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There are still enough billionares willing to keep DJT afloat. The rest will fall in line.
Here’s something to celebrate:
Trump Media stock has been absolutely tanking over the last month, and 600,000 MAGA investors are losing their money as another Trump failed business venture crashes and burns while CEO Devin Nunes fumes. Story. https://t.co/yu6qtdao3I
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 18, 2024
Christ every alexa and cell phone in my house just scared the crap out of me. Started doing the emergency alert sound all at once. Turns out the 911 system is down statewide in MA:
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
They don’t care that they’re getting wiped out because they will do anything for Trump.
re: #3 danarchy
Christ every alexa and cell phone in my house just scared the crap out of me. Started doing the emergency alert sound all at once. Turns out the 911 system is down statewide in MA:
we’re alerting you to let you know the alert system isn’t working
Isn’t that nice?
Kirk Cameron Hosts ‘Stay In The Closet’ Library Day For Pride
Yes Kirk. Since you’re hosting “Stay In The Closet” how many guys are in there with you?
The Chump video cuts in the middle of Colbert’s segment show just how defective he is.
All attempts to paint Joe as old and befuddled is directly related to how much Chump is old and befuddled. It’s merely just Presidential Trolling.
WHAT THE HELL?????
Houston doctor charged with taking private patient information on transgender care
HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas doctor who calls himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors is accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients from the nation’s largest pediatric hospital who were not under his care.
Federal prosecutors said Dr. Eithan Haim, a 34-year-old surgeon, snatched the information and shared it with a conservative activist with “intent to cause malicious harm” to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.
Haim pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court to four counts of wrongfully obtaining individually identifiable health information.
Haim, a Dallas surgeon, previously had done some work at Texas Children’s Hospital as part of his residency. The indictment against Haim alleges that in 2023, he asked to reactivate his login there to access information on pediatric patients not under his care, including names, attending physicians and treatment codes, then turned over the information to a media contact.
Haim has publicly identified himself as the person who gave the information about patients at Texas Children’s to a conservative activist, who published a story that the hospital was providing transgender care for minors in secret. At the time, transgender care for minors was legal in Texas, but the hospital had announced in 2022 that it would stop would stop gender-affirming therapies.
Texas lawmakers banned transgender care for minors in September 2023. That law is being challenged in court. At least 25 states have adopted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, and most of those states face lawsuits.
Haim faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted. He was released on $10,000 bond.
“I have maintained from day one that I have done nothing wrong. We’re going to fight this tooth and nail, stand up for whistleblowers everywhere,” Haim said outside the courthouse Monday.
LOCK.
HIM.
UP!!!!
re: #8 Shropshire Slasher
Trump is an Outlaw.
a person who has broken the law? absolutely
a fugitive, not so much
though it could be argued he’s ‘at large’
he is totally not a heroic outlaw
re: #11 Dangerman
a person who has broken the law? absolutely
a fugitive, not so much
though it could be argued he’s ‘at large’he is totally not a heroic outlaw
Felonious Trump.
Has a ring to it.
re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅
The right is currently trying to pretend this guy is a victim of woke censorship.
He is no “whistleblower.”
He blatantly violated HIPAA laws and betrayed patient confidentiality, and his career as a surgeon is now history, because he bought into the right wing bullshit. I hope he enjoys prison.
re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅
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“I have maintained from day one that I have done nothing wrong. We’re going to fight this tooth and nail, stand up for whistleblowers everywhere,” Haim said outside the courthouse Monday.
what you did is not what this means
re: #15 Charles Johnson
The right is currently trying to pretend this guy is a victim of woke censorship.
He is no “whistleblower.”
He blatantly violated HIPAA laws and betrayed patient confidentiality, and his career as a surgeon is now history, because he bought into the right wing bullshit. I hope he enjoys prison.
But he has a “GiveSendGo” page that has already raised more than $600,000. And his wife put up a GoFundMe page that has raised $100,000 more.
re: #17 goddamnedfrank
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am i an ‘old’ if i have no idea what ‘grievances’ they’re talking about?
Executives at Boeing are committing Sepuku at this very moment.
The Senate is flaying the CEO of Boeing…….. (MSNBC)
re: #18 Charles Johnson
But he has a “GiveSendGo” page that has already raised more than $600,000. And his wife put up a GoFundMe page that has raised $100,000 more.
Because of course the rabid right wing Christofascists would pile together a whole bunch of money to support a guy who hates trans kids. Fuck’s sake.
re: #21 Nerdy Fish
Because of course the rabid right wing Christofascists would pile together a whole bunch of money to support a guy who hates trans kids. Fuck’s sake.
Bigotry capitalism. Rich assholes love it because it keeps the poors in check.
re: #11 Dangerman
a person who has broken the law? absolutely
a fugitive, not so much
though it could be argued he’s ‘at large’he is totally not a heroic outlaw
As I’ve been saying for a while: Trump is in federal custody and doesn’t even realize it. The Secret Service are federal law enforcement officers. I highly doubt that any of them are really willing to risk their careers and/or pensions to help him abscond to some seemingly friendly country when it comes time for sentencing.
re: #15 Charles Johnson
The victims should sue that motherfather’s ass for every last cent he has.
How many kids are now being attacked by radical Xtians thanks to that fucking quack?
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it’s a choice of two slates of federal appointees who’ll impact your life in a million ways.
Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.
re: #8 Shropshire Slasher
Trump is an Outlaw.
I find this construction interesting because you have to step over how many institutions and individuals who hold actual power provide the support structure that sustains Trump to characterize him as an “outlaw,” but also ignore how all his “outlaw” behavior is just the behavioral norms of people with power and/or people who firmly believe themselves entitled to abuse power because of more diaphenous entitlements.
This is the behavior of the wife of the local second-generation car dealership when pulled over for traffic violations genuinely treated as some kind of revolutionary will.
I don’t think it can be stressed enough how Trumpism is an emotional reaction of people who have it pretty good but are miserable because they imagine themselves owed everything in a way that points back to the darkest moments in US history, and that their sense of “rebellion” is deliberately shallow…an aesthetic…to cover how they expect all the existing institutions to fall into line and do all the work to make the future they envisions themselves deserving. They’re not just little kings, but the stupidest, saddest, King-John version of that thing.
They will never be capable of more than indignant flailing while demanding more deference and more obedience, and no one would take them seriously if money were not the coercive force we’ve allowed it to become.
re: #27 jaunte
And army of Boris Epshteyns and Rudy Giulianis and Sidney Powells and Leonard Leos.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Devin’s having a cow because he doesn’t understand how the stock market works. It’s there to make people money. If there’s more money betting that a company will fail, welcome to high powered legalized gambling.
From downstairs —
re: #254 Mike Lamb
The difference is that W knew he only had to stay upright and speak in complete sentences. Trump would never play it that meekly.
W also was an avid reader. He was married to a librarian and not a nude model. He was unlike Trump in practically every characteristic. I never voted for him and detested him but compared to Trump he was a genius. He became concerned about pandemics after reading John M. Barry’s “The Great Influenza” in 2005 and was adamant that we needed a strategy to deal with one.
Yes — Bush performed better than expected in the debates — and Gore was harmed by his eye-rolling and sighing when Bush was speaking (because he didn’t realize that it was being shown to the public). Of course, that debate was between two men in their prime, and not two senior citizens.
re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅
WHAT THE HELL?????
Houston doctor charged with taking private patient information on transgender care
HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas doctor who calls himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors is accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients from the nation’s largest pediatric hospital who were not under his care.
Federal prosecutors said Dr. Eithan Haim, a 34-year-old surgeon, snatched the information and shared it with a conservative activist with “intent to cause malicious harm” to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.
Haim pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court to four counts of wrongfully obtaining individually identifiable health information.
Haim, a Dallas surgeon, previously had done some work at Texas Children’s Hospital as part of his residency. The indictment against Haim alleges that in 2023, he asked to reactivate his login there to access information on pediatric patients not under his care, including names, attending physicians and treatment codes, then turned over the information to a media contact.
Haim has publicly identified himself as the person who gave the information about patients at Texas Children’s to a conservative activist, who published a story that the hospital was providing transgender care for minors in secret. At the time, transgender care for minors was legal in Texas, but the hospital had announced in 2022 that it would stop would stop gender-affirming therapies.
Texas lawmakers banned transgender care for minors in September 2023. That law is being challenged in court. At least 25 states have adopted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, and most of those states face lawsuits.
Haim faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted. He was released on $10,000 bond.
“I have maintained from day one that I have done nothing wrong. We’re going to fight this tooth and nail, stand up for whistleblowers everywhere,” Haim said outside the courthouse Monday.
LOCK.
HIM.
UP!!!!
It’s ok. Governor Asshole will pardon him.
Just another crooked Republican who doesn’t give a fuck about ethics
Experts alarmed as Louisiana gov gives himself control of state ethics board he’s in dispute with
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has been in a dispute with the Louisiana Board of Ethics, which has accused him of failing to disclose flights he took to Hawaii on a donor’s private plane back when he was state attorney general.
But despite the dispute, Landry has, according to the Louisiana Illuminator, signed a new law giving him control over the Board.
Stocks are only worth money, in their truest sense, because they pay dividends. If I buy 1 share of stock in Apple, it will pay me a small amount of money every year. That makes it more valuable than the money I invested as long as the company makes a profit and pays out those dividends. Because it has value, the share price rises over time relative to those dividends. Therefore, buying a stock in a profitable company and holding it is a way to slowly earn wealth.
Truth Social stock is worthless because the company is a joke and it’s bleeding millions and will never, EVER pay dividends. The only reason to buy it is to sell it to a bigger sucker down the road. That’s why it’s a loser.
Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
Remember that #DACA beneficiaries also contribute billions every single year, including $2.1b annually to Social Security and Medicare.
We all win when families can stay together. The American ppl also support solutions like today’s actions, w/74% supporting a balanced approach to immigration. 👇🏽
Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
Monica Sandoval, a #DACA recipient and nurse, calls Biden’s immigration action “life-changing.”
“It would bring security to me & my kids, & I’d know for sure that I could keep doing the work I love to do.”
Under Trump & Stephen Miller’s plan, she’d be deported.
americasvoice.org
re: #28 The Ghost of a Flea
It can’t be emphasized enough that consistently what reactionaries present as “rebellious” is hierarchical: the transgressions they valorize are everything from trivial breaches of etiquette to vicious acts of mass violence yet all involve a “superior” class acting upon “inferiors” that are, in fact, wrong to believe they should be treated otherwise.
This is not general scofflawing, nor is it anarchism-proximate contempt of institutional authority: it’s the enfranchisement of the elect such that abuses of power cannot be abuses because the powerful are simply owed power.
They’re in favor of Tarquins, whether they’re running over children with their chariots or ravaging the virtuous women of Rome, in the hopes they’ll be granted a little bit of abuseable power of their own.
re: #23 KGxvi
As I’ve been saying for a while: Trump is in federal custody and doesn’t even realize it. The Secret Service are federal law enforcement officers. I highly doubt that any of them are really willing to risk their careers and/or pensions to help him abscond to some seemingly friendly country when it comes time for sentencing.
I’m not sure if be willing to take that bet.
re: #36 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’s ok. Governor Asshole will pardon him.
Federal charges, governor can’t pardon him.
re: #28 The Ghost of a Flea
I find this construction interesting because you have to step over how many institutions and individuals who hold actual power provide the support structure that sustains Trump to characterize him as an “outlaw,” but also ignore how all his “outlaw” behavior is just the behavioral norms of people with power and/or people who firmly believe themselves entitled to abuse power because of more diaphenous entitlements.
This is the behavior of the wife of the local second-generation car dealer lot owner when pulled over for traffic violations genuinely treated as some kind of revolutionary will.
I don’t think it can be stressed enough how Trumpism is an emotional reaction of people who have it pretty good but are miserable because they imagine themselves owed everything in a way that points back to the darkest moments in US history, and that their sense of “rebellion” is deliberately shallow…an aesthetic…to cover how they expect all the existing institutions to fall into line and do all the work to make the future they envisions themselves deserving. They’re not just little kings, but the stupidest, saddest, King-John version of that thing.
They will never be capable of more than indignant flailing while demanding more deference and more obedience, and no one would take them seriously if money were not the coercive force we’ve allowed it to become.
they can’t explain why their lives don’t get any better no matter how many times they vote Republian Trump
As always, America is beset by the articulated “freedoms” of people that want to not be taxed, but do want to own people, have sex with the people they own, and sell the offspring.
Those people convinced themselves they were heroic outlaws, too.
re: #43 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m not sure if be willing to take that bet.
Unless they stay with him, they’d be thrown into jail for a long, long time.
Let me guess without checking - the GOP privatized 911 systems in Massachusetts.
re: #45 Dangerman
They made such fun of Hope and Change precisely because so much of their lives are aspirational. “Embarrassed millionaires” and would-be tyrants who can achieve only partner and child abuse.
re: #45 Dangerman
they can’t explain why their lives don’t get any better no matter how many times they vote
RepublianTrump
The scary part is that they are deadly certain of one thing: the solution can only take the form of more, and more intense, punching down on the people they already dislike.
It’s like the worst parts of monarchism and capitalism birthed one of those prodigies that had to be killed by a pious farm boy that found a sword.
re: #49 Charles Johnson
Let me guess without checking - the GOP privatized 911 systems in Massachusetts.
Hmm, maybe not. But I’ve seen lots of Republicans blathering about privatizing 911 systems.
Not to mention pretty much everything else, too.
re: #49 Charles Johnson
Let me guess without checking - the GOP privatized 911 systems in Massachusetts.
The GOP hasn’t had any real control in massachusetts for decades.
re: #41 Camp Waconda
I take this all back. I renounce my statement.
re: #15 Charles Johnson
The right is currently trying to pretend this guy is a victim of woke censorship.
He is no “whistleblower.”
He blatantly violated HIPAA laws and betrayed patient confidentiality, and his career as a surgeon is now history, because he bought into the right wing bullshit. I hope he enjoys prison.
I fear this is the tip of a very large iceberg.
re: #13 wrenchwench
Felonious Trump.
Has a ring to it.
Don’t say that to a fan of Thelonious Monk/Melodious Thunk.
re: #45 Dangerman
they can’t explain why their lives don’t get any better no matter how many times they vote
RepublianTrump
My Jesusbot relatives explanation—The Deep State keeps them down…
re: #57 Decatur Deb
Don’t say that to a fan of Thelonious Monk/Melodious Thunk.
Came out of my brain, which is one.
Just got a public safety alert stating that NYS 9-1-1 services are operational but Massachusetts may not be. Scared the shite out of me, luckily I was on the toilet.
re: #39 Unabogie
Not every stock pays dividends. That’s a decision by the corporate board to distribute profits to shareholders in a periodic fashion. Some companies do this as a matter of course, but others do not. It also takes into account tax and long term financial strategies for the companies (companies can and do shrink or increase the dividend depending on profits and outlook).
But Trump Social will never get to that point, because they will never turn a profit.
re: #39 Unabogie
Stocks are only worth money, in their truest sense, because they pay dividends. If I buy 1 share of stock in Apple, it will pay me a small amount of money every year. That makes it more valuable than the money I invested as long as the company makes a profit and pays out those dividends. Because it has value, the share price rises over time relative to those dividends. Therefore, buying a stock in a profitable company and holding it is a way to slowly earn wealth.
Truth Social stock is worthless because the company is a joke and it’s bleeding millions and will never, EVER pay dividends. The only reason to buy it is to sell it to a bigger sucker down the road. That’s why it’s a loser.
There are companies that don’t pay dividends now but those purchasing shares believe they will be worth a lot more in the future. Certainly Apple and Microsoft didn’t pay dividends at the beginning. In technology especially, a lot of new companies will fail and it’s not always clear which one will ultimately prove to be the star. Just like who knew whether it was vhs or betamax that would win — and then ultimately both products were consigned to the dustbin of history.
re: #58 Joe Bacon ✅
My Jesusbot relatives explanation—The Deep State keeps them down…
so an R president, or more specifically ‘only i can fix it’, can’t?
Holy shit, Matt Gaetz is in deep shit!
The House Committee on Ethics is “reviewing allegations…that Representative Gaetz may have: engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use” among other things.
Couldn’t happen to a shittier person. pic.twitter.com/60qc2gLs9A— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) June 18, 2024
I'll add that the local medical board will almost certainly let him keep practicing, too, there's zero chance of any professional accountability here.
It's actually really frustrating seeing Cis people convinced a doctor would be punished for harming hundreds of trans kids.
— Jennifer Trouble (@jenyetagain.bsky.social) 2024-06-18T19:04:23.299Z
I thought Kim lost weight.
President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea early Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported, after he said the two countries want to cooperate closely to overcome U.S.-led sanctions in the face of intensifying confrontations with Washington.
Putin was met at Pyongyang’s airport by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to the news agencies.
Putin, making his first trip to North Korea in 24 years, said in comments that appeared in its state media hours before he landed that he appreciates the country’s firm support of his military actions in Ukraine. The Kremlin launched a full-scale invasion of the neighboring country in 2022.
re: #50 jaunte
They made such fun of Hope and Change precisely because so much of their lives are aspirational. “Embarrassed millionaires” and would-be tyrants who can achieve only partner and child abuse.
Hope and Change makes them angry because it suggests a future of common uplift; In their vision, there must be losers, and they can never be the losers.
They are what they are now because they’ve lost just enough that they must find an alternate explanation than “the system we built and sustained is producing the outcomes it was always going to produce.” America in general has a problem with this, as does the Global North: fascism is popping up in all these “developed” countries because no one with power has incentive to talk about how the last eighty years created the current crises.
We’re beset by people whose visions of their patrimony requires IMF debt traps and CIA skullduggery and massive corruption of developing-world-governments by wealthy foreign agents and just pretending that Middle Eastern petrostates aren’t a bomb waiting to go off…but also requires suppressed unions and low work safety standards and exploitative compensation structures for front line workers and offshored labor and near-slavery migrant labor internally.
The appeal of Trumpism is the vague, sometimes-contradictory promises of a shameless return to the old ways keeping the machine running, greased with the tears, sweat, and blood of people that should just be happy to be permitted to live and work.
All of the international fascism plays on the same themes: explain the failures of the present as failures to maintain the old hierarchical systems.
re: #64 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s true enough, but not very bothersome to those who grew up on advertising-funded TV/Radio/Print.
re: #64 Eclectic Cyborg
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Didn’t someone link on one of the prior pages a way to get Google to show in the old classic way? Like with some link modifier? Could have sworn I saw that here…
re: #56 Eclectic Cyborg
I fear this is the tip of a very large iceberg.
Yup. All criminality is okie dokie if you do it for heartfelt right wing reasons.
Where would America be without a continual series of moral panics triggered by sketchy right wing propaganda?
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-18T19:19:43.000Z
re: #65 Dangerman
so an R president, or more specifically ‘only i can fix it’, can’t?
Because “the DEEP STATE” sabotaged God’s Anointed King the first time round…
re: #72 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yup. All criminality is okie dokie if you do it for heartfelt right wing reasons.
and if that don’t work, try “sincerely held beliefs’
re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅
This is exactly what Trump will do if he wins again. He will take over any organization which could hold him responsible for his myriad crimes. Voters need to understand what Republicans do when they have absolute power.
re: #5 Dangerman
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I have got to believe that once people start to actually pay attention to the race, people who aren’t committed Republicans can’t possibly look at that shambling wreck and think that’s the man they want leading the country the next four years.
re: #73 Charles Johnson
Got one of those in my backyard with a drag queen story time being turned into the moral outrage of the year.
Yeah, how many priests around here are under investigation, convicted, moved around, due to sex abuse. Don’t hear about drag queens involved in grooming - it’s projecting like IMAX.
Oh, that’s right - all of these priests in the NYC metro area were involved in covering up sex crimes by other priests or themselves engaged in abuse. Still more in NJ paid out millions to victims.
re: #77 Joe Bacon ✅
Because “the DEEP STATE” sabotaged God’s Anointed King the first time round…
the deep state is stronger than god’s anointed?
i am aghast
re: #78 Dangerman
and if that don’t work, try “sincerely held religious beliefs’
FTFY. The “religious” part is important because it triggers the most important amendment in the right wing Constitution, the Zeroth Amendment: “Being the only right and true religion, the right of the People to force Christianity upon others shall not be infringed.”
re: #77 Joe Bacon ✅
Because “the DEEP STATE” sabotaged God’s Anointed King the first time round…
King of the Shallow.
re: #80 No Malarkey!
I have got to believe that once people start to actually pay attention to the race, people who aren’t committed Republicans can’t possibly look at that shambling wreck and think that’s the man they want leading the country the next four years.
re: #86 wrenchwench
Renders after a page refresh. The pre-refresh didn’t help.
re: #15 Charles Johnson
The right is currently trying to pretend this guy is a victim of woke censorship.
He is no “whistleblower.”
He blatantly violated HIPAA laws and betrayed patient confidentiality, and his career as a surgeon is now history, because he bought into the right wing bullshit. I hope he enjoys prison.
also, he needs to lose his license.
re: #80 No Malarkey!
I have got to believe that once people start to actually pay attention to the race, people who aren’t committed Republicans can’t possibly look at that shambling wreck and think that’s the man they want leading the country the next four years.
The question is how many purity ponies are out there — the same as those that handed 2016 to Trump. Never underestimate the damage caused by those who believe that somehow this time it will be different: a monster gets elected and then in the next election the nation will see the truth and vote the “right” way for the Green candidate or whatever fantasy they are promoting this time around.
re: #69 The Ghost of a Flea
You’re overthinking it. They mocked hope and change because it was a democrat who “said” it. They don’t mind hope and change when it comes from a republican (see Reagan’s “morning in America” or W’s compassionate conservativism). Trumpism, like many forms of populism, is inherently pessimistic and so they are reflecting what they hear from their political leaders. Nothing more, nothing less.
re: #83 Nerdy Fish
FTFY. The “religious” part is important because it triggers the most important amendment in the right wing Constitution, the Zeroth Amendment: “Being the only right and true religion, the right of the People to force Christianity upon others shall not be infringed.”
ezzacto
i only implied it
re: #81 lawhawk
It’s an awful situation. The things that should be legitimate moral/ethical panics, like the epidemic of child abuse in many religious institutions, or the appallingly corrupt Supreme Court, are just basically shrugged off, while the entire media jumps on the right wing bullshit train.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There are still enough billionares willing to keep DJT afloat. The rest will fall in line.
I keep saying this, but it needs to be repeated until the mainstream media catches on. Trump is history. Republicans have already moved on to their next phase which will be to put Trump aside once he is in office.
Trump will be 25th’d by his own party. They already know his brain is riddled with worms and is rapidly failing. In his place will be the chosen VP Republicans will pair him with, someone to carry out without fail policies that Trump himself will not consider or waffle on in his main priority to remain popular.
Modern Republicans have no regard for being popular, they want cruelty for cruelty’s sake. They want everyone not them to suffer humiliation and degradation. They have been very open about this on every media platform and message board. Democracy has been a roadblock for their plans for decades. They will remove this obstacle first thing.
re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅
Just another crooked Republican who doesn’t give a fuck about ethics
Experts alarmed as Louisiana gov gives himself control of state ethics board he’s in dispute with
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has been in a dispute with the Louisiana Board of Ethics, which has accused him of failing to disclose flights he took to Hawaii on a donor’s private plane back when he was state attorney general.
But despite the dispute, Landry has, according to the Louisiana Illuminator, signed a new law giving him control over the Board.
Louisiana, Louisiana
They’re trying to wash us away.
They’re trying to wash us away.
re: #76 (((Archangel1)))
Sinclair Group: No, we’re totally not flooding local news websites with misleading content about Biden!
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There used to be an FCC regulation restricting the number of radio & TV stations a company could own.
Of course that was loosened under Pruneface Reagan and eliminated by Dumbya.
re: #53 wrenchwench
Lost Donkey Seen Living With Elk Herd 5 Years Later: ‘Living His Best Life’
No coyote is gonna mess with that elk herd.
Fixed it.#Nirvanka pic.twitter.com/CenYNeDiLn
— PaulleyTicks (@PaulleyTicks) June 18, 2024
re: #90 Hecuba’s daughter
The question is how many purity ponies are out there — the same as those that handed 2016 to Trump. Never underestimate the damage caused by those who believe that somehow this time it will be different: a monster gets elected and then in the next election the nation will see the truth and vote the “right” way for the Green candidate or whatever fantasy they are promoting this time around.
Nothing annoys me more than Republicans and Democrats complaining about third party voters.
Johnson likely cost Trump more electoral votes than Stein cost Clinton in 2016. New Mexico, Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Nevada - that’s 36 electoral votes that Clinton won with pluralities in the state where Johnson got more votes than the margin of victory. And in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, Johnson got 2-3 times the vote that Stein got.
If you want third party voters to vote for your nominees, run better nominees.
re: #100 KGxvi
…
If you want third party voters to vote for your nominees, run better nominees.
Any rational good-bad comparison of Trump-Biden will show that the electorate isn’t interested in Worse/Better. This is a new kind of choosing.
Jacobin magazine published a premature obituary for Noam Chomsky today.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
It’s an awful situation. The things that should be legitimate moral/ethical panics, like the epidemic of child abuse in many religious institutions, or the appallingly corrupt Supreme Court, are just basically shrugged off, while the entire media jumps on the right wing bullshit train.
I hate to sound like a damn conspiracy theorist but this should not come as a surprise when you consider who controls most major media (right and center-right entities).
Prison. Forever.
Houston doctor charged with taking private patient information on transgender care KTRK-TV, Houston, today
TL;DR, a physician stole 100,000 children’s medical records from Texas Children’s Hospital. His intent was to set up a database to harass children and their parents. The FBI has arrested him.
HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas doctor who calls himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors is accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients from the nation’s largest pediatric hospital who were not under his care.
Federal prosecutors said Dr. Eithan Haim, a 34-year-old surgeon, snatched the information and shared it with a conservative activist with “intent to cause malicious harm” to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.
Haim pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court to four counts of wrongfully obtaining individually identifiable health information.
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re: #100 KGxvi
Nothing annoys me more than Republicans and Democrats complaining about third party voters.
Johnson likely cost Trump more electoral votes than Stein cost Clinton in 2016. New Mexico, Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Nevada - that’s 36 electoral votes that Clinton won with pluralities in the state where Johnson got more votes than the margin of victory. And in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, Johnson got 2-3 times the vote that Stein got.
If you want third party voters to vote for your nominees, run better nominees.
A ‘better nominee’ who will end up perpetuating the two-party system is of no interest to those focused on ending the two-party system. IMHO, as a former one of those, observing many others of the ilk.
re: #49 Charles Johnson
Let me guess without checking - the GOP privatized 911 systems in Massachusetts.
Even if it’s not privatized there will be vendor / providers. It’s tech that’s pretty complex, remember it’s critical infrastructure and as such does have to meet a series of standards in theory at the Fed level.
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