Seth Meyers: RNC Makes Plans for Trump to Accept Nomination from Jail, GOP Demands Revenge
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re: #111 ipsos
Hey @dangerman!
It’s my mother-in-law’s birthday and Mrs. Ipsos was looking for a good charity to make a birthday donation.
And so National Jewish Health it was… with thanks for sharing your story of the great treatment mrsdm received there.
Really thoughtful.
Many thanks
re: #2 Vicious Babushka
This is the kind of stuff humanity needs right now.
re: #2 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
He (does) blows, too.
I noted his small hands in that New Yorker cartoon last week. Trump’s hands are absolutely too small for giving handies—but his mouth, on the other hand, is just the right size for a certain cylindrical object!
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Wingnuts are going bananas over Hillary Clinton’s D-Day speech.
Hillary Clinton commemorates D-Day with post suggesting Trump is comparable to Hitler (FOX News Channel, this afternoon)
“Hillary Clinton marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day with a social media post that appeared to imply that Trump is a threat to democracy on par with the Nazis”
In an X post on Thursday, Clinton implied that democracy is at stake in the upcoming presidential election, with presumptive Republican nominee former President Trump challenging incumbent President Biden, a Democrat.
“Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy,” Clinton wrote in an X post on Thursday. “This November, all we have to do is vote.”
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Oh, and we finally get some really good news.
Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre.
The seismic move paves the way for a future in which Jones no longer owns Infowars, the influential conspiracy empire he founded in the late 1990s. Over the years, Jones has not only used the media company to poison the public discourse with vile lies and conspiracy theories, but also to enrich himself to the tune of millions of dollars.
Prior to Thursday, Jones had resisted converting his personal bankruptcy into a Chapter 7 liquidation. But facing mounting legal pressure, he reversed course and caved to the demands of the Sandy Hook families, who have still not seen a penny from Jones since juries in Connecticut and Texas found him liable in 2022 for defamation and emotional distress. His lawyers said in a filing that there was “no reasonable prospect for a successful reorganization” and that continuing down the path would only result in additional expenses incurred by Jones.
The legal maneuver ultimately “means [Jones’] ownership in Free Speech Systems is going to get sold,” Avi Moshenberg, an attorney who represents some of the Sandy Hook families, told CNN on Thursday night, referencing the parent company of Infowars.
A 71-year-old woman found dead in her small mountain community in the Sierra Nevada was the victim of California’s first-ever known fatal black bear attack, wildlife officials say. https://t.co/vfwr0J2QuK
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 7, 2024
dammit, need to remember to change x to twitter.
re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Conservatives insulted at being compared to Nazis as they prepare to imprison their enemies and rid the homeland of impure bloodlines.
re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wingnuts are going bananas over Hillary Clinton’s D-Day speech.
Hillary Clinton commemorates D-Day with post suggesting Trump is comparable to Hitler (FOX News Channel, this afternoon)
“Hillary Clinton marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day with a social media post that appeared to imply that Trump is a threat to democracy on par with the Nazis”
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Accepting the truth is the first step on the road to recovery.
Reid: You on your own brought up Jim Crow. In fact, you said Jim Crow three times for emphasis. It wasn’t the media or the Democrats or gaslighters who brought up Jim Crow. It was you. pic.twitter.com/cg3fOaCVrx
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 6, 2024
Chris Regan @misterchrismatt.bsky.social
Saw a D-day post where they clearly used AI because the troops are heading into the Atlantic
re: #10 Orange Impostor
Oh, and we finally get some really good news.
Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars
Good news tempered with the cold fact that Jones has likely done everything to shield as many of his assets from being recovered by the plaintiffs and courts as he could. As far as what’s left of InfoWars/Free Speech Systems goes, who’s really gonna want to buy it? It’s fucking radioactive to anyone with any morals or business sense.
That said, I hope the plaintiffs and the courts take note and go after every fucking dime Jones thinks he has squirreled away from their grasps.
re: #18 jaunte
Chris Regan @misterchrismatt.bsky.social
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re: #19 TedStriker
Good news tempered with the cold fact that Jones has likely done everything to shield as many of his assets from being recovered by the plaintiffs and courts as he could. As far as what’s left of InfoWars/Free Speech Systems goes, who’s really gonna want to buy it? It’s fucking radioactive to anyone with any morals or business sense.
That said, I hope the plaintiffs and the courts take note and go after every fucking dime Jones thinks he has squirreled away from their grasps.
What chance some conservative moneybags buys Infowars and then sells it back to Jones for something like $1?
re: #21 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
What chance some conservative moneybags buys Infowars and then sells it back to Jones for something like $1?
Given his track record I do not trust Alex Jones.
re: #18 jaunte
I worry about the human who saw that and decided they were finished prompting the idiot machinery.
re: #21 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
What chance some conservative moneybags buys Infowars and then sells it back to Jones for something like $1?
Possible, not not probable, since AFAIK (and IANAL), the Sandy Hook judgment is attached to Jones personally, not just his corporate persona(s); he’d run into the same “problems” down the line as he is now.
As I posted this morning. Saving Private Ryan is my favorite movie. I’ll never watch it again. War is the most serious business and the most horrible choice to ever be made.
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Weird science (8:17) “Screw worm eradication”
I had personal experience with screw worms when i was ~ 8 years old and living in central FL.
FL in the early 1950s was infested with screw worm flies. On our 40 acres, we started raising a few cows for milk and meat for personal need.
The new born calves would get infested with screw worm larvae in their umbilical opening which normally took several days to close.
My job was to chase down the calf on foot, wrestle it to the ground & hog tie it. Then dig out the larvae with my fingers and seal the umbilical opening with pine tar. I am not a squeamish person from an early age.
Meanwhile mama cow would be watching with concern. It usually took several days of subsequent treatment before the calf would become “screw worm proof”. And during the several days of treatment, the calf would become more proficient at hiding, and more fleet of foot so it took longer to catch.
But I was young, dumb and apparently possessed more stamina than the calves.
Then a “gov agency” started dropping small cardboard boxes from airplanes full of sterile male screw worm larvae, and they bred themselves out of FL.
Seems like this shouldn’t happen, but it does:
Winning California lottery ticket still unclaimed
Time is running out for whoever bought a Mega Millions ticket worth $2,941,708 in Los Angeles last year to claim their prize.
I don’t know about you, but if I gamble I make sure to check how much I won (or lost).
I’ve long been sick of people or news orgs presenting a Chump cultist saying crazy shit as news. They are abusers and gaslighters. The argument to make is not ‘they are saying crazy shit’ but ‘yeah they are saying crazy shit what are you going to do about it.’
re: #27 BeenHereAwhile
My mother had similar experiences in Winter Haven in the 30s and 40s.
re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅
“They said Hitler said that,” Trump said Tuesday after he again told the crowd in Iowa that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America.
After insisting Hitler used the words “in a much different way,” Trump went on to make the “blood” reference again. “It’s true. They’re destroying the blood of the country, they’re destroying the fabric of our country, and we’re going to have to get them out.”
re: #26 BigPapa
As I posted this morning. Saving Private Ryan is my favorite movie. I’ll never watch it again. War is the most serious business and the most horrible choice to ever be made.
The first 20-25ish minutes or so (the Omaha Beach sequence) is absolutely a gutpunch; Spielberg did a lot of the on-beach camerawork himself handheld. That section of the film is absolutely a technical masterclass; however, the rest of the movie devolves into trite, formulaic war film much like those about WWII released during and after the war.
It’s not a horrible film, but the middle and end let the beginning down so hard; if Speilberg had made a film just about the D-Day invasion, doing everything he did with the Omaha Beach sequence, it’d been hailed a critical classic, instead of just the popular “crowdpleaser” it ended up being..
re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Seems like this shouldn’t happen, but it does:
Winning California lottery ticket still unclaimed
I don’t know about you, but if I gamble I make sure to check how much I won (or lost).
Some people buy stacks of tickets. It wouldn’t be hard for one to get lost in the shuffle.
Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social
honestly this to me is the strongest argument to vote: these freaks are gonna
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
The Faith and Freedom Coalition will be spending $62 million to mobilize Christian voters for this cycle. The plan, according to Reed:
-knock 10 millions doors
-make 10 million calls
-send 30 million voter guides to churches stressing outlawing abortion
I get supporting Gazan civilians during Israel’s invasion. All war is terrible, and targeting such a densely-populated area with what seems to be little care for “collateral damage” does not help neither Israel nor its supporters. That doesn’t help with today’s bombing of a United Nations school.
I do not get how people who support Gazans think this is any sort of help. That said, I’m fine if this dypshite’s business sinks.
‘You just cost yourself your business’: Residents rebel against tire shop flying Nazi flag (Raw Story)
re: #33 TedStriker
The first 20-25ish minutes or so (the Omaha Beach sequence) is absolutely a gutpunch; Spielberg did a lot of the on-beach camerawork himself handheld. That section of the film is absolutely a technical masterclass; however, the rest of the movie devolves into trite, formulaic war film much like those about WWII released during and after the war.
It’s not a horrible film, but the middle and end let the beginning down so hard; if Speilberg had made a film just about the D-Day invasion, doing everything he did with the Omaha Beach sequence, it’d been hailed a critical classic, instead of just the popular “crowdpleaser” it ended up being..
He made a live-action Pixar movie (thinking of Up and Wall-E).
re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅
Stand up straight, Donald. I’m sure there’s some guy with an MG42 waiting for a target.
It’s not the LGBT+ community; they aren’t even close.
A rampant Internet hunt has been on ever since the New York Times wrote an article about the secretive nature of the glitter manufacturing industry, specifically, “what industry is the largest buyer of glitter?”
With sourcing Global Sources attempts to tackle the question.
Who Are the Largest Consumers of Glitter? (January 24, 2024)
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That doesn’t help with today’s bombing of a United Nations school.
I presume you mean this:
Israel strike on UN school that left dozens dead used US munitions, CNN analysis finds
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I find myself increasingly disappointed in Biden’s unwillingness to lead a public discussion over this issue.
Biden ought to be forward about the crisis Netanyahu is creating for future support for Israel, by the US.
Netanyahu and his crowd are counting on nutty right-wing religious Americans to keep the weapons flowing to Israel.
But the US is changing, like anyplace, and I suspect the Democratic Party is now deeply split on future support for Israel unless Israel kicks out of power the likes of Netanyahu.
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A question I never though to ask.
I’d imagine consuming glitter would lead to all sorts of digestive issues.
re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Seems like this shouldn’t happen, but it does:
Winning California lottery ticket still unclaimed
I don’t know about you, but if I gamble I make sure to check how much I won (or lost).
Then there’s this story:
I know Abhi. Really nice guy.
This is the thing about life in 2024 compared to 1924 and 1824: modern communications.
And that is why a malicious fool like Trump can get elected, and still remain popular, even after all of his immorality and crimes.
And yet Biden is seen as weak.
Biden is seen as weak because he is not seen.
At least not seen enough.
Trump is a master of exploiting modern communications.
Biden strikes me as someone who would rather be President in 1924.
The office of the President has changed much since it was invented.
I really wish Biden would have twice weekly public discussions (pick your favorite outlets) where he tries to convince Americans of this or that policy position and to address the pressing issues of the day.
Biden, as with most American politicians, likely does not have the background to communicate all the historical issues that surround the modern nation-state of Israel, of the history of Zionism, and why outsiders (like the US) should or should not care about these issues.
To summarize how, and why, we got to where we are today, and where we want to go tomorrow, in about five minutes (about the length of time to hold the average person’s attention), would be a big challenge for all but the best public speakers.
And Biden is not one of the best public speakers.
He can give a good speech, a topical speech that is written for him, but any experienced politician can do that.
What is needed is someone who can lead with words, and lead to a good place.
Trump can lead with words, for those who fill their lives with hating others and want to be led to hating even more.
But we need leaders who will lead with words that can head us to a better world.
My Omaha Beach story. September 11, 2000, on a European cruise with a stop in Normandy. Land tour and driver mentions that Omaha Beach is not a scheduled stop. Group on bus is devastated so driver calls tour operator and gets permission to change itinerary and adds a lengthy stop. The place is awe-inspiring. Many of the other landing spots have not been preserved, but this is a can’t miss if you ever have the chance.
an oldie..
Ukrainian Su-27 successfully returned to base along with a road signhttps://t.co/RlnYYUBaWd pic.twitter.com/UiNH41QsKn
— Defence Blog (@Defence_blog) August 28, 2020
standard sign height - 2 meters.
You should go find your own planet, motherfucker. Leave this one to the humans
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 7, 2024
Co-signed.
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Beau of the Fifth Column on a security clearance for Donald Trump should he be reëlected. (3:29)
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As we learned when Kushner initially couldn’t get security clearance, the President can waive all objections and grant clearance to anyone.
re: #54 Captain Ron
It lives on in innumerable embedded devices. It just isn’t at +/-12V anymore..
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re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Beau of the Fifth Column on a security clearance for Donald Trump should he be reëlected. (3:29)
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Because, as we know so well from the 2016 elections, Republicans have no issues whatsoever with a felon holding a security clearance.
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re: #58 JC1
Heh, thought I had it in 3.
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Ditto. This is like the 3rd time in the last 30 days I’ve had all the letters in the wrong place.
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A spectacular own-goal by the Conservative Party in the UK.
Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day events early, calling it a ‘mistake’ (BBC live blog on PM Sunak being torn apart)
re: #50 DodgerFan1988
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For anybody who doesn’t want to read Sacks’ horseshit, it’s all the usual talking points:
- Trump oversaw a “booming” economy (He didn’t, it averaged 2.1% GDP growth before the pandemic)
- The country had “recovered” from the pandemic under his stewardship (It hadn’t, UE was still above pre-pandemic levels and winter 2020 saw the worst surge in new COVID cases of the entire first year of the pandemic)
- Biden was responsible for the Afghanistan withdrawal being a mess (Trump made no preparations after setting the withdrawal date and years of corruption in the Afghan government meant all the unpaid soldiers joined up with the Taliban)
- Ukraine was on the verge of a peace deal when NATO ordered Zelensky to “walk away” (the “peace deal” was the same as it always was: Ukraine gives up territory and autonomy in exchange for the “promise” that Russia would not attack again)
- Biden reversed/abolished Trump immigration policies that were working (legal immigration had actually fallen under Trump while “illegal” immigration remained roughly the same)
- And (of course), the whole “lawfare” BS that Biden’s responsible for all of Trump’s legal troubles as a backhanded way to win the election.
A transnational human trafficking operation smuggling women into the United States has been cracked, via a discovered Apple Air Tag.
Air Tags have become a real problem for stalking, rape, and in two cases, murder.
An AirTags Stalking Sting Operation (404 Media, June 5, 2024)
An alleged member of a Russia-based human smuggling network used Apple AirTags to stalk his wife, according to court documents and a recently-unsealed federal indictment.
Ibodullo Muhiddinov Numanovich likely smuggled his now ex-wife, identified as “S.K.” in court records, into the U.S. through a Russian human smuggling network that he works for, according to federal prosecutors.
He was indicted in May on one count of stalking, “with the intent to injure, harass, intimidate, and place under surveillance with the intent to injure, harass, and intimidate” his ex-wife, including sending threatening voicemails, placing her under surveillance, and causing her to fear for her life, according to the recently unsealed indictment.
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Rules for the upcoming general election in the United Kingdom scheduled July 4, 2024.
Generally, anyone eighteen or older can vote within their constituency, unless they are in jail or a peer in the House of Lords.
The United Kingdom allows proxy votes but both the voter and their proxy must be registered voters.
Detailed instructions are available at the BBC.
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A spectacular own-goal by the Conservative Party in the UK.
Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day events early, calling it a ‘mistake’ (BBC live blog on PM Sunak being torn apart)
What makes it particularly egregious is that he didn’t duck out to address a sudden emergency or to seek medical care or even because there was some suspected danger to his safety. He left…to sit for an iTV interview, something I think most voters would agree can be postponed or even canceled without too much fuss.
I really am beginning to wonder if there’s any truth to the rumors that he’s secretly a Labour spy tasked with blowing up the Conservative Party’s chances in the general elections.
Wow, this just makes it so much worse:
— kacidama #FBPEglobal🎩💙 #MVM #YNWA❤️ (@kacidama.bsky.social) 2024-06-07T09:12:42.360Z
IOW, this wasn’t a scheduling mistake like the ceremony running longer than expected, he just decided he didn’t want to go and “compromised” for popping in for a sec before he legged it back to London for an interview that will do absolutely nothing for the election polls.
This is probably the closest to the truth as I’ve seen so far:
Also re: Sunak I keep thinking about this post I saw, and how it (partly) explains his petulance and contempt for other people, and why he gets so shirty when things don't go his way
— Chris Applegate (@chrisapplegate.bsky.social) 2024-06-07T09:07:05.779Z
re: #67 Targetpractice
The second (tweet?? what do we call these things?) suggests to me that the problem with Sunak is that he’s not have any important failures in his life.
If someone is going to lead I think one should require that they’ve have failures as well as successes.
re: #65 Targetpractice
What makes it particularly egregious is that he didn’t duck out to address a sudden emergency or to seek medical care or even because there was some suspected danger to his safety. He left…to sit for an iTV interview, something I think most voters would agree can be postponed or even canceled without too much fuss.
I really am beginning to wonder if there’s any truth to the rumors that he’s secretly a Labour spy tasked with blowing up the Conservative Party’s chances in the general elections.
And it wasn’t even a live interview!! It was a recorded interview, where he was busy apologizing for saying in the debate that Labor will raise your taxes 2000/lb per household, Labor called him a liar, and their equivalent of the CBO said that tax hike is a four-year total that Sunak phrased in such a way as to imply it would be per year.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The second (tweet?? what do we call these things?) suggests to me that the problem with Sunak is that he’s not have any important failures in his life.
If someone is going to lead I think one should require that they’ve have failures as well as successes.
That’s a feature, not a bug of Tory politics. Virtually all the upper ranks of the party are composed of people unused to hearing the word “No”: Private school graduates who went on to a major college through their family’s money/connections, followed that with post-graduate jobs that paid more in a year than most voters would see in a lifetime, then got into politics by running in “safe” Tory seats that could be won by a dead dog nailed to an armchair. From there, he rose through the ranks the traditional way: He was a sniveling little shit that knew which ass to kiss but also non-threatening enough that nobody saw him as a threat. He’s really only PM because the party desperately needed somebody who looked “stable” after Liz Truss sent the economy into a tailspin.
re: #71 Targetpractice
Lettuce Liz? How’d she do that in the matter of days she was PM?
re: #71 Targetpractice
sunak not attending the d day landing anniversary ceremony is the kind of political malpractice that, here in the US, you only get from a new york state politician. just a completely baffling own goal.
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie.bsky.social) 2024-06-07T08:44:34.460Z
re: #72 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Lettuce Liz? How’d she do that in the matter of days she was PM?
By having the Chancellor of the Exchequer (think Sec of Treasury) release a “mini-budget” for the remainder of the 2022 fiscal year that included tens of billions in tax cuts for which her government had no plans to pay for. Her government basically told the country at a time when inflation and live costs were out of control that the key to stimulating economic growth…was abolishing the top income tax rate.
re: #72 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Lettuce Liz? How’d she do that in the matter of days she was PM?
Liz Truss used to be a Liberal Democrat but defected to the Conservatives. In the run-up to the Brexit vote she campaigned for “Remain.”
After Teresa May was stuck with the sack of Brexit and failed, then Boris Johnson did the same, she grasped power saying the only thing the European Union understands is pain.
Her fall from power after only forty-four days was caused by the brutality of her economic plan, consisting of massive unfunded tax cuts for the rich, which even stodgy banking types warned would fail. The massive public outcry saw this as an imminent economic collapse when she promised growth a la Ronald Reagan’s plan to gut your way to wealth.
She fired her finance minister, then completely reversed her tax plan, which lost her all credibility and out she went.
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The last straw was when she wanted to end negotiations with the EU and her own country and simply implement Brexit directly. That brought the financial and industrial sectors to the brink of imminent collapse.
So to summarise, Rishi Sunak, who wants to force young people to spend an entire year of their lives serving their country, wouldn’t even devote one afternoon to it himself
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— Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social) 2024-06-07T08:28:35.083Z
A political analysis of Prime Minister Sunak’s stunning failure to appreciate the moment when he left the D-Day ceremony and allowed Sir Kier Starmer of Labour to get the worldwide-distributed photograph with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, instead of himself.
D-Day for Sunak (Ian Dunt, June 7, 2024)
“His campaign has done for election strategy what Suez did for military intervention.”
The one clip from the ITV interview released so far shows the prime minister insisting he’s not a liar. He is of course, but that’s not the most interesting thing about it. It’s that it reveals the underlying reason why he made the D-Day mistake in the first place. It shows the truth of the matter. He jetted back to London to clean up the mess of his previous mistake earlier in the week, when he misled voters during the leaders’ debate.
And why had he committed that mistake? So he could distract from the other errors he’d made before that, not least his various half-arsed policy ideas, all of which fell apart upon contact with reality. And why had he been putting out these policy ideas? Because his campaign had been derailed by his previous gaffs and cock-ups, including the near-Biblical stupidity of announcing it in the rain without an umbrella while telling everyone had a plan.
And why was he making that announcement? Because he decided to hold an election early when he was 20-points down in the polls, without any clearly articulable reason why. And why was he 20-points down in the polls? Because of all the other mistakes he made during his time in power - asking people to judge him on pledges he could not achieve and failed to accomplish, setting himself up as a change candidate before changing his mind again a few days later, and generally exhibiting the charisma and political judgement of a dirty puddle by a suburban petrol station.
Still though. It’s alright. He’s got a plan.
What is the plan? Dunno. Couldn’t tell you. Something about trans people in toilets. But he’s got a plan. Trust him.
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re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Morning Lizardim from the beautiful, clear, temperate late spring wild north country. I see Rishi Sunak has managed to shoot himself directly in the foot while I was gone, further deepening the similarities between the Conservative Party of the UK and the Republican Party of the US. The Tories are going to get absolutely bushwhacked in July; may the same fate befall our own conservatives in November. How go things among the lizardfolk on this picturesque Friday?
Fallout continues for the RNC. (CNBC, June 6, 2024)
Milwaukee-based retail giant Kohl’s says ‘No’ to sponsoring Republican convention events
Milwaukee based department store giant Kohl’s says it will not sponsor any events related to the Republican National Convention in that city this summer, where Donald Trump will be crowned the party’s nominee for president.
“Kohl’s is not a political organization nor donor and is not sponsoring nor engaging in any specific RNC events,” a spokeswoman for the company told CNBC. “We support the business community through the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.”
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Amongst Wisconsin companies on the Fortune 500, Kohl’s and ManpowerGroup will not sponsor any RNC event.
Fiserv will sponsor them. (Fiserv is a mobile banking, financial services technology, billing and payment, point-of-sale processor, and mobile payment platform)
re: #49 Captain Ron
an oldie..
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“What’s the speed limit here?” Man says to wife as they drive down the road.
Plane flies by, ripping out speed limit sign.
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Suggestions going out on BlueSky that BenCollins purchase InfoWars and merge it with The Onion.
In a pleasant surprise, 8 members of the paradrop re-enactment demo yesterday were US Congressmen/veterans.
abcnews.go.com
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A political analysis of Prime Minister Sunak’s stunning failure to appreciate the moment when he left the D-Day ceremony and allowed Sir Kier Starmer of Labour to get the worldwide-distributed photograph with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, instead of himself.
D-Day for Sunak (Ian Dunt, June 7, 2024)
“His campaign has done for election strategy what Suez did for military intervention.”
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My entire timeline seems convinced Sunak is stumbling around like Sideshow Bob on garden rakes. Mainly because he is. But I do wonder if that's the wider perception of him or if we are just a cosy bubble.
— Iain Clark (@iainjclark.bsky.social) 2024-06-07T09:11:26.111Z
re: #82 Nerdy Fish
Morning Lizardim from the beautiful, clear, temperate late spring wild north country. I see Rishi Sunak has managed to shoot himself directly in the foot while I was gone, further deepening the similarities between the Conservative Party of the UK and the Republican Party of the US. The Tories are going to get absolutely bushwhacked in July; may the same fate befall our own conservatives in November. How go things among the lizardfolk on this picturesque Friday?
I don’t think the Tories will get the bend-over-backwards media support the GOP have been getting. That the Tories are going to be massacred to a historical extent might well sell more papers than trying to build a horse race out of the election. Sunak continuing to make gaffe after gaffe seems to underscore some serious issues with his personal and party political acumen.
I presume these events will get little or no actual US media coverage. It’s not US politicians first of all. And then you’d also be forced to compare Sunak’s antics to Trump’s in the same location and the US media doesn’t want to bring that up. Especially compared to Biden and Clinton treating things much more seriously.
re: #87 Targetpractice
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My general impression from limited following of him in the media and some anecdotal comments by residents of the British isles on Discord is that Sunak is viewed pretty much as a dangerous doofus much like Boris Johnson was. Entirely focused on self-interest put through a Tory beneficial focus when possible. (Which often coincided with actions for self-enrichment or benefit for the wealthy oligarchs.)
re: #82 Nerdy Fish
Morning Lizardim from the beautiful, clear, temperate late spring wild north country. I see Rishi Sunak has managed to shoot himself directly in the foot while I was gone, further deepening the similarities between the Conservative Party of the UK and the Republican Party of the US. The Tories are going to get absolutely bushwhacked in July; may the same fate befall our own conservatives in November. How go things among the lizardfolk on this picturesque Friday?
The sun is just coming up (it’s rum o’clock then bed). Clear skies and 56°F (13°Commie). It won’t stay that way though as thunderstorms will roll through this afternoon through Monday.
Today’s high is scheduled to be 92°F, then plunging twenty degrees tomorrow to 72°F. Lows will be in the lower fifties.
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The sun is just coming up (it’s rum o’clock then bed). Clear skies and 56°F (13°Commie). It won’t stay that way though as thunderstorms will roll through this afternoon through Monday.
Today’s high is scheduled to be 92°F, then plunging twenty degrees tomorrow to 72°F. Lows will be in the lower fifties.
Western PA temps are riding that same rollercoaster. Down into the 50s F at night and then into the low 80s during the day. Last few days a little cooler high due to overcast and scattered rain. Overall sort of typical for late-spring and early-summer in this region.
re: #88 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I don’t think the Tories will get the bend-over-backwards media support the GOP have been getting. That the Tories are going to be massacred to a historical extent might well sell more papers than trying to build a horse race out of the election. Sunak continuing to make gaffe after gaffe seems to underscore some serious issues with his personal and party political acumen.
I presume these events will get little or no actual US media coverage. It’s not US politicians first of all. And then you’d also be forced to compare Sunak’s antics to Trump’s in the same location and the US media doesn’t want to bring that up. Especially compared to Biden and Clinton treating things much more seriously.
I’ve seen British reporting saying the Conservatives might be headed to the worst electoral defeat in more than a century.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’ve seen British reporting saying the Conservatives might be headed to the worst electoral defeat in more than a century.
which for journalists and headline writers, is just as exciting as a close race.
The Economist via Archive dot is, June 6, 2024
American business should not empower a criminal, says Reid Hoffman
“No rational CEO would want a capricious strongman in the White House, argues the entrepreneur”
WOULD NEW YORK be a global financial capital, or even a prosperous city, if markets had no basis for trusting the transactions that happen there? Obviously not.
Businesses and investors rely on a robust legal system—especially courts of law and impartial, fact-based trials by jury—to enforce contracts and punish fraud. That’s why, in the past decade alone, New York City prosecutors have brought thousands of felony charges for falsifying business records. It’s a crime because it strikes at American prosperity.
For American business, the rule of law is essential. It is the soil in which commerce can take root and grow. Without this stable, predictable, rules-based environment, New York, and America, would not have become the hubs of innovation, investment, profit and progress that they are.
Unfortunately, many American business leaders have recently developed a kind of myopia, miscalculating what politics, and which political leaders, will truly support their long-term success. Perhaps this stems from their having lived their entire lives in a stable legal regime that they now take for granted. But a robust, reliable legal system is not a given. It is a necessity we can ill afford to live without. We trade it away at our peril.
Which makes it all the more lamentable that a growing number of America’s corporate and financial leaders are opening their wallets for Donald Trump.Of course, few of these leaders would do actual business with Mr Trump. Even fewer would trust him to pay his bills. Long before the Electoral College made him president in 2016, Mr Trump was known as a liar and grifter who would browbeat vendors and debtors. More recently, American courts—including two unanimous juries—have found him to have engaged in sexual assault, defamation, fraud (including misuse of charitable funds) and—by a unanimous Colorado Supreme Court—insurrection.
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They might have taken on a target which will tear them apart: Her fans.
There’s Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton’s False Gospelhttps://t.co/3X0mhUiAhC
— The Federalist (@FDRLST) June 6, 2024
re: #89 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
My general impression from limited following of him in the media and some anecdotal comments by residents of the British isles on Discord is that Sunak is viewed pretty much as a dangerous doofus much like Boris Johnson was. Entirely focused on self-interest put through a Tory beneficial focus when possible. (Which often coincided with actions for self-enrichment or benefit for the wealthy oligarchs.)
General consensus is that he pushed out the elections this long because he’d hoped to get the India Trade Deal done as his FIL’s business interests would benefit to the tune of billions (his wife would see her own increased by at least half a billion). Only for Modi to put negotiations on hold for the duration of the Indian General Election, the results of which were such that he’s now had to announce his own resignation.
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“when we refuse to label a sin a sin, we do more harm than good.” No. Sin is a purely Christian concept, and more importantly, a subjective one. The Bible gives Christians considerable latitude when it comes to working out the specifics of their morality. We should live by our own moral guidelines, hold each other (meaning specifically Christian to Christian) accountable, and try to show others why they might want to be Christians. We shouldn’t be preaching hellfire and damnation at non-believers, or enslaving them to our morality through draconian legislation. That is the way of the Pharisees.
re: #97 Targetpractice
General consensus is that he pushed out the elections this long because he’d hoped to get the India Trade Deal done as his FIL’s business interests would benefit to the tune of billions (his wife would see her own increased by at least half a billion). Only for Modi to put negotiations on hold for the duration of the Indian General Election, the results of which were such that he’s now had to announce his own resignation.
Modi resigned because that’s how India’s system works. That is a necessary step in their country to form a new government.
Why has PM Modi resigned? How does India form its government? (Firstpost, June 5, 2024)
re: #98 Nerdy Fish
“when we refuse to label a sin a sin, we do more harm than good.” No. Sin is a purely Christian concept, and more importantly, a subjective one. The Bible gives Christians considerable latitude when it comes to working out the specifics of their morality. We should live by our own moral guidelines, hold each other (meaning specifically Christian to Christian) accountable, and try to show others why they might want to be Christians. We shouldn’t be preaching hellfire and damnation at non-believers, or enslaving them to our morality through draconian legislation. That is the way of the Pharisees.
Dolly Parton is definitely a Christian.
Leonard Leo’s home for theocratic fascism is trying to play a “no true Christian” card on Ms. Parton because she refuses to reject LGBT+ people (“calling a sin a sin”).
They also know Ms. Parton is too nice a person to fire back at them, so she’s an easy target.
Oh dear Zod, it actually gets worse. How could a situation where a British PM chooses to bail on the last major D-Day remembrance ceremony where there will be actual living veterans in attendance, only shows up after being begged by the French president, and then disappears back to London before the major part of the ceremony to record an interview for iTV about not being a liar after being caught telling a massive lie multiple times on live TV?
The interview won’t air until Wednesday. And it was Downing Street that scheduled the interview knowing it wouldn’t air until then.
re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Dolly Parton is definitely a Christian.
Leonard Leo’s home for theocratic fascism is trying to play a “no true Christian” card on Ms. Parton because she refuses to reject LGBT+ people (“calling a sin a sin”).
They also know Ms. Parton is too nice a person to fire back at them, so she’s an easy target.
Yeah, I gathered all that. I think Ms. Parton has the right of it, in that you can be a Christian and not hate people or wish they didn’t exist purely because you believe their lifestyle is sinful. The appropriate response to someone who willfully chooses a sinful life is to treat them like any other person, because that’s between them and God, and not any of your business.
A random YouTube short and here I am reading about a coup in Myanmar that has been going on for about 20 years.
In this jungle deep in Karenni state in the east of Myanmar, two forces face each other in a fight that has, in one way or another, been going on for decades. But the rapid advances by the resistance in recent months indicate that this time they may have the advantage.
The South East Asian nation is at a crossroads - after decades of military rule and brutal repression, ethnic groups, along with a new army of young insurgents, have brought the dictatorship to crisis point.
In the past seven months, somewhere between half and two-thirds of the country has fallen to the resistance. Tens of thousands of people have been killed, including many children, since the military seized power in a coup in 2021. Some 2.5 million have been displaced, and the military facing an unprecedented challenge to its rule and in an attempt to thwart the growing resistance regularly bombs civilians, schools and churches from its warplanes (the resistance has none).
I wonder if their neighbors have any skin in the game.
bbc.com
re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Dolly Parton is definitely a Christian.
Leonard Leo’s home for theocratic fascism is trying to play a “no true Christian” card on Ms. Parton because she refuses to reject LGBT+ people (“calling a sin a sin”).
They also know Ms. Parton is too nice a person to fire back at them, so she’s an easy target.
If Christians can somehow ignore the very clear directions clearly stated by the character of Jesus and his followers to live in poverty, give away their stuff and not seek wealth then they can also ignore the directions concerning homosexuals.
re: #10 Orange Impostor
Oh, and we finally get some really good news.
Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars
Finally some consequences.
re: #104 Florida Panhandler
If Christians can somehow ignore the very clear directions clearly stated by the character of Jesus and his followers to live in poverty, give away their stuff and not seek wealth then they can also ignore the directions concerning homosexuals.
Best be most concerned with those who do follow those guidelines rigorously. The inquisitors were drawn from the Dominican and (less so) Franciscan orders.
re: #15 jaunte
Conservatives insulted at being compared to Nazis as they prepare to imprison their enemies and rid the homeland of impure bloodlines.
They are upset that Fascism and White Supremacism are not accepted positions on the political spectrum that we are supposed to acknowedge and respect as such.
re: #18 jaunte
Saw a D-day post where they clearly used AI because the troops are heading into the Atlantic
This shows what it would have looked like had the Nazis won
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Take the two caps, drill them to 1/2 inch opening, apply hot glue or JB Weld..
re: #33 TedStriker
The first 20-25ish minutes or so (the Omaha Beach sequence) is absolutely a gutpunch; Spielberg did a lot of the on-beach camerawork himself handheld. That section of the film is absolutely a technical masterclass
I had heard enough about the opening to be prepared for that, it was the ending that got me. Took a while to figure out, too:
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272,000 jobs added in May, with wages increasing 4.1% over the last 12 months. Most Americans will continue to believe the economy is bad. bls.gov
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Who Are the Largest Consumers of Glitter? (January 24, 2024)
Gay fishermen (like in Brokeback Mountain)
re: #45 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Whatever else you can say about DJT, he knows how to exploit modern media and play them like a fiddle
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The second (tweet?? what do we call these things?) suggests to me that the problem with Sunak is that he’s not have any important failures in his life.
If someone is going to lead I think one should require that they’ve have failures as well as successes.
The photo of him standing in the rain like a drowned kitten to announce early elections is a classic.
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re: #88 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I don’t think the Tories will get the bend-over-backwards media support the GOP have been getting. That the Tories are going to be massacred to a historical extent might well sell more papers than trying to build a horse race out of the election. Sunak continuing to make gaffe after gaffe seems to underscore some serious issues with his personal and party political acumen.
The BBC are as Tory-friendly as they can get away with and still claim to be neutral. Unlike Fox, which makes no bones about its affilitation.
re: #58 JC1
Heh, thought I had it in 3.
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Me too. Same pattern.
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re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Not a winning move, and it will not get a positive reaction🤮
They also know Ms. Parton is too nice a person to fire back at them, so she’s an easy target.
But many others will.
re: #108 jeffreyw
I feel this sentiment, often.
re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Glitter is an engineering environmental nightmare.
Stupid autocorrect.
re: #58 JC1
Heh, thought I had it in 3.
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4/6 here too also
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Would have had an eagle if I’d reversed the first and third letters.
re: #126 Eventual Carrion
Probably the Trump factor given your third guess.
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It was 113 here yesterday, near that today. No bike riding today.
We had nearly a whole week without major rain, only light showers on Wednesday.
Temps refuse to budge beyond low 70’s which is fine as long as it stays dry.
Off to walk in the park. Taking camera along to see if I can spot and photograph osprey or herons if I have some luck.
re: #134 darthstar
You can count on Scott Perry to share intelligence with his GRU case officer
re: #134 darthstar
Johnson taking orders from an enemy of the state is it. I need to take a break from the web.
re: #134 darthstar
Tell me again why we saved his ass.
re: #136 darthstar
Johnson taking orders from an enemy of the state is it. I need to take a break from the web.
He knows that he will be replaced if he doesn’t.
re: #133 Joe Bacon ✅
“GOP state legislatures are the meth labs of democracy!”
re: #22 Joe Bacon ✅
Given his track record I do not trust Alex Jones.
He is going to have a trustee with financial incentive to recover as many assets as possible all up in his business.
re: #140 Mike Lamb
He is going to have a trustee with financial incentive to recover as many assets as possible all up in his business.
Knowing damn well that liar has hidden and shuffled a lot of his wealth offshore where it can’t be touched.
re: #141 Joe Bacon ✅
Knowing damn well that liar has hidden and shuffled a lot of his wealth offshore where it can’t be touched.
That is why he has been delaying as much as he has.
Finally worked a real task for the AI folks, writing a response to a prompt which, as I’ve told them, I DID NOT TRAIN FOR and which I don’t really love doing. It does not help that I’d never seen the writing shell before and that I had to learn how Markdown works while a task countdown clock was running in a corner of the screen. It also did not help that I did something early on that forced me to delete the AI’s initial response that I was working against. But had feedback for the task show up this morning with the reviewer giving it a 5/5 score (a BIG deal, because anything lower means the task needs to go back through editing and review which creates a bottleneck), so I guess I’ll do this again when more tasks show up. It doesn’t help that the company drops tasks on west coast time, meaning by the time I know there’s work, I’ve typically had two generous glasses of cheap wine and can’t legally drive, but if alcohol damaged the ability to write, no city desk editor would last longer than six months on the job.
re: #58 JC1
Heh, thought I had it in 3.
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Group: 3,4,4,5 — will update when 4th reports in
Also got Queen on Bee today — where the pangram was one of the last words I found. Previous couple days a pangram was the first word I saw!
The U.S. economy added far more jobs than expected in May, countering fears of a slowdown in the labor market and likely reducing the Federal Reserve’s impetus to lower interest rates,” CNBC reports
I posted that so I could post this rando comment:
“I miss the good old days under Trump with high unemployment and the joys of wiping my ass with a coffee filter.”
Eta: Rando #2 addition:
…After first using it as an improvised face mask.
re: #98 Nerdy Fish
That is the way of the Pharisees.
This “Pharisees” trope has to end. Jesus got into disputes with the “Pharisees” because he was one of them, and disagreements and criticisms are part of the culture. The Pharisees were the precursors of rabbinic Judaism which has become modern Judaism.
The antisemitic “Pharisees” trope needs to be launched into the sun.
re: #150 Vicious Babushka
This “Pharisees” trope has to end. Jesus got into disputes with the “Pharisees” because he was one of them, and disagreements and criticisms are part of the culture. The Pharisees were the precursors of rabbinic Judaism which has become modern Judaism.
The antisemitic “Pharisees” trope needs to be launched into the sun.
My apologies. Charles, if you see this, please remove my comment. And with that, I’m going to leave. Have a good weekend, everyone.
re: #149 Dangerman
Appx272K jobs for May as opposed to the WS consensus of 190K
slight increase in the unemployment rate from 3.9% to 4.0%, which is still historically low
4% wage growth, higher than recent history going back to the 80s.But Biden walks funny
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yes, I got a “yard long” email from a supervisor at tutor.com, bitching about my failure to “be available” for a minimum of 5 hours a week over the month of May. The company apparently believes that if there are no scheduled hours available, I am to be “on call” FOR FREE as a floating tutor. Fuck that. I’m freelance. You want me to sit at the computer? You pay me to do it. I do nothing for free. It’s just remarkable what companies imagine employees (or people who aren’t even employees!) will put up with.
re: #148 Dangerman
I posted that so I could post this rando comment:
“I miss the good old days under Trump with high unemployment and the joys of wiping my ass with a coffee filter.”
Eta: Rando #2 addition:
…After first using it as an improvised face mask.
You had to use it as a face mask first? That’s news to me.
re: #151 Nerdy Fish
My apologies. Charles, if you see this, please remove my comment. And with that, I’m going to leave. Have a good weekend, everyone.
No worries. You didn’t mean anything by it. It’s just a familiar old trope.
re: #147 Dangerman
He would have lasted half a day. 😂
re: #156 No Malarkey!
Prosecution of Hunter Biden has rested
But the GOP 24/7 Bullshit Machine’s endless attacks on Hunter will never stop.
re: #150 Vicious Babushka
This “Pharisees” trope has to end. Jesus got into disputes with the “Pharisees” because he was one of them, and disagreements and criticisms are part of the culture. The Pharisees were the precursors of rabbinic Judaism which has become modern Judaism.
The antisemitic “Pharisees” trope needs to be launched into the sun.
Thank you for reminding people of this. It is one of the many very pernicious anti-Semitic teachings that got ingrained into Christianity by the bitterness of the “divorce” (how I see it) of the two peoples in Roman Palestine.
It is especially obvious, if one sits down with a copy of, say, something as basic a teaching as the Pirkei Avos and compare it to the Gospel of Matthew how close the two could have remained even with the disagreements they had on fairly substantial matters.
re: #156 No Malarkey!
Prosecution of Hunter Biden has rested
Short prosecution. Barely lasted 4 days. And their key piece of evidence was altered.
If the evidence is shit, you must acquit.
re: #141 Joe Bacon ✅
Knowing damn well that liar has hidden and shuffled a lot of his wealth offshore where it can’t be touched.
Eh…we’ll see. I think he’s about to go through some things. The fact is that if an asset is listed on Jones’ bankruptcy schedules, he has to turn it over to the trustee.
re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Dolly Parton is definitely a Christian.
Leonard Leo’s home for theocratic fascism is trying to play a “no true Christian” card on Ms. Parton because she refuses to reject LGBT+ people (“calling a sin a sin”).
They also know Ms. Parton is too nice a person to fire back at them, so she’s an easy target.
Dolly Parton is too smart to get in a pissing contest with skunks.
re: #160 darthstar
Short prosecution. Barely lasted 4 days. And their key piece of evidence was altered.
If the evidence is shit, you must acquit.
??? My bad. Hadn’t been following it — what key piece of evidence was altered?
re: #160 darthstar
Short prosecution. Barely lasted 4 days. And their key piece of evidence was altered.
If the evidence is shit, you must acquit.
If he is acquitted it will be spun as proof that the DOJ is a Biden tool
re: #160 darthstar
Short prosecution. Barely lasted 4 days. And their key piece of evidence was altered.
If the evidence is shit, you must acquit.
I’ve filled out enough ATF 4473s that the prosecution would not have wanted me on that jury! Instant not guilty vote.
re: #102 Nerdy Fish
Yeah, I gathered all that. I think Ms. Parton has the right of it, in that you can be a Christian and not hate people or wish they didn’t exist purely because you believe their lifestyle is sinful. The appropriate response to someone who willfully chooses a sinful life is to treat them like any other person, because that’s between them and God, and not any of your business.
“Good Christian”: Jesus loves you.
Me: Yea, I know that - the question is do you?
Trump ‘in breach of’ order to pay £300,000 in UK court ruling: Steele dossier author
In the U.K., former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s company Orbis Business Intelligence, saying that Steele’s claims about Trump were full of major inaccuracies.
But the lawsuit didn’t go well for Trump, who, earlier this year, was ordered to pay Steele £300,000 by the U.K. High Court. And according to Britain’s Sky News, Trump has yet to make that payment.
Steele told Sky News, “The fact is: We were awarded a £300,000 initial cost order in February, which was confirmed when his right of appeal was turned down at the end of March. And so, he’s been in breach of that order for two months now.”
re: #62 Targetpractice
For anybody who doesn’t want to read Sacks’ horseshit, it’s all the usual talking points:
- Trump oversaw a “booming” economy (He didn’t, it averaged 2.1% GDP growth before the pandemic)
- The country had “recovered” from the pandemic under his stewardship (It hadn’t, UE was still above pre-pandemic levels and winter 2020 saw the worst surge in new COVID cases of the entire first year of the pandemic)
- Biden was responsible for the Afghanistan withdrawal being a mess (Trump made no preparations after setting the withdrawal date and years of corruption in the Afghan government meant all the unpaid soldiers joined up with the Taliban)
- Ukraine was on the verge of a peace deal when NATO ordered Zelensky to “walk away” (the “peace deal” was the same as it always was: Ukraine gives up territory and autonomy in exchange for the “promise” that Russia would not attack again)
- Biden reversed/abolished Trump immigration policies that were working (legal immigration had actually fallen under Trump while “illegal” immigration remained roughly the same)
- And (of course), the whole “lawfare” BS that Biden’s responsible for all of Trump’s legal troubles as a backhanded way to win the election.
The line about workers losing 1/5th of their buying power was also bullshit, no?
But leaving that aside, the US did significantly better on the inflation front that the rest of the first world economies (and he, of course, glosses over the profiteering/gouging companies were doing under the guise of inflation).
re: #152 steve_davis
yes, I got a “yard long” email from a supervisor at tutor.com, bitching about my failure to “be available” for a minimum of 5 hours a week over the month of May. The company apparently believes that if there are no scheduled hours available, I am to be “on call” FOR FREE as a floating tutor. Fuck that. I’m freelance. You want me to sit at the computer? You pay me to do it. I do nothing for free. It’s just remarkable what companies imagine employees (or people who aren’t even employees!) will put up with.
you cant fleece ‘em if you dont try
re: #168 Joe Bacon ✅
They’ll have to seize some property to get paid.
re: #169 Mike Lamb
The line about workers losing 1/5th of their buying power was also bullshit, no?
But leaving that aside, the US did significantly better on the inflation front that the rest of the first world economies (and he, of course, glosses over the profiteering/gouging companies were doing under the guise of inflation).
People on fixed incomes lost some of their buying power.
Workers, on the other hand, have seen their wages increase by more than inflation.
re: #152 steve_davis
yes, I got a “yard long” email from a supervisor at tutor.com, bitching about my failure to “be available” for a minimum of 5 hours a week over the month of May. The company apparently believes that if there are no scheduled hours available, I am to be “on call” FOR FREE as a floating tutor. Fuck that. I’m freelance. You want me to sit at the computer? You pay me to do it. I do nothing for free. It’s just remarkable what companies imagine employees (or people who aren’t even employees!) will put up with.
This has been an ongoing discussion for some time: namely that the “free” part of Free Lance refers to being free to accept or decline offers and to set your own prices. Lots of companies have their employees working fixed hours while still paying them only as contractors.
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Modi resigned because that’s how India’s system works. That is a necessary step in their country to form a new government.
Why has PM Modi resigned? How does India form its government? (Firstpost, June 5, 2024)
The chance that he’s not going to be reappointed as Prime Minister is pretty close to zero. Even though the BJP didn’t get a majority this time, they’re still the largest party, and with their coalition partners they have more than the 272 members of parliament to show the President they can form a government. And Modi, as leader of the BJP will be their PM candidate, even if they will have to give some spots to their coalition partners in the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) — the pre-poll electoral alliance led by them since 1998.
Now magas can feel like they own their own justice!
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re: #152 steve_davis
yes, I got a “yard long” email from a supervisor at tutor.com, bitching about my failure to “be available” for a minimum of 5 hours a week over the month of May. The company apparently believes that if there are no scheduled hours available, I am to be “on call” FOR FREE as a floating tutor. Fuck that. I’m freelance. You want me to sit at the computer? You pay me to do it. I do nothing for free. It’s just remarkable what companies imagine employees (or people who aren’t even employees!) will put up with.
If there was only a way to check the power of a greedy company with something called…a LABOR UNION…
re: #175 jaunte
these are dad serious and not a piss-take?
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Real, I’m sorry to say.
nationalreview.com
re: #176 jaunte
Baseball, hack, pine tree.
On that yellow background, he’s in the position of a snek. The ‘no steppy’ one.
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If he is qcuitted it will be spun as proof that the DOJ is a Biden tool
oh heck, they had that story written months ago
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re: #170 Dangerman
you cant fleece ‘em if you dont try
Guy in a fancy suit in a big office who makes $300K a year: “You know, I think a lot of our people could get by on a little less…”
re: #65 Targetpractice
Nah. He’s just a typical authoritarian masquerading as a conservative. Other’s lives are not important. His unending quest for power is.
re: #172 sagehen
People on fixed incomes lost some of their buying power.
Workers, on the other hand, have seen their wages increase by more than inflation.
And of course, this Sacks douche bag wouldn’t do a thing to assist the folks on a fixed income to have proper COLA adjustments. He’ll just use the inflation against Biden, while backing the guy that will continue to make problems for people on fixed incomes even worse (feature, not a bug).
re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg
Guy in a fancy suit in a big office who makes $300K a year: “You know, I think a lot of our people could get by on a little less…”
Like with uber drivers, they probably plan on replacing all their teachers with chat bots as soon as the technology allows it, they just wanna have the network in place for it.
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
my great-uncle, buried at Arlington Cemetery
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re: #188 Backwoods Sleuth
my great-uncle, buried at Arlington Cemetery
I had two uncles who served in WW2, one in the Pacific, on in Europe, both came back alive.
re: #179 jaunte
LOL. Rule of Law. Hilarious.
Alito and NR favour order over law. Even if the order is, “Die, you useless worm!”
re: #163 Hecuba’s daughter
??? My bad. Hadn’t been following it — what key piece of evidence was altered?
Two pieces. The gun purchase itself and the laptop that was touched by everyone and his kid brother.
re: #160 darthstar
Short prosecution. Barely lasted 4 days. And their key piece of evidence was altered.
If the evidence is shit, you must acquit.
I thought they couldn’t bring in the document was altered.
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As I’ve said before, they want their slaves back.
This building has a glass entryway, 4 windows 6’ x 4’ and a glass door, open usually. There’s a plastic chair in it, which has become a ‘free stuff’ depository. One tenant regularly puts a box of food there. Yesterday, when I returned, there was a young crow checking out the box. It saw me, and started trying to leave through the windows, while on the floor. I parked my bike and went in. I may have been able to pick it up, but the least stressful way out was to stand with the crow between me and the door, and just kind of herd it out. It flew as soon as it reached the door.
I like the idea of using ‘they’ instead of ‘it’ for the bird. I haven’t got there yet. (Or is it ‘gotten’?)
re: #161 Mike Lamb
Eh…we’ll see. I think he’s about to go through some things. The fact is that if an asset is listed on Jones’ bankruptcy schedules, he has to turn it over to the trustee.
He’s not going to go through anywhere near enough things as he should be going through.
re: #183 wrenchwench
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re: #195 Romantic Heretic
As I’ve said before, they want their slaves back.
Back during slavery, the black family was together (unless one of them got sold down the river)
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re: #200 Dr. Matt
Have the GQP rebooted their “apology tour” screech yet?
He is apologizing for the fact that the GOP was holding things up
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I had two uncles who served in WW2, one in the Pacific, on in Europe, both came back alive.
My dad was en route to the Philippines when the war ended, so he didn’t see any action other than Japanese snipers in the hills who didn’t know the war ended.
My uncle and dad’s older brother landed D-Day, Omaha Beach, Fox Red with I-Company of the US 1st. From what I understand they drifted half mile off course before landing. From what my uncle told me, lost most of his landing group but he joined up with others and scaled a cliff to take out whoever was up on top. I could very well be wrong but it is possible it was WN61, but my uncle didn’t offer many details the few times he talked about WWII. I know he was injured on D-Day but kept going. He was injured again with machine gun fire while out leading 6 men on reconnaissance (at age 18). He was injured bad enough that time they sent him back to UK for recovery and just over a month later he’s back driving into Paris as a jeep driver for an officer. Still was pulling shards of metal out of his leg when he was in his 80’s.
re: #203 dat_said
My dad had flat feet, three kids and a job rolling plate steel at US Steel Gary works, so he did not serve.
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My dad had flat feet, three kids and a job rolling plate steel at US Steel Gary works, so he did not serve.
Difficult to find the right words without sounding insincere but that is a most respectable way to serve.
My dad had the least dramatic military service ever.
He was at a base on the west coast, working in the mess hall. First it was a place that trainloads of soldiers passed through on their way to board a ship, then it became a place that shiploads of soldiers passed through on their way to board a train. As they passed through they were entitled to eat, and my dad was the one who put supposed-food on their trays. He also peeled potatoes and cleaned grease traps.
Beetle Bailey FTW.
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A group of far-right media figures has announced the formation of a militia group & is using social media to recruit, including on Instagram.
Some of those figures have previously called for political opponents to be killed, & its founder is currently in jail awaiting trial for January 6.
A group of far-right media figures is using social media to recruit for its newly formed militia
The group is recruiting on Instagram, despite Meta’s previous crackdowns on militias
On June 3, podcaster and alleged January 6 participant Jake Lang announced a “NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL MILITIA” called the “North American Patriot and Liberty Militia,” or “NAPALM” for short. Lang claimed that NAPALM was “organized and ready to mobilize to DEFEND this Republic from any enemy. Forgien or Domestic.” Lang — who wrote that he would serve as “national chairman” of the militia group — “faces multiple charges of assaulting law enforcement officers” and has been held in jail ahead of his September trial for his alleged crimes and what a judge called “a continued willingness to engage in violence.”
re: #206 sagehen
So did my dad. He was on a tele-type and he was typing up the plans. SHAEF HQ.
re: #203 dat_said
My dad was en route to the Philippines when the war ended, so he didn’t see any action other than Japanese snipers in the hills who didn’t know the war ended.
My uncle and dad’s older brother landed D-Day, Omaha Beach, Fox Red with I-Company of the US 1st. From what I understand they drifted half mile off course before landing. From what my uncle told me, lost most of his landing group but he joined up with others and scaled a cliff to take out whoever was up on top. I could very well be wrong but it is possible it was WN61, but my uncle didn’t offer many details the few times he talked about WWII. I know he was injured on D-Day but kept going. He was injured again with machine gun fire while out leading 6 men on reconnaissance (at age 18). He was injured bad enough that time they sent him back to UK for recovery and just over a month later he’s back driving into Paris as a jeep driver for an officer. Still was pulling shards of metal out of his leg when he was in his 80’s.
My dad (who was 49 when he had me, so much older than all my peers’ fathers) was a radio man in the Navy in the Pacific Theater. He lied about his age to get into the Navy. He was on duty and took the message for his ship that the Japanese had surrendered.
His other memorable story was when his ship (the USS Garrod) was at anchor in a bay in the Philippines with some other ships. A kamikaze tried to attack the ships. He was on duty when the anti-aircraft guns started firing. He said his hands started sweating so badly they were slipping off the keys. His ship kept firing at the kamikaze as it came down, fortunately hitting the water between my dad’s and another ship. Unfortunately, the gun crews were so focused on the kamikaze that they kept shooting to the point that they fired shots across the bow of a ship across the bay. His ship was re-assigned to deliver mail after the incident.
His greatest lament was that he never made it south of the equator despite getting within spitting distance.
His ship docked in Seattle after the war and he hitch hiked with some friends back to his home in the Cleveland metro.
re: #209 PhillyPretzel ✅
So did my dad. He was on a tele-type and he was typing up the plans. SHAEF HQ.
My dad was basically the equivalent of Radar O’Reilly during his time in the Philippines. I still have his wooden desk nameplate from that time.
He knocked around for quite a bit after he returned to ND doing temporary jobs like helping build and install radio and TV towers and even some time painting churches with Count Berthold von Imhoff. He was quite proud of his work in the churches in Strasburg and Hague ND. He eventually settled down and got married at the old age of 28 and entered into the trade of tile and flooring. His boss for most of the time there was a former German POW interred at the POW camp in Bismarck ND. The guy had been “captured” in Duluth MN at the start of US involvement (he had been working as a sailor on a big ore boat - no idea how he had avoided being dragged into the German Navy).
re: #206 sagehen
My dad had the least dramatic military service ever.
He was at a base on the west coast, working in the mess hall. First it was a place that trainloads of soldiers passed through on their way to board a ship, then it became a place that shiploads of soldiers passed through on their way to board a train. As they passed through they were entitled to eat, and my dad was the one who put supposed-food on their trays. He also peeled potatoes and cleaned grease traps.
Beetle Bailey FTW.
My dad is in that competition. 18 month enlistment in the Navy, served as a medic corpsman, in Hawaii. In the 50s. He was proud of his service, and almost apologetic about it at the same time.
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re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This has been an ongoing discussion for some time: namely that the “free” part of Free Lance refers to being free to accept or decline offers and to set your own prices. Lots of companies have their employees working fixed hours while still paying them only as contractors.
to avoid payroll taxes, benefits, some liability etc.
if you can solicit business and accept any clients you want (or not) simultaneously, have your own tools/equipment (if necessary), decide when you work or dont, you’re probably independent.
if they can tell you what to do, when to do it, where to do it or how to do it, you’re probably an employee.
re: #197 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s not going to go through anywhere near enough things as he should be going through.
aside from finding the hidden assets, jones is not entitled to a ‘lifestyle’
they should be able to document and source every dollar he spends, then squeeze him down into a very modest lifestyle
re: #206 sagehen
My dad had the least dramatic military service ever.
He was at a base on the west coast, working in the mess hall. First it was a place that trainloads of soldiers passed through on their way to board a ship, then it became a place that shiploads of soldiers passed through on their way to board a train. As they passed through they were entitled to eat, and my dad was the one who put supposed-food on their trays. He also peeled potatoes and cleaned grease traps.
Beetle Bailey FTW.
people contribute in all kinds of ways
if any part of the system doenst function, the whole thing is bound to fail.
re: #217 Backwoods Sleuth
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Terrifying video shows flames shooting from an Air Canada Boeing jet as it took off, forcing it to abruptly turn around for an emergency landing.The caught-on-camera terror unfolded after Flight AC872 took off from Toronto en route to Paris late Wednesday.
“Holy crap!” someone recording the takeoff gasped as flames shot from the tail end of the plane just after it left the runway.
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re: #220 nines09
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Yeah, I’m in the ‘kids of the vets’ generation.
My dad was a medic in the Pacific, in what would become the Air Force by the time he left the service. Did R&R in New Zealand and always swore he wanted to go back there. Used to tell us he was in Nagasaki three days after they dropped the bomb — he and his colleagues found a microscope and needed one, used it for awhile before they took a geiger counter to it and discovered it was so hot they had to bury it.
My mom was a teenager signing combat planes in and out of the airbase in Great Falls. Her older brothers were in the Army, of course — one of them walked with a limp for the rest of his life due to his wounds, but was glad he could walk.
My husband’s dad was in the other theater — wounded in Italy, recovered, and was on his way to the Pacific to take part in the invasion of Japan when the war ended. His two uncles were in Europe as well; one was stationed in Great Britain for a time, married an English girl who was in the military police auxiliary.
Stories they could tell, wish we’d asked them more when we had the chance.
re: #221 A Cranky One
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My father was a crewman on the battleship South Dakota pretty much for his whole time in the war. He ran the still that made fresh water for the ship. I don’t know if he had a “sexy” battle station but I suspect it was fire control. Here is a rah rah doc on Youtube that hits the high points:
re: #207 jaunte
Meal Team 6, Keyboard Warrior Platoon are too cowardly and/or too unqualified to join the actual military.
Came home from Texas with a couple more souvenirs from husband’s dad’s war days. A bill from the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Various patches, might be swaps — one from the Tank Destroyers group he was in, another from a Puerto Rico command, others we need to look up. We have his War Diary, mostly empty with a few sketches; the little New Testament the Army gave him; a couple of V-mails. A very worn coin with a hole punched in that looks like someone wore it as a necklace or luck charm. Things you wish you could ask.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Back during slavery, the black family was together (unless one of them got sold down the river)
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If Mama was showing, her new owners got the baby for free! Family values!
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I learned some slang today, better late than never, the C-walk.
The dance is primarily an act of performing quick and intricate footwork. The rivalry between the Crips and the Bloods spilled over into the world of entertainment, with the adoption of the gang dance by various rappers on the West Coast of the United States, who gave it its name, the Crip Walk. This dance involves the movement of one’s feet, classically to the spelling of C-R-I-P (refer C Walk). It was used by Crips at parties to display affiliation, particularly vis-a-vis rival gang the Bloods. It was also used after killing someone to give the kill a Crip signature. MTV declined to broadcast any music videos that contained the Crip Walk.[2]
My dad shocked me by saying that he actually wanted to discuss his experiences in Vietnam but everyone assumed he didn’t. I wish I’d taken advantage of that opportunity; unfortunately, he said that shortly before he died and I didn’t get the chance.
But based on some of the things he told me, I know his experiences were nightmare fuel.
He did mention certain things that happened that he didn’t share with my mom while he was in Vietnam. For example, he got up in the middle of the night to pee and while he was out of his trailer, it was hit with a missile and destroyed. He discovered that the sandbag enclosure around his trailer hadn’t actually been filled with sand, so all the nights he’d slept thinking he had some protection was an illusion.
My cousin was in the 101st airborne and spent time with us after he returned from Vietnam because we were the only family who could understand and deal with his PTSD.
Bottom line for me is that war is hell and no one involved escaped unscathed. I have great respect for all our veterans, especially those in the front lines.
re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg
Guy in a fancy suit in a big office who makes $300K a year: “You know, I think a lot of our people could get by on a little less…”
look, it’s why I refuse to attend conference calls: “Hi, I’m Steve Davis. You don’t know me, but by the end of the call, you will, and you will regret it.’
re: #203 dat_said
My dad was en route to the Philippines when the war ended, so he didn’t see any action other than Japanese snipers in the hills who didn’t know the war ended.
My uncle and dad’s older brother landed D-Day, Omaha Beach, Fox Red with I-Company of the US 1st. From what I understand they drifted half mile off course before landing. From what my uncle told me, lost most of his landing group but he joined up with others and scaled a cliff to take out whoever was up on top. I could very well be wrong but it is possible it was WN61, but my uncle didn’t offer many details the few times he talked about WWII. I know he was injured on D-Day but kept going. He was injured again with machine gun fire while out leading 6 men on reconnaissance (at age 18). He was injured bad enough that time they sent him back to UK for recovery and just over a month later he’s back driving into Paris as a jeep driver for an officer. Still was pulling shards of metal out of his leg when he was in his 80’s.
Although I’ve never had an opportunity to talk with a WW2 vet (my dad was rejected due to a messed-up knee) about their experiences, I’ve read interviews and stories of these vets and, almost without exception, they’ve been very humble about their experiences or have been reluctant to talk about them. I can certainly understand the latter because, even after so many years, those experiences were just so intense and they witnessed a lot of horrible things. The others, the humble ones, have nothing to be humble about. The things these 18-25 year olds accomplished are truly the stuff of legends.
The prediction was 180,000 jobs for May. We got 272,000. That’s #Bidenomics
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) June 7, 2024
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They might have taken on a target which will tear them apart: Her fans.
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The Federalists all support Trump who has pretty much committed every sin imaginable. They can take several seats and shut the hell up!!
re: #236 A Cranky One
Sounds great, until the AI versions of you at the other two meetings start spouting Nazi talking points and get you fired.
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My Dad was but a lad of 5 when WWII ended so he never served. My father-in-law, on the other hand, was a surgeon who was involved on D-Day and would never talk about his experiences. He said it was too hard and that no one should have to live through that again. His family had a long tradition of military service and attained the rank of lieutenant, but he never encouraged his three sons to join. War is indeed hell.
re: #181 Dangerman
oh heck, they had that story written months ago
They are already yelling about that on conservative talk radio.* Along with essentially claiming that the judiciary is rigged against Republicans and in favor of Democrats. I heard all the usual talking points tossed out within two minutes about NYC being all Democrats and biased against Trump. Judge biased against Trump. Judge’s daughter pro-Democrat and biased against Trump. Biden saying he not pardon his son and would comply with the verdict offered as proof that the trial is already rigged to acquit him. Especially since it’s a felony that *thousands* of others have been charged with, etc. etc. etc.
* - Couple walking ahead of me on trail along lake had radio playing this crap loud enough you could hear it 50 yards away. Really considerate folk.
re: #233 (((Archangel1)))
The prediction was 180,000 jobs for May. We got 272,000. That’s
NYT (above the fold): Biden fails to bring 300,000 jobs in May
NYT (below the fold): Good jobs reports is bad news for Democrats. Because.
My father served in WWII, but only talked about his war experience just one time: which I recall vividly: he had been 26 years old and working on Wall Street when he got drafted: he had gone to a business acquaintance (who had become a General) to beg a favor - not to dodge service, but simply to avoid the infantry. Which “better” posting he got: to the paratroops. I don’t think he ever went into details about why (with Airborne training) he was sent where he ultimately went to: to New Guinea. Where he won a Silver Star for combat valor - that he said he never recalled. When I read, later, about the utter hell that was the New Guinea Campaign, I kind of understood why he wouldn’t want to remember much….
Man, this place is full of boomers. :p My dad wasn’t born yet. (Gen X checking in)
Ass-maggot named and shamed:
Wisconsin superintendent obtains restraining order against dad who interrupted graduation
A school superintendent in Wisconsin was granted a restraining order against a parent who rushed the stage during a recent high school graduation and blocked the administrator from shaking huands with his daughter.
In a temporary order filed Monday, a Dane County Circuit Court commissioner ordered Matthew Eddy to have no contact with the Baraboo Superintendent Rainey Briggs pending a hearing scheduled for June 14.
This just appeared on my CNN feed. The title is: Isolated and inexperienced: A portrait of the judge overseeing Trump’s documents case from veteran of her courtroom. I have not read it but just from the title CNN is trying to make a case for Loose Cannon’s inexperience and loneliness.
re: #247 PhillyPretzel ✅
a similar article was up on raw story. Cannon is the only judge in that court or some such so she has no one to go to for advice. several lawyers who have been before here basically say she has no clue what she is doing.
re: #247 PhillyPretzel ✅
This just appeared on my CNN feed. The title is: Isolated and inexperienced: A portrait of the judge overseeing Trump’s documents case from veteran of her courtroom. I have not read it but just from the title CNN is trying to make a case for Loose Cannon’s inexperience and loneliness.
I assume she’s receiving a lot of praise from Trump supporting crooks and fruitcakes to help keep her morale up.
re: #244 IngisKahn
Man, this place is full of boomers. :p My dad wasn’t born yet. (Gen X checking in)
Same here. Both my grandfathers served in WWII.
re: #219 Shropshire Slasher
It was apparently a compressor stall, so not dangerous. But very spectacular, so I expect it will be widely aired.
A Maga parent ruined a high school graduation ceremony after assaulting the black superintendent to prevent his daughter from shaking hands with a black man pic.twitter.com/zsuCOnVee6
— Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) June 6, 2024
re: #244 IngisKahn
Man, this place is full of boomers. :p My dad wasn’t born yet. (Gen X checking in)
Aka- “the olds”🙄
re: #66 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
George Gershwin, what happened to him and how the medical profession of the day failed him:
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Good Dog! He had a glioblastoma, which is as lethal today as it was 1937. Just ask John McCain and Teddy Kennedy.
No clinician at the time could have helped Gershwin at any stage of his illness. He was a dead man walking.
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