Must Watch: John Oliver on the Horror of “Trump’s Second Term”
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There you go with all the negative vibes again John Oliver…
CNN reported that Biden campaign just hired it’s 1000th campaign staffer.
Over 200 field offices in the battleground states.
re: #6 Dangerman
CNN reported that Biden campaign just hired it’s 1000th campaign staffer.
Over 200 field offices in the battleground states.
Dark Brandon has been playing the game for 52 years.
Republicans continue to underestimate him and they’re gonna get their asses whipped.
With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more… pic.twitter.com/3EdJB03KKT
— Kiefer Sutherland (@RealKiefer) June 20, 2024
the Horror of “Trump’s Second Term”
Trump’s promised tariffs much worse than Smoot-Hawley will put the entire world into another great depression. Maybe the Greatest Depression!
re: #9 DodgerFan1988
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If you believe things happen in threes: Willie Mays, Donald Sutherland, and ?
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
NEW: When Judge Aileen Cannon drew the Trump classified documents case, two more experienced judges in Florida’s southern district—including its chief—urged her to step aside and let someone else take it. She refused. (gift link)
nytimes.com
The chief judge of S.D.Fla. knows Aileen Cannon’s intervention after the FBI’s search was egregiously bad and has no confidence in her ability and/or impartiality
Seems bad!
re: #13 jaunte
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
This case is her golden ticket to the Supreme Court if Trump regains the presidency; of course she didn’t step aside.
re: #9 DodgerFan1988
The fact that man never won (or was even nominated for) an Oscar is INSANE.
re: #13 jaunte
I was just reading that, since it popped up on my feed when you reposted it. It does give me a little hope that when the inevitable petition for writ of mandamus to recuse comes to the 11th Circuit, those judges will be like, “Literally everybody but you knew this was a bad idea. Yeah, petition granted, get the fuck outta here.”
re: #12 Dr. Matt
If you believe things happen in threes: Willie Mays, Donald Sutherland, and ?
Please don’t be Patrick Stewart. 🙏🏼
re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg
Please don’t be Patrick Stewart. 🙏🏼
Ian McKellan - who fell off stage during a theater production earlier this week..
re: #16 Nerdy Fish
I was just reading that, since it popped up on my feed when you reposted it. It does give me a little hope that when the inevitable petition for writ of mandamus to recuse comes to the 11th Circuit, those judges will be like, “Literally everybody but you knew this was a bad idea. Yeah, petition granted, get the fuck outta here.”
Also here
But Judge Cannon, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, wanted to keep the case and refused the judges’ entreaties. Her assignment raised eyebrows because she has scant trial experience and had previously shown unusual favor to Mr. Trump by intervening in a way that helped him in the criminal investigation that led to his indictment, only to be reversed in a sharply critical rebuke by a conservative appeals court panel.
That video is so true and so frightening that I had to donate another 25 bucks to Biden.
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Well, this is interesting. Pope Francis has struck out at one of his traditionalist critics, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who used to be the Vatican’s ambassador to the USA. Viganò has been summoned to a penal canon trial.
The charges: the “crime of schism” and “denial of the legitimacy of Pope Francis.”
Such trials are exceedingly rare, and the move underscores a recent effort by the Vatican to take more formal action against a gaggle of archconservatives who have sought to undermine Francis’s papacy from the inside. Conviction could lead to Viganò’s defrocking and excommunication. It would end the long career of the 83-year-old Italian cleric who has emerged as the leading symbol of a traditionalist resistance to a papacy perceived by him as wildly liberal.
On Thursday, Viganò said in a statement that he saw the “accusations against me as an honor.” He referred to Francis as he always does, eschewing his official title and using his name before he was pope: Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
*snip*
Francis has for years tolerated open dissent, including vitriolic attacks from within clerical ranks. But as criticism has grown louder in recent months, the Vatican has taken more decisive action. Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Tex. was stripped of his diocese, while American Cardinal Raymond Burke, who frequently spoke at conservative conferences that excoriated Francis, lost his pension and Rome apartment.
Viganò was supposed to show up at the Vatican disciplinary office today, and if he didn’t he’d be tried in absentia. Given that he keeps being a rude SOB (referring to Francis by his non-pope name), I would say he probably didn’t show up.
We’ll see what happens.
From a coin toss tfg gets the final closing argument next week.
Conventional rando wisdom is riffing on variations of:
Biden should end his statement with the words “and now, some more reasons to vote for me…”
Now I know there’s something called Milf Manor, and an apposite German word, Fremdschämen.
I worry that far too many people are tuned out and unaware of the fascist train speeding towards us.
re: #26 Charles Johnson
I worry that far too many people are tuned out and unaware of the fascist train speeding towards us.
THIS.
Or they don’t give a shit because they don’t think it will affect them personally.
re: #26 Charles Johnson
I worry that far too many people are tuned out and unaware of the fascist train speeding towards us.
They usually start paying attention after Labor Day, and that is when Biden is going to use his warchest to saturate bomb the swing states.
re: #28 No Malarkey!
That is probably what will happen.
Willie Mays was as good — and as cool — as anyone who ever played
I met Mays. I watched Mays for decades. I can still hardly believe what I saw.
Thomas Boswell
wapo.st (gift link)
The Scedule F thing is scary to me. I make ‘policy’ by interpreting the law. You remove the independence of the the FDA scientist, just as a personal example, you fuck over the entire country. Let alone EPA, NOAA, DOE, Education, NRC, the list goes on. We dealt with the idea that federal employees are non-partisan and deserve protection back in the early 1900s - if everything is political, we have a monarchy.
BREAKING: Following the release of 5 straight polls showing Trump losing, many Republicans behind closed doors are asking Donald Trump to drop out. 40/44 of Trump’s cabinet members won’t support him. Independents are abandoning Trump. The Trump campaign is imploding.
— Biden’s Wins (@BidensWins) June 20, 2024
re: #6 Dangerman
CNN reported that Biden campaign just hired it’s 1000th campaign staffer.
Over 200 field offices in the battleground states.
Trump has no presence in many states…just shows how confident he is in the courts.
re: #31 retired cynic
Keith Olbermann had a memory of Mays - playing a game against the Mets, and he hit a clean double but stopped at 1B. Everyone was wondering what that was about, but he knew the next hitter had a great record against the Met pitcher, and promptly hit a homer.
After the game, he indicated that he knew that if he went to second, the Mets would walk the next hitter to get a more favorable L/R matchup, and he recognized the advantage for staying at 1B.
That’s before all the metrics, stats, scouting, and the rest.
He knew.
He just knew.
re: #34 (((Archangel1)))
40 of 44 of Trump’s cabinet members, the people who have seen him “at work” most closely, refuse to say he would do even an adequate job.
re: #35 darthstar
Trump has no presence in many states…just shows how confident he is in the courts.
He has no presence in many states because he’s confident in his jack booted thugs interfering in the election certification/voting process.
re: #33 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
The Scedule F thing is scary to me. I make ‘policy’ by interpreting the law. You remove the independence of the the FDA scientist, just as a personal example, you fuck over the entire country. Let alone EPA, NOAA, DOE, Education, NRC, the list goes on. We dealt with the idea that federal employees are non-partisan and deserve protection back in the early 1900s - if everything is political, we have a monarchy.
Here’s an example
re: #28 No Malarkey!
They usually start paying attention after Labor Day, and that is when Biden is going to use his warchest to saturate bomb the swing states.
Arizona’s non-presidential primaries (state legislature) plus mayoral candidates in several large cities and county supervisors are on July 30. The winners will have another three months to continue to plaster every major street corner in the city with their crap (until November 5). I frankly HATE this, every two years for six months we have signs cluttering up every corner.
re: #34 (((Archangel1)))
He won’t drop out until after the balloon drop.
re: #10 jaunte
Which will be great for weapons manufacturers. sorta/
Russian lawlessness…https://t.co/hT6EpCW367
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) June 20, 2024
re: #43 Romantic Heretic
The neighborhood ghost gun maker, maybe.
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re: #35 darthstar
Trump has no presence in many states…just shows how confident he is in the courts.
Last week they were talking about somehow outsourcing the ground game
re: #39 lawhawk
He has no presence in many states because he’s confident in his jack booted thugs interfering in the election certification/voting process.
One argument would be youd want to get closer to make it more plausible.
The other is it doesn’t matter no matter how far behind you are. Somehow that also ‘proves’ the fraud.
re: #47 Dangerman
Last week they were talking about somehow outsourcing the ground game
Who’s going to be dumb enough to get stiffed for that job?
re: #33 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
The Scedule F thing is scary to me. I make ‘policy’ by interpreting the law. You remove the independence of the the FDA scientist, just as a personal example, you fuck over the entire country. Let alone EPA, NOAA, DOE, Education, NRC, the list goes on. We dealt with the idea that federal employees are non-partisan and deserve protection back in the early 1900s - if everything is political, we have a monarchy.
And that Oliver video didn’t even venture into the sewage that is red state governments right now and their plans for localized terror once Trump is in power.
re: #49 Nerdy Fish
Who’s going to be dumb enough to get stiffed for that job?
Something about shoveling unreportable pac $ to third party co’s that would end up not doing the work anyway. Or something.
re: #33 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
The Scedule F thing is scary to me. I make ‘policy’ by interpreting the law. You remove the independence of the the FDA scientist, just as a personal example, you fuck over the entire country. Let alone EPA, NOAA, DOE, Education, NRC, the list goes on. We dealt with the idea that federal employees are non-partisan and deserve protection back in the early 1900s - if everything is political, we have a monarchy.
Which is why I am getting the fuck out on 6/30. Trump gets back in and he is gonna put EVERY F’n Federal employee under Schedule F and remove them if they refuse to bow down and kiss his rotted ass. It’ll be a return to the spoils system with Trump replacing competent Federal employees with his 3%er, Proud Boys, Militia and Jesusbot assholes.
re: #30 jaunte
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In April 2009, then-Representative Michele Bachmann made news when, during a speech, she referred to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff as “the Hoot-Smalley Act”, misattributed its signing to Franklin Roosevelt, and blamed it for the Great Depression.
re: #39 lawhawk
He has no presence in many states because he’s confident in his jack booted thugs interfering in the election certification/voting process.
or it could simply be that he’s too busy grifting campaign money to pay his legal bills, or he’s too incompetent to organize and plan a campaign or hire those who are capable, or he’s just plain stupid, or …
Very on point….pwning the Libz over caring for people:
Have we all just overlooked the fainting child behind the governor of Louisiana signing the Ten Commandments law? pic.twitter.com/mz5ed6Tw3Q
— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) June 20, 2024
“If you want to respect the rule of law, you gotta start from the original law given which was Moses. … He got his commandments from God,” stated Landry at the signing — immediately after the girl behind him collapsed.
The video got reaction on X.
“The symbolism is a bit on the nose,” wrote a user with the account name @nobleprizeinsarcasm, while a user called Art wrote, “If this isn’t an omen of some impending bad juju for that law, then I don’t know what is.”
re: #53 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
She really wrung everything out of her public education
re: #54 A Cranky One
or it could simply be that he’s too busy grifting campaign money to pay his legal bills, or he’s too incompetent to organize and plan a campaign or hire those who are capable, or he’s just plain stupid, or …
it’s likely most of these… particularly the grifting part.
re: #53 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
‘Hoot-Smalley’ might become the name of a Wordle result…
There is a lot of discussion over whether The Flatulent Guy will attend the debate with Biden.
Here is my prediction: TFG knows he’ll appear to be weak if he doesn’t attend, so he’ll attend.
However, I suspect he’ll start to lose control when he can’t talk over Biden, will start yelling and then will storm out screaming the debate is rigged.
re: #49 Nerdy Fish
Who’s going to be dumb enough to get stiffed for that job?
Johnny McEntee is probably working his way through a list right now.
re: #54 A Cranky One
or it could simply be that he’s too busy grifting campaign money to pay his legal bills, or he’s too incompetent to organize and plan a campaign or hire those who are capable, or he’s just plain stupid, or …
Well, the state GOP committees are fooked either way, as they’re running into a cash crunch as Trump siphons off the money from the RNC to his own coffers (and prodigious legal bills).
re: #59 A Cranky One
There is a lot of discussion over whether The Flatulent Guy will attend the debate with Biden.
Here is my prediction: TFG knows he’ll appear to be weak if he doesn’t attend, so he’ll attend.
However, I suspect he’ll start to lose control when he can’t talk over Biden, will start yelling and then will storm out screaming the debate is rigged.
An absolute Trump meltdown on live TV would be quite the sight to behold.
Biden lambasted the Supreme Court. Now he should support court reform.
He should make court reform a key campaign issue.
By Jennifer Rubin
wapo.st (gift link)
I heard her on a podcast yesterday, singing the same song, and I really agree with her.
re: #54 A Cranky One
or it could simply be that he’s too busy grifting campaign money to pay his legal bills, or he’s too incompetent to organize and plan a campaign or hire those who are capable, or he’s just plain stupid, or …
Or perhaps just grifting for the $ of it. This is a brand new firm, just begun a couple of months ago, in N.C. Oddly, doesn’t Lara Trump live in N.C.?
Mystery fundraising firm takes in millions from the Trump campaign
The campaign says it has fulfilled its legal reporting obligation, though the spending appears to mirror past attempts to mask who is actually receiving donor cash.
nbcnews.com
re: #59 A Cranky One
There is a lot of discussion over whether The Flatulent Guy will attend the debate with Biden.
Here is my prediction: TFG knows he’ll appear to be weak if he doesn’t attend, so he’ll attend.
However, I suspect he’ll start to lose control when he can’t talk over Biden, will start yelling and then will storm out screaming the debate is rigged.
I’d pay a dollar to see that…… Yup I would.
I won’t be supporting the Threads API at LGF, because it’s a pile of corporate shit.
re: #63 retired cynic
Biden lambasted the Supreme Court. Now he should support court reform.
He should make court reform a key campaign issue.
By Jennifer Rubin
wapo.st (gift link)I heard her on a podcast yesterday, singing the same song, and I really agree with her.
Flood the zone with new courts, circuits, and supreme court seats to match the number of circuits (as it was done for most of US history).
We’ve discussed this before here, and it would require killing the filibuster, taking the House, and keeping the Senate and WH to make happen.
This current SCOTUS is a right wing extremist abomination, making the Taney court pale in comparison.
Reading the Threads API docs put me in a very bad mood.
re: #39 lawhawk
He has no presence in many states because he’s confident in his jack booted thugs interfering in the election certification/voting process.
That and because pretty much all his campaign funds are being spent on legal fees.
The oldest deep-sea shipwreck was just discovered — a Bronze Age ship filled with Canaanite storage jars. It’s being excavated now from a mile deep 🧪
IAA archaeologist Jacob Sharvit, left, and Energean environmental lead Karnit Bahartan, examine two Canaanite storage jars after their retrieval from the seafloor of the Mediterranean on May 30, 2024. Ilan Ben Zion“…Golden sunlight fell on the two amphorae, still caked in brown ooze, as they breached the Mediterranean’s waves. Their ascent from the seafloor, more than a mile down and 60 miles from land, had taken three hours. It was the first daylight they had seen in at least 3,200 years, and they came from the only Bronze Age shipwreck discovered in deep waters.
Archaeologists retrieved these Canaanite storage jars, just two from a cargo of dozens located far off northern Israel’s coast in May.“It’s the only ship from this period that was found in the deep sea,” one of the final frontiers of archaeology, says Jacob Sharvit, director of marine archaeology at the Israel Antiquities Authority. Only a handful of other Late Bronze Age ships have been discovered—all of them in shallow coastal waters of the Mediterranean Sea, including in the Aegean Sea.”
re: #66 Charles Johnson
I won’t be supporting the Threads API at LGF, because it’s a pile of corporate shit.
Fine by me. I refuse to use that app anyway.
re: #63 retired cynic
Biden lambasted the Supreme Court. Now he should support court reform.
He should make court reform a key campaign issue.
By Jennifer Rubin
wapo.st (gift link)I heard her on a podcast yesterday, singing the same song, and I really agree with her.
I agree but best to keep the powder dry until all of SCOTUS rulings for this session are out.
re: #62 Dr Lizardo
An absolute Trump meltdown on live TV would be quite the sight to behold.
Don’t underestimate his ability to seethe with anger and save his rage until after the debate.
re: #66 Charles Johnson
I won’t be supporting the Threads API at LGF, because it’s a pile of corporate shit.
I use Instagram just because I find it slightly useful. But Threads is just crap.
re: #62 Dr Lizardo
An absolute Trump meltdown on live TV would be quite the sight to behold.
A few times of Biden referring to him as a “convicted felon” just might do it.
re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg
Fine by me. I refuse to use that app anyway.
Me too. It’s when they show up on Mastodon I get fooled. Learning which accounts to avoid.
I think any Trump Second Term will be followed by a Third if congress is Republican.
Biden must win.
Bluesky handles moderation differently than you might be used to. With loads of toggles and settings to change, it can be hard to wrap your mind around it. Here’s how it works:
— Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org) 2024-06-18T16:06:07.005Z
re: #14 No Malarkey!
This case is her golden ticket to the Supreme Court if Trump regains the presidency; of course she didn’t step aside.
She should remember that with Trump loyalty only goes one way. After he gets back in, he won’t need to pay anyone back for favors.
EFF sort of short-changes Bluesky’s moderation tools. I think they’re one of the most interesting things about it, along with custom feed algorithms.
Also, the nuclear block. I fucking love the nuclear block.
re: #81 Charles Johnson
EFF sort of short-changes Bluesky’s moderation tools. I think they’re one of the most interesting things about it, along with custom feed algorithms.
Also, the nuclear block. I fucking love the nuclear block.
Mastodon has that. I blocked a whole instance… and poof! No more porn.
re: #74 darthstar
Don’t underestimate his ability to seethe with anger and save his rage until after the debate.
Given his increased dementia, his inability to take criticism and his increasing paranoia, I believe he’ll explode.
Biden: MY crime family? My opponent is a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, convicted of massive business fraud, whose family is banned from operating charities, etc.
If there is a crime family it certainly isn’t mine.
By the way, Hunter isn’t running for office.
re: #83 A Cranky One
“My opponent can’t even pronounce adjudicated rapist.”
re: #12 Dr. Matt
If you believe things happen in threes: Willie Mays, Donald Sutherland, and ?
Another Donald?
SCOTUS announced that in addition to tomorrow they will be releasing opinions next Wednesday.
Hmm... Is there something strange about this killdeer? 🤔
#birds 📷
— Laurel Gale (@laurelgale.bsky.social) 2024-06-20T14:48:06.070Z
"...and with a wave of his poop stick, Noah parted the giant comb over!"
— Evilbunny Pottymouth - Celebrate our Democracy July 4th! (@mrsquirrel.bsky.social) 2024-06-20T17:46:27.041Z
re: #12 Dr. Matt
If you believe things happen in threes: Willie Mays, Donald Sutherland, and ?
Jerry West
Willie Mays
Donald Sutherland
re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg
A few times of Biden referring to him as a “convicted felon” just might do it.
Trump might blow a gasket right then and there. And of course, then the MAGAts will be screaming how Biden killed him. 😄
re: #86 No Malarkey!
SCOTUS announced that in addition to tomorrow they will be releasing opinions next Wednesday.
Gotta squeeze in the maximum delay in service to their Orange Overlord.
re: #59 A Cranky One
I would love to see this. Man-baby can’t handle life.
re: #12 Dr. Matt
If you believe things happen in threes: Willie Mays, Donald Sutherland, and ?
Donald Trump?
re: #36 lawhawk
Keith Olbermann had a memory of Mays - playing a game against the Mets, and he hit a clean double but stopped at 1B. Everyone was wondering what that was about, but he knew the next hitter had a great record against the Met pitcher, and promptly hit a homer.
After the game, he indicated that he knew that if he went to second, the Mets would walk the next hitter to get a more favorable L/R matchup, and he recognized the advantage for staying at 1B.
That’s before all the metrics, stats, scouting, and the rest.
He knew.
He just knew.
He’d previously done the same thing in San Francisco. He batted 3rd and was usually followed by another future HOFer, Willie McCovey. Mays told the same story where he’d pull up at first even though he could of made a double just so the pitcher couldn’t walk McCovey and take the bat out of his hands.
Apropos of not much, Trump Media stock has dropped below $27/share.
re: #95 JC1
saw lots of messages online, saying “Wrong Donald!”
re: #35 darthstar
Trump has no presence in many states…just shows how confident he is in the courts.
It just shows that he and his daughter in law are incompetent, and/or this whole thing is a grift. Why spend money on a ground game when you can embezzle it instead?
Pathways Alliance oilsands group removes content from website and social media, citing Bill C-59Pathways Alliance, a consortium of Canada’s largest oilsands companies, has removed all its content from its website, social media and other public communications, citing federal Bill C-59.
Bill C-59, which is currently before the Senate, would require companies to provide evidence to back up their environmental claims.
The Threads API documentation reads like it was written by corporate lawyers.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-20T19:44:16.974Z
re: #33 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
The Scedule F thing is scary to me. I make ‘policy’ by interpreting the law. You remove the independence of the the FDA scientist, just as a personal example, you fuck over the entire country. Let alone EPA, NOAA, DOE, Education, NRC, the list goes on. We dealt with the idea that federal employees are non-partisan and deserve protection back in the early 1900s - if everything is political, we have a monarchy.
It’s terrifying especially with the FDA and CDC. Absolutely terrifying.
re: #107 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make that so. 🙏
Today Biden eked ahead of Trump in 538’s polling aggregate, surprising no-one outside the cult with the sense to recognize that being convicted for 34 felonies would not enhance Trump’s electability.
Speaking of Sutherland, he was a great; from The Dirty Dozen to Kelly’s Heroes to the movie version of M*A*S*H to 1978’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Animal House and a whole lot more, he was almost always good, even when the movie was crap (or, in the cases of M*A*S*H and Animal House, were and/or have become problematic, at best, for some of their plot elements).
One of his roles stands out for me, though, one of the few that he did where he just oozed evil and you felt it: Ronald, the serial arsonist in Backdraft that DeNiro and WiIliam Baldwin’s CFD fire investigator characters consulted with to solve the attacks of the main plot.
re: #107 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make that so. 🙏
These days when I see a Twitter blue check account, I suspect disinfo.
re: #111 Charles Johnson
These days when I see a Twitter blue check account, I suspect disinfo.
I can’t find any news reports to support this claim, unfortunately.
re: #111 Charles Johnson
These days when I see a Twitter blue check account, I suspect disinfo.
It is a paid account, but looking at a couple of screens of their Tweets, they seem to be OK.
re: #104 Charles Johnson
AI corporate lawyers?
re: #112 Charles Johnson
I can’t find any news reports to support this claim, unfortunately.
Republicans certainly should be asking Trump to drop out; we’ll see if he puts on the kind of performance during the debate next week that brings some of them out in the open.
re: #115 No Malarkey!
I think he could lay a steamer on the floor during the debate and nothing would change in the cult.
re: #112 Charles Johnson
I’m still wondering about the sentencing on 11 July.
I expect Trump to get probation - I just don’t see him going to prison.
If the US is lucky, Trump’s probation will limit his movement and even access to his own organization’s books/finances.
re: #59 A Cranky One
I just want to see Joe ask him about his shark fetish, then kick back and watch the hilarity.
re: #116 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
His campaign would then sell pieces of the steamer to donors.
re: #119 Egregious Philbin
I just want to see Joe ask him about his shark fetish, then kick back and watch the hilarity.
He could just start singing ‘baby shark ta da da’ under his breath.
re: #115 No Malarkey!
Republicans certainly should be asking Trump to drop out; we’ll see if he puts on the kind of performance during the debate next week that brings some of them out in the open.
Would they though, knowing the madman will entirely flip out? Every individual Republican is afraid of him, so they’d have to manage to band together to tell him to drop out, and news of that scheme could leak to Trump. Republicans are already terrified people living in something like the start of Nazi Germany within their party. They want to expand that to the nation.
re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m still wondering about the sentencing on 11 July.
I expect Trump to get probation - I just don’t see him going to prison.
If the US is lucky, Trump’s probation will limit his movement and even access to his own organization’s books/finances.
I think Judge Merchan should sentence Trump to prison: Trump has absolutely no remorse for his crime, he has nothing but contempt for the laws and the criminal justice system of the state of New York, he committed criminal contempt of court ten times violating his gag order and he’s guilty of 34 felonies. I’m pretty sure that anyone else with that record would get at least some time in prison.
re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m still wondering about the sentencing on 11 July.
I expect Trump to get probation - I just don’t see him going to prison.
If the US is lucky, Trump’s probation will limit his movement and even access to his own organization’s books/finances.
So many felonies with zero remorse should result in prison time in a fair system. Unfortunately, the system is rigged in favor of wealthy criminals.
re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m still wondering about the sentencing on 11 July.
I expect Trump to get probation - I just don’t see him going to prison.
If the US is lucky, Trump’s probation will limit his movement and even access to his own organization’s books/finances.
If Merchan follows the usual standards, Trump is going to get at least some prison time. He violated a gag order TEN TIMES, is completely unrepentant and continues to deny everything about the case.
And he’s violated the gag order several more times since he was convicted.
Of course, he may still get Rich Guy Probation.
re: #74 darthstar
Don’t underestimate his ability to seethe with anger and save his rage until after the debate.
Where he’ll go to his safe space and bitch in all caps.
re: #55 Dr. Matt
Very on point….pwning the Libz over caring for people:
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She was just overcome by the holy spirit.
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Fifty years ago today, the film “Chinatown” was released. It’s still one of the best movies I have ever seen.
re: #36 lawhawk
Keith Olbermann had a memory of Mays - playing a game against the Mets, and he hit a clean double but stopped at 1B. Everyone was wondering what that was about, but he knew the next hitter had a great record against the Met pitcher, and promptly hit a homer.
After the game, he indicated that he knew that if he went to second, the Mets would walk the next hitter to get a more favorable L/R matchup, and he recognized the advantage for staying at 1B.
That’s before all the metrics, stats, scouting, and the rest.
He knew.
He just knew.
I love that story!!!
re: #130 darthstar
Pronouns in short supply ingest without fee.
re: #131 Eventual Carrion
She was just overcome by the holy spirit.
//
Too bad there’s no commandment about not coveting thy neighbor’s child. Those Xian preachers would have no more excuses.
re: #127 darthstar
Paywalled, sadly. Was interested to read it.
re: #116 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
I think he could lay a steamer on the floor during the debate and nothing would change in the cult.
We don’t care about the cult. They’re not going to vote for Biden. We care about the “pox on both houses” and leftist “purity ponies”.
The people who want their taxes lowered but are pro-choice.
The people who hate Biden for being anti-Palestinian.
The people who think Biden is too old.
US Attorney’s Office: Former CEO Of Medical Device Company Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Creating And Selling A Fake Component That Was Implanted Into Patient
From at least in or about 2017 up to and including 2020, PERRYMAN, as Stimwave’s CEO, engaged in a multi-year scheme (the “Scheme”) to design, create, manufacture, and market an inert, non-functioning component of the Device — called the “White Stylet.” The White Stylet was marketed as a receiver of radiofrequency energy, but it was made of plastic and could not function as a receiver.
First, six year is way too lenient. Second, every hospital/clinician involved should, at a minimum, be forced to reimburse but there should be loss of license and jail time for at least a few more.
What happened was that there was a component of the Stimwave system that was too large for implant in some patients. Rather than figure that out upfront before surgery, they’d go ahead with surgery and then go “huh, the ‘pink” doesn’t fit - give me that white piece of plastic and I’ll shove it in instead so that I can make me money!!!1!”
When I click on Miami, FL, the tool you link says the future analog will Abu Arish, KSA.
That is downright weird. Abu Arish is a very dry climate, while future Miami will be even wetter than it is now.
I suspect "Analog" in the tool's description isn't really much of a real climate descriptor.
— Freetoken (@freetoken.bsky.social) 2024-06-20T20:41:37.330Z
I’m referencing this online tool as discussed in the Bsky OP:
Look up your own city.
re: #138 aatharuv
Yes, but the response was to people saying if he barfed the debate that rethugs go down the ‘he grew should drop out’ path.
re: #116 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
I think he could lay a steamer on the floor during the debate and nothing would change in the cult.
Not so. They’d treat it as manna from heaven to be adulated and worshiped. Trump, of course, would declare it to be the finest, most perfectly shaped, and largest turd ever produced and start offering pictures of it as NFTs.
re: #133 Ace Rothstein
Fifty years ago today, the film “Chinatown” was released. It’s still one of the best movies I have ever seen.
I have it #2 on my greatest movies list, right behind Casablanca.
re: #123 No Malarkey!
I think Judge Merchan should sentence Trump to prison: Trump has absolutely no remorse for his crime, he has nothing but contempt for the laws and the criminal justice system of the state of New York, he committed criminal contempt of court ten times violating his gag order and he’s guilty of 34 felonies. I’m pretty sure that anyone else with that record would get at least some time in prison.
But he’s not anyone else. He will, as usual, escape any real penalty for his crimes, unless suddenly there is justice in our nation. The only realistic hope is that he loses big time in the election. And maybe the criminal organization still known as the GOP fails too.
re: #122 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Would they though, knowing the madman will entirely flip out? Every individual Republican is afraid of him, so they’d have to manage to band together to tell him to drop out, and news of that scheme could leak to Trump. Republicans are already terrified people living in something like the start of Nazi Germany within their party. They want to expand that to the nation.
And the thing is they COULD have banded together to rein him in when he took office. But they were getting what they wanted - and hurting “those people” - so even the ones who spoke out like Jeff Flake voted party line and then left office.
For want of a spine and even the tiniest moral courage….
re: #67 lawhawk
Flood the zone with new courts, circuits, and supreme court seats to match the number of circuits (as it was done for most of US history).
We’ve discussed this before here, and it would require killing the filibuster, taking the House, and keeping the Senate and WH to make happen.
This current SCOTUS is a right wing extremist abomination, making the Taney court pale in comparison.
I’d also like to expand the House.
It grew repeatedly for the first 150 years of the country; we settled on a “permanent” 435 back when the nation’s population was 135 million.
There should be as many members of Congress as the architect can fit into the chamber. It might mean smaller seats closer together, losing the gallery and the cloakrooms… but I’ll bet we could do 6 or 7 hundred. That would also bring the electoral college much closer to the popular vote.
And statehood for DC and PR.
re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg
Miami Herald is a subscribe I think about monthly.
Great paper. Haven’t done it yet…
re: #35 darthstar
Trump has no presence in many states…just shows how confident he is in the courts.
Trump is expecting the GOP, including the local levels, to do all the spending and lifting for him. After all, he owns them.
re: #12 Dr. Matt
If you believe things happen in threes: Willie Mays, Donald Sutherland, and ?
Anouk Aimeé
re: #55 Dr. Matt
“If you want to respect the rule of law, you gotta start from the original law given which was Moses. …” stated Landry
“Governor urges us to obey our Jewish Overlords!”
re: #133 Ace Rothstein
Fifty years ago today, the film “Chinatown” was released. It’s still one of the best movies I have ever seen.
I agree and for reasons I really don’t want to admit…
re: #138 aatharuv
We don’t care about the cult. They’re not going to vote for Biden. We care about the “pox on both houses” and leftist “purity ponies”.
Those people are being actively targeted by the Right. They know that idealists are suckers for ratfucking Machiavellian manipulation.
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