Air raid sirens wailed as President Biden made a secret visit to Ukraine’s capital, the company behind the massive chemical spill in Ohio continues to lobby against train safety regulations, and scientists detected high levels of fecal matter on New York City’s sidewalks.
#Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
Location matters. That spot around Fox HQ is pretty full of shite.
re: #2 Dave In Austin
That’s very unfair to Neanderthals.
The images from the Mars Express satellite were sensational. An alien spacecraft suddenly appeared in Mars’ orbit.
The next sequence showed it next to the defunct Opportunity rover. Figures moved around.
Then the ship was gone.
Opportunity sent an image of a heart drawn in sand.— Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF) February 14, 2023
re: #265 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Hate to link to the Bird Site, but the Project Veritas / O’Keefe situation is BLOWING UP.
The response from the Veritas board brings the receipts. O’Keefe, as arrogant right-wingers tend to do, came to regard all the donor money as “his” (kinda like Trump), and that could be looted and put into his own luxurious living.
The CFO doing the books must’ve questioned all the $$ going to chartered jets, dance parties, DJ equipment, limo rides, etc.
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I think we’re beginning to get a picture of why Jimmy’s video was mainly pledging to start a new organization with blackjack and hookers instead of the bog standard “DO THEY KNOW WHO I AM?!?! I’M GOING GONNA GET DADDY TO SUE THEM FOR EVERYTHING THEY’RE WORTH!!!”
re: #6 Targetpractice
I think we’re beginning to get a picture of why Jimmy’s video was mainly pledging to start a new organization with blackjack and hookers instead of the bog standard “DO THEY KNOW WHO I AM?!?! I’M GOING GONNA GET DADDY TO SUE THEM FOR EVERYTHING THEY’RE WORTH!!!”
Maybe the board should do a hidden camera scam on Jimmy with someone posing as a new patron.
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Tucker Carlson and others on the right have launched a vile effort to recast the Ohio train derailment as a story about the systematic victimization of white people.
I dug into some of their race-baiting claims in this piece. It’s truly repulsive stuff:https://t.co/rZmFxh3LHj— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 21, 2023
re: #9 Dave In Austin
Paywalled
Not if you have a subscription. It’s a big enough outfit that many of us have subscriptions.
How a failed screenwriter used QAnon to smear people he blamed for rejected scripts
Rolling Stone has published another excerpt from Daily Beast reporter Will Sommer’s just-released book about the QAnon phenomenon and it details how a failed Hollywood screenwriter used the conspiracy theory to smear the people whom he blamed for his scripts getting rejected.
The screenwriter in question is a man named Robert Cornero, who until two years ago posted online as a QAnon influencer known as Neon Revolt and who garnered a particularly obsession with a writer named Franklin Leonard, who publishes influential reports about promising unproduced movie scripts, many of which eventually get picked up and made into movies.
Upset that Leonard had never chosen one of his own scripts for his influential annual list, Cornero decided to use his clout as a QAnon influencer to paint Leonard as the tool of a Satanist cabal intent on ripping apart the social fabric of American society.
This resulted in Leonard getting bombarded with angry messages and threats on social media, which left him confused because he wasn’t a high-profile public figure such as Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey, or other usual QAnon targets.
The new MSNBC docuseries on the rise and fall of Rudy Giuliani will have you seeing double.“When Truth Isn’t Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story” chronicles his political ascent on the back of racist politicking, which he used to win New York’s mayorship from the city’s first Black mayor, David Dinkins, in 1992. The film draws connections between Giuliani’s immoral, illiberal style of leadership and power-broking and the style that Donald Trump — with Giuliani’s help — popularized as leader of the modern conservative movement.
And that backdrop is used to paint the two men in an eerily similar light: two bigoted New York natives thirsty for power and maniacally jealous of anyone who wields it. These similarities are clear throughout the series as the film moves between older Giuliani footage and more recent Trump footage. Watching the series, you get a sense that Trumpism is actually Giuliani-ism reborn.
The Giuliani-assisted NYPD riot in 1992 was a test run for Jan. 6 (MSNBC)
re: #11 Charles Johnson
Install this browser extension and all will be revealed.
And, if you want the extension automatically updated, use the CRX-file instructions for Chrome/Chromium browsers.
Last night I went down a rabbit hole of modern railroad disasters, from Lac-Mégantic to Gare de Lyon to Amagasaki, and what they all had in common is this:
Indifference to safety protocols, punitive actions against drivers who fall behind schedule, and profits über alles.
re: #18 The Pie Overlord!
Was just obsessing about Lac-Mégantic two nights ago.
re: #250 John Hughes
Monoprix (a French supermarket chain) sells sex toys. Next to the toothbrushes.
Oh my gode…
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re: #18 The Pie Overlord!
Last night I went down a rabbit hole of modern railroad disasters, from Lac-Mégantic to Gare de Lyon to Amagasaki, and what they all had in common is this:
Indifference to safety protocols, punitive actions against drivers who fall behind schedule, and profits über alles.
Read an article the other day spelling out how the rail union strike threatened late last year was largely due to worker grievances centered around lack of adequate manpower, workers regularly forced to work ridiculous hours and unofficial overtime by being expected to always be available 90 min after being called, safety regulations being ignored and workers ordered to fib on official forms, and all the usual “shit workplace threatening to lead to a disaster” complaints heard time and time again in companies constantly looking to cut costs to improve shareholder compensation. Thing are bad enough that even companies that rely upon rail freight joined the unions in demanding changes.
Rail company lobbying managed to convince the country that those workers were threatening to strike over sick days and got the Feds to force them back to work on the promise that they’d get around to it “eventually.”
Foreperson of GA grand jury said they recommended criminal charges for several people: “It’s not a short list.”https://t.co/NPZgyQDptx
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 21, 2023
re: #18 The Pie Overlord!
Last night I went down a rabbit hole of modern railroad disasters, from Lac-Mégantic to Gare de Lyon to Amagasaki, and what they all had in common is this:
Indifference to safety protocols, punitive actions against drivers who fall behind schedule, and profits über alles.
re: #15 Charles Johnson
I canceled my WaPo subscription.
When my trial ran out, I didn’t even bother subscribing. It’s better than most US media but that’s meaningless.
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
Now I’m starting to feel hope, and have a large risk of that hope being crushed.
If you’re stupid enough to believe that helping Ukraine means we can’t also help the people of East Palestine, Ohio, congratulations - you are an idiot and an asshole.
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) February 20, 2023
Republicans have introduced a bill to literally defund the police 👇 https://t.co/BkfwiqyXmJ
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) February 21, 2023
GOP projecting like IMAX.
They want to make us less safe. They want us to drown in a sea of firearms (and blood). They don’t care, and will lie endlessly to achieve the power they crave.
You may have heard that a wolf pack is led by an alpha pair.Given this designation, it’s easy to imagine that a pack consists of young adults and older animals in a strict ranking system. You can imagine that relatives, newcomers and challengers are all part of the system. Maybe some of these wolves might challenge the alpha male to take over leadership of the pack?
On the Howstuffworks website, for example, you can read that wolves follow “an incredibly sophisticated group hierarchy,” and that wolves naturally organize themselves in packs for stability and to help each other with hunting.
The pack structure is said to include a “beta wolf” who is the deputy and the “omega wolf” who is at the bottom of the rank, and often the victim of bullying.
In reality, wolf packs are usually much less complicated.
Doesn’t work for wolves in the wild
Calling wolves alpha and beta animals comes from research on wolves in captivity, says Barbara Zimmermann.Zimmermann is a professor at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences who studies wolves.
“The leader is called the alpha male. Then there may be several rank levels, beta, gamma and so on. But this is not a concept that works for wolves in the wild,” she says.
Most wolf packs simply consist of two parents and their puppies. The group may also include one- to three-year-old offspring that have not yet headed out on their own.
“The adults are simply in charge because they are the parents of the rest of the pack members. We don’t talk about the alpha male, the alpha female and the beta child in a human family,” Zimmermann said.
Wolf packs don’t actually have alpha males and alpha females, the idea is based on a misunderstanding (phys.org)
re: #28 lawhawk
GOP projecting like IMAX.
They want to make us less safe. They want us to drown in a sea of firearms (and blood). They don’t care, and will lie endlessly to achieve the power they crave.
They need the money to establish the Bureau of Women’s Affairs, to crack down on immoral use of contraceptives and illegal abortions.
Excellent piece by @rgoodlaw and @AndyMcCanse on Pence’s use of Speech or Debate Clause. Even if the clause applies to a VP, he must appear and answer questions that exceed the scope of the clause. Most questions are beyond the scope. https://t.co/owjqid2Sk3
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) February 21, 2023
Latest right wing conspiracy theory: the air raid sirens we heard when Biden was walking with Zelensky in Kyiv were faked.
These people live in a weird twisted universe where literally everything is a plot to persecute them.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 21, 2023
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
Breaking News: The Georgia jury investigating interference by Donald Trump and others in the 2020 election recommended multiple indictments, its forewoman said. https://t.co/ywOEfiF1qZ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 21, 2023
No. It isn’t surprising. Trump openly committed felonies. His sycophantic suckups engaged in crimes right alongside Trump. His lawyers furthered criminal conduct. His CoS engaged in crimes.
All of them should be getting indicted. Graham too. Rudy? Absolutely.
All of them.
Graham might have avoided perjury, but sure as fuck he interfered in the election certification process in Georgia on behalf of Trump. That’s a fucking felony under state and federal law.
re: #18 The Pie Overlord!
Last night I went down a rabbit hole of modern railroad disasters, from Lac-Mégantic to Gare de Lyon to Amagasaki, and what they all had in common is this:
Indifference to safety protocols, punitive actions against drivers who fall behind schedule, and profits über alles.
Not only railroad disasters have that common denominator…
re: #23 IngisKahn
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re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And soon it surely happens when indictments do come down
HOLY SHIT IT AIN’T A LITTLE LIST!
It’s a really big big list!
re: #32 Charles Johnson
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I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the people who genuinely believe that Biden had air raid sirens blaring to create a false sense of danger also believe that those federal LEOs just decided to start beating people with batons and tear gas in time for Trump to walk out and pose for pictures with an upside-down Bible.
re: #29 Crush White Nationalism
Wolf packs don’t actually have alpha males and alpha females, the idea is based on a misunderstanding (phys.org)
Most wolf packs consist of a department chair, who is generally someone who got tenure but then unfortunately turned out to be an idiot, and a secretary, who tries her best to keep the chair from wandering around the halls making idle conversation with other wolves working in their offices, and potentially coming up with “ideas” that may, just through administrative inertia, have to be put into place.
At least, that’s how I interpret nature.
re: #33 lawhawk
I look forward to seeing Graham as defendant.
re: #36 Joe Bacon
And soon it surely happens when indictments do come down
HOLY SHIT IT AIN’T A LITTLE LIST!
It’s a really big big list!
They’re making a list,
checking it twice,
gonna find out who’s
naughty and nice.
Former Mexican presidential cabinet member Genaro García Luna was convicted in the U.S. on Tuesday of taking massive bribes to protect the violent drug cartels he was tasked with combating. The case had political ramifications on both sides of the border. https://t.co/0Z8MkUIQBZ
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 21, 2023
re: #39 darthstar
I look forward to seeing Graham as defendant.
Just waiting for the 67 Year Old Virgin to climb up on top of the gas tank and scream “TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!”
⚡️ JUST NOW: The bill PASSES civil justice subcommittee with Republicans supporting, Dems opposed https://t.co/T9eMIf1711
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) February 21, 2023
It’s not a short list 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
New from Trump GA Grand Jury foreperson:
We recommended indictments, it’s “not a short list”
The recommended indictments are “not some giant plot twist”
Mark Meadows testifiedhttps://t.co/4kP9nuNbYJhttps://t.co/wuHB0j60yn— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) February 21, 2023
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
TN Dept of Safety: “This bill will let young stalkers carry weapons, and allow high-capacity weapons to be openly carried on our streets, weapons of mass death.”
Republicans: “…And?”
‘Stay in Hollywood’: Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests movie ban in ‘national divorce’ rant https://t.co/3zQtNvXmdZ
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 21, 2023
Headline’s about movies, but the bit above that is more telling:
During a Tuesday appearance with podcaster Charlie Kirk, Greene said residents of blue states should temporarily lose their voting rights after moving to a red state.
“They are really like newcomers ruining our beautiful red states,” she told Kirk.
I rather think red states will be surprised how quickly the influx of new residents will peter out when retirees stop getting their government checks while living expenses skyrocket to make up for all the federal dollars that red states are no longer getting.
Last night, Donald Trump AGAIN bragged about his good relationship with Vladmir Putin, and how he trusted Putin more than his own intelligence community. https://t.co/MD15JHHgZe
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) February 21, 2023
Feds fine Mormon Church $5 million over scheme to hide $32 billion in assets
The Mormon Church and its investment division, a company named Ensign Peak Advisors, will have to pay a paltry $5,000,000 fine after an investigation conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found that Ensign Peak purposely obscured the Church’s equity investments. That cover-up allowed The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to withhold from members the fact that it has been stockpiling over $100,000,000,000 in donations meant to go to charity.
re: #46 Dr. Matt
It’s not a short list 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
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Are we really doing this again? Are we really getting our hopes up that anybody significant will face any real danger of more than a fine and perhaps probation?
re: #51 Targetpractice
Are we really doing this again? Are we really getting our hopes up that anybody significant will face any real danger of more than a fine and perhaps probation?
We’re in the low point of the depression cycle, when every tiny scrap of hope looks like “up”.
Unfu… nope. Totally fucking believable.
Maybe if they spent more on security than they did on Super Bowl ads, they might have avoided this fate? https://t.co/2rKRUolsgL
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) February 21, 2023
How did this happen? AGAIN? Answer: same reason as all the railroad disasters.
Two people were killed and three others injured after a massive fire and explosion broke out at a Florida welding business. https://t.co/5Qy7TIbiQr
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 21, 2023
I’ve waited long enough. Garland is a malevolent piece of shit.
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
i wonder how all the originalists square this circle:
Article I, section 6, Clause 1 reads:
“The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.”
The VP is clearly not a Representative.
Yes, the VP presides over the Senate.
Generally only on ceremonial occasions or when a tie-breaking vote is needed.
The VP does not participate in debate.
The VP is elected with and on the slate of the president (Amendment 12)/executive.
Not how senators are elected (17th)/legislative.
The qualifications for VP are different than for Senator.
(see also amendment 25)
IMO, the VP has a role, a function in the Senate. The VP is not a Senator.
Black and white, plain as day. The originalists sure twist themselves into knots when they want something.
#11 Charles Johnson
Install this browser extension and all will be revealed.
That’s straight up IP theft.
re: #42 Joe Bacon
Just waiting for the 67 Year Old Virgin to climb up on top of the gas tank and scream “TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!”
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i’d want to see him do the grapefruit first
Wage theft is the number one property crime in America.
re: #48 Targetpractice
Headline’s about movies, but the bit above that is more telling:
I rather think red states will be surprised how quickly the influx of new residents will peter out when retirees stop getting their government checks while living expenses skyrocket to make up for all the federal dollars that red states are no longer getting.
what’s a ‘red state’?
certainly not georgia
Bimborella continues with her rant and Charlie Jerk gives her a platform.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for new residents in red states to be stripped of voting rights as part of her plan for a “national divorce.”
During a Tuesday appearance with podcaster Charlie Kirk, Greene said residents of blue states should temporarily lose their voting rights after moving to a red state.
“They are really like newcomers ruining our beautiful red states,” she told Kirk.
re: #58 Amory Blaine
I’ve waited long enough. Garland is a malevolent piece of shit.
“Spineless coward who is happy running out the clock to avoid dealing with Trump” is also acceptable.
re: #50 Joe Bacon
Feds fine Mormon Church $5 million over scheme to hide $32 billion in assets
The Mormon Church and its investment division, a company named Ensign Peak Advisors, will have to pay a paltry $5,000,000 fine after an investigation conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found that Ensign Peak purposely obscured the Church’s equity investments. That cover-up allowed The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to withhold from members the fact that it has been stockpiling over $100,000,000,000 in donations meant to go to charity.
5,000,000 to protect 32,000,000,000
or about .016% of it, if i got the decmials right
re: #58 Amory Blaine
I’ve waited long enough. Garland is a malevolent piece of shit.
He’s not malevolent, simply an institutionalist. Trump, his old man, and his company have been the subject of numerous civil and criminal probes as well as hundreds of lawsuits from people he pissed off, and yet he keeps walking away (relatively) clean because the people on the other side of the equation have decided it wasn’t worth it to actually drag him to court and get little to nothing out of it. Garland’s just following in that grand tradition of deciding that the cost/benefit is too heavily weighted in Trump’s favor to risk bringing charges. Better to go after the assholes lower on the totem pole who don’t have armies of lawyers willing to drag things out til the heat death of the universe.
In America, you have the right to a speedy trial. Allowing a trial to time out is not a right and in fact supported by malevolent fucks that pervert justice.
re: #64 Joe Bacon
Bimborella continues with her rant and Charlie Jerk gives her a platform.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for new residents in red states to be stripped of voting rights as part of her plan for a “national divorce.”
During a Tuesday appearance with podcaster Charlie Kirk, Greene said residents of blue states should temporarily lose their voting rights after moving to a red state.
“They are really like newcomers ruining our beautiful red states,” she told Kirk.
I’ve been catching bit and pieces of this batshittery all afternoon and it just continually amazes me that this woman is an alleged adult as well a sitting Congressperson.
She’s either that fucked up in the head or knows full well how to rile up the mob to maintain as much power as she can. I need to look up her district again. I know there’s probably normal people there, but Jesus Christ, if she’s considered their best and brightest, the whole district must be an intellectual shit hole.
I did read a piece about her in the New Yorker or somewhere that mentioned her county has basically driven out every person of color. So that definitely explains a lot.
re: #62 Amory Blaine
Wage theft is the number one property crime in America.
it’s not your wages till i give it to you //
re: #73 Dangerman
it’s not your wages till i give it to you //
Haha never use the word “give” when it comes to an employer. They give you nothing. You earn it. ( I know what you mean)
re: #69 Targetpractice
He’s not malevolent, simply an institutionalist. Trump, his old man, and his company have been the subject of numerous civil and criminal probes as well as hundreds of lawsuits from people he pissed off, and yet he keeps walking away (relatively) clean because the people on the other side of the equation have decided it wasn’t worth it to actually drag him to court and get little to nothing out of it. Garland’s just following in that grand tradition of deciding that the cost/benefit is too heavily weighted in Trump’s favor to risk bringing charges. Better to go after the assholes lower on the totem pole who don’t have armies of lawyers willing to drag things out til the heat death of the universe.
That’s basically giving Trump a do-over to try overthrow the country again.
Fucking unacceptable, IMO.
re: #62 Amory Blaine
Wage theft is the number one property crime in America.
And anyone who ever worked on an hourly rate got jacked in the hundred different ways you can be jacked.
So, just a question here.
Will Blue States be required to pay alimony?
re: #72 Mattand
I’ve been catching bit and pieces of this batshittery all afternoon and it just continually amazes me that this woman is an alleged adult as well a sitting Congressperson.
She’s either that fucked up in the head or know full well how to rile up the mob to maintain as much power as she can. I need to look up her district again. I know there’s probably normal people there, but Jesus Christ, if she’s considered their best and brightest, the whole district must be an intellectual shit hole.
I did read a piece about her in the New Yorker or somewhere that mentioned her county has basically driven out every person of color. So that definitely explains a lot.
both she and trump pretend the constitution isn’t there at all
re: #67 Dr. Matt
Is that a capo, a fretwrap, something else?
MrBWS sez he personally doesn’t care what it is…the kid is so good it could be an orange peel, he’s that amazing.
re: #78 Dave In Austin
So, just a question here.
Will Blue States be required to pay alimony?
Red States ALREADY take more than they give.
re: #75 Mattand
That’s basically giving Trump a do-over to try overthrow the country again.
Fucking unacceptable, IMO.
Everybody involved in this whole game is waiting for somebody else to make the first move. Nobody wants to be the first one to bring charges only to then be wrapped up in courts for years with no satisfying resolution and the very real chance that it all ends in acquittal because of one MAGAt on the jury willing to throw it all out to protect their messiah.
We keep looking to these prosecutors and expecting them to be fearless crusaders against tyranny and injustice…rather than government employees who are worried about what losing a trial against Trump could do to their careers.
re: #75 Mattand
That’s basically giving Trump a do-over to try overthrow the country again.
Fucking unacceptable, IMO.
Also, there’s younger, smarter Republicans than Trump who are studying January 6th and figuring out how to avoid the mistakes he made, as it were, and are coming up with a better gameplan.
I understand the hesitancy about charging Trump with anything, given his history, but not confronting him now is basically laying down in the dirt and going “Go ahead, Republicans, and start your thousand year reich. I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas.”
I mean, for fuck’s sake, there’s a fucking recorded phone call of him telling GA’s Secretary of State to change the vote tally and he’ll do the rest. This motherfucker was literally recorded committing voter fraud, but somehow he’s untouchable????
Fuck this country, sometimes.
re: #84 Targetpractice
Everybody involved in this whole game is waiting for somebody else to make the first move. Nobody wants to be the first one to bring charges only to then be wrapped up in courts for years with no satisfying resolution and the very real chance that it all ends in acquittal because of one MAGAt on the jury willing to throw it all out to protect their messiah.
THIS.
Former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot (R) — a former Republican National Committee chair — said that the Montana Republican Party recently informed him of a resolution approved by party leadership declaring he is no longer considered a Republican, the Helena Independent Record reports.
Racicot: “The hierarchy for me in values and loyalty is first of all to my country and my state, and then to my party,” Racicot said over the weekend. “In 35 years I don’t think I’ve changed one bit. I don’t feel like I have changed my views of the world.”
he was elected governor on the GOP ticket twice in Montana
was the chair of the Republican National Committee (until he)
was appointed to chair the re-election campaign for GWB
them: “The Montana Republican Party executive board…voted to pass the resolution rebuking Gov. Racicot for his support of Democratic candidates over Republicans the last several election cycles,”
(support of scotus Ketanji Brown Jackson, and backing Biden over Trump three years ago.)
re: #84 Targetpractice
Everybody involved in this whole game is waiting for somebody else to make the first move. Nobody wants to be the first one to bring charges only to then be wrapped up in courts for years with no satisfying resolution and the very real chance that it all ends in acquittal because of one MAGAt on the jury willing to throw it all out to protect their messiah.
We keep looking to these prosecutors and expecting them to be fearless crusaders against tyranny and injustice…rather than government employees who are worried about what losing a trial against Trump could do to their careers.
You’re not wrong, but I’m not really sure how that’s supposed to make anyone who gives a shit what happens to the US feel better.
re: #76 nines09
And anyone who ever worked on an hourly rate got jacked in the hundred different ways you can be jacked.
as did any lower level salaried person
re: #91 nines09
My daughter worked the Pink Invitational girls gymnastics meet last weekend at the convention center in Philly. She sent me this Sunday night from her hotel.
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LOL, I’ve walked around Center City for nearly three decades but I’m still having trouble trying to triangulate that location. It’s like, I know exactly where everyone of those buildings are and I still can’t quite put my finger on the photo’s location.
re: #89 Mattand
You’re not wrong, but I’m not really sure how that’s supposed to make anyone who gives a shit what happens to the US feel better.
I think a lot of us long ago made peace with the reality that men like Trump never face the consequences of their actions. If they did, he would have never gotten anywhere close to the White House.
6th graders give racist drawings to their black classmates…
Parents outraged after Black student receives racist drawings from classmate at Upland elementary school
Parents of students at an Upland elementary school are demanding answers after a series of racist drawings a sixth grader allegedly gave to a fellow Black student were discovered.
The incident at Pepper Tree Elementary School has rattled many in the Upland Unified School District.
One of the drawings states “You’re my favorite monkey,” while another reads “To my favorite cotton picker.”
The mother of the student who received these drawings told KTLA she has since pulled her daughter from the school after continued harassment from fellow students and, what she says, has been little action from the Upland Unified School District.
Garland is an old man with his career behind him. So what’s his excuse other than being a POS?
re: #92 Mattand
City Hall is the center of the north/south line. Broad and Market street. First block north is 100 North Broad. South is 100 block South Broad.
North of City Hall is North Philly, south is South Philly.
Broad street would be where 14th would be if there was a 14th street.
East and West is divided by Front street for the most part.
Not sure what hotel she was booked in.
Oh no I’m 70 years old, won’t anyone think about my career!!!
re: #84 Targetpractice
Not to mention the first prosecutor that does drop an indictment on Orange Foolius will IMMEDIATELY have the mob sicced on them by his assholyness and his Fox News acolytes.
Me? I am counting down 17 months and 7 days to go to retirement.
re: #94 Joe Bacon
6th graders give racist drawings to their black classmates…
Parents outraged after Black student receives racist drawings from classmate at Upland elementary school
Parents of students at an Upland elementary school are demanding answers after a series of racist drawings a sixth grader allegedly gave to a fellow Black student were discovered.
The incident at Pepper Tree Elementary School has rattled many in the Upland Unified School District.
One of the drawings states “You’re my favorite monkey,” while another reads “To my favorite cotton picker.”
The mother of the student who received these drawings told KTLA she has since pulled her daughter from the school after continued harassment from fellow students and, what she says, has been little action from the Upland Unified School District.
this is the sad part
they try and push them out
and they succeed
because unless you’re specially made for it, fighting it is a vile loser
re: #100 Dangerman
Don’t worry, Garland is on the case! Or something.
GOP bill would require Arizonans to provide an ID to look at online porn
A Republican bill would require Arizonans to submit a government-issued ID to a website operator before accessing “sexually explicit material” online, but the bill is written so broadly that critics say it could require the same of major streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu.
re: #102 Joe Bacon
Again, teenagers would NEVER know how to access and upload their parents ID. Nope. Couldn’t happen.
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These bills are SO stupid.
re: #102 Joe Bacon
GOP bill would require Arizonans to provide an ID to look at online porn
A Republican bill would require Arizonans to submit a government-issued ID to a website operator before accessing “sexually explicit material” online, but the bill is written so broadly that critics say it could require the same of major streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu.
Good. Maybe the Netflix CEO should stop donating to the GOP.
I understand the anger directed at Merrick Garland, but it is difficult to prosecute the rich and powerful in this country. The more white-collar the crime, the more likely it is the statute is written in such a way as to make it all but impossible to prove or convict under. (Something I learned from the legendary Ken White, aka @Popehat.) I don’t think it’s fair to lay all the shit at his feet when it is an organizational failure across the entire American government for a whole generation which has set people like Trump up to take advantage of the system and get away with it.
re: #103 Eclectic Cyborg
Again, teenagers would NEVER know how to access and upload their parents ID. Nope. Couldn’t happen.
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These bills are SO stupid.
That won’t help them when the porn companies block everyone in AZ so they don’t have to work for free building the validation into their system.
re: #95 Amory Blaine
Garland is an old man with his career behind him. So what’s his excuse other than being a POS?
That he wants to live a retirement more comfortable than what a government pension can afford. He wants book deals, he wants speaking fees, he wants regular spots on talk shows, and a job at a lobbying firm. He doesn’t want to be known for the rest of his days as the guy who took a shot at the king and missed.
re: #53 lawhawk
So at what point do the browsers stop trusting GoDaddy certificates?
re: #106 Crush White Nationalism
That won’t help them when the porn companies block everyone in AZ so they don’t have to work for free building the validation into their system.
VPNs to the rescue!
re: #107 Targetpractice
That he wants to live a retirement more comfortable than what a government pension can afford. He wants book deals, he wants speaking fees, he wants regular spots on talk shows, and a job at a lobbying firm. He doesn’t want to be known for the rest of his days as the guy who took a shot at the king and missed.
Probably. He’s a profile in courage! I can’t wait to read his book about all the things he didn’t do in violation of his oath
re: #109 Eclectic Cyborg
VPNs to the rescue!
At which point, violating the law is the work of the user, and the company is in the clear.
re: #105 Dopamine Fish
I understand the anger directed at Merrick Garland, but it is difficult to prosecute the rich and powerful in this country. The more white-collar the crime, the more likely it is the statute is written in such a way as to make it all but impossible to prove or convict under. (Something I learned from the legendary Ken White, aka @Popehat.) I don’t think it’s fair to lay all the shit at his feet when it is an organizational failure across the entire American government for a whole generation which has set people like Trump up to take advantage of the system and get away with it.
I don’t disagree, but not doing something just allows the system to stay because all the people see is inaction. They don’t care about WHY there is no inaction. They care that there was no action. However, if they indict and lose the case at least the people can see something was done, but because of the way these laws are written a conviction was almost impossible since it will be explained why the conviction didn’t happen.
re: #111 Crush White Nationalism
At which point, violating the law is the work of the user, and the company is in the clear.
Not that that will stop some brash asswipe in the future from threatening to take these companies to court for failing to overcome the VPNs in order to protect “THE CHILDREN!!!” from pron.
re: #96 nines09
City Hall is the center of the north/south line. Broad and Market street. First block north is 100 North Broad. South is 110 block South Broad. Broad street would be where 14th would be if there was a 14th street.
East and West is divided by Front street for the most part.
Not sure what hotel she was booked in.
I gave up and jumped on Google Map street view. I’m thinking it’s looking SW from the Convention Center area.
re: #112 rhuarc
And that’s fine; that’s a good take. I’m tired of the “Garland is a useless piece of shit” rhetoric going around. I know I’m kinda calling people out, but low key, we’ve got a lot bigger things to deal with than an old institutionalist who is playing his (lack of) cards close to the vest.
re: #113 John Hughes
Insurrection is illegal in the US. But whatevs man.
re: #107 Targetpractice
That he wants to live a retirement more comfortable than what a government pension can afford. He wants book deals, he wants speaking fees, he wants regular spots on talk shows, and a job at a lobbying firm. He doesn’t want to be known for the rest of his days as the guy who took a shot at the king and missed.
He should look up Neville Chamberlain when he gets the chance in his cushy retirement.
TFG is throwing ketchup-covered shit at the wall, hoping something sticks.
According to Trump, he is solely responsible for electing DeSantis but also DeSantis is a terrible Governor that is no better than Charlie Crist and has had nothing to do with the state’s success over the last several years. https://t.co/gy03qNP4oE
— AG (@AGHamilton29) February 21, 2023
Is Trump actually trying to lose support at this point? Is this what 5D chess without a full set looks like? People want competency and that’s exactly what we have in Florida. Also the nicknames just ain’t working anymore…. pic.twitter.com/SHObm7ZB1g
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) February 21, 2023
re: #116 Dopamine Fish
And that’s fine; that’s a good take. I’m tired of the “Garland is a useless piece of shit” rhetoric going around. I know I’m kinda calling people out, but low key, we’ve got a lot bigger things to deal with than an old institutionalist who is playing his (lack of) cards close to the vest.
The reason I get worked up about this is that two years out, people don’t seem to grasp the enormity of January 6th.
We were literally minutes, possible seconds away from seeing Mike Pence and just about every Democratic legislator swinging by their necks from that shitty gallows those motherfuckers set up.
And that doesn’t even take into account what those animals would have done to any women they got their hands on prior to lynching.
Literally minutes or seconds away from Trump possibly ruling this country as a dictator, enabling Republicans to set the table for a permanent rule.
So, no, going easy on or feeling bad for Merrick Fucking Garland isn’t cutting it for me.
re: #116 Dopamine Fish
Noted. I respect your opinion.
re: #112 rhuarc
I don’t disagree, but not doing something just allows the system to stay because all the people see is inaction. They don’t care about WHY there is no inaction. They care that there was no action. However, if they indict and lose the case at least the people can see something was done, but because of the way these laws are written a conviction was almost impossible since it will be explained why the conviction didn’t happen.
No offense, but I had to fight the impulse to just post “Oh sweet summer child” as the only response. Many of us sat here from the beginning of the whole George Zimmerman affair to the day that he walked away a free man. The takeaway was not that the prosecutor was right for bringing charges even if he was ultimately acquitted, it was that she so badly botched the job that she deserved all the negative press she was getting. It certainly didn’t help her career that Zimmerman’s defenders (and many haters) came to conclude she’d only brought charges to advance said career.
re: #66 Amory Blaine
What’s your opinion on ad blockers?
I use ublock origin.
A site can detect that if it wants and refuse me access. Some do. That’s their prerogative.
But using ublock origin isn’t really the same as avoiding access controls, it’s blocking undesirable content. (Which, in the case of LGF has been mostly semi pornographic ads for single Russian women. In fact I started using it because the ads on LGF were so vile that I had to have a long conversation with my wife about visiting porn sites).
re: #119 Dr. Matt
Dave Rubin is a leftist!!
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re: #124 John Hughes
Undesirable content that deprives content makers of revenue.
re: #119 Dr. Matt
TFG is throwing ketchup covered shit at the wall, hoping something sticks.
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Trump portrays himself as the QAnon shaman and no one throws a net over him and checks him into a facility.
re: #126 Amory Blaine
Undesirable content that deprives content makers of revenue.
uBlock origin can be set to not apply the filters to not affect certain sites. I use it on sites which do not use intrusive or questionable ads.
re: #62 Amory Blaine
Wage theft is the number one property crime in America.
Not paying wages (or social security contributions on wages) is considered cessation de paiement in France and grounds for immediate closure of the business.
re: #118 Mattand
He should look Neville Chamberlain when he gets the chance in his cushy retirement.
Chamberlain died in office of bowel cancer.
TFG: “Florida was doing GREAT long before Ron DeSanctus got there.”
Rest of America: “America was doing GREAT before TFG occupied the Oval Office.”
re: #119 Dr. Matt
The truth is, you can seat a chimpanzee in the Governor’s chair here in Florida and have a hard time fucking things up economically due to our complete and total reliance on tourism.
Tourists pay for everything here. Hotel taxes, amusement taxes, toll fees, sales taxes, and many many other taxes and fees levied on tourists allow the lack of a state income tax. The warm weather and beautiful coastline draws millions every year where the average Floridian can basically kick back and let everyone else pay for our shit.
A creep like DeSantis will prove to be an imbecile on a national stage, but not before really fucking things up for anyone not white and entitled across the entire country if allowed in upcoming elections.
re: #129 John Hughes
Not paying wages (or social security contributions on wages) is considered cessation de paiement in France and grounds for immediate closure of the business.
In America you gain the admiration of your peers.
I won’t give one dime to WSJ but I goddamn deserve to know what shit they’re spreading. I’ll take it if I want.
re: #135 Amory Blaine
I won’t give one dime to WSJ but I goddamn deserve to know what shit they’re spreading. I’ll take it if I want.
It’s weapons grade bullshit delivered from the Frank Luntz factory.
This paywall bypass extension works by finding the articles (for example, the AMP version of the page, or an archive at a site like archive.is) in other places and somehow replacing the content of the page. It’s not IP theft, the news companies are making this public themselves in most cases that I can see, but people aren’t generally aware of how to find it.
I haven’t looked through all of the code of this extension but I did dig into it a little, and I didn’t see anything obviously shady about it.
re: #97 Amory Blaine
Oh no I’m 70 years old, won’t anyone think about my career!!!
I’m 70 years old and, frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn…
re: #135 Amory Blaine
I won’t give one dime to WSJ but I goddamn deserve to know what shit they’re spreading. I’ll take it if I want.
You radical. :-)
re: #137 Charles Johnson
This paywall bypass extension works by finding the articles (for example, the AMP version of the page, or an archive at a site like archive.is) in other places and somehow replacing the content of the page. It’s not IP theft, the news companies are making this public themselves in most cases that I can see, but people aren’t generally aware of how to find it.
I haven’t looked through all of the code of this extension but I did dig into it a little, and I didn’t see anything obviously shady about it.
It’s not, but I can see how someone who did not know how it works and assumes it bypasses paywalls rather than seeking free sources would think it was theft.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
Install this browser extension and all will be revealed.
Anyone run into an issue when clicking on “Load Unpacked” and getting a “Failed to load extension” error?
re: #119 Dr. Matt
TFG is throwing ketchup-covered shit at the wall, hoping something sticks.
Note that the targets of his rage are ignoring him.
re: #139 wrenchwench
You radical. :-)
My household just voted Janet Protasiewicz in The Wi Supreme Court primary.
re: #142 darthstar
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Each Republican will have their own fantasy as to why it’s OK for them to support the destructive Republican party even after the coup attempt. Those fantasies are clearly not compatible with those of other Republicans.
re: #81 Teukka
Back in 1979 my compsci class at UEA flew from Norwich to Schiphol to see the ancestor of all this. It was weirdly primitive and brilliant at the same time even then. (The we flew back to Norwich in our tiny Fokker in total fog whiteout, which was scary).
re: #133 Mattand
You know what the fuck I mean.
Not really. Chamberlain’s largely been vindicated by history for his decision not to take the nation to war in 1938, a decision that most of the nation supported at the time if one looks at polls and opinion pieces. His reputation as a coward and a failure is largely due to Churchill and his cohorts who spent the immediate post-war period writing their own version of history where putting down the Nazi threat would have been a cakewalk in 1938 but Chamberlain wimped out and allowed things to turn into a full-blown war that had killed tens of millions and cost the nation untold billions.
re: #124 John Hughes
I use ublock origin.
A site can detect that if it wants and refuse me access. Some do. That’s their prerogative.
But using ublock origin isn’t really the same as avoiding access controls, it’s blocking undesirable content. (Which, in the case of LGF has been mostly semi pornographic ads for single Russian women. In fact I started using it because the ads on LGF were so vile that I had to have a long conversation with my wife about visiting porn sites).
So it’s OK for people looking for free stuff to deny Charles any revenue, while those of us who support him by subscribing or allowing ads pay the freight.
Good to know that some stealing is OK for you.
re: #83 Eclectic Cyborg
Red States ALREADY take more than they give.
So [misogynist] the Blue States will have to pay child support [/mysogynist], right?
re: #96 nines09
City Hall is the center of the north/south line. Broad and Market street. First block north is 100 North Broad. South is 100 block South Broad.
North of City Hall is North Philly, south is South Philly.
Broad street would be where 14th would be if there was a 14th street.
East and West is divided by Front street for the most part.
Not sure what hotel she was booked in.
I’ll guess Doubletree.
re: #142 darthstar
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Ann Coulter just can’t handle that she’s now a has-been.
And that’s just OK with me…
re: #147 Targetpractice
Not really. Chamberlain’s largely been vindicated by history for his decision not to take the nation to war in 1938, a decision that most of the nation supported at the time if one looks at polls and opinion pieces. His reputation as a coward and a failure is largely due to Churchill and his cohorts who spent the immediate post-war period writing their own version of history where putting down the Nazi threat would have been a cakewalk in 1938 but Chamberlain wimped out and allowed things to turn into a full-blown war that had killed tens of millions and cost the nation untold billions.
Fair enough.
Still doesn’t change the fact that the “Leave Merrick alone” crowd basically are saying “Eh, whaddya gonna do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯??????” about January 6th.
Some of us actually give a shit.
Oh the hits keep on coming to that little snot who thought he got away with murder.
Kyle Rittenhouse hit with new lawsuit from man he shot in Kenosha
A man who was shot by Kyle Rittenhouse during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, back in 2020 has filed a lawsuit against Rittenhouse and Wisconsin government officials, Fox News reported on Tuesday.
Gaige Grosskreutz, who admitted during testimony that he pointed a firearm at Rittenhouse before he was shot, is seeking financial losses, “damages for emotional distress, humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, and other pain and suffering on all claims,” and punitive damages.
“Astonishingly, the Kenosha Police Department, Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department, their supervising officials and police officers, and law enforcement officers from surrounding communities did not treat Defendant Rittenhouse or any of the other armed individuals patrolling the streets as a threat to the safety of themselves or the citizens they were sworn to protect,” the lawsuit stated.
“Instead, the law enforcement Defendants deputized these armed individuals, conspired with them, and ratified their actions by letting them patrol the streets, armed with deadly weapons, to mete out justice as they saw fit,’” said the lawsuit.
I got a feeling that this lawsuit is as the Temptations put it…”Standing On Shakey Ground” but that little punk deserves everything that’s coming to him.
re: #92 Mattand
LOL, I’ve walked around Center City for nearly three decades but I’m still having trouble trying to triangulate that location. It’s like, I know exactly where everyone of those buildings are and I still can’t quite put my finger on the photo’s location.
The orientation giveaway for me is the tower of the Masonic Temple Hall in the foreground.
“Born to Ride Donald J Trump” pic.twitter.com/2ICs9LpdnE
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) February 21, 2023
re: #157 Crush White Nationalism
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I will not write the punch line because I’m sure everyone knows what double entendre is appropriate for those fools wearing those jackets…
re: #156 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The orientation giveaway for me is the tower of the Masonic Temple Hall in the foreground.
That’s what was throwing me. My brain was reading the north entrance of City Hall as being somehow in front of the Temple in that photo.
Once I jumped on Google Maps and parked it at Broad and Arch, I was like “Gotcha.”
re: #117 Amory Blaine
Insurrection is illegal in the US. But whatevs man.
Ok, people you detest are criminal scum and only lightly, if at all, punished, so you can just ignore any law or moral principal if it inconveniences you.
I’m a little more sensitive to IP theft than many people because IP creation is my dad’s life work. He’s told me many stories of California dudebros liking his work and deciding that what they should do is copy it. (He’s never used the law to deal with this because they’re all so shit at creating art).
My idea is if people want you to pay to see their work either pay or don’t look at it.
(The one area I will admit to some inconsistency is online ads. The software I use considers them as malware, which they mostly are. If a site wants to block me for not viewing their ads, then I don’t visit).
Tomorrow’s Wordle pains the eye.
Cursed three-putt.
Wordle 613 6/6
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Others were more fortunate.
SibData: 3,4,5,6
re: #137 Charles Johnson
Ok, if that’s what it does then that’s good, I misunderstood.
After all if it’s the news site that is making the information available elsewhere they can’t claim you are using a tool to evade their content protection, they don’t have any content protection.
Of course this means they are liars, so devalues their content
One of my Ubers today was a Tesla. It was a challenge to figure out how to get in and out.
The driver thinks Elon is crazy, but is looking at another Tesla anyway.
re: #147 Targetpractice
Not really. Chamberlain’s largely been vindicated by history for his decision not to take the nation to war in 1938, a decision that most of the nation supported at the time if one looks at polls and opinion pieces. His reputation as a coward and a failure is largely due to Churchill and his cohorts who spent the immediate post-war period writing their own version of history where putting down the Nazi threat would have been a cakewalk in 1938 but Chamberlain wimped out and allowed things to turn into a full-blown war that had killed tens of millions and cost the nation untold billions.
Also overlooking that one reason the UK was so badly unprepared for another war was a budget decision in roughly 1920 that another war was about a decade away and thus the government could cut military spending sharply. And then they extended said decision repeatedly to create what Churchill (or someone) called “the lost decade”. This pretty much strangled military development programs in the UK in the crib in the 1920s and early 30s when there was a lot of new technology developed and begun that would be important during the war.
And the Chancellor of the Exchequer in England from 1925 to 1929 was no other than Winston Churchill himself.
re: #165 Crush White Nationalism
The driver thinks Elon is crazy, but is looking at another Tesla anyway.
He does know there are better EVs on the market I hope.
re: #153 Mattand
Fair enough.
Still doesn’t change the fact that the “Leave Merrick alone” crowd basically are saying “Eh, whaddya gonna do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯??????” about January 6th.
Some of us actually give a shit.
Yeah, I’m gonna choose not to take offense at the implied insult here and just point out that you can give a shit and be realistic at the same time. And that’s being realistic not only about the odds that Trump could be convicted and stay convicted, but also that folks like yourself who are so passionate about putting him on trial would be equally as passionate in attacking all those involved when he walked on either an acquittal or mistrial. Or be satisfied with a conviction that leads to years of appeals while the man walked free. Quite frankly, I don’t think many would be happy with anything short of summary execution at this point.
re: #167 Eclectic Cyborg
He does know there are better EVs on the market I hope.
I did tell him that there are several other options now.
re: #126 Amory Blaine
Undesirable content that deprives content makers of revenue.
Well, all due respect to Charles, but I don’t actually come here for (just) his content.
I also never agreed, not did he ask me to agree, to look at pictures of scantily clad “Russian brides” to read your interesting comments.
re: #168 Targetpractice
If it’s a choice between summary execution of Trump for his crimes, and the non-action it appears we’ll actually get, the summary execution would be closer to justice.
re: #166 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Also overlooking that one reason the UK was so badly unprepared for another war was a budget decision in roughly 1920 that another war was about a decade away and thus the government could cut military spending sharply. And then they extended said decision repeatedly to create what Churchill (or someone) called “the lost decade”. This pretty much strangled military development programs in the UK in the crib in the 1920s and early 30s when there was a lot of new technology developed and begun that would be important during the war.
And the Chancellor of the Exchequer in England from 1925 to 1929 was no other than Winston Churchill himself.
Like a never Trumper, he wasn’t interested in talking about _his_ responsibility for the mess that existed in 1938 that made Chamberlain buy English (and American) industry an extra year to build up for the coming war. The Battle of Britian without the extra build up time for Hurricanes and Spitfires? Only Vickers Mediums and Matilda 1s? The Germans weren’t ready for war either, but they were far better off than the Royal Army and had the live fire exercise of slaughtering Spanish civilians for Franco.
re: #168 Targetpractice
Yeah, I’m gonna choose not to take offense at the implied insult here and just point out that you can give a shit and be realistic at the same time. And that’s being realistic not only about the odds that Trump could be convicted and stay convicted, but also that folks like yourself who are so passionate about putting him on trial would be equally as passionate in attacking all those involved when he walked on either an acquittal or mistrial. Or be satisfied with a conviction that leads to years of appeals while the man walked free. Quite frankly, I don’t think many would be happy with anything short of summary execution at this point.
Take offense all you want.
I’m tired of hearing nothing can be done.
I’m tired of seeing people get away with shit, regardless of the way of the world.
I’m tired of being told the US Attorney General shouldn’t be criticized for taking two years to do the bare fucking minimum.
I’m tired of knowing the odds of this country falling into fascism are growing greater every day because Trump is allowed to walk free.
And you don’t have to worry about me criticizing/attacking/being just darn tootin’ mean to Garland if he tries Trump and Trump walks, because apparently that’s never going to happen.
John Hughes is protesting waaaay too much about why he is seeing scantily clad Russian bride ads at LGF…
I mean there are a lot more Russian women available now than there were this time last year.
re: #140 Crush White Nationalism
It’s not, but I can see how someone who did not know how it works and assumes it bypasses paywalls rather than seeking free sources would think it was theft.
Well, since it’s called Bypass Paywalls Chrome Clean I guess you could see how I got confused.
re: #170 John Hughes
Well, all due respect to Charles, but I don’t actually come here for (just) his content.
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I thought it was all his.
re: #176 Eclectic Cyborg
I mean there are a lot more Russian women available now than there were this time last year.
well, the Russian men are all sent to Ukraine to be cannon fodder, and their moms are getting all the boxes of dumplings…
re: #178 wrenchwench
I thought it was all his.
lots of the content are those of us who contribute pages
re: #180 Crush White Nationalism
I don’t recall signing over rights to my posts.
But look where you’re putting them.
I have never seen an ad for hot Russian wives…oh wait, I help pay for this website…
re: #182 wrenchwench
But look where you’re putting them.
Not how it works. Technically, we own the copyrights to our posts here. Same as a tweet or any other public post. This affords our illustrious host Section 230 protections, as a host of user-generated content.
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
lots of the content are those of us who contribute pages
I should read a manual or something and learn how to do that again.
re: #174 Mattand
And you don’t have to worry about me criticizing/attacking/being just darn tootin’ mean to Garland if he tries Trump and Trump walks, because apparently that’s never going to happen.
If Trump is tried for his crimes and walks because of a MAGAt juror, so be it. Perhaps that would focus attention on the GOP and Trumpism (i.e. the real problem) instead of Trump personally (just a symptom).
In any case, I agree that the excuses for slow, perhaps nonexistent, prosecution of Trump are wearing very, very thin by now.
re: #184 Dopamine Fish
Not how it works. Technically, we own the copyrights to our posts here. Same as a tweet or any other public post. This affords our illustrious host Section 230 protections, as a host of user-generated content.
Oh, that’s what that Section is.
re: #187 wrenchwench
Oh, that’s what that Section is.
For now. Apparently there is a live SOCTUS case on that part of the law right now, and God only knows what the blinkered right wing zealots on the Supreme Court will do with it.
re: #187 wrenchwench
Oh, that’s what that Section is.
Put generally, any site that hosts user-generated content is not liable for said content. When people want to sue Twitter for defamation because of something some asshole says on the platform, that’s Section 230. You can see now why the Republicans want to get rid of it; they want to sue people with actual deep pockets (e.g. Big Tech companies) for being insulted and offended by reality.
re: #170 John Hughes
Well, all due respect to Charles, but I don’t actually come here for (just) his content.
I also never agreed, not did he ask me to agree, to look at pictures of scantily clad “Russian brides” to read your interesting comments.
Stick around and maybe a “Secret Santa” will buy you a subscription at holiday time.
re: #190 The Pie Overlord!
Stick around and maybe a “Secret Santa” will buy you a subscription at holiday time.
won’t be me, but maybe there is somebody here who likes asshats
re: #174 Mattand
Take offense all you want.
I’m tired of hearing nothing can be done.
I’m tired of seeing people get away with shit, regardless of the way of the world.
I’m tired of being told the US Attorney General shouldn’t be criticized for taking two years to do the bare fucking minimum.
I’m tired of knowing the odds of this country falling into fascism are growing greater every day because Trump is allowed to walk free.
And you don’t have to worry about me criticizing/attacking/being just darn tootin’ mean to Garland if he tries Trump and Trump walks, because apparently that’s never going to happen.
I think the issue is that I’m just further along the cynicism curve that yourself, I’ve made peace with nothing getting done because nothing has ever been done. Nixon shouldn’t have been allowed to walk in exchange for his resignation, Reagan shouldn’t have been allowed to offer up the heads of his underlings to avoid prosecution, and Dubya shouldn’t have been able to skate entirely because he was a “wartime president.” Yet it happened, it all contributed to the situation we are in now, and convicted Donald F’n Trump is not going to undo 50+ years of slow-motion fascism.
I’ve already been through my period of anger and disappointment, now I’m just numb to the whole mess because I know that nobody wants to listen to me shouting. Hate me if you want, curse my name for not keeping that burning passion alive, but all I can say in my defense is I’ve got too much bad shit going on in my life right now to add constant disappointment atop the pile.
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
John Hughes is protesting waaaay too much about why he is seeing scantily clad Russian bride ads at LGF…
I just got a Ukranian bride spam in my email inbox. It’s in the water, I think.
re: #193 Nojay UK
I just got a Ukranian bride spam in my email inbox. It’s in the water, I think.
well, you aren’t in France, I hear wives there are prickly about that stuff…
re: #11 Charles Johnson
Install this browser extension and all will be revealed.
Can confirm! I’ve used to great success for months.
re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth
well, the Russian men are all sent to Ukraine to be cannon fodder, and their moms are getting all the boxes of dumplings…
We know why Putin won’t give them Chicken Kiev as a consolation prize.
re: #188 EPR-radar
For now. Apparently there is a live SOCTUS case on that part of the law right now, and God only knows what the blinkered right wing zealots on the Supreme Court will do with it.
Did you say, “Sock it to us case”?
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Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory Just Captured Ominous Signals About the Planet’s Health Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory just captured an ominous sign about the pace of global warming. Atmospheric levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide aren’t just on their way to yet another record high this year - they’re rising faster than ever, ... Cheechako
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Trump’s “Stolen Election” Lie Based on Evidence From Pervy Bathroom Cam-Spy OK, this really takes the cake. If you have relatives that still cling to the “election was stolen, dadgum, I jes’ KNOW IT … This should be a slight remedy to the stubborn madness Thanks to online anonymity, the ...
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Best of April 2024 Nothing new here but these are a look back at the a few good images from the past month. Despite the weather, I was quite pleased with several of them. These were taken with older lenses (made from the ...
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Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ... Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
