Seth Meyers: Trump Back in Court as Key Witness Says Trump Shared National Security Secrets
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Mess deck fire in the early hours of this morning.
The MoD said: There fire was quickly brought under control. No reported injuries and no ordnance was involved in the incident. RN is working with Scottish Fire & Rescue to establish the cause of the fire.— Navy Lookout (@NavyLookout) March 9, 2024
re: #1 Belafon
Ditto Abraham instead of Abram.
re: #5 Patricia Kayden
Ditto Abraham instead of Abram.
Sarah not Sarai
Israel not Jacob
Joshua not Hoshea
Lots of name changes in Scripture.
re: #7 Vicious Babushka
Yep. Funny how certain religious bigots don’t notice that.
“…Röda Ulven, (The Red Wolf) was established in 1946. Röda Ulven soon became synonymous with fermented herring with its eye-catching packaging and is Sweden’s leading brand today.”
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Tax stuff…
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I am very worried about the future of our country.
There are too many judges in the wrong places who are willing to help Trump evade justice, regardless of how absurd their decisions are - ie Cannon on too many things to mention, the SCOTUS, now the delay in the Bragg trial.
Also (while it is still early), at this moment, Trump is winning in all the swing states Biden won in 2020 plus Nevada.
Trump - the twice impeached, 91-times indicted man who was found liable sexual assault and massive business fraud whose brain is turning into jelly before our eyes - is winning.
re: #14 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
I am very worried about the future of our country.
You’re not the only one.
re: #14 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
I am very worried about the future of our country.
There are too many judges in the wrong places who are willing to help Trump evade justice, regardless of how absurd their decisions are - ie Cannon on too many things to mention, the SCOTUS, now the delay in the Bragg trial.
Also (while it is still early), at this moment, Trump is winning in all the swing states Biden won in 2020 plus Nevada.
Trump - the twice impeached, 91-times indicted man who was found liable sexual assault and massive business fraud whose brain is turning into jelly before our eyes - is winning.
The polls have Trump leading in PA. The likelihood of Trump winning PA vs Biden is negligible.
re: #13 Patricia Kayden
“Democrats lost the House by just 6,675 votes in 2022. That’s field margins—fractions of a percentage point—in just a handful of competitive races. And Democrats only need to net five seats to regain the majority next year. “
………..
“Red-to-blue flips
Blue states—including California and New York—haven’t seen the same level of investment as some of the traditional battlegrounds, and we’re proud to be changing that. We’re focusing on CA-13, CA-22, CA-27, CA-45, NY-04, NY-17, NY-19, and NY-22, where Biden won big in 2020 but Dems lost by small margins in the 2022 midterms. In CA-13, for example, Democrats lost by fewer than 600 votes.”
re: #14 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
I am very worried about the future of our country.
There are too many judges in the wrong places who are willing to help Trump evade justice, regardless of how absurd their decisions are - ie Cannon on too many things to mention, the SCOTUS, now the delay in the Bragg trial.
Also (while it is still early), at this moment, Trump is winning in all the swing states Biden won in 2020 plus Nevada.
Trump - the twice impeached, 91-times indicted man who was found liable sexual assault and massive business fraud whose brain is turning into jelly before our eyes - is winning.
The polls that keep getting elections wrong by nearly 8 points.
I hope that more than 6,675 women voters are awake to the danger their lives are in if Republicans are allowed to continue their present course.
re: #17 jaunte
“Democrats lost the House by just 6,675 votes in 2022. That’s field margins—fractions of a percentage point—in just a handful of competitive races. And Democrats only need to net five seats to regain the majority next year. “
………..
“Red-to-blue flips
Blue states—including California and New York—haven’t seen the same level of investment as some of the traditional battlegrounds, and we’re proud to be changing that. We’re focusing on CA-13, CA-22, CA-27, CA-45, NY-04, NY-17, NY-19, and NY-22, where Biden won big in 2020 but Dems lost by small margins in the 2022 midterms. In CA-13, for example, Democrats lost by fewer than 600 votes.”
And pressure all over is something the GOP will be hard put to react to with matching funds for their candidates. Trump is draining the RNC dry and is also sure to make sure “conditions” are attached to any money they dole out to anyone other than Trump himself.
RN is working with Scottish Fire & Rescue to establish the cause of the fire.
Fuel, oxygen, and a source of ignition.
Just like every other fucking fire that has ever happened.
Another reason to hate and despise Screwpert Murdoch and 19th Century FAUX!
Parents of slain Ukrainian journalist sue Fox News and allege she was never paid
Fox News has been hit with yet another lawsuit — this time from the parents of a producer who was killed on assignment in Ukraine, along with a security officer.
Journalist Ben Feuerherd first tweeted Thursday about the lawsuit against Fox News and its parent company NewsCorp, along with Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and owner Rupert Murdoch. The plaintiffs accused the network of not only endangering producer Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshnyova’s life and covering it up, but with multiple workplace and labor violations.
“At least in the case of Kuvshnyova, the Ukrainian assistants were not hired legally according to Ukraine law, or to any known legal regime. There is no evidence that Kuvshnyova was ever paid during the two months she worked for Fox,” the complaint alleges. “Kuvshnyova had no written contract of employment, insurance, health care, or worker’s compensation coverage or equivalent benefits.”
The complaint argued that Fox News “was taking advantage” of Kuvshnyova, and stated that her “parents were concerned during the period she worked for Fox that she was so anxious to win Fox’s approval and future job prospects” that she allowed herself to be mistreated in the workplace.
I have now watched 4 episodes of Lucifer. I am so glad I now have 6 freaking seasons of pure fun fun fun for those days when I need to have something that can take me away from the shit show that can be the real world. Punishment for Evil. Justice for the Good. The most interesting paladin I’ve seen in a very long time.
re: #14 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
Also (while it is still early), at this moment, Trump is winning in all the swing states Biden won in 2020 plus Nevada.
If you are basing this on polls done by WaPo or the NYTimes or fucken whatever, get that shit OUT OF YOUR MIND. Most polls *since* 2016 have been wrong.
re: #23 William Lewis
I have now watched 4 episodes of Lucifer. I am so glad I now have 6 freaking seasons of pure fun fun fun for those days when I need to have something that can take me away from the shit show that can be the real world. Punishment for Evil. Justice for the Good. The most interesting paladin I’ve seen in a very long time.
Fun show.
Jimmy Kimmel for the win:
Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura are not running mates,” said Kimmel. “They are who the bookers on The Masked Singer call when Rob Schneider says no.”
And now the RNC scrapped their early voting and mail voting initiatives 😂😂😂
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re: #28 JC1
THIS is what I’m talking about.
I’m *sanguine* about the next election. Big reason is the Republicans are inept and stupid.
re: #29 teleskiguy
I thought they were inept and stupid in 2016 too, but….
(I do grant they seem to be even MORE inept this time around. At the same time, there’s still no telling what kind of shit will happen between now and November.)
Not sure what y’all see, what I see is behind the clicky
Apparently, if you can see a tree, you’re left-brained, and if you can see two people holding hands, you’re right-brained 🤔 pic.twitter.com/svMAo8ad2T
— Peché Africa 🇿🇦 (@pmcafrica) March 14, 2024
Stoned ostrich
To me it’s quite obvious the disparity when it comes to *VOTING* from state to state. There’s still an obvious racial disparity nationwide, and in some Southern states it has gotten worse. In 2023 the Supreme Court gutted a key plank of the Voting Rights Act.
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Correct
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Fucken aye …
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
I legitimately saw boobs at first, but now I can’t unsee the ostrich.
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Not sure what y’all see, what I see is behind the clicky
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I see four lights.
/
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
“In Orson Scott Card’s Xenocide, we read of a girl who traces woodgrains.”
reddit.com
I posted to work the article I had posted here abour someone trying to turn Yaml into a scripting language, and a coworker said that the important thing is what animal will be on the O’Reilly cover.
re: #40 jaunte
“In Orson Scott Card’s Xenocide, we read of a girl who traces woodgrains.”
reddit.com
I’m the girl’s dad, with the need to have things different frequently.
I’m cleaning out my office, and at the bottom of a drawer stuffed with obsolete power supplies & cables, I found a bunch of pages of Classic ASP & VBscript (no it was not named after me!) code that I wrote back before Y2K.
A trip down memory lane.
The Zappa song that (I’m sorry) pilled me on Zappa.
re: #43 Vicious Babushka
I’m cleaning out my office, and at the bottom of a drawer stuffed with obsolete power supplies & cables, I found a bunch of pages of Classic ASP & VBscript (no it was not named after me!) code that I wrote back before Y2K.
A trip down memory lane.
Did Indiana Jones then show and fight you for them while screaming “They belong in a museum!”?
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Not sure what y’all see, what I see is behind the clicky
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I see an ostrich.
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Not sure what y’all see, what I see is behind the clicky
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I saw the same thing (I swear!)
😝
re: #45 teleskiguy
Its an amazing song…..at 10 am tomorrow, I get on line to buy tix for Dweezil’s show. He is kicking off his new Apostrophe/Roxy tour in Phoenix. I met him once after a concert in Scottsdale, one hell of a nice guy.
re: #55 ckkatz
:)
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It would take until the 20th century before people would stop naming themselves after him.
1000th wordle. 5/6.
Streak alive at 204
Wordle 1,000 🎉 5/6
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⚡️Latvia may deport hundreds of Russian nationals.
Eight hundred Russian citizens are at risk of being deported from Latvia because they have not yet applied for permanent or temporary residence.https://t.co/mPqk2994F1— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 15, 2024
The only time Republicans are against deportation.
re: #29 teleskiguy
THIS is what I’m talking about.
I’m *sanguine* about the next election. Big reason is the Republicans are inept and stupid.
So are many voters. I am appalled by the intelligent, educated people who prefer Trump — people who are not wealthy and who seem decent. But I suspect that almost all are racists— either anti-black or anti-Semitic(like the North Carolina candidate for governor).
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) March 15, 2024
Whenever I am locked away in a hotel somewhere writing a story about Republican politics, I keep Fox News on (on mute, like Roger Ailes preferred) and my critical assessment, after years of research, is that nobody produces more watchable soundless programming than Jesse Watters.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) March 15, 2024
re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter
So are many voters. I am appalled by the intelligent, educated people who prefer Trump — people who are not wealthy and who seem decent. But I suspect that almost all are racists— either anti-black or anti-Semitic(like the North Carolina candidate for governor).
I don’t think the writers at 20th Century Fox ever realized how right they were when they wrote that line from Men in Black: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know that.” In context it fits the movie so perfectly, but even outside the film it’s brilliant such that it endures decades later. And that’s the reality that we’re dealing with here, that millions of our fellow “smart” Americans have turned into dumb, panicky animals because their world is coming to an end. They wake up every day and tune into media that tells them that the America they grew up in, that they dominated, is a little further away and the clock is ticking before it’s gone for good. And it scares them to death because they’ve been told for years that when their world is gone, then all that was “good” and “right” will be gone forever.
The logic is pretty easy to see: For those “smart” people, there’s not a lot of options if they want their world “back.” The MAGAts control such a large portion of the GQP that there was never a serious chance of anyone else winning the nomination if Trump chose to run. But everything they read, watch, and listen to tells them that any Dem in office will only further the dismantling of their world. And that the Dem will win if those “smart” people vote third party or sit the election out. So, in the end, it doesn’t matter how stupid it appears to vote Trump, those “smart” people will do so because they wish to restore people like themselves to dominance and damn the consequences for the rest of us.
re: #66 Targetpractice
It needs to be explained to such folk that their world is over, that their dreams of re-establishing dominance are simply an exercise in futility and that they must accept that they’re just gonna have to share the top of the social pyramid with others as well.
They may not like to hear it, but that’s their problem.
re: #16 JC1
The polls have Trump leading in PA. The likelihood of Trump winning PA vs Biden is negligible.
He will certainly lose the popular vote and most likely the EC vote, which is why the RNC “Election Integrity Committees” being formed now are going to try to get enough votes thrown out so that neither side gets an EC majority, which sends the election to the House delegtions, where they will win, fairly and Constitutionally.
re: #23 William Lewis
I have now watched 4 episodes of Lucifer. I am so glad I now have 6 freaking seasons of pure fun fun fun for those days when I need to have something that can take me away from the shit show that can be the real world. Punishment for Evil. Justice for the Good. The most interesting paladin I’ve seen in a very long time.
He does turn our accepted construct of Good vs Evil on its head. I just apprecite any script that is well written and funny without resorting to gags and catch phrases.
re: #67 Dr Lizardo
It needs to be explained to such folk that their world is over, that their dreams of re-establishing dominance are simply an exercise in futility and that they must accept that they’re just gonna have to share the top of the social pyramid with others as well.
They may not like to hear it, but that’s their problem.
It’s really our problem because we’re dealing with generations of Americans who were raised on fairy tales about that world. Take your pick: The Puritans, Columbus, George Washington, the list is longer than John Holmes. Millions of Americans grew up not only being taught these myths, but encouraged to internalize them, to draw inspiration or use them as a guide for their own lives. Hell, I did a report on Henry Ford in middle school and told folks with total conviction that he’d invented mass production because that’s what the simplified tale in books written for kids my age all said.
Perhaps that’s a better picture to present: That millions of Americans would rather believe that Santa is real and they didn’t get that bicycle they asked for because they were naughty than accept that the household is flat broke because Daddy spent the household’s budget on gold coins and heirloom seeds.
re: #66 Targetpractice
I don’t think the writers at 20th Century Fox ever realized how right they were when they wrote that line from Men in Black: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know that.” In context it fits the movie so perfectly, but even outside the film it’s brilliant such that it endures decades later.
That’s what I liked about World War Z (the novel, not the movie) I am not much of a zombie fan, but the story is less about zombies than about humanity’s inability to deal with an existential crisis: first we ignore it, then we deny it, then the governments take clandestine steps to contain it (while still denying it to avoid panic) which then fail or even work the opposite of their intended effect, then megapanic sets in, then finally, after countless unneccesary losses and sacrifices, we finally figure out how to contain things.
Soo… Apparently McD’s around the world have issues, forcing the stores to close…
re: #72 Teukka
Soo… Apparently McD’s around the world have issues, forcing the stores to close…
Shoplifting gangs?
re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Shoplifting gangs?
Nah, ‘pooter issues. Question is whether cybercrime or an update that bricked shit.
Bill Maher tonight:
Eric Holder
Nancy Mace (R-SC)
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA)
Biden Administration has been warned that there are not enough votes to confirm Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He would be the first Muslim-American federal appeals court judge, but Ted Cruz has accused him of ties to what Cruz claims is an anti-semitic organization.
re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That’s what I liked about World War Z (the novel, not the movie) I am not much of a zombie fan, but the story is less about zombies than about humanity’s inability to deal with an existential crisis: first we ignore it, then we deny it, then the governments take clandestine steps to contain it (while still denying it to avoid panic) which then fail or even work the opposite of their intended effect, then megapanic sets in, then finally, after countless unneccesary losses and sacrifices, we finally figure out how to contain things.
Don’t forget that in-between the denial and the (ultimately futile) efforts to contain it is the gaslighting stage (“The virus is a form of rabies/flu and can be treated with Phalanx/Ivermectin!”).
re: #74 Teukka
Nah, ‘pooter issues. Question is whether cybercrime or an update that bricked shit.
Yeah, just a cursory Google search shows they’re having problems in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, etc. Apparently, it seems it’s some kind of IT issue.
Daily Mail is on it, with photos (yeah, it’s the DM, I know, I know…) and in the photos, it looks like everything’s bricked.
re: #80 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, just a cursory Google search shows they’re having problems in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, etc. Apparently, it seems it’s some kind of IT issue.
Daily Mail is on it, with photos (yeah, it’s the DM, I know, I know…) and in the photos, it looks like everything’s bricked.
Well, some poor bastard in the IT dept is Mcfucked.
re: #79 Targetpractice
Don’t forget that in-between the denial and the (ultimately futile) efforts to contain it is the gaslighting stage (“The virus is a form of rabies/flu and can be treated with Phalanx/Ivermectin!”).
There is a strong human bias in favor of the status quo and against strong solutions that rock the boat, as we see with climate change and the fight against the rise of fascism, both today and in the 20th Century.
re: #80 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, just a cursory Google search shows they’re having problems in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, etc. Apparently, it seems it’s some kind of IT issue.
Daily Mail is on it, with photos (yeah, it’s the DM, I know, I know…) and in the photos, it looks like everything’s bricked.
Looking at the logo on the bricked machine, it’s a thin client manufacturer, so, in no order of likelihood, compromised manufacturer server update keys, compromised McD or McD IT supplier update/server keys, DDoS / Malware on McD or McD IT supplier infrastructure, DDoS / Malware on manufacturer infrastructure.
re: #81 Targetpractice
Well, some poor bastard in the IT dept is Mcfucked.
The DM story mentioned that app isn’t working, either. I don’t have that app (I have no need for anything like that, as I go to MickeyD’s maybe once or twice a year, LOL) so I can’t say on that one.
re: #81 Targetpractice
Well, some poor bastard in the IT dept is Mcfucked.
#YouHadOneJob, emphasis on had, and a very sore gluteus maximus…
re: #84 Teukka
Looking at the logo on the bricked machine, it’s a thin client manufacturer, so, in no order of likelihood, compromised manufacturer server update keys, compromised McD or McD IT supplier update/server keys, DDoS / Malware on McD or McD IT supplier infrastructure, DDoS / Malware on manufacturer infrastructure.
Presumably, someone’s gonna find themselves standing in line at the McUnemployment Office sometime next week.
re: #88 Decatur Deb
“Morning, all. Happy Saint Lithotripsy Day.
Speaking of which… “Et tu, Brute?”
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re: #89 Teukka
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re: #82 No Malarkey!
There is a strong human bias in favor of the status quo and against strong solutions that rock the boat, as we see with climate change and the fight against the rise of fascism, both today and in the 20th Century.
It’s the convenience factor in play, as in which is easier to accept: Taking precautions up to and including ceasing favored actions in order to avoid sickness or popping a pill and continuing to act as if there is no problem? Changing your lifestyle and abandoning beloved activities to avoid accelerating/worsening climate change or paying a few bucks to a couple guys who promise to plant a tree “in your name”? To accept that yours is not the master race and history does not conform to your beliefs or vote for the fascist dictator and invest in earplugs to drown out the screaming?
re: #77 No Malarkey!
Biden Administration has been warned that there are not enough votes to confirm Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He would be the first Muslim-American federal appeals court judge, but Ted Cruz has accused him of ties to what Cruz claims is an anti-semitic organization.
So Manchin and/or Sinema would be voting no?
re: #91 Targetpractice
It’s the convenience factor in play, as in which is easier to accept: Taking precautions up to and including ceasing favored actions in order to avoid sickness or popping a pill and continuing to act as if there is no problem? Changing your lifestyle and abandoning beloved activities to avoid accelerating/worsening climate change or paying a few bucks to a couple guys who promise to plant a tree “in your name”? To accept that yours is not the master race and history does not conform to your beliefs or vote for the fascist dictator and invest in earplugs to drown out the screaming?
In 1939, the French could’ve marched deep into Germany while the Wehrmacht was busy in Poland, which would likely have toppled Hitler’s regime, but they didn’t want to have to actually fight a war after they had declared one. What could’ve been a relatively quick war turned into a six year total war that killed 100 million people.
re: #92 sagehen
So Manchin and/or Sinema would be voting no?
The article didn’t name any democratic names, but those two are the usual suspects.
Ah, another day, another “What? But I’ve been paying a cheap AF rate for months, why can’t I just keep paying that indefinitely?! I’M A PREFERRED CUSTOMER!”
Just a little FYI, but if you’re not a high-ranking member in the hotel chain’s loyalty program or such good buddies with the manager that they’ve left explicit instructions to do everything short of blow you…you’re not a “preferred guest.”
Same applies to most businesses in the service industry, anybody who fails to meet that criteria can only rise as high as “asshole we tolerate because you’re a steady source of income.” And no, that does not entitle you to special treatment, it just means I have to put a little extra effort into the fake smile.
re: #5 Patricia Kayden
Ditto Abraham instead of Abram.
Sarah instead of Sara. Jesus instead of Joshua….
re: #66 Targetpractice
I don’t think the writers at 20th Century Fox ever realized how right they were when they wrote that line from Men in Black: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know that.” In context it fits the movie so perfectly, but even outside the film it’s brilliant such that it endures decades later. And that’s the reality that we’re dealing with here, that millions of our fellow “smart” Americans have turned into dumb, panicky animals because their world is coming to an end. They wake up every day and tune into media that tells them that the America they grew up in, that they dominated, is a little further away and the clock is ticking before it’s gone for good. And it scares them to death because they’ve been told for years that when their world is gone, then all that was “good” and “right” will be gone forever.
The logic is pretty easy to see: For those “smart” people, there’s not a lot of options if they want their world “back.” The MAGAts control such a large portion of the GQP that there was never a serious chance of anyone else winning the nomination if Trump chose to run. But everything they read, watch, and listen to tells them that any Dem in office will only further the dismantling of their world. And that the Dem will win if those “smart” people vote third party or sit the election out. So, in the end, it doesn’t matter how stupid it appears to vote Trump, those “smart” people will do so because they wish to restore people like themselves to dominance and damn the consequences for the rest of us.
Which is why I am starting to refer to them as “bootlickers”. It’s a term that hits them right in their pride about their independence and dominance. It’s also a term I don’t think they can and will attempt to turn around and claim as their own.
It also addresses their first dodge* about Trump in not liking Trump for “reasons”, but approving of the GOP “policies”. So they might not vote for Trump, but will vote GOP down the rest of the ballot by default. So, they are going to vote for all the bootlicker candidates who brown nose Trump and do his doing like good little sycophants. Which to me means that they are simply being bootlickers as well.
* - Assuming they are not simply voting this way due to be racist and/or fascist and essentially wanting everything destroyed in search of the mythical White Christian Nationalism that will not get them what they want anyways.
re: #9 Patricia Kayden
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re: #20 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
NY is especially nuts - considering that the only reason the GOP picked up the House is that redistricting in NY was a complete and utter shitshow, and it shows no sign of stopping, even with the latest redistricting plan enacted into law by the legislature and governor.
Had the districts been drawn more fairly (meaning the GOP didn’t gain seats upstate, and downstate didn’t lose D seats), Democrats would have maintained control. And before anyone gets any ideas - the only reason NY lost a seat in Congress was because of a few hundred people missed in the 2020 census. That was the threshold, and NYC saw population gains from 2010, while upstate saw significant losses. Where do you contract districts? Not downstate, and yet that’s what happened.
re: #98 Targetpractice
But… I demand the happy ending. /
re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That’s what I liked about World War Z (the novel, not the movie) I am not much of a zombie fan, but the story is less about zombies than about humanity’s inability to deal with an existential crisis: first we ignore it, then we deny it, then the governments take clandestine steps to contain it (while still denying it to avoid panic) which then fail or even work the opposite of their intended effect, then megapanic sets in, then finally, after countless unneccesary losses and sacrifices, we finally figure out how to contain things.
So, covid.
re: #109 Shropshire Slasher
So, covid.
exactly.
we dodged a bullet: imagine if had been deadlier by a factor of 10
Biden’s team to Speaker Johnson: Your impeachment inquiry is over
And it’s a very tart reply to Speaker Jesusbot!
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
exactly.
we dodged a bullet: imagine if had been deadlier by a factor of 10
We would have adapted, and survived.
re: #112 Shropshire Slasher
We would have adapted, and survived.
after a fashion. but image that with DJT in charge of it
Wisconsin Supreme Court to Catholic Charities
4-3 decision—Nope you don’t get out of paying into the State’s Unemployment Compensation Fund.
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court issued a shocking (and thoughtful) ruling on Thursday saying that a non-profit organization cannot get out of paying unemployment taxes just because it happens to be overseen by a religious ministry.
The 4-3 decision (elections matter!) is a remarkable defense of church/state separation—and it infuriated the Christian Nationalists who have come to rely on the courts to do their bidding.
Why not keep the service open and let the consumers decide? Probably screw up their business model.
Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour.
Lyft LYFT, -2.46% called the ordinance “deeply flawed,” saying in a statement that it supports a minimum earning standard for drivers but not the one passed by the council.
“It should be done in an honest way that keeps the service affordable for riders,” Lyft said. “This ordinance makes our operations unsustainable, and as a result, we are shutting down operations in Minneapolis when the law takes effect on May 1.”
re: #117 Shropshire Slasher
“It should be done in an honest way that keeps the service affordable for riders,” Lyft said. “This ordinance makes our operations unsustainable, and as a result, we are shutting down operations in Minneapolis when the law takes effect on May 1.”
again: they don’t give a flying fuck about their drivers, who are just placeholders until they get self-driving cars fully up and running.
Isn’t this lovely.
Why was the leper hockey game canceled? Face-off in the corner.
Leprosy is caused by two different but similar bacteria - Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis - the latter having just been identified in 2008. Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is avoidable. Transmission among the most vulnerable in society, including migrant and impoverished populations, remains a pressing issue.
This age-old neglected tropical disease, which is still present in more than 120 countries, is now a growing challenge in parts of North America.
Leprosy is beginning to occur regularly within parts of the southeastern United States. Most recently, Florida has seen a heightened incidence of leprosy, accounting for many of the newly diagnosed cases in the US.
The surge in new cases in central Florida highlights the urgent need for health care providers to report them immediately. Contact tracing is critical to identifying sources and reducing transmission.
re: #117 Shropshire Slasher
Why not keep the service open and let the consumers decide? Probably screw up their business model.
If you can’t afford to pay your employees a livable wage, your business model is fatally flawed.
re: #120 Nerdy Fish
If you can’t afford to pay your employees a livable wage, your business model is fatally flawed.
But you are thinking like a compassionate, well meaning, well educated and honorable person.
Good Pi day yesterday but this morning feels like a stab in the back.
Heh.
The ads loom over commuters and tourists, plastered with the colorful brand of what many here in the tech industry’s capital city thought was a company consigned to the dustbin of history.
“Yes, SVB.”
A year after Silicon Valley Bank imploded in the third-largest bank failure in U.S. history, the start-up- and tech-focused bank wants you to know that it’s back. It’s under new management, and now owned by North Carolina-based First Citizens Bank, which bought its deposits and branches out of bankruptcy weeks after SVB crumbled in March 2023.
Decision in Fani Willis case —
she has a choice of either her office pulls out, or she fires Nathan.
Boy, bye.
re: #124 sagehen
Decision in Fani Willis case —
she has a choice of either her office pulls out, or she fires Nathan.
Boy, bye.
Honestly, not the worst decision, tbh. To (loosely) quote the inimitable Popehat, sometimes we forget, in our zeal to get the Actual Bad Guys (tm), that the prosecutors are not our friends. Holding them to a high standard is good for the less fortunate people who don’t have the benefit of wealth and privilege to protect them.
re: #124 sagehen
Decision in Fani Willis case —
she has a choice of either her office pulls out, or she fires Nathan.
Boy, bye.
Early morning humor: Either he pulls out or she does.
re: #124 sagehen
Decision in Fani Willis case —
she has a choice of either her office pulls out, or she fires Nathan.
Boy, bye.
The funny thing about this is Nathan isn’t the lawyer Trump’s team is most frightened of in this case. Google’s all about Nathan Wade now and worthless, but there’s another lawyer on the team who is a RICO specialist.
re: #127 darthstar
The funny thing about this is Nathan isn’t the lawyer Trump’s team is most frightened of in this case. Google’s all about Nathan Wade now and worthless, but there’s another lawyer on the team who is a RICO specialist.
Yeah, but he’ll still see this as a win.
AJC:
In a much-anticipated decision, Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Willis must choose one of the two options to cure an appearance of impropriety fueled by her romantic relationship with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade, who has billed more than $728,000 in legal fees to county taxpayers and helped pay for trips he took with the district attorney.
Wade’s as good as gone.
This was telegraphed yesterday, when the judge dropped a number of charges, allowing prosecutors to revise their case on those dropped charges. Prosecutors will likely provide superseding indictments shortly.
It wasn’t a great look for Willis to employ Wade, but it was not a conflict of interest in the ordinary sense. Despite all the crap spewed by Trump’s coconspirators, none of this prejudiced Trump or his coconspirators. It was just poor choice by Willis to employ her now significant other.
The judge made it clear that this case is going forward.
Trump’s still fooked.
Just waiting for Trump to spew a bunch of bullshit about this being a big victory for him.
Meanwhile waiting for Crackhead Mike to release his “evidence” today…
re: #128 Nerdy Fish
Yeah, but he’ll still see this as a win.
It’s a Pyrrhic victory. Hopefully there are other prosecutors out there who are inspired by her courage willing to step up. A lot of them refused her out of concerns for their personal safety.
re: #124 sagehen
Decision in Fani Willis case —
she has a choice of either her office pulls out, or she fires Nathan.
Boy, bye.
I hope she doesn’t pull out, I was looking forward to her prosecuting the case.
re: #133 darthstar
This was the best that Trump’s muckrakers could dig up. They have no actual defense to the charges. They can only smear the prosecutors and claim that a consensual relationship was somehow violative of the defendants rights.
The judge made it clear the case is going forward, both with the existing charges after dismissing some without prejudice (meaning the prosecutors can refile with additional information as requested by the judge), and the DA’s office can still go ahead with the case if either Wade or Willis is dropped from the case. You can bet that Wade’s as good as gone.
re: #97 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Mee to.
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re: #128 Nerdy Fish
Yeah, but he’ll still see this as a win.
It delayed everything for a couple of months. Which in itself is a Trump victory.
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re: #137 sagehen
It delayed everything for a couple of months. Which in itself is a Trump victory.
A televised criminal trial starting in October is no better for Trump than a televised criminal trial starting in August. Either way he’s fooked, as lawhawk so eloquently put it.
re: #138 steve_davis
I see one sad fucking ostrich.
That’s the only thing I saw. I couldn’t see people holding hands no matter how hard I looked. And a tree? Yeah, duh. It’s a tree but it’s not a tree within the tree… again no matter how hard I look.
I guess that means either the OP or me has no brain at all.
re: #141 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The meme is saying the viewer is a bird brain.
More saber rattling.
French President Emmanuel Macron called President Vladimir Putin’s Russia an adversary that would not stop in Ukraine if it defeated Kyiv’s troops in the two-year-old conflict, urging Europeans to not be “weak” and to get ready to respond.
Macron caused controversy last month after he said he could not rule out the deployment of ground troops in Ukraine in the future, with many leaders distancing themselves from that while others, especially in Eastern Europe, expressed support.
“If Russia wins this war, Europe’s credibility will be reduced to zero,” Macron said in a television interview mostly directed at a domestic audience after French opposition leaders criticized his comments as bellicose.
re: #139 darthstar
A televised criminal trial starting in October is no better for Trump than a televised criminal trial starting in August. Either way he’s fooked, as lawhawk so eloquently put it.
Fani Willis gracing the tv daily is going to be ratings gold!
‘Irony and shame died’: Morning Joe panel appalled by MAGA takeover of RNC
Al Cárdenas has twice led Florida’s Republican Party, served on the RNC’s executive committee, and chaired the American Conservative Union, which hosts the annual CPAC event, but he told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he barely recognizes the national GOP organization after the MAGA takeover.
The above is for the “Muslims are all going to flock to Trump” crowd.
re: #147 darthstar
Prosecutors should be held to a higher standard. The defendant shouldn’t get to make up that standard.
re: #151 jeffreyw
Mr. Bear would like to have a few words with you.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed plans to significantly update a major fire service standard, but one fire service organization is voicing concerns about the far-reaching impact of the changes.According to OSHA, as part of the changes to the Fire Brigades Standard (29 CFR 1910.156), which was first published in 1980, the newly proposed “Emergency Response Standard” will expand safety and health protections for emergency responders, including firefighters, EMS providers and technical search and rescue workers.
re: #152 Joe Bacon ✅
“Gosh I paid to get the Trump Black Card but no retailer accepts it!”
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Too bad it doesn’t have a positive affirmation like ‘There’s no limit to where you can go with Trump’ just so the auto dealerships could laugh at Trump card holders coming to buy a new Truck.
re: #152 Joe Bacon ✅
I do wish the Georgia booking cop said, ‘Oops, need to take one more!’ and snapped a pic of Trump when he wasn’t posing like a despot.
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He will certainly lose the popular vote and most likely the EC vote, which is why the RNC “Election Integrity Committees” being formed now are going to try to get enough votes thrown out so that neither side gets an EC majority, which sends the election to the House delegtions, where they will win, fairly and Constitutionally.
I don’t see how getting votes thrown out would lead to someone not getting 270 EC votes?
Also, GOP court track record with regards to voting cases is something akin to that of the Washington Generals. Not sure why that would change in the next 10 months.
re: #72 Teukka
Soo… Apparently McD’s around the world have issues, forcing the stores to close…
McDs prices have gotten insane. Not that I can’t afford it, but I refuse on principle to pay $6+ for a quarter pounder with cheese.
MSNBC needs to cull their herd of TV legal experts…Weissmann now saying Fani should recuse for ‘legal and ethical reasons‘…I swear that guy is a concern troll.
re: #159 jaunte
Exactly…imagine if his mug shot was him looking up questioningly at the photographer as if to say “What?”…imagine him putting that on t-shirts and selling it.
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
after a fashion. but image that with DJT in charge of it
He came close to dying from covid. If it was more deadly it likely would have killed him.
re: #116 Joe Bacon ✅
Wisconsin Supreme Court to Catholic Charities
4-3 decision—Nope you don’t get out of paying into the State’s Unemployment Compensation Fund.
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court issued a shocking (and thoughtful) ruling on Thursday saying that a non-profit organization cannot get out of paying unemployment taxes just because it happens to be overseen by a religious ministry.
The 4-3 decision (elections matter!) is a remarkable defense of church/state separation—and it infuriated the Christian Nationalists who have come to rely on the courts to do their bidding.
re: #160 JC1
I don’t see how getting votes thrown out would lead to someone not getting 270 EC votes?
Also, GOP court track record with regards to voting cases is something akin to that of the Washington Generals. Not sure why that would change in the next 10 months.
It would take a gret deal of chaos, disruption and outright ratfucking, but these people clearly do not shrink from inciting such acts.
re: #170 JC1
Something’s going on in France. Even LaPen gave a firery speech the other day condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
They don’t have that thing called, called what is it now, oh yeah, an “ocean” between them and Putin.
re: #163 darthstar
The judge provided two options that are satisfactory to him - the only one whose opinion matters here. One is that Wade is dismissed from the case, or the other is that Willis recuses herself and another prosecutor from the DA’s office handles the case.
There’s no concern here. It’s one of those two options.
re: #165 JC1
If he didn’t get a special treatment that few if any other Americans were able to obtain at that time, he probably would have died, and we’d be facing Pence presidency.
re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It would take a gret deal of chaos, disruption and outright ratfucking, but these people clearly do not shrink from inciting such acts.
Anything can happen of course, but I think that this is extremely unlikely. It’s true that they had 4 more years to plan it, but this time around they don’t have the federal government at their disposal.
Father who bought gun for son who killed four people in school found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. More of this please!
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They don’t have that thing called, called what is it now, oh yeah, an “ocean” between them and Putin.
It’ll be a long time before Russia is capable of directly threatening France (short of lobbing nukes).
re: #176 lawhawk
If he didn’t get a special treatment that few if any other Americans were able to obtain at that time, he probably would have died, and we’d be facing Pence presidency.
Pence would have lost in a landslide. He just didn’t inspire MAGA.
re: #180 JC1
Pence would have lost in a landslide. He just didn’t inspire MAGA.
Pence is also one of the few Republicans left who actually respects the rule of law - to the point where he refused his part in the coup, which turned out to be their undoing, in part - and we wouldn’t have had 1/6 or any of the existential angst around a potential re-election attempt.
re: #176 lawhawk
If he didn’t get a special treatment that few if any other Americans were able to obtain at that time, he probably would have died, and we’d be facing Pence presidency.
This is something I think about a lot. Is Trump bad in a very special way, or just as bad as other MAGA?
To me, there is a continuum of awfulness. Sure, Clarence Thomas is scum, and so is John Roberts. But Roberts is not the same. Thomas is just in a different sphere of corruption and sickness. Likewise, Mike Pence is a religious freak. But he didn’t try to stage a coup and isn’t running around looking to stage a massive retribution against his enemies.
They are both awful, but Mike Pence is preferable to Trump.
The only thing that saved us from DJT was a guy he calls “me”…his cluelessness on how to get things done in Washington and inability to appoint and retain the right people kept him from doing a lot worse damage than he might’ve otherwise
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The only thing that saved us from DJT was a guy he calls “me”…his cluelessness on how to get things done in Washington and inability to appoint and retain the right people kept him from doing a lot worse damage than he might’ve otherwise
Yep. I’m amazed that he didn’t do more damage. We were saved by his incompetence.
re: #74 Teukka
Nah, ‘pooter issues. Question is whether cybercrime or an update that bricked shit.
While traveling this weekend I stopped at a McDs.
Ordering was done via kisok only, but it issued no receipt or order number. There were other customers waiting for their orders, and we had to use process of elimination to sort out which order was which customer’s.
The McDs staff had no solution for the issue.
re: #182 Unabogie
Pence might have been slightly more competent in his response to covid, and not surrounded himself by completely incompetent freaks and criminals.
The word might is doing a metric shit ton of heavy lifting though, and it’s no guarantee that he’d have done any better given the incompetence he showed as leading the covid task force with Jared.
re: #186 lawhawk
Pence might have been slightly more competent in his response to covid, and not surrounded himself by completely incompetent freaks and criminals.
The word might is doing a metric shit ton of heavy lifting though, and it’s no guarantee that he’d have done any better given the incompetence he showed as leading the covid task force with Jared.
Let’s go back even further. Recall, this is the same Mike Pence who allowed an AIDS epidemic to blossom in Indiana because he wanted to punish homosexuals for their sins against God. There’s every chance that he would have intentionally botched the COVID response, much like Trump did, because he liked the direction it was going or believed it was God’s judgment on a sinful nation.
re: #170 JC1
Something’s going on in France. Even LaPen gave a firery speech the other day condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
They’re still pissed off about 1812???
re: #97 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Mee to.
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re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He will certainly lose the popular vote and most likely the EC vote, which is why the RNC “Election Integrity Committees” being formed now are going to try to get enough votes thrown out so that neither side gets an EC majority, which sends the election to the House delegtions, where they will win, fairly and Constitutionally.
Nothing fair about it if they prevent legitimate votes from being counted. There will be blood if that actually happens. They assume that we would meekly accept such a situation when, instead, such an action is likely to trigger widespread violence and the end of our nation.
re: #57 JC1
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re: #98 Targetpractice
Just a little FYI, but if you’re not a high-ranking member in the hotel chain’s loyalty program or such good buddies with the manager that they’ve left explicit instructions to do everything short of blow you…you’re not a “preferred guest.”
Same applies to most businesses in the service industry, anybody who fails to meet that criteria can only rise as high as “asshole we tolerate because you’re a steady source of income.” And no, that does not entitle you to special treatment, it just means I have to put a little extra effort into the fake smile.
I find that being pleasant to the hotel desk staff works wonders. (In some of the hotels I stay in regularly, the cleaning staff love me because I tip reliably and well.) As Benjamin Franklin said, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
re: #192 Hecuba’s daughter
Nothing fair about it if they prevent legitimate votes from being counted. There will be blood if that actually happens. They assume that we would meekly accept such a situation when, instead, such an action is likely to trigger widespread violence and the end of our nation.
I meant “fair” in the entire figurative sense, but there is a lot they can do to contest, fold, spindle, mutilate or outright kidnap the voter results. They would have to knock out several big states, CA, TX, NY, IL, etc, plus a number of smaller ones, just enough to ensure that neiter side gets 270.
And we have already seen that they do not shrink from violence if that is what they think they need to prevail.
re: #190 Joe Bacon ✅
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re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
More like 1814 when Cossacks occupied Paris.
That would do it….
re: #88 Decatur Deb
“Morning, all. Happy Saint Lithotripsy Day.
Not pleasant the one time I had the procedure.
re: #89 Teukka
Speaking of which… “Et tu, Brute?”
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re: #96 Nerdy Fish
It’s a start to a day.
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Tfg 180s on social security
On breitbart of all places.
Of course he’s lying and he didn’t apologize for any “error”
He just said the opposite of what he said last week
re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I meant “fair” in the entire figurative sense, but there is a lot they can do to contest, fold, spindle, mutilate or outright kidnap the voter results. They would have to knock out several big states, CA, TX, NY, IL, etc, plus a number of smaller ones, just enough to ensure that neither side gets 270.
Maybe not the best example: CA, NY and IL are all fairly “blue” states where the Biden-Harris ticket is almost certainly going to win, and whose Governors/Legislatures aren’t going to be minded to do anything but properly confirm the election results and certify a correct slate of Electors.
Texas, of course, is another matter: I can quite easily imagine, given the Republican stranglehold on state government, that they are going to certify and send in a slate of Trump Electors regardless of the results at the polls. An enormous “fuck you” to democracy if they do, but it’s the state run by the likes of Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton, what can one expect?
IMO, the problem will be (as it usually is) in some of the “swing” states (?? WI, MI, NC, AZ, NV??) where the Govs/Lege might be prone to buy into Trumpian election fuckery: though - on a vaguely positive note -, if they try (like last time) to go through the courts, said courts are likely to swat down most, if not all, of the more obvious bullshit - like last time.
Last month, it was reported that the Voyager-1 spacecraft, now 15 billion miles from Earth, had stopped sending its normal stream of data due to some on-board computer glitch. Engineers at JPL kept attempting to recover from the glitch. Apparently, they were somewhat successful earlier this month, receiving a data stream once again, but just not what they were expecting. They have decoded this data stream and believe it to be a dump of the computer’s memory rather than the usual telemetry data. So at least it is still functioning on some level and they’ll continue to try and effect a full recovery.
Somewhat disturbingly, within the data they have received, they discovered a message whereby Voyager is insisting that it meet with “its Creator”. The meaning of this is unknown.
re: #207 Jay C
Maybe not the best example: CA, NY and IL are all fairly “blue” states where the Biden-Harris ticket is almost certainly going to win, and whose Governors/Legislatures aren’t going to be minded to do anything but properly confirm the election results and certify a correct slate of Electors.
Texas, of course, is another matter: I can quite easily imagine, given the Republican stranglehold on state government, that they are going to certify and send in a slate of Trump Electors regardless of the results at the polls. An enormous “fuck you” to democracy if they do, but it’s the state run by the likes of Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton, what can one expect?
IMO, the problem will be (as it usually is) in some of the “swing” states (?? WI, MI, NC, AZ, NV??) where the Govs/Lege might be prone to buy into Trumpian election fuckery: though - on a vaguely positive note -, if they try (like last time) to go through the courts, said courts are likely to swat down most, if not all, of the more obvious bullshit - like last time.
Also the possibility of terrorist acts, bombing ballot boxes and things like that, that would affect the voting in those swing states….
re: #128 Nerdy Fish
Yeah, but he’ll still see this as a win.
No. Because the case remains alive. Didn’t Wade get the job because others did not want to face the constant assault from Trump and his flying monkeys?
re: #209 sizzzzlerz
Last month, it was reported that the Voyager-1 spacecraft, now 15 billion miles from Earth, had stopped sending its normal stream of data due to some on-board computer glitch. Engineers at JPL kept attempting to recover from the glitch. Apparently, they were somewhat successful earlier this month, receiving a data stream once again, but just not what they were expecting. They have decoded this data stream and believe it to be a dump of the computer’s memory rather than the usual telemetry data. So at least it is still functioning on some level and they’ll continue to try and effect a full recovery.
Somewhat disturbingly, within the data they have received, they discovered a message whereby Voyager is insisting that it meet with “its Creator”. The meaning of this is unknown.
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If it starts singing “Daisy”….
somewhere in texas, the owner of an adult video store flips a dusty “closed” sign to “open” and feels hope for the first time in years
re: #211 Hecuba’s daughter
No. Because the case remains alive. Didn’t Wade get the job because others did not want to face the constant assault from Trump and his flying monkeys?
Trump’s attorneys may not see this as a win, but he will take the fact that the judge was hard on Willis and her poor life choices as a win. Trust me, I’m waiting for the celebratory Truth post.
alt txt: At the Mexican CMDX, a concrete replica of an Olmec head fell off the crane and crushed a Tesla parked in an alley. The Olmec head, which is about 7’ tall is facing the camera; the crushed Telsa is a metallic deep blue, and there’s lots of broken safety glass. It’s on palm fronts and some gravel, with a brick wall in the background to the right. Behind it, there’s some obscured graffiti in Spanish.
bsky.app
re: #179 JC1
It’ll be a long time before Russia is capable of directly threatening France (short of lobbing nukes).
Though Russia messing with NATO and the eastern side of the EU will cause sufficient economic chaos to greatly affect France well before Russian military forces appear on the French border or in their air space.
re: #207 Jay C
IMO, the problem will be (as it usually is) in some of the “swing” states (?? WI, MI, NC, AZ, NV??) where the Govs/Lege might be prone to buy into Trumpian election fuckery: though - on a vaguely positive note -, if they try (like last time) to go through the courts, said courts are likely to swat down most, if not all, of the more obvious bullshit - like last time.
There’s at least some reason for hope on most of those fronts this time, though: AZ, for instance, has Dem leadership now as governor and secretary of state. Wisconsin finally turned its state supreme court around and its Republican leadership in the statehouse is in disarray. Michigan and Nevada are in safe D hands this cycle.
It doesn’t mean there won’t be attempts at ratfuckery, but at least they won’t have inside support at the top level in those states.
The worst of the secretaries of state right now, IMO, are in Kansas and Indiana, and if we get to the point where we’re winning those states, we’ve already won the 270 we need elsewhere and are in pretty good overall shape no matter what the Kobachs try to do.
re: #202 Dangerman
We spent the eqwuivalent of $40,000 per resident trying in vain to stabilize Afghanistan. For that money, we could’ve built every family a new house, a car and paid for an education for their families…
re: #185 BeenHereAwhile
While traveling this weekend I stopped at a McDs.
Ordering was done via kisok only, but it issued no receipt or order number. There were other customers waiting for their orders, and we had to use process of elimination to sort out which order was which customer’s.
The McDs staff had no solution for the issue.
Have not been in a McD in a few years at this point. But it sounds like they’ve automated themselves into giving worse and much more impersonal service. The latter being a bit of a challenge for fast food given the low bar already there.
And I doubt they are saving themselves that much money* since the kiosks and other automation need to be maintained, programmed, and updated. Especially when corporate rolls out whatever new program or special they have come up with in an attempt to bring in more business.
* - Though I presume a lot of those costs are simply dumped on the franchisee as part of being a McD.
I long ago stopped looking on McD as food, when we had young kids, it was a behavioral modification tool: “If you are good, we’ll go to McDonald’s afterwards!” and now it is just hamburger-flavored hunger suppressant when I am in a big big hurry.
re: #212 Dangerman
Oh, we’re going to start watching the direction of VYGR shift and change in size and signal, followed by a vastly more powerful signal coming than would otherwise be expected from a roughly 50 year old spacecraft. Within short order, satellites within the Solar System start disappearing - vaporized, and the imagery returned to earth shows a giant cloud of energy and uncertain mass moving at high speed towards Earth.
re: #182 Unabogie
They are both awful, but Mike Pence is preferable to Trump
Which is why trumpworld would have nothing to do with him.
Rough start to the day for Ronny. pic.twitter.com/dYMP2Qfwmp
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 15, 2024
re: #226 Eclectic Cyborg
The proper response should be… suck it Trebek.
Ronny’s gotten so high on his own supply that he can’t and wont ever understand that the judge was overly deferential to the seditious treasonweasels standing trial for trying to overthrow the government and invalidate the election results in GA.
The judge could have stated that this was not a conflict at all, and nothing here represents a conflict of interests with the defendants - as who the prosecutor hires has no bearing on the defendant’s rights to defend against the charges.
Rather, the judge indicated the prosecutors have a choice of either dumping the special prosecutor - Wade, or the DA can recuse herself. But the case continues.
Looks like spring, but it’s really a sign of the end of winter.
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re: #227 lawhawk
It fits and feeds the narrative that this is all a contrived witch hunt.
re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It fits and feeds the narrative that this is all a contrived witch hunt.
There is no narrative unless people keep saying there is one.
re: #232 Belafon
There is no narrative unless people keep saying there is one.
It is all they have to counter the overwhelming weight of evidence. That and claims of Presidential immunity
re: #218 ipsos
There’s at least some reason for hope on most of those fronts this time, though: AZ, for instance, has Dem leadership now as governor and secretary of state. Wisconsin finally turned its state supreme court around and its Republican leadership in the statehouse is in disarray. Michigan and Nevada are in safe D hands this cycle.
It doesn’t mean there won’t be attempts at ratfuckery, but at least they won’t have inside support at the top level in those states.
The worst of the secretaries of state right now, IMO, are in Kansas and Indiana, and if we get to the point where we’re winning those states, we’ve already won the 270 we need elsewhere and are in pretty good overall shape no matter what the Kobachs try to do.
You’re right: FWIW* I think a lot of the potential problems with attempted election theft by (Republican) states is self-correcting - as you point out, some of the “swing” states have D Governors with R Leges - so the odds in favor of election-fuckery succeeding go down.
I was thinking more of a state like Ohio: where the Lege is wildly gerrymandered (with a GOP Gov): I can easily imagine the Biden-Harris ticket pulling out a narrow victory statewide, but the R statehouse** balking at certifying it on some bullshit grounds or other, and OH’s EVs suddenly getting up in the air….
Texas, though? I just don’t think the state power structure will EVER acquiesce in ANY Democratic victory on a statewide level EVER - the will of the electorate very much notwithstanding.
*probably not
**not just legislators, but election officials like the SoS, etc.
re: #224 lawhawk
Oh, we’re going to start watching the direction of VYGR shift and change in size and signal, followed by a vastly more powerful signal coming than would otherwise be expected from a roughly 50 year old spacecraft. Within short order, satellites within the Solar System start disappearing - vaporized, and the imagery returned to earth shows a giant cloud of energy and uncertain mass moving at high speed towards Earth.
“I have made Pluto back into a planet. Pray I do not alter our agreement any further.
And I’d sleep with my eyes open if I were you, DeGrasse-Tyson.”
re: #227 lawhawk
The proper response should be… suck it Trebek.
Ronny’s gotten so high on his own supply that he can’t and wont ever understand that the judge was overly deferential to the seditious treasonweasels standing trial for trying to overthrow the government and invalidate the election results in GA.
The judge could have stated that this was not a conflict at all, and nothing here represents a conflict of interests with the defendants - as who the prosecutor hires has no bearing on the defendant’s rights to defend against the charges.
Rather, the judge indicated the prosecutors have a choice of either dumping the special prosecutor - Wade, or the DA can recuse herself. But the case continues.
Some would call it - fixing the record to forestall appeal on that issue.
re: #224 lawhawk
I’d still rather have BK.
re: #84 Teukka
Looking at the logo on the bricked machine, it’s a thin client manufacturer, so, in no order of likelihood, compromised manufacturer server update keys, compromised McD or McD IT supplier update/server keys, DDoS / Malware on McD or McD IT supplier infrastructure, DDoS / Malware on manufacturer infrastructure.
Or a change was pushed out that caused problems. We can’t eliminate the possibility that it was an internal fuckup.
re: #239 mmmirele
Or a change was pushed out that caused problems. We can’t eliminate the possibility that it was an internal fuckup.
Easily the most likely scenario. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
re: #209 sizzzzlerz
Voyager is its dead name. It’s V-ger.
re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Who won?
They’re breaking down the tributes at Navalny’s grave…
re: #239 mmmirele
Or a change was pushed out that caused problems. We can’t eliminate the possibility that it was an internal fuckup.
Yeah, forgot to write that, update that went sideways.
re: #226 Eclectic Cyborg
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re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They’re still counting.
re: #215 jeffreyw
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bsky.app
Well, It may still need some work but seems like a possible path for breaking the glass of a Tesla so someone can escape.
re: #250 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
They go well with a Caesarian salad…
re: #249 silverdolphin
Well, It may still need some work but seems like a possible path for breaking the glass of a Tesla so someone can escape.
A baseball-sized Olmec head, carried by each person in a Tesla. Maybe with a whippy handle. Not convenient, but it’s safety equipment!
re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They go well with a Caesarian salad…
Oh, cut it out, now.
/
re: #215 jeffreyw
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bsky.app
re: #252 wrenchwench
A baseball-sized Olmec head, carried by each person in a Tesla. Maybe with a whippy handle. Not convenient, but it’s safety equipment!
Henry “Indiana” Jones, Jr., was unavailable for comment.
re: #249 silverdolphin
They have double-pane side windows now to cut down on noise. I’d rather have the noise and ability to escape though.
re: #259 Teukka
Putin. With 146% of the votes.
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And yeah, this election season is on fire 🔥
Another fire at a Russian polling station in today’s presidential “election” where some are clearly angry with #Putin’s regime pic.twitter.com/m0kIqgYn5q
— Robyn Dixon (@RobynDixon__) March 15, 2024
re: #215 jeffreyw
Olmec head in an alley at dawn
with the lorries rollin’ by,
re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Road Head
um, erm.
i think that term is already taken
re: #261 Randall Gross
Olmec head in an alley at dawn
with the lorries rollin’ by,
blue Tesla sinking with the weight of the load, and the buildings scrape the sky…
re: #266 Teukka
Gets me:
Hmm…this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.
I have no acct. there…
re: #265 Randall Gross
blue Tesla sinking with the weight of the load, and the buildings scrape the sky…
Olmec Donald had a farm…
re: #271 Teukka
“Ken Paxton plays whack-a-mole with Texas chicken-choker sites”…
Just bought tickets to see Dweezil Zappa, he is starting his new tour in Phoenix on August 1. This tour is the Rox(postroph)Y tour, with selections from Apostrophe and Roxy and Elsewhere albums.
Woo!
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