Video: Donald Trump Guilty of Financial Fraud in New York
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From my reading of Judge Engoron’s ruling:
And the coup de grace: Trump’s apparently been lying to the independent monitor the NY court appointed to ensure his business dealings were all aboveboard while James’s case played out in court. The court took notice, and decided that the only equitable remedy was to sink the whole goddamn ship. It’s beautiful.
Also, do you guys notice that Trump inevitably admits to more crimes every time he tries to defend himself from one?
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, do you guys notice that Trump inevitably admits to more crimes every time he tries to defend himself from one?
Yes.
Remember, kids: You can lie to the cops. You can lie to the judge. But you damn well better believe they’ll find out. And they will not be happy.
So he had an opportunity to settle this case, just like he settled the Trump ‘University’ case, but he didn’t take it. Out of money?
re: #7 jaunte
So he had an opportunity to settle this case, just like he settled the Trump ‘University’ case, but he didn’t take it. Out of money?
He’s never had any momey.
re: #8 Ace Rothstein
He could sell one of the storage rooms at Mar-A-Lago for a couple hundred million.
What kind of stupid motherfucker puts a disclaimer that says “I might be lying” on a loan application?
re: #9 jaunte
He could sell one of the storage rooms at Mar-A-Lago for a couple hundred million.
It’s flooded out though.
re: #10 Ace Rothstein
What kind of stupid motherfucker puts a disclaimer that says “I might be lying” on a loan application?
I mean, think about who we’re talking about here.
The shit’s really starting to rain down on that orange motherfucker and you just hate to see it.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
The shit’s really starting to rain down on that orange motherfucker and you just hate to see it.
This New York law he’s been found liable under is really something. Apparently, the State of New York is not fucking around when it comes to truth in financial reporting.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
The shit’s really starting to rain down on that orange motherfucker and you just hate to see it.
And 45% of the country are totally down with him being President again.
Go ahead. DO IT!
Matt Gaetz claims he’s ready to vote to boot Kevin McCarthy
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) suggested on Tuesday that he is ready to move forward with a vote to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the chair — and dared House Democrats to provide the votes to stop him from doing so, reported Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman.
“GAETZ just essentially said on the House floor that he will file a motion to boot McCarthy out of the speakership,” said Sherman. “He said Democrats will have an opportunity to hold McCarthy responsible for his record over the last 8 months. And he said we’ll see if Democrats bail him out.”
This comes as tensions reach a head between House Republican leadership and the far-right Freedom Caucus as they try to hammer out funding to keep the government open, with a shutdown looming in a matter of days.
Gaetz has for months been threatening to call a vote to “vacate the chair,” ramping it up especially after McCarthy agreed to a deal with President Joe Biden to prevent a default on the national debt in the spring.
Under the rules that McCarthy agreed to as a condition of securing the votes for Speaker, any individual Republican can call for such a motion — and he would struggle to defeat such a vote, as Republicans hold only a barebones 5-seat majority in the House, far fewer than the number of far-right lawmakers who have questioned McCarthy’s leadership.
“The one thing I agree with my Democrat (sic) colleagues on is that for the last eight months, this House has been poorly led,” said Gaetz in a two-minute speech. “And we own that. We have to do something about it. And you know what? My Democrat (sic) colleagues will have an opportunity to do something about that too. And we will see if they bail out our failed speaker.”
Criswell Bacon predicts that Democrats will not lift a finger to help the Wanker Of The House.
re: #17 Joe Bacon ✅
Go ahead. DO IT!
Matt Gaetz claims he’s ready to vote to boot Kevin McCarthy
Stop edging us and GET ON WITH IT! We all know why you won’t, Matt. It’s because there’s no “W” in this for you, either Qev keeps the gavel with the support of the Dems and you lose all leverage over him or he loses it and you find out very quickly how little even your buddies care about you. There’s no scenario on offer where you wind up as Speaker, Gas Pedal.
Menendez is just another proof that, for most, if you are acquitted (or at least not convicted) of a crime, the experience does not chasten you to do better in the future but instead emboldens you to continue or expand your nefarious ways.
re: #17 Joe Bacon ✅
Gaetz doesn’t have the legs to do it.
re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter
Menendez is just another proof that, for most, if you are acquitted (or at least not convicted) of a crime, the experience does not chasten you to do better in the future but instead emboldens you to continue or expand your nefarious ways.
Hey now, who among us hasn’t kept gold bars and stacks of cash in our jackets as a retirement fund?
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re: #22 Ace Rothstein
Something in there about “all hat.”
re: #13 Charles Johnson
The shit’s really starting to rain down on that orange motherfucker and you just hate to see it.
I still remember the handwringing here.
re: #26 Belafon
I still remember the handwringing here.
It’s extremely rare that someone like Trump faces actual consequences for his actions. If you don’t mind, I’ll take my crow well done, rubbed with salt and pepper and served with a generous portion of Devil’s Spit barbecue sauce.
re: #16 Ace Rothstein
And 45% of the country are totally down with him being President again.
Of course they are. A criminal President will allow them to crime.
His effort to sell mugshots and get money… is best described as a scampaign.
I have said that I will never set foot in that utter hellscape shithole known as “Florida” and then my son sent me this picture and I immediately booked tickets for the little guy’s 3rd birthday party.
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re: #17 Joe Bacon ✅
Go ahead. DO IT!
Matt Gaetz claims he’s ready to vote to boot Kevin McCarthy
This comes as tensions reach a head between House Republican leadership and the far-right
FreedomPower Caucus as they try to hammer out funding to keep the government open, with a shutdown looming in a matter of days.
Those authoritarian yahoos don’t understand freedom and wouldn’t like it if they did. It’s power they care about.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, do you guys notice that Trump inevitably admits to more crimes every time he tries to defend himself from one?
He’s not a Smart Criminal.
Neither are his kids. In fact the whole fambly is dumber than a box of fucking hammer heads.
Now they are going to get thrown out of NY State for being common thieves.
And let’s all refer to him as a common thief, shall we? That’s the best way to get him to do a Hans Gruber:
re: #31 Romantic Heretic
Those authoritarian yahoos don’t understand freedom and wouldn’t like it if they did. It’s power they care about.
Any Republican who would replace McCarthy would be worse than he is. Scalise? Jordan? Stefanik?
re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
Any Republican who would replace McCarthy would be worse than he is. Scalise? Jordan? Stefanik?
Can any of them secure the votes necessary without just agreeing to the very same straitjacket they forced Qev into?
re: #25 TedStriker
Gaetz has a five-head
He’s an invader from the planet Metaluna who dyes his hair to disguise his alien nature.
I would also suggest that Jivanka could not, right now, shit a bar straw through their collective anal sphincters.
They have to know the Saudi Money is the next target of investigation.
re: #35 A Three Hour Tour
He’s an invader from the planet Metaluna who dyes his hair to disguise his alien nature.
The organization that played a key role in making the United States Supreme Court among the most corrupt judicial institutions in the world says what?
— Traci Degerman 🇺🇸🌎🇺🇦 (@TraciDegerman) September 27, 2023
re: #34 Targetpractice
That’s why I think Gaetz is bluffing. Nobody else wants the job bad enough to put up with the strings.
re: #38 DodgerFan1988
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The organization that elevated Justice Kegstand to the highest court in the land wants to talk about societal collapse. Right.
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From downthread re: asking for what speed of internet to get:
re: #223 sagehen
Buy the fastest possible, because six months from now you’re going to suddenly realize you want to do something data-heavy that you just haven’t thought of yet.
I know from experience that 100mbits is fine for most of my needs. Went with 400 because it makes my dick look bigger. 1 gig and I’m over-compensating.
re: #39 jaunte
That’s why I think Gaetz is bluffing. Nobody else wants the job bad enough to put up with the strings.
The “moderates” won’t put up with this shit again, anybody willing to agree to Gas Pedal’s terms will be almost immediately disqualified by the rest of the party. And anybody who rejects those terms will be unable to win over the crazies. The best option in this scenario is for the Dems to sit by and munch popcorn.
I posted this to some Elon knob gobbler who had Musk tagged and I got suspended for 12 hours. 🤣❄️❄️
re: #39 jaunte
That’s why I think Gaetz is bluffing. Nobody else wants the job bad enough to put up with the strings.
They had to beg Ryan to take the job. It didn’t end well.
re: #38 DodgerFan1988
They said the same thing about Jesus. :)
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) September 27, 2023
re: #43 EstebanTornado1963
I posted this to some Elon knob gobbler who had Musk tagged and I got suspended for 12 hours. 🤣❄️❄️
I’m proud of you.
— Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) September 26, 2023
“It’s 5 minutes to closing, don’t even think about coming in here”
— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) September 27, 2023
re: #50 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
I’m also getting an “I’ve seen things, man” vibe.
re: #34 Targetpractice
Can any of them secure the votes necessary without just agreeing to the very same straitjacket they forced Qev into?
No and imo none of them would.
That means for the Rs to elect any speaker the FC has to give up it’s position on the mtv and other bargaining chips.
That’s why I believe they will not oust McC.
Unless their actual goal is to “burn it down” and be speakerless for a while .
re: #49 BigPapa
I’m proud of you.
And it’s a passive sitdgamatation! There’s not even any actual tea bagging going on!
Man, some people are way sensitive. Post a cartoon of Bozo resting his nuts on the bridge of someone’s nose and they’re all Great Googly Moogly! That’s unacceptable!
Post no-shit Nazi Propaganda and it’s all “Meh, It’s X. Elon can do what he wants.”
re: #50 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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I remember one night back when I worked at a sub shop and this group of 20-somethings came in the door at 10 minutes til closing. We were already in the process of putting stuff up but my boss just shrugged and said to take their orders because he couldn’t pass up a last minute sale. Then we started wrapping up the subs…and they said they wanted to eat there. Again, instead of telling them that wasn’t an option he just shrugged and figured they’d eat quick and be out.
They were still there 30 minutes after closing, just nibbling at their subs and talking about whatever movie they’d watched before walking in. He finally had to send me home because he couldn’t afford the overtime and closed up all by himself.
re: #52 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Ps unless they’re really stupid they never would pull the trigger on Kevin without having someone ready. And so…as I said not a chance.
They all know this
re: #55 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Ps unless they’re really stupid they never would pull the trigger on Kevin without having someone ready. And so…as I said not a chance.
They all know this
Except McCarthy it seems.
re: #56 Belafon
Except McCarthy it seems.
Qev’s riding the tiger, he’s doing everything he can to stay on.
So, I wake up here in Europe and see that a NY judge has ordered the dissolution of the Trump Organization and found that Trump “deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing financing.”
And the weather here today should be around 75 F, with clear and sunny skies.
Glorious. What a great way to start the day.
re: #57 Targetpractice
Qev’s riding the tiger, he’s doing everything he can to stay on.
The tiger is going to eat him.
Too bad, so sad.
Eat shit and die Qevin. It was always your lot in life as soon as you threw in with the Anarchists.
And let’s be absolutely clear, here, the Freedom Caucus is a bunch of Anarchists, nothing less. They want to burn it all down.
Apparently Google is killing off another one of their side projects:
re: #58 Dr Lizardo
So, I wake up here in Europe and see that a NY judge has ordered the dissolution of the Trump Organization and found that Trump “deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing financing.”
And the weather here today should be around 75 F, with clear and sunny skies.
Glorious. What a great way to start the day.
Frabjous day, Calloo Callay!
Blue Sky moving some functionality to the right side of the (desktop) screen is a plus.
But I do wonder what’s next for Blue Sky?
The rush to a million users was great.
But since then, if vqv.app is to be believed, growth has cooled off.
And the number of posts have not scaled with the number of registered users.
Something’s missing… and I think it’s the same thing holding Mastodon back.
I propose it is the lack of monetization.
Like it or not (and the soviets of Mastodon seem to really not like it), commerce makes the world go ‘round.
re: #56 Belafon
Except McCarthy it seems.
I think he knows too.
He just doesn’t know what else to do about the budget
re: #57 Targetpractice
Qev’s riding the tiger, he’s doing everything he can to stay on.
And he’d rather stay on than do his job
re: #53 austin_blue
And it’s a passive sitdgamatation! There’s not even any actual tea bagging going on!
Man, some people are way sensitive. Post a cartoon of Bozo resting his nuts on the bridge of someone’s nose and they’re all Great Googly Moogly! That’s unacceptable!
Post no-shit Nazi Propaganda and it’s all “Meh, It’s X. Elon can do what he wants.”
Haha.
Point is they (Elon and Elon ballwasher) are such little fragile little people that and little thing triggers them. Remember Elon is free speech
re: #65 EstebanTornado1963
Haha.
Point is they (Elon and Elon ballwasher) are such little fragile little people that and little thing triggers them. Remember Elon is free speech
Well freeze peach, certainly. I don’t know nuttin about no 1A.
re: #38 DodgerFan1988
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The Federalist website isn’t associated with the Federalist Society, is it? I thought it was an independent operation.
re: #62 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Blue Sky moving some functionality to the right side of the (desktop) screen is a plus.
.
Really? Looks exactly the same to me. Firefucked 117.0.1 on Windows 10.
re: #64 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
And he’d rather stay on than do his job
In his mind, there’s a path through all of this where he finally finds a combination of bills that win the crazies long enough to get the whole mess tossed to the Senate, then he junks the Senate’s CR and declares that if Biden wants to reopen the government then his only option is pressure the Senate to send those bills to his desk.
STOP PUTTING ALL YOUR FAITH IN POLLS.
JFC I just can’t stand this blind faith in polls. I’m going to say that most polls are BULLSHIT. What is their sampling method? Spam phone calls? You know that your entire sample is consists of people who will answer a random phone call & then spend 30 minutes answering survey questions. WHO THE FUCK DOES THAT?
re: #70 Vicious Babushka
STOP PUTTING ALL YOUR FAITH IN POLLS.
JFC I just can’t stand this blind faith in polls. I’m going to say that most polls are BULLSHIT. What is their sampling method? Spam phone calls? You know that your entire sample is consists of people who will answer a random phone call & then spend 30 minutes answering survey questions. WHO THE FUCK DOES THAT?[Embedded content]
Welcome to 2012, where Obama was polling worse than he had 4 years prior, thus the talk about Bernie or another “progressive” candidate jumping up to run a primary campaign against him. The idea being that either he’d lose the primary and a more popular candidate would replace him or he’d win and the party would be energized to carry him through to Election Day.
And then he won reelection with only a slightly lower turnout and the same assholes acted as if it was never in doubt that he’d win and wondered why everybody around them was giving them death glares.
re: #62 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I kind of think that its some of the most popular content still hasn’t relocated…
we Rate Dogs and just about every professional sports team and their individual players are still over there. Once those normies come across, then even more will follow.
re: #30 Vicious Babushka
I have said that I will never set foot in that utter hellscape shithole known as “Florida” and then my son sent me this picture and I immediately booked tickets for the little guy’s 3rd birthday party.
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re: #71 Targetpractice
Welcome to 2012, where Obama was polling worse than he had 4 years prior, thus the talk about Bernie or another “progressive” candidate jumping up to run a primary campaign against him. The idea being that either he’d lose the primary and a more popular candidate would replace him or he’d win and the party would be energized to carry him through to Election Day.
And then he won reelection with only a slightly lower turnout and the same assholes acted as if it was never in doubt that he’d win and wondered why everybody around them was giving them death glares.
Today’s Bad Poll: Trump Up 10 on Biden?
By now, many readers will have heard about the latest from The Washington Post/ABC, which gives Donald Trump a staggering 10-point lead over Joe Biden among registered voters, 52% to 42%. This is, to be blunt, crazy
The election isn’t for fourteen months. Nothing matters until two weeks before that. Polls are absolutely worthless right now.
re: #75 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
That the Post admits is an outlier. What they didn’t admit is why the fuck then did they publish it?
re: #77 Ace Rothstein
That the Post admits is an outlier. What they didn’t admit is why the fuck then did they publish it?
Because publishing it would get them eyeballs and commentary. Which is their goal.
re: #77 Ace Rothstein
That the Post admits is an outlier. What they didn’t admit is why the fuck then did they publish it?
Because of all the money they made for 4 years covering every thing that Trump did in the WH.
re: #72 piratedan
we Rate Dogs and just about every professional sports team and their individual players are still over there. Once those normies come across, then even more will follow.
What’s to stop them from doing that now?
The reality is simple: social media exists to make money.
For somebody.
If a concern (public or private) cannot benefit from a social media application then they have no push to use said application.
Musk could (and is) turn Xitter into the Hitler Youth and companies will go along with it.
Because they only use Xitter to make money.
They don’t care about anything else.
What the media will never get…Biden being on the ground means he is fighting for workers not for the corporations. Great job sis for speaking your truth. https://t.co/zSHlqVTJIN
— Candidly Tiff (@tify330) September 26, 2023
President Joe Biden’s decision to stand alongside United Auto Workers pickets on Tuesday on the 12th day of their strike against major carmakers underscores an allegiance to labor unions that appears to be unparalleled in presidential history. https://t.co/zkelaa257c
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) September 26, 2023
I have tried to offer up my Bsky codes to certain Xitter individuals who have modest followings, who post what I at times want to check out.
Said individuals don’t want the codes.
Sometimes they have a very very hard time understanding that 4 out of 5 of those categories can be Black.
— WUT (@wut76543) September 26, 2023
re: #62 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
1. Stop hoping for Blue Sky to be the great Twitter replacement. Twitter was a cesspool and doesn’t deserve replacement.
2. Y number of users (new default variable) isn’t the magic sauce. LGF has fourteen billion users but I only see the same four or five dozen here because Charles’ algorithm is far superior to Elmo’s.
3. Keep social media social. Here, Mastodon, BlueSky…wherever…and never think of it as more than a social outlet.
There are more bullet points others can contribute, but those are the three that keep me sane online. I’ve been through the demise of Yahoo chat and Slate and one other I can’t remember…oh yeah, Twitter.
re: #84 Belafon
Trump’s going to show up at a non-union house tomorrow and spew empty bullshit and there’s a good chance they’ll want to unionize after he leaves.
re: #85 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I have tried to offer up my Bsky codes to certain Xitter individuals who have modest followings, who post what I at times want to check out.
Said individuals don’t want the codes.
They’ll leave when they hear the echoes of their tweets…not before.
re: #87 darthstar
Twitter was a cesspool and doesn’t deserve replacement.
A line that takes absolutely nothing into account of how people work.
We’ve had more than a decade now of people talking to each other that have never met, of getting to hear from, and an occasional response from, people they admire. There is no going back. We either get a replacement for Twitter or we will be stuck with Twitter.
re: #84 Belafon
At some point this will turn into just a Democratic stunt, because eventually everything is corrupted, but for the next few elections, Biden has made sure that Democrats also focus on unions. Imagine being a nominee that won’t show up where workers are on strike.
re: #90 Belafon
There are plenty of twitter alternatives. Bluesky, Telegram, the fediverse, Truth social, daily Kos, LGF, Redstate…some are more tailored to specific crowds, while others are more self-curated…choose what works for you. People will find new heroes to admire…or find the ones they like elsewhere.
re: #94 Belafon
I’d rather not. Rock and hard place.
re: #90 Belafon
A line that takes absolutely nothing into account of how people work.
We’ve had more than a decade now of people talking to each other that have never met, of getting to hear from, and an occasional response from, people they admire. There is no going back. We either get a replacement for Twitter or we will be stuck with Twitter.
The disabled community has never had anything like it. So far, Mastodon hasn’t been a popular substitute—it’s too atomized. Some disabled peeps are on Bluesky.
Much of the handwringing is reminiscent of media “critics”, 30 years ago, snobs really, who would endlessly tell you you were “uncultured” for not destroying your TV and living “simply”. Mastodon has a strong vibe of this with all the people wanting content warnings when someone else lives and posts “different” than they do.
re: #94 Belafon
Imagine being Manchin.
I can’t, but that’s because I haven’t filled the hole where my conscience used to be with coal dusted money.
Stewpid Peters again allowing a rabid anti-Semite to spread more hate…
E. Michael Jones Tells Stew Peters That ‘The Holocaust Created Jewish Privilege’
On the Sept. 21, 2023 episode of his Rumble show, white nationalist Stew Peters interviewed E. Michael Jones. Jones, an antisemitic self-styled theologian who has appeared on livestreams with white nationalists and Neo-Nazis, told Peters that the Holocaust “created Jewish privilege” and that the Biden administration is controlled by Jews.
During the show’s monologue, Peters went on an angry rant about the Anti-Defamation League, which he compared to the Nazis.
“For some people the Holocaust is their excuse for why they deserve absolute power today,” Peters said. “Because the Holocaust happened 80 years ago, they say, they get to create today’s Nazism, dressed up with words like ‘social justice,’ or ‘medical safety,’ or ‘the climate.’
As he spoke, a graphic depicting President Biden and ADL Director Jonathan Greenblatt and the caption “Jewish Supremacy” appeared on the screen. The term “Jewish supremacy” has been frequently used by white supremacists, including former Klan leader David Duke.
Peters said that, like the Nazis, the ADL “demand[s] mass censorship,” “engage[s] in blanket vilification of their enemies,” and “defend[s], and demand[s], mass street violence under the banner of BLM.” He added that the ADL “hit on this brilliant twist to keep their extortion racket going” which is to “claim to be anti-fascist” while “behav[ing] as much like fascists as they want.”
The pair also discussed “four-hundred and some-odd people that are in Biden’s cabinet that happen to be Jews,” as Peters phrased it. Peters asked Jones “who’s infiltrating this government and what is their objective.” Jones said that “the Jews want to control the narrative” in order to “maintain their privilege.”
400 people in Joe’s cabinet? Well if a bigot is gonna lie it’s gonna lie big.
So tired of this ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream…
re: #99 Joe Bacon ✅
Stewpid Peters again allowing a rabid anti-Semite to spread more hate…
E. Michael Jones Tells Stew Peters That ‘The Holocaust Created Jewish Privilege’
On the Sept. 21, 2023 episode of his Rumble show, white nationalist Stew Peters interviewed E. Michael Jones. Jones, an antisemitic self-styled theologian who has appeared on livestreams with white nationalists and Neo-Nazis, told Peters that the Holocaust “created Jewish privilege” and that the Biden administration is controlled by Jews.
During the show’s monologue, Peters went on an angry rant about the Anti-Defamation League, which he compared to the Nazis.
“For some people the Holocaust is their excuse for why they deserve absolute power today,” Peters said. “Because the Holocaust happened 80 years ago, they say, they get to create today’s Nazism, dressed up with words like ‘social justice,’ or ‘medical safety,’ or ‘the climate.’
As he spoke, a graphic depicting President Biden and ADL Director Jonathan Greenblatt and the caption “Jewish Supremacy” appeared on the screen. The term “Jewish supremacy” has been frequently used by white supremacists, including former Klan leader David Duke.
Peters said that, like the Nazis, the ADL “demand[s] mass censorship,” “engage[s] in blanket vilification of their enemies,” and “defend[s], and demand[s], mass street violence under the banner of BLM.” He added that the ADL “hit on this brilliant twist to keep their extortion racket going” which is to “claim to be anti-fascist” while “behav[ing] as much like fascists as they want.”
The pair also discussed “four-hundred and some-odd people that are in Biden’s cabinet that happen to be Jews,” as Peters phrased it. Peters asked Jones “who’s infiltrating this government and what is their objective.” Jones said that “the Jews want to control the narrative” in order to “maintain their privilege.”
400 people in Joe’s cabinet? Well if a bigot is gonna lie it’s gonna lie big.
So tired of this ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream…
Native Americans are so much better off since we decimated their population and pushed them onto reservations on land we didn’t want. //
I mean, don’t you feel the privilege of people only marginally wanting to exterminate you and that it’s time to end that privilege?
Yeah, my attempts at snark are in the WTF category.
re: #91 darthstar
Sounds like a Pokémon from the Verduras region.
Bringing this forward from TWO strings back. (I left the house and left this unposted)
re: #60 Joe Bacon ✅
Let Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr run on the Libertarian ticket.
Too good to be true? I don’t know. For example, I used to think it was wasteful, and possibly immoral, to wish your enemies would start falling over dead. Then, after seeing rightwing talk show hosts dropping like flies from Covid, I don’t know if there is any such thing as “too good to be true.”
re: #13 Charles Johnson
The shit’s really starting to rain down on that orange motherfucker and you just hate to see it.
If by Hate you mean LOVE, then absolutely!
re: #16 Ace Rothstein
And 45% of the country are totally down with him being President again.
In one sense they have a point: he probably would never have been convicted or even indicted for these crimes if he had not entered politics.
But he chose to do so and should have been aware of the consequences, especially after shouting “Lock her up!” and “Crooked Joe Biden!” on a regular basis.
re: #38 DodgerFan1988
Federalist: Taylor Swift’s Popularity Is A Sign Of Societal Decline
So was Elvis’ and the Beatles’ and the Rolling Stones’ and Madonna’s and Beyonce’s, etc….
re: #99 Joe Bacon ✅
E. Michael Jones Tells Stew Peters That ‘The Holocaust Created Jewish Privilege’
Six million dead is a small price to pay for the ability to control world media and finance, right?
This has been a WZ morning wakeup scroll.
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25 users onboard: two Canadian football teams plus referee.
The usual suspects are blowing dog whistles:
It’s about ORGANIZED CRIME that targets retail outlets, to then resell hot goods elsewhere.
The organized crime orgs work in many cities.
But that won’t stop the dog whistles being blown.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) September 27, 2023
re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The usual suspects are blowing dog whistles:
“Biden’s lawless approach to governing America is ruining our businesses.”
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Here’s a clip from the Seattle Times story which I put into xeets in reply to the whistlers:
A bit all over the place - but salvaged the par.
Still waiting for true fall weather to arrive. Been consistently in the upper 70s - but with elevated humidity levels.
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Everybody knows it is all because of looting during BLM riots while defunded police stand idly by…
Utterly repugnant what this high school coach and team did.
More than a dozen people were arrested after a massive group of juvenile looters ransacked businesses across Philadelphia on Tuesday night.The chaos started around 7:30 p.m. after numerous 911 calls stated a large group, possibly as many as 100 or so, moving through Center City.
Video obtained by Action News captured a group of people taking items out of a Foot Locker store around 8 p.m. on the 1500 block of Chestnut Street in Center City. Several juveniles fled the scene, but at least one adult was arrested, police said.
They still have to vote in Oct to ratify, but it’s likely it will pass and they can work in the meantime.
The Hollywood writers strike is over after guild leaders approve contract with studios
Late-night talk shows — the first to go dark when writers walked out on May 2 — are likely the first shows that will resume. Scripted shows will take longer to return, with actors still on strike and no negotiations yet on the horizon.
In charging documents released Tuesday, police said Jiang admitted to posting the photos on Instagram, some which clearly showed the Park Valley Church.
“Blood will be on your hands,” one caption read in part. In another, Jiang allegedly wrote “No women will be harmed.”
Another post showed Jiang holding a handgun, the charging documents said.
EXCLUSIVE: “This strike was way too long, because the companies took so long to get serious,” WGA West President Meredith Stiehm declared tonight of the nearly 150 days the Writers Guild was out on the picket lines before a tentative agreement was reached on September 24.
“I feel sad and pained that it took this long because when we got serious, we got it done in a reasonable amount of time. So much was wasted and lost by just not acting earlier,” the guild leader added, with WGA West chief negotiator Ellen Stutzman by her side.
In Canada they do the right thing:
Canada’s House speaker has stepped down after inviting a Nazi veteran to Parliament
TORONTO — The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons resigned Tuesday for inviting a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II to Parliament to attend a speech by the Ukrainian president.
Just after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an address in the House of Commons on Friday, Canadian lawmakers gave 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka a standing ovation when Speaker Anthony Rota drew attention to him. Rota introduced Hunka as a war hero who fought for the First Ukrainian Division.
Observers over the weekend began to publicize the fact that the First Ukrainian Division also was known as the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, or the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was under the command of the Nazis.
re: #127 Thanos
In Canada they do the right thing:
Canada’s House speaker has stepped down after inviting a Nazi veteran to Parliament
The House speaker stepped down, but what about everybody who gave him a standing ovation?
re: #38 DodgerFan1988
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Good morning all
Still indicted? Check
Still being dissolved? Check
Limbaugh still dead? Check
Atomic Batteries to Power!
Turbines to Speed!
Roger! Ready to move out!
Travis King, the U.S. soldier who hotfooted it into North Korea, will be expelled by the DPRK. The how, when and where remains to be seen.
Sucks to be him. The North Koreans probably figured that he’s more useful to them shipped home alive to the US than dead in a prison camp. They assessed his propaganda value and found it just wasn’t worth the hassle of keeping him over the headaches it might cause with the US.
anger, denial, bargaining…
yep, we’ve reached bargaining
“Facing a potential government shutdown in four days triggered by House Republicans’ inability to unite to pass spending bills, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is trying out a new strategy: shifting the blame,” the Washington Post reports.
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“McCarthy is starting to point fingers at Democrats in a bid to pin a shutdown on disagreements over border security. It’s an attempt to rewrite the record of the past several weeks, during which House Republicans have been unable to pass a short-term bill to prevent a shutdown — even one that includes the border security policies his conference overwhelmingly supports.”
re: #132 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
anger, denial, bargaining…
yep, we’ve reached bargaining
Good luck with that, Qevin. You’re the (nominal) Speaker of the House. You (nominally) speak for the majority of the representatives. It’s your job, and that of your (supposed) majority party, to get stuff done. The government is going to shut down, it is going to be your fault, and regardless of how this ends, Matt Gaetz is still going to can your ass.
I know many of you like to visit New York City during the holiday season and in case you make it to lower Manhattan this year I made this map I hope you will find helpful pic.twitter.com/xootKkTOBv
— Xeorge Xonway (@gtconway3d) September 27, 2023
re: #128 Nerdy Fish
The House speaker stepped down, but what about everybody who gave him a standing ovation?
They didn’t know, and the honus wasn’t on them to vette the guy.
re: #135 Thanos
They didn’t know, and the honus wasn’t on them to vette the guy.
Fair. I thought about that after I said it. I’ll accept it.
re: #116 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Dick’s Sporting Goods in part blamed their recent round of corporate layoffs* on profits lower than expectations and that a chunk of that was retail theft.
So it’s an issue in the industry. Or, at a minimum, a new justification they trot out to explain losses or some sort of policy they want to implement.
* - Friend of mine works in IT management for them. Half of his direct reports were laid off since Dick’s applied the cuts across the board; e.g. they just told each department there were losing X people and gave them some leeway on who they could choose to axe.
Why you might not want to visit Vegas:
Las Vegas hospitality workers vote by 95% to authorize a strike on the Las Vegas Strip, negotiations continue while a strike deadline not yet set -
Las Vegas, NV - Members of the Culinary and Bartenders Unions have voted by 95% to authorize a Citywide Strike after tens of thousands of hospitality workers packed the Thomas and Mack Center on campus at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas in two sessions to cast their votes.
Now, Culinary and Bartenders Unions negotiating committee is authorized to call for a strike at 22 casino resorts properties on the Las Vegas Strip between the largest employers MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment Corporation, and Wynn/Encore Resorts. The Culinary Union, which is now authorized to call for a strike at any date or time, has not yet set a strike deadline and continues negotiating in good faith with all gaming companies.
Fascinating @ThePlumLineGS piece about an unelected rural Virginia schoolboard fighting to impose reactionary values on a modernizing population. Republicans on the board warn that if elections are allowed, Democrats might win. https://t.co/7335AtZQec
— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 27, 2023
re: #7 jaunte
So he had an opportunity to settle this case, just like he settled the Trump ‘University’ case, but he didn’t take it. Out of money?
He’s had an opportunity to settle the Trump University case. He’s had opportunity to settle Trump Foundation.
In both cases, his lawfare effort resulted in those businesses getting shut down by NYS for violating multiple state laws.
Trump’s business is a sham and scam. It was a house of cards built on a pile of lies.
The reality is that Trump repeatedly lied to creditors and investors. Trump and his criminal family lied about valuations of his businesses, in the hopes of inducing creditors and investors to throw more money their way.
They were caught repeatedly in the act. Heck, Trump crowed about how he’d inflate the value of his businesses based on how he felt on any given day.
There’s a reason this fucker bankrupted casino businesses in Atlantic City 6 fucking times. He had zero business acumen. He’s a con artist who built a pile of lies and his skill at scamming people ran into scrutiny by law enforcement because the lies were so egregious that it was impossible to miss.
For example, he’d claim that a penthouse in his Trump tower had 30k square feet for investment purposes. The problem? It had only 11k square feet in actual space. He inflated this 3x.
He did this on practically every property he managed.
And now, he’s no longer able to do business in New York.
Other states should be following the NY example.
NJ should be investigating valuations and investment information about Bedminster and Trump Liberty golf course in Jersey City. It’s almost a certainty that if he was lying about NY properties, he’s doing the same with every other property he owned or managed.
I’m looking forward to Judge Chutkan’s ruling on the gag order in that case, because Trump should face bail revocation, fines, sanctions, etc., for making explicit and overt threats against potential witnesses, jury tampering, threats against the Court, and his lawyers keep filing frivolous claims in their motions.
Burn Trumpworld down. Take the GOP with them for good measure as these fuckers have gone all in on Trump’s fascist/authoritarian extremism.
re: #140 lawhawk
And investigating Donald J Trump State Park, his whole BS shtick in microcosm.
re: #137 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Dick’s Sporting Goods in part blamed their recent round of corporate layoffs* on profits lower than expectations and that a chunk of that was retail theft.
So it’s an issue in the industry. Or, at a minimum, a new justification they trot out to explain losses or some sort of policy they want to implement.
* - Friend of mine works in IT management for them. Half of his direct reports were laid off since Dick’s applied the cuts across the board; e.g. they just told each department there were losing X people and gave them some leeway on who they could choose to axe.
There’s a bunch of bulkshit involved in the claims of shrinkage. You’ve got Target claiming they’re losing $500 million in shrinkage, but they took $3.6 billion charge on chargebacks and reductions to reduce inventory that didn’t move (clearance sales where they needed to turn over inventory after season, and expired food items). Which is the bigger problem?
You’ve got pharmacies claiming that shrinkage is causing them to close stores, only for them to turn around later the year and admit that shrinkage isn’t why those stores closed - it was because they were underperforming and there were too many competitors.
At same time, you’ve got a company like Lowes that isn’t reporting shrinkage issues despite being in the same markets as Dicks or Home Depot or Target and Walmart. Lowes notes that they’ve got a bunch of solutions that work to keep shrinkage to a minimum. They have good customer service. They pay decent wages. They have tech solutions. So, the problem isn’t someone running in and stealing stuff, but a combination of factors specific to those businesses.
A common theme happens to be overworked and underpaid workers, or insufficient workers to do the jobs, like checking out (so it’s a huge strike against self-checkout).
There’s a reason that places like Costco check receipts after checking out - to make sure that shrinkage is minimized. You don’t hear about shrinkage at Costco - because it isn’t a problem there.
re: #138 Thanos
Why you might not want to visit Vegas:
Las Vegas might survive a bartender’s strike, but unionized strippers are on the way.
Self driving cars are getting better, but still not ready for prime time:
We try out the first legal level 3 automated driving system in the US
For Drive Pilot to activate, the vehicle must be traveling no faster than 40 mph (65 km/h), it must have a vehicle in front to follow, road conditions must be dry and clear, the lane markings must be detectable, and the route must be pre-mapped by the system. These limitations mean Drive Pilot is for use in heavy stop-and-go traffic, appropriate for the bumper-to-bumper congestion of LA’s I-10 Freeway, but not free-flowing highways. The plan is to increase the speed limiter in the future, though.
re: #143 Decatur Deb
Las Vegas might survive a bartender’s strike, but unionized strippers are on the way.
Los Angeles has led the way for strippers to unionize. ROTFLMAO at Libertarians who chose to picket the first unionized strip club…
re: #145 Thanos
Self driving cars are getting better, but still not ready for prime time:
We try out the first legal level 3 automated driving system in the US
Cars need more than visual / lidar - they need multiple systems and failsafes before they should be hands free / eyes off. This might include geo-staking lanes with RF transmitters so cars can drive in rain and snow, it certainly should include wipers for camera lens and lidar receptors, etc etc etc.
re: #147 Thanos
Cars need more than visual / lidar - they need multiple systems and failsafes before they should be hands free / eyes off. This might include geo-staking lanes with RF transmitters so cars can drive in rain and snow, it certainly should include wipers for camera lens and lidar receptors, etc etc etc.
My Subaru has collision warning cameras - but if it’s foggy (either outside or the windshield fogs up due to temp differentials) the system shuts down. That’s a key component to these systems, so if the weather is bad, they don’t work (which is also when you most need systems like that to work).
These systems show promise, but attentive drivers are essential.
I can imagine self driving trains are easier to implement than cars, since tracks are easier to control ROW (but not 100% control) than roadways. You’d still have to deal with trespassers, animals, and vehicles that are on the railway right of way.
re: #139 Belafon
That’s the country directly south of us on US 301.
re: #146 Joe Bacon ✅
SF sex workers organized in the late 70s, as COYOTE. The lead organizer, Margo St. James, died recently.
edit: correct city
re: #140 lawhawk
He’s had an opportunity to settle the Trump University case. He’s had opportunity to settle Trump Foundation.
In both cases, his lawfare effort resulted in those businesses getting shut down by NYS for violating multiple state laws.
Trump’s business is a sham and scam. It was a house of cards built on a pile of lies.
The reality is that Trump repeatedly lied to creditors and investors. Trump and his criminal family lied about valuations of his businesses, in the hopes of inducing creditors and investors to throw more money their way.
They were caught repeatedly in the act. Heck, Trump crowed about how he’d inflate the value of his businesses based on how he felt on any given day.
There’s a reason this fucker bankrupted casino businesses in Atlantic City 6 fucking times. He had zero business acumen. He’s a con artist who built a pile of lies and his skill at scamming people ran into scrutiny by law enforcement because the lies were so egregious that it was impossible to miss.
For example, he’d claim that a penthouse in his Trump tower had 30k square feet for investment purposes. The problem? It had only 11k square feet in actual space. He inflated this 3x.
He did this on practically every property he managed.
And now, he’s no longer able to do business in New York.
Other states should be following the NY example.
NJ should be investigating valuations and investment information about Bedminster and Trump Liberty golf course in Jersey City. It’s almost a certainty that if he was lying about NY properties, he’s doing the same with every other property he owned or managed.
I’m looking forward to Judge Chutkan’s ruling on the gag order in that case, because Trump should face bail revocation, fines, sanctions, etc., for making explicit and overt threats against potential witnesses, jury tampering, threats against the Court, and his lawyers keep filing frivolous claims in their motions.
Burn Trumpworld down. Take the GOP with them for good measure as these fuckers have gone all in on Trump’s fascist/authoritarian extremism.
The only way he could be “successful” was by lying and cheating.
Or playing a businessman as a role on tv
He could never win at a fair game.
Why do you think he’s says every honest thing is actually rigged ? (courts, elections, Grand juries).
Or unilaterally voids contracts he agreed to
Or stiffs contractors
Cheating is the only thing he knows, the only way that’s worked, because he’s actually incapable and inept. Not even mediocre.
re: #152 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Meanwhile, GOPers keep rallying behind Trump as though he’s the victim here.
You’ve got people like Byron York claiming that he’s being railroaded. Eric Trump claims that his business never defaulted on loans (only going bankrupt to avoid payment, and suing businesses thousands of times to reduce obligated payments that were due for no reason other than Trump didn’t want to abide by contract terms).
The GOP are a crime syndicate, and Trump removed all doubt as to the criminal leanings.
re: #153 lawhawk
Meanwhile, GOPers keep rallying behind Trump as though he’s the victim here.
You’ve got people like Byron York claiming that he’s being railroaded. Eric Trump claims that his business never defaulted on loans (only going bankrupt to avoid payment, and suing businesses thousands of times to reduce obligated payments that were due for no reason other than Trump didn’t want to abide by contract terms).
The GOP are a crime syndicate, and Trump removed all doubt as to the criminal leanings.
They can’t admit the emperor has no clothes.
He’s all they got.
Or to be more precise, he can still destroy them
re: #153 lawhawk
Meanwhile, GOPers keep rallying behind Trump as though he’s the victim here.
You’ve got people like Byron York claiming that he’s being railroaded. Eric Trump claims that his business never defaulted on loans (only going bankrupt to avoid payment, and suing businesses thousands of times to reduce obligated payments that were due for no reason other than Trump didn’t want to abide by contract terms).
The GOP are a crime syndicate, and Trump removed all doubt as to the criminal leanings.
‘The Republican Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.’
GOP is intent on trying to push media to cover its allegations that Hunter Biden somehow gained thousands of dollars from Chinese investors, and that Joe was involved because his home address was listed.
This is what the GOP has. They don’t have proof. They have nonstop allegations that don’t hold up to any level of scrutiny.
They can’t keep covering for Trump, so they’re doing the next best thing -smearing Biden in hopes that voters who aren’t paying attention (most Americans) equate malfeasance with 4x indicted, 91+ charges, 2x impeached Trump, who has now seen his scam school, scam foundation, and business organization disbanded by NYS for multiple violations of state law.
Trump releases another fart.
Trump explodes at judge who ‘railroaded’ him in ‘fake case’ of business fraud
Writing on his Truth Social platform, the former president accused Engoron of unfairly ruling that he deliberately lied about the values of his properties over the span of several years in order to secure more favorable loans from banks.
“I have a Deranged, Trump Hating Judge, who RAILROADED this FAKE CASE through a NYS Court at a speed never seen before, refusing to let it go to the Commercial Division, where it belongs, denying me everything, No Trial, No Jury,” the former president complained. “He made up this crazy “KILL TRUMP” decision, assigning insanely low values to properties, despite overwhelming evidence.”
“His anger & hatred is politically motivated & unprecedented by those who watched!” Trump said of the judge. “My actual Net Worth is MUCH GREATER than the number shown on the Financial Statements, a BIG SURPRISE to him & the Racist A.G., Letitia James, who campaigned for office on a get Trump Platform. While murderers roam the sidewalks of New York, my banks are happy, all loans are current, or paid off in full, sometimes early, with no defaults or problems of any kind. There is also an IRONCLAD DISCLAIMER CLAUSE!”
re: #157 lawhawk
GOP is intent on trying to push media to cover its allegations that Hunter Biden somehow gained thousands of dollars from Chinese investors, and that Joe was involved because his home address was listed.
This is what the GOP has. They don’t have proof. They have nonstop allegations that don’t hold up to any level of scrutiny.
They can’t keep covering for Trump, so they’re doing the next best thing -smearing Biden in hopes that voters who aren’t paying attention (most Americans) equate malfeasance with 4x indicted, 91+ charges, 2x impeached Trump, who has now seen his scam school, scam foundation, and business organization disbanded by NYS for multiple violations of state law.
Also just muddying the waters by projecting the backroom deals done by Trump and family as Biden and the Democrats doing it. And their baseless allegations play to the backup “both sides do it” strategy which feeds to the GOP base’s “all politicians are greedy hacks, but ours is a proper bully and racist who tells it like it is!” justification to feel good about being deplorable assholes.
re: #159 Joe Bacon ✅
Despite overwhelming evidence?
Trump provided zero evidence in support of any of his valuation claims. No assessor claimed his MAL property was worth what he claimed it was. None. He did none of the work to identify the valuation. He just made it up, and inflated it as his whims insisted.
That’s not how any of this works, and he knows it, but the entire GOP is busy spinning madly.
Right wing propagandists across Twitter and Fox are busy insisting that the reason the judge handed down the decision ending Trump’s business is because Comer found evidence of something, despite fact that it was the other way around - GOP knew the decision on Trump’s business was coming, and they needed to find something to distract/deflect from what everyone knew - Trump is a lying criminal who scammed NYS and broke NYS law.
re: #159 Joe Bacon ✅
“…an IRONCLAD DISCLAIMER CLAUSE!”
Except that’s not how the law works, there, bucko. The judge spelled it out plainly: The disclaimer clause only works if you’re very specific about what you’re disclaiming and why. You can’t use a disclaimer to make it okay to commit a crime; that’s like walking into a bank, signing a statement that says, “I am not liable for any losses incurred by my presence in this bank,” and then stealing all the money.
Kevin Sorbo doesn’t want anyone to say his anti-trans children’s book is anti-trans
Washed-up actor Kevin Sorbo recently released a new children’s book called The Test of Lionhood that he hopes will teach little boys how to become “strong men [and] strong providers for families as they grow up.”
That alone might be fine, if forgettable, but the book appears to function as nothing more than a vehicle for Sorbo to trash transgender people.
Michael Mann on doomism vs denialism: both are really ways to stop action.
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-No, Ms. Greene; this is Yom Kippur.
-OK can I leave a message, Mr. Kippur? - John Fugelsang
re: #166 Teukka
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re: #166 Teukka
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re: #122 Nerdy Fish
Well, that’s one way to do it.
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re: #163 Joe Bacon ✅
Kevin Sorbo doesn’t want anyone to say his anti-trans children’s book is anti-trans
Washed-up actor Kevin Sorbo recently released a new children’s book called The Test of Lionhood that he hopes will teach little boys how to become “strong men [and] strong providers for families as they grow up.”
That alone might be fine, if forgettable, but the book appears to function as nothing more than a vehicle for Sorbo to trash transgender people.
re: #152 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
The only way he could be “successful” was by lying and cheating.
Or playing a businessman as a role on tvHe could never win at a fair game.
Why do you think he’s says every honest thing is actually rigged ? (courts, elections, Grand juries).
Or unilaterally voids contracts he agreed to
Or stiffs contractorsCheating is the only thing he knows, the only way that’s worked, because he’s actually incapable and inept. Not even mediocre.
Nyt agrees with me
But a ruling on Tuesday by a New York State judge that Mr. Trump had committed fraud by inflating the value of his real estate holdings went to the heart of the identity that made him a national figure and launched his political career.”
“By effectively branding him a cheat, the decision in the civil proceeding by Justice Arthur Engoron undermined Mr. Trump’s relentlessly promoted narrative of himself as a master of the business world
re: #179 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
NYT is disingenuous. Nothing in “cheat” is incompatible with “master of the business world”.
re: #158 William Lewis
Still one of the greatest music videos ever made…
Absolutely. Remixed & remasterd Tim was released last week. Remixed version is pretty good. I’ll listed to the remastered version later.
In other news, Pepperidge Farms has a new (? not seen previously around here) pumpkin cheesecake cookie, Peets is selling pumpkin spice coffee in supermarkets, and we are all doomed.
If they gave a quarter of that annually to every person who they will incarcerate here they’d probably eliminate most of the crime. But that’s not really the point, is it. https://t.co/wxqmJVs5aV
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) September 27, 2023
Prison industrial complex is what businesses prefer to keeping people out of jail. After all, where would all those corrections officers and cops work, if they’re not beating down on persons of color who are disproportionately swept into the prison pipeline.
re: #155 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
They can’t admit the emperor has no clothes.
He’s all they got.
Or to be more precise, he can still destroy them
Trump announces he’s forming the MAGA Party (or what have you) and that said party will not only feature him running for POTUS, but field a full slate of Federal, State and local candidates.
The GOP would be utterly screwed - and they know it full well.
If he simply seizes the GOP and loses the honest 20% of Republicans, they are screwed anyway. So sad.
re: #181 Markm1960
Absolutely. Remixed & remasters Tim was released last week. Remixed version is pretty good. I’ll listed to the remastered version later.
As I sit here with a beer in hand, may I simply say that “Here Comes A Regular” is one of the all time greatest songs by any band?
Here’s an even more vicious version than the original…
Meanwhile, there’s about a dozen well known GOPers who are opposed to Trump, despite 4 indictments, 91+ charges, and 2 impeachments.
That’s difference between parties. GOPers cover for Trump crimes. Democrats insist on bad actors resign.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 27, 2023
re: #188 lawhawk
This shit must drive Senator Franken insane.
re: #178 Dave In Austin
That’s Kevin Sorbo?
WTF happened to his face?
Too much truck-tire therapy?? (With the truck still attached)?
re: #182 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
In other news, Pepperidge Farms has a new (? not seen previously around here) pumpkin cheesecake cookie, Peets is selling pumpkin spice coffee in supermarkets, and we are all doomed.
re: #131 Dr Lizardo
Travis King, the U.S. soldier who hotfooted it into North Korea, will be expelled by the DPRK. The how, when and where remains to be seen.
Sucks to be him. The North Koreans probably figured that he’s more useful to them shipped home alive to the US than dead in a prison camp. They assessed his propaganda value and found it just wasn’t worth the hassle of keeping him over the headaches it might cause with the US.
The CNN article has been updated and King is apparently back in American custody already.
re: #190 Jay C
That’s Kevin Sorbo?
WTF happened to his face?
Too much truck-tire therapy?? (With the truck still attached)?
He’s 65 (I looked it up) but looks a bit north of 75, if you ask me.
re: #190 Jay C
That’s Kevin Sorbo?
WTF happened to his face?
Too much truck-tire therapy?? (With the truck still attached)?
Clean living.
re: #193 mmmirele
The CNN article has been updated and King is apparently back in American custody already.
To use a phrase from when I was in the Army,
Sucks to be him.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha!
re: #166 Teukka
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re: #193 mmmirele
The CNN article has been updated and King is apparently back in American custody already.
I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes for all the whiskey in Ireland.
re: #196 William Lewis
To use a phrase from when I was in the Army,
Sucks to be him.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha!
I was in the Camp Casey parachute club with a JAG officer who was responsible for working the last asshole who went North (1982). The JAG spent his whole tour squaring away that shit.
re: #193 mmmirele
The CNN article has been updated and King is apparently back in American custody already.
when you get the bum’s rush from north korea….
re: #183 lawhawk
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Bet a list of GOP donors in Alabama and a list of the contractors getting money to build that prison have a lot of overlap. And that there was (or will be) a lot of padding in those bids as well. Assuming there even is a bidding process.
re: #166 Teukka
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re: #202 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Bet a list of GOP donors in Alabama and a list of the contractors getting money to build that prison have a lot of overlap. And that there was (or will be) a lot of padding in those bids as well. Assuming there even is a bidding process.
IIRC, some of the prison contracts were ‘fast-tracked”.
re: #201 Florida Panhandler
Holy Christ is that Sorbo or his wax dummy melting?
Neither. That is not what Jercules looks like.
re: #190 Jay C
What happened to his face was editing…he doesn’t look like that
re: #202 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Alabama bypasses bid process to move fast on prison builds
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Alabama prison construction finalist has no business records, little online presence
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The core of this money was the federal Covid relief.
re: #207 danarchy
What happened to his face was editing…he doesn’t look like that
You’re right - here’s a recent photo of him, promoting his book:
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re: #207 danarchy
What happened to his face was editing…he doesn’t look like that
That’s a ‘shop?
For Kevin’s sake, I hope you’re right.
Re: pic in #209 above: OK, still not great - Mr. Gravity has not been Kevin Sorbo’s friend for quite a while - but somewhat better.
re: #190 Jay C
That’s Kevin Sorbo?
WTF happened to his face?
Too much truck-tire therapy?? (With the truck still attached)?
I can still see it.
David Cay Johnston says a judge’s ruling yesterday that Donald Trump committed large scale financial fraud effectively means that he “is no longer in business.”
“Worse, the self-proclaimed multibillionaire may soon be personally bankrupt as a result, stripped of just about everything because for years he engaged in calculated bank fraud and insurance fraud by inflating the value of his properties, a judge ruled Tuesday.”
“His gaudy Trump Tower apartment, his golf courses, his Boeing 757 jet and even Mar-a-Lago could all be disposed of by a court-appointed monitor, leaving Trump with not much more than his pensions as a one term president and a television performer.”
Deutsche Bank employees reportedly flagged suspicious transactions involving Trump and Kushner https://t.co/rg9PckWgV7
— jennifer cummings (@jenniferTVTweet) September 27, 2023
I guess the Republican Party is just going to pretend that their nominee isn’t actually going to trial in March on easily-proven federal felonies and is just hoping that trial won’t turn out like every other court case Donald Trump has ever been involved in.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 27, 2023
Covering the most important story of our lifetime: *checks notes* The President’s dog biting his Secret Service agents, who may actually be bad people.
you know the prenup might be void now
but if it’s worthless, so what?
i wonder if she stashed anything away
i wonder, but i dont really care, do you?
re: #215 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
That made me laugh out loud.
re: #216 Nerdy Fish
Covering the most important story of our lifetime: *checks notes* The President’s dog biting his Secret Service agents, who may actually be bad people.
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re: #219 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
I believe the dog.
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re: #190 Jay C
That’s Kevin Sorbo?
WTF happened to his face?
Too much truck-tire therapy?? (With the truck still attached)?
shopped to look like the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz
re: #222 Teukka
Why am I reminded of that birb in Donald Duck’s “Clown of the Jungle”? 🤔
Must be the same makeup artist.
A New York judge ruled Donald Trump committed Fraud:
Here’s the NY Times take:
… “The documents do not say what they say; that there is no such thing as ‘objective’ value,” the judge wrote, paraphrasing their arguments as he saw them, and adding, “Essentially, the court should not believe its own eyes.”
In a footnote, he added a line from the movie “Duck Soup” uttered by Chico Marx: “Well, who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”
(no paywall)
re: #212 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
He’ll go on selling Trump® to an ever-diminishing crowd of rubes until the bitter end.
After all, there’s some folk out there who can never get enough Trump® and he’ll happily supply it at rallies held in a forlorn, half-empty grange hall, at county fairs and supermarket grand openings ‘til he draws his last breath.
re: #117 TarHellion
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Still waiting for true fall weather to arrive. Been consistently in the upper 70s - but with elevated humidity levels.
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re: #228 Dangerman
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re: #136 Nerdy Fish
Fair. I thought about that after I said it. I’ll accept it.
My guess is that he introduced the veteran as someone who fought for Ukraine against Russian invaders 80 years ago, without anyone realizing that meant he fought for the Germans.
re: #216 Nerdy Fish
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NY Jets have a crappy QB situation after Aaron Rodgers tore his ACL on the first drive of the season. Their backup QB is awful, and the 3d string QB isn’t much better. After winning the opener, Jets dropped the next two games.
Colin Kaepernick has asked the Jets to join the practice squad. You can’t tell me he can be any worse than either Wilson or Boyle. Jets also added Trevor Siemian to the practice squad.
There’s no downside to having Kaepernick join the practice squad, and all of the upside.
re: #234 lawhawk
Let me guess…the Jets would reactivate Joe Namath before even thinking about Kaepernick.
Why did @SenTuberville vote against the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs?
“I heard some things he talked about, about race and things that he wanted to mix into the military,” he told @BloombergTV. “Our military is not an equal opportunity employer.” pic.twitter.com/avFStO79Af— David Gura (@davidgura) September 27, 2023
asshat
the military is probably one of the best examples of an equal opportunity employer anywhere
re: #234 lawhawk
NY Jets have a crappy QB situation after Aaron Rodgers tore his ACL on the first drive of the season. Their backup QB is awful, and the 3d string QB isn’t much better. After winning the opener, Jets dropped the next two games.
Colin Kaepernick has asked the Jets to join the practice squad. You can’t tell me he can be any worse than either Wilson or Boyle. Jets also added Trevor Siemian to the practice squad.
There’s no downside to having Kaepernick join the practice squad, and all of the upside.
I absolutely believe Kaep was blackballed by the NFL. However, it’s now been 7 years since he’s played. Passing on him now has more to do with time away from the game than it does his politics.
re: #152 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
The only way he could be “successful” was by lying and cheating.
Or playing a businessman as a role on tvHe could never win at a fair game.
Why do you think he’s says every honest thing is actually rigged ? (courts, elections, Grand juries).
Or unilaterally voids contracts he agreed to
Or stiffs contractorsCheating is the only thing he knows, the only way that’s worked, because he’s actually incapable and inept. Not even mediocre.
Standard GOP modus operandi. After all, McCarthy made agreements for raising the debt ceiling, and now his party unilaterally ignores them. How do you negotiate with people who will ignore all commitments they make?
re: #236 Dangerman
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You’d think that at some point, his brain would hear the words coming out of his mouth, and say “Whoooooooa….let’s hit the pause button here.”
Kevin McCarthy Kills Bipartisan Senate Bill to Avert Shutdown
Just four days out from a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has declared a bipartisan Senate stopgap measure dead on arrival. Senators, having apparently lost faith in McCarthy’s ability to stave off a shutdown, negotiated a bill late Tuesday night that funds the government until Nov. 17 and includes $12 billion in aid and disaster relief for Ukraine. It’s expected to be voted on by the end of the week before being sent over to the House, and is intended to buy lawmakers more time to hash out a longer-term deal, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said. But, according to Punchbowl News, McCarthy said in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday morning that he wouldn’t take up a bill that includes Ukraine funding but no border security measures. “I don’t see the support in the House,” he reportedly said. Aid for Ukraine has been one of several sticking points for ultraconservative hardliners in the House who have repeatedly sabotaged McCarthy’s efforts to get spending bills passed.
re: #157 lawhawk
…..
smearing Biden in hopes that voters who aren’t paying attention (most Americans) equate unsupported allegations of malfeasance with 4x indicted, 91+ charges, 2x impeached Trump, who has now seen his scam school, scam foundation, and business organization disbanded by NYS for multiple violations of state law.
FTFY!
This is such a fake would-be gotcha. The address on the wires was Joe Biden’s Wilmington home because that’s where Hunter Biden was living in 2019 - as Comer well knows. https://t.co/EzpORrnusH
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 27, 2023
re: #237 Mike Lamb
I absolutely believe Kaep was blackballed by the NFL. However, it’s now been 7 years since he’s played. Passing on him now has more to do with time away from the game than it does his politics.
Give him an honest workout. About 6 hours and you’ll know the truth of his fitness.
Past that you do run into the NFL’s politics and that’s no small thing.
As a vet, I appreciated his approach. Too many idiots didn’t. Fuck them with a rusty spork.
Eagle today. I used the very first word I thought of that fit the clues from the initial guess. Sometimes, it pays not to think too deeply.
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In 2019, Kaepernick settled a lawsuit against the NFL and the owners for colluding not to sign him.
re: #122 Nerdy Fish
Well, that’s one way to do it.
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I managed a birb. Yay!
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re: #190 Jay C
That’s Kevin Sorbo?
WTF happened to his face?
Too much truck-tire therapy?? (With the truck still attached)?
He looks nothing like his Twitter profile pic. He looks more like Brit Hume.
re: #190 Jay C
That’s Kevin Sorbo?
WTF happened to his face?
Too much truck-tire therapy?? (With the truck still attached)?
Pretty sure that image has been altered. Here’s another screencap from the same segment:
re: #247 TarHellion
In 2019, Kaepernick settled a lawsuit against the NFL and the owners for colluding not to sign him.
He got some money out of it but I’m pretty sure he would rather have been on the field.
Funny thing. My interest in the NFL started to wane just about the time this all went down to the point where I no longer care at all.
re: #239 Mike Lamb
You’d think that at some point, his brain would hear the words coming out of his mouth, and say “Whoooooooa….let’s hit the pause button here.”
i think he was just itching to say ‘n-clang’
re: #240 Joe Bacon ✅
Kevin McCarthy Kills Bipartisan Senate Bill to Avert Shutdown
Just four days out from a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has declared a bipartisan Senate stopgap measure dead on arrival. Senators, having apparently lost faith in McCarthy’s ability to stave off a shutdown, negotiated a bill late Tuesday night that funds the government until Nov. 17 and includes $12 billion in aid and disaster relief for Ukraine. It’s expected to be voted on by the end of the week before being sent over to the House, and is intended to buy lawmakers more time to hash out a longer-term deal, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said. But, according to Punchbowl News, McCarthy said in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday morning that he wouldn’t take up a bill that includes Ukraine funding but no border security measures. “I don’t see the support in the House,” he reportedly said. Aid for Ukraine has been one of several sticking points for ultraconservative hardliners in the House who have repeatedly sabotaged McCarthy’s efforts to get spending bills passed.
while a fair amount (roughly 20% or so) are ready to blame the dems or biden (mostly because they are not paying attention), enough know , and it’s plain enough, who is doing this
re: #240 Joe Bacon ✅
“I don’t see support in the House” - yes he does, or he would bring it up to a vote and let it fail. He knows that at least a half dozen Republicans will break rank to keep the government open with the Democrats. He’s just afraid of it happening.
Democrats should move to vacate the chair if McCarthy doesn’t bring it to the floor for a ote. They can offer to support him remaining speaker if he brings it to the floor for a vote and Gaetz tries to unseat him.
Two Lawyers (Ken White & David French) Rank the Severity of Trump’s Many Indictments
Everything you need to know about the former president’s legal cases.
- There’s a transcript link at the top of the article for those who prefer to read other than listen to audio -
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re: #135 Thanos
They didn’t know, and the honus wasn’t on them to vette the guy.
There are layers of nuance when it comes to non-Germans who joined the Waffen-SS, but all in all it is a bad idea to even bring up the subject outside of a congres of military history scholars and even then it will be a topic of some dispute.
He seems nice /S
UK students & @KyKernel , his name is Dean Frederick Saxton & you should have him banned. pic.twitter.com/1FdlTJgbxv
— TizzyEnt (@TizzyEnt) September 26, 2023
re: #166 Teukka
I’m very sorry. PMs aren’t working on my phone ATM.
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Mrs J has an insulin pump that pairs with her phone. She likes it a lot. I bought her a new phone and we’ve been 2 days and several hours talking to techs trying to get the new phone to pair, finally got ‘er done. There were many password resets getting to the “I agree” screen. Seems like maybe, just fucking maybe, when an app wants you to read pdfs saying you agree with this and that that they would not name different pdfs with the same name. There were 3 named this and 2 named that but when downloaded that.pdf was overwritten by that.pdf - same same for this.pdf. Finally got them all read and agreed to.
OK, he says, now we can pair! He made it sound so easy. He forgot to say you have to have the app open. Seems the pair request has to go through their servers or it won’t work. OK, we try to sign in, but noooo… Invalid login
fuckers
re: #156 Joe Bacon ✅
‘The Republican Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.’
That started with the inauguration ceremony crowds and Kellyanne Conway’s infamous “alternate facts”.
re: #161 lawhawk
Despite overwhelming evidence?
There is one small grain of truth to his “witch hunt” claims, namely that if he had not entered politics, he would still be geting away with this bullshit.
But ever since he has been campaigning, he has been on at length about “Lock her up!” and the “Biden crime family”, so it is not like doesn’t deserve to finally face the consequences.
re: #180 Decatur Deb
NYT is disingenuous. Nothing in “cheat” is incompatible with “master of the business world”.
What? “Cheat (and get away with it)” is the very core of the modern business world.
Trump is just rankled that he is no longer being allowed to get away with it.
re: #267 jeffreyw
Mrs J has an insulin pump that pairs with her phone. She likes it a lot. I bought her a new phone and we’ve been 2 days and several hours talking to techs trying to get the new phone to pair, finally got ‘er done. There were many password resets getting to the “I agree” screen. Seems like maybe, just fucking maybe, when an app wants you to read pdfs saying you agree with this and that that they would not name different pdfs with the same name. There were 3 named this and 2 named that but when downloaded that.pdf was overwritten by that.pdf - same same for this.pdf. Finally got them all read and agreed to.
OK, he says, now we can pair! He made it sound so easy. He forgot to say you have to have the app open. Seems the pair request has to go through their servers or it won’t work. OK, we try to sign in, but noooo… Invalid login
fuckers
On top of that iPhone IOS just updated last week and a bunch of apps are not synching with the new OS. Having the same damn problem with Kaiser’s diabetic app. the app can’t sync with my meter and it’s a pain in the HUSH YOUR MOUTH…
re: #271 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What? “Cheat (and get away with it)” is the very core of the modern business world.
Trump is just upset that is is no longer being allowed to get away with it.
Look at the end of the film Margin Call - the CEO of the unnamed bank (played by Jeremy Irons and I’m about 80% sure it was Goldman Sachs as they sold off their toxic assets in a fire sale before the 2008 financial crisis hit) and the Board of Directors basically agree to commit massive fraud by knowingly unloading their worthless mortgage backed securities on to other banks.
re: #188 lawhawk
That’s difference between parties. GOPers cover for Trump crimes. Democrats insist on bad actors resign.
The GOP spin on that is amazing, they are criticizing the Democrats for calling for the resignation of a party member before the courts rule on him.
re: #271 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What? “Cheat (and get away with it)” is the very core of the modern business world.
Trump is just upset that is is no longer being allowed to get away with it.
Trump. And NewsMax (link to RawStory):
Newsmax host outraged by Trump fraud ruling: ‘That’s the point of getting real estate’
re: #137 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Dick’s Sporting Goods in part blamed their recent round of corporate layoffs* on profits lower than expectations and that a chunk of that was retail theft.
So it’s an issue in the industry. Or, at a minimum, a new justification they trot out to explain losses or some sort of policy they want to implement.
* - Friend of mine works in IT management for them. Half of his direct reports were laid off since Dick’s applied the cuts across the board; e.g. they just told each department there were losing X people and gave them some leeway on who they could choose to axe.
Basically don’t trust any corporate entity that says they’re making losses from shoplifitng. It’s a common excuse given that doesn’t really bear up under examination, since there are larger sources of loss. Even “organized crimes” that amount to smash and grabs at a storefront should not appreciably nudge what’s happening overall. Consider scale: Dick’s sporting goods is worth just under 9x10^9 dollars and has 743 stores. How much storefront theft is required to directly impact quarterly earnings such that layoffs are required. Furthermore, consider that layoffs and closings in no way address the problem of storefront theft, just the “problem” of making less money quarterly than projected.
Also note the very precise thing Dick’s says…which matches how this gambit always works…it’s not that the company is taking losses, it’s that it’s not making as much money as it was projected to make, where you can assume that the projection (which much make shareholders feel confident) is that the rate will increase.
This is likely bunk, this is management offloading their only responsibility—number go up—onto scapegoats because there’s no incentive to admit that
(1) management does not actually have the power to infinitely increase value gain through logistical tweaks and therefore probably shouldn’t have ever-expanding compensation;
(2) we’re at the point where all companies use the same dirty tricks—layoffs, temp labor, and closures (which hint at no room for growth) to hit that quarterly estimate;
(3) if there was a theft problem on a scale to impact earnings that would require managerial-level decisions that don’t simply amount to “layoffs” because it would mean a need to fundamentally rearrange logistics and stores in ways that cost money
(4) the expectation of growth should be leavened by realistic assessment of the general ability of consumers to buy things…if people are poor and costs are high, growth slowing is not a function of efficiency but just of material conditions.
This is a way of addressing a core contradiction of how capitalism works: you cannot grow infinitely but the market system demands infinite growth, so when a company reaches the point where it has no places to stretch to it must invent surplus by cuts and present that as growth.
Deseret News: Poll: Republicans see Trump as a ‘person of faith’ … more so than Mitt Romney, Mike Pence and others
Poor Mike Pence.
Actually, headline is misleading.
Third Paragraph:
Among Republicans, 53% said Trump was a person of faith, ahead of every other person on the list — although he was statistically tied with Pence, who came in at 52%.
Last Paragraph:
But, the Deseret News/HarrisX poll shows evangelical voters were much more likely to say Pence is a man of faith (65%) than Trump (37%). Catholic voters and nonevangelical Protestants were also more likely to say Pence is a man of faith, showing the perception of Trump as a man of faith was more related to voters’ political identity than their religious identity.
re: #122 Nerdy Fish
Well, that’s one way to do it.
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What kind of stupid motherfucker puts a disclaimer that says “I might be lying” on a loan application?
It’s fairly common to have a “do your own research” disclaimer on big complicated transactions. But that’s more of a “we might have carried an extra one in the math” or “we are using the rosiest of outcomes for future projects and you should probably take a look at what the range of projected outcomes are” sort of thing. Not a “yeah, I’m a known liar and you shouldn’t trust me” get out of jail free card. Basically there’s a difference between “puffery” and fraud.
re: #277 The Ghost of a Flea
Basically don’t trust any corporate entity that says they’re making losses from shoplifitng. It’s a common excuse given that doesn’t really bear up under examination, since there are larger sources of loss. Even “organized crimes” that amount to smash and grabs at a storefront should not appreciably nudge what’s happening overall. Consider scale: Dick’s sporting goods is worth just under 9x10^9 dollars. How much storefront theft is required to directly impact quarterly earnings such that layoffs are required. Furthermore, consider that layoffs and closings in no way address the problem of storefront theft, just the “problem” of making less money quarterly than projected.
Also note the very precise thing Dick’s says…which matches how this gambit always works…it’s not that the company is taking losses, it’s that it’s not making as much money as it was projected to make, where you can assume that the projection (which much make shareholders feel confident) is that the rate will increase.
This is likely bunk, this is management offloading their only responsibility—number go up—onto scapegoats because there’s no incentive to admit that
(1) management does not actually have the power to infinitely increase value gain through logistical tweaks and therefore probably should have ever-expanding compensation;
(2) we’re at the point where all companies use the same dirty tricks—layoffs, temp labor, and closures (which hint at no room for growth) to hit that quarterly estimate;
(3) if there was a theft problem on a scale to impact earnings that would require managerial-level decisions that don’t simply amount to “layoffs” because it would mean a need to fundamentally rearrange logistics and stores in ways that cost money
(4) the expectation of growth should be leavened by realistic assessment of the general ability of consumers to buy things…if people are poor and costs are high, growth slowing is not a function of efficiency but just of material conditions.This is a way of addressing a core contradiction of how capitalism works: you cannot grow infinitely but the market system demands infinite growth, so when a company reaches the point where it has no places to stretch to it must invent surplus by cuts and present that as growth.
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even if it were true, you dont stop shoplifting by firing staff - especially unrelated staff
you throw a little money at theft prevention
re: #278 dat_said
…the perception of Trump as a man of faith was more related to voters’ political identity than their religious identity.
Has a bit to do with the respondent’s IQ, as well.
“In public, Donald Trump says his conversation with the Georgia secretary of state asking to ‘find’ votes for him was ‘a perfect call,’” Rolling Stone reports.“But in private, the former president sounded a different tone about the conversation, asking his attorneys to draw up proposals for how to suppress its use in the criminal case against him.”
anyone quelle surprised?
The Washington Post has a calculator that shows the Trump-inflated value of your home.
at the bottom of the article
it’s paywalled but incog mode seems to work
Wisconsin forced birthers demand Democratic prosecutors prosecute abortion providers after judge rules an 1849 law doesn’t criminalize consensual abortion. Prosecutors say, “LOL, No,” and abortions are once again available in Wisconsin.
The new episode of Ahsoka was very enjoyable.
Also, I’m so sad we lost Ray Stevenson, I’ve been loving his character so much.
re: #288 Eclectic Cyborg
The new episode of Ahsoka was very enjoyable.
Also, I’m so sad we lost Ray Stevenson, I’ve been loving his character so much.
Haven’t watched the latest episode yet, but I have been enjoying Filoni’s attempts to tie everything together to make the whole story make sense. I don’t know that they’ll ever be able to fix the abomination that was “somehow, Palpatine returned”, but hopefully going forward we will be able to just mostly ignore that.
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
So he’s saying we should all be Wimpy, Weak, and Woke? Sounds gay. I’m in.
re: #190 Jay C
That’s Kevin Sorbo?
WTF happened to his face?
Too much truck-tire therapy?? (With the truck still attached)?
He’s a hate addict. Like all addictions it takes a heavy toll on the body.
re: #291 Romantic Heretic
He’s a hate addict. Like all addictions it takes a heavy toll on the body.
Toll on the brain too as they’re usually idiots.
re: #277 The Ghost of a Flea
Dick’s Sporting Goods Stock Falls After Earnings
Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS) stock is down 23% after a disappointing earning report.
Sales for the second quarter came in at $3.22 billion, missing estimates of $3.24 billion. That drove earnings per share to miss estimates, with the result coming in at $2.82 versus expectations of $3.81.
To make matters worse, the company lowered its outlook for full-year earnings to $11.90 a share at the midpoint of its guidance range, compared with previous midpoint of $13.35. The company is dealing with both weakness in consumer spending, as interest rates remain high, and theft of inventory at its stores.
The outlook, combined with the fact that the stock had rallied more than 20% for the year into earnings, meant the stock could only do one thing—drop.
Dick’s has about 93 million shares of stock. A downturned outlook amounts to 134 million less in earnings for shareholders combined.
If we slice that 134 million into a pie, how much do you think is the product of a generally weak consumption market…people don’t have the cash and prices are basic needs are higher than they’ve been in ages…versus theft?
re: #291 Romantic Heretic
He’s a hate addict. Like all addictions it takes a heavy toll on the body.
That’s had the “Gary Peterson” treatment done to it…. Still jowly.
Commander is a very good boy who is still allowed to do business in New York… UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE I CAN THINK OF.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) September 27, 2023
commander will bite one agent a month until the agency is held accountable for january 6
re: #293 The Ghost of a Flea
Dick’s Sporting Goods Stock Falls After EarningsDick’s has about 93 million shares of stock. A downturned outlook amounts to 134 million less in earnings for shareholders combined.
If we slice that 134 million into a pie, how much do you think is the product of a generally weak consumption market…people don’t have the cash and prices are basic needs are higher than they’ve been in ages…versus theft?
Or it might just be that Dick’s just isn’t that great of a store, and most of the products they sell you can get elsewhere at competitive prices.
When they expanded here to California, they bought up a local/regional chain called Chick’s and what Dick’s offers vs Chick’s seems much narrower.
re: #298 KGxvi
Or it might just be that Dick’s just isn’t that great of a store, and most of the products they sell you can get elsewhere at competitive prices.
When they expanded here to California, they bought up a local/regional chain called Chick’s and what Dick’s offers vs Chick’s seems much narrower.
RW takes a lot of pleasure from any Dick’s troubles, attributing them to Dick’s stand on gun violence a couple years ago.
Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off
hbswk.hbs.edu
Truly frightening!
Inside the vast digital campaign by Hindu nationalists to inflame India
wapo.st (gift link)
How its easy to determine who is singularly responsible for the impending shutdown
McCarthy told members of the House GOP conference Wednesday morning that he will not bring the Senate’s bipartisan continuing resolution to the floor for a vote
News making waves in Sweden today. Apparently the burning of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy was a burning for hire by Christian Peterson (extremo rightio “journalist”) as well as Chang Frick (other extremo rightio with Z sympathies).
svt.se
re: #298 KGxvi
Or it might just be that Dick’s just isn’t that great of a store, and most of the products they sell you can get elsewhere at competitive prices.
When they expanded here to California, they bought up a local/regional chain called Chick’s and what Dick’s offers vs Chick’s seems much narrower.
Okay but that’s non sequitur to my point, which is that both the market and management will not acknowledge that a downturn based on estimated earnings isn’t a sound justification for layoffs.
I’m not trying to assay the true worth of the company and thus the correctness of it’s value, I’m specifically saying that it’s own internal explanations make no sense and that this is part of a larger trend in which companies blame consumer and wage-laborers for macro-scale instability in value…such that firings and closures are not tactical decisions designed to preserve shareholder value but responses to injury by immoral outside actors.
re: #304 Backwoods Sleuth
Actually, he just serves himself.
Got Mary Trump’s “The Good in Us” essay this morning. She said:
Donald has always been vile and cruel; he’s always been master of the art of beating up on those who can’t fight back. I know that better than just about anyone.
The thing is, though, it’s not his strength that makes him dangerous, it’s his weakness along with his unconscious sense that he is a loser who can only “win” if he lies, cheats, and steals. He believes that being a “winner” is an absolutely necessary condition of his existence which partially explains why he threatens to burn it all down if he doesn’t get his way.
What’s Worse Than Worst
The slippery slope gets more slippery
marytrump.substack.com
re: #306 The Ghost of a Flea
Okay but that’s non sequitur to my point, which is that both the market and management will not acknowledge that a downturn based on estimated earnings isn’t a sound justification for layoffs.
I’m not trying to assay the true worth of the company and thus the correctness of it’s value, I’m specifically saying that it’s own internal explanations make no sense and that this is part of a larger trend in which companies blame consumer and wage-laborers for macro-scale instability in value…such that firings and closures are not tactical decisions designed to preserve shareholder value but responses to injury by immoral outside actors.
Ah, I didn’t see your earlier post. I think a lot of corporate management at bigger companies fall victim to Business School Brain Rot and this is probably just another example of it. Forget that workers are also consumers, shareholder supremacy combined with short term returns, and a host of other ills.
Merriam-Webster does new words.
I always thought TFW meant “too fucking weird” though. I’ll be spending the rest of the day trying to zhuzh up.
re: #309 KGxvi
Another thing to consider is market saturation. Dicks and other big box retailers are finding fewer and fewer places to build and expand, so they infill between existing areas hoping to capture those few folks who aren’t driving a distance to the existing facilities.
Companies are hard pressed to find organic growth in mature markets. They’ll engage in M&A to grow, and there’s a limit there based on existing market sizes and the buyer pool.
What changes these things is market disruptors, who shake up the market with a new business model or tactic that improves sales considerable compared with rivals.
Amazon’s low price and online-centric model is one example of a disruptor. Companies like Costco disrupt through purchasing power, loyalty, and focus (the annual membership is a constant revenue source, low turnover/high reup on memberships, while a smaller inventory - number of the type of items is smaller than what you’d find at a typical supermarket for example).
Blaming shrinkage is a longstanding way that companies distract and deflect from structural issues with corporate decisions that haven’t worked out, and key on media focus on crime.
re: #309 KGxvi
Ah, I didn’t see your earlier post. I think a lot of corporate management at bigger companies fall victim to Business School Brain Rot and this is probably just another example of it. Forget that workers are also consumers, shareholder supremacy combined with short term returns, and a host of other ills.
I think it’s a systemic problem.
If you run a company your job is to increase value, and if you don’t do that job you can be fired or sued. That’s the first and most important kind of accountability inherent to management, and all other frames of accountability…the ones that involve the environment, the laborers you manage, and people in general…are secondary and involve far more game-able accountability structures.
Business School Brain Rot is just an accurate perception of what the system—the flow of capital to reinforce the power of ownership—rewards, and it takes monumental effort to apply any other kind of accountability to large businesses. And this isn’t static: the flow of capital increases the less accountability there is.
The problem has moral dimensions at both an individual and societal scale, but we keep seeing the same patterns…tactics, excuses, abuses…because they produce desired outcomes. We also can watch the feedback loop in which the prime directive of capturing value means experiments with further devaluing labor, to the point that arbitrary firings in US sporting goods stores is of the same substance as children mining coltan in the DRC…each being a viable means to scrape in that much more value.
re: #236 Dangerman
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the military is probably one of the best examples of an equal opportunity employer anywhere
Has been for over 75 years, ever since Truman issued Executive Order 9981, desegregating the armed forces.
It has been a rocky road, especially during the Vietnam war, when the inequities and conflicts of the larger society intruded into military culture. It has been a success overall, though vwhich is why dogwhistle racists have always hated it. They were afraid to speak out until recently but MAGA has given them a bullhorn.
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