New From Seth Meyers: Trump Makes First Visit to Capitol Hill Since Jan. 6, Asks GOP to Overturn Conviction
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re: #78 Belafon
It was so bad someone pulled it in ten seconds, but the internet is forever.
I mean, it may only have been up for ten seconds, but someone thought it was a good idea to put up at all. That should tell anyone all they need to know.
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
awesome, where is that from?
re: #2 Nerdy Fish
I mean, it may only have been up for ten seconds, but someone thought it was a good idea to put up at all. That should tell anyone all they need to know.
Last I checked, the post was still up.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
I saw it on a Tumblr page.
re: #2 Nerdy Fish
I mean, it may only have been up for ten seconds, but someone thought it was a good idea to put up at all. That should tell anyone all they need to know.
Im not following this at all
Jesse Watters blowing the racist horn: “…and then the switcheroo.”
Oy! That’s a moment of pure stupid!
Ordered a pizza by door dash.
Few minutes late I’d already forgotten… and started cooking something else. < face… palm > thankfully the pie got here before the chicken went in the oven.
Gah 😱
re: #9 TedStriker
The AP was gargling Trump’s balls in a since-deleted tweet about his “triumphant” return to DC.
Ah
The late 1990s through the early 2000s were an incredibly weird, painful, and fucked up time for me.
Just sayin’.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-14T01:55:24.000Z
re: #11 William Lewis
Oy! That’s a moment of pure stupid!
Ordered a pizza by door dash.
Few minutes late I’d already forgotten… and started cooking something else. < face… palm > thankfully the pie got here before the chicken went in the oven.
Gah 😱
that’s some pretty fine pot…
Today Trump said he was a “big fan” of McKinley because of his strong tariff policy.
“…The tariff raised the average duty on imports to almost 50%, an increase designed to protect domestic industries and workers from foreign competition, as promised in the Republican platform.[2] It represented protectionism, a policy supported by Republicans and denounced by Democrats. It was a major topic of fierce debate in the 1890 Congressional elections, which gave a Democratic landslide.”
“The tariff was not well received by Americans who suffered a steep increase in prices. In the 1890 election, Republicans lost their majority in the House with the number of seats they won reduced by nearly half, from 171 to 88.”
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Do we really need new words like “flextirement” to describe how olds like me still work sometime
Flextirement is a flexible work arrangement designed to ease the transition between full-time employment and retirement with flexible hours, reduced workloads, and phased approaches to leaving the workforce.
I mean DUH.
re: #15 sagehen
that’s some pretty fine pot…
I smoke weed so I can blame it, rather than my aging brain, for my own memory lapses.
From downstairs (Tesla cybercop)
re: #64 Eclectic Cyborg
So imagine you’re driving along. Suddenly you see police lights in your rear view. You pull over and THIS comes to a stop behind you:
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What do you do next?
Pull off the edge of the road and hope he follows me, then pull back onto the road and drive away.
re: #21 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Not to mention it would crash the whole fucking economy and drive inflation through the roof.
End marriages, destroy families, shut down factories.
Basically a fuckton of bad shit with few benefits.
re: #15 sagehen
that’s some pretty fine pot…
Nah, too much Guinness though!!
(might add some pot now though 😎)
Trump said Milwaukee is a “horrible city” even though the RNC is holding their convention there. Now, GOPers are scrambling to say he was only complaining about the crime rate there.
Convicted felon is worried about crime? He could lower the rate of crime in Wisconsin by staying home.
re: #21 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
so in short, just like every fucking day when there’s a chance of someone shooting up a school, grocery store or a nightclub.
No one on the left WANTS a civil war, but if the Right foists one upon us, then it’s going to be one where the backbone of the religious right and the tech bros are going to be busted the fuck up and the US will be a significantly different place afterwards.
re: #24 Unabogie
Trump said Milwaukee is a “horrible city” even though the RNC is holding their convention there. Now, GOPers are scrambling to say he was only complaining about the crime rate there.
Convicted felon is worried about crime? He could lower the rate of crime in Wisconsin by staying home.
You all still picked the city
So which was it?
In spite of the crime rate or because of it?
re: #24 Unabogie
Trump said Milwaukee is a “horrible city” even though the RNC is holding their convention there. Now, GOPers are scrambling to say he was only complaining about the crime rate there.
Convicted felon is worried about crime? He could lower the rate of crime in Wisconsin by staying home.
We need Trump to clarify, saying, “They’re just a bunch of fuckin’ cheeseheads who go shirtless at football games in -14 degree weather.” That’ll solidify the state for him, fer sure.
re: #21 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
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Sad thing is “Rita” has fewer clues than she thinks she is trying to give. But hey why should I care? I know a whole lot better about what the real world would look like (and no, it won’t be pretty, but in very different ways than she imagines. That’s the problem with people who say “It Will Be Like This” because it won’t be.
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Always hard to know what to make of such things but interesting that Necheles, the one who regularly practices in NY court, isn’t on it
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
Trump’s attorneys in the NY hush-money case—minus Susan Necheles—argue in a new brief that Judge Merchan’s gag order was always wrong and is now even wronger
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
Trump’s attorneys complain about the Biden campaign calling Trump a “convicted felon” and accuse Biden of making a “disturbing grin” when asked about Trump’s claim to being a “political prisoner” (judge for yourself below)
But he is a convicted felon.
Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it’s getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y’all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
I hope that birb was ok, he was just being a stupid birb, he didn’t deserve to die for it
re: #17 BeachDem
Do we really need new words like “flextirement” to describe how olds like me still work sometime
Flextirement is a flexible work arrangement designed to ease the transition between full-time employment and retirement with flexible hours, reduced workloads, and phased approaches to leaving the workforce.
I mean DUH.
Why not? Do we really need bad since we have double plus ungood?
re: #38 Belafon
Why not? Do we really need bad since we have double plus ungood?
You cannot participate in my writing group.
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re: #32 jaunte
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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But he is a convicted felon.
That grin was “what a stupid question. Do you really want me to answer it like you’re Steve doocy?”
An inside look at Louis CK’s public downfall and surprising return to the spotlight. Featuring interviews with women who spoke up about his sexual misconduct, New York Times journalists who broke the story, and fellow comedians such as Michael Ian Black, Michael Schur, and Aida Rodriguez. Examines cancel culture and the legacy of the #MeToo movement. A New York Times production.
Gift link to WaPo for the Iguana abatement efforts in Florida
After idling the engine, we see only the swaying leaves and branches of the banyan trees. “Look up at the tops of the trees,” he says, impatient. Eventually, we see one iguana move. Then another. Soon, the entire tree comes alive with reptilian shapes, long tails and spiked crowns as the prehistoric creatures step along branches overhanging the water.
For the next hour, Zack and I track iguanas high up in the trees from the boat. While some escape — there are so many — we hit a few on the outer branches, retrieving them once they fall to the ground or climbing up branches or wading into the water to pull them out.
Flag observances:
Flag Day and US Army Day (probably to be changed to Trump’s Birthday if the GOP gets control again) are tomorrow.
Father’s Day is Sunday, June 16.
Juneteenth National Independence Day is Wednesday, June 19, and is a federal holiday. All government offices will be closed. The NYSE and most banks will also be closed, along with many other businesses.
Down 4-1 going into the third period, Edmonton has scored twice to make it 4-3 with 5 five minutes left.
no, I’m not shocked that the GOP has decided to use their party chair as a paid consultant funded with my tax dollars…..
re: #40 Dangerman
I was doing the bird in PT this morning.
re: #41 TedStriker
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Yes…I was usually naked…it was a bed-time ritual.
re: #43 Dangerman
That grin was “what a stupid question. Do you really want me to answer it like you’re Steve doocy?”
So Trump can call President Biden “Crooked Joe” and say that he belongs in prison, but if President Biden grins at the wrong question it’s an assault on MAGA? Fucking snowflakes.
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Flag observances:
Flag Day and US Army Day (probably to be changed to Trump’s Birthday if the GOP gets control again) is tomorrow.
Father’s Day is Sunday, June 16.
Juneteenth National Independence Day is Wednesday, June 19, and is a federal holiday. All government offices will be closed. The NYSE and most banks will also be closed, along with many other businesses.
mrsdm and I would like to thank the whole country for displaying the flag on our anniversary. Its a real nice way for all y’all to remember that friday we’re married 15 years
re: #24 Unabogie
Tbh, Republicans should hold their conventions in Idaho or Wyoming or some other flyover state. No need to hold it in a blue leaning state. They’ve made it very clear how they feel about urban areas (with all us Black and Brown people).
re: #49 piratedan
no, I’m not shocked that the GOP has decided to use their party chair as a paid consultant funded with my tax dollars…..
Is this the direct quid pro quo the Supreme Court was talking about as the only evidence you could prove bribery with? /s
re: #53 Patricia Kayden
Tbh, Republicans should hold their conventions in Idaho or Wyoming or some other flyover state. No need to hold it in a blue leaning state. They’ve made it very clear how they feel about urban areas (with all us Black and Brown people).
They would just hold them in the blue-leaning areas of flyover states like New Hampshire, Florida, or South Carolina (those are the flyover states you meant with that slur I assume?)
If you meant the Great Plains or Intermountain West, they could hold them in blue cities like Omaha, Houston, Jackson Hole, Cheyenne, Boise, &c.
re: #19 BeenHereAwhile
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re: #53 Patricia Kayden
Tbh, Republicans should hold their conventions in Idaho or Wyoming or some other flyover state. No need to hold it in a blue leaning state. They’ve made it very clear how they feel about urban areas (with all us Black and Brown people).
Don’t know why they aren’t holding their convention in any megachurch since they have totally fused radical Xtianity into the GOP mainstream.
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
the issue here is that very few of the local media outlets are bothering to track statehouse doings these days. I think AZ taxpayers would be surprised that the GOP feels that their tax dollars should be used to pay GOP operatives. I’m sure that her consulting services are critically essential to ensuring that so many bills get vetoed by the Gov.
re: #60 piratedan
the issue here is that very few of the local media outlets are bothering to track statehouse doings these days. I think AZ taxpayers would be surprised that the GOP feels that their tax dollars should be used to pay GOP operatives. I’m sure that her consulting services are critically essential to ensuring that so many bills get vetoed by the Gov.
Considering how Sinclair has gobbled up local TV stations and other parts of the GOP 24/7 Bullshit Machine have gobbled up local newspapers it’s no wonder that Republicans get away with murder on the statewide and local level.
In 2021, there were months where Ben Shapiro or Dan Bongino averaged one of the ten most-popular link posts on Facebook every single day. Then Facebook pulled the plug. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
marlo @marlo.ooo
incomplete list of stuff on the moon right now:
• sun-bleached american flags
• several hasselblad medium format camera bodies, lenses, etc.
• tongs
• golf balls
• a javelin
• memorial for dead astronauts
• some dead batteries
• 100 2-dollar bills
• 96 bags of astronaut poop
re: #63 jaunte
Great…we contaminated the moon with astronaut poop…
re: #64 Joe Bacon ✅
Great…we contaminated the moon with astronaut poop…
Nah, they cleaned up that sound stage in Houston a long time ago.
re: #65 sizzzzlerz
Nah, they cleaned up that sound stage in Houston a long time ago.
I actually heard relatives insist that it was really on a London soundstage with Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood portraying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
To this day they absolutely believe that asshole Bart Sibrel.
⚡️ The IDF uses catapults to launch attacks towards Lebanon.
Israeli media report that the border area with Lebanon is covered with dense vegetation, which is a problem for Israeli forces deployed in the area.
It is believed that such arson attacks are intended to help the army… pic.twitter.com/kf72CMDE3M— BLYSKAVKA (@blyskavka_ua) June 13, 2024
Ft. Worth Trump fan threatens FBI agent
In the message, Muller accused the agent of covering up “child pornography” and crimes allegedly committed by Hunter Biden. He then said “[T’s] going to win the re-election, and we’re going to [expletive] go through the FBI and start throwing you [expletive] in jail,” court documents said.
“Or, you can steal another election, and then the guns will come out, and we’ll hunt you [expletive] down and slaughter you like the traitorous dogs you are in your own [expletive] homes,” Muller allegedly said in the voicemail.
re: #64 Joe Bacon ✅
Great…we contaminated the moon with astronaut poop…
That I can kind of understand, but 100 2-dollar bills?
WTH? Tips for the cleanup crew? Souvenirs some careless astronaut forgot to take home (to sell)??
“David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin, with the Apollo 15 mission, are credited for leaving the money behind during the fourth crewed lunar landing.”
Not everything which looks like a panhandle actually fits the geographic definition of a panhandle.
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re: #21 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
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I like how, even in this scenario of a “second civil war” as basically a US version of the Iraq/Afghan insurgency, it still depends in part or largely upon the Armed Forces throwing in their lot with the MAGAts. That seems to be the only way that anybody can picture such a “war” having any possibility of not simply fizzling out in barrels of lubricant and boxes of dildos.
Let housing market "slowly acclimate" to climate risk, Fannie Mae exec says. “If we go 20 or 30 years without taking real climate action, then I think you have built up a real challenge.” Sorry, this won’t work. The housing market is vulnerable THIS YEAR to a rude shock; at most, we have 15 years.
— Dr. Jeff Masters (@drjeffmasters.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T02:03:32.175Z
re: #68 KingKenrod
Ft. Worth Trump fan threatens FBI agent
Funny how, in the 3+ years that the “laptop” HDD has supposedly been floating around, nobody has come forward with any of the evidence that the FBI is supposedly sitting on. Several people have claimed to have seen the contents of the HDD and know what is on it, yet none of them have ever been able to produce evidence beyond their word as to what they saw.
It’s just another day where I’m reminded why I stopped buying into conspiracy theories by the time I was out of middle school.
The professionally white-washed UK Reform Party is surging while the stuffy stiff-upper-lip Tories are tanking:
Crossover moment: Farage’s party outperforms Sunak’s Tories in polls for first time
Reform UK is where the likes of the BNP went when they needed to rebrand.
Much like what happened here with the GOP, when the old Republicans were overwhelmed by the Wallac-ites, the Tories have been caught flat-footed by their bigotting brothers.
That the Tories are led by someone with South Asian parentage probably had added to the problem.
Last thought before bed: consequence is just connected sequence.
re: #77 Targetpractice
Funny how, in the 3+ years that the “laptop” HDD has supposedly been floating around, nobody has come forward with any of the evidence that the FBI is supposedly sitting on. Several people have claimed to have seen the contents of the HDD and know what is on it, yet none of them have ever been able to produce evidence beyond their word as to what they saw.
It’s just another day where I’m reminded why I stopped buying into conspiracy theories by the time I was out of middle school.
Isn’t the problem that the laptop data has passed through more people than reside in a mid size city and the more “interesting” documents cannot be verified?
re: #78 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The professionally white-washed UK Reform Party is surging while the stuffy stiff-upper-lip Tories are tanking:
Crossover moment: Farage’s party outperforms Sunak’s Tories in polls for first time
Reform UK is where the likes of the BNP went when they needed to rebrand.
Much like what happened here with the GOP, when the old Republicans were overwhelmed by the Wallac-ites, the Tories have been caught flat-footed by their bigotting brothers.
That the Tories are led by someone with South Asian parentage probably had added to the problem.
From what I’ve seen and heard, it’s not his heritage that is putting them off, it’s that he’s “Not Boris.” See, BoJo won the 2019 general election by simply turning everything that was wrong with modern Britain into a consequence of a failure to implement Brexit and that if they just “got it done,” then the nation’s problems would swiftly evaporate and a new Golden Age would dawn on Her Majesty’s Kingdom. Then when he actually won a massive majority and rammed a Brexit deal through by the skin of his fucking teeth, he and his successors proceeded to blame everything from COVID to Ukraine for why Brexit wasn’t magically fixing the country overnight.
Now Nigel’s doing what he does best: putting blame for him his BS on everybody else, in this case telling the Brexit faithful that Brexit did not fail but was failed by the Tories and if they just vote him and his party in then they’ll do Brexit “right” and make all those promises Boris made them finally come true.
re: #80 Hecuba’s daughter
Isn’t the problem that the laptop data has passed through more people than reside in a mid size city and the more “interesting” documents cannot be verified?
That only matters if you’re actually a person who believes in that whole “rule of law” business and “law and order.” If instead you’re a person who believes that the law exists as a tool to protect people you like and punish those you dislike, then something like “chain of custody” is simply an excuse made by law enforcement to avoid pursuing criminal charges against the guilty for petty/political reasons.
The sort of people who watch a “former FBI agent” interviewed on Faux where he swears up and down that he’s seen evidence that Vince Foster was murdered to cover for Hillary’s crimes but can’t produce a single iota of physical evidence because “they” will get him…and think that’s enough to sustain criminal charges and the only reason the FBI won’t act is because they’re secretly in hock to the “Clinton Crime Family.”
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Flag observances:
Juneteenth National Independence Day is Wednesday, June 19, and is a federal holiday. All government offices will be closed. The NYSE and most banks will also be closed, along with many other businesses.
The Federal Reserve (which governs my work life more than the NYSE) is closed. If the Fed was open, I’d be working, because someone has to be around in case the colossal money machine fails in its purpose to push money into and receive money from the Fed.
Speaking of Arizona, the US Department of Justice released a report about Phoenix (the city) policing from 2016 to 2022. It’s not good and there’s talk of a consent order in the city’s future.
Article (with link to report) here: phoenixnewtimes.com
Also, the Phoenix PD shoots and kills a lot of people every year. To wit, on May 28 a 48 YO man riding a bike was stopped for a light infraction, and ended up dead.
Yeah, I live out east of Phoenix, but to be honest, I’m not fond of the police here. They make me nervous. And I’m the living epitome of privilege, a middle-aged white woman. I have no idea what it’s like to be non-white and deal with the cops in this town.
re: #85 mmmirele
Speaking of Arizona, the US Department of Justice released a report about Phoenix (the city) policing from 2016 to 2022. It’s not good and there’s talk of a consent order in the city’s future.
Article (with link to report) here: phoenixnewtimes.com
Also, the Phoenix PD shoots and kills a lot of people every year. To wit, on May 28 a 48 YO man riding a bike was stopped for a light infraction, and ended up dead.
Yeah, I live out east of Phoenix, but to be honest, I’m not fond of the police here. They make me nervous. And I’m the living epitome of privilege, a middle-aged white woman. I have no idea what it’s like to be non-white and deal with the cops in this town.
People rag on uber-rural areas like mine a lot. That said, there’s something about living in a town with no police department (just a marshal to do things like tell people to mow their lawns or break up fights at the community centre).
Good morning! Trey here.
So close for the beagle. So close.
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A new tropical wave has formed in the Pacific, a couple hundred miles south of Acapulco. The storm system is moving east south-east (a very unusual direction for tropical systems to move) along the southern coast of Mexico and Central America.
The Climate Prediction Center has declared the El Niño season of 2023-2024 to be over already. The ocean temperatures in the Eastern Pacific and North Atlantic have reverted to a neutral state. (The average El Niño event lasts six years.)
It was previously predicted the tropics would flip to a La Niña state, which favours storms striking the northern Gulf Coast. El Niño favours storms striking Florida.
Temperatures were above average east of the Rockies and below average west, with rain breaking the drought conditions across most of the country east of the Rockies.
The June forecast predicts temperatures much warmer than normal throughout the Intermountain West and across the Deep South. (That’s why I’m still running my furnace in June I guess.)
New York Times, June 12, 2024, unlocked opinion piece by Jessica Gross (writer on religion and culture).
Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable.
Alexis Draut, 28, was raised Christian in Kentucky. Her parents took her and her sister to nondenominational megachurches that adhered to a lot of Baptist and Pentecostal ideals, she said. As a kid, she loved the way every service felt “like a concert,” filled with music and light, and she made loads of friends through church. She went to Berry College in rural Georgia, a place that she described as “steeped in Southern culture, where religion is incredibly important.”
But even surrounded by believers as a college student, Draut began to question some of the values she was brought up with. Specifically, she took issue “with the sexism, with the purity culture, with being boxed in as a woman.” She couldn’t stomach the notion that “you only have these specific roles of childbearing, taking care of the children, cooking and being submissive to your husband,” she told me. “That was also around the time that Donald Trump was elected president,” she added. “So I didn’t want to associate with that kind of evangelicalism.”
Draut is representative of an emerging trend: young women leaving church “in unprecedented numbers,” as Daniel Cox and Kelsey Eyre Hammond wrote in April for Cox’s newsletter, American Storylines. Cox and Hammond, who work at the Survey Center on American Life at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, explained: “For as long as we’ve conducted polls on religion, men have consistently demonstrated lower levels of religious engagement. But something has changed. A new survey reveals that the pattern has now reversed.”
(more at the link)
“Leaving organised religion” does not necessarily mean leaving Christianity. However, the tendency is when people do leave organised religion in the USA, they tend to look around at other ideas, which draws some away from Christianity. Additionally, if they leave churches, they will not take their children to churches making it far less likely their children will become Christians.
This is something the Christian right has known for a long time, hence the New Apostolic Reformation started in the late Sixties. If they don’t take the country by force, Christianity will fall away in the nation.
(4:53, R.E.M.)
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She sounds like a rebellious woman… Jezebel!!
re: #11 William Lewis
Oy! That’s a moment of pure stupid!
Ordered a pizza by door dash.
Few minutes late I’d already forgotten… and started cooking something else. < face… palm > thankfully the pie got here before the chicken went in the oven.
Gah 😱
wow. serious first-world problems
re: #14 Charles Johnson
The late 1990s through the early 2000s were an incredibly weird, painful, and fucked up time for me.
my kids were all born between 1998-2006, which was basically the only good thing that came out of that period for me.
as I mentioned before, I cannot imagine being happy in a world without them in it
re: #24 Unabogie
Trump said Milwaukee is a “horrible city” even though the RNC is holding their convention there. Now, GOPers are scrambling to say he was only complaining about the crime rate there.
he utters whatever exudes from his piehole at the moment and his minions then scramble to spin/backpedal it
re: #44 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
An inside look at Louis CK’s public downfall and surprising return to the spotlight.
I really liked the guy and identified with a lot of the stuff on his show.
But there are other comics who are good and are not creepy jerks with no sense of boundaries.
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The fundamentalist churches in America are now strongly tending towards right-wing politics, some of them embracing full on authoritarianism and a kind American chosen-nation fascism.
So yeah, it’s not hard to understand why women are fleeing such environs, as a group of men adoring strong-man tactics become very toxic and dangerous for women.
Our ancestors were enmeshed in similar times.
17th and 18th century churches in America were the fabric of a society in which men ruled. Men told women what to do. Women were rarely schooled.
Just because a few minor Christian denominations bucked this trend does not mean the masses of religious people were not deep into patriarchy.
Doing family history really brings this problem to the fore.
It is extremely hard to research women before the early 19th century.
That current scholarship is trying to recover the role of women in the early Christian movement (from Paul to the mid 2nd century) is evidence of the current angst within the Christian elite.
The scholars know that the masses in the pews are ill informed.
The only problem is that the scholars, and some pastors, are afraid to confront their own funding source.
Nine hours ago, Associated Press
Man pleads not guilty in pipe bomb attack on Massachusetts group Satanic Temple
BOSTON (AP) — An Oklahoma man accused of throwing a pipe bomb at the Massachusetts headquarters of a group called The Satanic Temple pleaded not guilty Thursday at his arraignment in federal court in Boston.
Sean Patrick Palmer, of Perkins, Oklahoma, has been charged with using an explosive to damage a building following an attack in April on the headquarters, which is also used as an art gallery.
The Salem-based group says on its website that it campaigns for secularism and individual liberties and that its members don’t actually worship Satan.
Palmer is due back in court on July 30 and agreed to remain in custody. If found guilty, he could face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
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Some of these plants are used widely in landscapes around here:
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Euphorbia tirucalli is recently being used quite commonly in my area.
Fools, they are just repeating the Oleander debacle of previous decades.
Instead of using (friendly) native plants, landscapers use the poisonous plants because the property owners don’t want to be bothered with caring for plants, so they seek out the hardiest of succulents.
re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Euphorbia tirucalli is used as alternative medicine in many cultures. Attempts have been made to use it to treat cancer, excrescence, tumors, warts, asthma, cough, earache, neuralgia, rheumatism, and toothaches in countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia.[8][9]
Euphorbia tirucalli has been promoted as an anticancer agent, but research shows that it suppresses the immune system, promotes tumor growth, and leads to the development of certain types of cancer.[7] Euphorbia tirucalli has also been associated with Burkitt’s lymphoma and is thought to be a cofactor of the disease rather than a treatment.[10]
Remembered that decades ago, when I was a child, I actually went to a literal cakewalk. Cakes on a table, us walking around them while the music played…. I don’t remember ever getting anything out of it, though.
Odd memory and I may be mixing up two memories (a cakewalk, and a musical chairs game).
Anyway, do people still do cakewalks these days?
re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Some of these plants are used widely in landscapes around here:
Euphorbia tirucalli is recently being used quite commonly in my area.
Fools, they are just repeating the Oleander debacle of previous decades.
Instead of using (friendly) native plants, landscapers use the poisonous plants because the property owners don’t want to be bothered with caring for plants, so they seek out the hardiest of succulents.
When I lived in Spain I found it quite wild that locals used poison ivy as an ornamental.
While these trees are not poisonous, honey locust trees are very dangerous. (I really like them but I’m not mad at my neighbours enough to plant one.)
re: #52 Dangerman
mrsdm and I would like to thank the whole country for displaying the flag on our anniversary. Its a real nice way for all y’all to remember that friday we’re married 15 years
Congrats! The 18th would have been my deceased wife (January 10th of this year) and my 25th.
re: #102 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Remembered that decades ago, when I was a child, I actually went to a literal cakewalk. Cakes on a table, us walking around them while the music played…. I don’t remember ever getting anything out of it, though.
Odd memory and I may be mixing up two memories (a cakewalk, and a musical chairs game).
Anyway, do people still do cakewalks these days?
We did cakewalks when I was in elementary school in Michigan. I got the impression that as many as we did, they were fixed since I never won anything.
re: #103 Targetpractice
You’re trying to make me feel old again, since I have many of these now.
re: #103 Targetpractice
(deep sigh)
I did not know Netflix still sent out DVDs. Wild!
And the floppy disk icon being a beverage dispenser? Yeah…I’m old.
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You’re trying to make me feel old again, since I have many of these now.
Don’t feel bad, I’m 2/3 of the way through and so far I recognized or owned at least 19 of them.
re: #109 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
(deep sigh)
I did not know Netflix still sent out DVDs. Wild!
And the floppy disk icon being a beverage dispenser? Yeah…I’m old.
Netflix finally ended their DVD service in September of last year.
re: #88 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #110 Targetpractice
Don’t feel bad, I’m 2/3 of the way through and so far I recognized or owned at least 19 of them.
I don’t have a pay phone (although the store does), but I do have a rotary telephone, a telephone book and a Rolodex. My car has paper maps, I used to subscribe to Netflix DVD service, I have an analogue radio and a cassette player, a typewriter, the library here has a card catalogue, my 2013 Smart has crank windows, my 2009 Smart has a CD player, I do have a film camera (a Polaroid One-Step—you can still buy film for them), my BBS in the Eighties ran on dial-up 1,200 baud.
Tucker Carlson is still around; he just uploaded a YouTube video yesterday (no link):
“Vincent Everett Ellison Exposes the Lies Sold to Black America: MLK, Hip Hop Culture, & Democrats”
Everything Mr. Ellison promotes starts with “he was born on a sharecropper plantation in Haywood County, Tennessee.”
He is a regular feature on FOX News Channel when they need a Black pastor to bash Democrats, as he claims he used to be a Democrat. (I have no idea if that’s true.)
re: #113 Targetpractice
Went through all 30 items and the only one I didn’t know or recognize was the sanitary belt…and I wish I still was clueless about it. I’d also say that at least half that list are items that only went extinct in the last couple decades as a result of the cellphone and particularly smartphones.
Sanitary belts are still used in certain situations (and you can still buy them in pharmacies or on Amazon) for things like post-maternity or hospital settings.
One thing alluded to is cloth pads for sanitary belts. I’m not aware of those being sold any more, but cloth pads are sold with snaps to attach around panties on sites like E-bay and Etsy. They pollute less because you launder them.
The same goes for cloth diapers (when my son was a baby we had a diaper service to deliver cloth diapers). There is a cloth diaper service here in our area. When I was a child and teenager, it was common to see like sixty diapers hanging on clotheslines.
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tucker Carlson is still around; he just uploaded a YouTube video yesterday (no link):
“Vincent Everett Ellison Exposes the Lies Sold to Black America: MLK, Hip Hop Culture, & Democrats”
Everything Mr. Ellison promotes starts with “he was born on a sharecropper plantation in Haywood County, Tennessee.”
He is a regular feature on FOX News Channel when they need a Black pastor to bash Democrats, as he claims he used to be a Democrat. (I have no idea if that’s true.)
Hmm, let me check the cliff not…Dear Zod, that damned thing is nearly 3 hours long. Anybody nobody got time for that!
re: #118 Targetpractice
Hmm, let me check the cliff not…Dear Zod, that damned thing is nearly 3 hours long. Anybody nobody got time for that!
It takes a long time to beat the “Democratic Plantation” to death. /s
re: #88 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Good morning! Trey here.
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Hmm, let me check the cliff not…Dear Zod, that damned thing is nearly 3 hours long. Anybody nobody got time for that!
Gotta love the hammer and sickle image behind Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King in the thumbnail. I wonder what they’re trying to imply? /s
I have both a maul and a sickle; perhaps I should have my photograph taken so I can make that into an avatar. Probably scarier to conservatives than my scythe. /s
Morning all.
The Owlets have all fledged and life training has started in earnest. It’s seems quiet this morning which means the family has probably moved down into the bramble. This is good with me as I can reclaim the night in my yard.
It was getting dicey just taking the dogs out that I wasn’t getting swooped on.
All Ford Motor Co. dealerships in the United States will be able to sell its electric vehicles effective July 1 with the automaker’s decision to sunset its voluntary Model e certification program.The change will double the number of U.S. Ford dealers eligible to sell EVs to 2,800. The initiative launched in 2022 required dealers on average to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in charging stations, training and other equipment to support consumer education and sales and service of EVs. Dealers that didn’t make the required investments wouldn’t be eligible to sell EVs. The certification requirements attracted a few lawsuits with mixed results nationally.
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The decision will mean 90% of Americans live within 20 miles of a Ford dealership that can sell and service F-150 Lightning trucks, Mustang Mach-E SUVs and E-Transit commercial vans, Gjaja said. Deploying EV inventory to dealers that weren’t participating in the Model e program will happen over the coming weeks and months.
Ford will require its dealers to install two Level 2 charging stations by March 31, 2025, to sell EVs and have their employees participate in EV training. Gjaja says these charging stations that are not fast chargers and can cost around $10,000 each with installation, though additional investment may be needed if electrical upgrades are required.
The computer wants to contact the mothership again (it just did that yesterday) and the sun is coming up, so I’m going to bail.
Catch y’all later.
Exclusive: DNC launching billboards hitting Trump over Milwaukee comments
Didn’t take long at all
Never heard of a Dutch roll, sounds delicious!!!!!!
A federal investigation is underway into how a Southwest Airlines passenger jet suffered substantial damage after experiencing a rare phenomenon known as a Dutch roll at almost 38,000 feet.
Flight N8825Q, a Boeing 737 Max carrying 175 passengers and six crew, was traveling from Phoenix to Oakland on May 25 when its tail began to yaw or wag left and right while the aircraft’s wings rocked side to side.
Dutch roll is the name given to this potentially dangerous lateral asymmetric movement, supposedly inspired by the movements of ice skaters.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement Thursday that it was working with Boeing and the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate the cause of the fault.
A preliminary report from the FAA said the aircraft “experienced a Dutch roll, regained control and post flight inspection revealed the damage to the standby PCU,” referring to the power-control unit.
Like talking to your drunk uncle at the family reunion.”— A source in the room describing Donald Trump’s speech to House Republicans, quoted by NOTUS.
Yeah
We want that guy!!!
Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, including unjustified deadly force, according to a sweeping federal civil rights investigation of law enforcement in the nation’s fifth-largest city.The U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday says investigators found stark racial disparities in how officers in the Phoenix Police Department enforce certain laws, including low-level drug and traffic offenses. Investigators found that Phoenix officers shoot at people who do not pose an imminent threat, fire their weapons after any threat has been eliminated, and routinely delay medical care for people injured in encounters with officers.
The report does not mention whether the federal government is pursuing a court-enforced reform plan known as a consent decree — an often costly and lengthy process — but a Justice Department official told reporters that in similar cases that method has been used to carry out reforms.
re: #131 Shropshire Slasher
To “Serve and Protect” has left the building.
I’d like you to meet “Enforce and Comply”.
You will do what he says for the foreseeable future.
re: #88 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. We’re expecting severe weather here this afternoon as a front comes through, and next week we should see our first heat wave. Woo.
Meanwhile, I’m surprised that tech bros haven’t invented the heat wave. Or claimed credit for reinventing air conditioning.
Because they sure seem keen on reinventing everything:
re: #73 Romantic Heretic
Yeah, tech bros have reinvented: trains. buses. taxis. tunnels. mass transit.
Guys. It’s the Year of Our Fucking Lord Two Thousand and Fucking Twenty-Four. YOU DO NOT BLINDLY TRUST THE PAPERWORK FROM FOREIGN SUPPLIERS YOU CHECK THAT SHIT YOURSELF GOD FUCKING DAMN IT.
are you fucking kidding me?
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/u...— Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T11:53:14.348Z
re: #136 Nerdy Fish
Guys. It’s the Year of Our Fucking Lord Two Thousand and Fucking Twenty-Four. YOU DO NOT BLINDLY TRUST THE PAPERWORK FROM FOREIGN SUPPLIERS YOU CHECK THAT SHIT YOURSELF GOD FUCKING DAMN IT.
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re: #137 Decatur Deb
Come now, hi-tech shit is tricky. We’ve only been able to check that shit out since Archimedes.
I get that titanium is a rare resource, and finding a new supplier who can get you lots of titanium real cheap would be the score of the decade, but there had to be alarm bells going off in someone’s head, somewhere. The titanium market is extremely small and well-defined.
re: #136 Nerdy Fish
Boeing is fooked. Legal term.
They’ve been so fixated on cost containment that the core job of building airplanes that are safe and reliable is now a distant fourth to minimizing costs, maximizing shareholder capital, and screwing employees (especially those who blow the whistle). They sought out states that have minimal worker protections and no unions, so they could get more profit.
Turns out that it was a fool’s errand, as planes that crash and whose parts fall off (and yeah, some of this is actually on the airlines and maintenance companies that fail to do their jobs), shareholder capital and minimizing costs get vaporized.
This is what happens when you put bean counters and LBO types in power instead of the engineers who build the planes and know what it takes to make reliable equipment.
The FAA also admits they were wrong to let Boeing self-certify, and were far too lax on oversight.
Well, yeah. The FAA lacks the resources to do all of this themselves, so they farmed it out to the manufacturers themselves, but when faults are discovered, they didn’t protect the whistleblowers either. It’s a fubar system that is undermining the overall reliability of airlines (which are still safer than driving per mile).
re: #139 lawhawk
From your first paragraph, Boeing has fallen victim to enshittification. I love that term, as it perfectly encapsulates the principle it is meant to describe: The slow slide of a company from being focused on making a satisfactory product and satisfying customers, to being focused on making money and satisfying shareholders and executives.
re: #139 lawhawk
Sometimes rational decision making appreciates the cost advantages of writing off an airliner full of conventioneers for the sake of reduced materials charges. Let the market decide.
Oh, and today we’re going to get a bunch more rulings from SCOTUS. Supposedly.
The Trump immunity case is chief among those cases remaining to be released.
I don’t have a good feeling about how the court will decide. That’s how completely fooked the court has become. They are a bunch of partisan hacks who ignore the facts, law, and precedent to push their Christian fascist belief systems.
That they couldn’t do so in the mifepristone case yesterday is only because doing so would have wrecked the notion of standing (and they figured out a workaround for that by explicitly stating what the Court wants to see from a plaintiff to overcome the standing concern to eliminate access to mifepristone).
re: #141 Decatur Deb
Sometimes rational decision making appreciates the cost advantages of writing off an airliner full of conventioneers for the sake of reduced materials charges. Let the market decide.
Perhaps we simply need to pass a law to allow the survivors of those lost on said planes get their payments from the CEO’s paycheck first, the CFO & so on and if there isn’t enough there, then each of the members of the board instead of insurance? That should be a rational response, yes? I’m sure the market for good aircraft wouldn’t have a problem with that …
I got an email from one of my banks: “Disengaged workers cost the economy trillions.” Our corporate overlords are trying very hard to push the narrative that everything’s terrible and it’s all our fault.
re: #144 William Lewis
Don’t forget the shared responsibility of the passengers. They knew they were getting into a pressurized version of the Ford Pinto.
I’ve noticed my Congressman, Michael McCaul R-TX,
Doesn’t seem to MAGA.
He’s seems to just do the obligatory victimhood and spew about immigration.
But he doesn’t MAGA. He actually seems a bit put off by it (and he should know better).
And no pushback from the insurrectionists.
I’m thinking it must be because of his wife who is a Clear Channel heiress.
re: #144 William Lewis
Perhaps we simply need to pass a law to allow the survivors of those lost on said planes get their payments from the CEO’s paycheck first, the CFO & so on and if there isn’t enough there, then each of the members of the board instead of insurance? That should be a rational response, yes? I’m sure the market for good aircraft wouldn’t have a problem with that …
Putting corporate management in prison for manslaughter would be a good start.
re: #144 William Lewis
re: #148 Hecuba’s daughter
The problem with both of these is that corporate personhood is made to cover situations like this. Relatedly, the corporations involved here have been allowed to get away with far too much in the past, due to a complete lack of oversight. In a sane and rational world, the FAA would not have allowed manufacturers to self-certify their own planes, and the penalties for fatal accidents due to negligence in supply chain procurement would be extremely steep.
re: #128 Dangerman
Suburban Milwaukee and rural WI will mostly love Trump for that comment.
re: #88 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #149 Nerdy Fish
In a sane and rational world, we would not have allowed a merger between McDonnell Douglas and Boeing (it’s the McD execs who have, after driving McD into a death spiral, tried to do the same with Boeing).
re: #148 Hecuba’s daughter
That would require a rewriting of criminal law that favors white collar criminals and protects corporate boards and officers whose actions result in death and injuries.
We don’t do nearly enough to hold businesses accountable for their criminal malfeasance.
re: #152 lawhawk
In a sane and rational world, we would not have allowed a merger between McDonnell Douglas and Boeing (it’s the McD execs who have, after driving McD into a death spiral, tried to do the same with Boeing).
It feels similar in concept to the “too big to fail” mantra from the recession era, when the banks were fucking up all the things but got bailouts anyway. If you’re practicing real capitalism, it feels like one of the possible outcomes of running a company into the ground - even a mega-corporation like McDonnell-Douglas - is that the company just dies. I get that McD was a prime defense contractor on the back of the F/A-18 Hornet, but the DoD could manage the transition of all that tech and knowledge to a designated alternate contractor.
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re: #136 Nerdy Fish
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re: #156 Belafon
But you’re not thinking about the shareholders.
I mean, you’re right. I don’t give a flying fuck about shareholders. But that’s why I could never be a proper corporate C-level executive. I actually care about making good things, things that work. Not things that are cheap and make me obscene amounts of money at the expense of my customers.
Oh it’s been a while but it’s time for another installment of Pulpit Pimp Theater!
Prophetess: Dems Shot Down A Black Hawk Helicopter Carrying “Hundreds Of Thousands Of Trump Ballots”
“They’ve stolen the election. They burned ballots. They’ve hidden ballots. They’ve thrown them in the river. They even shot down a Black Hawk helicopter. Isn’t this strange? Bringing them from the military that was overseas, they were carrying the ballots!
“And that helicopter was shot down so that they could never be counted. And even now they’re finding them in lockers, they’re finding them in chests, and in all kinds of different places. They’re still finding ballots, they’re uncovering hundreds of thousands.
“Not just a few, but hundreds of thousands from the 2020 election. All voting for Trump, of course. They’re uncovering them. They have so much evidence right now.
“And I’ve said before in the and will always say, it is going to be proven that he won.” - Self-proclaimed prophetess Kat Kerr, speaking to a nodding nutbag on the Christian nationalist “Elijah Streams” podcast.
I got to admit this Pulpit Pimp has an incredible track record of continually out-ass-holeing herself!
Kat Kerr declares that people who stole the election will “hang on meat hooks in hell right next to Hitler.”
Kat Kerr says 150-foot angels will kill her critics.
Kat Kerr says a talking scroll in heaven will soon prove the “legality” that Trump is still president.
Kat Kerr says she heard God “laughing loudly” at Biden’s fake electoral college count.
Kat Kerr says Jesus took her to a football game in heaven where he always wins at every sport.
Kat Kerr says Jesus personally gave her the commission to draw a portrait of God and that she touched God’s hair while visiting heaven to create the drawing.
Kat Kerr personally dispatches 1000 “special ops angels” to ensure Trump is reelected.
Kat Kerr assigns 100 million angels to guard the Republican convention.
Kat Kerr claims God destroyed the Bahamas with a hurricane due to all the underground sex trafficking tunnels.
Kat Kerr claims she saw angels bombarding Trump protesters to drive out their “demonic infections.”
Kat Katt claims she waved at the blond angels guarding the tomb of Jesus.
Kat Kerr claims she met Whitney Houston in heaven.
Kat Kerr claims the GOP secretly won the 2018 House midterms by pretending to be Democrats.
Kat Kerr claims all the aborted babies in heaven had a dance party after Kavanaugh was sworn in.
Kat Kerr claims God has a rainbow colored pet unicorn.
Kat Kerr claims she met Jesus in person and he was totally hot.
Kat Kerr clams that once you reach heaven, Jesus personally throws you a dance party in his mansion and serves you the delicious desserts he baked himself.
Kat Kerr claims God personally told her the results of the next five presidential elections.
Kat Kerr “takes authority” over volcanoes, hurricanes, and wildfires in the name of Jesus, failing to stop each event.
Kat Kerr is full of ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream!
re: #145 Nerdy Fish
I got an email from one of my banks: “Disengaged workers cost the economy trillions.” Our corporate overlords are trying very hard to push the narrative that everything’s terrible and it’s all our fault.
“Bank of America, McDonald’s, Walmart sue for the right to whip their employees for lack of performance.”
re: #159 Belafon
“Bank of America, McDonald’s, Walmart sue for the right to whip their employees for lack of performance.”
“The beatings will literally continue until morale improves.”
re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅
Those who stole the election will hang on meat hooks next to Hitler?
I approve, considering that it was Trump and his coconspirators who were actually indicted and conspired to steal the election and interfere in the election certification process.
re: #109 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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I did not know Netflix still sent out DVDs. Wild!
And the floppy disk icon being a beverage dispenser? Yeah…I’m old.
They discontinued DVDs by mail a while back.
re: #154 Nerdy Fish
It feels similar in concept to the “too big to fail” mantra from the recession era, when the banks were fucking up all the things but got bailouts anyway. If you’re practicing real capitalism, it feels like one of the possible outcomes of running a company into the ground - even a mega-corporation like McDonnell-Douglas - is that the company just dies. I get that McD was a prime defense contractor on the back of the F/A-18 Hornet, but the DoD could manage the transition of all that tech and knowledge to a designated alternate contractor.
Why aren’t there a dozen airplane manufacturers then? It’s just easy to move the process somewhere else, right? That’s also why people start car and chip manufacturing companies in their garages, right?
re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅
Now, let’s for a moment assume she is correct…
re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅
How would a 150 foot angel see her critics?
re: #164 Belafon
Why aren’t there a dozen airplane manufacturers then? It’s just easy to move the process somewhere else, right? That’s also why people start car and chip manufacturing companies in their garages, right?
That is not what I said. I said the DoD could do it. That is miles away from, “Any old Joe Schmoe could do it.” In practice, it would probably look a lot like the Boeing acquisition, except nobody on the McDonnell-Douglas side would be getting any money out of it.
re: #163 Joe Bacon ✅
Your Republican Congress tackling the big issues of the day…
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re: #154 Nerdy Fish
It feels similar in concept to the “too big to fail” mantra from the recession era, when the banks were fucking up all the things but got bailouts anyway. If you’re practicing real capitalism, it feels like one of the possible outcomes of running a company into the ground - even a mega-corporation like McDonnell-Douglas - is that the company just dies. I get that McD was a prime defense contractor on the back of the F/A-18 Hornet, but the DoD could manage the transition of all that tech and knowledge to a designated alternate contractor.
It is real capitalism: Buying politicians’ votes through lobbying is quintessentially capitalism. The highest bidder wins.
As for transferring the tech and knowledge, maybe? And even if the Department of War could do that, it certainly wouldn’t be smoothly or instantaneously. In the meantime, parts and such become scarce.
Alternatively, we could nationalise them under the Defense Production Act. Screw the shareholders who only care about “line goes up” and not whether Boeing tries to sell a product using software company rules (ship it regardless of whether it works and the pilots and people on the ground are the hapless beta testers).
re: #144 William Lewis
Perhaps we simply need to pass a law to allow the survivors of those lost on said planes get their payments from the CEO’s paycheck first, the CFO & so on and if there isn’t enough there, then each of the members of the board instead of insurance? That should be a rational response, yes? I’m sure the market for good aircraft wouldn’t have a problem with that …
Remember who was on the board at Boeing who helped bury any accountability—that moderate, honest aviation guru, Nikki Haley.
re: #165 Decatur Deb
Now, let’s for a moment assume she is correct…
With a funky hair-do like that?
Last time I saw funky hair like that was when I would go to the Anti-Club on Melrose back in the early 80s.
re: #163 Joe Bacon ✅
It will die in the Senate, predictably, of course. The GOP has nothing but this kind of crap, all to bend the knee to a convicted felon.
re: #167 Nerdy Fish
That is not what I said. I said the DoD could do it. That is miles away from, “Any old Joe Schmoe could do it.” In practice, it would probably look a lot like the Boeing acquisition, except nobody on the McDonnell-Douglas side would be getting any money out of it.
I got a little too flippant at the end. My point was that there’s no easy way to move these large processes. And from my person experience, even moving the small things is hard. My company, a part of the MIC, makes a product and the government decided to foster competition by copying it and giving it to another company. After about four years, they brought what the other company had done to us and told us to make it work. And it is magnitudes smaller than an airplane.
At best, the company dies fast enough that another company can replace the top, but not the rest. But Boeing wouldn’t die fast enough. So the question becomes how to fill that defense hole.
re: #163 Joe Bacon ✅
Your Republican Congress tackling the big issues of the day…
Only slightly worse than Ronald Reagan’s cult. They had the decency to wait until he was dead before they started naming everything after him.
re: #173 Belafon
I got a little too flippant at the end. My point was that there’s no easy way to move these large processes. And from my person experience, even moving the small things is hard. My company, a part of the MIC, makes a product and the government decided to foster competition by copying it and giving it to another company. After about four years, they brought what the other company had done to us and told us to make it work. And it is magnitudes smaller than an airplane.
At best, the company dies fast enough that another company can replace the top, but not the rest. But Boeing would die fast enough. So the question becomes how to fill that defense hole.
Biplanes. We buy more biplanes. /s
That’s interesting. Someone got to Trump and made him swallow his pride and offer an endorsement to Larry Hogan for Maryland’s Senate election.
Hogan went on FOX News Channel to talk about it, and he publicly rejected it.
re: #173 Belafon
All that is fair enough. I think the point I was really trying to get to was in that last post you quoted: When a company dies, the people who ran it into the ground shouldn’t get rewarded. Force them into bankruptcy; don’t count the executives’ pay claims as debts that can be settled from the sale of assets. If the company proposes a reorganization plan instead of an asset sale, that plan has to involve a forced change of management.
re: #177 Nerdy Fish
Would it be messy, yes. Could it cause disruption, also yes. But I’m sick and tired of the same group of 50 or so people wandering from company to company, completely shitting on it, and getting paid to do so - not only getting away with it, but getting rewarded for it.
re: #177 Nerdy Fish
“Thanks for coming on board as our new CEO. Your choice of pay packages are either you make $800K per year with no strings attached, or $4 million a year and if the company is performing worse at the end of four years than now, we get to recover all $16 million from you.”
re: #179 Belafon
“Thanks for coming on board as our new CEO. Your choice of pay packages are either you make $800K per year with no strings attached, or $4 million a year and if the company is performing worse at the end of four years than now, we get to recover all $16 million from you.”
A bit more extreme than what I had in mind, more along the lines of, “If you leave on good terms, we’ll pay you an appropriately sized executive bonus. If you leave because we went bankrupt, consider yourself fortunate that you get to keep the money we gave you; fuck your golden parachute.”
Trump: ‘I have so many Black friends — I’m not racist!’
Yeah Trump has so many black friends—all 5 of them in Congress and his Pulpit Pimp Pals…
re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Only slightly worse than Ronald Reagan’s cult. They had the decency to wait until he was dead before they started naming everything after him.
A lot worse than the Reagan cult. For all his flaws, and they were many (including mishandling the epidemic of his time), Reagan was not a traitor who admired the Russian government nor was he a bully. He earned his wealth and did not inherit it. A much better person than the monster who is poised to destroy our nation if he ever gets back into power.
re: #182 Hecuba’s daughter
A lot worse than the Reagan cult. For all his flaws, and they were many (including mishandling the epidemic of his time), Reagan was not a traitor who admired the Russian government nor was he a bully. He earned his wealth and did not inherit it. A much better person than the monster who is poised to destroy our nation if he ever gets back into power.
and he picked a VP who was super-qualified in the areas he himself didn’t know jack about.
re: #183 Backwoods Sleuth
It’s good for us. Rudy? Not so much.
re: #184 sagehen
GHWB was a career CIA and military guy with a record of public service. GWB was similarly situated with public service and military record (cough).
The GOP went from that to a guy who thinks servicemembers who die or are maimed in the service to our nation are suckers and losers.
re: #183 Backwoods Sleuth
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Creditors want Rudy to sell all his assets.
Hell no. Let the Bankruptcy Judge deed every last thing that motherfather has over to Miss Ruby and Shaye.
U.S. Catholic bishops apologize for church’s role at Indian boarding schools, citing ‘trauma’ for generations of children
So when will the bishops apologize to kids molested by priests?
crickets…
re: #187 Joe Bacon ✅
Are Ruby and Shaye the mother and daughter team who counted the votes who certain others said they were not?
re: #188 Joe Bacon ✅
U.S. Catholic bishops apologize for church’s role at Indian boarding schools, citing ‘trauma’ for generations of children
So when will the bishops apologize to kids molested by priests?
crickets…
About 100 years from now.
re: #189 PhillyPretzel ✅
Are Ruby and Shaye the mother and daughter team who counted the votes who certain others said they were not?
Miss Ruby and Shaye are the ladies who Rudy endlessly lied about repeatedly saying that they illegally counted extra votes for Joe.
Even after the judgement came down that motherfather kept lying about them.
re: #191 Joe Bacon ✅
I thought so. They deserve to get all of Rudy’s money plus everything else he may have hiding in his mattress.
re: #154 Nerdy Fish
It feels similar in concept to the “too big to fail” mantra from the recession era, when the banks were fucking up all the things but got bailouts anyway. If you’re practicing real capitalism, it feels like one of the possible outcomes of running a company into the ground - even a mega-corporation like McDonnell-Douglas - is that the company just dies. I get that McD was a prime defense contractor on the back of the F/A-18 Hornet, but the DoD could manage the transition of all that tech and knowledge to a designated alternate contractor.
I’m so old my first thought was “which one”
re: #189 PhillyPretzel ✅
Yup. They were the ones Rudy and his fellow grifters/liars defamed.
re: #154 Nerdy Fish
It feels similar in concept to the “too big to fail” mantra from the recession era, when the banks were fucking up all the things but got bailouts anyway. If you’re practicing real capitalism, it feels like one of the possible outcomes of running a company into the ground - even a mega-corporation like McDonnell-Douglas - is that the company just dies. I get that McD was a prime defense contractor on the back of the F/A-18 Hornet, but the DoD could manage the transition of all that tech and knowledge to a designated alternate contractor.
Interesting idea, if I have it
The fdic, and previously fslic could direct the takeover/merger of a failing bank almost overnight. With but a ripple in service if that all.
If given the power, the DOD could direct a takeover/merger.
And the players in the industry would have to make adequate plans and be prepared to be tapped to do an absorbtion
The execs of the failing co wouldn’t even get a silk parachute
Know your audience:
‘Biden Bingo’: The president’s campaign adapts a classic game to include malarkey and aviators https://t.co/FDyV1GL4g5
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 14, 2024
Know who not to listen to:
bsky.app
Know how to respond:
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson responding to Trump reportedly calling Milwaukee “a horrible city” weeks before the start of the Republican National Convention in MKE: “All of us lived through his presidency, so right back at ya, buddy.” pic.twitter.com/9iQfGlK0jp
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) June 13, 2024
re: #148 Hecuba’s daughter
Putting corporate management in prison for manslaughter would be a good start.
Corporations are people too my friends. Treat them as such.
My sister majored in Philosophy. I saw her sobbing the other day, worried she won’t get a job. I said: Are you having an existentialist cry sis?
— DocAtCDI (@docatcdi.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T12:31:00.920863Z
re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅
They’re still finding ballots, they’re uncovering hundreds of thousands.
Produce one.
Just one.
re: #195 Dangerman
Interesting idea, if I have it
The fdic, and previously fslic could direct the takeover/merger of a failing bank almost overnight. With but a ripple in service if that all.
If given the power, the DOD could direct a takeover/merger.
And the players in the industry would have to make adequate plans and be prepared to be tapped to do an absorbtionThe execs of the failing co wouldn’t even get a silk parachute
You have it exactly correct. Obviously, the logistics of it aren’t there yet, but that’s the idea.
re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Only slightly worse than Ronald Reagan’s cult. They had the decency to wait until he was dead before they started naming everything after him.
Reagan didn’t ask them while he was alive
re: #197 Eventual Carrion
Corporations are people too my friends. Treat them as such.
Shoot them in self-defense?
re: #187 Joe Bacon ✅
Creditors want Rudy to sell all his assets.
Hell no. Let the Bankruptcy Judge deed every last thing that motherfather has over to Miss Ruby and Shaye.
Then they can charge Rudy rent
re: #196 Belafon
I tried to fix the link on the second one and it’s not showing now. here it is:
Larry Summers said it would take an entire year of 10 percent unemployment to whip inflation. Jason Furman said it would take 15 percent!! prospect.org/economy/2024...
re: #139 lawhawk
Thinking once again of that book that created an epiphany for me. Boeing is a perfect example of how Reason without other important traits like Ethics and Memory is often a complete failure.
re: #139 lawhawk
Boeing is fooked. Legal term.
They’ve been so fixated on cost containment that the core job of building airplanes that are safe and reliable is now a distant fourth to minimizing costs, maximizing shareholder capital, and screwing employees (especially those who blow the whistle). They sought out states that have minimal worker protections and no unions, so they could get more profit.
Turns out that it was a fool’s errand, as planes that crash and whose parts fall off (and yeah, some of this is actually on the airlines and maintenance companies that fail to do their jobs), shareholder capital and minimizing costs get vaporized.
This is what happens when you put bean counters and LBO types in power instead of the engineers who build the planes and know what it takes to make reliable equipment.
The FAA also admits they were wrong to let Boeing self-certify, and were far too lax on oversight.
Well, yeah. The FAA lacks the resources to do all of this themselves, so they farmed it out to the manufacturers themselves, but when faults are discovered, they didn’t protect the whistleblowers either. It’s a fubar system that is undermining the overall reliability of airlines (which are still safer than driving per mile).
We need stronger claw back rules. The folks who caused this mess cashed out for big bucks years ago.
Anthony Fauci in Book: Volcanic Donald Trump Screamed F-Bombs, Then Said He Loved Me
In his memoir “On Call,” Anthony Fauci tells how Trump lurched from crisis to crisis and said he would win in a “f***ing landslide.”
Donald Trump shouted foul-mouthed abuse at Anthony Fauci, then lurched into telling him he loved him—and claimed he would win the 2020 election in a “fucking landslide,” the top medical adviser reveals in his new memoir.
In the eagerly awaited book, Fauci describes conversations with Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic in which the then-president would “announce that he loved me and then scream at me on the phone.”
“Let’s just say, I found this to be out of the ordinary,” Fauci writes, of conversations peppered with f-bombs, including the claim Fauci had cost the U.S. economy “one trillion fucking dollars.”
The book, On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service, will be published in the U.S. next week—as Trump and President Joe Biden’s rematch gathers pace. The Daily Beast obtained a copy.
On the page, Fauci describes interactions with Trump as the administration wrestled with the president’s opposition to public health measures including masking; Trump’s desire to reopen the country; his indulgence of advisers with dubious qualifications pushing untested treatments; his bizarre suggestion that bleach might kill the virus; and, ultimately, his own hospitalization with COVID.
Fauci, the veteran director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), became the face of the pandemic and tried to navigate between Trump’s erratic statements and his own medical expertise. He then became Biden’s chief medical adviser and retired in 2022. In March last year, the New York Post reported that Fauci sold his memoir for “just under $5 million.” Crown Publishing, a Penguin Random House imprint, said that figure was inaccurate.
In 2020, within weeks of the first COVID cases, Fauci became a Republican punching bag. Enemies saw him as an avatar of the medical establishment when he relentlessly urged COVID precautions, starting with social distancing, moving to lockdowns, then masking and vaccines.
He told Congress this month that he, his wife, and his adult daughter were the subjects of death threats. During the pandemic he received a full-scale security detail.
re: #166 Belafon
Like us looking at ants. Try killing a particular ant with a baseball bat.
re: #132 Dave In Austin
To “Serve and Protect” has left the building.
I’d like you to meet “Enforce and Comply”.You will do what he says for the foreseeable future.
And yearn for the days of old when the AI-controlled ED-209 replaces them.
/
re: #182 Hecuba’s daughter
A lot worse than the Reagan cult. For all his flaws, and they were many (including mishandling the epidemic of his time), Reagan was not a traitor who admired the Russian government nor was he a bully. He earned his wealth and did not inherit it. A much better person than the monster who is poised to destroy our nation if he ever gets back into power.
Iran Contra was literally treason.
And he didn’t admire the Russian government because at the time it was Soviet. He, like many conservatives, instead admired various dictatorships.
Go back and read through Reagan’s actual policy and he’s just Trump with a better aesthetic: imperialist, militarist, contemptuous of civil liberty when it permits choices outside social conservative preferences, a bigot, and willing to devolve power to private interests that treat the US public as a host to feed on.
It’s like valorizing Stage 1 syphilis for not being Stage 2 syphilis.
re: #202 Backwoods Sleuth
Watch everybody in the coming days who say Russia wants peace. They are either idiots or russian assets.
Or both. Why not both?
Slappy T comes thru for his pals again!
Clarence Thomas writes Supreme Court law overturning Trump’s bump stock ban
Wondering what bribe he got for writing this opinion?
The Supreme Court just legalized machine guns
re: #212 The Ghost of a Flea
Iran Contra was literally treason.
And he didn’t admire the Russian government because at the time it was Soviet. He, like many conservatives, instead admired various dictatorships.
Go back and read through Reagan’s actual policy and he’s just Trump with a better aesthetic: imperialist, militarist, contemptuous of civil liberty when it permits choices outside social conservative preferences, a bigot, and willing to devolve power to private interests that treat the US public as a host to feed on.
It’s like valorizing Stage 1 syphilis for not being Stage 2 syphilis.
When you realize youre in stage 2 you think back wistfully and wish for the days of “only” stage 1. //
re: #216 Joe Bacon ✅
Do any guns not require someone to hold the trigger? Did the conservatives just declare all guns not automatic.
When he calls people crazy, he’s just talking about himself. When he calls people crooked, he’s just talking about himself. So the list goes on. He’s a master projector. People should understand that.”— Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), quoted by the washington Post, on Donald Trump
.
Pelosi: I do wish there would be an intervention from his family, assuming they loved him, that they would intervene, that the Republican party would have an intervention, they have become a cult to a thug pic.twitter.com/j4tOMwHuqU
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 14, 2024
(It won’t be you)
Here’s the truth: we’re going to have a woman president. It will either be me, or it will be Kamala Harris. Because Donald Trump can’t beat Joe Biden, and Joe Biden won’t finish his term. pic.twitter.com/vcP7VLZfew
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) January 30, 2024
re: #225 Dangerman
Nikki put a cork in it.
re: #227 Backwoods Sleuth
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It sounds like the law as written was relating to weapons that fire more than one bullet per pull of the trigger, i.e. fully automatic or burst fire weapons. A bump stock is not that. Unfortunately, while it may be upsetting, the ruling is correct.
re: #229 Backwoods Sleuth
Oh, I thought all decisions in the term had to be announced by today. If I had known they had more time, it’s obvious that’s going to be the last decision announced, on the last day they possibly can, and it’s going to be 6-3 to send it back to the district court to decide on what is or isn’t “within the official scope of duties.”
re: #163 Joe Bacon ✅
Your Republican Congress tackling the big issues of the day…
[move to name coastal waters after Trump]
Needs batteries and a shark.
re: #228 Nerdy Fish
It sounds like the law as written was relating to weapons that fire more than one bullet per pull of the trigger, i.e. fully automatic or burst fire weapons. A bump stock is not that. Unfortunately, while it may be upsetting, the ruling is correct.
The law was written targeting bump stocks. This ruling was literally find some way to make then legal. The person is not actively releasing the trigger. This mechanism is just an external version of the mechanism that creates an automatic weapon.
re: #232 A Cranky One
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You laugh, but if you accidentally touch any edge on that thing you lose a finger.
re: #233 Belafon
Hate to say it but the majority is right here. A bump stock functions by enabling the shooter to repeatedly pull the trigger at insanely rapid speeds, generating rates of fire equivalent to machine guns. They SHOULD be banned. But they aren't banned by a law that ties the ban to trigger pulls
— AkivaMCohen (@akivamcohen.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T14:39:50.589Z
I’m not going to disagree with the point that Uncle Thomas and the conservative majority found an end-run around a law that was clearly intended to ban bump stocks, but this one’s not fully on the Calvinball Court. It’s on the legislators who wrote a bad bill because they got the nomenclature wrong.
re: #217 Dave In Austin
The Supreme Court just legalized machine guns
Eh, hardly. I can do the same thing with my AK and holding it correctly with one finger in my belt loop and another on the trigger. Mag dump in seconds. No accuracy but that’s never been the point with bump stocks either. Because of how the NFA is written this was the only possible outcome for this case.
re: #136 Nerdy Fish
Guys. It’s the Year of Our Fucking Lord Two Thousand and Fucking Twenty-Four. YOU DO NOT BLINDLY TRUST THE PAPERWORK FROM FOREIGN SUPPLIERS YOU CHECK THAT SHIT YOURSELF GOD FUCKING DAMN IT.
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And according to the NYT article, Spirit AeroSystems also makes wings for Airbus*, so I guess the Europeans are going to be looking into shit??
*out of recycled noodle cans fobbed off as “titanium”, no doubt…
re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The same goes for cloth diapers (when my son was a baby we had a diaper service to deliver cloth diapers). There is a cloth diaper service here in our area. When I was a child and teenager, it was common to see like sixty diapers hanging on clotheslines.
We did cloth diapers for our kids. I still have one in the rag cupboard. (kids have been out of diapers since ca 2010)
re: #131 Shropshire Slasher
The U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday says investigators found stark racial disparities in how officers in the Phoenix Police Department enforce certain laws, including low-level drug and traffic offenses.
One common White Supremacist argument is that blacks have much higher incarceration rates than whites, which means they must commit more crimes.
They just assume that Justice is color blind and automatic.
re: #238 William Lewis
Eh, hardly. I can do the same thing with my AK and holding it correctly with one finger in my belt loop and another on the trigger. Mag dump in seconds. No accuracy but that’s never been the point with bump stocks either. Because of how the NFA is written this was the only possible outcome for this case.
Yeah, video for the curious behind the tags:
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re: #219 Dangerman
When you realize youre in stage 2 you think back wistfully and wish for the days of “only” stage 1. //
And now I’m getting all kinds of pop-ups for syphilis medications
re: #139 lawhawk
Boeing is fooked. Legal term.
They’ve been so fixated on cost containment that the core job of building airplanes that are safe and reliable is now a distant fourth to minimizing costs, maximizing shareholder capital, and screwing employees (especially those who blow the whistle). They sought out states that have minimal worker protections and no unions, so they could get more profit.
Nearly 40% of their revenues are from government contracts.
re: #238 William Lewis
Eh, hardly. I can do the same thing with my AK and holding it correctly with one finger in my belt loop and another on the trigger. Mag dump in seconds. No accuracy but that’s never been the point with bump stocks either. Because of how the NFA is written this was the only possible outcome for this case.
Accuracy is abominable with these things. Can you imagine a mob of 20 or 30 incel MAGAt militia opening fire with them? The result would be a spectacular friendly fire incident. In fact, dark web community defense planners frequently discuss possible ways to induce “own goals” among trigger-happy MAGAts. Bump stocks would certainly help.
re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅
Oh it’s been a while but it’s time for another installment of Pulpit Pimp Theater!
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Prophetess: Dems Shot Down A Black Hawk Helicopter Carrying “Hundreds Of Thousands Of Trump Ballots”
“They’ve stolen the election. They burned ballots. They’ve hidden ballots. They’ve thrown them in the river. They even shot down a Black Hawk helicopter. Isn’t this strange? Bringing them from the military that was overseas, they were carrying the ballots!
“And that helicopter was shot down so that they could never be counted. And even now they’re finding them in lockers, they’re finding them in chests, and in all kinds of different places. They’re still finding ballots, they’re uncovering hundreds of thousands.
“Not just a few, but hundreds of thousands from the 2020 election. All voting for Trump, of course. They’re uncovering them. They have so much evidence right now.
“And I’ve said before in the and will always say, it is going to be proven that he won.” - Self-proclaimed prophetess Kat Kerr, speaking to a nodding nutbag on the Christian nationalist “Elijah Streams” podcast.
I got to admit this Pulpit Pimp has an incredible track record of continually out-ass-holeing herself!
Kat Kerr declares that people who stole the election will “hang on meat hooks in hell right next to Hitler.”
Kat Kerr says 150-foot angels will kill her critics.
Kat Kerr says a talking scroll in heaven will soon prove the “legality” that Trump is still president.
Kat Kerr says she heard God “laughing loudly” at Biden’s fake electoral college count.
Kat Kerr says Jesus took her to a football game in heaven where he always wins at every sport.
Kat Kerr says Jesus personally gave her the commission to draw a portrait of God and that she touched God’s hair while visiting heaven to create the drawing.
Kat Kerr personally dispatches 1000 “special ops angels” to ensure Trump is reelected.
Kat Kerr assigns 100 million angels to guard the Republican convention.
Kat Kerr claims God destroyed the Bahamas with a hurricane due to all the underground sex trafficking tunnels.
Kat Kerr claims she saw angels bombarding Trump protesters to drive out their “demonic infections.”
Kat Katt claims she waved at the blond angels guarding the tomb of Jesus.
Kat Kerr claims she met Whitney Houston in heaven.
Kat Kerr claims the GOP secretly won the 2018 House midterms by pretending to be Democrats.
Kat Kerr claims all the aborted babies in heaven had a dance party after Kavanaugh was sworn in.
Kat Kerr claims God has a rainbow colored pet unicorn.
Kat Kerr claims she met Jesus in person and he was totally hot.
Kat Kerr clams that once you reach heaven, Jesus personally throws you a dance party in his mansion and serves you the delicious desserts he baked himself.
Kat Kerr claims God personally told her the results of the next five presidential elections.
Kat Kerr “takes authority” over volcanoes, hurricanes, and wildfires in the name of Jesus, failing to stop each event.
Kat Kerr is full of ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream!
That wooden dildo looks like it would uncomfortable.
re: #128 Dangerman
Exclusive: DNC launching billboards hitting Trump over Milwaukee comments
Didn’t take long at all
This from data usa
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Milwaukee, WI are Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (38.1%), White (Non-Hispanic) (33%), Other (Hispanic) (7.09%), Two+ (Hispanic) (6.56%), and White (Hispanic) (5.8%).
Could this have something to do with DJT’s dislike of the city?
re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No, he can’t be racist, he has Black friends.///
re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅
Oh it’s been a while but it’s time for another installment of Pulpit Pimp Theater!
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Prophetess: Dems Shot Down A Black Hawk Helicopter Carrying “Hundreds Of Thousands Of Trump Ballots”
“They’ve stolen the election. They burned ballots. They’ve hidden ballots. They’ve thrown them in the river. They even shot down a Black Hawk helicopter. Isn’t this strange? Bringing them from the military that was overseas, they were carrying the ballots!
“And that helicopter was shot down so that they could never be counted. And even now they’re finding them in lockers, they’re finding them in chests, and in all kinds of different places. They’re still finding ballots, they’re uncovering hundreds of thousands.
“Not just a few, but hundreds of thousands from the 2020 election. All voting for Trump, of course. They’re uncovering them. They have so much evidence right now.
“And I’ve said before in the and will always say, it is going to be proven that he won.” - Self-proclaimed prophetess Kat Kerr, speaking to a nodding nutbag on the Christian nationalist “Elijah Streams” podcast.
I got to admit this Pulpit Pimp has an incredible track record of continually out-ass-holeing herself!
Kat Kerr declares that people who stole the election will “hang on meat hooks in hell right next to Hitler.”
Kat Kerr says 150-foot angels will kill her critics.
Kat Kerr says a talking scroll in heaven will soon prove the “legality” that Trump is still president.
Kat Kerr says she heard God “laughing loudly” at Biden’s fake electoral college count.
Kat Kerr says Jesus took her to a football game in heaven where he always wins at every sport.
Kat Kerr says Jesus personally gave her the commission to draw a portrait of God and that she touched God’s hair while visiting heaven to create the drawing.
Kat Kerr personally dispatches 1000 “special ops angels” to ensure Trump is reelected.
Kat Kerr assigns 100 million angels to guard the Republican convention.
Kat Kerr claims God destroyed the Bahamas with a hurricane due to all the underground sex trafficking tunnels.
Kat Kerr claims she saw angels bombarding Trump protesters to drive out their “demonic infections.”
Kat Katt claims she waved at the blond angels guarding the tomb of Jesus.
Kat Kerr claims she met Whitney Houston in heaven.
Kat Kerr claims the GOP secretly won the 2018 House midterms by pretending to be Democrats.
Kat Kerr claims all the aborted babies in heaven had a dance party after Kavanaugh was sworn in.
Kat Kerr claims God has a rainbow colored pet unicorn.
Kat Kerr claims she met Jesus in person and he was totally hot.
Kat Kerr clams that once you reach heaven, Jesus personally throws you a dance party in his mansion and serves you the delicious desserts he baked himself.
Kat Kerr claims God personally told her the results of the next five presidential elections.
Kat Kerr “takes authority” over volcanoes, hurricanes, and wildfires in the name of Jesus, failing to stop each event.
Kat Kerr is full of ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream!
The only believable item on the list is that God has a pet rainbow colored unicorn. Frankly, I’d be incredibly disappointed if he didn’t.
re: #245 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Accuracy is abominable with these things. Can you imagine a mob of 20 or 30 incel MAGAt militia opening fire with them? The result would be a spectacular friendly fire incident. In fact, dark web community defense planners frequently discuss possible ways to induce “own goals” among trigger-happy MAGAts. Bump stocks would certainly help.
Yup. There is a reason the military put 3 round burst on the M16A2 and would prefer to do away with full auto on rifles altogether.
I prefer my semi-auto only AK and have a very nice 1x micro-prism optic on it. I am not interested in throwing 30 rounds away in seconds just because “Kewl”.
re: #145 Nerdy Fish
I got an email from one of my banks: “Disengaged workers cost the economy trillions.” Our corporate overlords are trying very hard to push the narrative that everything’s terrible and it’s all our fault.
Disengaged managers cost even more
re: #171 Joe Bacon ✅
With a funky hair-do like that?
Last time I saw funky hair like that was when I would go to the Anti-Club on Melrose back in the early 80s.
Is Kat Kerr the ones with “Angels are coming from Africa whacka-dooja-booloaga-maramba-patme-alogonzaza-borayhde-nikto”?
re: #246 Mike Lamb
That wooden dildo looks like it would uncomfortable.
“thy rod and thy staff will comfort me!” 😈
re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is Kat Kerr the ones with “Angels are coming from Africa whacka-dooja-booloaga-maramba-patme-alogonzaza-borayhde-nikto”?
oh no. That’s this Pulpit Pimp—Trump’s “personal spiritual guide” Paula White
re: #251 William Lewis
Yup. There is a reason the military put 3 round burst on the M16A2 and would prefer to do away with full auto on rifles altogether.
I prefer my semi-auto only AK and have a very nice 1x micro-prism optic on it. I am not interested in throwing 30 rounds away in seconds just because “Kewl”.
And militia are going to be really short of the stuff really needed for combat. Artillery support and military-grade comm equipment. Rebellion doesn’t last long if the drone spots you forming up behind the hill and you get mortared outside of cover.
‘Fell asleep a lot’: Biden blasts birthday boy Trump with list of 78 ‘accomplishments’
Naps, bankruptcies, business failures, impeachments, lawsuits, scandals, election losses and criminal charges: Former President Donald Trump has one such “accomplishment” for every year of his life, according to President Joe Biden.
Donald fell asleep - a lot
Donald went bankrupt
Then went bankrupt again
Then went bankrupt again
Then went bankrupt again
Then went bankrupt again
Then went bankrupt again
Donald failed as a casino owner
Donald failed as an airline, university and hotel owner.
Donald failed at creating a board game and a magazine.
Donald launched his political career on the racist lie Barack Obama wasn’t born in America
Donald called for the death penalty - and still won’t apologize after their exoneration - for 5 innocent Black and Latino teenagers
Donald was accused of saying the N-word
Donald was sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination
Donald became the first Presidential candidate to say there’d be a “bloodbath” if he lost
Donald failed to lead our country during COVID and suggested Americans inject themselves with bleach
Donald said there were “very fine people” among the crowd of white nationalists and neo-Nazis who chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville
Donald dreamed of a “unified Reich” if he was to win in November
Donald called veterans who gave their lives for our country “suckers” and “losers”
Donald downplayed servicemembers’ concussions as “headaches”
Donald floated the idea of executing the Joint Chiefs Chairman
Donald was impeached in 2019
Donald was impeached again in 2021
Donald was found liable for sexual abuse
Donald was accused by 26 women of sexual misconduct
Donald bragged about his building on 9/11
Donald lied over 30,570 times as president to the American people
Donald cheated at golf
Donald’s “Trump Org.” was convicted for failing to pay its taxes
Donald gave a tax handout to the rich and corporations that failed to deliver for Americans
Donald suggested windmills caused cancer
Donald failed as a steak, water, and vodka salesman.
Donald’s media company lost $300 million in just one quarter
Donald proposed cutting Social Security and Medicare
Donald proposed cutting Social Security and Medicare again
Donald proposed cutting Social Security and Medicare again
Donald proposed cutting Social Security and Medicare again
Donald tried and failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But he wants to try again
Donald had his former vice president refuse to endorse him
Donald bragged on camera about grabbing women
Donald celebrated overturning Roe v. Wade
(This one is special #42) Donald is 0-42 with jurors in recent cases - more on that later
Donald endorsed every state abortion ban in America as “a beautiful thing to watch”
Donald said there had to be “some form of punishment” for women who have abortions
Donald had the worst jobs record of any president in modern US history
Donald lost the House and Senate
Donald lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden by more than 7 million votes
Donald lost 61 court cases after his election loss
Donald “lit that fire” of the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6
Donald has promised to pardon the violent rioters who attacked law enforcement on Jan. 6 who he called “hostages” and “warriors”
Donald was the first presidential candidate to ask a state’s Secretary of State to “find” him 11,780 votes
Donald posted a $175 million bond in his fraud judgment
Donald oversaw the largest single-year increase in violent crime ever recorded
Donald was sued by U.S. Capitol Police Officers
Then he was sued by another group of U.S. Capitol Police Officers
Then another
Then another
Donald had an ally who was sentenced to prison
Then another
Then another
Then another
Then another
Then another
Then another
Then another
And four more were charged with crimes
Donald Trump was the first former U.S. President to be indicted 1 time
Donald Trump was the first former U.S. President to be indicted 2 times
Donald Trump was the first former U.S. President to be indicted 3 times
Donald Trump was the first former U.S. President to be indicted 4 times
Donald became the first former U.S. President convicted of a felony
Donald became the first former U.S. President convicted of 2 felonies
Donald became the first former U.S. President convicted of 3 felonies
Donald became the first former U.S. President convicted of 4 felonies
Donald became the first former U.S. President convicted of 5 felonies
Donald became the first former U.S. President convicted of 6 felonies
Donald became the first former U.S. President convicted of 7 felonies
Donald said he would “Make America Great” - he did not
“Damn, we hit 78,” Singer concludes. “But for those wondering - Donald has 27 more felony convictions and a lot of other stuff. But you know, sometimes you gotta stick to the shtick.”
re: #186 lawhawk
GHWB was a career CIA and military guy with a record of public service. GWB was similarly situated with public service and military record (cough).
The GOP went from that to a guy who thinks servicemembers who die or are maimed in the service to our nation are suckers and losers.
At least, GWB didn’t have bone spurs. People I knew did what they could to avoid Vietnam. With Trump, it’s not his lack of service that is the real issue; it’s the contempt he has for the military and his outright treason to our nation.
re: #243 Dangerman
Artificial stupidity strikes again.
re: #208 Joe Bacon ✅
Anthony Fauci in Book: Volcanic Donald Trump Screamed F-Bombs, Then Said He Loved Me
DJT made a big mistake not making Fauci sign an NDA
/
re: #145 Nerdy Fish
I got an email from one of my banks: “Disengaged workers cost the economy trillions.” Our corporate overlords are trying very hard to push the narrative that everything’s terrible and it’s all our fault.
pay a living wage
watch what happens
Time for the daily photo shoot. Later peeps.
re: #259 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
It’s why I laugh at the ‘militias’. They have so little idea how unheroic actual combat is.
They think they’ll be Rambo but they’ll actually be Willie or Joe. Or corpses.
re: #264 Dangerman
pay a living wage
with humane working conditions
treat workers as people and not just another business expense to be minimized
watch what happens
re: #264 Dangerman
pay a living wage
watch what happens
A living wage will never happen in this country.
Those execs need their yachts and three vacation homes.
So based on today’s ruling, to ban bump stocks, Congress would have to amend the anti-machine gun legislation such that the defining characteristic for prohibited firearms is rate of fire rather than trigger engagement.
Why do I have a feeling that such legislation will never pass? Why do I also have the feeling that even if it did, SCOTUS would seize the opportunity to overturn machine gun bans?
So how would you write a law that banned bump stocks and have it pass this court?
re: #272 Belafon
So how would you write a law that banned bump stocks and have it pass this court?
Skip the gunsmithing and set a prohibited system rate of fire.
re: #271 Mike Lamb
Especially when the ruling talks about people who train to shoot quickly.
re: #275 Decatur Deb
Skip the gunsmithing and set a prohibited system rate of fire.
How slow would you set it?
re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅
Oh it’s been a while but it’s time for another installment of Pulpit Pimp Theater!
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Prophetess: Dems Shot Down A Black Hawk Helicopter Carrying “Hundreds Of Thousands Of Trump Ballots”
“They’ve stolen the election. They burned ballots. They’ve hidden ballots. They’ve thrown them in the river. They even shot down a Black Hawk helicopter. Isn’t this strange? Bringing them from the military that was overseas, they were carrying the ballots!
“And that helicopter was shot down so that they could never be counted. And even now they’re finding them in lockers, they’re finding them in chests, and in all kinds of different places. They’re still finding ballots, they’re uncovering hundreds of thousands.
“Not just a few, but hundreds of thousands from the 2020 election. All voting for Trump, of course. They’re uncovering them. They have so much evidence right now.
“And I’ve said before in the and will always say, it is going to be proven that he won.” - Self-proclaimed prophetess Kat Kerr, speaking to a nodding nutbag on the Christian nationalist “Elijah Streams” podcast.
I got to admit this Pulpit Pimp has an incredible track record of continually out-ass-holeing herself!
Kat Kerr declares that people who stole the election will “hang on meat hooks in hell right next to Hitler.”
Kat Kerr says 150-foot angels will kill her critics.
You know what scripture says about false prophets, and this is why no Jew, since the time of the First Temple, has ever claimed to be a prophet. Yes there have some been some false messiahs but they are few and far between, no more than one per generation.
re: #272 Belafon
So how would you write a law that banned bump stocks and have it pass this court?
“Hunter Biden is likely to soon buy large quantities of bump stocks, as are John Fetterman and a group of BLM leaders. AOC has also shown interest.”
re: #281 Eclectic Cyborg
“Hunter Biden is likely to soon buy large quantities of bump stocks, as are John Fetterman and a group of BLM leaders. AOC has also shown interest.”
Wait until you see my Malcolm X model.
re: #272 Belafon
So how would you write a law that banned bump stocks and have it pass this court?
Notwithstanding what I wrote above, Congress should be able to say “Bump stocks are illegal” without the Second Amendment being implicated at all, since a bump stock isn’t a gun or “arms”. One issue is that this was done by regulation, rather than by statute. I still find it rather silly that they can ban machine guns, but not accessories that create the functional equivalent of machine guns.
re: #283 Mike Lamb
The problem is that the agreement that the government can ban machine guns is a gentleman’s agreement. And this court and the Republican party is all about destroying those.
re: #280 Decatur Deb
Wherever the market in legislators would bear.
One bullet per year, until responsibility has been established.
/too slow?
About the only use for a bump stock is an attack on a very large, dense, relatively immobile crowd. Concert, sporting event, rally, demonstration.
re: #276 Belafon
Especially when the ruling talks about people who train to shoot quickly.
I actually think the work around on that issue would be pretty easy. If the gun/accessory artificially allowed a firearm, regardless of user, to achieve a certain rate of fire, it’s no good. If a person can fire x number of bullets per minute without any mechanical assistance, good for them.
But we live in an insane society, because there is literally no legitimate, functional reason for a bump stock to exist, other than mass murder/destruction.
re: #287 Mike Lamb
I actually think the work around on that issue would be pretty easy. If the gun/accessory artificially allowed a firearm, regardless of user, to achieve a certain rate of fire, it’s no good. If a person can fire x number of bullets per minute without any mechanical assistance, good for them.
But we live in an insane society, because there is literally no legitimate, functional reason for a bump stock to exist, other than mass murder/destruction.
There is no weapon without mechanical assistance. Except a fist.
re: #289 Dr. Matt
wE NeED bUMp ZtOcKkkS 2 hUNT DEARz
Or the endless herds of bison. No—wait—lever actions are good enough for that.
re: #287 Mike Lamb
I actually think the work around on that issue would be pretty easy. If the gun/accessory artificially allowed a firearm, regardless of user, to achieve a certain rate of fire, it’s no good. If a person can fire x number of bullets per minute without any mechanical assistance, good for them.
But we live in an insane society, because there is literally no legitimate, functional reason for a bump stock to exist, other than mass murder/destruction.
Especially when people argue there’s no difference between a bump stock and a belt loop.
re: #288 wrenchwench
There is no weapon without mechanical assistance. Except a fist.
Sure, but I think you understand what I meant. The bump stock uses the rebound from the gun to allow the user to effectively hold his/her finger in place, while the gun moves back and forth to depress the trigger. That’s different than repeatedly, quickly pulling the trigger for each shot.
FAA is suing an American Airlines passenger for $81,950 after a 2021 flight incident.
The passenger, Heather Wells, hit a flight attendant and tried to open the cabin door, the suit says.
This kraken was reportedly drinking Jack Daniel’s neat, which should rate a hefty fine by itself. She initially tried to sue the airline for duct taping her but it was thrown out on the grounds that she was a fucking menace and needed to be restrained by whatever means necessary. I think the judge used somewhat different language but that was the gist. Iirc the airline either fired or demoted the flight attendants for using an un-approved method of restraint but re-instated them after a public outcry.
re: #293 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
This kraken was reportedly drinking Jack Daniel’s neat, which should rate a hefty fine by itself. She initially tried to sue the airline for duct taping her but it was thrown out on the grounds that she was a fucking menace and needed to be restrained by whatever means necessary. I think the judge used somewhat different language but that was the gist. Iirc the airline either fired or demoted the flight attendants for using an un-apprroved method of restraint but re-instated them after a public outcry.
Install a cargo compartment brig on airliners. Boeing could whip one out.
re: #292 Mike Lamb
Sure, but I think you understand what I meant. The bump stock uses the rebound from the gun to allow the user to effectively hold his/her finger in place, while the gun moves back and forth to depress the trigger. That’s different than repeatedly, quickly pulling the trigger for each shot.
I think I know what you meant, but this, repeatedly, quickly pulling the trigger for each shot, is not definable as a rate because it varies with the individual. IMHO, which won’t hold up in court.
re: #292 Mike Lamb
Now you’re talking about relativity and I bet you think they can move fater than the speed of light and you know that makes them inaccurate whelich means it’s OK because you could only use then on a crowd and the military doesn’t like then and what were we arguing again?
re: #278 Vicious Babushka
I got to admit the video clip I saw of Kat Kerr saying she was in Heaven’s Bowling Alley and she saw Jesus roll 10 perfect games to be a bit of a stretch…
re: #295 wrenchwench
I think I know what you meant, but this, repeatedly, quickly pulling the trigger for each shot, is not definable as a rate because it varies with the individual. IMHO, which won’t hold up in court.
Which is also why you can’t write a law that sets a fire rate. What is it? 5 times a second? Two? One? A gun manufacturer will create one that fires n-.2 times per second.
re: #297 Belafon
Now you’re talking about relativity and I bet you think they can move fater than the speed of light and you know that makes them inaccurate whelich means it’s OK because you could only use then on a crowd and the military doesn’t like then and what were we arguing again?
The outrage du jour. The bump stock ban was a non-solution to a virtually non-existent problem. There are totally legal ways to get a shitload of .30 ball into a crowd.
re: #295 wrenchwench
I think I know what you meant, but this, repeatedly, quickly pulling the trigger for each shot, is not definable as a rate because it varies with the individual. IMHO, which won’t hold up in court.
Like I said, the differentiation is whether the mechanical assistance/accessory achieves the rate of fire or whether the individual is physically moving his/her finger back and forth to achieve a certain rate of fire.
Bump stocks allow firing rates of 400 - 800 rounds per minute. If someone can achieve that through whatever firing technique they want to use, including non-assisted bump firing, have at it.
re: #266 Romantic Heretic
It’s why I laugh at the ‘militias’. They have so little idea how unheroic actual combat is.
They think they’ll be Rambo but they’ll actually be Willie or Joe. Or corpses.
Or you have a Timothy McVeigh. There are many psychos trained by the military who can unleash death and destruction on this nation.
re: #270 Eclectic Cyborg
A living wage will never happen in this country.
Those execs need their yachts and three vacation homes.
They need those extra yachts and vacation homes so they can “gift” them to SCOTUS judges and Senators.
re: #283 Mike Lamb
Notwithstanding what I wrote above, Congress should be able to say “Bump stocks are illegal” without the Second Amendment being implicated at all, since a bump stock isn’t a gun or “arms”.
do they not ban silencers?
re: #286 Decatur Deb
About the only use for a bump stock is an attack on a very large, dense, relatively immobile crowd. Concert, sporting event, rally, demonstration.
.”..or Mau-Mau home invasions in the urban hellscapes that post-defund the police America has tuned into!!!”
re: #306 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
do they not ban silencers?
Federally, no. Some states do.
re: #306 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
do they not ban silencers?
The silencer bans are usually defined as an illegal modification to a firearm, which usually is how they deal with things like modifying a firing mechanism to convert a weapon to fully automatic, or in a more simple example, sawing off a shotgun barrel to make it more easily concealed.
re: #291 Belafon
Especially when people argue there’s no difference between a bump stock and a belt loop.
Meanwhile, there’s probably some gun humper lurker reading my posts saying “Look at this liberal dumb dumb. All types of bump firing rely on mechanical assistance! He probably think AR-15 stands for ‘assault rifle’ and can’t tell the difference between a clip and a magazine. Stupid head!”
re: #298 Joe Bacon ✅
I got to admit the video clip I saw of Kat Kerr saying she was in Heaven’s Bowling Alley and she saw Jesus roll 10 perfect games to be a bit of a stretch…
I have it on good authority that Jesus is pretty solid bowler.
re: #310 Mike Lamb
Meanwhile, there’s probably some gun humper lurker reading my posts saying “Look at this liberal dumb dumb. All types of bump firing rely on mechanical assistance! He probably think AR-15 stands for ‘assault rifle’ and can’t tell the difference between a clip and a magazine. Stupid head!”
The same people who gave us peach tree dishes and the gazpacho police
re: #233 Belafon
The law was written targeting bump stocks. This ruling was literally find some way to make then legal. The person is not actively releasing the trigger. This mechanism is just an external version of the mechanism that creates an automatic weapon.
Law was written before bump stocks existed.
re: #313 JC1
Law was written before bump stocks existed.
The Second Amendment was written before automatic and semi-automatic weapons existed.
re: #277 Belafon
Same rate as musket fire
re: #313 JC1
Law was written before bump stocks existed.
The law the court invalidated was about bump stocks.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) suggested that Hunter Biden’s conviction in the federal gun charges case could create “an opening” for Michelle Obama to make a bid for the White House.Ogles responded to the verdict on Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria” on Wednesday and emphasized the “need to pursue justice” before suggesting President Biden may step back from the race amid his son’s guilty verdict.
re: #317 Belafon
These are some flamin’ hot takes!
What insight!!!
Now, how else can we fill fifteen more minutes of air time with some contrived nonsense?
re: #316 Belafon
The law they court invalidated was about bump stocks.
Wasn’t the ban itself a regulation and not a law? The actual law was decades old.
re: #316 Belafon
The law the court invalidated was about bump stocks.
It was not. It was about the executive branch saying that the 1980s law applied to bump stocks.
A new law targeting bump stocks was not passed.
re: #308 Mike Lamb
Federally, no. Some states do.
Slip another big bribe to Slappy T and he’ll write an opinion overturning the ban on silencers!
Saw this story on WFAA:
Lexi Abreu is an electrician who rakes in $200,000 a year. But it’s not her employer that’s paying her the big bucks.
When Lexi Abreu graduated from college with a pre-med degree in 2019, people expected her to get a job in science or healthcare.
However, while the now-27-year-old had originally wanted to become a surgeon, after working in a hospital while at school, she decided it wasn’t a good fit for her.
So Lexi - who’d done an apprenticeship with an electrician company in 2015 and kept up electrician jobs while studying - became a full-time electrician.
If you google TikTok electrical girl, you get links to tons of her posts.
re: #316 Belafon
The law the court invalidated was about bump stocks.
It was a change in regulations by the ATF. For years, the ATF had took the position that bump stocks were not machine guns. They changed course after Las Vegas (because Congress wouldn’t pass legislation banning bump stocks, naturally). Court said the law and regs were written only to prohibit weapons that allowed continuous fire based on pulling/holding the trigger once. Because the trigger is repeatedly engaged when using a bump stock (irrespective of the fact that it allowed rates of fire no one could achieve without modifying the weapon), the Court held the rule was no good.
Ok. I was wrong about the way the ban was created. The ruling, though, still seems to open up a problem where you write a rule specific enough to ban bump stocks and it will be easy to get around, and if you generalize it to preempt the bans it will be declared to be unconstitutional.
I guess we will have to wait for someone to use a bump stock again to slaughter dozens of people since Las Vegas wasn’t enough to get a Republican Congress to act back in 2017. But it would have to be dozens of Republicans or a group aligned with Republicans for them to care.
re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg
I have it on good authority that Jesus is pretty solid bowler.
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that’s not Jesus… that’s The Jesus… and nobody fucks with The Jesus
The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues”
To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what’s to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot’s ravings, but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius.
Those who try to downplay Balaji’s importance in Silicon Valley often portray him as a “clown.” But Donald Trump taught us that clowns can be dangerous, especially those with proximity to influence and power. In the nearly 11 years since his secession speech at Y Combinator, Balaji’s politics have become even more stridently authoritarian and extremist, yet he remains a celebrated figure in key circles.
re: #325 Hecuba’s daughter
I guess we will have to wait for someone to use a bump stock again to slaughter dozens of people since Las Vegas wasn’t enough to get a Republican Congress to act. But it would have to be dozens of Republicans or a group aligned with Republicans for them to care.
Nothing will stop the worshippers of the Iron Penis.
Even when the guns were turned on Republicans and Scalise was gunned down they doubled down on loosening gun laws.
re: #325 Hecuba’s daughter
I guess we will have to wait for someone to use a bump stock again to slaughter dozens of people since Las Vegas wasn’t enough to get a Republican Congress to act. But it would have to be dozens of Republicans or a group aligned with Republicans for them to care.
Republicans mostly shoot themselves (as in every other demographic). Suicides are the most common death by firearms. Bump stocks not involved, except in suicides where someone else shoots the shooter.
We all need to care more about each other. People who own guns need to become comfortable storing them away from home sometimes. People need to learn when those times arrive.
re: #324 Belafon
Ok. I was wrong about the way the ban was created. The ruling, though, still seems to open up a problem where you right a rule specific enough to ban bump stocks and it will be easy to get around, and if you generalize it to preempt the bans it will be declared to be unconstitutional.
The problem seems to be that the definition of machine gun was just specific enough to allow bump stocks as a technical work around. Purely, on the text of the law, the majority is probably right. On a more practical view, the ATF and the minority are right because the bump stock is a modification that effectively converts a semi-automatic rifle into an automatic rifle.
Ideally though, this would be addressed by a functioning Congress…
But on the bright side, at least they didn’t use this case to dispatch with Chevron deference.
Here comes the FO!
Alex Jones must liquidate his personal assets in order to pay the $1.5 billion settlement granted to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims.
The order was issued by federal Judge Christopher Lopez in Texas on Friday, who approved Jones’ move to convert his bankruptcy filing into a liquidation of his personal assets. The fate of his conspiracy theory site InfoWars has yet to be determined
Aliens might be living among us disguised as humans — or in a base inside the moon, according to new Harvard study https://t.co/kGVnRuA3Kh pic.twitter.com/eNyt8Je4jH
— New York Post (@nypost) June 12, 2024
That explains MAGA.
WATCH— @chrislhayes: If you thought, surely Trump isn’t explicitly embracing actual criminal gangs and racketeering and violence as campaign features, you would be wrong. Just look at who he shared a stage with at his Bronx campaign rally. pic.twitter.com/NEQUvMQTQI
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) June 14, 2024
re: #332 Dr. Matt
Jones will never miss a meal.
bill maher tonight
CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD - ANA NAVARRO - JOEL STEIN
Breathlessly waiting to see if the press trailing Trump switches from asking if he got off any good jokes to asking why he let the Defense Department run antivax campaigns and other unspecified disinformation programs
re: #321 Joe Bacon ✅
Slip another big bribe to Slappy T and he’ll write an opinion overturning the ban on silencers!
There is no ban on silencers. They are class III regulated items under the NFA. Fill out your forms, pay the tax and buy your silencer. The main problem is how long have had to wait in the past for processing of the forms but a new system has cut that down to a day or two. Not a big deal.
re: #293 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
This kraken was reportedly drinking Jack Daniel’s neat, which should rate a hefty fine by itself. She initially tried to sue the airline for duct taping her but it was thrown out on the grounds that she was a fucking menace and needed to be restrained by whatever means necessary. I think the judge used somewhat different language but that was the gist. Iirc the airline either fired or demoted the flight attendants for using an un-approved method of restraint but re-instated them after a public outcry.
single barrel is quite nice
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
Not delighted by the “continued into Biden’s presidency” framing when the actual thing the Biden administration did, according to the article, was ordered it shut down immediately after finding out that it was happening
Reuters: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
reuters.com
More deadly legacy effects of letting a con man into the White House.
“…Academic research published recently has shown that, when individuals develop skepticism toward a single vaccine, those doubts often lead to uncertainty about other inoculations. Lucey and other health experts say they saw such a scenario play out in Pakistan, where the Central Intelligence Agency used a fake hepatitis vaccination program in Abbottabad as cover to hunt for Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind behind the attacks of September 11, 2001. Discovery of the ruse led to a backlash against an unrelated polio vaccination campaign, including attacks on healthcare workers, contributing to the reemergence of the deadly disease in the country.”
China's #MeToo journalist & feminist activist Huang Xueqin sentenced to five years in jail for "inciting subversion of state power." Thanks to Washington Post reporter Shibani Mahtani for quoting me on why the Chinese government sees feminism as a threat. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
— Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 (@letahongfincher.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T12:28:23.386Z
I would seriously propose that talking about geopolitics in terms of normal partisan divisions is inaccurate: we are watching a global move by power-havers to restrict franchise such that no matter how much they posture as opponents, their is an implicit alliance displayed in their acts.
re: #317 Belafon
today at electoral-vote.com
…what might be called v2.0 of the Biden verdict conspiracy theories….Some conspiracists have now moved on to grander fantasies. The latest is that the guilty verdict will give the President an excuse to drop out of the race, so that the Democrats can replace him with… Michelle Obama.
Beyond the fact that there’s zero evidence for any of this, it also makes zero sense. Obama has no interest in running for president. If she was going to do it, either because she’s lying about not wanting to be president, or because she was willing to take one for Team Blue, she would have run in 2020. And even if there was a grand plan to make a switch, why would a Hunter Biden conviction be necessary? Joe Biden could announce he’s dropping out at any time, with any of a dozen excuses. Then, Obama could announce her availability the next day (or could arrange for Democratic leaders to “draft” her). If both the President and the former first lady are on board, that’s all that’s needed.
re: #335 Dr. Matt
His PO
can’t be happy[is probably thrilled] about this.
re: #304 Hecuba’s daughter
I try not to think about that.
re: #314 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Or even bolt actions.
re: #213 Dangerman
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Remember when he condemned tfg for 1/6?
Yup. Really happened
It was in all the papers
i’ll save you looking for it
re: #328 Joe Bacon ✅
The Tree of Liberty must be watered with blood!
Blood! Blood! Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne.
Yes, I regard ammosexuals as Khorne worshippers.
re: #342 jaunte
More deadly legacy effects of letting a con man into the White House.
So this CIA operation was responsible for such deadly effects long before Trump ran for office— and the question is: has the CIA learned a lesson from that experience or will they try the same gambit again, with no concern for the deadly by-product of such an operation.
re: #349 Romantic Heretic
The Tree of Liberty must be watered with blood!
Blood! Blood! Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne.
Yes, I regard ammosexuals as Khorne worshippers.
I mean, given the way they act, you’re kinda not wrong. They seem to be literally spoiling for a fight. See, e.g., that guy who took it as his duty to shoot a teenager in the back six times because he thought he was a “thug,” without taking the time to verify the situation first.
re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg
I have it on good authority that Jesus is pretty solid bowler.
I have heard that one does not simply fuck with the Jesus.
re: #334 gocart mozart
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So this story bothers me some. Trump has scads of support from criminal organizations like Hell’s Angels, Oathkeepers, Proud Boys, etc.—to the point where, at a minimum, they operate as security at rallies and appear on stage with Trump. It’s obviously been talked about a lot, but never in the same manner as Hayes’ story.
To single out two African American rappers accused of conspiracy to commit murder as a particularly problematic bothers me some. If they are ultimately convicted, it is terrible optics for Trump. And Hayes is absolutely correct that if Joe Biden was sharing the stage with Sleepy Hallow and Sheff G, the howls of outrage would be non-stop (from every media outlet). But again, this is far from the first time that Trump has shared the stage with criminals/organized crime types.
Video shows truck driver doing burnout on Pride crosswalk
The snowflake’s fee fees were hurt by the paint.
Via poorlydrawnlines.com
— Joanna🌱 (@rainbowofcrazy.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T16:59:50.664Z
re: #354 Dr. Matt
They caught him, at least.
Florida man arrested for defacing Pride intersection painted to honor Pulse nightclub victims
re: #356 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
They caught him, at least.
Florida man arrested for defacing Pride intersection painted to honor Pulse nightclub victims
Different person. The hateful asshole in my link was in West Virginia.
re: #350 Hecuba’s daughter
So this CIA operation was responsible for such deadly effects long before Trump ran for office— and the question is: has the CIA learned a lesson from that experience or will they try the same gambit again, with no concern for the deadly by-product of such an operation.
Bismillah I have terrible news about the CIA and deadly byproducts…
re: #344 Dangerman
If Joe Biden is not the Democratic nominee, it will be Kamala Harris.
Also, if Joe Biden is not the nominee it is because there was a parade with a rider-less horse in DC.
I don’t understand Republicans’ fascination with Michelle Obama running for president. From what I’ve read, she didn’t even really want Barrack to run for president. And, quite honestly, there are several more women on the Democratic bench that are better qualified.
re: #360 KGxvi
If Joe Biden is not the Democratic nominee, it will be Kamala Harris.
Also, if Joe Biden is not the nominee it is because there was a parade with a rider-less horse in DC.
I don’t understand Republicans’ fascination with Michelle Obama running for president. From what I’ve read, she didn’t even really want Barrack to run for president. And, quite honestly, there are several more women on the Democratic bench that are better qualified.
They think she’s eminently beatable because she’s Black, and a woman. They also have revenge fantasies against the Obamas for how they moved the country so far ahead, leaving the Republicans stuck in the 1950’s like the retrograde assholes they are.
re: #360 KGxvi
If Joe Biden is not the Democratic nominee, it will be Kamala Harris.
Also, if Joe Biden is not the nominee it is because there was a parade with a rider-less horse in DC.
I don’t understand Republicans’ fascination with Michelle Obama running for president. From what I’ve read, she didn’t even really want Barrack to run for president. And, quite honestly, there are several more women on the Democratic bench that are better qualified.
Michelle Obama is the efficient choice relative to their preexisting corpus of conspiracy theories and vulgar speculation.
re: #360 KGxvi
If Joe Biden is not the Democratic nominee, it will be Kamala Harris.
Also, if Joe Biden is not the nominee it is because there was a parade with a rider-less horse in DC.
I don’t understand Republicans’ fascination with Michelle Obama running for president. From what I’ve read, she didn’t even really want Barrack to run for president. And, quite honestly, there are several more women on the Democratic bench that are better qualified.
re: #363 Nerdy Fish
They think she’s eminently beatable because she’s Black, and a woman. They also have revenge fantasies against the Obamas for how they moved the country so far ahead, leaving the Republicans stuck in the 1950’s like the retrograde assholes they are.
this is their fantasy world
they dont see her as a person with evaluative and decision making skills
they dont GAF what she wants
or more importantly doesnt want - that she’d never do this
re: #366 Dangerman
this is their fantasy world
they dont see her as a person with evaluative and decision making skills
they dont GAF what she wants
or more importantly doesnt want - that she’d never do this
Nail, head.
Question re Alex Jones— Is the judicial liquidation order final and must be implemented or does Jones have additional legal options available for delay.
re: #365 Dangerman
The thing I don’t like about this meme is that there are actual conspiracies making the world worse, they’re just the obvious ones that are readily identifiable as “business as usual.”
MAGA, like prior conservative conspiracism, exists to declare that the answer, and thus the solution, must be anything other than “check the power of capitalism and capital holders.” It’s not ignorance or misunderstanding, it’s the prideful denial that the systems that people are comfortable with can create bad outcomes.
The damning evidence of this is how fast the movement cycles through “evidence” and “theories” but refuse to consider culpable actors that aren’t people they already dislike that don’t have power.
This isn’t wild speculation of the paranoid, it’s knowing denial of the obvious answer and even outright cynical injection of an alternative answer that is wrong but convenient.
re: #290 Decatur Deb
Or the endless herds of bison. No—wait—lever actions are good enough for that.
Bump stock Hawken.
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