Seth Meyers: Trump Called to Testify, Storms Out of Court After Judge Fines Him $10,000
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Many months ago ruzZia destroyed all the infrastructure that provided water, electricity & gas in Avdiivka. People come out of their basements to receive bread & medicine. I can’t imagine their mental state…
It is a dystopian world created by ruzZia.#lviv pic.twitter.com/FF0KxLmj3H— TheLvivJournal (@LvivJournal) October 25, 2023
re: #3 jaunte
Mike Johnson is way crazier than anyone knew.
Some people knew. Amazing that they selected him.
It’s interesting that Peskov felt the need to issue a denial. Something is going on with Putin.
re: #5 JC1
Their calculation is “so you’re saying there’s a chance…”
re: #5 JC1
Some people knew. Amazing that they selected him.
He was the least objectionable, to them, of those willing and available
re: #8 Dangerman
He was the least objectionable, to them, of those willing and available
Sure, let’s expose for the whole world to see how batshit crazy we’ve become. Brilliant!
re: #9 JC1
they held him up by the ears and TFG said ‘this is good’, and so they rejoiced
re: #5 JC1
Some people knew. Amazing that they selected him.
As crazy as we think he is, he is a mainstream House Republican. They are all crazy.
I am fairly certain that she had an actual name, and it was not “Juanita”
re: #12 Vicious Babushka
I am fairly certain that she had an actual name, and it was not “Juanita”
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Stark battle lines have been drawn in Texas between mainline conservatives and a more far-right faction that has gained influence within the party in recent years. https://t.co/gM6KWuMXWC
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 26, 2023
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re: #3 jaunte
Mike Johnson is way crazier than anyone knew.
This can only be a surprise to people who aren’t familiar with the GOP cesspit of Satan.
To me, he’s a generic Republican.
re: #19 EPR-radar
he’s the perfect cardboard cutout to place in front of the cameras…. nice part in his hair, unassuming glasses, routine face not wrinkled by rage lines….
the punditry will adore him if normal GOP rules apply, but in these times if he doubles down on the abortion bullshit, government shutdown, blocking military aid to allies I suspect it might be very interesting to see how smooth he looks when he has to grapple with a question that is not a good fit within the MAGA framework, i.e. anything reality based.
re: #17 Captain Ron
Isn’t that sort of like when the Pope discovered he could not control Crusaders?
re: #3 jaunte
Mike Johnson is way crazier than anyone knew.
Johnson is what I’ve come to term “Family Friendly Fascism,” the clean-cut white guy in a suit and tie who gets in the front door by being so gosh-darn friendly and likable that you don’t care that he’s lookin’ to cave your skull in with a Bible while telling you it’s your own fault for being in striking range. The sort of smarmy douchebag that the party runs in those districts where it needs somebody who can pretend to be a normal human being long enough that the “independent” vote goes “Well, he seems friendly enough…” even as he’s spewin’ that Ol’ Time Religion to the faithful.
*sigh*
Another night where our ISP randomly had a server go down in the area with no estimate on how long it’ll be before service is restored. Already had one guest call down to tell me how absolutely inconvenient this is for her because she works from home and can’t make any calls while the internet is down. And to further fuck with my night, the front desk is able to receive calls but unable to answer them, so it rings uselessly until I reject the call due to inability to actually answer it.
Ah, better living through technology.//////
So I read a headline about NC approving a redistricting that will eliminate half of the Dems sent to Congress from NC.
The GOP will not let power go. They will do whatever they need to in order to accomplish what the atavist base demands.
re: #24 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I read a headline about NC approving a redistricting that will eliminate half of the Dems sent to Congress from NC.
The GOP will not let power go. They will do whatever they need to in order to accomplish what the atavist base demands.
The evergreen quote:
“If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” - David Frum
re: #24 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I read a headline about NC approving a redistricting that will eliminate half of the Dems sent to Congress from NC.
The GOP will not let power go. They will do whatever they need to in order to accomplish what the atavist base demands.
It’s not the atavist base that demands this; it is the GOP lust to retain power. They are a fascist party that wants to wield total control over our nation.
Time for another recipe.
Chicken Scarpariello (Braised Chicken with Sausage & Peppers)
Ingredients:
2 1/2 pounds (1.15kg) bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs (6 to 8 thighs)
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon (15ml) vegetable oil
3 to 4 links sweet or hot Italian sausage (about 1 1/2 pounds; 700g)
1 medium onion, thinly sliced (about 6 ounces; 170g)
1 large red bell pepper, thinly sliced (about 6 ounces; 170g)
2 tablespoons finely minced fresh sage leaves (about 1/4 ounce; 8g)
6 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
8 hot or sweet pickled cherry peppers, thinly sliced, along with 1/4 cup (60ml) pickling liquid from the jar
1 cup (240ml) dry white wine
1 cup (240ml) homemade or store-bought low-sodium chicken stock
2 tablespoons (28g) sugar
Directions:
Adjust oven rack to center position and preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Season chicken generously with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a 4- to 5-quart straight-sided sauté pan or Dutch oven over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add chicken, skin side down, and cook, without moving, until well browned and crisp, about 8 minutes total, lowering heat if pan starts to smoke excessively. Flip chicken and brown lightly on second side, about 3 minutes. Transfer chicken to a large plate and set aside.
Return skillet to heat without draining it and add sausage. Cook until well browned on first side, about 1 1/2 minutes, reducing heat if it starts smoking. Flip sausage and cook on second side until browned, about 1 1/2 minutes longer. Remove pan from heat, transfer sausage to a cutting board, and cut each link into 3 to 4 slices.
Return pan to heat, add onion and bell pepper, and cook, stirring and scraping up browned bits with a wooden spoon, until softened and starting to brown, about 4 minutes. Add sage and garlic, stir to combine, and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
Add pickled cherry peppers and their liquid, stirring and scraping up browned bits from bottom of pan with a wooden spoon. Add wine and cook until liquid is reduced by half, about 2 minutes. Add chicken stock and sugar, and stir to combine. Return sausage to pan, toss to combine, then return chicken pieces to pan skin side up, nestling them down among sauce, vegetables, and sausage.
Transfer to oven and cook until chicken is crisp and tender, about 30 minutes. Serve immediately, spooning sauce, vegetables, and sausage around chicken pieces.
How much do the Air Force’s two newest fighters cost? I try to answer that this week: https://t.co/7PFLu8hu6b
— Michael Marrow (@michaeldmarrow) October 26, 2023
WASHINGTON — The flyaway cost for the F-15EX Eagle II is approximately $90 million for each aircraft in the program’s second production lot, about $7.5 million more than the newest price for an F-35A, Breaking Defense has learned.
Under the new agreement, the price for an F-15EX will start at “approximately” $90 million for lot 2, rise to $97 million in lot 3 and then dip to $94 million in lot 4, according to an Air Force spokesperson
U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS CARL M. LEVIN (DDG 120) successfully intercepted multiple targets in an Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) test 🇺🇸🚀https://t.co/Ih88JClDxg
— Naval News (@navalnewscom) October 26, 2023
re: #29 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s getting into the low 40s at night now. Last week we had highs of 90, now 67-72 for the next 10 days.
Happy Birthday, @HillaryClinton! I hope you have the best one yet. Thank you for ALL you do. Sharing this photo of two incredible women who have provided me endless kindness, generosity, guidance, friendship, and continue to make me a better person pushing me every single day. pic.twitter.com/8bakkT0Pfb
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 26, 2023
re: #5 JC1
Some people knew.
Amazingthat is why they selected him.
re: #32 Captain Ron
Is someone getting jealous of Mike Lindell’s continued media coverage?
— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) October 27, 2023
re: #34 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
“Deep State” is capitalized as it is a unique entity, like the Internet.
re: #24 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I read a headline about NC approving a redistricting that will eliminate half of the Dems sent to Congress from NC.
The GOP will not let power go. They will do whatever they need to in order to accomplish what the atavist base demands.
The fight goes on. Georgia has been ordered to draw a new black majority congressional district and new state legislative districts by December 8, or the court will draw them, in time for the 2024 election.
re: #36 No Malarkey!
The fight goes on. Georgia has been ordered to draw a new black majority congressional district and new state legislative districts by December 8, or the court will draw them, in time for the 2024 election.
I’m sure Marc Elias is gathering allies in NC to challenge their new maps, though the whole reason the GOP decided to severely gerrymander their map in NC is specifically because the NC state supreme court recently flipped to a conservative majority. They have every intention of abusing that power until they no longer hold it.
Burying the lede with a stake through its heart—the gorilla doesn’t appear until par 11 of the story:
Person in gorilla suit crashes Alabama legislative ethics committee meeting
al.com
The proceedings were halted more than halfway through the meeting when the chair, Rep. Matt Simpson, R- Daphne stopped Entrekin from continuing with his presentation after a person dressed in a gorilla costume walked into the room and sat in the back.
“We have a guest in the chamber,” Simpson said. “I feel like we are all safe, that there is no threat here. I don’t see security looking for us. It is that season everyone.”
re: #38 Nerdy Fish
Have to say I kinda lucked into that second guess. I’ll take the birb, tho. (Beats yesterday’s fiver!)
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re: #29 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Not here in the DMV, 80s again. Indian summer is early or we’ll get the warm spell again November.
re: #42 Shropshire Slasher
Maybe THAT’S how Jack Torrance got out of the pantry!
re: #24 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I read a headline about NC approving a redistricting that will eliminate half of the Dems sent to Congress from NC.
The GOP will not let power go. They will do whatever they need to in order to accomplish what the atavist base demands.
Was it congressional maps or their state legislature maps?
re: #44 JC1
Pretty much everything. Rep. Jeff Jackson’s district was reshaped into an R+15 district. As a result, he will not seek re-election. Instead he is going to challenge GQP Rep. Dan Bishop (i.e. Ken Paxton on steroids) for State Attorney General.
BILLIONS!!
even behind a spoiler tag, I won’t give any details.
Just that this week’s episode, the finale, is perfection. It enhances the entire series.
re: #38 Nerdy Fish
Always good to grab a Birbie to end the workweek.
We will be in the 80s today through Monday. Then the big chill comes in. Halloween will be in the 50s with showers, while lows Thursday morning are expected to be in the 20s. Call out the National Guard to distribute blankets!
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re: #3 jaunte
Mike Johnson is way crazier than anyone knew.
He’s as crazy as every other GOPer in leadership, just not as well known. Now that we see how he’s been elevated to leadership, we are seeing just how bugnuts insane the ENTIRE GOP is.
re: #46 TarHellion
Pretty much everything. Rep. Jeff Jackson’s district was reshaped into an R+15 district. As a result, he will not seek re-election. Instead he is going to challenge GQP Rep. Dan Bishop (i.e. Ken Paxton on steroids) for State Attorney General.
Democrats need to start doing this in states where they control the government. Fair maps are great, and will hopefully be mandated/respected everywhere. But it’s foolish to use fair maps when the right wing crazies don’t. There should be 0 GOP representatives from California, Washington, Oregon, etc.
The party that wins the popular vote should have the majority of the house.
re: #48 TarHellion
Always good to grab a Birbie to end the workweek.
We will be in the 80s today through Monday. Then the big chill comes in. Halloween will be in the 50s with showers, while lows Thursday morning are expected to be in the 20s. Call out the National Guard to distribute blankets!
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re: #48 TarHellion
Always good to grab a Birbie to end the workweek.
We will be in the 80s today through Monday. Then the big chill comes in. Halloween will be in the 50s with showers, while lows Thursday morning are expected to be in the 20s. Call out the National Guard to distribute blankets!
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Today’s high is around 44 °F (6.7 C), and it will freeze tonight.
Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota has decided to challenge President Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination and will launch his 2024 campaign on Friday in New Hampshire, where he will file to appear on the state’s primary ballot.“I am. I have to,” Phillips told CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa in an exclusive interview for “CBS Mornings” that will air on Friday, when asked whether he is making a late entry into the Democratic race.
re: #55 Shropshire Slasher
Love to see his donor list.
Surreal.
A startling video showed a group of brazen car thieves rob a man on the side of a Los Angeles highway in broad daylight after running the victim off the road intentionally.
Four criminals donning dark colors and masks were captured racing out of a black Dodge Caravan toward a wrecked black Alfa Romeo sedan on the eastbound side of I-10 around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, according to KTLA.
“Hands up,” one of the highway robbers yells at the victim as the robbers rush toward him.
The unidentified victim put his hands over his head and got on his knees as the men began ransacking the disabled sedan, video recorded by a nearby driver showed.
“I got it,” one of the robbers appears to shout as he pulls something from the front seat.
The thieves continued to search frantically through the car as other pedestrians slowed down to watch the scene.
One driver jumped out of their vehicle to get a closer view and record the Wild West-style robbery.
It’s the NYP, but the NYPD is admitting they can’t do their fucking jobs to protect the Jewish community in Brooklyn despite having 30,000 cops and sending protection details to protect a prototype robot that would get tagged the moment those 5 cops left its side.
Brooklyn is home to the largest Jewish community in the world outside of Israel. There are more Jews living in Brooklyn than live in Jerusalem, Israel. NYC is home to 1.6 million Jews. Half live in Brooklyn.
If the NYPD can’t do its fucking job, despite all the counter terrorism and money thrown at the NYPD, then they’re doing something terribly wrong, and the NYPD Commissioner and the Mayor should be thrown out on their asses.
My shul has upped their security fee to cover the additional costs for security in the wake of the 10/6 attacks. It’s insane, but we have to keep adding layers of security just to protect us while we’re praying. Antisemitism is at a fever pitch, and right wingers are leaning into the violence, both inciting the bigot brigade base to act on their violent impulses, and by continuing to leverage historical anti-Semitic tropes. We see this from Trump on down through the GOP.
And you know if you scratch the surface of the new GOP Speaker, you’ll probably find that he’s no different than Scalise or David Duke - a white supremacist anti-Semitic bigot who just hung his sheets and hood out to dry.
re: #58 lawhawk
I initially read that as “having 30,000 troops” and I’m like, well, considering it’s the NYPD, you’re not wrong…
re: #58 lawhawk
Station the robot at the shul.
re: #65 darthstar
Mike Johnson voted against the Mental Health Matters Act. https://t.co/1OMmrzTKYa
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) October 27, 2023
Johnson is as extreme as Trump, Jordan, or Scalise, just wrapped up in a more “professional” appearance.
He’s far more dangerous, despite his backbencher status before now.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 27, 2023
ICYMI, my piece on all the ways Netanyahu’s choices contributed to Israel’s current crisis, and how they are likely to haunt him and redefine his political legacy: https://t.co/nRCcvxW275
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) October 27, 2023
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re: #52 JC1
Democrats need to start doing this in states where they control the government. Fair maps are great, and will hopefully be mandated/respected everywhere. But it’s foolish to use fair maps when the right wing crazies don’t. There should be 0 GOP representatives from California, Washington, Oregon, etc.
The party that wins the popular vote should have the majority of the house.
California has very specific rules about how districts are drawn; not sure if it’s in the State constitution or if it’s just a law, but gerrymandering isn’t doable. This rule came into being as part of a package with instituting jungle primaries.
re: #71 Scottish Dragon
He’s a blandly smiling falangist.
His stance on Ukraine funding is pissing me the fuck off.
re: #73 darthstar
His stance on Ukraine funding is pissing me the fuck off.
Wait until January 2025 if Biden if reelected and he refuses to call congress into session to certify the results.
Drag queens nowhere in sight.
Spanish clergy abused 200,000.
Head of a megachurch charged with producing child porn.
I’d take my chances at a drag show any day ending in Y. Far less likely to get groomed, let alone abused.
re: #74 Scottish Dragon
Wait until January 2025 if Biden if reelected and he refuses to call congress into session to certify the results.
When President Biden is reelected the margin will be such - especially if Trump is the GOP nominee - that he won’t have a choice.
re: #58 lawhawk
And you know if you scratch the surface of the new GOP Speaker, you’ll probably find that he’s no different than Scalise or David Duke - a white supremacist anti-Semitic bigot who just hung his sheets and hood out to dry.
The friend I am vising here in Boston was telling me yesterday how unhappy his rabbi is feeling right now. She’s from Israel, her sister and niece just came from there and she feels like the area (it’s Cambridge, around Harvard) is profoundly unsympathetic to the fact that Israel is at war. I said, if it was my part of the country, she would likely get a lot of sympathy. But it would be seriously misguided sympathy in the sense that the sympathizers probably think Israel’s only reason to exist is so Jesus can come back. Which is deeply antisemitic in my opinion.
Executions will continue until morale improves…
re: #76 darthstar
When President Biden is reelected the margin will be such - especially if Trump is the GOP nominee - that he won’t have a choice.
He can (and likely will) absolutely force a constitutional crisis or even declare the election unreliable and throw the election to the congressional delegations, with each state getting one vote.
That’s the civil war and dissolution of the Republic scenario, in my mind.
Looks like Kelly Johnson, wife of Speaker Mike Johnson, is busy scrubbing her social media presence … but the Internet is forever. pic.twitter.com/zi5WxKXfQa
— Receipt Maven (@receiptmaven) October 27, 2023
re: #58 lawhawk
Can’t or won’t? In any case, unfortunately, antisemitism can also be found on the extreme left. Seems like some people don’t understand the difference between criticizing what the Israeli government does and Jewish people as a whole.
re: #81 Patricia Kayden
Can’t or won’t? In any case, unfortunately, antisemitism can also be found on the extreme left. Seems like some people don’t understand the difference between criticizing what the Israeli government does and Jewish people as a whole.
Yeah there’s a lot of it on the far left as well.
Right - exposing Johnson as the extremist he has always been using his own words, statements, policy positions, and court filings. Imagine that.
GOP thought they could sanitize their extremism with an obscure back bencher. Turns out the Internet remembers.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 27, 2023
my surprise
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Note to any confused voters:@JoeBiden just stood on a @UAW picket line to help get a big raise for auto workers from Ford.
House Republicans just elected a Speaker who wants to slash Social Security and Medicare from our seniors.
Hope this helps. pic.twitter.com/D6uoqzsmaZ— Debbie Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets) October 26, 2023
DougJ has seriously made the big-time:
10/10. No notes.
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 26, 2023
Shasta County and the ever-repulsive Patrick Jones (although, for some reason, the Sac Bee calls him Brian Jones—great proofreading there) strike again.
Voting rights groups urge elections in California’s Shasta County to be monitored because of ‘misinformation’
“Supervisor Jones has been reported as having said “that the supervisors were still committed to implementing a hand count regardless of what the law says,” that “the county won’t follow that law (AB 969) and will instead file legal action as needed to continue forward with a hand count,” and that he believes AB 969 “‘does not affect Shasta County.’”
Some Shasta County residents are concerned with election safety and potential violence on election day.
“There is a concern about the safety of the individuals down at the election office,” said Jeff Gorder, an organizer of Crye’s recall committee. He cited comments that Chairman Jones made last July on a podcast called Jefferson State of Mine, where he and the hosts talk about refusing to abide by any state law that bans manual hand tallies, and cite the Second Amendment as a means to fight back against “tyranny.”
or, the link from Raw Story
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re: #83 lawhawk
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One of the things that Johnson is trying to do - and it’s something I would do if I were in his position - is get the House to pass appropriation bills. They will be crappy, but he wants to shift the narrative from Republicans shutting down government because they can’t pass anything to Democrats won’t agree to “cut a little spending.” Democrats will need to quickly define that that “little spending” is everyone’s retirement.
I’ve recently realized that most normal people don’t know about the right-wing, ultra-Christian alternative to Wikipedia.
It’s called Conservapedia and it exclusively deals in the most unhinged misinformation you’ve ever seen: pic.twitter.com/Q3TGV9KQ1b— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) October 26, 2023
re: #92 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
The entry on Obama is just spectacular…ly offensive.
No link.
Whenever I feel the need to have a jaw-dropping “NANI THE FUCK!?” moment, Conservapedia is one of the places I visit.
re: #74 Scottish Dragon
Wait until January 2025 if Biden if reelected and he refuses to call congress into session to certify the results.
Isnt the election certification done by the newly-elected Congress that convened Jan 3? Which, one fervently hopes, will be a Dem Majority…?
re: #95 Backwoods Sleuth
Ummm… she doesn’t transact business in NY?
That’s rather rich, given her position across Trumpworld for the years in question.
I know what AR stands for, so here’s my lecture. You’re a well-paid commercial spokesperson for the firearms industry and your sole purpose on this issue is to sell as many deadly for-profit retail products as possible. You’re Ronald McDonald for the death-for-profit industry. 🤡 https://t.co/QIOp3eRdYL
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) October 27, 2023
re: #94 Jay C
Isnt the election certification done by the newly-elected Congress that convened Jan 3? Which, one fervently hopes, will be a Dem Majority…?
fingers crossed, but NC probably just made that impossible
Wouldn’t this be a very simple NO if you never believed gay people should be thrown in jail for simply living their lives?
Pretty straight forward question. https://t.co/dt2OwgT5Pb— Tim Fullerton (@TimFullerton) October 27, 2023
re: #101 Backwoods Sleuth
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Last time I checked, you needed training and a license to drive a vehicle. https://t.co/fjMozSoIT1
— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie) October 27, 2023
re: #104 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #104 Backwoods Sleuth
Motherfathering Jesusbot advocating for violence against those who dare oppose Gawd’s Anointed King Trump.
I couldn’t figure out why Speaker Johnson’s black son doesn’t appear in any of his family photos or campaign bio. So I did some digging. https://t.co/7cjwntmTPm via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 27, 2023
This kid (who’s likely around age 40 today, and the Speaker is 51), has agency and ability to speak out on his own. Johnson keeps referring to him as his black son, but he never appears in any public literature or photos.
What’s the deal?
And what is it with GOPers and their attempts to claim black as friends/family.
Oh, that’s right - same as always - trying to claim that they really speak to black Americans, when they want to put them back in their place.
re: #106 Joe Bacon ✅
Motherfathering Jesusbot advocating for violence against those who dare oppose Gawd’s Anointed King Trump.
I interpret it more as “Killings are just as bad there, they just use something other than guns” when, in fact, it’s not as bad there.
re: #58 lawhawk
It’s the NYP, but the NYPD is admitting they can’t do their fucking jobs to protect the Jewish community in Brooklyn despite having 30,000 cops and sending protection details to protect a prototype robot that would get tagged the moment those 5 cops left its side.
Brooklyn is home to the largest Jewish community in the world outside of Israel. There are more Jews living in Brooklyn than live in Jerusalem, Israel. NYC is home to 1.6 million Jews. Half live in Brooklyn.
If the NYPD can’t do its fucking job, despite all the counter terrorism and money thrown at the NYPD, then they’re doing something terribly wrong, and the NYPD Commissioner and the Mayor should be thrown out on their asses.
My shul has upped their security fee to cover the additional costs for security in the wake of the 10/6 attacks. It’s insane, but we have to keep adding layers of security just to protect us while we’re praying. Antisemitism is at a fever pitch, and right wingers are leaning into the violence, both inciting the bigot brigade base to act on their violent impulses, and by continuing to leverage historical anti-Semitic tropes. We see this from Trump on down through the GOP.
And you know if you scratch the surface of the new GOP Speaker, you’ll probably find that he’s no different than Scalise or David Duke - a white supremacist anti-Semitic bigot who just hung his sheets and hood out to dry.
re: #108 Belafon
I interpret it more as “Killings are just as bad there, they just use something other than guns” when, in fact, it’s not as bad there.
Yeah, it’s this. The gun-humpers desperately want to pump up violence overseas or in “liberal-run shitholes” like Chicago, in order to promote a false equivalence with the very real violence that occurs in all these gun-safety zones. (Meaning zones where guns are safe from persecution.)
re: #110 Vicious Babushka
We got the same crap going on here. Several marches scheduled for today and the weekend. DSA all in with pro-Palestinians
Just what we needed. Meanwhile the sick graffiti is spreading like an infection…
re: #112 Joe Bacon ✅
We got the same crap going on here. Several marches scheduled for today and the weekend. DSA all in with pro-Palestinians
Just what we needed. Meanwhile the sick graffiti is spreading like an infection…
Crown Heights is like Ground Zero for Jews in Brooklyn. Well OK some would say Boro Park is Ground Zero for Jews, so Crown Heights would be Ground 0.1.
re: #110 Vicious Babushka
For those not familiar with Brooklyn and its various neighborhoods, Crown Heights is home to a major Jewish population including Hasidic Lubovitch (Chabad), focused on 770 Eastern Parkway. Rav Schneerson made that the world headquarters of the Chabad movement. Crown Heights was also where infamous riots occurred in 1991 when two black children were killed by a car following the motorcade of Scheerson. Blacks in the area rioted and killed a Jewish seminary student, damaged property belonging to Jews, and the mayor at the time was David Dinkins and his handling of the riots ultimately led to Giuliani winning the mayoralty.
Ouroboros.
re: #115 lawhawk
For those not familiar with Brooklyn and its various neighborhoods, Crown Heights is home to a major Jewish population including Hasidic Lubovitch (Chabad), focused on 770 Eastern Parkway. Rav Schneerson made that the world headquarters of the Chabad movement. Crown Heights was also where infamous riots occurred in 1991 when two black children were killed by a car following the motorcade of Scheerson. Blacks in the area rioted and killed a Jewish seminary student, damaged property belonging to Jews, and the mayor at the time was David Dinkins and his handling of the riots ultimately led to Giuliani winning the mayoralty.
Ouroboros.
So holding the march there is like the Nazis marching in Skokie? They have the right, but they are really just trying to provoke rage?
re: #107 lawhawk
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This kid (who’s likely around age 40 today, and the Speaker is 51), has agency and ability to speak out on his own. Johnson keeps referring to him as his black son, but he never appears in any public literature or photos.
What’s the deal?
And what is it with GOPers and their attempts to claim black as friends/family.
Oh, that’s right - same as always - trying to claim that they really speak to black Americans, when they want to put them back in their place.
A few strange things about this whole story:
Johnson said at the hearing that he and his wife “took custody of Michael” around 1997.
Johnson married his wife, Kelly, in 1999.
re: #38 Nerdy Fish
Coasting into the weekend.
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re: #118 BeachDem
A few strange things about this whole story:
Johnson said at the hearing that he and his wife “took custody of Michael” around 1997.
Johnson married his wife, Kelly, in 1999.
Sure don’t sound like no “covenant marriage” to me…🤔
re: #66 lawhawk
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He’s still at it and ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream like this inspires the hate graffiti showing up in town…
Kanye West to Jewish Adidas employee: ‘Kiss a picture of Hitler every day’
An explosive new investigation by the New York Times details how Adidas employees experienced frequent anti-Semitism from Grammy Award-winning rapper and Yeezy designer Kanye West for nearly a decade.
Adidas officially ended its partnership with the rapper and producer, who now goes by Ye, in October of 2022, after multiple virulently anti-Semitic remarks, including a tweet in which the rapper threatened to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”
However, West’s pattern of anti-Semitism dates back to at least 2013, according to the Times’ reporting.
At the start of her report, Megan Twohey detailed how, in his initial meeting with Adidas executives at their German headquarters in 2013, West expressed his dissatisfaction with a proposed shoe design by taking a marker and drawing a swastika — the display of which is banned in Germany — on the design. He also reportedly told Jewish Adidas executive Jon Wexler, who at the time was Adidas’ global director of entertainment and influencer marketing, to “kiss a picture of Hitler every day.”
According to the Times, the Adidas/Yeezy partnership was the second-most profitable sneaker deal in history behind Nike’s partnership with Michael Jordan. In 2016, Adidas tied its fortunes even closer with West despite his anti-Semitism intensifying, inking a lucrative new contract planning a long-term relationship with the rapper. West, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2016 and prescribed medication, had stopped taking it by 2018 and exhibited increasingly unhinged behavior.
That year, some of West’s Adidas handlers had knowledge of the rapper wanting to name his 2018 album “Hitler” (he ultimately named it “Ye”). That same year, West disclosed to Adidas’ global brand manager and executive board member Eric Liedtke that he paid a seven-figure settlement to the outgoing CEO of the Yeezy brand, who apparently accused the rapper of creating a hostile workplace and repeatedly praising Hitler. West is alleged to have called Hitler a “master marketer” and lauded the architect of the Holocaust’s command of media.
In addition to the allegations of anti-Semitism, the article also reported on how West allegedly made “angry, sexually crude comments” to Adidas staff, repeatedly showed pornography to Adidas employees, drank at the workplace, and hurled abuse at members of Adidas’ Yeezy team. Still, the company reportedly stayed committed to West, with internal documents predicting Yeezy sales would go from $65 million in 2016 to over $1 billion by 2021, with the intent of “putting CASH in Kanye’s pocket to show him we VALUE him and recognize his impact on the brand.”
When Adidas finally ended its partnership with Ye, his net worth reportedly dropped by roughly $1.5 billion to $400 million. A few months later, West appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ InfoWars program alongside white supremacist influencer and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, heaping additional praise on Hitler.
Boom! pic.twitter.com/4c9vyPq4lj
— MSW Media (@mswmediapods) October 27, 2023
re: #111 Nerdy Fish
Yeah, it’s this. The gun-humpers desperately want to pump up violence overseas or in “liberal-run shitholes” like Chicago, in order to promote a false equivalence with the very real violence that occurs in all these gun-safety zones. (Meaning zones where guns are safe from persecution.)
All it takes is this one graph. They can look at what the light colors mean, what the dark colors mean, and they can see if they can remember what states the scary big shithole cities are in, what states the good Godly Jeezus people are in, and then they can go fuck themselves.
re: #104 Backwoods Sleuth
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Fuck that argument drives me crazy.
What is the essential purpose of a vehicle? What is the essential purpose of an AR-15 and similar?
Could a car kill 60 and wound 413 in ~10 minutes?
What are the regulations for owning a car?
re: #126 Mike Lamb
Fuck that argument drives me crazy.
What is the essential purpose of a vehicle? What is the essential purpose of an AR-15 and similar?
Could a car kill 60 and wound 413 in ~10 minutes?
What are the regulations for owning a car?
And insurance. You can’t drive a car without insuring it in case it causes someone’s death.
re: #126 Mike Lamb
Also, too, states are literally trying to pass laws that would allow people to run over protesters without penalty. I guess the GOP wants to be like Europe after all.
re: #124 lawhawk
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NEW: Ivanka Trump must appear to testify at the New York fraud trial of her father, former Pres. Trump, Judge Arthur Engoron decided from the bench Friday morning.
Follow live updates on the trial: https://t.co/XjTllDWgYt pic.twitter.com/P582UAv7Il— ABC News (@ABC) October 27, 2023
Ivanka’s gotta testify against Daddy.
This is what the control tower of Acapulco International Airport (MMAA) looked like after Hurricane Otis hit.#Otis #Otishurricane #HurricaneOtis #AcapulcoOtis #Acapulco
pic.twitter.com/wDuk0E3e8t— NewsAlerts Global (@NewsAlertsG) October 27, 2023
The situation in Acupulco and surrounding area is awful. If you don’t have a functioning control tower, you can’t get airlifted assistance in and injured people out of the area.
It’s a bad situation made worse by the fact that the storm took everyone by surprise - it went from a middle of the road tropical system to a Cat 5 monster in under 24 hours - growing in strength by 100 mph in just a few hours time.
That’s not normal. That’s the new normal as bombogenesis and warm water temps supercharge tropical systems to do more damage than they otherwise would be capable of doing.
re: #96 lawhawk
This is going swell.
Them’s the breaks.
Love this judge. Hope he gets to sit on the future criminal trials of Uday and Qsay Trump.
re: #130 lawhawk
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Ivanka’s gotta testify against Daddy.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy
It’s like every day is legal Christmas these days. After so long of watching the fucking around, I am going to relish the finding out.
re: #129 sizzzzlerz
I must differ with Senator Fetterman. The House is already at Threat Level Springer up to and including the toothless goons in the audience bleating “Jerry! Jerry!”. We refer to them as MAGA. These past weeks have proven that several times over. The GOP isn’t a political party, it’s a drunken frat party.
Oh it’s a party all right
re: #130 lawhawk
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Ivanka’s gotta testify against Daddy.
I hope daddy’s lawyers try to rip her to shreds on cross and cause her to criminally implicate him in retaliation.
re: #135 darthstar
I hope daddy’s lawyers try to rip her to shreds on cross and cause her to criminally implicate him in retaliation.
Or take the 5th herself, if she’s smart
Also, let’s not forget that Leticia James wouldn’t be asking her to testify if she didn’t have a waist deep stack of documentation on which to base her questioning.
I’ve got $20 that says Ivanka takes the fifth at least a half dozen times on the stand…and that her lawyers object twice that much during her testimony even though she’s not the one on trial.
re: #136 Scottish Dragon
Or take the 5th herself, if she’s smart
Taking the 5th in a civil trial is just as bad as admitting guilt. It won’t help daddy and can be used to justify stiffer disgorgement.
Okay - gotta head to the office…on a Friday. Later everyone.
re: #136 Scottish Dragon
Or take the 5th herself, if she’s smart
She can only take the 5th regarding questions that would implicate her directly. Furthermore, taking the 5th in a civil case would allow the judge to draw an adverse inference against the former guy, which would be just as bad as answering honestly.
re: #138 darthstar
Taking the 5th in a civil trial is just as bad as admitting guilt. It won’t help daddy and can be used to justify stiffer disgorgement.
Sure, but she has to protect herself.
re: #60 darthstar
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Procedurally, Trump’s idiot lawyers want to keep Ivanka off the stand.
I get that. She knows what Trump did and can testify to it.
Her lawyers managed to get her out of being a defendant in the case because the AG’s office didn’t toll the statute of limitations for civil fraud against her but did toll it against daddy. That’s why she’s out, and he’s still on the hook.
But at the time of the Appellate decision affirming that Ivanka was out due to the running of the SOL, the AG’s office stated explicitly that they still considered her a witness to the case.
Trump can’t try to wish that away. He can’t assert some bogus privilege to get her to shut up. She’s got to testify, and either she takes the 5th herself, or gives up Trump’s crimes.
That’s what this is about. Judge Engoron has given Ivanka a chance to appeal the decision to appear, but the chances of success on that will be low. She’s a former EVP to Trump Org. Everyone knows she knows what was going on, and the only reason she’s not on the docket herself is the tolling of the SOL didn’t apply to her. She knows info relating to key business decisions and valuations, and her signature was often on key documents as a fiduciary/board member.
re: #131 lawhawk
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The situation in Acupulco and surrounding area is awful. If you don’t have a functioning control tower, you can’t get airlifted assistance in and injured people out of the area.
It’s a bad situation made worse by the fact that the storm took everyone by surprise - it went from a middle of the road tropical system to a Cat 5 monster in under 24 hours - growing in strength by 100 mph in just a few hours time.
That’s not normal. That’s the new normal as bombogenesis and warm water temps supercharge tropical systems to do more damage than they otherwise would be capable of doing.
Some asshole set the tower on fire in Vegas years back while welding, we found out when pilots were asking us if we knew there was smoke coming out of the tower. We evacuated grabbed some radios, got in an airport pickup truck and kept working.
re: #131 lawhawk
This is what the control tower of Acapulco International Airport (MMAA) looked like after Hurricane Otis hit.
The situation in Acupulco and surrounding area is awful. If you don’t have a functioning control tower, you can’t get airlifted assistance in and injured people out of the area.
It’s a bad situation made worse by the fact that the storm took everyone by surprise - it went from a middle of the road tropical system to a Cat 5 monster in under 24 hours - growing in strength by 100 mph in just a few hours time.
That’s not normal. That’s the new normal as bombogenesis and warm water temps supercharge tropical systems to do more damage than they otherwise would be capable of doing.
The control tower glass *probably* would have withstood the hurricane force winds, except for impact of windblown debris.
re: #93 Teukka
Whenever I feel the need to have a jaw-dropping “NANI THE FUCK!?” moment, Conservapedia is one of the places I visit.
presumably still run by Schlafly’s kid?
So for those keeping score at home … we know there are four top of the indictment defendants in the GA case who have not been offered a deal of any kind while most others have at least engaged in some dialogue:
Trump
Giuliani
Meadows
Eastmanhttps://t.co/LUS2Jg8P0o— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) October 26, 2023
Santos pleads not guilty on the superseding charges. He still faces an expulsion vote in the House being brought by NY GOP delegation members. If that succeeds, that means that the GOP majority margin shrinks even further.
re: #144 Vicious Babushka
What gets me, is after all these years they must have known this. They must have detailed maps of the tunnels. It’s not a huge area & with tech & modern surveillance they should have had all this dialed in years ago.
For all of you programmers, what would you think about a language feature that allows you to write:
if( obj.!contains( y ) )
vs the standard:
if( !obj.contains( y ) )
re: #132 darthstar
Them’s the breaks.
Love this judge. Hope he gets to sit on the future criminal trials of Uday and Qsay Trump.
Trump has not yet ordered their Ferraris and other supercars to be set on fire.
re: #150 HRH Stanley Sea
Or technology isn’t as infallible as we’d like it to be. If you don’t have HUMINT on the ground and SIGINT is lacking and remote sensing isn’t helping, you’re not going to be able to pick up this work.
But did no one notice all the dirt getting moved about, or did everyone pull a Great Escape routine and simply let the dirt out into the yard in their trousers a handful at a time?
Did they catch the Maine shooter or is he still at large?
re: #52 JC1
Democrats need to start doing this in states where they control the government. Fair maps are great, and will hopefully be mandated/respected everywhere. But it’s foolish to use fair maps when the right wing crazies don’t. There should be 0 GOP representatives from California, Washington, Oregon, etc.
The party that wins the popular vote should have the majority of the house.
Only if there is no voter suppression — and red states with diverse population have made voter suppression an art. Note that even without gerrymandering, it’s possible for a state’s representatives not to reflect the population as a whole because of living patterns
re: #150 HRH Stanley Sea
What gets me, is after all these years they must have known this. They must have detailed maps of the tunnels. It’s not a huge area & with tech & modern surveillance they should have had all this dialed in years ago.
The tunnels go deeper than current sensors can easily locate from a distance
re: #52 JC1
Democrats need to start doing this in states where they control the government. Fair maps are great, and will hopefully be mandated/respected everywhere. But it’s foolish to use fair maps when the right wing crazies don’t. There should be 0 GOP representatives from California, Washington, Oregon, etc.
The party that wins the popular vote should have the majority of the house.
re: #157 Hecuba’s daughter
Only if there is no voter suppression — and red states with diverse population have made voter suppression an art. Note that even without gerrymandering, it’s possible for a state’s representatives not to reflect the population as a whole because of living patterns
Yes. One should guard against becoming what one battles. Oregon has areas that are populated by conservatives, to a degree. To make them have a liberal representative is not a service to democracy.
Flood the tunnels with colored smoke and watch all of Gaza become engulfed in a purple haze.
re: #160 GlutenFreeJesus
Flood the tunnels with colored smoke and watch all of Gaza become engulfed in a purple haze.
Get Lance from Apocalypse Now and watch hilarity ensue
Of course, she is dressed like a Commander’s wife in handmaid’s tale pic.twitter.com/kyZrUTrlJC
— BarbaraJMay3 (@StPaulgirl3) October 27, 2023
re: #70 sagehen
California has very specific rules about how districts are drawn; not sure if it’s in the State constitution or if it’s just a law, but gerrymandering isn’t doable. This rule came into being as part of a package with instituting jungle primaries.
I’m aware that more blue states than red states have those rules in place. I’m saying that Dems need to make the case that those rules need to be amended to only apply if every other state with multiple congressional seats has similar rules in effect.
Sort of like the popular vote compact.
re: #74 Scottish Dragon
Wait until January 2025 if Biden if reelected and he refuses to call congress into session to certify the results.
Chances are that we will have a democratic speaker on 1/3/2025.
re: #160 GlutenFreeJesus
Flood the tunnels with colored smoke and watch all of Gaza become engulfed in a purple haze.
Put a bunch of weed into that smoke.
Literally my ancestor. We carry the Lee name as a first/middle in my family
While I didn’t need a directly insulting gesture to tell me that my kind is hated and many seek our extinction (the implicit cues were strong enough) I appreciate this image making it absolutely clear.— Thad (@GigaThaad) October 26, 2023
It’s almost like you’re from a place with lessons to teach us.
— Thad (@GigaThaad) October 27, 2023
You have done as able a job as any in showing what the Confederacy was really about.
Congrats.
You have also done as able a job as any is showing why it is wholly un-American.#CancelTheConfederacy— Gym Jordan’s Yellow Tie 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@JamesWGarrett1) October 27, 2023
Insert “Let them fight” gif.
Matt Gaetz appears to be outing the Republican Chairman of the Ways and Means committee on his podcast.
Guess that was about 24 hours of unity for the House GOP https://t.co/DFDNJhG7ej— Tim Miller (@Timodc) October 26, 2023
re: #125 ericblair
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I’d be interested in seeing a version of this chart that excludes suicide.
We go now live to the 6th circle of Hell. pic.twitter.com/taI3alsJIQ
— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) October 27, 2023
re: #166 JC1
Chances are that we will have a democratic speaker on 1/3/2025.
If we don’t, we probably won’t have a President-elect either. This turnout has to be beyond edgemanship.
re: #168 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
It’s exactly like he’s an idiot and you’re on a derp-site run by a narcissistic billionaire that promotes disinformation.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 27, 2023
Speaker Mike Johnson to Hannity on guns: “In Europe, and in other places, they use vehicles to mow down crowds at parades … it’s not the weapon.” pic.twitter.com/8sAXuvrd8F
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 27, 2023
Gee; I just have missed all the news reports about vans running over multiple people every week in Spain and Belgium.
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re: #175 Decatur Deb
If we don’t, we probably won’t have a President-elect either. This turnout has to be beyond edgemanship.
Fascists don’t care about our voting margins. They care about using force.
re: #166 JC1
Chances are that we will have a democratic speaker on 1/3/2025.
Do.
Not.
Take.
That.
For.
Granted.
re: #178 Scottish Dragon
Fascists don’t care about our voting margins. They care about using force.
They need a claim of legitimacy, however implausible, until their control of the police and military is established. Hitler under Hindenburg’s bathrobe.
re: #179 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
Do.
Not.
Take.
That.
For.
Granted.
Of course not. But there’s no reason to panic about the potential of the house not certifying the next election.
re: #179 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
re: #166 JC1
Chances are that we will have a democratic speaker on 1/3/2025.
Do.
Not.
Take.
That.
For.
Granted.
Note North Carolina going all the way with gerrymandering…
re: #182 Joe Bacon ✅
The courts have pulled Alabama and Georgia back from it.
re: #182 Joe Bacon ✅
re: #166 JC1
Chances are that we will have a democratic speaker on 1/3/2025.
Do.
Not.
Take.
That.
For.
Granted.Note North Carolina going all the way with gerrymandering…
Where is that meme with Superman & the two buttons? For Button #1: Rashida Tlaib Button #2: Any Republican
re: #128 Mike Lamb
Also, too, states are literally trying to pass laws that would allow people to run over protesters without penalty. I guess the GOP wants to be like Europe after all.
Only to run over certain people; i.e. minorities and those supporting them.
I still maintain that 2024 is going to be the peak of GQP fuckery. They’re going to do everything they can to try to steal 2024. I truly think, if we can get through that, the fascists will be on their last legs. I also think that we are in a very strong place to make sure we DO get through it. Their cult leader is about to go away for a long time. Their popularity outside their cult base is nonexistent - nay, even negative. Their hold on individual states is weakening, as the power of the majority is starting to make itself felt following the overreach of the Cultural Civil War. Take nothing for granted, I agree, but I also don’t think we’re anywhere near dire straits just yet.
re: #180 Decatur Deb
They need a claim of legitimacy, however implausible, until their control of the police and military is established. Hitler under Hindenburg’s bathrobe.
That’s what having the Speakership would give them as far as they are concerned. After that, it simply raw exercise of power. If it goes down as I fear it might, I think we see large blue states refusing to recognize the House installation of a POTUS that lost the EC. Then things start getting bloody. Prof Timothy Snyder outlines the scenario
So Mr. Trump just might get to give a victory speech from some safe quarter. But if he installed rather than elected, it seems unlikely that he will be generally regarded as president. Although the procedures of electing an American president are complex, antiquated, and somewhat unfair, the legitimacy of the office rests not on them so much as on the popular sense that someone has actually won. A president who is brazenly borne to power by perverse legalism cannot enjoy the legitimacy of his predecessors. He will not enjoy the element of surprise. The scenario by which he reaches the White House will be quite familiar. Even if it cannot be stopped, it will be scorned. It will be rightly regarded as the sort of tyrannical pettifogging on display in regimes such as Russia and Hungary.
In a situation where he is installed as president after losing an election, Mr. Trump would vainly try to control what will quickly cease to be the United States. His allies who wish to destroy the state will be the only winners. The precise scenario of the collapse of the United States is impossible to predict, but some of the following is likely to happen, and quickly.
Tens of millions of people protest. Paramilitaries on both sides emerge. Violence leads to fake and real stories of deaths, and to revenge. Police and armed forces will know neither whom they should obey nor whom they should arrest. With traditional authority broken, those wearing uniforms and bearing arms will become partisans, take sides, and start shooting one another. Governors will look for exit strategies for their states. Americans will rush to parts of the disintegrating country they find safer, in a process that looks increasingly like ethnic cleansing. The stock market and then the economy will crash. The dollar will cease to be the world currency.
re: #188 Scottish Dragon
That’s what having the Speakership would give them as far as they are concerned. After that, it simply raw exercise of power. If it goes down as I fear it might, I think we see large blue states refusing to recognize the House installation of a POTUS that lost the EC. Then things start getting bloody. Prof Timothy Snyder outlines the scenario
Not say’n we won’t get out hair mussed….
The military is structurally incapable of dividing effectively—not even if it wanted to. Your local sheriff and his good ol boys are a more plausible, but temporary threat. Every liberal I can assess is at least redundantly armed, and the smart ones can’t be assessed.
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— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) October 27, 2023
re: #162 wrenchwench
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re: #189 Decatur Deb
Not say’n we won’t get out hair mussed….
The military is structurally incapable of dividing effectively—not even if it wanted to. Your local sheriff and his good ol boys are a more plausible, but temporary threat. Every liberal I can assess is at least redundantly armed, and the smart ones can’t be assessed.
It’s federal LE that worries me. The faceless Border Patrol MAGA goons you saw during the BLM protest in Washington? There’s a LOT of them. Federal LE has a huge MAGA problem and they sure as hell don’t mind shooting at “leftists”
re: #192 Scottish Dragon
We’ve had 4 years to smooth out that problem. If we haven’t, shame on us.
re: #185 wrenchwench
Why?
I think that there’s a fundamental difference between suicide and homicide. Guns make it somewhat easier to end one’s life in an impulsive manner; guns make it a lot easier to kill a bunch of other people.
I also believe that people should have the right to end their own life.
If someone wishes to end it all, and not take anyone else with them, that’s none of my business.
So lumping suicides in with other gun deaths skews the data in an unhelpful way, IMHO.
re: #168 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
Of course I want racists gone, but only racists equate racist with white.
re: #187 Nerdy Fish
I still maintain that 2024 is going to be the peak of GQP fuckery. They’re going to do everything they can to try to steal 2024. I truly think, if we can get through that, the fascists will be on their last legs. I also think that we are in a very strong place to make sure we DO get through it. Their cult leader is about to go away for a long time. Their popularity outside their cult base is nonexistent - nay, even negative. Their hold on individual states is weakening, as the power of the majority is starting to make itself felt following the overreach of the Cultural Civil War. Take nothing for granted, I agree, but I also don’t think we’re anywhere near dire straits just yet.
In 2020 they controlled the presidency, the Senate, and they had complete state control over more competitive states.
They may throw a bigger temper tantrum in 2024, but they have far less ability to actually muck things up.
re: #194 JC1
Someday LGF might have this conversation. “My Body, My Choice” to its conclusion.
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
So we should definitely abolish driver’s license and insurance requirements on cars.
Tim Scott and his girlfriend join newly appointed House Speaker Mike Johnson and his adopted son. pic.twitter.com/nDAbyczUpu
— Tarquin 🇺🇦 (@Tarquin_Helmet) October 27, 2023
re: #197 Vicious Babushka
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re: #194 JC1
They are a significant portion of the overall gun death rate.
Responsible gun ownership would reduce gun injuries and deaths in both the suicide and non-suicide (assault) scenarios. AWB would reduce mass shooting gun death rate significantly.
It would reduce the health care and criminal legal costs as well (including through incarceration).
re: #107 lawhawk
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This kid (who’s likely around age 40 today, and the Speaker is 51), has agency and ability to speak out on his own. Johnson keeps referring to him as his black son, but he never appears in any public literature or photos.
What’s the deal?
And what is it with GOPers and their attempts to claim black as friends/family.
Oh, that’s right - same as always - trying to claim that they really speak to black Americans, when they want to put them back in their place.
The Conservative mindset is that you can be personal friends and even married to black people just as long as the institutional means towards subjugation and discrimination remains in place.
re: #193 Decatur Deb
Biden hasn’t even remotely tried to deal with federal LE because he’s an institutionalist, and Garland is….Garland.
@guardian-world-rss.bsky.social
New House speaker Mike Johnson praised ‘18-century values’ in speech
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Well, looky there. It really is an 1850s kind of feeling.
I know, 1700s, but the 1850s kind of brought things to a boil.
re: #196 JC1
In 2020 they controlled the presidency, the Senate, and they had complete state control over more competitive states.
They may throw a bigger temper tantrum in 2024, but they have far less ability to actually muck things up.
They have a far better blueprint of what can work now, and all it takes is two or three governors screwing around with the EC delegate results or refusing to send delegates at all and inviting the inevitable lawsuits to eat up time before January 6th.
re: #207 jaunte
@guardian-world-rss.bsky.social
Well, looky there. It really is an 1850s kind of feeling.
Mikey gets a real thrill every time he reads about Jackson kicking Native Americans out of the South.
re: #181 JC1
Of course not. But there’s no reason to panic about the potential of the house not certifying the next election.
There is EVERY reason to be freaked out by this possibility.
Mike Johnson is an election denier elevated to the Speakership out of relative obscurity by party overtaken by election deniers.
The will do *anything* to block a Democratic victory.
ANYTHING.
2020 was a klutzy dry run that 139 GOP members of the House supported.
They will be back and they have learned from their mistakes.
I hope I’m wrong. Go ahead and dunk on me all you want if I am. Hell, I’ll dunk on myself, but these people are NOT fooling around.
They aren’t exactly acting like they’re worried about potentially scaring away moderate voters.
re: #205 Scottish Dragon
Biden hasn’t even remotely tried to deal with federal LE because he’s an institutionalist, and Garland is….Garland.
I’m trusting them and the institutions enough not to get over-concerned. The ridiculously militarized city and county cops around here, with their Klan-adjacent leadership, are the immediate threat. The Alabama state troopers still have the confederate flag on their patch.
re: #207 jaunte
@guardian-world-rss.bsky.social
Well, looky there. It really is an 1850s kind of feeling.
18th century values, huh? Only white male property owners need vote and women were property of their fathers and husbands.
Well fuck the dog whistle I guess.
re: #194 JC1
I think that there’s a fundamental difference between suicide and homicide. Guns make it somewhat easier to end one’s life in an impulsive manner; guns make it a lot easier to kill a bunch of other people.
I also believe that people should have the right to end their own life.
If someone wishes to end it all, and not take anyone else with them, that’s none of my business.
So limping suicides in with other gun deaths skews the data in an unhelpful way, IMHO.
I agree that there is a significant difference between suicide and other gun deaths.
However, as to having a right to die, there is a huge difference between “I am terminally ill and in pain and wish to control the circumstances of my death” and “I am worthless and should die.” Somewhat surprisingly (to me anyway) a large percentage of the people who seriously attempt suicide and fail do not repeat the attempt. They shouldn’t have the means all that handy to use.
re: #212 Decatur Deb
I’m trusting them and the institutions enough not to get over-concerned. The ridiculously militarized city and county cops around here, with their Klan-adjacent leadership, are the immediate threat. The Alabama state troopers still have the confederate flag on their patch.
I’ve learned to never, ever assume a visible problem is being dealt with behind the scenes.
We assumed Garland and DOJ were dealing with the Trump problem for over a year before they were finally FORCED to deal with his documents theft of all things. An freaking entire year lost while we assumed they were doing something.
re: #194 JC1
I think that there’s a fundamental difference between suicide and homicide. Guns make it somewhat easier to end one’s life in an impulsive manner; guns make it a lot easier to kill a bunch of other people.
I also believe that people should have the right to end their own life.
If someone wishes to end it all, and not take anyone else with them, that’s none of my business.
So lumping suicides in with other gun deaths skews the data in an unhelpful way, IMHO.
I don’t think it skews them at all. Being OK with suicide in cases where people can regain quality of life seems Libertarian to me.
re: #194 JC1
I think that there’s a fundamental difference between suicide and homicide. Guns make it somewhat easier to end one’s life in an impulsive manner; guns make it a lot easier to kill a bunch of other people.
I also believe that people should have the right to end their own life.
If someone wishes to end it all, and not take anyone else with them, that’s none of my business.
So lumping suicides in with other gun deaths skews the data in an unhelpful way, IMHO.
Thank you. I want to learn how to talk about this better, because it’s important and has a taboo-ness about it.
I agree that people should have the right to end their lives. Impulsivity needs to be removed from that. 75% of those who attempt suicide once and fail, never try again. 90% of those who try with a gun succeed.
So many murderers by gun DO take others on their suicide mission, that I think dealing with the suicides will also deal with the murders.
‘Lumping’, in a statistical mission, obscures some points. Avoiding the lumping risks (and has resulted in, IMHO) leaving important points out.
Judge Chutkan wants Trump’s opinion about whether his DC trial should be televised. pic.twitter.com/esFUL6xDGK
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 27, 2023
This should be interesting. Competing interest of having Trump think he could mug for the cameras when the reality is that he’d look like a chump endlessly while he’s incriminated in a crime spree and his hapless lawyers spin more trouble and run afoul of court rules and get themselves sanctioned.
I bet his lawyers are fucked over for this - they might counsel no cameras, but Trump will override.
re: #219 lawhawk
“It will be a great show. Tremendous ratings. More people will be watching TV than ever before.”
re: #164 gocart mozart
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He reminds me of the guy from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies that enslaved Davey Jones to kill off all of the pirates.
re: #219 lawhawk
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This should be interesting. Competing interest of having Trump think he could mug for the cameras when the reality is that he’d look like a chump endlessly while he’s incriminated in a crime spree and his hapless lawyers spin more trouble and run afoul of court rules and get themselves sanctioned.
I bet his lawyers are fucked over for this - they might counsel no cameras, but Trump will override.
I’ve expected the narcissism that made him think he should be a crime-president to be his undoing all along. He seems to be following the expected path.
re: #194 JC1
I think that there’s a fundamental difference between suicide and homicide. Guns make it somewhat easier to end one’s life in an impulsive manner; guns make it a lot easier to kill a bunch of other people.
I also believe that people should have the right to end their own life.
If someone wishes to end it all, and not take anyone else with them, that’s none of my business.
So lumping suicides in with other gun deaths skews the data in an unhelpful way, IMHO.
Ignoring the way easy access to guns facilitates suicide is no more acceptable than ignoring other malignant societal factors like unaffordable healthcare or transphobia / bullying. A right to end one’s own life has to be qualified as a last resort, when terminal or incurable health conditions make the restoration of any quality of life impossible. Because anything else offers only a selective and depraved indifference to the devastating, destabilizing emotional ripple effects untimely deaths have on everyone else.
re: #221 Belafon
He reminds me of the guy from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies that enslaved Davey Jones to kill off all of the pirates.
The opening of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 went hard AF with showing Lord Beckett as a bland bureaucratic monster.
re: #220 Eclectic Cyborg
“It will be a great show. Tremendous ratings. More people will be watching TV than ever before.”
You know, on that score Trump would be 100% right.
Rental car company Hertz once envisioned itself as the ultimate EV broker, doling out battery-powered vehicles to business travelers, ridehail drivers, and tech newbies in an ambitious plan to grease the wheels for the EV revolution. The company inked agreements with Tesla and Polestar to buy nearly 200,000 EVs. Tesla’s valuation topped $1 trillion on the news.But like many other aspects of the EV switch, that plan is running into some headwinds. This week, Hertz said it was tapping the brakes on its EV rollout, citing the plummeting resale value of its EVs and the high cost of repair.
Tesla has been slashing prices to spark sales as it finds itself wrestling with softening demand and more competition. And repair costs are about double what the company spends on gas car fixes, Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr told Bloomberg.
Part of the problem is linked to Hertz’s plans to rent EVs to ridehail drivers. Of the 100,000 Tesla acquired by Hertz, half were to be allocated to Uber drivers as part of a deal with the ridehail company. And drivers said they loved the Teslas! But Uber drivers also tend to drive their vehicles into the ground. This higher rate of utilization can lead to a lot of damage — certainly more than Hertz was anticipating.
Hertz said it tried to mitigate “higher incidents of damage among EV rideshare drivers” by siphoning some of its fleet into its leisure segment. But that didn’t work out as well as the company hoped.
Hertz is scaling back its EV ambitions because its Teslas keep getting damaged (TheVerge)
re: #225 Dr Lizardo
You know, on that score Trump would be 100% right.
Maybe. I reached the point where I can’t stand to hear his weird spaced-out voice anymore long ago. I skip past him on news segments, right to the commentary.
The part where you think that means you have the right to slaughter anyone you feel like, overthrow the government whenever you want, or threaten the rest of us with violence when you don’t get your way.
The Second Amendment isn’t a murder/suicide pact.
Fuck you. pic.twitter.com/iohgb2Ltjg— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 27, 2023
re: #130 lawhawk
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Ivanka’s gotta testify against Daddy.
Oh, the sweet sweet goodness of it all when Ivanka flips on him. Else, there will be lots of “5th Amendment” coming from her on the stand.
re: #229 Florida Panhandler
Oh, the sweet sweet goodness of it all when Ivanka flips on him. Else, there will be lots of “5th Amendment” coming from her on the stand.
She has her own life with living doll Jared to preserve. She might bury her father.
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