re: #107 Dangerman
actually, no
they do not have ‘a lot of receipts’ on hunter or jim biden
They have a Russian spy who handed Rudy Giuliani a massive sack of shit and called it “receipts”.
re: #105 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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12 inch tall classic G.I. Joe, or 3.75 inch tall G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Byron?
JFC, unsurprisingly no self awareness.
After throwing some red meat to the GOP base [at CPAC] by bringing up the fabricated epidemic of trans student athletes, Lara [Trump] made this extraordinary claim about her daughter: “I want her to understand that in the United States of America, we get ahead and succeed by merit and merit alone.”
Lara continued, “She needs to understand that they way to succeed is by marrying the scion of a real estate mogul and learn to scam, scam, scam (the RNC).”
re: #109 A Three Hour Tour
12 inch tall classic G.I. Joe, or 3.75 inch tall G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Byron?
I had the G.I. Joe with the kung fu grip…it was somewhat disappointing…he got killed in an Aqua Net flamethrower and gun powder from dad’s reloader trap that also burned off my eyebrows when I was about 12. Green dot shotgun powder burns fast, bro.
re: #107 Dangerman
actually, no
they do not have ‘a lot of receipts’ on hunter or jim biden
That was my immediate thought as well.
re: #110 Teddy’s Person
JFC, unsurprisingly no self awareness.
Lara continued, “She needs to understand that they way to succeed is by marrying the scion of a real estate mogul and learn to scam, scam, scam (the RNC).”
Lara Trump says her kids says the Pledge of Allegiance before they go to sleep pic.twitter.com/fNNbMPTfCA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 22, 2024
re: #103 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Before giving him a hard time please remember he just turned 90 IIRC and I think about my dad, who was an awesome person but had some fucked up “values” that came with his age.
That is my thought too. He witnessed a lot of battles and a lot of progressive wins. Things change, hopefully for the better, and there are many more battles to fight and win.
What was progressive in 1780 was not in 1865. Nor that in 1865 progressive in 1925. Nor in turn that in 1945. And what was progressive in 1945 is often considered reactionary in 2024.
At 70 I have seen a lot of change. Some of it occasionally seems a bit unexpected and occasionally a bit of a risk. But in general I find it very positive. And as an aging boomer, it is time to let younger generations define the world that they will live in for more decades than I.
My parents’ generation faced two world wars, and a near complete economic disaster. They nearly saw a third nuclear world war. I was fortunate to grow up in a better world because of what they did, to try and improve the world at substantial sacrifice in lives, time and wealth.
My biggest hope is to allow the next generation the chance to improve the world without the sacrifice my parents had to make.
re: #113 Mike Lamb
That was my immediate thought as well.
None…I believe the have no receipts on Hunter and Jim Biden…and I think a televised interview using enhanced interrogation methods of Comer, Jordan, and fuck it, Grassley (though he probably wouldn’t survive) where they admit they were just making shit up and they’re really sorry for the trouble they caused would be in order.
re: #115 ckkatz
What was progressive in 1780 was not in 1865. Nor that in 1865 progressive in 1925. Nor in turn that in 1945. And what was progressive in 1945 is often considered reactionary in 2024.
Yes, Prohibition was seen as a “progressive” cause because it was a matter of women’s welfare: they had few rights at the time and divorce from an abusive, alcoholic husband was not really possible or socially acceptable.
— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) February 22, 2024
re: #22 retired cynic
I love Hilary. Change my mind.
Ditto! And the isn’t any Change My Mind. Not for me.
re: #30 Teddy’s Person
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CBS faces uproar after seizing investigative journalist’s files
This paragraph caught my attention:
She was pursuing stories that were unwelcomed by the Biden White House and many Democratic powerhouses, including the Hur report on Joe Biden’s diminished mental capacity, the Biden corruption scandal and the Hunter Biden laptop.
Is it going to turn out she was working with Russia to be such an investigative reporter? She worked for Fox for a long time. Did the FBI request that hold her material? I guess we will find out soon.
james:
“We are prepared to make sure that the judgment is paid to New Yorkers, and yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day,” James said, referring to the Trump Building in Manhattan.
“Knowing Donald as I do, here’s why I know this statement will make push him closer to the edge.”
“First, James implies that there’s a possibility Donald does not have enough cash to satisfy the judgment; that alone is enough to enrage him… Donald is obsessed with his net worth and he goes to great lengths to convince people he is enormously wealthy. It’s a significant part of his identity.”
“The urgency with which he clings to the the false idea that he is richer, more successful, and more talented than he is serves to hide the truth - not just from us, but from himself - that he is, quite simply, a loser.”
Ingraham: Does this mean you are not going to defend nato countries if they haven’t paid their 2-point whatever percent.
Trump: Yeah it sort of does. pic.twitter.com/OKxiMFhmkz— Acyn (@Acyn) February 22, 2024
GLSDBs have entered the chat. Slava Ukraini…first tests are close enough to get drone covereage. We don’t know how far back from the front the GLSDB was launched, but this looks like a fairly accurate hit.
re: #120 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #82 ckkatz
I think I saw her on What We Do In The In The Shadows. 😉
re: #114 Dangerman
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The lunar lander is getting set up for a burn. Landing in the next 10-20 min.
re: #126 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I think I saw her on What We Do In The In The Shadows. 😉
Was she dating Jackie Daytona?
re: #128 Decatur Deb
The lunar lander is getting set up for a burn. Landing in the next 10-20 min.
5 minutes
plus.nasa.gov
re: #129 Teddy’s Person
Was she dating Jackie Daytona?
Jackie Daytona, human bartender? why would a vampire have any reason to associate with him?
re: #121 silverdolphin
CBS faces uproar after seizing investigative journalist’s files
This paragraph caught my attention:
Is it going to turn out she was working with Russia to be such an investigative reporter? She worked for Fox for a long time. Did the FBI request that hold her material? I guess we will find out soon.
She has always been a dirtball—from 2020
It’s distressing when a mainstream media outlet is so anxious to make nice with conservatives that they hire someone like Catherine Herridge, whose career is filled with misinformation work. But that’s what CBS did, despite the reporter’s long and shameful history of acting more as a Republican partisan than a straight news reporter.
Back in January 2016, she reported what she thought was a big Fox News scoop: No fewer than 150 FBI agents were investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails and the private server she used while serving as secretary of state. The number, as part of Herridge’s exclusive report based on anonymous sources, was shocking. If the FBI had assigned 150 agents to fan out across the country and were treating the Clinton email case as one of the most pressing crime probes in the country, akin to a terrorist attack investigation, then of course Fox News’ favorite controversy at the time must represent a truly blockbuster scandal, right? I mean, 150 agents. It turns out Herridge was off by roughly 140 agents.
Herridge also volunteered her duties to the GOP during the 2016 campaign to spread misinformation about the Clinton emails and the Clinton Foundation. That year, Herridge reported an “exclusive” on the known hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar (aka “Guccifer”), bragging about how he “easily — and repeatedly — breached former Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton’s personal email server.” But as the FBI confirmed, the whole Herridge story was based on a lie
re: #131 darthstar
5 minutes
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I’m a little worried. Usually there’s applause and cheers on a successful landing. It’s been 10 minutes and they’re a bit subdued.
re: #125 Teddy’s Person
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re: #109 A Three Hour Tour
12 inch tall classic G.I. Joe, or 3.75 inch tall G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Byron?
I remember distinctly that there was a black GI-Joe, and it was early enough (1965) that it was labeled “GI-Joe Negro.”
Sure enough, here he is:
“This figure has the distinction of being one of the first mainstream toys produced specifically for African-American boys. Hasbro used the standard Caucasion head sculpt, it would not be until 1970 that a black GI Joe got more realistic features.”
re: #133 BeachDem
She has always been a dirtball—from 2020
It’s distressing when a mainstream media outlet is so anxious to make nice with conservatives that they hire someone like Catherine Herridge, whose career is filled with misinformation work. But that’s what CBS did, despite the reporter’s long and shameful history of acting more as a Republican partisan than a straight news reporter.
Back in January 2016, she reported what she thought was a big Fox News scoop: No fewer than 150 FBI agents were investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails and the private server she used while serving as secretary of state. The number, as part of Herridge’s exclusive report based on anonymous sources, was shocking. If the FBI had assigned 150 agents to fan out across the country and were treating the Clinton email case as one of the most pressing crime probes in the country, akin to a terrorist attack investigation, then of course Fox News’ favorite controversy at the time must represent a truly blockbuster scandal, right? I mean, 150 agents. It turns out Herridge was off by roughly 140 agents.
Herridge also volunteered her duties to the GOP during the 2016 campaign to spread misinformation about the Clinton emails and the Clinton Foundation. That year, Herridge reported an “exclusive” on the known hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar (aka “Guccifer”), bragging about how he “easily — and repeatedly — breached former Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton’s personal email server.” But as the FBI confirmed, the whole Herridge story was based on a lie
The chances she was a long term Russian asset grows.
re: #134 Nerdy Fish
I’m a little worried. Usually there’s applause and cheers on a successful landing. It’s been 10 minutes and they’re a bit subdued.
Tracking a return of signal right now. Hope they confirm.
re: #138 silverdolphin
Tracking a return of signal right now. Hope they confirm.
Remember, folks, space is hard.
re: #134 Nerdy Fish
I’m a little worried. Usually there’s applause and cheers on a successful landing. It’s been 10 minutes and they’re a bit subdued.
It went into self-steering for the last 20 meters or so…now they’re trying to re-establish coms.
re: #140 darthstar
It went into self-steering for the last 20 meters or so…now they’re trying to re-establish coms.
I forget sometimes that there’s still a very noticeable delay in radio communications between Earth and the Moon.
re: #141 Nerdy Fish
I forget sometimes that there’s still a very noticeable delay in radio communications between Earth and the Moon.
What if the signal takes ten years to get home?
re: #139 Nerdy Fish
Remember, folks, space is hard.
The lander autonomously recycles the communications after 15 minutes if there has not been a full return of signal.
re: #6 Dave In Austin
And he will successfully destroy democracy if our side wastes time talking about President Biden’s age or replacing VP Harris with a White woman.
No repeat of 2016!! Focus!!
They can confirm it is on the moon and at least partially active.
There it is. There’s the applause. They made it.
Now they just need to get more than just a faint signal. May just need to find ways to refine communications.
re: #148 silverdolphin
Now they just need to get more than just a faint signal. May just need to find ways to refine communications.
Most likely an antenna is not in the position they expected, and they need to figure out where the antenna is and tell the lander to reorient it to point more directly at the Earthside transceiver.
re: #123 Dangerman
Some days it’s hard to believe we have to share the country with those applauding morons.
re: #148 silverdolphin
Now they just need to get more than just a faint signal. May just need to find ways to refine communications.
With some comms and telemetry on the lander’s attitude, etc. they will have a lot more information to work with and I think a lot more options on things to adjust to improve things.
Note to The Hill: there is no “Biden corruption scandal.”
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
Don’t delete it. My parents are still in my contacts and will remain there forever. Lost my Dad in 2020. I save everything I can when it homes to him.
There’s no feeling in the world quite like seeing the cheers and celebration from a successful space landing.
re: #151 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
With some comms and telemetry on the lander’s attitude, etc. they will have a lot more information to work with and I think a lot more options on things to adjust to improve things.
The largest antenna (Australia) is not going to be in play for hours.
Cool. It landed. Hopefully in tact. 😂
Now back to Jackie and Shadow. 😍
re: #139 Nerdy Fish
Remember, folks, space is hard.
It’s funny—I sit on Earth, and occasionally think “How can you miss something the size of a planet?”
But then when I overlay the distances traveled in space, the speeds of the objects being intercepted, and that a planet or moon is just a speck of dust in space, it’s like “Oh…right. There’s a reason why ‘rocket scientist’ is a synonym for genius.”
One reason this is such a big deal is that Intuitive machines uses 3D printing, like making the combustion chamber of its rockets. So it can make a new engine every 5 days. we could see a real lunar economy very quickly if they show success.
re: #144 Patricia Kayden
And he will successfully destroy democracy if our side wastes time talking about President Biden’s age or replacing VP Harris with a White woman.
No repeat of 2016!! Focus!!
But it’s not what the Democrats will do that will be the problem— it’s what the MSM has done and is doing. It was Comey and the MSM that did Hillary in — and they are repeating the same behavior with Hur playing the Comey role.
re: #157 Mike Lamb
It’s funny—I sit on Earth, and occasionally think “How can you miss something the size of a plant?” But then when I overlay the distances traveled in space, the speeds of variables, and that a planet or moon is just a speck of dust in space, it’s like “Oh…right. There’s a reason why ‘rocket scientist’ is a synonym for genius.”
The fact that these guys can predict, within seconds and meters, when and where their little flying tin boxes will land on a heavenly body that is hundreds of thousands or even millions of miles away is mind-boggling. Mrs. Fish was telling me I should apply to work for NASA, and I was just like, “Look, I’m good at what I do, but those guys are so far out of my league I would need a telescope just to look at them.”
re: #135 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #137 silverdolphin
The chances she was a long term Russian asset grows.
Herridge has obviously cut her hair to disguise her true identity:
boston butt, 3 lbs., that I rib rubbed and then roasted in the oven covered for about 2 1/2 hours at 275. That was unbelievably yummy. and I don’t eat that much which means there’s enough left to keep me in business for a week. I might even have to thin-slice some of it and make a sandwich or two out of it as the week goes by.
re: #159 Hecuba’s daughter
But it’s not what the Democrats will do that will be the problem— it’s what the MSM has done and is doing. It was Comey and the MSM that did Hillary in — and they are repeating the same behavior with Hur playing the Comey role.
It may well turn out that some reporters, such as Catherine Herridge, are Russian assets. (I would not be surprised to find out that the temproary retention of her materials - they say they are now willing to turn them over - was to allow the FBI to have a look). If so, we then see that much of the MSM are just useful idiots for the Russians.
re: #162 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Herridge has obviously cut her hair to disguise her true identity:
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re: #152 jaunte
Note to The Hill: there is no “Biden corruption scandal.”
The byline on that Hill piece is by Jonathan Turley. Nuff said?
re: #153 Patricia Kayden
I just switched my gas bill to my name today from my father’s. He died in 2008, gas company switched to a new payment site.
re: #118 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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re: #168 Vicious Babushka
The original “Producers” with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder.
Not black & white
re: #106 darthstar
And when the Russians murder Smirnov the Republicans will build up a conspiracy that has Biden ordering him murdered. I still wonder at the ability of the Republicans to scream “SOCIALIST!” and “COMMUNIST!” at Democrats while blocking aid to Ukraine and coddling up to Russian Dictator Putin for support in overthrowing our Democracy and replacing it with their Christian Nationalism.
You would think that this would be big news but nope. It must be Biden’s age that has the press distracted, right?
re: #118 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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