Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra: “BLOOM”

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Here’s a new piece by Snarky Puppy pianist Bill Laurance, beautifully staged and recorded with a fantastic string orchestra arrangement.

Recorded at Blueprint Studios, Manchester U.K on the 21st, 22nd & 23rd of September 2022.

MUSICIANS
Bill Laurance - Piano, Fender Rhodes Mk8, Osmose Expressive, Prophet 6.
Rory Storm - Conductor

Violin 1
Simmy Singh
Katie Foster
Cleo Annandale
Mateus Dandalo

Violin 2
Didier Osindero
Helena Logah
Eleanor Shute
Chloe Hayward

Viola
Rosamund Hawkins
Sophia Dignam
Nadia Eskandari
Emily Davies

Cello
Polly Virr
Awen Blandford
Reyan Murtadha
Lucy McLuckie

Double Bass
Marcus Vinicius
Alice Phelps

SOUND
Steve Poppleton - Engineer / Mix Engineer
Gary Hadfield - Engineer
James Paul - Assistant Engineer
Tim Thomas & Ian Stewart - Co-owners, Blueprint Studios
Dave McNair - Mastering

VIDEO
Kai Ohio - Video Director
Ashley Stokes - Camera Operator
Axel Wolstenholme - Camera Operator/Photographer

PRODUCTION
Sam Davies - Untold Orchestra CEO

Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra - BLOOM
All tracks composed by Bill Laurance
All tracks arranged by Bill Laurance and Joshua Poole
Produced by Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra

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286 comments
1
Patricia Kayden  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:38:26pm

Mastodon

2
Decatur Deb  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:39:27pm

When Peter Navarro checks in at FCI Miami, he’ll get a chance to brush up on his Spanish. It’s the closest facility to Puerto Rico, and has a large population.

When Peter Navarro goes to prison, he’ll hear the lions roar
cnn.com

3
teleskiguy  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:41:01pm

Mastodon

4
jeffreyw  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:41:42pm

Saint Paul, Minn.—
In a historic and groundbreaking decision, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled that a pharmacist’s refusal to fill a woman’s prescription for emergency contraception based on his personal beliefs constitutes illegal sex discrimination under the Minnesota Human Rights Act.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:42:12pm

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Charles  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:42:35pm

When you talk to people who aren’t on the web all day it can be pretty shocking to see the kinds of things they believe, based on shit they heard from other friends who aren’t on the web all day. Fractured funhouse mirror time.

7
Patricia Kayden  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:42:38pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:43:05pm

The Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver, surely by pure coincidence, is also trying to bring it back into the national spotlight. Last week, he announced Liberty Counsel will once again ask the Supreme Court to take up the case of Sandra Merritt, one of the weirdos who published deceptively edited videos to make it look like Planned Parenthood was getting rich by illegally selling fetal remains.

And if you thought that was going to be the weirdest part of that announcement, you would be very wrong.

The Jezebel spirit is alive and well in America. The altars to the demon Baal/Beelzebub are protected by government officials who will persecute any who attempt to stop the bloodshed of innocent children sacrificed under Jezebel’s watchful eyes.

So glad to hear that Jezebel (our once-upon-a-time sister site) is doing well after having been bought by Paste!

That being said, I’m not sure how Ba’al — another name for Hadad, a deity who was like Zeus but for Canaanites, and also a general prefix for many other Levantine deities — got to be a demon in Christianity, but that seems rude. I’m not gonna go and start a religion and call one of the demons in my religion Jesus. “Mat Staver,” though, I would consider.

In fact, let’s let the demon Mat Staver continue!

Tomorrow, Liberty Counsel will file our reply to the U.S. Supreme Court requesting the Court take up the case of pro-life hero Sandra Merritt — the brave grandmother whose undercover journalism forced America to admit that not much has changed since Jezebel’s time.

Then, as now, the bodies of innocent children are used to heat our houses (as with the D.C. clinic) and fuel our medicine.

wonkette.com

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Targetpractice  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:45:14pm

re: #6 Charles

When you talk to people who aren’t on the web all day it can be pretty shocking to see the kinds of things they believe, based on shit they heard from other friends who aren’t on the web all day. Fractured funhouse mirror time.

My friend’s cousin heard from his nephew on Facebook that Faux was reporting this afternoon on a report that Biden order fluoride put in children’s ice cream. Can you believe it?!

//

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:45:52pm

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Charles  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:48:13pm

Currently: listening to Stephen King reading “The Raft” from the “Skeleton Crew” collection, audiobook via Hoopla.

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Targetpractice  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:50:23pm

re: #10 Patricia Kayden

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Congress could write a private data security bill, but instead they’re (again) wasting their time on “CHYNA! CHYNA! OOGA BOOGA!!!”

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:51:34pm

re: #4 jeffreyw

It’s good to see courts FINALLY pushing back on this “deeply held beliefs” bullshit. Far too much has been lost in the name of preserving the supposed “right” of Christians to be self-centered assholes.

14
Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:52:11pm

‘The feeling is mutual’: Trump blasted over attack on Jewish Democrats

Donald Trump targeted Jews who vote Democratic Monday, barely days after the criminally-indicted ex-president threatened there would be a “bloodbath” if voters do not put him back in the Oval Office.

His remarks, which include claiming Jewish Democrats “hate” Israel and their own religion, were quickly labeled antisemitic.

“I actually think they hate Israel,” Trump on Monday told far right wing radio host Sebastian Gorka, who alleged the Joe Biden administration and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer “hate” Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

“I think they hate Israel. And the Democrat Party hates Israel,” Trump, upping the ante, responded. Gorka is his former White House aide who served briefly in the Trump administration before reportedly being “ousted.”

“I really believe they hate Israel,” Trump also said, and accused Schumer, a Democrat who has represented New York for the past quarter-century, of appearing to hate Israel for “votes.”

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Targetpractice  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:52:50pm

re: #11 Charles

Currently: listening to Stephen King reading “The Raft” from the “Skeleton Crew” collection, audiobook via Hoopla.

My favorite from that collection still remains “Word Processor of the Gods.”

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:52:50pm

re: #9 Targetpractice

Those who never experienced General Ripper are doomed to repeat him.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:55:49pm

re: #9 Targetpractice

My friend’s cousin heard from his nephew on Facebook that Faux was reporting this afternoon on a report that Biden order fluoride put in children’s ice cream. Can you believe it?!

//

before or after the razor blades?

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Targetpractice  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:56:06pm

re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅

‘The feeling is mutual’: Trump blasted over attack on Jewish Democrats

Donald Trump targeted Jews who vote Democratic Monday, barely days after the criminally-indicted ex-president threatened there would be a “bloodbath” if voters do not put him back in the Oval Office.

His remarks, which include claiming Jewish Democrats “hate” Israel and their own religion, were quickly labeled antisemitic.

“I actually think they hate Israel,” Trump on Monday told far right wing radio host Sebastian Gorka, who alleged the Joe Biden administration and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer “hate” Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

“I think they hate Israel. And the Democrat Party hates Israel,” Trump, upping the ante, responded. Gorka is his former White House aide who served briefly in the Trump administration before reportedly being “ousted.”

“I really believe they hate Israel,” Trump also said, and accused Schumer, a Democrat who has represented New York for the past quarter-century, of appearing to hate Israel for “votes.”

[Embedded content]

Because sure, the way to win in November is to piss off as many demographics as possible./////

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prairiefire  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:57:39pm

Ladies on strings! 🥰

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TedStriker  Mar 18, 2024 • 5:59:28pm

re: #5 Patricia Kayden

[Embedded content]

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teleskiguy  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:01:57pm

I think I’ve been good about not posting Xitter links here. But I made this and It’s a good ‘un.

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Jay C  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:01:58pm

re: #18 Targetpractice

Because sure, the way to win in November is to piss off as many demographics as possible./////

Well, ex-Pres SFB is likely right about one thing: the Biden Admin and Chuck Schumer probably DO hate Netanyahu (in which they are hardly outliers): but that this equates to “hatred” for Israel in general is a crock of crap:

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Charles  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:04:02pm

re: #21 teleskiguy

yeah, those poor republicans without enough multi-billionaires

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Amory Blaine  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:04:56pm

Dropping the price of inhalers such an amount should actually trigger a greater investigation.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:05:37pm

re: #2 Decatur Deb

When Peter Navarro checks in at FCI Miami, he’ll get a chance to brush up on his Spanish. It’s the closest facility to Puerto Rico, and has a large population.

When Peter Navarro goes to prison, he’ll hear the lions roar
cnn.com

Infuriating.

Mangel is part of a cottage industry in the legal world meant to help prepare well-heeled convicts and their families for time behind bars. He said he spoke with Navarro on Monday.

…

Navarro is unlikely to serve the four full months of his sentence because of laws that allow for early release for federal inmates. Mangel said he expects the time served to be about 90 days.

Mangel said Navarro will have to take classes and get a job inside the prison. The prison consultant has urged him to try for roles as a law library clerk or an orderly, so he can spend the next few months in the air conditioning as Miami’s weather warms.

Given his age, Navarro also will ask to be in a dormitory for elderly inmates that houses about 80 men in bunk beds.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:12:12pm

Brain bleach required.

Child porn and bestiality charges filed against four Wisconsin men

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:14:19pm

re: #4 jeffreyw

IT’S ABOUT TIME!

If your personal beliefs don’t let you do your job properly, you’re in the wrong job.

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William Lewis  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:14:27pm

From down stairs:
re: #73 Ace Rothstein

I really like this picture, but is that dust on the sensor next to the cloud?

Yeah, already did a sensor cleaning. Had an even bigger bit I had to crop around.

——-

re: #87 sagehen

Are you using a different film than usual? Today’s images have a tone/texture I find appealing….

No film today, I was using my Leica digital with the special adapter I bought for my Nikon rangefinder lenses. Because I do mostly use black and white film in the Nikon S2, I converted the images to monochrome during post processing. The difference really comes down to those two very special lenses.

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:16:32pm

re: #21 teleskiguy

Are none of them liquid enough to help or join with others to help? This is an outrage.

I always understood part of being a billionaire was living a strict rule about not helping anyone else.

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jaunte  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:18:38pm

NOT

(Added the not)

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William Lewis  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:20:09pm

Cropped version without that spot - out out damn’d spot!

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Amory Blaine  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:24:17pm

re: #29 jaunte

I always understood part of being a billionaire was living a strict rule about not helping anyone else.

Like the Lord intended.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:24:35pm

re: #23 Charles

yeah, those poor republicans without enough multi-billionaires

They’re busy buying SCOTUS judges. There’s only so much moolah to buy all these republican tools.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:25:17pm

re: #26 Amory Blaine

Brain bleach required.

Child porn and bestiality charges filed against four Wisconsin men

Not a drag queen or transgender among them.

Former Racine County Sheriff’s Deputy Preston Kite, 37, of Union Grove, has been charged with five counts of possession of child porn, five counts of child sexual exploitation, exposing intimate parts to a child, lewd and lascivious behavior, disorderly conduct, possessing bestiality material and engaging in sexual contact with an animal.

Former Outagamie County Human Resources Director Adam Westbrook, 34, of Neenah, has been charged in federal court with distribution of child pornography.

Jacob Boudreau, 30, of Appleton, who owns Show Worthy Pet Salon & Boutique in Menasha and regularly competes in AKC dog shows as a handler, has been charged with 12 counts of possession of child pornography.

Noah Thiel, 20, is the youngest of the grisly gang. Nothing is known about his professional background, if any.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:25:38pm

re: #29 jaunte

I always understood part of being a billionaire was living a strict rule about not helping anyone else*.

* Unless there’s a payout at the end

FIFY

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William Lewis  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:25:57pm

re: #12 Targetpractice

Congress could write a private data security bill, but instead they’re (again) wasting their time on “CHYNA! CHYNA! OOGA BOOGA!!!”

Because they don’t want data security - they just want the correct people stealing it to make money.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:26:13pm

re: #32 Amory Blaine

Like the Lord intended.

Well, you know the Bible says, “God helps those who help themselves,” right?

(Note: While the Bible does not, in fact, say this, an actual study showed that many people believe it does.)

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Targetpractice  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:27:40pm

re: #36 William Lewis

Because they don’t want data security - they just want the correct people stealing it to make money.

Right. Pretty much everybody’s pointed out at this point that it’s rather telling how, within hours of the bill passing in the House, several far-right connected financiers/hedge funds expressed “interest” in buying TikTok.

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sagehen  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:28:39pm

re: #22 Jay C

Well, ex-Pres SFB is likely right about one thing: the Biden Admin and Chuck Schumer probably DO hate Netanyahu (in which they are hardly outliers): but that this equates to “hatred” for Israel in general is a crock of crap:

70% of Israeli Jews also hate Netanyahu; I’m happy to be in their company.

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BeachDem  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:29:32pm

re: #23 Charles

yeah, those poor republicans without enough multi-billionaires

But, just for irony’s sake

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Amory Blaine  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:31:03pm

Haha I’ve been getting these emails for weeks:

Hello, my perverted friend,

Unfortunately, the fact that our paths have crossed doesn’t mean anything good for you.
I have some good news and bad news.
I’ll start with the bad news.

While you were surfing porn sites, I managed to install a spyware using your browser.
It has gained access to your webcam, your browser history, and all your devices, not just your computer.

This alone wouldn’t be a problem if only I wasn’t particularly interested in your love of the very controversial genre of pornography.
You know what I mean. I saved a backup copy of your webcam and screen recordings as you enjoy jerking off to these videos.
The video on the left shows a recording of your screen with the clip, while the one on the right shows you in real time.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:32:30pm

re: #41 Amory Blaine

There is so much to work with there.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:33:11pm

Jokes on him, I have no self-respect.

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Dangerman  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:33:32pm

re: #29 jaunte

I always understood part of being a billionaire was living a strict rule about not helping anyone else.

Smart rich folks chase good investments
There’s nothing in it for them to loan him the $

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Decatur Deb  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:34:04pm

re: #41 Amory Blaine

Is the good news that he takes bitcoin?

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Targetpractice  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:35:02pm

re: #44 Dangerman

Smart rich folks chase good investments
There’s nothing in it for them to loan him the $

Especially when most know that they’re never getting that money back. If it were $464K, they’d find that in their couch cushions to send him. Hell, ten of them could get together and find the money in their booze funds. That none of them are willing to step forward says all you need to know about what they think the odds are he’s gonna succeed at appeal.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:35:22pm

re: #45 Decatur Deb

Is the good news that he takes bitcoin?

Oh yeah.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:35:31pm

re: #41 Amory Blaine

Black Mirror wears its disturbing and unsettling content like a badge of honor, but nothing compares with the “Shut Up and Dance” Black Mirror episode. Charlie Brooker’s dystopian Black Mirror premiered in 2011 before being acquired by Netflix after season 2 due to the series’ continually high ratings. The anthology series commentates on issues that draw distinct parallels with the news coverage he observed during his journalism career in the UK, setting many of them in a parallel dystopian vision.

The Black Mirror episode “Shut Up And Dance” stars Alex Lawther as Kenny, a teenager blackmailed by hackers who reveal they have footage of Kenny in a compromising position. As the hackers’ demands escalate, Kenny is forced to commit increasingly risky acts to stave off the release of this overtly sexual video. While Kenny protests in innocence throughout the episode, “Shut Up And Dance” ultimately crescendos into a sickening twist that lingers in the mind long after viewing.

Black Mirror’s “Shut Up And Dance” Is Actually The Most Disturbing Episode (Screenrant)

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:36:19pm

re: #44 Dangerman

Smart rich folks chase good investments
There’s nothing in it for them to loan him the $

Once upon a time, it could’ve been a good investment, back in 2016 when he was poised to win the Presidency. It’s not like he paid any attention to emoluments, after all. Now, it’s far more likely that their investment will be wasted; Biden looks strong, nigh unbeatable, despite what the media are attempting to sell with their horse race bullshit. The smart financial minds know where the betting action is.

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Dangerman  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:37:13pm

re: #43 Amory Blaine

Jokes on him, I have no self-respect.

I have no webcam

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Amory Blaine  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:37:37pm

The email says it has included screenshots but I’m Unable to locate them as I would use them as avatars.

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JC1  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:39:11pm

re: #33 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

They’re busy buying SCOTUS judges. There’s only so much moolah to buy all these republican tools.

Why would they bail out Trump? This is an opportunity to make more money by buying Trump’s seized properties at auction at a discount.

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Targetpractice  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:39:58pm

re: #41 Amory Blaine

Haha I’ve been getting these emails for weeks:

Hello, my perverted friend,

Unfortunately, the fact that our paths have crossed doesn’t mean anything good for you.
I have some good news and bad news.
I’ll start with the bad news.

While you were surfing porn sites, I managed to install a spyware using your browser.
It has gained access to your webcam, your browser history, and all your devices, not just your computer.

This alone wouldn’t be a problem if only I wasn’t particularly interested in your love of the very controversial genre of pornography.
You know what I mean. I saved a backup copy of your webcam and screen recordings as you enjoy jerking off to these videos.
The video on the left shows a recording of your screen with the clip, while the one on the right shows you in real time.

“The” controversial genre of pornography? Is it a specific genre that we’re supposed to guess or is it just controversial that you choked your chicken?

54
Amory Blaine  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:44:40pm

“All of them, Alex!”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:49:29pm

re: #26 Amory Blaine

Brain bleach required.

Child porn and bestiality charges filed against four Wisconsin men

Holy SHIT. The podcasts about this case are gonna be nuts.

56
Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 18, 2024 • 6:52:03pm

re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg
Needs moar pixels.

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Dangerman  Mar 18, 2024 • 7:21:24pm

Trump personally told Ramaswamy he won’t be his vice presidential pick, but is considering him for posts including Homeland Security secretary.

What the effing eff?

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 18, 2024 • 7:29:40pm

re: #58 Amory Blaine

After Libs of TikTok post, multiple bomb threats have been made at Waukesha middle school

I support free speech and the First Amendment as much as anyone, but there has got to be something we can do to start combating these sorts of people. The ones who address what would ordinarily be protected speech to people they know will take their words the “wrong way,” to the logical extreme, and threaten or commit violence because of it. I refuse to believe we are powerless to act against such naked stochastic terrorism.

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aatharuv  Mar 18, 2024 • 7:36:44pm

re: #41 Amory Blaine

Haha I’ve been getting these emails for weeks:

Hello, my perverted friend,

Unfortunately, the fact that our paths have crossed doesn’t mean anything good for you.
I have some good news and bad news.
I’ll start with the bad news.

While you were surfing porn sites, I managed to install a spyware using your browser.
It has gained access to your webcam, your browser history, and all your devices, not just your computer.

This alone wouldn’t be a problem if only I wasn’t particularly interested in your love of the very controversial genre of pornography.
You know what I mean. I saved a backup copy of your webcam and screen recordings as you enjoy jerking off to these videos.
The video on the left shows a recording of your screen with the clip, while the one on the right shows you in real time.

These emails have been going out for a few years now. And they are asking for bitcoin to erase the videos, right?

61
aatharuv  Mar 18, 2024 • 7:37:27pm

re: #57 Dangerman

Trump personally told Ramaswamy he won’t be his vice presidential pick, but is considering him for posts including Homeland Security secretary.

What the effing eff?

He probably wasn’t willing to pony up enough cash to bail Trump out.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 18, 2024 • 7:38:16pm

Pro-Trump attorney arrested after court hearing about leaked Dominion emails

A pro-Trump lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a court hearing about her recent leak of internal emails belonging to Dominion Voting Systems.

There was an existing arrest warrant for the attorney, Stefanie Lambert, stemming from her failure to appear at recent court hearings in her separate criminal case in Michigan, where she was charged with conspiring to seize voting machines after the 2020 election.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 18, 2024 • 7:42:30pm

Wifi aboard this ship was supposed to be chancy, but it seems to be working well now, so here’s a picture of Papeete.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 18, 2024 • 7:51:55pm

re: #43 Amory Blaine

Jokes on him, I have no self-respect.

When your correspondent contacts me (every other week or so), he seems unaware that my laptop doesn’t have a camera.

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BeachDem  Mar 18, 2024 • 7:58:16pm

re: #64 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

When your correspondent contacts me (every other week or so), he seems unaware that my laptop doesn’t have a camera.

Same. (And the 150 or so hot babes who email me daily and think I’m a handsome guy who they want to have sex with are also barking up the wrong tree)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 18, 2024 • 7:59:33pm

re: #65 BeachDem

And the endless stream of Russian girls who want to match with me on Tinder…

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Dangerman  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:06:16pm

“Counted”?

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:06:56pm

re: #67 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

“Counted”?

It’s from Xitter, so I have to assume he’s just that fucking stupid.

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:18:17pm

I just reported as spam, an email from google, to my gmail account. I expect no consequences.

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ckkatz  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:20:54pm

From downstairs -

re: #97 Patricia Kayden

So No Labels appears to only be courting Republicans which is very odd. Or maybe that’s just my perception.

Sorry, I was doing laundry. And then watching Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow ,and Lawrence O’Donnell.

So far, my understanding was that the billionaire ratfuckers at No Label have asked Manchin, Hogan (Your former GOP governor) and Nikki Haley. Who all, in unexpected fits of sanity, have had the wisdom to decline.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:21:20pm

If you didn’t see this happy news, Chief Justice Roberts denied Peter Navarro a stay of his sentence today. Tomorrow, Ole Pete heads to prison, or becomes a fugitive.

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ckkatz  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:28:08pm

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:30:04pm

re: #67 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

“Counted”?

That’s satire, right?

…right????

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:30:53pm

re: #70 ckkatz

From downstairs -

Sorry, I was doing laundry. And then watching Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow ,and Lawrence O’Donnell.

So far, my understanding was that the billionaire ratfuckers at No Label have asked Manchin, Hogan (Your former GOP governor) and Nikki Haley. Who all, in unexpected fits of sanity, have had the wisdom to decline.

Since LIEberman is the creep running the NoLabels Scam I’m surprised he isn’t going to pick up the mantle and run to put his pal Trump back in the White House.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:32:26pm

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wrenchwench  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:36:51pm

re: #72 ckkatz

[Embedded content]

I only did ketchup once, but i did salsa a million times. OK, a hundred.

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ckkatz  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:40:29pm

re: #76 wrenchwench

I only did ketchup once, but i did salsa a million times. OK, a hundred.

Hah!

I see that you like to test boundaries. But learn very quickly. :)

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:43:18pm

re: #2 Decatur Deb

When Peter Navarro checks in at FCI Miami, he’ll get a chance to brush up on his Spanish. It’s the closest facility to Puerto Rico, and has a large population.

When Peter Navarro goes to prison, he’ll hear the lions roar
cnn.com

Of all the federal and state lockups in which I visited my shut-ins - FCI Miami in comparison was the less prison like. Except during the count - everything at that time stopped and froze in place.

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ckkatz  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:44:45pm

re: #74 Joe Bacon ✅

Since LIEberman is the creep running the NoLabels Scam I’m surprised he isn’t going to pick up the mantle and run to put his pal Trump back in the White House.

That’s right, I keep forgetting that Lieberman is the guy behind the curtains.

It is interesting that the folks they’re asking seem to be getting lower and lower on the political food chain. I suspect that Lieberman is smart enough to know he wants somebody else to shred their reputation and career for ratfuckery rather than take the hit himself.

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ckkatz  Mar 18, 2024 • 8:58:50pm

Thread on some of the Ukrainian strategy that drove the Russians out of the Black Sea and then opened it up to grain exports.

Behind private button because it is a bit longish.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:08:32pm

re: #70 ckkatz

From downstairs -

Sorry, I was doing laundry. And then watching Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow ,and Lawrence O’Donnell.

So far, my understanding was that the billionaire ratfuckers at No Label have asked Manchin, Hogan (Your former GOP governor) and Nikki Haley. Who all, in unexpected fits of sanity, have had the wisdom to decline.

Because No Labels with a Republican leading the ticket will definitely steal a lot more votes from Trump than Biden. And also given the group mind of the GQP any Republican who accepts the No Labels candidacy is career toast politically.

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EPR-radar  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:10:26pm

re: #80 ckkatz

Key lesson from this crucial episode? The only strategy that works with Russia is a threat of symmetric retaliation against their critical infrastructure. “Hit our ships and ports and we will hit yours”

This is also how to negotiate with Republicans. Can’t think why the required approaches are identical.

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piratedan  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:17:22pm

re: #81 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

those No Labels asshats are going to have to build their own fucking party. Trump has co-opted their daddy’s GOP and he’s very unlikely to simply hand it back.

After Trump busts out the GOP, there’s going to essentially be one national party remaining (say 15-20 years down the road, the GOP will take a loooong time to die) but we have to get thru these very hard times first before the tide will finally recede.

Building an alternative party takes work and none of these No Labels guys want to do it, they expect to simply move in at the top and do what?????? how will they govern? America has survived these kinds of political crossroads before, parties have risen and fallen by the wayside, there’s no guarantee that the GOP is any different, parties change, evolve and currently the GOP is on the wrong side of every major issue that concerns Americans.

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Captain Ron  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:17:30pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:18:50pm

re: #80 ckkatz

Thread on some of the Ukrainian strategy that drove the Russians out of the Black Sea and then opened it up to grain exports.

Behind private button because it is a bit longish.

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. . . For global insurance companies, the*entire*Black*Sea*is*one*region”
Dmitri Alperovitch

“And if something happens in Odessa or Novorossiysk, the cost of insurance increases in the entire region at the same time,” explains Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Vaskov.

“Novorossiysk is also a huge oil transshipment. It is through this port that oil giants from the USA export Kazakh oil. This is where the “grey” export of Russian oil takes place under the guise of open brands”

This fits into my [armchair expert cherry picking] theory that underwriters control the world economy.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:24:56pm

That GoFleeceMe for Trump. Stalling at $1.3ish million. Fools and their money.

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teleskiguy  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:25:24pm

Presumptuous

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Captain Ron  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:29:26pm

I had to take out a growth of pampas grass. It took all day and I was ripped to shreds.

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ckkatz  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:30:27pm

re: #85 BeenHereAwhile

This fits into my [armchair expert cherry picking] theory that underwriters control the world economy.

This is very true.

And I guess that it will only get worse.

I think that we are watching a similar thing play out in the US justice arena with tfg as well.

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ckkatz  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:34:32pm

re: #88 Captain Ron

A nearby neighborhood shopping center has those ^%$#%$# ornamental grasses planted throughout their parking lot. Planted exactly where they block every line of sight a driver requires to navigate the @$#&%$@$ parking lot without getting into a collision.

To see oncoming traffic one has to carefully edge out into the lane. Knowing that the oncoming traffic can’t see oneself either.

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Captain Ron  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:38:44pm
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A Cranky One  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:56:19pm

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Dragonomics  Mar 18, 2024 • 9:57:20pm

re: #72 ckkatz

Always and forever. Mac and cheese and ketchup. Fattening up our tape worm.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 18, 2024 • 10:35:56pm

Hope all is well with VB and Zeddo and that his recovery is proceeding successfully.

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2024 • 10:38:17pm

I finally got to look at the tweet someone put up earlier about the new movie Immaculate:

So you don’t have to watch it, she’s reading the verses about Elijah being taunted by some boys for being bald and he calls for a curse and bears come out and kill 42 of the boys.

And the first two replies I see just about killed me:

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Belafon  Mar 18, 2024 • 10:40:39pm

re: #95 Belafon

It’s been so long since I wrote the word bald that I couldn’t remember how to spell it.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Mar 18, 2024 • 10:43:01pm

Your Next Wordle is an easy eagle if you selected the right club for your tee shot.

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SibData: 2,2,4,4,5

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 18, 2024 • 11:40:30pm

re: #97 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Trey for me.

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Captain Ron  Mar 18, 2024 • 11:42:13pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 18, 2024 • 11:43:31pm

Waiting for the Tide (2012 Remix)

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Captain Ron  Mar 19, 2024 • 12:07:51am

YouTube

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 19, 2024 • 1:32:33am

What the FUCK is going on here?

Map Shows Warnings for People to Stock Up on Food Ahead of Solar Eclipse

These yokel gummint yahoos seem to be a lot more worried about an eclipse than they were about covid.

Oklahoma is expected to receive an influx of anywhere from 17,000 to 66,000 visitors to watch the solar eclipse,” it said. “The large influx of visitors to southeastern Oklahoma could overwhelm and backup the area’s road systems.”

Really? Take 5 to 8 percent of the daily commuter traffic in OKC, spread it across southeastern Oklahoma for a couple of hours and you have Armageddon of the Roads?
Some goober burgs are closing their schools for the day. When I was in the third grade, there was an eclipse and we were in the path of totality. School was not canceled. They gave us these cheap cardboard “eclipse glasses” and we trooped outside to watch for ourselves. It was a treat.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 19, 2024 • 1:42:39am

re: #102 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Maybe the goobers think they can browbeat NASA into canceling the eclipse.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 19, 2024 • 3:49:50am

re: #102 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Multiple total solar eclipses have occurred in the United States even in the last ~50 years. This is not a new phenomenon, nor has it historically been a problem. It’s the same phenomenon that causes a run on milk and bread when a snowstorm hits: A fundamental fear of uncertainty.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 19, 2024 • 3:52:10am

I’m actually mad about it.

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William Lewis  Mar 19, 2024 • 3:53:58am

re: #104 Nerdy Fish

Multiple total solar eclipses have occurred in the United States even in the last ~50 years. This is not a new phenomenon, nor has it historically been a problem. It’s the same phenomenon that causes a run on milk and bread when a snowstorm hits: A fundamental fear of uncertainty.

More than just that in a Red State: a desire to foster FUD. The more fear, uncertainty and doubt you can create in your local population, the more dependent you can keep them. It’s become something of a meme and cliché but Fear really is a mind killer

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2024 • 4:20:42am

re: #102 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

What the FUCK is going on here?

Map Shows Warnings for People to Stock Up on Food Ahead of Solar Eclipse

These yokel gummint yahoos seem to be a lot more worried about an eclipse than they were about covid.

Really? Take 5 to 8 percent of the daily commuter traffic in OKC, spread it across southeastern Oklahoma for a couple of hours and you have Armageddon of the Roads?
Some goober burgs are closing their schools for the day. When I was in the third grade, there was an eclipse and we were in the path of totality. School was not canceled. They gave us these cheap cardboard “eclipse glasses” and we trooped outside to watch for ourselves. It was a treat.

We drove to the last good eclipse, to a delightful E Tennessee town (Spring City pop 1900). After careful map work we picked a city park directly on the line of longest totality. The night before we camped in the suburbs of Chattanooga, then drove to our target at dawn. The local cops had it well in hand arriving, though it took a slow hour to get out of town afterwards. There were no shortages of anything in the viewing area, including breakfast diners. For such a tiny town they really had their shit together. They had organized handicap parking within yards of the max line.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 4:45:48am

Line three was a hail mary that failed bigly.
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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 4:52:13am

re: #21 teleskiguy

Oh, the reason that they’re billionaires is that the don’t give someone like Trump a bailout. /

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 4:54:39am

re: #67 Dangerman

It’s easy to get a “count” when the fix is in.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 4:54:39am

re: #109 lawhawk

Oh, the reason that they’re billionaires is that the don’t give someone like Trump a bailout. /

Watch your nickels and dimes and the billions will take care of themselves.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:05:57am

The warning about eclipse travel is just clickbait or FUD. Revisiting our little Tennessee eclipse site:

ONE YEAR LATER: How the total eclipse helped the Tennessee Valley
local3news.com

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:14:55am

Well…this may be the appeal to the 11th circuit Smith was waiting for.

The MAGA-friendly federal judge who keeps siding with Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified records case has forced prosecutors to make a stark choice: allow jurors to see a huge trove of national secrets or let him go.

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s ultimatum Monday night came as a surprise twist in what could have been a simple order; one merely asking federal prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers for proposed jury instructions at the upcoming trial.

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coin operated  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:16:54am

just spitballing here, but I wouldn’t be shocked if some of Trump’s billionaire buddies are looking at Trump’s $464M bond and thinking “I could help bond him…or I can wait and pick up some prime real estate at firesale prices”

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:21:41am

re: #114 coin operated

just spitballing here, but I wouldn’t be shocked if some of Trump’s billionaire buddies are looking at Trump’s $464M bond and thinking “I could help bond him…or I can wait and pick up some prime real estate at firesale prices”

Jared’s family - Kushner. Just you watch.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:24:15am

re: #114 coin operated

re: #115 lawhawk

Yeah…it’d be a great chance to pick up some primo properties at pennies on the dollar (so to speak).

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:24:17am

re: #115 lawhawk

Jared’s family - Kushner. Just you watch.

Okay, Ivanka and I will bail out the old man but Uday and Qusay are on their own.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:25:48am

re: #116 Dr Lizardo

Yeah…it’d be a great chance to pick up some primo properties at pennies on the dollar (so to speak).

I’ve always wanted a golf course/cemetery.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:37:56am

re: #97 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your Next Wordle is an easy eagle if you selected the right club for your tee shot.

Same here.

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Targetpractice  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:38:59am

re: #113 darthstar

Well…this may be the appeal to the 11th circuit Smith was waiting for.

It has really felt for awhile now like she has been deliberately trying to get Smith to have her bounced from the case but he has instead continued to push forward because doing so would introduce further delay into the case. If that is her plan, then he’s finally hit a wall and there’s no way forward without doing the thing he doesn’t want to do.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:38:59am

Satisfying eagle this morning.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:41:32am

re: #120 Targetpractice

It has really felt for awhile now like she has been deliberately trying to get Smith to have her bounced from the case but he has instead continued to push forward because doing so would introduce further delay into the case. If that is her plan, then he’s finally hit a wall and there’s no way forward without doing the thing he doesn’t want to do.

In a way, her getting bounced from the case would accomplish exactly what she wants, which is to draw things out as much as possible. Getting a new judge up to speed on the docket would eat up still more time. At this point, we’re already looking at 2025 for a trial.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:43:55am

re: #122 Nerdy Fish

So this trial will have significance only if we get out the vote.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:47:54am

Morning Lizards. May you all have a blessed Ostara today. Now off to the salt mine I go.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:48:33am

re: #85 BeenHereAwhile

This fits into my [armchair expert cherry picking] theory that underwriters control the world economy.

Allianz, Germany’s biggest insurance company, has its fingers in nearly every pie and a seat on the board of nearly every major German corporation.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:48:46am

re: #123 Decatur Deb

So this trial will have significance only if we get out the vote.

That’s the long and short of it, yes. It’s depressing to think that a guy who stole a bunch of highly classified information will only face consequences if people show up at the ballot box to stop him from getting off scot-free, but that’s where we find ourselves because democracy is weird and people with power are more attached to keeping it than to doing the right thing.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:53:27am

re: #122 Nerdy Fish

In a way, her getting bounced from the case would accomplish exactly what she wants, which is to draw things out as much as possible. Getting a new judge up to speed on the docket would eat up still more time. At this point, we’re already looking at 2025 for a trial.

This is a simple trial. Physical evidence. Documented behavior. Prosecution could be done in a week or two. A new judge could bring this to trial in four months.

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Targetpractice  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:55:23am

re: #127 darthstar

This is a simple trial. Physical evidence. Documented behavior. Prosecution could be done in a week or two. A new judge could bring this to trial in four months.

If Smith appeals and Loose Cannon gets booted, the new judge will find themselves facing demands from Trump and his cronies to redo all the pre-trial motions and pleadings in order to be “fair.” And because every judge that has so far touched a Trump criminal trial has leaned heavily towards giving him what he wants to avoid the possibility of being overturned on appeal, expect the next one to give in to those demands.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:58:19am

re: #128 Targetpractice

All the pre-trial motions that were beneficial to the defense thanks to a sympathetic judge? Denied. Denied. Denied. Counsel will get their shit together and be ready for jury instruction by the first of August.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:59:22am

re: #128 Targetpractice

Or maybe the new Judge will be no nonsense and not allow a redo of settled issues.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 5:59:32am

There’s no reason a new judge couldn’t pick up where Cannon left off.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:01:52am

The cavalry isn’t coming.

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Targetpractice  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:02:41am

re: #129 darthstar

All the pre-trial motions that were beneficial to the defense thanks to a sympathetic judge? Denied. Denied. Denied. Counsel will get their shit together and be ready for jury instruction by the first of August.

If we agree that Cannon has made a total hash of things so far, then it could be that Smith asks for a re-do on prior motions and filings. It is not a matter of just subbing in one judge for another and accelerating the schedule to make up for lost time.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:09:04am

re: #132 Decatur Deb

The cavalry isn’t coming.

I try not to be a Cassandra when possible, but in this, I think the downers are generally correct. The documents case, while it logically should be enough to get rid of Trump for the rest of our lifetimes, was always a long shot, even before Loose Cannon got assigned to the case. The odds of even going to trial before the election, as things stand right now, are as near to zero as makes no difference. We have to do our jobs, show up, VOTE, tell EVERYBODY WE KNOW to vote, and hope that it’s enough to carry the day. Once he’s safely out of the White House, the criminal justice system can finally finish its work and get him out of our hair for good.

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:10:43am

re: #133 Targetpractice

If we agree that Cannon has made a total hash of things so far, then it could be that Smith asks for a re-do on prior motions and filings. It is not a matter of just subbing in one judge for another and accelerating the schedule to make up for lost time.

Cannon had all but set the date for the trial to sometime either July or August - depending on the filings by the parties. Any judge taking over the case, should the Circuit Court of Appeals find her conduct to be so troubling that they remove the case from her docket, can pick up from that point, and rule for the earlier date as it is not prejudicial to Trump.

Trump remains in trouble.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:13:10am

re: #135 lawhawk

Agreed. I don’t see a new Judge wasting time. There’s no reason to rehash prior decisions.

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ipsos  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:19:31am

re: #104 Nerdy Fish

Multiple total solar eclipses have occurred in the United States even in the last ~50 years. This is not a new phenomenon, nor has it historically been a problem. It’s the same phenomenon that causes a run on milk and bread when a snowstorm hits: A fundamental fear of uncertainty.

“Multiple”?

1979 in the Pacific NW.

2017 from Oregon to SC.

That’s it in the past 50 years, and I know because I am 52, dreamed through my whole childhood of seeing a total solar eclipse, and finally realized the dream by driving to Kentucky in 2017.

Next month’s eclipse is especially exciting for me because I don’t have to go anywhere. Here in Rochester we’ve been planning since 2017 for a massive multi-day party and for an influx of what could be half a million visitors, since we’re the easiest and closest large destination along the path of totality for NYC, Philly and most of the Eastern Seaboard.

And yes, that includes closing the schools that day, because totality hits just after 3 PM and nobody wants the kids stuck in traffic on school buses when it happens. (I’m currently fighting with the pompous authoritarian asshole who runs my district, because he thinks he can run a half day that morning and somehow get the kids home and he doesn’t understand what the local traffic planners see coming in the hours before totality.)

After this? No total eclipses in the continental US until 2044, and then another long gap from 2052 until the 2070s.

All of which is to say, yeah, it’s a VERY big deal, just in a positive way, not in a “OMG stock up on toilet paper and canned soup” fear way.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:22:40am

re: #135 lawhawk

There’s some decent commentary about how this only applies if Trump’s legal defense wants to go with the PRA route and commit to it.

The United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records; and such records shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

§2201. Definitions
(3) The term “personal records” means all documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion therof,2 of a purely private or nonpublic character which do not relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President. Such term includes—

(A) diaries, journals, or other personal notes serving as the functional equivalent of a diary or journal which are not prepared or utilized for, or circulated or communicated in the course of, transacting Government business;

(B) materials relating to private political associations, and having no relation to or direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President; and

(C) materials relating exclusively to the President’s own election to the office of the Presidency; and materials directly relating to the election of a particular individual or individuals to Federal, State, or local office, which have no relation to or direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President.

Showing a cover page to a jury with a big-ass red CLASSIFIED stamp on it would be pretty sufficient to demonstrate that it wasn’t a personal note or daily diary entry.

So Smith may just roll with it. His team is already arguing that PRA has nothing to do with the stealing and hiding and obstructing of federal officials’ efforts to retrieve the documents.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:25:15am

Ah it’s the first day of Spring…and Peter Navarro still hopes he’ll be sprung from jail…

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Belafon  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:25:43am
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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:26:25am

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:26:43am

re: #140 Belafon

How long is that in billionaire years?

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:26:53am

re: #139 Joe Bacon ✅

He will be sprung once he serves his sentence. I’m reading on JMG that he claims he’s okay with the small sacrifice he’s enduring by going to prison.

Hahahahahaha!!! Why was he fighting it so hard then? Smh

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:28:44am

re: #141 Dr. Matt

Trump would be absolutely apoplectic if his jet got seized. He’d go into a full meltdown. 😄

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Belafon  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:28:44am

re: #137 ipsos

Yep. There are no hotels available along the route here in Texas the weekend of the eclipse. It is a big deal to a lot of people, and it means a big disruption in the normal flow of things. The fact that it’s at the beginning of the work week means a lot more people were able to plan for it.

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:30:40am

re: #144 Dr Lizardo

Assumes that his jet is actually unencumbered by loans/mortgages.

As it is, he’s leveraged up the wazoo, which makes it even harder for him to put properties up for sale to cover his judgments (because the properties have to repay the creditors first before he sees the money to hand over to NYS or E Jean Carroll).

He’s fooked.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:32:12am

re: #144 Dr Lizardo

Good. Although it will be hard to tell if he’s having a breakdown since that appears to be his normal state of mind.

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Oblongatis  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:32:30am

re: #49 Nerdy Fish

Once upon a time, it could’ve been a good investment, back in 2016 when he was poised to win the Presidency. It’s not like he paid any attention to emoluments, after all. Now, it’s far more likely that their investment will be wasted; Biden looks strong, nigh unbeatable, despite what the media are attempting to sell with their horse race bullshit. The smart financial minds know where the betting action is.

I watched exactly one episode; it involved a Prime Minister screwing a pig on live television. Nope, trusted them once, never again.

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Belafon  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:34:40am

re: #146 lawhawk

Assumes that his jet is actually unencumbered by loans/mortgages.

As it is, he’s leveraged up the wazoo, which makes it even harder for him to put properties up for sale to cover his judgments (because the properties have to repay the creditors first before he sees the money to hand over to NYS or E Jean Carroll).

He’s fooked.

Convicting a president of things in office was always going to be hard. Our job is to give prosecutors time to finish their jobs.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:34:41am

re: #146 lawhawk

Assumes that his jet is actually unencumbered by loans/mortgages.

As it is, he’s leveraged up the wazoo, which makes it even harder for him to put properties up for sale to cover his judgments (because the properties have to repay the creditors first before he sees the money to hand over to NYS or E Jean Carroll).

He’s fooked.

I come here for the technical legal commentary

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:35:31am

re: #144 Dr Lizardo

Trump would be absolutely apoplectic if his jet got seized. He’d go into a full meltdown. 😄

And sadly, if that happened, his cultists would start another GoFundMe to raise money to buy another jet for him.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:36:58am

KNOW YOUR ENEMY

He’s the main architect for Trump 2’s implementation the plan to turn America into an Xtian Theocracy

One of the key architects of Donald Trump’s plans for a second administration has been quite public about the driving force animating that radical agenda: a “cold civil war” to be won by those willing to use “biblical principles” to “instruct government” to do what the MAGA right wants.

Russ Vought, a head of the Office of Management and Budget in Trump’s first term and a big player in the planning for a potential second Trump term, made the case for this Christian nationalist vision of America in a little-noticed speech on Capitol Hill last year. The growing emphasis in pro-Trump circles on a strict conservative view of Christianity combined with an aversion to pluralism define not only what policies a future government should adopt, but American nationhood itself. It does so at the explicit exclusion of other faiths and some Christian denominations.

Vought gave the speech last September as part of a series called the “Theology of American Statecraft.” The speech was devoted to the “Christian Case for Immigration Restriction.”

There, Vought laid out the litany of extreme Trump border policies and proposals that have now become familiar: family separation, mass deportation, curtailing legal immigration. But he did so in explicitly Christian nationalist terms, at one point making an Old Testament reference to argue that the United States should model its immigration policy on the Tribe of Israel, welcoming newcomers “so long as they accepted Israel’s God, laws, and understanding of history.”

He gave the Christian nationalism talk at one of a series of events held by American Moment, a right-wing nonprofit that lists among its top priorities families “rooted in faith and tradition,” law and order, and immigration restriction. American Moment has been holding the “Theology of American Statecraft” series since 2022, composed of events targeted at fusing various forms of Christianity with Trumpian right-wing politics.

Vought himself is a heavy hitter in Trump world. After overseeing the OMB for the final years of the Trump administration, he now runs the Center for Renewing America, where he’s playing a key role in drafting a potential agenda for Trump II.

During Vought’s confirmation hearings, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) raised an article in which Vought wrote that “Muslims do not simply have a deficient theology. They do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his Son, and they stand condemned.”

He’s risen the ranks in Trumpworld since then. As OMB director, he drafted a memo railing against diversity training, and, once ensconced at his think tank, circulated an anti-critical race theory organizing guide. There, Vought has played a key role in developing Project 2025, the ambitious plans for a second Trump administration laid out by a group of people around the GOP candidate. In that capacity, Vought is advocating for civil service protections to be abolished; he suggested to the New York Times last year that most conservative attorneys were too timid for a second Trump administration, saying “the Federalist Society doesn’t know what time it is.”

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:38:14am

And just a reminder…

trumpdebtcounter.com

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:42:10am

re: #151 Dr. Matt

And sadly, if that happened, his cultists would start another GoFundMe to raise money to buy another jet for him.

There isn’t enough money in that well to fix his problems. Also, he has used campaign donations to pay for maintenance on his plane…and to pay himself the charter fee.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:43:04am

re: #154 darthstar

There isn’t enough money in that well to fix his problems.

Be nice to see them try again.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:46:22am

re: #152 Joe Bacon ✅

What’s that saying about art imitating real life…?

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:51:30am

Habba meets bus. Learns what ettd means

Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, paid $82,500 last week to settle a lawsuit alleging that it had silenced a sexually harassed waitress by tricking her into an unfair hush money deal, according to the ex-employee’s lawyer,” the Daily Beast reports.

“But the curiously worded contract left the former president’s own attorney Alina Habba—a rising star in his orbit—wide open to getting sued herself.”

A lawsuit contends Habba posed as a concerned friend giving legal advice about how to address alleged sexual harassment by a supervisor—only to abuse that relationship and “fraudulently induct” her to “quickly agree to unconscionable and illegal terms.”

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Belafon  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:53:30am

Robert Jeffress, Minister at First Baptist Dallas and Trump supporter, has an ad out for Easter services and he actually says “your children will enjoy an interactive experience of the resurrection.” Do we get to stab Jesus in the side?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:54:41am

re: #158 Belafon

Robert Jeffrey’s, Minister at First Baotist Dallas and Trumo supporters, has an ad out for Easter services and he actually says “your children will enjoy an interactive experience of the resurrection.” Do we get to stab Jesus in the side?

Sort of like the Willy Wonka interactive experience?

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:56:01am

re: #157 Dangerman

Oh, that’s disbarment material right there. She’s violated a bunch of the Code of Professional Responsibility provisions. But she also violated criminal law as well, engaging in fraud.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 6:56:32am

re: #157 Dangerman

Habba meets bus. Learns what ettd means

Right now Habba’s got deeper pockets than Trump, so I hope this woman sues her for seven figures.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:02:09am

Aside from the sanctions angle, you really want to Streisand effect the word “rape”?
That’s the whole point of the hairsplitting distinction you’re suing over

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:04:56am

re: #158 Belafon

Robert Jeffrey’s, Minister at First Baotist Dallas and Trumo supporters, has an ad out for Easter services and he actually says “your children will enjoy an interactive experience of the resurrection.” Do we get to stab Jesus in the side?

“suffer the little children unto me…”

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:05:33am

re: #158 Belafon

Robert Jeffress, Minister at First Baptist Dallas and Trump supporter, has an ad out for Easter services and he actually says “your children will enjoy an interactive experience of the resurrection.” Do we get to stab Jesus in the side?

So…they get to whip the actor playing Jesus? 🤔

Kinky.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:05:39am

re: #162 Dangerman

Aside from the sanctions angle, you really want to Streisand effect the word “rape”?
That’s the whole point of the hairsplitting distinction you’re suing over

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jeffreyw  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:08:01am

Downy (L) and a Hairy

Good morning!

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:14:06am

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Decatur Deb  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:14:25am

If Mikey can keep his word for 72 hours, the budget crisis is pushed to September.

Congress announces a deal to avoid a shutdown, resolving homeland security dispute
nbcnews.com

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:15:42am

re: #162 Dangerman

maga/fox news: “It wasn’t rape, it was a sexual assault.”

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Belafon  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:16:22am

re: #162 Dangerman

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:24:13am

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:27:49am

re: #171 darthstar

Trump’s freaking out (to borrow a phrase) “bigly”. He’s got less than a week.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:30:07am

re: #98 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Trey for me.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:31:14am

In Philly there is a call for poll workers. I will be taking my poll book lessons on Friday. I have already taken my machine lessons earlier this season.
billypenn.com

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:35:47am

Democrats bringing in Lev Parnas…poor Comer and Jordan…they won’t know what hit them.

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:36:52am

re: #135 lawhawk

Cannon had all but set the date for the trial to sometime either July or August - depending on the filings by the parties. Any judge taking over the case, should the Circuit Court of Appeals find her conduct to be so troubling that they remove the case from her docket, can pick up from that point, and rule for the earlier date as it is not prejudicial to Trump.

Trump remains in trouble.

And I perceive a shift in public & political perception of Trump.

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gocart mozart  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:39:53am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:41:04am

re: #117 darthstar

Okay, Ivanka and I will bail out the old man but Uday and Qusay are on their own.

Just like how Donald’s generation of the family eventually knifed Dad in the back when the time was ripe and then fought over the spoils.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:42:39am

re: #177 gocart mozart

F Scott Fitzgerald has described them perfectly.

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darthstar  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:43:26am

re: #178 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Just like how Donald’s generation of the family eventually knifed Dad in the back when the time was ripe and then fought over the spoils.

I could see Jared putting up the deposit for the bond in exchange for a rewrite of the will to give every property and asset to Ivanka.

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A Cranky One  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:49:32am

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:54:57am

re: #181 A Cranky One

or a Congressional Republican retreat.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 19, 2024 • 7:55:10am

If abortion advocates can get their initiative on the November ballot, that could help Jon Tester get re-elected to the Senate.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:00:13am

re: #97 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your Next Wordle is an easy eagle if you selected the right club for your tee shot.

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Group: 3,3,4,5

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Dave In Austin  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:03:19am

re: #137 ipsos

My plan, weather permitting, is to be floating right under the line on Lake Buchanan (Tow, TX.).
There is a huge party at the lake that day as well with a huge lineup of talent..

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jeffreyw  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:04:48am

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:05:37am

Look at this lineup…….
seetexaseclipse.com

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Belafon  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:06:19am

As we get closer and figure out what the weather is going to be like, it’ll be interesting to see people attempt to adjust.

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Belafon  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:08:11am

re: #186 jeffreyw

So David Thewlis will be taking on his second Greek God role.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:08:40am

re: #140 Belafon

The sentencing memo from the federal government against Sam Bankman-Fried just dropped.

They want him to go away to prison for 40 to 50 years.

Be interesting to read the court’s pre-sentencing report.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:10:24am

Trailer for Star Wars: The Acolyte just dropped.

Star Wars: The Acolyte - Official Trailer (2024) Lee Jung-jae, Amandla Stenberg

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:10:27am

re: #102 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

What the FUCK is going on here?

Map Shows Warnings for People to Stock Up on Food Ahead of Solar Eclipse

These yokel gummint yahoos seem to be a lot more worried about an eclipse than they were about covid.

Really? Take 5 to 8 percent of the daily commuter traffic in OKC, spread it across southeastern Oklahoma for a couple of hours and you have Armageddon of the Roads?
Some goober burgs are closing their schools for the day. When I was in the third grade, there was an eclipse and we were in the path of totality. School was not canceled. They gave us these cheap cardboard “eclipse glasses” and we trooped outside to watch for ourselves. It was a treat.

During the last eclipse, we left quickly when it was over — if we had waited a few more minutes, we could have be stuck on the road for hours, as happened to my nephew who lives in Champaign and traveled elsewhere for viewing.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:14:44am

re: #141 Dr. Matt

“And so it begins”

IRL, section 9-609 of the New York UCC provides that a secured party may proceed to repossess collateral after a default without undergoing a judicial process as long as it does so ‘without breach of the peace’.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:18:32am

re: #181 A Cranky One

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Of Course Trump Meant His “Bloodbath” Comment

Let us start this item by talking about… The Wizard of Oz.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:20:14am

And Navarro begins his four month stint as a guest of Uncle Sam.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:21:58am

re: #158 Belafon

Robert Jeffress, Minister at First Baptist Dallas and Trump supporter, has an ad out for Easter services and he actually says “your children will enjoy an interactive experience of the resurrection.” Do we get to stab Jesus in the side?

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:26:04am

re: #196 BeenHereAwhile

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wrenchwench  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:26:18am

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Dave In Austin  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:26:54am

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:28:23am

re: #138 darthstar

There’s some decent commentary about how this only applies if Trump’s legal defense wants to go with the PRA route and commit to it.

Showing a cover page to a jury with a big-ass red CLASSIFIED stamp on it would be pretty sufficient to demonstrate that it wasn’t a personal note or daily diary entry.

So Smith may just roll with it. His team is already arguing that PRA has nothing to do with the stealing and hiding and obstructing of federal officials’ efforts to retrieve the documents.

But Cannon has shown she is either ignorant beyond words or on Putin’s payroll. She could definitely force an acquittal with her rulings.

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jeffreyw  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:28:46am

re: #189 Belafon

So David Thewlis will be taking on his second Greek God role.

I auditioned for Apollo but they said I was too old, fat, and ugly. I was still screaming “Yer Momma” when security escorted me out.

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Semper Fi  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:30:51am

re: #199 Dave In Austin

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The real crazy thing about this nutty duo is the millions of votes that could come their way.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:31:05am

re: #192 Hecuba’s daughter

During the last eclipse, we left quickly when it was over — if we had waited a few more minutes, we could have be stuck on the road for hours, as happened to my nephew who lives in Champaign and traveled elsewhere for viewing.

I took in the eclipse (magnificent!) from central Oregon. The road out was absolutely jammed afterwards so I didn’t even try. I got a spot in the local state park, laughed at the idjits sitting in their parked cars when it was 100°, and had a cold beer. I left the next morning with no traffic.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:34:34am

re: #200 Hecuba’s daughter

But Cannon has shown she is either ignorant beyond words or on Putin’s payroll. She could definitely force an acquittal with her rulings.

Her audition for US Court of Appeals or SCOTUS will only be successful as long there is the same show runner.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:37:30am

re: #195 No Malarkey!

And Navarro begins his four month stint as a guest of Uncle Sam.

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jeffreyw  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:37:49am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:40:28am

re: #206 jeffreyw

I am happy to hear that. We all need a laugh from time to time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:44:43am

re: #185 Dave In Austin

My plan, weather permitting, is to be floating right under the line on Lake Buchanan (Tow, TX.).
There is a huge party at the lake that day as well with a huge lineup of talent..

Try to keep the waves down!!!

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:47:34am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:48:42am

Everyone here knows Haiti is currently going straight to hell, right?

Like, it’s BAD.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:50:04am

re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Battle of Lake Travis won’t have squat on this.

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:51:50am
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Captain Magic  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:52:48am

re: #210 Eclectic Cyborg

Go to the Detroit Free Press website and read Mitch Albom’s account on getting out of Haiti. He runs an orphanage there, and typically goes there monthly. Haiti is now listed as category 4 (do not travel) by the US State department.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:53:33am

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:54:54am

got the battery monitor app installed. it works….sometimes. doesnt play well with bluetooth. bluetooth would never reach the house so if im out there, i can read the monitor. it’s a little easier to change
settings via the phone than the pushbuttons.
—————
got the smartswitch installed
littlegreenfootballs.com

the whole thing was a pita. best solution turned out to remove the ganged grounded outlet all together.
luckily leviton makes a custom cover plate that’s half switch opening and half cover. but of course all this stuff only comes in white…..

then neither my tablet nor phone could find the device. but i hit it with a stick and at least the phone sees it. i’m surprised the tablet alexa app doesnt share the info. could be lots of reasons, but i dont care.

so now i’ve got it going on and off by time of day.

and i just learned amazon has a smart air quality monitor that includes temperature that can trigger an alexa routine. odd cause i’ve been googling and searching on amazon for just such a thing for weeks.

i’ll get one of them, stick it in the attic, and then alexa can turn the fan on and off based on temperature. which is what i wanted in the first place.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 19, 2024 • 8:59:15am

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BeachDem  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:00:58am

re: #214 Patricia Kayden

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:01:57am

re: #214 Patricia Kayden

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if ‘science’ were to discover with 100% certainty as much as we know that gravity exists and the world is NOT flat, that ‘it becomes a human/baby/citizen’ (whatever) at v weeks, w hours, x minutes and Y seconds unquestioningly and the same with every single pregnancy, they wouldnt care

they wouldnt care even if ‘science’ were to prove that the way it found out was that god told them

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:02:31am

re: #216 Patricia Kayden

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right now i’ve got a wallet and my housekeys

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:03:06am

re: #210 Eclectic Cyborg

Everyone here knows Haiti is currently going straight to hell, right?

Like, it’s BAD.

‘Only God can change this place’: Haitians see no end to spiralling violence

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:04:20am

re: #209 Eventual Carrion

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BeachDem  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:04:26am

re: #193 BeenHereAwhile

IRL, section 9-609 of the New York UCC provides that a secured party may proceed to repossess collateral after a default without undergoing a judicial process as long as it does so ‘without breach of the peace’.

“first they came for Trump Tower, and I didn’t speak out— because I was laughing so hard I couldn’t catch my breath.”—Jeff Tiedrich

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:07:16am

So.
Much.
Winning.

The judge overseeing former President Trump’s criminal prosecution in New York has denied Trump’s attempts to exclude evidence related to the Access Hollywood tape and testimony from key witnesses from his upcoming criminal trial, but prosecutors will not be permitted to play the infamous tape to jurors.

The defense argued Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, should not be allowed to testify because he has a history of lying, arguing that calling him to the witness stand would amount to suborning perjury.

Judge Juan Merchan rejected the argument.

“This Court has been unable to locate any treatise, statute or holding from courts in this jurisdiction or others that support defendant’s rational that a particular witness should be kept off the witness stand because his credibility has been previously called into question,” Merchan said.

abcnews.go.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:07:41am

I guess DJT’s last line of defense is to address the public and say “Look how this awful weaponized Obama/Clinton/Trump Deep-State DOJ is unjustly stripping me of my property, and if they can do this to me, then YOU ARE NEXT!!!”

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jeffreyw  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:08:44am

Celebrity Endorsement

bsky.app

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:09:03am

re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I guess DJT’s last line of defense is to address the public and say “Look how this awful weaponized Obama/Clinton/Trump Deep-State DOJ is unjustly stripping me of my property, and if they can do this to me, then YOU ARE NEXT!!!”

And the reaction from the overwhelming majority of Americans will be this….

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JC1  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:09:14am

re: #137 ipsos

“Multiple”?

1979 in the Pacific NW.

2017 from Oregon to SC.

That’s it in the past 50 years, and I know because I am 52, dreamed through my whole childhood of seeing a total solar eclipse, and finally realized the dream by driving to Kentucky in 2017.

Next month’s eclipse is especially exciting for me because I don’t have to go anywhere. Here in Rochester we’ve been planning since 2017 for a massive multi-day party and for an influx of what could be half a million visitors, since we’re the easiest and closest large destination along the path of totality for NYC, Philly and most of the Eastern Seaboard.

And yes, that includes closing the schools that day, because totality hits just after 3 PM and nobody wants the kids stuck in traffic on school buses when it happens. (I’m currently fighting with the pompous authoritarian asshole who runs my district, because he thinks he can run a half day that morning and somehow get the kids home and he doesn’t understand what the local traffic planners see coming in the hours before totality.)

After this? No total eclipses in the continental US until 2044, and then another long gap from 2052 until the 2070s.

All of which is to say, yeah, it’s a VERY big deal, just in a positive way, not in a “OMG stock up on toilet paper and canned soup” fear way.

We flew out to Idaho for the 2017 eclipse. Ended up viewing it in some animal sanctuary that had a lot of bears and other wildlife. It was interesting hearing/seeing animal reactions when totality hit.
Looking forward to the April 8th eclipse.

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BeachDem  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:14:43am

re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I guess DJT’s last line of defense is to address the public and say “Look how this awful weaponized Obama/Clinton/Trump Deep-State DOJ is unjustly stripping me of my property, and if they can do this to me, then YOU ARE NEXT!!!”

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Jay C  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:16:57am

re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I guess DJT’s last line of defense is to address the public and say “Look how this awful weaponized Obama/Clinton/Trump Deep-State DOJ is unjustly stripping me of my property, and if they can do this to me, then YOU ARE NEXT!!!”

Didn’t he already do that?

And in any case: the simple argument against that point* is that said property seizure isn’t actually “unjust” - unless one believes (like most MAGAts want to) that, uniquely, Donald J. Trump is somehow completely above the law.

* Unfortunately, Trump’s audience is even more *simple*

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:16:59am

re: #225 jeffreyw

Drug Blood

“We drank the Cheeze blood and now I am a-Whizzed!!!”

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:20:25am

re: #223 Dr Lizardo

If Trump opens the door, the video may well get played despite the ruling indicating that prosecutors can’t introduce the video (which is a Pyric victory for Trump). He can’t stop Cohen from testifying. He can’t stop Daniels from testifying.

His legal team is screwed because they can’t undermine the case against him or show that he’s not guilty. Prosecutors can show he’s guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. They have the paper trail. They have the documents and the witnesses. They have the fraudulent business records and transactions that were done at his behest.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:21:19am

re: #229 Jay C

Didn’t he already do that?

And in any case: the simple argument against that point* is that said property seizure isn’t actually “unjust” - unless one believes (like most MAGAts want to) that, uniquely, Donald J. Trump is somehow completely above the law.

* Unfortunately, Trump’s audience is even more *simple*

They are screeching now and claiming it’s Leticia who is the criminal thief. There is no crime that Trump can commit that harms the poor or minorities or our nation that they won’t support.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:21:50am

re: #223 Dr Lizardo

Yeah. He was lying to protect Trump. 😂😂😂😂

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:22:38am

re: #212 lawhawk

PETER NAVARRO: So let’s let’s talk about some facts here. I am the first senior White House adviser in the history of our republic that has ever been charged with this alleged crime.

And I say alleged because for hundreds of years, this is not been a crime. And for 50 years, the Department of Justice has maintained the principle of absolute testimony immunity. And it was only with my case that somehow, that has changed.

And here’s here’s where the homework is, because the big constitutional separation of powers are these. Can Congress compel a senior White House adviser, what they call the alter ego of a president to testify before Congress? And and executive privilege goes back to George Washington and his remarks to the Congress regarding the Jay Treaty. And he said very simply and clearly, succinctly, elegantly that to write to the Congress, he said, “I cannot command you as members of Congress to come to me. You cannot command me to come to you.” And the reason is-

Who wants to tell Petey about congressional oversight?

Congressional oversight is oversight by the United States Congress over the executive branch, including the numerous U.S. federal agencies. Congressional oversight includes the review, monitoring, and supervision of federal agencies, programs, activities, and policy implementation.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:24:54am

re: #231 lawhawk

If Trump opens the door, the video may well get played despite the ruling indicating that prosecutors can’t introduce the video (which is a Pyric victory for Trump). He can’t stop Cohen from testifying. He can’t stop Daniels from testifying.

His legal team is screwed because they can’t undermine the case against him or show that he’s not guilty. Prosecutors can show he’s guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. They have the paper trail. They have the documents and the witnesses. They have the fraudulent business records and transactions that were done at his behest.

Honestly, I have no idea what defense strategy they’re planning on employing. Like said, prosecutors have all the evidence on their side. If I were acting as counsel to Mango Unchained there, I’d tell him to take the best possible plea bargain on offer and plead no contest.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:26:14am

Trump are you bankrupt today?
Your cash went away!
You let it just fritter away!
Oh your mind
It’s so dead
From the pills you
Pop in your head
You now know
*You’re a loser *
For sure
If you never ran for President
Things would not turn out this way
But now the whole world knows
You’re a loser for sure
Will your wife run away
with her new stud today?
Tell me Trump
Are you bankrupt today?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:32:08am

Get a bond, get a bond, can’t get a bond,
Get a bond, get a bond, can’t get a bond,
Everywhere in town, I just get shot down
Ship is goin’ down nothin’ but sand to pound!
Cant get a bond, bond whee-ooo-ooo-ooh

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Jay C  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:34:24am

re: #235 Dr Lizardo

Honestly, I have no idea what defense strategy they’re planning on employing.

ISTM their basic “strategy” is to simply stonewall/bullshit/appeal everything and anything to try to delay any decision until after the November election. And then hope that Trump is re-elected President, and can make everything go away by Executive Order.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:36:47am

re: #231 lawhawk

If Trump opens the door, the video may well get played despite the ruling indicating that prosecutors can’t introduce the video (which is a Pyric victory for Trump). He can’t stop Cohen from testifying. He can’t stop Daniels from testifying.

His legal team is screwed because they can’t undermine the case against him or show that he’s not guilty. Prosecutors can show he’s guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. They have the paper trail. They have the documents and the witnesses. They have the fraudulent business records and transactions that were done at his behest.

importantly, it was not a single transaction that - whoopsie, we posted to the wrong account.

it was a scheme
clearly planned and orchestrated
(dare i say conspired?)
that was spread out over multiple smaller repayments
so as to hopefully fly under any future radar
(dare i say laundered?)

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:37:38am

re: #232 Hecuba’s daughter

They are screeching now and claiming it’s Leticia who is the criminal thief. There is no crime that Trump can commit that harms the poor or minorities or our nation that they won’t support.

as if she gets the money.

it’s the state of new york ffs

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Jay C  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:38:28am

re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I get bugged being dragged around the same old court,
I gotta cough up the cash, but I’m comin’ up short,
Can’t get a bond… can’t get a bond, whoo-ooo-ooo-whoo

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:38:34am

“countless hours negotiating with one of the largest insurance companies in the world,”

He did the James Brown Mock Faint with the Please Please as Eric slapped the cape on his back 10 times and they still wouldn’t help with the bond…

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:41:18am

re: #242 Joe Bacon ✅

Guess even Chubb or its subsidiaries decided that Trump was too much of a risk to underwrite a bond covering that huge amount of money owed, because Trump cannot put up the cash to cover it. He doesn’t have sufficient cash and he doesn’t have unencumbered properties either. He’s mortgaged to the gills.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:41:59am

re: #242 Joe Bacon ✅

“countless hours negotiating with one of the largest insurance companies in the world,”

He did the James Brown Mock Faint with the Please Please as Eric slapped the cape on his back 10 times and they still wouldn’t help with the bond…

you think you have a right to borrow money
and if you cant you shouldnt be subject to the law everyone else is?

they think you’re a bad risk

ask released florida felons who cant afford to pay their restitution whether it’s unfair that they cant vote

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retired cynic  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:42:10am

Trump Can’t Help Making the Election About Him
politicalwire.com

David Frum: “Trump won’t accept the classic approach to running a challenger’s campaign. He should want to make 2024 a simple referendum on the incumbent. But psychically, he needs to make the election a referendum on himself.”

“That need is self-sabotaging.”

“In two consecutive elections, 2016 and 2020, more Americans voted against Trump than for him. The only hope he has of changing that verdict in 2024 is by directing Americans’ attention away from himself and convincing them to like Biden even less than they like Trump. But that strategy would involve Trump mainly keeping his mouth shut and his face off television—and that, Trump cannot abide.”

“Trump cannot control himself. He cannot accept that the more Americans hear from Trump, the more they will prefer Biden.”

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:43:17am

re: #243 lawhawk

Guess even Chubb or its subsidiaries decided that Trump was too much of a risk to underwrite a bond covering that huge amount of money owed, because Trump cannot put up the cash to cover it. He doesn’t have sufficient cash and he doesn’t have unencumbered properties either. He’s mortgaged to the gills.

now you’re using accounting terms of art…

though i’ve never actually seen the gill section of a balance sheet

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:43:49am

re: #246 Dangerman

He’s eyeballs deep in debt.

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:44:15am

re: #247 lawhawk

I can do this all day.

I understood that reference!
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:49:22am

re: #243 lawhawk

Guess even Chubb or its subsidiaries decided that Trump was too much of a risk to underwrite a bond covering that huge amount of money owed, because Trump cannot put up the cash to cover it. He doesn’t have sufficient cash and he doesn’t have unencumbered properties either. He’s mortgaged to the gills.

He’s so underwater, he might as well be at the bottom of the Challenger Deep.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:54:49am

re: #247 lawhawk

He’s eyeballs deep in debt.

Being exposed as a fake billionaire, having to stand in front of the entire world with everyone seeing at last that he’s (most likely) been broke since the mid-1990s and just living off lines off credit…that’s gonna provoke an existential identity crisis for Trump.

For him, that’s ego death.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 9:58:06am

re: #250 Dr Lizardo

He will blame it on a Vast Deep State Conspiracy to discredit him and send his goons out to seek revenge.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:04:04am

re: #250 Dr Lizardo

Being exposed as a fake billionaire, having to stand in front of the entire world with everyone seeing at last that he’s (most likely) been broke since the mid-1990s and just living off lines off credit…that’s gonna provoke an existential identity crisis for Trump.

For him, that’s ego death.

Let’s hope it translates.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:07:59am

re: #252 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Let’s hope it translates.

Will be curious to see whether the next generation of the Trump clan now decide that “daddy” in no longer a useful asset, much less a danger to their inheritance, and decide to start taking serious steps to sideline him before he does any more damage.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:09:04am

re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He will blame it on a Vast Deep State Conspiracy to discredit him and send his goons out to seek revenge.

wont work

if he was that smart, that clever, that rich, none of this would matter to him

heck, elmo lost $22bn (or whatever) and he’s not whining like an exposed fraudster

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:09:50am

re: #253 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Will be curious to see whether the next generation of the Trump clan now decide that “daddy” in no longer a useful asset, much less a danger to their inheritance, and decide to start taking serious steps to sideline him before he does any more damage.

inheritance, Gracie?

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Captain Magic  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:12:47am

Trump is using the old chestnut: “An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.”

And now it’s biting him bigly.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:15:47am

re: #253 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Will be curious to see whether the next generation of the Trump clan now decide that “daddy” in no longer a useful asset, much less a danger to their inheritance, and decide to start taking serious steps to sideline him before he does any more damage.

I don’t know….Don Jr. and Eric seem to be in too deep at this point. Ivanka certainly seems to have a bit more sense (well, for a Trump that is). Barron is still a minor, though I suppose Mercedes Melania might be getting a bit concerned right about now.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:20:38am

re: #256 Captain Magic

Trump is using the old chestnut: “An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.”

And now it’s biting him bigly.

Reminds me of a stanza from Pink Floyd’s “Dogs”.

And when you loose control, you’ll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone
Dragged down by the stone (stone, stone, stone, stone, stone)

Then again that whole song is about those like Trump.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:21:58am

re: #257 Dr Lizardo

I don’t know….Don Jr. and Eric seem to be in too deep at this point. Ivanka certainly seems to have a bit more sense (well, for a Trump that is). Barron is still a minor, though I suppose Mercedes Melania might be getting a bit concerned right about now.

those prenups and divorce settlements arent worth the paper they’re printed on

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:23:37am

re: #259 Dangerman

The only one who will end up with Trump’s “business empire” is likely to be Jared, since he can leverage his own family’s real estate fortune to keep some of the Trump properties within the “family”. Ivanka comes out ahead, while everyone else is screwed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:23:53am

If M is smart she will work on her own brand that is far, far removed from her (soon to be) ex-hubby

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:24:54am

re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If M is smart she will work on her own brand that is far, far removed from her (soon to be) ex-hubby

I hear Ljubljana is quite lovely this time of year.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:25:40am

re: #262 Dr Lizardo

I hear Ljubljana is quite lovely this time of year.

She comes from the Slow part of Slovenia

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:31:01am

re: #260 lawhawk

The only one who will end up with Trump’s “business empire” is likely to be Jared, since he can leverage his own family’s real estate fortune to keep some of the Trump properties within the “family”. Ivanka comes out ahead, while everyone else is screwed.

watch for: this is all a brilliantly contrived scheme by the world’s greatest brain to avoid estate taxes….

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:31:23am

Watched PBS’s Dante: Inferno To Paradise, Part 1, and and turned it into a game of matching certain Republican political leaders (Trump, McConnell, Mike Johnson) with their own respective level of hell.

e.g. The pernicious sin of gluttony:

“But tell me, if thou knowest, to what shall come
The citizens of the divided city;
 If any there be just; and the occasion
 Tell me why so much discord has assailed it.”
And he to me: “They, after long contention,
 Will come to bloodshed; and the rustic party
 Will drive the other out with much offence.”

As it were, most of them, if not all, were multi-level.

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steve_davis  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:31:39am

re: #186 jeffreyw

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not doing netflix. fuck their “6.99 a month, and no, you don’t get half our stuff for that, even with commercials.’

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wrenchwench  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:31:49am

Voters sue to keep Rep. Christine Goodwin from running for Oregon Senate

A group of Josephine County voters are suing to keep Rep. Christine Goodwin from running for the state Senate, alleging that she doesn’t live in the district she wants to represent and that the address she lists on campaign paperwork is actually a vineyard’s tasting room.

Goodwin, R-Canyonville, has served in the state House since 2021, when she was appointed to replace state Rep. Gary Leif after his death. She’s running for the Senate district now represented by Art Robinson, one of 10 Republican senators barred from running for reelection because they participated in a six-week walkout in 2023, after Oregon voters passed a constitutional amendment barring lawmakers with 10 or more unexcused absences from serving another term.

Robinson’s son Noah is also running in the Republican primary. The 2nd Senate District has nearly twice as many registered Republicans as Democrats, so the winner of the Republican primary is all but certain to represent the district in Salem.

[…]

Choose which flavor of corruption you prefer. Or vote for a Democrat. Not in the Republican primary, of course.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:33:59am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:35:44am

Did he yell “I’m A Political Prisoner!” when he surrendered?

thehill.com

Navarro becomes first Trump White House official to report to prison over Jan. 6

He’s the first…he damn well better NOT be the last!

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:36:11am

If you’re driving in NYC, be sure to drive the speed limit - 25 mph - in school zones 24/7 - the state/city changed the law back in 2022 to make those speed limits (and the radars/camera operated for enforcement) 24/7/365 to reduce speeding across the city.

I missed/forgot that, and got ticketed by one of those cameras. $50 ticket. No points.

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Belafon  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:37:22am
‘We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits

fortune.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:38:59am

re: #270 lawhawk

Pay it as soon as you can. You do not need to get your car booted.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:39:45am

re: #266 steve_davis

not doing netflix. fuck their “6.99 a month, and no, you don’t get half our stuff for that, even with commercials.’

get a VPN and that greatly broadens your options

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:41:15am

re: #270 lawhawk

If you’re driving in NYC, be sure to drive the speed limit - 25 mph - in school zones 24/7 - the state/city changed the law back in 2022 to make those speed limits (and the radars/camera operated for enforcement) 24/7/365 to reduce speeding across the city.

I missed/forgot that, and got ticketed by one of those cameras. $50 ticket. No points.

IIRC, the camera operated enforcement is fining the registered owner of vehicle for the violation. No points on a license since I think it’s a lot more work or difficult to prove who the driver is given the angles and resolution of the cameras which appear to be centered on getting the license number of the vehicle.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:41:29am

re: #271 Belafon

‘We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits

again, this is not a sign of a broken system, this is a system doing what it was designed to do at peak efficiency

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:42:30am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

again, this is not a sign of a broken system, this is a system doing what it was designed to do at peak efficiency

Germany is almost all speed-camera based. I have been lucky enough to keep within the tolerances and only get warning tickets and no points.

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steve_davis  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:42:34am

re: #227 JC1

We flew out to Idaho for the 2017 eclipse. Ended up viewing it in some animal sanctuary that had a lot of bears and other wildlife. It was interesting hearing/seeing animal reactions when totality hit.
Looking forward to the April 8th eclipse.

Bear (from far away) “Holy shit! Wait….I did not really just say something in English. Everybody please just ignore that!!”
Beaver: (not quite sotto voce) “You aren’t making it better, Br’er Bear.”

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:43:21am

The caption: “Next time you see one of these empty Police cars, put a ‘for sale’ sign on it” 😂😂

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:43:29am

re: #269 Joe Bacon ✅

Did he yell “I’m A Political Prisoner!” when he surrendered?

thehill.com

Navarro becomes first Trump White House official to report to prison over Jan. 6

He’s the first…he damn well better NOT be the last!

He gave a statement in a strip mall parking lot, next to a papa johns.
How the self described mighty have fallen

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:43:55am

re: #278 Dr. Matt

lol. That is a good one.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:45:22am

re: #268 Joe Bacon ✅

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Nearly perfect…..but, the man boobs need to be bigger.

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Dangerman  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:46:19am

So no rich Rs will loan tfg any money
Thats because they know what he is

Still

They will help him try to get elected
thats because they know what he is

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:49:54am

re: #212 lawhawk

Fox News anchor Sandra Smith cuts away from Peter Navarro’s speech outside of prison:

“To fact check there, it is no longer an alleged crime..]

His demeanor will greatly change during intake.
And his public lack of contrition could diminish his chances for early release.

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lawhawk  Mar 19, 2024 • 10:51:43am

re: #274 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Yeah, I’ve paid the tix. I was debating whether I could contest based on time of day/date, but researching the issue found that they made the radar/camera setups 24/7 operable regardless of whether school was in session or not.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 19, 2024 • 11:29:10am

re: #235 Dr Lizardo

Honestly, I have no idea what defense strategy they’re planning on employing. Like said, prosecutors have all the evidence on their side. If I were acting as counsel to Mango Unchained there, I’d tell him to take the best possible plea bargain on offer and plead no contest.

Trump’s strategy is to keep trying to delay all of his criminal trials until after the election, seize power in January, then they all go away.

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austin_blue  Mar 19, 2024 • 4:03:39pm

re: #185 Dave In Austin

My plan, weather permitting, is to be floating right under the line on Lake Buchanan (Tow, TX.).
There is a huge party at the lake that day as well with a huge lineup of talent..

Little known fact:

Tow is a wine town. CenTex is a big grape growing area. Nice limestone soils, much like southern France.


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