Seth Meyers: Michael Cohen Reveals What Trump Said About Melania in Dramatic Testimony
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re: #61 DodgerFan1988
Didn’t someone make movie out of these sort of things?
We have sod smarter than Eric Trump pic.twitter.com/zreTL3tub5
— Four Seasons Total Landscaping (@TotalSeasons) May 13, 2024
Watching logistics at work:
The package I ordered on Friday, from a company just outside of Chicago… shipped on UPS on Friday, made it to the UPS facility in Hodgkins (The Chicago Area Consolidation Hub (CACH) is a United Parcel Service (UPS) facility in Hodgkins, Illinois that sorts packages and is the world’s largest ground package sorting facility), from where it went to Louisville (KY) on Saturday morning, where it waited for two days… and then left Louisville, KY, at 4:15PM today and arrived back in … Rockford, IL, just 40 miles from where it started.
And then we wonder why greenhouse gas emissions keep going up.
re: #3 teleskiguy
There’s a guy in my neighborhood with this on his wheel cover on his Jeep. It used to be a confederate flag. Yes. In my own neighborhood there are some right shitheads.
I used to defend police, because I knew some of them and they weren’t bad people.
But I’m at the point now where I think the whole concept has always been a really bad idea, even if they’re not all bad.
Well coming home from the gym tonight I saw my first Kennedy ‘24 bumper sticker…
Back in 2020 there were a smattering of Trump/Pence signs in my neighborhood, even some flags here and there. I noticed signs and even a couple of flags disappeared after Fuckface made the remarks about soldier “suckers and losers” who died in combat.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
I’ve been ACAB for a while now, and I personally know cops. Two of my best friends growing up, their father’s were cops. They’re bullies acting out their sick fantasies, hoping one day they’ll be able to shoot a scofflaw with their Glock.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
yeah, I’ve come to realize that I get a pass for being a white middle class dude. I grew up thinking that what was written on the cars was true, ‘to protect and to serve”. Nowadays it translates to ‘watch your ass if you ain’t white” with the corollary ‘some people’s property is worth more than your life”.
re: #13 piratedan
some people’s property is worth more than your life
And if you have to ask, no, you’re not in the protected group.
Out of all the police encounters I’ve had, three of them were non-problematic and all three involved women cops.
My car has been searched on the side of the road twice (they found nothing both times). When I was 17 at house party out in the country we had guns drawn on us because the irate neighbor two miles away calling in the party told the cops we were shooting guns (we weren’t). I wish I had money to hire lawyers to sue sometimes.
re: #12 darthstar
Nah. In these days with Ring cameras and I know for fucken certain this guy has guns and fantasizes about using them on humans he hates, too risky.
re: #20 Joe Bacon ✅
He really captured the two lawyers.
The latest from Stewpid Peters…
‘Dictatorial kingship’: Trump supporter Stew Peters calls for absolute monarchy
Stew Peters, a far-right supporter of former President Donald Trump supporter and conspiracy theorist with hundreds of thousands of followers, said on social media Monday that America should abandon democracy.
“I am in favor of the installation of a monarchy,” Peters posted. “A dictatorial kingship that will reintroduce normalcy, Christian values and the RULE OF LAW. A system that will indict, try and FRY convicted war criminals and pedophiles. A power that will secure the borders of our country, and consider AMERICA FIRST in every decision that it faces. This is the way.”
Trump faced backlash late last year when he publicly quipped he would be a dictator on “day one” if re-elected to the White House.
In recent weeks, many of his supporters have suggested they might not accept the 2024 presidential election results if Trump loses.
Peters followed up later with another post. “Elections are fake,” he wrote. “The idea of a two-party constitutional republic is fake. Congress is fake. Our entire system of government has been an illusion for the American people to believe they live under some sort of ‘democracy’. It’s ALL FAKE. There is no political solution for the current state of affairs in this country. You are not going to vote your way out of a tyrannical overtaking. We don’t need any more political candidates. What this country needs is another William Wallace.”
Last September, he reportedly called for the execution of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter at ReAwaken America, a far-right Christian nationalist rally held by Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
The following month, he said on a stream that Catholic charity workers who help migrants with their asylum requests should be shot.
re: #23 Joe Bacon ✅
Yes, MAGA Republicans are incompatible with democracy. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
The easy way is to outvote these MAGA vermin consistently enough to drive them back to their pigsties in defeat.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
I used to defend police, because I knew some of them and they weren’t bad people.
But I’m at the point now where I think the whole concept has always been a really bad idea, even if they’re not all bad.
I had an experience in 2018 that made me realize my White privilege. I had just leased a new Lincoln and we were driving to Toronto to visit our son and I was just letting Lincoln get used to the road…
AND THEN BLAMMO!!!!
We got pulled over by a State Trooper! I got clocked at 87. The cop saw this old lady behind the wheel with an old man in the passenger seat and nobody else in the car (an SUV so no trunk to hide in). I got off with a warning and “enjoy your trip to Toronto!”
*sigh*
Toronto days are gone, sadly, but Miami days are coming! All I know about driving in Florida is that traffic lights are really long!
I want to drive my car down to Florida. It would take like 3 days but so what? My kids want to put me & Z on an airplane & then one of my sons drives down to Florida. I want to drive myself. It would be nice to have a companion, like a granddaughter who has a driver’s license, but I want to do this. Should I?
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
I want to drive my car down to Florida. It would take like 3 days but so what? My kids want to put me & Z on an airplane & then one of my sons drives down to Florida. I want to drive myself. It would be nice to have a companion, like a granddaughter who has a driver’s license, but I want to do this. Should I?
If you want to of course you should, assuming you are a good driver.
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
I want to drive my car down to Florida. It would take like 3 days but so what? My kids want to put me & Z on an airplane & then one of my sons drives down to Florida. I want to drive myself. It would be nice to have a companion, like a granddaughter who has a driver’s license, but I want to do this. Should I?
Do it! Find a bunch of inaccurate historical roadside signs as a fun project.
re: #29 No Malarkey!
If you want to of course you should, assuming you are a good driver.
I have driven to New York & back numerous times, and in 2013 I drove to Huntsville, AL. Both drives are approximately 12 hours and we stopped for the night.
Florida is farther, will take more overnight stops, but I would love to do this. I am not weak or feeble but I do have some joint pain.
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
I want to drive my car down to Florida. It would take like 3 days but so what? My kids want to put me & Z on an airplane & then one of my sons drives down to Florida. I want to drive myself. It would be nice to have a companion, like a granddaughter who has a driver’s license, but I want to do this. Should I?
Alone? no.
With a grandkid who you trust as a second driver? Heck yes! It’ll be an adventure for you, and you deserve one. And whatever happens, it’ll be a memory that grandkid has for the rest of their lives.
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
I want to drive my car down to Florida. It would take like 3 days but so what? My kids want to put me & Z on an airplane & then one of my sons drives down to Florida. I want to drive myself. It would be nice to have a companion, like a granddaughter who has a driver’s license, but I want to do this. Should I?
Yes, with a grand daughter.
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
I want to drive my car down to Florida. It would take like 3 days but so what? My kids want to put me & Z on an airplane & then one of my sons drives down to Florida. I want to drive myself. It would be nice to have a companion, like a granddaughter who has a driver’s license, but I want to do this. Should I?
From such adventures are family legends born. Even a less than stellar trip can make for a great story!
re: #35 CleverToad
From such adventures are family legends born. Even a less than stellar trip can make for a great story!
And sometimes movies.
re: #9 Joe Bacon ✅
Well coming home from the gym tonight I saw my first Kennedy ‘24 bumper sticker…
No good.
re: #35 CleverToad
From such adventures are family legends born. Even a less than stellar trip can make for a great story!
The worse the trip, the better the story. The further in the past, the better the story.
What do you call an Academy Award winning actress with a sore throat? Meryl Strep
ACAB is right.
And as for that “protect and serve” propaganda on the cars, I really want to get a sticker to add on the end of that whenever I can: “the 1% & only if they’re white”
Memories of when Tony Moon and his Proud Boy pals triggered a couple anti-LGBTQ riots here in Koreatown…and the LAPD sided with them every step of the way…
Meanwhile Tony Moon continues to boast that he got away with vandalizing the Capitol on 1/6 and nobody will lay a finger on him…
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
I want to drive my car down to Florida. It would take like 3 days but so what? My kids want to put me & Z on an airplane & then one of my sons drives down to Florida. I want to drive myself. It would be nice to have a companion, like a granddaughter who has a driver’s license, but I want to do this. Should I?
I think driving imparts a sense to freedom for the driver…I feel it. My mother and I took a road trip In 2003 - she was age 93 - and said, “I love every inch of this road.” The look on her face was very serious.
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
I want to drive my car down to Florida. It would take like 3 days but so what? My kids want to put me & Z on an airplane & then one of my sons drives down to Florida. I want to drive myself. It would be nice to have a companion, like a granddaughter who has a driver’s license, but I want to do this. Should I?
Heck yes. That would be a lovely time, with or without a companion.
Adventures are exquisite for everyone at every age.
Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry https://t.co/yjBpZNoVWB
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 13, 2024
A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling.
The car, launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China, but drives well and is put together with craftsmanship that rivals U.S.-made electric vehicles that cost three times as much. A shorter-range version costs under $10,000.
Tariffs on imported Chinese vehicles probably will keep the Seagull away from America’s shores for now, and it likely would sell for more than 12 grand if imported.
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U.S. politicians and manufacturers already see Chinese EVs as a serious threat. The Biden administration on Tuesday is expected to announce 100% tariffs on electric vehicles imported from China, saying they pose a threat to U.S. jobs and national security…
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Ford CEO Jim Farley has seen Caresoft’s work on the Seagull and observed BYD’s rapid growth across the globe, especially in Europe, where he used to run Ford’s operations. He’s moving to change his company. A small “skunkworks” team is designing a new, small EV from the ground up to keep costs down and quality high, he told analysts earlier this year.
Chinese makers, Farley said, sold almost no EVs in Europe two years ago, but now they have 10% of the electric vehicle market. It’s likely they’ll export around the globe and possibly sell in the U.S.
Ford is preparing to counter that. “Don’t take anything for granted,” Farley said. “This CEO doesn’t.”
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
I want to drive my car down to Florida. It would take like 3 days but so what? My kids want to put me & Z on an airplane & then one of my sons drives down to Florida. I want to drive myself. It would be nice to have a companion, like a granddaughter who has a driver’s license, but I want to do this. Should I?
As long as you have a companion?
Definitely.
You might be able to get yourself to Florida another way, but (IMO) getting there the way you want to is a better experience than getting there the way you have to.
re: #57 Charles Johnson
I’ll just note that I’m not a fan of Seth A. At all. But draw your own conclusions.
Don’t know much about Seth, just thought he is pointing out some obvious details about Trump that MSM appears to be overlooking. Seth is also selling his previous book(s), and we probably can expect another one to follow soon.
As you well know, Michael Cohen was Trump’s numero uno fixer, pre-litigation thug, a replacement” for Trump’s mentor - NY political fixer Roy Cohen (albeit a replacement that Trump knew he could manipulate unlike Roy Cohen).
Michael Cohen has taken an immunity bath, and if he lies under oath, or veers off the relevant testimony path, and pisses off the NY State prosecution - he goes back to jail.
If a jury believed Sammy “the Bull” Gravano credible, maybe this one will believe Michael Cohen.
With the caveat YMMV, some more items I found interesting:
Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson
99/ As noted, Trump is a career criminal who got rich off crime. When litigation arises, it’s because one of his victims has sued him. So litigation represents a failure of his criminal scheme.
Cohen’s role—as an unscrupulous consigliere—was to help Trump crime *pre-litigation*.
100/ For *that* work, you do not want a lawyer. You want a thug you have attorney-client privilege with. Thus, Cohen—so bad an attorney you could have barely called him that even before he was disbarred. He was around to have secret chats with Trump and then go threaten people.
107/ Trump often underpays his closest lackeys on the assumption that they know, and he knows, that—*to a point*—he’ll allow them to use his name to earn side deals, as long as Trump is getting a taste of anything particularly big.
I learned all about this as a Trump biographer.
110/ This whole case is proof Trump was right (as a career criminal) to be concerned about paying his lackeys!
It’s precisely his attempt to reimburse Cohen at once for (a) his fixer services, and (b) the outlay Cohen made to Daniels via his own bank loan, that led to this case.
114/ Cohen has testified that at times he’d do six figures worth of legal and nonlegal work, and Trump wouldn’t pay him—though arguably, given his supposed net worth, he easily could—but would instead offer him perks (like an EVP position at the Trump Org) he could use for graft.
121/ The veritable sea of destroyed small businesses Trump left in his wake is *staggering* in its bloody breadth and depth. These are working and middle-class people Trump—via Cohen—stole millions and millions of dollars from over *decades* because for whatever reason he knew…
135/ Trump is going to ask this jury, very soon, to blame *Cohen* for that conduct. Not Trump, who orchestrated it, or law enforcement, who let it happen for decades and thereby enabled it after-the-fact, but Cohen.
The problem? *Cohen already served his punishment for this*.
138/ Indeed, this is one way to understand this case, in conjunction with what we’ve already discussed about how Trump’s FBI and DOJ caused the case we see before us today at the state level: Donald Trump was so desperate to lie to voters *on a schedule* he created a paper trail.
142/ Trump wasn’t just obsessed with his media coverage, but he believed—rightly!—that he could negotiate that coverage with corporate media via threats and promises and backroom deals and appeals to their greed. (This is one of many reasons to read *indie* journalists on Trump.)
147/ This is why, as Cohen just testified, his phone’s 30,000 contacts were *synched* with Trump’s—so when Trump had an issue with someone, Cohen had access to that person for a shakedown or follow-up negotiation *immediately*. It also explains the extraordinary access Cohen had.
re: #51 Dr Lizardo
I don’t know what I just watched.
re: #38 Vicious Babushka
Who should play me in the movie?
Queen Elizabeth, of course — Olivia Colman.
re: #56 teleskiguy
I don’t know what I just watched.
And it’s glorious.
Here’s the premise:
An accident destroys a decaying New York City-like metropolis. Cesar Catilina, an idealist architect with the power to control time, aims to rebuild the city as a sustainable utopia, while his opposition, corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo. Torn between them is Franklyn’s socialite daughter, Julia, who, tired of the influence she inherited, searches for her life’s meaning.
re: #51 Dr Lizardo
I don’t know if Megalopolis will be a box-office success, but I’ll be damned if Francis Ford Coppola isn’t swinging for the fences…..
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re: #58 Dr Lizardo
And it’s glorious.
Here’s the premise:
Helluva cast, looks intriguing, and Coppola’s put $120 million of his own money where his mouth is with this one.
Given his track record post-Apocalypse Now, it’s a bold gamble.
re: #58 Dr Lizardo
And it’s glorious.
Here’s the premise:
Serious potential there. It’s either going to be Star Wars or Silverado but damn at least he’s going for it.
If you don’t want New Yorkers on the jury, don’t do crime in New York…
— Eric Geeks 🏳️🌈 (@UpBeatGeeks) May 14, 2024
re: #59 TedStriker
Helluva cast, looks intriguing, and Coppola’s put $120 million of his own money where his mouth is with this one.
Given his track record post-Apocalypse Now, it’s a bold gamble.
It may end up being an ambitious failure, but by Odin’s beard, at least it’s original. Nice to see in the era of endless retreads, remakes, reboots and re-imaginings.
re: #62 Dr Lizardo
It may end up being an ambitious failure, but by Odin’s beard, at least it’s original. Nice to see in the era of endless retreads, remakes, reboots and re-imaginings.
No shit… and that it’s coming from Coppola this late in his life is all the more surprising.
While he’s directed quite a few movies since Apocalypse Now, Coppola’s winning streak pretty much ended there in the late 70s. In the intervening decades, as he eased away from film to build his wine business, a lot of people wrote him off as a well that only had four good pumps (The Godfather Parts 1 & 2, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now); I know, this was only a trailer, but goddamn… could FFC have one more really good (or even great) one in him as a career capstone? We’ll see…
re: #63 TedStriker
No shit… and that it’s coming from Coppola this late in his life is all the more surprising.
While he’s directed many movies since Apocalypse Now, Coppola’s winning streak pretty much ended there in the late 70s. In the intervening decades, as he eased away from film to build his wine business, a lot of people wrote him off as a well that only had four good pumps (The Godfather Parts 1 & 2, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now); I know, this was only a trailer, but goddamn… could FFC have one more really good (or even great) one in him as a career capstone? We’ll see…
I’m looking forward to it and I’ll see when it opens (probably later this year). I’m old enough to remember, albeit dimly, that Apocalypse Now was quite polarizing when it was released, yet it’s now considered one of the greatest American films.
Apparently, when this film was screened for the studio bigwigs, they were somewhat perplexed, but I think that may have been more a case of them muttering to themselves, “Jesus Christ, how the hell do we market something like this?” if this trailer is anything to go on. It certainly isn’t likely to be your standard popcorn flick, to say the least.
re: #66 Dr Lizardo
I’m looking forward to it and I’ll see when it opens (probably later this year). I’m old enough to remember, albeit dimly, that Apocalypse Now was quite polarizing when it was released, yet it’s now considered one of the greatest American films.
Apparently, when this film was screened for the studio bigwigs, they were somewhat perplexed, but I think that may have been more a case of them muttering to themselves, “Jesus Christ, how the hell do we market something like this?” if this trailer is anything to go on. It certainly isn’t likely to be your standard popcorn flick, to say the least.
It certainly looks like it’s worth going to the Imax screen to see at least once.
A very uncomfortable reality of mine: I fucken suck, my people forcibly took the land and killed the natives with disease (God’s Will!) and war.
This history of the United States can be summed up in two words: Fuck you.
re: #68 teleskiguy
A very uncomfortable reality of mine: I fucken suck, my people forcibly took the land and killed the natives with disease (God’s Will!) and war.
This history of the United States can be summed up in two words: Fuck you.
True. OTOH, the United States defeated three of the most evil slave empires in history: the Confederacy, the Third Reich and Imperial Japan, and we’ve given countless millions of people from all over the world the opportunity to improve their lot, so that has to count for something.
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
I want to drive my car down to Florida. It would take like 3 days but so what? My kids want to put me & Z on an airplane & then one of my sons drives down to Florida. I want to drive myself. It would be nice to have a companion, like a granddaughter who has a driver’s license, but I want to do this. Should I?
Road trip!
re: #38 Vicious Babushka
Who should play me in the movie?
Catherine zeta-jones
(I read the other replies first)
re: #73 Dangerman
Road trip!
I used to drive from Chicago to Florida straight through, maybe stopping for a snooze at some safe roadside place when I was a teenager. Now, I can’t imagine driving more than an hour. My hands start to ache and that’s that. If I keep going, my hands will be useless for days.
The joys of aging. Yay.
I started suspecting that the NY Times editor was doing something sneaky and evil, so I took some time to find the most evil word I could think of. I was right.
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re: #28 Vicious Babushka
I want to drive my car down to Florida. It would take like 3 days but so what? My kids want to put me & Z on an airplane & then one of my sons drives down to Florida. I want to drive myself. It would be nice to have a companion, like a granddaughter who has a driver’s license, but I want to do this. Should I?
late to the party, but of course! As long as you have a driving companion. We’re not getting any younger. I did Clemson to Breadloaf (Middlebury) six years ago, which is 1200 miles. I ate something at the hotel breakfast that didn’t really agree with me and I got to spend 200 miles or so in New York just a bit worried I was gonna have to pull over and puke. I’m not THAT old, but even so, it was just a bit worrying. When you’re by yourself, you can’t exactly just go into the passenger seat and suffer for a bit. It’s you driving, or you finding a hospital, or you pulled over on the side of the road hoping you can get cell service, even though you can’t get siriusxm or gps.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
So, why is Trump claiming Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man and can’t remember Jimmy Carter’s name, and why is he hoping the media fixates on this instead of the courtroom action?
Because Trump’s fucked in the courtroom - the evidence is overwhelming and beyond a reasonable doubt. That was even before Cohen took the stand. Cohen corroborated the evidence previously submitted and undermined Trump’s so-called defense - that this whole thing was to keep the news from Melania, when Trump never cared what Melania thought about being caught with a porn star.
In Japanese cities, especially Tokyo, those who are fortunate to own a house often have small (by American standards) lots, but many Japanese are avid gardeners and intensely garden their lot.
Here’s a selection of private residences, and a temple ground:
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The dense plantings help counter the air pollution, and also the noise pollution.
That latter is often overlooked by Americans, at least out here, who want to scrape a lot barren for the sake of “curb appeal”.
re: #45 William Lewis
ACAB is right.
And as for that “protect and serve” propaganda on the cars, I really want to get a sticker to add on the end of that whenever I can: “the 1% & only if they’re white”
“To protect our interests and serve our benefactors”
re: #77 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Tricksy Tuesday.
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re: #49 Belafon
Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry
Remember how US car manufacturers ignored the small and compact car market until the oil crisis came along, at which point the Japanese could not send us enough small cars and trucks to satisfy demand?
Trump Was Incredibly Bad At Presidenting
Put aside everything else, and it’s a job. He never had the skills for it. Still doesn’t.
…Bottom line is that Trump didn’t know much and doesn’t even know how to learn more, and you can’t be good at the job without knowing much. That, even more than his disregard for the rule of law, made him a very dangerous president for four years, and given that there’s no evidence he’s learned anything it would make him a very dangerous president again.
awful lot of political figures showing up in NYC for ‘support’
and clearly, not a lot of family, with certain ones conspicuously absent
and they just make a one day appearance
no one’s there every day in solidarity
it’s just tag team for the performance
re: #70 No Malarkey!
True. OTOH, the United States defeated three of the most evil slave empires in history: the Confederacy, the Third Reich and Imperial Japan, and we’ve given countless millions of people from all over the world the opportunity to improve their lot, so that has to count for something.
America was the land of hope and promise for millions of people escaping Evil Empires in the 19th and 20th centures. (my grandparents included)
And back then it was open and welcoming to most all of them.
We don’t just suck, like every nation, we have our positive and negative aspects. Ours are just bigger because we are larger and more prominent on the world stage.
re: #75 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I used to drive from Chicago to Florida straight through, maybe stopping for a snooze at some safe roadside place when I was a teenager. Now, I can’t imagine driving more than an hour. My hands start to ache and that’s that. If I keep going, my hands will be useless for days.
The joys of aging. Yay.
It was solo travel and driving but I did a two week vacation about a decade ago where the main goal was to visit the Shiloh battlefield in southwestern Tennessee. I lived in Philadelphia at the time. The key thing I did with the driving was that I only did 6-7 hours of driving maximum per day. I usually got going in the morning and drove 4-5 hours and then stopped somewhere for lunch, but also to tourist for an hour or so. It could be a state park, a museum, etc. And then did a second drive to reach whatever location I had planned to stop for the night. If that location had a planned tourist visit stop I did that visit in the morning before starting a segment of driving.
I did a couple of stops just on a whim as well and came across some really neat things like a nice museum built around a fossil site in Tennessee. Just off the highway connecting Roanoke, VA to Chattanooga, TN. Besides visiting a number of US Civil War battlefields I gave myself whole days for cities like Memphis, Nashville, etc.
Train and REO Speedwagon performing together? I will pass.
re: #68 teleskiguy
A very uncomfortable reality of mine: I fucken suck, my people forcibly took the land and killed the natives with disease (God’s Will!) and war.
This history of the United States can be summed up in two words: Fuck you.
You’re not responsible for the sins of your ancestors. Full stop.
For vacations to the Outer Banks, I would leave upstate NY domicile at midnight and drive 12 hours straight. The first six hours would go by like a dream, and once the sun came up you knew it was almost over. I know this wouldn’t work for most older people, but getting through NJ and DC before rush hour was key.
re: #100 JC1
You’re not responsible for the sins of your ancestors. Full stop.
We are responsible for the exploitation we benefit from today.
re: #49 Belafon
The Biden administration on Tuesday is expected to announce 100% tariffs on electric vehicles imported from China, saying they pose a threat to U.S. jobs and national security
And this is why claims at tackling climate change by the US Administration are false.
As if their bragging about record “oil” (remember, it’s end product liquids they are counting, not traditional petroleum) wasn’t enough to clue us in.
Mornin’ all…
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re: #101 Shropshire Slasher
For vacations to the Outer Banks, I would leave upstate NY domicile at midnight and drive 12 hours straight. The first six hours would go by like a dream, and once the sun came up you knew it was almost over. I know this wouldn’t work for most older people, but getting through NJ and DC before rush hour was key.
Doing East Coast drives from Philly my goal heading south was to get going early and clear Philadelphia and Wilmington before rush hour. I usually got past Baltimore as well. Once I hit any sort of traffic backup on the Beltway around D.C. I’d take the nearest exit and stop for breakfast.
Heading northward it was early start and deciding how far west and north I was willing to go to avoid the NYC traffic.
And today’s Special Guest Star in the courtroom is…
Speaker Jesusbot!
oh and Tommy T is back for a second day, too!
re: #49 Belafon
[U.S. politicians and manufacturers already see Chinese EVs as a serious threat. The Biden administration on Tuesday is expected to announce 100% tariffs on electric vehicles imported from China, saying they pose a threat to U.S. jobs and national security…
Full-on protectionism.
Don’t believe anyone who advocates a “Free Market” system. This has fuck all to do with anything we consider “free trade”. Energy and Transportation are controlled by cartels who dictate to government how to regulate the market in their favor.
re: #102 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
We are responsible for the exploitation we benefit from today.
Sure. But unless you’re a major shareholder or partner in a company doing the exploitation, that’s not on you either. Collective racial guilt is pointless/counterproductive as well.
More Japanese roses… looks like it was raining yesterday in Tokyo:
The location is the Kyū-Furukawa Gardens, a park with a manor house built in the English style. Oddly out of place in Japan, but it fits in with the Japanese delight in eccentricities.
It’s in the middle of a typical high-density area full of tightly packed residences:
These mixed-use areas are very dense and I always thought a bit depressing, but at least the locals have three large gardens to go visit, within walking distance.
The rose foliage is very clean, as it is in early spring. Once the warm nights show up the mildew attacks.
I used to grow roses here and was rather good at it. In coastal California one can grow roses year round, but one is always fighting the mildew if there are warm nights.
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Full-on protectionism.
Don’t believe anyone who advocates a “Free Market” system. This has fuck all to do with anything we consider “free trade”. Energy and Transportation are controlled by cartels who dictate to government how to regulate the market in their favor.
It’s a bit more complicated than that. We import plenty of EVs from South Korea and various EU countries (though mostly Germany). Imports from China would be so heavily subsidized that it wouldn’t really be a free market situation.
re: #86 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
So, why is Trump claiming Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man and can’t remember Jimmy Carter’s name, and why is he hoping the media fixates on this instead of the courtroom action?
Because Trump’s fucked in the courtroom - the evidence is overwhelming and beyond a reasonable doubt. That was even before Cohen took the stand. Cohen corroborated the evidence previously submitted and undermined Trump’s so-called defense - that this whole thing was to keep the news from Melania, when Trump never cared what Melania thought about being caught with a porn star.
Uncovered, Part I: Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti
(today’s electoral-vote.com explainer)
re: #110 JC1
It’s a bit more complicated than that. We import plenty of EVs from South Korea and various EU countries (though mostly Germany). Imports from China would be so heavily subsidized that it wouldn’t really be a free market situation.
Granted.
Yet the idea of a 100% tariff really is just hard-core protetionism.
And South Korea subsidizes its EV makers too.
re: #108 JC1
Sure. But unless you’re a major shareholder or partner in a company doing the exploitation, that’s not on you either. Collective racial guilt is pointless/counterproductive as well.
If you grew up in a house for which your parents got a federal loan guarantee while people in black neighborhoods were not eligible (due to Red-Lining), you have also benefitted from institutionalized racism.
re: #51 Dr Lizardo
I don’t know if Megalopolis will be a box-office success, but I’ll be damned if Francis Ford Coppola isn’t swinging for the fences…..
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I didn’t realize this, but Francis Ford Coppola is 85. I mean, I should have, he’s been an active director since I was a kid, but…yeah, you get what I mean.
The names given to the actors in the film give late Roman Republic vibes (Catilina, Cicero, Pulcher, Crassus) and the trailer gives hints of same.
re: #115 mmmirele
The real-life Catilinarian conspiracy of 63 BC seems to be a source of inspiration.
This is a film I’m genuinely looking forward to. It’ll premiere at Cannes this Friday, and I’m curious as to what will be said about it.
re: #110 JC1
It’s a bit more complicated than that. We import plenty of EVs from South Korea and various EU countries (though mostly Germany). Imports from China would be so heavily subsidized that it wouldn’t really be a free market situation.
The point is that markets need regulation. Unrestricted Globalism is just an excuse to institutionalize the International Kleptocracy.
And I have no problem with competing against other nations in terms of wages; that is our incentive to work smarter and more efficiently (which the USA is very good at), but when they are competing on lax environmental, health and safety regulations, we are not only shooting ourselves in the foot, we are giving them no incentive to clean up their own act.
re: #101 Shropshire Slasher
For vacations to the Outer Banks, I would leave upstate NY domicile at midnight and drive 12 hours straight. The first six hours would go by like a dream, and once the sun came up you knew it was almost over. I know this wouldn’t work for most older people, but getting through NJ and DC before rush hour was key.
In my younger days, when I was setting off for a week or two on the bike, I’d leave long island a day early just for that reason. Get past all the idiocy and stop early.
Then on the way back land in southern NJ Saturday night and cruise back on Sunday in all the freaking summer traffic.
re: #104 darthstar
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There is, I propose, a difference between collective guilt and collective responsibility.
I am not guilty for the sins of my ancestors.
Still, I think we are all responsible for how we want to address what our society became.
Guilt implies the need for punishment.
Responsibility implies the need to make wise decisions.
It is clear that modern society is built on the back of exploiting a great deal of people.
People in the past.
And people today.
re: #105 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Solid strategy. As a NYC metro resident, I’d be trying to get as far south/west/north as possible for my roadtrips before rush hour. We’d try to be west of Binghamton before rush hour if heading towards Finger Lakes, Albany by rush hour, or mostly thru Connecticut before rush. If heading south, we’d be in Baltimore by rush.
re: #106 Joe Bacon ✅
And today’s Special Guest Star in the courtroom is…
Speaker Jesusbot!
oh and Tommy T is back for a second day, too!
Could a reporter please ask: Speaker Johnson, do you approve of one night stands with porn stars while your wife is pregnant?
re: #120 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There is, I propose, a difference between collective guilt and collective responsibility.
I am not guilty for the sins of my ancestors.
Still, I think we are all responsible for how we want to address what our society became.
Guilt implies the need for punishment.
Responsibility implies the need to make wise decisions.
It is clear that modern society is built on the back of exploiting a great deal of people.
People in the past.
And people today.
+1
re: #102 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
We are responsible for the exploitation we benefit from today.
So don’t exploit.
re: #122 Dangerman
Questions for Tuberville and Johnson:
Do you approve of extramarital affairs?
Do you think business fraud is a crime under NY law?
Do you think prosecutors are required to follow the law and prosecute those who break it?
Do you think Joe Biden had anything to do with the NYS prosecution of Trump? Are you a conspiracy nut who has no grounded relationship with facts or the law?
Do you think a jury of peers as agreed by Trump’s defense team via voir dire is not legitimate?
Will you abide by the results of the 2024 election as certified by the states?
re: #122 Dangerman
Could a reporter please ask: Speaker Johnson, do you approve of one night stands with porn stars while your wife is pregnant?
Said Liz Cheney: “Have to admit I’m surprised that Speaker Johnson wants to be in the ‘I cheated on my wife with a porn star’ club. I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.”
BREAKING (ABC News): Federal prosecutors on Tuesday requested the judge overseeing Steve Bannon’s criminal contempt of Congress case to order that he begin his four-month prison sentence.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) May 14, 2024
re: #127 Joe Bacon ✅
Oh boy!
Ramadamadingdong joined the Trump Cheering Squad in the courtroom!
The Party Without Agency continues to double down in their support of Trump.
re: #129 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The Party Without Agency continues to double down in their support of Trump.
Good. When we finally crush Trump, we can sweep out the rest of his ilk.
re: #128 lawhawk
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday requested the judge overseeing Steve Bannon’s criminal contempt of Congress case to order that he begin his four-month prison sentence.
Don’t forget your toothbrush, Steve.
Now the real question: will he go on the lam if/when an arrest warrant is issued? Or will he turn himself in?
re: #131 Dr Lizardo
Don’t forget your toothbrush, Steve.
Now the real question: will he go on the lam if/when an arrest warrant is issued? Or will he turn himself in?
LMAO if Bannon runs into a megachurch and asks for sanctuary…
re: #131 Dr Lizardo
Don’t forget your toothbrush, Steve.
Now the real question: will he go on the lam if/when an arrest warrant is issued? Or will he turn himself in?
Do they supply multiple enough sets of prison wear so bannon can have his signature slovenly layered look?
re: #131 Dr Lizardo
Four months? He can do that standing on his head. (And that would be more entertaining.)
re: #75 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I used to drive from Chicago to Florida straight through, maybe stopping for a snooze at some safe roadside place when I was a teenager. Now, I can’t imagine driving more than an hour. My hands start to ache and that’s that. If I keep going, my hands will be useless for days.
The joys of aging. Yay.
So sorry to hear that! Are there any medications available that can help out?
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re: #77 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Tricksy Tuesday.
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re: #132 Joe Bacon ✅
LMAO if Bannon runs into a megachurch and asks for sanctuary…
Or the Ecuadorian embassy.
re: #137 Markm1960
Or the Ecuadorian embassy.
Now that’d be hysterical. More likely, he’d run into the Russian embassy.
Apparently the RNC co-chair is at the courthouse today seeing how their money is being spent.
Wondering when Leonard The Fixer Leo will show up in the courtroom…
re: #140 darthstar
Sure thing…I’ll find a way to keep myself entertained.
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It would have been epic if Lara Trump punched her husband in the shoulder at this point and said, “Idiot!”
re: #141 darthstar
Apparently the RNC co-chair is at the courthouse today seeing how their money is being spent.
Rogues’ Pilgrimage.
re: #126 Dangerman
“happy mother’s day to the guy who cheated on the mother of his first three children with the mother of his fourth child and cheated on her with the mother of his fifth child and cheated on her with a porn actress who he paid to shut the fuck up about it. republican family values” - Jeff Tiedrich
re: #126 Dangerman
Said Liz Cheney: “Have to admit I’m surprised that Speaker Johnson wants to be in the ‘I cheated on my wife with a porn star’ club. I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.”
His son will get the message
re: #126 Dangerman
Said Liz Cheney: “Have to admit I’m surprised that Speaker Johnson wants to be in the ‘I cheated on my wife with a porn star’ club. I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.”
Did Johnson’s son get an alert that his dad was in courtroom with adulterer, and hoping to see adult film actress or Playboy playmates (Johnson was off a few days).
re: #122 Dangerman
Could a reporter please ask: Speaker Johnson, do you approve of one night stands with porn stars while your wife is pregnant?
Liz Cheney weighed in on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) attendance at Donald Trump’s trial: “Have to admit I’m surprised that @SpeakerJohnson wants to be in the ‘I cheated on my wife with a porn star’ club,”
Heh
Edit. Day late/ dollar short as always
re: #93 Dangerman
Trump Was Incredibly Bad At Presidenting
Put aside everything else, and it’s a job. He never had the skills for it. Still doesn’t.
…
Bottom line is that Trump didn’t know much and doesn’t even know how to learn more, and you can’t be good at the job without knowing much. That, even more than his disregard for the rule of law, made him a very dangerous president for four years, and given that there’s no evidence he’s learned anything it would make him a very dangerous president again.
It’s not that he doesn’t know how to learn more, it’s also that he has no interest in learning more; but if he did, he would be even more dangerous than he is now because every step he takes is designed to destroy our democracy and turn us into Hitler’s Germany.
re: #82 Shropshire Slasher
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This is kind of random, but if any of you ever have a question about dog agility I’m the person to ask. Not only have I competed internationally for all 3 of the main agility organization’s Team USAs at multiple world champioships, but I’m also a top level judge for one of the 3 major agility organizations in the US. I also know most of the people and dogs in these high visibility events. :)
So I can definitely answer questions if any of you have them about dog agility. :)
re: #140 darthstar
Sure thing…I’ll find a way to keep myself entertained.
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I actually did that around age 6 with a piece of an erector set - luckily one leg was bent & I kicked myself across the room with the galvanic shock. Or at least that’s what my mom used to tell me because I sure don’t recall it, although I do recall that erector set.
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If you grew up in a house for which your parents got a federal loan guarantee while people in black neighborhoods were not eligible (due to Red-Lining), you have also benefitted from institutionalized racism.
Sure, but I don’t think that you should feel guilty or ashamed over it.
I’m an immigrant so none of this applies to me personally. It just seems like the equivalent of Japanese Gen Xers being guilty about WW2. It’s really not on you.
re: #151 rhuarc
This is kind of random, but if any of you ever have a question about dog agility I’m the person to ask. Not only have I competed internationally for all 3 of the main agility organization’s Team USAs at multiple world champioships, but I’m also a top level judge for one of the 3 major agility organizations in the US. I also know most of the people and dogs in these high visibility events. :)
So I can definitely answer questions if any of you have them about dog agility. :)
not a question, but…
I love it that “all-American” is the designation for mixed breeds of uncertain heritage.
re: #115 mmmirele
I didn’t realize this, but Francis Ford Coppola is 85. I mean, I should have, he’s been an active director since I was a kid, but…yeah, you get what I mean.
The names given to the actors in the film give late Roman Republic vibes (Catilina, Cicero, Pulcher, Crassus) and the trailer gives hints of same.
That’s what we are living in now — with Trump being Caligula reborn.
Last evening, the ACoE detonated a series of explosions to free the MV Dali from the wreckage of the Key Bridge in Baltimore harbor. That controlled detonation was delayed from the weekend because of weather, but now crews will be able to remove the steel wreckage of the bridge, move the Dali to a berth in port, and work towards clearing the federal channel to allow full cargo operations to resume at the port of Baltimore by the end of the month.
(note that there are emergency tones so you might want to shut off audio).
Let a hundred birdies sing.
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re: #155 sagehen
not a question, but…
I love it that “all-American” is the designation for mixed breeds of uncertain heritage.
Yep. That’s the term the American Kennel Club came up with for mixed breeds in the sport of agility. Now we just generally use it in all of the organizations.
Yet another false claim by Trump supporters in defense of the January 6 rioters has been blown to pieces after House Republicans released their latest batch of footage of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to longtime congressional reporter Jamie Dupree.
Specifically, Dupree wrote, the footage puts the lie to the assertion that police at the Capitol stood by and opened the doors to let the rioters in — a claim that is often used as evidence that the whole event was somehow an entrapment operation to trick Trump supporters into committing acts of violence.
re: #125 lawhawk
Questions for Tuberville and Johnson:
Do you approve of extramarital affairs?
Do you think business fraud is a crime under NY law?
Do you think prosecutors are required to follow the law and prosecute those who break it?
Do you think Joe Biden had anything to do with the NYS prosecution of Trump? Are you a conspiracy nut who has no grounded relationship with facts or the law?Do you think a jury of peers as agreed by Trump’s defense team via voir dire is not legitimate?
Will you abide by the results of the 2024 election as certified by the states?
Johnson voted against certifying Biden in 2020; no reason to expect that his behavior will improve. OTOH Trump could win legitimately, as he did in 2016. And then that’s it for our nation.
re: #140 darthstar
I posted a similar picture on faceplant with a qualifying note about ignorance - got me a 72 hour suspension 😹
re: #165 Joe Bacon ✅
That is a good one. Is the robin going to be okay? I would hate to see him get sick from that worm.
Prosecutor: Why did you make false statements to Congress?
Cohen: I was staying on President Trump’s message that there was no Russia, Russia, Russia.
Prosecutor: Did you continue to lie, and pressure others to lie, about the payoffs to McDougal and Daniels?
Yes— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) May 14, 2024
Justice Merchan: Sustained.
Prosecutor: What was your understanding of who benefited from the joint defense agreement?
Trump’s lawyer Blanche: Objection
Justice Merchan: Overruled.
Cohen: Mr. Trump— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) May 14, 2024
re: #150 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s not that he doesn’t know how to learn more, it’s also that he has no interest in learning more; but if he did, he would be even more dangerous than he is now because every step he takes is designed to destroy our democracy and turn us into Hitler’s Germany.
I think he is interested in learning. But only in learning how to leverage the federal government to benefit himself.
re: #169 Markm1960
Not even. He’s incapable of doing that, and lucked out by having McConnell and FedSoc pack the courts with extremists who have covered for him in every way imaginable.
He simply thinks he can do whatever he wants and that the office of the president is a do-anything-card. Surrounding himself with sycophantic suckups furthers that belief, and his next WH stint will be even more disastrous than his first, and far too many people have already memory holed what kind of a disaster Trump’s first run in the WH truly was.
It’s that so much of what bad happened under Trump is now ascribed to Biden, and Biden good news is just ignored by the media that still insists on a horse race.
Who knew that Palestine could be free by painting bloody hands on the Holocaust memorial on another continent??
A New York appeals court has just denied Trump’s motion challenging his gag order. “We find that Justice Merchan properly weighed petitioner’s First Amendment Rights against the court’s historical commitment to ensuring the fair administration of justice in criminal cases…”
- per Kaitlan Collins on Twitter/X
A New York appeals court has just denied Trump’s motion challenging his gag order. “We find that Justice Merchan properly weighed petitioner’s First Amendment Rights against the court’s historical commitment to ensuring the fair administration of justice in criminal cases…”
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 14, 2024
re: #159 rhuarc
Yep. That’s the term the American Kennel Club came up with for mixed breeds in the sport of agility. Now we just generally use it in all of the organizations.
“Combining the best features of at least a dozen breeds.”
Watch: Mike Johnson leaves Trump’s trial to complain he can’t hold press conference inside
Speaker Mike Johnson is not happy he had to walk outside to hold a press conference in support of Donald Trump.
Johnson joined with former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) at the Manhattan court on Tuesday to support the party’s presumptive nominee for president.
Donald Trump is on trial for 34 felony counts in Manhattan, but instead of appearing in court behind Trump, Johnson walked outside to give an informal press conference to complain that he couldn’t give one inside.
OFFS fuck off Speaker Jesusbot!
re: #175 Dr Lizardo
A New York appeals court has just denied Trump’s motion challenging his gag order. “We find that Justice Merchan properly weighed petitioner’s First Amendment Rights against the court’s historical commitment to ensuring the fair administration of justice in criminal cases…”
No matter, he’s found a way around it. He enlisted a parade of morally bankrupt Republicans to walk out after every break and tell them media what Trump can’t. It’s analog retweets.
re: #177 Joe Bacon ✅
Watch: Mike Johnson leaves Trump’s trial to complain he can’t hold press conference inside
Speaker Mike Johnson is not happy he had to walk outside to hold a press conference in support of Donald Trump.
Johnson joined with former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) at the Manhattan court on Tuesday to support the party’s presumptive nominee for president.
Donald Trump is on trial for 34 felony counts in Manhattan, but instead of appearing in court behind Trump, Johnson walked outside to give an informal press conference to complain that he couldn’t give one inside.
OFFS fuck off Speaker Jesusbot!
Trump is saving a lot of money running ads with the 24-7 media news coverage.
re: #149 BeachDem
Liz Cheney weighed in on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) attendance at Donald Trump’s trial: “Have to admit I’m surprised that @SpeakerJohnson wants to be in the ‘I cheated on my wife with a porn star’ club,”
Heh
Edit. Day late/ dollar short as always
that’s my job around here
re: #180 Eventual Carrion
How much is DT charging for that sign?
Cohen now retelling the FBI investigation and search of his home, office, premises, and evidence gathering. Plus Trump via intermediaries telling him he has nothing to worry about b/c Trump’s in the WH.
DUNNELLON, Fla. (WCJB) - Authorities shut down a major roadway in Marion County as they respond to a deadly crash involving a bus on Tuesday morning. This developing story will be updated as more information is learned.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers say a bus with 53 people on board on State Road 40 between Ocala and Dunnellon around 6:30 a.m. The bus collided with a pickup truck for undetermined reasons causing it to veer off the road and flip.
Troopers say the bus was carrying “migrant workers” to a watermelon farm. Eight people died in the crash and eight more are in critical condition. An additional 37 people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
re: #184 Backwoods Sleuth
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Mike Johnson — who Trump described this morning as a surrogate — attacked Michael COHEN literally outside the building where he is on the stand testifying, saying “This is a man who is clearly on a mission for personal revenge, and who is widely known as a witness who has trouble with the truth.”
mikey
you’re a republican.
re: #120 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There is, I propose, a difference between collective guilt and collective responsibility.
I am not guilty for the sins of my ancestors.
Still, I think we are all responsible for how we want to address what our society became.
Guilt implies the need for punishment.
Responsibility implies the need to make wise decisions.
That is exactly the point that all the anti-CRT people miss out on when they talk about the “Modern Taliban” coming along and destroying monuments to “brave Conferderate heroes”
re: #134 Decatur Deb
Four months? He can do that standing on his head. (And that would be more entertaining.)
And it means he will be out in time to interfere with the election.
re: #153 JC1
Sure, but I don’t think that you should feel guilty or ashamed over it.
I’m an immigrant so none of this applies to me personally. It just seems like the equivalent of Japanese Gen Xers being guilty about WW2. It’s really not on you.
Not guilty or ashamed, just aware that you benefitted from institutionalized racism.
With unending petulance, gerrymandered Ohio Republicans decline simple Biden ballot solution
. “I think we’ve officially sunk lower than Alabama at this point,” Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo, D-Upper Arlington, dryly observed about the state’s descent into autocratic hell.”
GO BUCKS!!
re: #162 Hecuba’s daughter
Johnson voted against certifying Biden in 2020; no reason to expect that his behavior will improve. OTOH Trump could win legitimately, as he did in 2016. And then that’s it for our nation.
Trump could still pull out a win in the EC, no way he will get a popular vote majority.
But again, the GOP has already tipped us off on their strategy: stop or disrupt the vote count while DJT is still ahead. They know full well that the SCROTUS will back them up on any of their claims of “irregularities” or suspicions of “massive voter fraud”
Donald Trump’s allies showed up to support the former president in court.
From left to right: Rep. Byron Donalds, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, House Speaker Mike Johnson, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Rep. Cory Mills. https://t.co/GDUEqqthFk pic.twitter.com/JQmmoHmIfF— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) May 14, 2024
These fuckers want to be in the docket too. If they’re conspiring with Trump, then yeah, they too are trying to overthrow the government and should be prosecuted for their criminal conduct too. Johnson and Donalds are two of the fuckers in the House who voted to overturn the 2020 results. Mills would do so in 2024 if given the option.
Six
In 2020, Trump won 8% of the Black vote
The weighted sample contains 391 Black voters. 13% of all respondents were between 18-29. If weighted the same as the total group, in this poll, the difference between 8% & 20% is 6 responses.
Yep. Even with all that math and science, the… https://t.co/HQAUpluxu9— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) May 14, 2024
re: #122 Dangerman
Could a reporter please ask: Speaker Johnson, do you approve of one night stands with porn stars while your wife is pregnant?
If only.
re: #129 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The Party Without Agency continues to double down in their support of Trump.
Agency, morals, values, ethics. None of them.
re: #198 lawhawk
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These fuckers want to be in the docket too. If they’re conspiring with Trump, then yeah, they too are trying to overthrow the government and should be prosecuted for their criminal conduct too. Johnson and Donalds are two of the fuckers in the House who voted to overturn the 2020 results. Mills would do so in 2024 if given the option.
Thing to bear in mind is every other story about the GQP that’s not about Trump…is about how the party’s Congressional chances in November are effectively hosed. They have no unifying message, no big platform to run on, just hanging on his flabby ass in the blind hope that support for him will trickle down the ticket like the pungent urine of Russian prostitutes. They’re not there to show support for him, they’re there out of hope he’ll say something nice about them to his feral voters.
Gift link
Gift link so everybody can have access to this one:
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/c…— David Sacerdote (@davidsacerdote.bsky.social) 2024-05-13T20:53:51.559Z
Someone trying for SMOTI
Imagine using “STEM” as shorthand for “please don’t question or look up the bullshit I’m spouting”
re: #199 Dangerman
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The polling isn’t there to inform, it’s there to push a narrative, in this case that Trump still has a chance in November because the voters that Biden needs are defecting or planning to stay home. You’ll remember that that was much the same narrative in 2020, that the youth and minority vote was pissed with the Dems over choosing Biden instead of Bernie or another “progressive” candidate and would stay home in “protest.”
re: #206 Targetpractice
The polling isn’t there to inform, it’s there to push a narrative, in this case that Trump still has a chance in November because the voters that Biden needs are defecting or planning to stay home. You’ll remember that that was much the same narrative in 2020, that the youth and minority vote was pissed with the Dems over choosing Biden instead of Bernie or another “progressive” candidate and would stay home in “protest.”
It is also there to promote the horse race that the networks need to keep viewers tuned in and attentive.
re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is also there to promote the horse race that the networks need to keep viewers tuned in and attentive.
Right, sort of like how the corporate media across the pond is still desperately trying to convince the voting public that the Tories have a chance at maintaining a slim majority after the elections.
I imagine that, much like Labour, the Dems are secretly happy with the media continuing to flog their “horse race” narrative, as it keeps tensions high and thus helps turnout compared to a “it’s all over but the crying” narrative.
Meanwhile, publishers are getting fucked over by overwhelming numbers of fake science journal submissions. Publishers like Wiley are shutting down respected medical journals because of the need to retract submissions over discovering they were faked.
The problems at Wiley are traced to a company they purchased that had been overrun with fake submissions that used AI generated nonsense in substantial portions of the submissions.
This problem is going to get worse.
re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg
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Name this band.
I’ll start: The White Gripes
The Usual Suspects.
re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Horndogs and Porn Hogs
Chode the Court Dockets
One thing I discovered during the Fjordman/ GoV sundering & reveal was that there exists a whole school of literary racists who wax eloquent and are eternally winded when it comes to the subject of identity politics; that trend never died and you still see these shit heels all over our campuses.
Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house
theguardian.com
I have a question for cannibals: do hot people actually taste better? Worse? Same? Asking for a friend.
re: #219 BigPapa
I have a question for cannibals: do hot people actually taste better? Worse? Same? Asking for a friend.
I think that depends on how they are preapred. Preferably with lots of chili peppers.
re: #219 BigPapa
I have a question for cannibals: do hot people actually taste better? Worse? Same? Asking for a friend.
Speaking of cannibals, I saw this last night and it’s freaking great.
Now we know what MAGA Mike had to do to debase himself and his office in order to get Trump to fend off Marge Greene with the Freedom Caucus members on the Motion to Vacate. Trump always exacts a price that involves personal humiliation.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 14, 2024
Like most cult leaders are wont to do.
re: #219 BigPapa
I have a question for cannibals: do hot people actually taste better? Worse? Same? Asking for a friend.
A matter of personal preference, I would think. Some people like their meat lean; others prefer a generous marbling of fat.
re: #173 Dr Lizardo
- per Kaitlan Collins on Twitter/X
Too bad that doesn’t stop the his vile family and vile supporters from engaging in that behavior.
re: #223 sagehen
A matter of personal preference, I would think. Some people like their meat lean; others prefer a generous marbling of fat.
I wonder if the cannibal’s palette would prefer a bodybuilder or a Meal Team 6 Chump cultist. Or do all assholes taste like shit?
re: #159 rhuarc
I call those types of dogs a ‘Heinz’.
So, the minimum level for a Heinz is literally 57?
re: #34 darthstar
Not entirely sure this is true but the girls I went to Catholic school with were less than saints.
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weird because I heard that Catholic girls start much too late…
re: #221 Unabogie
saw it at a theater when it first came out… fantastic film. though part of me would have loved it as a series because there seems like a lot to investigate in that universe.
re: #11 teleskiguy
I’ve been ACAB for a while now, and I personally know cops. Two of my best friends growing up, their father’s were cops. They’re bullies acting out their sick fantasies, hoping one day they’ll be able to shoot a scofflaw with their Glock.
One of my (former) best friends growing up is a cop and got fired after he pulled his gun in a homeless man and threatened to “splatter his brains all over the sidewalk” of he didn’t tell him his name.
He got fired but he probably should be in jail.
Heinz 57: because the first 56 recipes for tomato ketchup were failures. Not sure if this is true but it’s my Truth.
re: #211 lawhawk
Meanwhile, publishers are getting fucked over by overwhelming numbers of fake science journal submissions. Publishers like Wiley are shutting down respected medical journals because of the need to retract submissions over discovering they were faked.
The problems at Wiley are traced to a company they purchased that had been overrun with fake submissions that used AI generated nonsense in substantial portions of the submissions.
This problem is going to get worse.
This isn’t an AI problem, although I can’t imagine AI will make it better. There were studies done years ago showing how paper mills were turning out bogus journal submissions in alarming numbers and pay for print journals were basically encouraging it.
re: #229 Axolotl
One of my (former) best friends growing up is a cop and got fired after he pulled his gun in a homeless man and threatened to “splatter his brains all over the sidewalk” of he didn’t tell him his name.
He got fired but he probably should be in jail.
I think one of the biggest problems we have with policing in this country is that the bar for entry is so incredibly low for local police forces. A professional police force, requiring professional standards would probably go a long way in making things better. But instead the standard is this:
(In all seriousness, consider the difference between what it takes to get into a local police academy and what it takes to become an FBI special agent)
re: #200 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If only.
Melania wasn’t pregnant — Barron was born 4 months earlier.
Edited to clarify.
re: #227 KGxvi
weird because I heard that Catholic girls start much too late…
Isn’t that what a bottle of red, bottle of white, is for? /
those that do get reported in the news for being in trouble. /KFM
re: #223 sagehen
A matter of personal preference, I would think. Some people like their meat lean; others prefer a generous marbling of fat.
Remember the lyrics from Sweeney Todd?
“…Lawyer’s rather nice.
If it’s for a price.
Order something else, though, to follow,
Since no one should swallow it twice!
Anything that’s lean.
Well, then, if you’re British and loyal,
You might enjoy Royal Marine!
Anyway, it’s clean.
Though of course, it tastes of wherever it’s been!…”
re: #227 KGxvi
weird because I heard that Catholic girls start much too late…
a stereotype
but sooner or later it comes down to fate
re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg
Toadies for the Wet Sprocket
re: #230 BigPapa
Heinz 57: because the first 56 recipes for tomato ketchup were failures. Not sure if this is true but it’s my Truth.
As I understand it was just a random number he pulled out because it sounded good.
By Bre: #198 lawhawk
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These fuckers want to be in the docket too. If they’re conspiring with Trump, then yeah, they too are trying to overthrow the government and should be prosecuted for their criminal conduct too. Johnson and Donalds are two of the fuckers in the House who voted to overturn the 2020 results. Mills would do so in 2024 if given the option.
That’s not depth of field - that’s field of derp.
re: #232 KGxvi
Like in Germany, where being a LEO requires a three year degree.
re: #232 KGxvi
There’s a limit to how much oligarchs want to pay to secure their property.
re: #230 BigPapa
Heinz 57: because the first 56 recipes for tomato ketchup were failures. Not sure if this is true but it’s my Truth.
Chanel did it in 5
re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg
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Name this band.
I’ll start: The White Gripes
The Insane Derp Posse.
re: #230 BigPapa
Heinz 57: because the first 56 recipes for tomato ketchup were failures. Not sure if this is true but it’s my Truth.
Heinz 57 is a synecdoche of the historical advertising slogan “57 Varieties” by the H. J. Heinz Company located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It was developed from the marketing campaign that told consumers about the numerous products available from the Heinz company.
re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump’s Butthole Surfers.
re: #246 Joe Bacon ✅
Heinz 57 is a synecdoche of the historical advertising slogan “57 Varieties” by the H. J. Heinz Company located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It was developed from the marketing campaign that told consumers about the numerous products available from the Heinz company.
You’ve destroyed BigPapa’s Truth with Wikipedia!
Pathetic. Trump sycophant politicians show up, stay 45 minutes, know nothing about the details of the case or evidence, go outside to make a statement to the media that it’s all political, then leave. The typical shallow, repetitive, brainless political theater of the MAGA GOP. pic.twitter.com/jyKSHc4Sep
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 14, 2024
The Speaker of the House stood in front of the Manhattan courthouse today and willfully subverted Judge Merchan’s gag order by attacking his daughter, calling it “an atrocity” that she works for Democrats. He has a law degree from Louisiana State University.
re: #249 wrenchwench
You’ve destroyed BigPapa’s Truth with Wikipedia!
Maybe yes, Maybe no!
Henry J. Heinz introduced the marketing slogan “57 pickle Varieties” in 1896. He later claimed he was inspired by an advertisement he saw while riding an elevated train in New York City (a shoe store boasting “21 styles”). The reason for “57” is unclear. Heinz said he chose “5” because it was his lucky number and the number “7” was his wife’s lucky number.[1] However, Heinz also said the number “7” was selected specifically because of the “psychological influence of that figure and of its enduring significance to people of all ages”.[2] Whatever the reasons, Heinz wanted the company to advertise the greatest number of choices of pickles. In fact by 1892, four years before the slogan was created, the Heinz company was already selling more than 60 products.[3]
The first product to be promoted under the new “57 varieties” slogan was prepared horseradish.[4] By 1940, the term “Heinz 57” had become so synonymous with the company the name was used to market a steak sauce, which had a taste similar to ketchup. Because of this, its advertising campaign in the late 1980s and early 1990s used the slogan “It’s like ketchup with a kick”.
Seriously, the symbol of the Republican party needs to be changed to a toad.
The uniform for Trump’s VP tryouts:
Texts introduced as evidence at Trump’s criminal trial show Maggie Haberman acting as Trump’s stenographer and media puppet.https://t.co/eMr5s67eGn
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 14, 2024
anyone quelle surprised?
“You’re like the guy who has a fantasy football team and thinks he’s a fucking GM” is absolute gold. https://t.co/JgfViY95ZD
— jordan (@JordanUhl) May 14, 2024
do you smell brimstone?
re: #255 Dangerman
No surprise. She’s been called “Trump’s stenographer” or “the Trump whisperer” for years and years.
re: #257 Dr Lizardo
No surprise. She’s been called “Trump’s stenographer” or “the Trump whisperer” for years and years.
What is surprising is how literal it turned out to be. I did not expect there to be explicit cooperation between Trumpworld and Maggie Haberman. I suppose this is what happens when access journalism combines with cult fanaticism.
re: #258 Nerdy Fish
It fits with every single other example of people who thought they could use Trump for their purposes and wound up being owned by him.
re: #255 Dangerman
Was there ever any doubt that Maggie H was just another Trump toady?
re: #255 Dangerman
no, it’s possible that this outrageous slander on a fellow journalist, who is simply exercising her Gawd-given access, may send some to their fainting couches.
IANAL but I do wonder if the case of the defense will end up more as a spectacle rather than anything based on how the movement of the money and the payoffs were perfectly legal.
re: #255 Dangerman
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anyone quelle surprised?
Not the least but surprised. But nice to see it entered into official record. F the NYT
re: #257 Dr Lizardo
No surprise. She’s been called “Trump’s stenographer” or “the Trump whisperer” for years and years.
Does the NYT get the same disgrace from this? (Yes, from me. Everybody else?)
re: #263 wrenchwench
Me too. As my late mom would say, “All the news that is fit to slant.”
re: #263 wrenchwench
they’ll proclaim that she’s embedded with his administration, like an anal plug.
re: #263 wrenchwench
All The News Releases That Fit
re: #263 wrenchwench
Does the NYT get the same disgrace from this? (Yes, from me. Everybody else?)
Did the Screw York Times ever feel any shame about letting Judith Miller endlessly spread her lies on their front page? Nope.
Did the Screw York Times ever feel any shame about slandering Hillary? Nope.
Did the Screw York Times ever feel any shame about the hatchet job they did to Al Gore?
Nope.
Did the Screw York Times ever feel any shame about letting Jeff Gerth spread his Whitewater lies on their front pages? Nope.
F the New York Times.
if diablo iv is telling the truth, the new season just opened, so I guess I’ll have to disappear for awhile so that a new demon hunter can get her groove on.
re: #250 Dangerman
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“This trial is totally political…which is why I and my compatriots decided to wait until three weeks into it to show up for less than an hour of ‘support’ and a quick presser before retreating back to DC.”
re: #265 PhillyPretzel ✅
Me too. As my late mom would say, “All the news that is fit to slant.”
“All The Propaganda The GOP Tells Us To Print”
re: #268 Joe Bacon ✅
Did the Screw York Times ever feel any shame about letting Judith Miller endlessly spread her lies on their front page? Nope.
Did the Screw York Times ever feel any shame about slandering Hillary? Nope.
Did the Screw York Times ever feel any shame about the hatchet job they did to Al Gore?
Nope.Did the Screw York Times ever feel any shame about letting Jeff Gerth spread his Whitewater lies on their front pages? Nope.
F the New York Times.
I’m on the verge of boycotting gift links.
So is Donny Tinytwinkee still wanting to sing “I Just Want To Testify”?
re: #255 Dangerman
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You mean the legacy hire that was brought onto the Times in the run-up to the 2016 elections because she had already developed a reputation in the industry as a fluffer for Trump was acting as his mouthpiece for years to sell a book as soon as he was out of office?
Surely you can’t be serious!
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re: #248 jaunte
Trump ‘allies?’ How about sycophants, or axis?
Empty Wheel:
ANOTHER MAGGIE HABERMAN NYT STORY COVERS UP OLEG DERIPASKA’S ROLE
emptywheel.net
“…Seven paragraphs in, Maggie (writing with Jonathan Swan) describes that Manafort went to prison, but doesn’t bother to explain that he laundered money and violated FARA to hide that his influence peddling was backed by Russian-aligned oligarchs.
………….In other words, Maggie and Swan buried the real reason why Manafort threatened — and still threatens, given past history — to discredit Trump’s campaign or undermine US democracy: Wittingly or not — we don’t know because of the lies and the pardon — he was at the center of a key part of the Russian attack on American democracy.
Journalists should not simply bury that.
Worse, too, this is not the first time that a story bearing Maggie’s byline has covered up Manafort’s tie to Deripaska in all this.”
Big Brain Chump said ‘If I can’t talk shit I’ll get some of my cult to do it’ and they came a’ runnin to help Daddy-0. I won’t forget who sucked up to Spanky McFarticus.
re: #281 BigPapa
Big Brain Chump said ‘If I can’t talk shit I’ll get some of my cult to do it’ and they came a’ runnin to help Daddy-0. I won’t forget who sucked up to Spanky McFarticus.
Just waiting for Trump’s Pulpit Pimp Posse to join in defending Goldfarter.
re: #279 Joe Bacon ✅
Just remember what the GOP Stenographer who is the Screw York Times Managing Editor said!
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Yes—that asshole said “Democracy is not an issue”…WHEN IT IS THE # 1 FUCKING ISSUE FACING THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!!
You can’t determine what’s important with polls. You can determine what your readers are willing to accept the importance of. Our elites are money-seeking trash who don’t actually care about what’s important.
*sighs*
So the Uni protests have spread to Sweden… Two in my county, at the Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm U. They had an interview with them on the local news, and the first thing out of the interviewee’s mouth was the “plausible genocide” talking point, which isn’t correct, the ICJ ruling was that it’s plausible that South Africa has the right to bring the case to the ICJ, and that the Palestinian people have a (plausible) right to be protected from genocide (TBH, everyone has it according to the CPPCG).
I’m not arguing against their right to protest peacefully, nor against Palestinians having the right to be protected against genocide, but it isn’t a good look to go with a talking point which has been debunked by no less than a former official at the ICJ.
And how many you ask? Around 50 on each site.
Goldfarter
He’s the man
The man with the stinky farts
A diaper full
Beckons you to kiss his ass
But don’t go there
Smelly farts will attack your nose
Holy shit you know this really blows
Maggie Haberman knows when she smells them
She’s become the slave
To Mr. Goldfarter
Presstitue beware the stench of sin
That gas is bad
It makes you feel sad
Only sad
He loves Farts!
re: #282 Joe Bacon ✅
Just waiting for Trump’s Pulpit Pimp Posse to join in defending Goldfarter.
Goldfarter gets an upding.
re: #286 Joe Bacon ✅
Looks like the lyrics of a song. Maybe you should whip something up in Udio? Maybe I should?
‘Don’t you want me to talk, Goldfinger?’
‘No, Mr Bond. I want you to die!’
re: #242 Romantic Heretic
Like in Germany, where being a LEO requires a three year degree.
That is the case in most European countries.
re: #288 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Looks like the lyrics of a song. Maybe you should whip something up in Udio? Maybe I should?
It’s a parody of the title song for Goldfinger, a James Bond film.
re: #229 Axolotl
One of my (former) best friends growing up is a cop and got fired after he pulled his gun in a homeless man and threatened to “splatter his brains all over the sidewalk” of he didn’t tell him his name.
He got fired but he probably should be in jail.
I have a relative who was a cop in a town around here known being loud and proud about hating minorities, particularly Black people. Straight up admitted to me he unapologetically harassed Black people every chance he got.
This was back in the 70s. It wouldn’t surprise if it eventually came out he shot someone for not being white.
re: #250 Dangerman
Pathetic. Trump sycophant politicians show up, stay 45 minutes, know nothing about the details of the case or evidence, go outside to make a statement to the media that it’s all political, then leave. The typical shallow, repetitive, brainless political theater of the MAGA GOP.
As explained earlier, this was his tit-for-tat to get Trump to call off MTG’s assault on his Speaker’s position
Thou shall not lie. https://t.co/Gi89vkbF0L
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 14, 2024
Prosecutors have told the judge that Cohen is their final witness.
Oh Goldfarter is really cross now…he’s farting in morse code to his lawyers telling them to crucify Cohen on the stand.
re: #297 No Malarkey!
Prosecutors have told the judge that Cohen is their final witness.
So then it’s the defense’s turn, if they have any, right? Can they call prosecution witnesses back to the stand for another go, or is cross-examination the first time around their only chance?
Ostentatiously pious man who has an anti-porn app on his phone* today will be in NYC to support of man who banged a porn star while his wife tended to their newborn and then had his thugs pay hush money to keep that from voters.
*One phone
I’ve decided to start calling Fox Propaganda Pimps, Alex Jones, all the other RW shitheads on X ‘Assault Influencers.’ Not all AI are good.
re: #293 Mattand
I have a relative who was a cop in a town around here known being loud and proud about hating minorities, particularly Black people. Straight up admitted to me he unapologetically harassed Black people every chance he got.
This was back in the 70s. It wouldn’t surprise if it eventually came out he shot someone for not being white.
He and I grew up in a small town in NJ. He was Indian and I guess to survive in the police force he was attached to he became super racist and homophobic.
I watched it happen. What I’ve discovered is that you can break up with someone you are dating but there is no official way of unfriending someone in real life.
re: #300 Nerdy Fish
So then it’s the defense’s turn, if they have any, right? Can they call prosecution witnesses back to the stand for another go, or is cross-examination the first time around their only chance?
If they disclosed that a person was a witness they may call, the defense can call them to testify even if the prosecution called them as a witness
re: #304 No Malarkey!
If they disclosed that a person was a witness they may call, the defense can call them to testify even if the prosecution called them was a witness
So it depends on the witnesses they listed before the trial began, gotcha. Did they actually do that? I remember there was quite a bit of talk about them not having any witnesses.
re: #303 Axolotl
He and I grew up in a small town in NJ. He was Indian and I guess to survive in the police force he was attached to he became super racist and homophobic.
Someone mentioned, either here or BJ, that cops see two races…cops and everyone else.
ACAB
re: #300 Nerdy Fish
So then it’s the defense’s turn, if they have any, right? Can they call prosecution witnesses back to the stand for another go, or is cross-examination the first time around their only chance?
Yes, they can call any of the witnesses back to the stand. Prosecutors would also be able to redirect on the witness after defense questions.
After Cohen, I expect Trump’s lawyers to claim that they have no witnesses and move for a directed verdict that prosecutors failed to reach threshold of beyond a reasonable doubt.
It will be denied of course, and the jury will probably get this case after closing arguments this week.
re: #305 Nerdy Fish
So it depends on the witnesses they listed before the trial began, gotcha. Did they actually do that? I remember there was quite a bit of talk about them not having any witnesses.
They provided a list of witnesses, but they are under no obligation to call any witnesses.
re: #308 lawhawk
They provided a list of witnesses, but they are under no obligation to call any witnesses.
OK, so they did provide a list of witnesses. So you’re telling me there’s a chance.
Another day, another day Katy Tur(d) acting like an asshole.
This might be the dumbest shit you read on here today… https://t.co/aktBxbaqRY
— Dr. Waitman W. Beorn (@waitmanwbeorn.com 🟦)🇺🇦 (@waitmanb) May 14, 2024
All these people do 24/7 is use this trial to beg for money. MAGA Mike sent out a fundraising email after his cameo today. Habba is getting millions just to talk about it. https://t.co/mp6JJfHqlE
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 14, 2024
Ron is right. This trial is just free airtime and advertising for the GOP and MAGA.
We need to do a better job of rooting out the “Pro-Israel” antisemites like these shitclowns.
I’ve known a number of cops. Most were total control freaks and treated everyone who isn’t a cop as “them”, without agency or identity.
I did have one friend who became a cop and called me asking to score some pot. ;-)
I also once broke into a cop’s house after their babysitter locked herself and the kids out of the house. Was able to take off a screen window and then open the window to let them in. Put the screen back and no one noticed. (Next door neighbor).
Of course, I’m evil so I’m a bit biased, but I don’t trust cops at all.
re: #311 gocart mozart
This is our land. We conquered it fair and square. The Indian Wars lasted for 300 years and you lost. Get over it. These were violent, warfaring people who lived by the sword and died by it. Such is the way of the world. We have nothing to apologize for.
And this is why they are so concerned about Replacement Theory. They don’t expect to be treated any better than the way they treated the Natives.
re: #225 BigPapa
I wonder if the cannibal’s palette would prefer a bodybuilder or a Meal Team 6 Chump cultist. Or do all assholes taste like shit?
The noted Republican cannibal Alfred Packer dined exclusively on scrawny Hinsdale County Democrats. This was the only fare available, though, so his preferences would be of little value in a potential marketing analysis.
At Packer’s trial the judge was reported to have said:
Stand up yah voracious man-eatin’ sonofabitch and receive yir sintince. When yah came to Hinsdale County, there was siven Dimmycrats. But you, yah et five of ‘em, goddam yah. I sintince yah t’ be hanged by th’ neck ontil yer dead, dead, dead, as a warnin’ ag’in reducin’ th’ Dimmycratic populayshun of this county. Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would sintince ya ta hell but the statutes forbid it.
Alas, this story is apprently apochryphal but it’s a fact that there are still very few Democrats in Hinsdale County Colorado.
re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And this is why they are so concerned about Replacement Theory. They don’t expect to be treated any better than the way they treated the Natives.
Native North Americans did not even use swords.
I can see how someone with a delusion that they conquered this land themselves would be upset that the Liberals are just allowing anyone in, and the Conservatives are fine with selling land here to foreigners. It’s tough to be a Nazi.
re: #275 Targetpractice
You mean the legacy hire that was brought onto the Times in the run-up to the 2016 elections because she had already developed a reputation in the industry as a fluffer for Trump was acting as his mouthpiece for years to sell a book as soon as he was out of office?
Surely you can’t be serious!
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I experienced Maqggie’s bullshit firsthand, when she came to cover Hillary’s appearance at the SCDWC (Democratic Women’s Council) in May, 2015. Maggie wrote a lot about Hillary’s “drawl” and other insignificant crap. She also interviewd me for about 20 minutes (I was an area DWC officer) and reduced that to 3 words that were the opposite of what I had said in the interview. I had her number from that day forward.
re: #294 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Dexy’s Corporate Raiders
re: #282 Joe Bacon ✅
Just waiting for Trump’s Pulpit Pimp Posse to join in defending Goldfarter.
The plus side to this theater is that it will be much harder for them to say “Trump who?” in the future when they try to distance themselves from the train wreck.
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