You Expect Me To Believe That?!? (Ft. Tim Robinson)

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505 comments
1
Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 2:52:11pm

Uh, I’ll stick with my doctor team at Kaiser who actually know something about medicine unlike this FAUX Bullshitter!

‘Maybe I’m showing my ignorance’: Fox News host doubts cancer unless Kate loses hair

Rachel Campos-Duffy doubts Kate Middleton

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2024 • 2:53:23pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon ✅

She does realize that cancer patients only lose their hair because of radiotherapy, right? It’s not actually a side effect of cancer? Ugh… Never mind, she’s a Faux News bimbo, of course she doesn’t know.

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2024 • 2:57:27pm

re: #2 Nerdy Fish

She does realize that cancer patients only lose their hair because of radiotherapy, right? It’s not actually a side effect of cancer? Ugh… Never mind, she’s a Faux News bimbo, of course she doesn’t know.

and of course there’s only one kind of cancer
there’s only one treatment and everybody gets it
and everyone reacts exactly the same way every time
with exactly the same side effects (you know - all of them, Katie)

idiots

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 2:59:30pm

Why am I not surprised…

Bad Fox Graphics Xitter post

Bad Fox Graphics Xitter post

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 3:02:56pm

And here we go again with hail in Monrovia…

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2024 • 3:06:23pm

re: #5 Joe Bacon ✅

And here we go again with hail in Monrovia…

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The wet heavy snow hasn’t really kicked in yet; the road is clear, the driveway mostly so. I’m just finishing up smoking a leg of lamb for a late dinner, and then I’m going to pack it all up and wait for the snowpocalypse.

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TedStriker  Mar 24, 2024 • 3:25:38pm

Charles rated a post over on Reddit’s WhitePeopleTwitter:

reddit.com

Reactions are almost entirely agreeable.

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 3:31:42pm

David Lat wrote about 2 clerks that resigned from jobs with Aileen Cannon.

Kerr Xitter post

David Lat Substack article

The New Republic article about David Lat’s Substack: Why Did Two of Judge Aileen Cannon’s Law Clerks Suddenly Quit?

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 3:41:36pm

re: #6 Nerdy Fish

The wet heavy snow hasn’t really kicked in yet; the road is clear, the driveway mostly so. I’m just finishing up smoking a leg of lamb for a late dinner, and then I’m going to pack it all up and wait for the snowpocalypse.

I’ll probably regret it in July, August, and September, but it’s times like these that I am glad I in the South.

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TedStriker  Mar 24, 2024 • 3:53:42pm

re: #8 ckkatz

David Lat wrote about 2 clerks that resigned from jobs with Aileen Cannon.

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Kerr Xitter post

David Lat Substack article

The New Republic article about David Lat’s Substack: Why Did Two of Judge Aileen Cannon’s Law Clerks Suddenly Quit?

Aileen Cannon’s a partisan hack, film at 11.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 3:54:19pm

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gwangung  Mar 24, 2024 • 3:58:10pm

re: #8 ckkatz

David Lat wrote about 2 clerks that resigned from jobs with Aileen Cannon.

[Embedded content]

Kerr Xitter post

David Lat Substack article

The New Republic article about David Lat’s Substack: Why Did Two of Judge Aileen Cannon’s Law Clerks Suddenly Quit?

Totally in over her head and has no clue how to dig herself out. And not likely to be replaced.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:01:28pm

Putin showing off patsies for the theater attack while the real perpetrators got away.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:01:30pm

Why do Chick-fil-A ads run on Sundays?

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:03:28pm

re: #14 Belafon

Why do Chick-fil-A ads run on Sundays?

To get to the other side, of course.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:03:31pm

re: #14 Belafon

Why do Chick-fil-A ads run on Sundays?

To get you ready for the lines around the block tomorrow morning. (Yes, this actually happens in my hood)

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:05:07pm

re: #13 GlutenFreeJesus

I was wondering about that. How can we trust Putin’s claims that they’ve arrested the actual terrorists? We can’t.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:05:35pm

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:06:29pm

re: #16 Ace Rothstein

To get you ready for the lines around the block tomorrow morning. (Yes, this actually happens in my hood)

Because of poor traffic engineering, the lunchtime charge to Chik FA totally screws up several of our businesses, including a huge Sam’s. An expensive rerouting didn’t help.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:07:08pm

re: #17 Patricia Kayden

There’s no way ISIS would allow themselves to be captured.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:10:43pm

This bird is beginning to pine for the fjords.

Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts
nbcnews.com

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:10:53pm

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:11:24pm

re: #13 GlutenFreeJesus

The video of the guy on the left seems to show him still badly concussed from the beating(s) that he received.

The guy on the right is the one who the Russian police cut the ear from and shoved it in his mouth. And then posted the video. The Russian who did it appeared to be wearing either a Sonnenrad/Schwarze Sonne patch (Neo-Nazi Black Sun Wheel) or a Kolovrat (Neo-pagan Slavic Nativist equivalent).

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:12:36pm

re: #19 Decatur Deb

Because of poor traffic engineering, the lunchtime charge to Chik FA totally screws up several of our businesses, including a huge Sam’s. An expensive rerouting didn’t help.

We have something like that where I live, we have a Chick-Fil-A, Five Guys, a Chinese Buffet, a Moes Southwest and a Starbucks all at the same end of a shopping plaza.

The end with the fewest parking spots. 🙄

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:12:45pm

re: #23 ckkatz

And I want to know. Are blue/white adidas track suits standard issue for prisoners in Russia?

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:14:17pm

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:14:47pm

Accusing Fox News of misidentifying the women sending Trump into conniptions is ATTORNEYIST!

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:15:29pm

re: #8 ckkatz

Who could have predicted that a Trump-supporting judge is a mean girl.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:15:43pm

re: #23 ckkatz

So they were pretty much tortured into submission and thus are most likely not the terrorists responsible for the theater attack. Huge sigh.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:15:57pm

re: #21 Decatur Deb

This bird is beginning to pine for the fjords.

Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts
nbcnews.com

The bird needs to be consumed by a predator…which would be ironic as many of its current users qualify as such.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:16:49pm

re: #28 jaunte

Who could have predicted that a Trump-supporting judge is a mean girl.

“Stop trying to make fetch happen, Aileen. It isn’t happening.”

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retired cynic  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:16:53pm

re: #12 gwangung

Totally in over her head and has no clue how to dig herself out. And not likely to be replaced.

I recommend Episode 67 of It’s Complicated, with Asha Rangappa and Renato Mariotti. I listen every week, but there was especially good stuff this week. They go into how off the wall The Loose Cannon’s latest papers are, and it also goes into the details of how hard it would be for Trump to get bonding. For something like this, the bonder (is that a word?) might charge 200% for the expenses and trouble of having to execute the bond. So, that means about a billion! No wonder he is screaming!

It’s Complicated Ep. 67 | Does Cannon Know What She’s Doing? | Renato Mariotti & Asha Rangappa -

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:17:24pm

re: #29 Patricia Kayden

Bingo. Wouldn’t be surprised if the actual guys appear on video in a few days once they’re safely out of Russia.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:17:39pm

re: #31 Nerdy Fish

“Stop trying to make the Presidential Records Act relevant here, Aileen. It isn’t happening.”

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:18:22pm

re: #32 retired cynic

“For something like this, the bonder (is that a word?)”

Bondsman.

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retired cynic  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:19:31pm

re: #35 Ace Rothstein

Thank you!

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:21:01pm

re: #29 Patricia Kayden

So they were pretty much tortured into submission and thus are most likely not the terrorists responsible for the theater attack. Huge sigh.

I suspect that we will never really know. But it is likely that these folks are going to be sentenced and punished for doing it.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:21:48pm

re: #36 retired cynic

Thank you!

Avec plaisir.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:22:08pm

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:23:20pm

re: #39 Patricia Kayden

He is absolutely correct. The R’s must be defeated.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:26:12pm

re: #12 gwangung

I hope Cannon is replaced. I assume Jack Smith can file a motion to have her removed if she stays on the same track.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:27:51pm

re: #41 Patricia Kayden

I hope Cannon is replaced. I assume Jack Smith can file a motion to have her removed if she stays on the same track.

She’s fucking nuts.

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Charles  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:29:40pm

Don’t lecture me, bro-skies, but yes, I’m aware that the term “woke” has been around for a long time. I believe I first heard it with the George Duke band.

I was referring to the pretense that “wokeness” is some sort of “far left” political philosophy. Everybody knows what they’re really talking about.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:32:21pm

re: #10 TedStriker

Aileen Cannon’s a partisan hack, film at 11.

///

Worse. She’s a know little partisan who will negatively affect her law clerks futures.

THAT is that judges death knell.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:32:21pm

Gulf coast alert:


weather.com
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:32:25pm

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:32:58pm

Possibly the best-looking slug ever.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:33:24pm

Spent an hour or so lounging about and soaking up to my neck in the pool, which according to the thermometer in it is set at a balmy 85 degrees. Outside temp is 74.

Going to repeat this exercise for the next four days…maybe sneak in an hour on Friday before we drive up the coast.

Decided up front that I would have no expectations this trip…but not like the song…now that I’m back I’m definitely passing by this way again…and again.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:34:07pm

re: #45 jaunte

My son was talking about those the other day, about why they are that color: it has to do with looking like the blue water from below them.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:35:21pm

re: #49 Belafon

My son was talking abiut those the other day, about why they are that color: it has to do with looking like the blue water from below them.

They’re perfectly fine if you soak them in lye before you eat them.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:36:00pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:36:57pm
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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:37:01pm

re: #51 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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What the ever-loving fuck is that picture. She looks like a 60-year-old hooker.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:37:26pm

re: #51 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I know someone’s working on it, but those AI photos are still scary.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:37:47pm

re: #42 Ace Rothstein

She’s fucking nuts.

The article basically claimed that the underlying problem is that she is in over her head. Random assignment of cases does not work out well when a complicated case is assigned to a very inexperienced judge. The author asserted it isn’t that she’s biased but more that she doesn’t know what she’s doing. The ABA evaluation ranked her as qualified for the position. It seems that there should be some weighting of experience in determining who should be assigned a case.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:38:14pm

re: #45 jaunte

I wouldn’t touch it because I’m terrified of slugs but it’s beautiful and blue is my favorite color. I can see how someone would be tempted to pick it up.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:38:27pm

I suspect a lot of you know this about caramelizing onions, but for the rest of us:

I first learned this tip from Cooks Illustrated, and have been using it regularly since. Typically, you start with a pan, then add butter or oil and your onions and sauté on low heat until they start to cook down, stirring constantly. In this method, you add the onions to a skillet (preferably nonstick) with a little oil and salt and notably, water. About 1/2 cup is good for a big batch of onions. Once the water is boiling or close to it, put a lid on the pan so the onions can steam.

This essentially massively speeds up the process of wilting the onions, which can be the first 15-20 minutes of the sautéing process. And what’s more, the water at the bottom becomes infused with all the sugary onion juices, distributing those sugars evenly through the onions. The resulting onions are softened in a matter of minutes, leading to caramelized onions in a few more.

allrecipes.com

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:39:10pm

re: #56 Patricia Kayden

They look like they’re smaller than a dime; easy to walk on barefooted.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:39:23pm

re: #53 Nerdy Fish

What the ever-loving fuck is that picture. She looks like a 60-year-old hooker.

She looks like she was going for Elvira, and missed by a wide margin

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:39:29pm

re: #51 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

This is the full photo which is even weirder imho.

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Charles  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:40:01pm

re: #60 Patricia Kayden

ohmagerd

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:40:44pm

re: #60 Patricia Kayden

That stage looks familiar.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:41:09pm

re: #61 Charles

It looks like he’s trying to auction her off.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:42:01pm

re: #51 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Hatred and Ozempic don’t mix.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:45:15pm

Damn Frigate birds. I love watching them soar above me for hours without flapping their wings…and when one glides by my balcony and I go to take a picture of it what does it do? It flaps.

Image from the web:

Image from my failed attempt to catch it in glide mode:

Pelicans are gliding just fine.

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Jay C  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:47:16pm

re: #63 Patricia Kayden

It looks like he’s trying to auction her off.

And NOT getting any bids….

No wonder

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:49:34pm

re: #60 Patricia Kayden

This is the full photo which is even weirder imho.

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She looked so much better when she was married to a liberal.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:49:40pm

re: #60 Patricia Kayden

Someone looks like a washed up porn star.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:53:08pm

re: #53 Nerdy Fish

What the ever-loving fuck is that picture. She looks like a 60-year-old hooker.

Don’t say bad things about Steve Tyler!

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:53:23pm

re: #68 Joe Bacon ✅

Someone looks like a washed up porn star.

Have you ever seen her dance? It’s fucking gross.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:55:45pm

re: #69 darthstar

Don’t say bad things about Steve Tyler!

Isn’t Tyler like 90?

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:55:58pm

re: #68 Joe Bacon ✅

Someone looks like a washed up porn star.

re: #60 Patricia Kayden

This is the full photo which is even weirder imho.

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She’s a mess.

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Unabogie  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:57:28pm

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

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Charles  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:58:09pm

Kimberley Guilfoyle has spent her life working her way up almost to the position of first lady, but somehow it just doesn’t look like it’s brought her happiness.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:58:19pm

re: #63 Patricia Kayden

It looks like he’s trying to auction her off.

Do I hear $454,000,000? No, $400,000,000? No? Half a pack of Marlboros and some loose change?

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:58:45pm

re: #74 Charles

Kimberley Guilfoyle has spent her life working her way up almost to the position of first lady, but somehow it just doesn’t look like it’s brought her happiness.

She should take some fashion tips from Casey DeSantis.

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Unabogie  Mar 24, 2024 • 4:59:17pm

re: #62 jaunte

That stage looks familiar.

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I hope Jack Smith uses this photo at the trial, should it ever come to pass in Crazy Cannon’s Court.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this is where the nuclear secrets sat in boxes. Here is the defendant in that same ballroom, selling off his son’s girlfriend to the Saudis to pay his bond in New York.”

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:00:17pm

re: #74 Charles

Kimberley Guilfoyle has spent her life working her way up almost to the position of first lady, but somehow it just doesn’t look like it’s brought her happiness.

She looks as though she died years ago, her body just hasn’t gotten the memo.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:01:22pm

Okay - enough fun trashing trash…lord knows we’ll probably end up reading about her on page A-19 in a few months.

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:01:23pm

re: #60 Patricia Kayden

This is the full photo which is even weirder imho.

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Never go the full Pamela Geller.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:02:48pm

re: #80 A Three Hour Tour

Never go the full Pamela Geller.

Is she still dating Breitbart?

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:04:01pm

Hadn’t seen this picture until today. Younger daughter with her maternal grandmother at Graceland, 2013. Grandma died a few months later, on the same day as my stepmother in fact.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:05:10pm

re: #74 Charles

Kimberley Guilfoyle has spent her life working her way up almost to the position of first lady, but somehow it just doesn’t look like it’s brought her happiness.

Bad Elvira.

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Charles  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:05:34pm

BTW, that photo was cropped to remove a skeevy looking dude.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:05:55pm

heh…

Mastodon

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:07:28pm

re: #84 Charles

BTW, that photo was cropped to remove a skeevy looking dude.

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She can smell his pheromones and Axe body spray and it’s making her want to retch.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:07:40pm

re: #84 Charles

What are those hats on the stage?

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:08:16pm

re: #86 darthstar

She can smell his pheromones and Axe body spray and it’s making her want to retch.

And Trump’s diaper.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:12:28pm

re: #75 darthstar

Do I hear $454,000,000? No, $400,000,000? No? Half a pack of Marlboros and some loose change?

Nope. Not even for a book filled with Green Stamps.

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:14:39pm

re: #45 jaunte

Gulf coast alert:

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weather.com

What if there was some sea creature (or Australian land creature) that exudes a venom that gets you high. An overdose can kill, but non-lethal bites give you a lovely high. Would you lick this creature or provoke it into biting you?

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Charles  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:14:46pm

re: #87 Ace Rothstein

What are those hats on the stage?

I’m not sure exactly when this happened. Google image search is not very helpful.

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Charles  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:17:08pm

As far as I can tell it just appeared today, and it’s not aye-eye.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:18:13pm

re: #61 Charles

ohmagerd

Is that image real?

Shown: Damaged people.

On full display is what happens when someone has sold their soul for money and did not appreciate that life is about time and that time’s value is centered on with whom we spend it.

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steve_davis  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:18:17pm

re: #60 Patricia Kayden

This is the full photo which is even weirder imho.

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This is something Dante well understood. There are people walking above whose souls are already burning. She’s a literal husk of a human being there, probably capable of showing some signs of animation when called upon, but otherwise, that’s now who she is.

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:18:37pm

Zeddo Update:

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steve_davis  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:19:44pm

re: #69 darthstar

Don’t say bad things about Steve Tyler!

or Steve Tyler’s now 16 year old wife!

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:19:46pm

re: #84 Charles

Oh wow. Even stranger. She looks miserable and he looks like he’s having fun. I don’t want to speculate any more.

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:20:36pm

re: #84 Charles

BTW, that photo was cropped to remove a skeevy looking dude.

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Kimberly looks older than me, and I am 74!

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:23:29pm

re: #98 Vicious Babushka

Kimberly looks older than me, and I am 74!

And I guarantee you, you are a lot more fun to be around.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:24:05pm

re: #99 Ace Rothstein

And I guarantee you, you are a lot more fun to be around.

Well, yeah. VB still has a soul. Ms. Dead Inside over there sold hers a long time ago.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:26:37pm

The balance on my car is about $18,000 with almost two years to go to paying it off. The interest rate is 1.9%. I have the cash to pay it off and be done with the payment and it wouldn’t hurt me one bit if I did. Should I pay it off now?

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:26:44pm

Truthfully speaking, it looks like she’s been starving herself. The sagging skin on her arms, the gauntness in her cheeks, she seems unhealthy. I’m genuinely wondering if there’s something going on.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:27:02pm

re: #95 Vicious Babushka

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:28:49pm

re: #102 Nerdy Fish

A friend of mine who was at least 60 pounds overweight started on Ozempic. I hadn’t seen her in probably three months, and when I did she lost at least 60 pounds and I thought she looked like she was sick.

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silverdolphin  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:30:19pm

re: #39 Patricia Kayden

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The sooner we destroy the GOP, the faster we get back to living our lives. Break the GOP coalition and do it now. I hitnkit is already happening.

Break the Wall Street/Main Street businessmen off, the ones who care more about rational olicies they can make business decisions about. We are seeing those Nikki whale supporters being wooed by Biden with some real success. I htink a lot of these people will be happy with Dem moderates, as boh have similar fiscal views.

This leaves working class whites/rurals. I think the progressive wing of the Dems could peel these off with things like two years of community college/training to give them the skills they need to compete and with WFH initiaitives to give rurals more than extractive industries.

And no one wants the evangelicals. By completing this, we end up with a broken GOP and a super Democraitic party that will likely break into two new parties — a conservative/moderate and a liberal one.

So I hope. But the first thing is to break the GOP and to do it now.

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BadgerB  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:30:52pm

re: #90 Vicious Babushka

What if there was some sea creature (or Australian land creature) that exudes a venom that gets you high. An overdose can kill, but non-lethal bites give you a lovely high. Would you lick this creature or provoke it into biting you?

Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High
The dolphins’ expert, deliberate handling of the terrorized puffer fish implies that this is not their first time at the hallucinogenic rodeo

smithsonianmag.com

[Note: There seems to be some scientific push back against this info and the original article is from 2013 but since it linked to Smithsonian mag and was a good story I’ll leave it in the thread]

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:31:51pm

re: #101 Ace Rothstein

Yes. Why not? You can use the $$$ for something else or save it. Lucky you. Still owe close to $30,000 on my car. I hate car notes.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:36:53pm

re: #105 silverdolphin

What’s crazy is that while we’re here talking about destroying the GOP, there’s a distinct possibility that my blue state of Maryland will end up electing Republican Larry Hogan to the Senate. I’m pissed.

I’m praying that the woman Democratic candidate who has yet to run even one ad drops out of the race so that David Trone can win. He may not be perfect but he’s a Democrat. Hogan’s win could flip the Senate to the Republicans.

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nines09  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:38:48pm

Live.

instagram.com

Short but sweet Joe Bonamassa.
Gone

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:39:38pm

re: #101 Ace Rothstein

The balance on my car is about $18,000 with almost two years to go to paying it off. The interest rate is 1.9%. I have the cash to pay it off and be done with the payment and it wouldn’t hurt me one bit if I did. Should I pay it off now?

Get that title in your hand!

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BeachDem  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:40:59pm

re: #91 Charles

I’m not sure exactly when this happened. Google image search is not very helpful.

instagram.com

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silverdolphin  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:42:05pm

re: #108 Patricia Kayden

What’s crazy is that while we’re here talking about destroying the GOP, there’s a distinct possibility that my blue state of Maryland will end up election Republican Larry Hogan to the Senate. I’m pissed.

I’m praying that the woman Democratic candidate who has yet to run even one ad drops out of the race so that David Trone can win. He may not be perfect but he’s a Democrat. Hogan’s win could flip the Senate to the Republicans.

Know what you mean. The worst of these transitions can be very traumatic - Civil War, Depression/WW2. Living in the middle of them is horrendous.at the moment we are kinda on the knife edge. What holds me up is that at about this time in 1864, Lincoln was not expected to get the nomination at the convention and was being attacked by multiple candidates. By the convention, however he was the candidate and he did win.

Hope the next 6 months are similar.

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nines09  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:45:08pm

re: #84 Charles

Looks like STD’s on parade.

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Jay C  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:45:13pm

re: #105 silverdolphin

The sooner we destroy the GOP, the faster we get back to living our lives. Break the GOP coalition and do it now. I hitnkit is already happening.

Break the Wall Street/Main Street businessmen off, the ones who care more about rational olicies they can make business decisions about. We are seeing those Nikki whale supporters being wooed by Biden with some real success. I htink a lot of these people will be happy with Dem moderates, as boh have similar fiscal views.

This leaves working class whites/rurals. I think the progressive wing of the Dems could peel these off with things like two years of community college/training to give them the skills they need to compete and with WFH initiaitives to give rurals more than extractive industries.

And no one wants the evangelicals. By completing this, we end up with a broken GOP and a super Democraitic party that will likely break into two new parties — a conservative/moderate and a liberal one.

So I hope. But the first thing is to break the GOP and to do it now.

I tend to disagree somewhat (though I think your basic premise is more-or-less sound): the MAGA “base” is, IMO wider than *just* the hicks and Jesus-jumpers “working-class whites/rurals” and politicized evangelicals: though pretty much all of them reside fixedly in a RW-media bubble. The latter problem is the worse one, in my estimation: we can snark away about “alternative facts/reality”, but on a political level, an awful lot of folks (I.e. voters) live there full-time…

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BigPapa  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:51:27pm

re: #57 Belafon

I learned that a year ago from America’s Test Kitchen and the Asian lady. It was pretty mind blowing. I play around with the technique and it works.

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:52:38pm

re: #68 Joe Bacon ✅

Both are cartoon characters of actual human beings.

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silverdolphin  Mar 24, 2024 • 5:52:48pm

re: #114 Jay C

I tend to disagree somewhat (though I think your basic premise is more-or-less sound): the MAGA “base” is, IMO wider than *just* the hicks and Jesus-jumpers “working-class whites/rurals” and politicized evangelicals: though pretty much all of them reside fixedly in a RW-media bubble. The latter problem is the worse one, in my estimation: we can snark away about “alternative facts/reality”, but on a political level, an awful lot of folks (I.e. voters) live there full-time…

Yeah, I simplified somewhat since my posts can run long. I mainly focussed on those who might be attracted by rational political approaches. We break those off and the GOP loses all at the national level. The question is how many crazies will be left behind. I hope that with the loss of political power they might simply grumble and stay home. I hope.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:00:54pm

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:03:42pm

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:04:02pm

re: #105 silverdolphin

This leaves working class whites/rurals. I think the progressive wing of the Dems could peel these off with things like two years of community college/training to give them the skills they need to compete and with WFH initiaitives to give rurals more than extractive industries.

If we had a working Democratic party here in Texas, they would continually run ads about Abbott promising to destroy public schools with vouchers.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:04:37pm

re: #114 Jay C

I tend to disagree somewhat (though I think your basic premise is more-or-less sound): the MAGA “base” is, IMO wider than *just* the hicks and Jesus-jumpers “working-class whites/rurals” and politicized evangelicals: though pretty much all of them reside fixedly in a RW-media bubble. The latter problem is the worse one, in my estimation: we can snark away about “alternative facts/reality”, but on a political level, an awful lot of folks (I.e. voters) live there full-time…

So many Americans are in an existential crisis, a crisis because modernity in 2024 forces a reevaluation of old beliefs and practices.

People prefer to believe some fantasy, about the America of the past that was better, and so on.

It’s a universal problem, and is at the heart of the ineffective nature of our politics.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:07:49pm

re: #118 Patricia Kayden

I grew up with Reagan, and I never, ever thought I’d live to see the day where Republicans supported Russia. Never.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:08:35pm

re: #104 Ace Rothstein

A friend of mine who was at least 60 pounds overweight started on Ozempic. I hadn’t seen her in probably three months, and when I did she lost at least 60 pounds and I thought she was sick.

Dr put me first on Victoza 4 months ago that I had to inject daily then I went on Ozempic. So far I am down 5 pounds but the big fall is the a1c into the low 6 range.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:09:00pm

re: #118 Patricia Kayden

As someone mentioned in the replies, would Reagan actually be opposed to today’s Russia?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:12:09pm

re: #119 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

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Yes Popehat.

NBC did have Manimal on it’s schedule along with other clunkers like Supertrain, Presenting Susan Anton, Pink Lady and Jeff, and let’s not forget…

HELLO LARRY!

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Charles  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:13:04pm

Without Reagan there would have been no Trump.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:14:16pm

re: #124 Belafon

They’re not communists any more, just oligarchs. He’d fit right in.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:16:43pm

Grand Canyon trying to pull off the upset of Alabama in the sports ball tournament.

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BeachDem  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:18:17pm

I don’t know who this asshole is (I don’t watch Yellowstone) but he certainly is an asshole

Forrie J. Smith claims he got booted off a plane for being drunk … but he says it’s really because the passenger sitting next to him was wearing a mask.
tmz.com
Where’s the why not both kid?

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:19:53pm

re: #129 BeachDem

I will wear an N95 mask on airplanes for the rest of my life.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:25:01pm

re: #129 BeachDem

He plays one of the senior ranch hands. He’s got a lot of real life ranching experience.

It’s a shame. I kind of like the character.

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Charles  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:26:02pm

That skeevy dude I mentioned above is probably somebody famous I’ve never heard of.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:27:14pm

It’s amazing they don’t realize that being terrified of several square inches of cloth seriously undercuts their whole “Alpha Male” act.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:31:46pm

re: #84 Charles

By the way. I’m waiting for Franky Graham Cracker to denounce the dress she’s wearing just like when he went ballistic when Michelle Obama dared to wear sleeveless dresses.

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Nojay UK  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:33:19pm

re: #101 Ace Rothstein

The balance on my car is about $18,000 with almost two years to go to paying it off. The interest rate is 1.9%. I have the cash to pay it off and be done with the payment and it wouldn’t hurt me one bit if I did. Should I pay it off now?

You can get better interest in a savings account, I think. That 1.9% is way under the current bank lending and saving rates. Here in the UK I’ve got a building society savings account (ObUS: Savings and Loan) that’s paying 5% annual before tax.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:33:38pm

re: #132 Charles

That skeevy dude I mentioned above is probably somebody famous I’ve never heard of.

Maybe Vivek Ramaswamy

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:35:25pm

re: #136 BlueSpotinAL ✅

I think it’s Abraham Hamadeh running R-AZ8. So, yes skeevy.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:37:18pm

re: #137 ckkatz

I think it’s Abraham Hamadeh running R-AZ8. So, yes skeevy.

I think you are right.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:39:18pm

re: #134 Joe Bacon ✅

By the way. I’m waiting for Franky Graham Cracker to denounce the dress she’s wearing just like when he went ballistic when Michelle Obama dared to wear sleeveless dresses.

Did he ever say anything about tits-out Melania?

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Charles  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:39:55pm

re: #137 ckkatz

I think it’s Abraham Hamadeh running R-AZ8. So, yes skeevy.

Yeah, that’s him, all right.

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piratedan  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:42:37pm

re: #140 Charles

same guy that ran for a statewide seat in 2020 and was edged out and joined the rigged stolen election chorus.

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BeachDem  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:44:40pm

re: #130 teleskiguy

I will wear an N95 mask on airplanes for the rest of my life.

Then you’d better not sit next to Forrie😷

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:46:20pm

re: #140 Charles

Yeah, that’s him, all right.

That explains the “ABE” hat behind them on the right.

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retired cynic  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:46:33pm

re: #135 Nojay UK

You can get better interest in a savings account, I think. That 1.9% is way under the current bank lending and saving rates. Here in the UK I’ve got a building society savings account (ObUS: Savings and Loan) that’s paying 5% annual before tax.

When my folks had a very low interest rate on their mortgage, the bank kept trying to get them to pay it off or refinance. My folks just smiled, and played it out the fully 30 years, and used money for other things. Figured that was just like money in the bank, the other ‘way ‘round.

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:48:26pm

re: #142 BeachDem

Then you’d better not sit next to Forrie😷

Or he next to you…

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BeachDem  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:49:35pm

re: #132 Charles

That skeevy dude I mentioned above is probably somebody famous I’ve never heard of.

If you’re talking about the one in the pic with Kimberly, it’s Abe hamedah AZ candidate for the House
ballotpedia.org

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:49:50pm

@BidensWins

BREAKING: President Biden just announced his fundraiser with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton has raised over $10,000,000.

Note to media and pundits. Democrats are fired up to reelect President Biden.

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:53:22pm

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:59:24pm

re: #101 Ace Rothstein

The balance on my car is about $18,000 with almost two years to go to paying it off. The interest rate is 1.9%. I have the cash to pay it off and be done with the payment and it wouldn’t hurt me one bit if I did. Should I pay it off now?

- having cash in the bank and a manageable loan is better than having less cash and no loan
- the last part of a term loan is mostly principal, so the loan has mostly been ‘paid for’ already. this is interest free money.
- already having a loan is better than having to ask for one

if you can afford to pay off the loan, then you dont.
you keep the money and use it to pay the loan each month.

and if something unplanned or unforeseen comes up, you still have that cash available, just in case.

correctly managed debt, like this, is not a vice, or to be feared.

if you don’t have a credit issue (ie need to reduce your outstanding credit to say, better qualify for a mortgage), then there is, imo no benefit to paying of a loan like this early.

one danger’s opinion

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 6:59:57pm

First it’s Tennessee pushing a bill to ban chemtrails.

And now GUESS WHO jumped on the bandwagon to ban them?

Well if you guessed it’s none other that Pennsylvania’s State Senator Masterbateriano…hey you’re right!

The bill proposed by Sen. Doug Mastriano would ban the release of substances affecting the state’s temperature, weather, or sunlight into the atmosphere over Pennsylvania by updating a state law passed in 1967 to regulate amateur efforts to tinker with weather modification.

The law was first inspired by “unauthorized attempts to suppress hail in central Pennsylvania,” requiring anyone who wanted to try cloud seeding to obtain a license first, according to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, which first reported Mastriano’s memo on Friday.

A spokesperson at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture told the newspaper that it had never received a license application and had never investigated unauthorized cloud seeding.

Nevertheless, as Mastriano insisted in a memo to his colleagues this week, “Recent developments and new technology have brought forward the need to modernize the 1967 law.”

thedailybeast.com

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:00:46pm

re: #99 Ace Rothstein

And I guarantee you, you are a lot more fun to be around.

And I have pie!

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:01:24pm

re: #150 Joe Bacon ✅

The bill proposed by Sen. Doug Mastriano would ban the release of substances affecting the state’s temperature, weather, or sunlight into the atmosphere over Pennsylvania by updating a state law passed in 1967 to regulate amateur efforts to tinker with weather modification.

The governor of PA should announce that upon passage, they will sue all car companies and airplane manufacturers for contributing to the increase in temperature.

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Jay C  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:01:25pm

re: #147 Dangerman

@BidensWins

BREAKING: President Biden just announced his fundraiser with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton has raised over $10,000,000.

Note to media and pundits. Democrats are fired up to reelect President Biden.

Not if you read the New York Times….

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:02:17pm

re: #153 Jay C

Not if you read the New York Times….

That’s because the people at the NYT only read the NYT.

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:02:55pm

re: #18 Patricia Kayden

IN A WORLD OF CHAYA RAICHIKS & BEN SHAPIROS, BE A VICIOUS BABUSHKA.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:04:00pm

re: #152 Belafon

The governor of PA should announce that upon passage, he will sue all car companies and airplane manufacturers for contributing to the increase in temperature.

Just waiting for Masterbateriano to tell his followers (which include my brainwashed Jesusbot relatives) to spray vinegar in the air whenever chemtrails appear just like this fool

Woman spraying vinegar at the sky to kill chemtrails

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:06:26pm
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Belafon  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:07:48pm

re: #157 Eclectic Cyborg

Well, Elon, I’m now a little concerned about any ties you might have had with Epstein.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:09:29pm

I’m sorry Democrats figured out that electric cars doesn’t hide your racism, but that’s on you, Elon, not us.

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:10:18pm

Wow when chuck Todd makes a solid point and is the voice of reason, something’s happened

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BeachDem  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:13:11pm

If you’re in the mood for an uplifting story, with British actors you’ll recognize from Years and Years, Bridgerton, etc. plus Def Leppard, I recommend the “Trueish” movie “Bank of Dave.”

It’s short, sweet and entertaining. And they’ve already announced a sequel.

imdb.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:20:37pm

re: #144 retired cynic

When my folks had a very low interest rate on their mortgage, the bank kept trying to get them to pay it off or refinance. My folks just smiled, and played it out the fully 30 years, and used money for other things. Figured that was just like money in the bank, the other ‘way ‘round.

Mortgage interest is deductible. Car loans aren’t in less you’re self employed and use it for the business.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:21:18pm

@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social

meanwhile on the other website

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:25:07pm

re: #163 jaunte

Wow.

One wasn’t enough for Mister Mulligan.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:31:17pm

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:32:16pm

re: #164 Joe Bacon ✅

Wow.

One wasn’t enough for Mister Mulligan.

and here come the pretzels

Same vibe.

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JC1  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:32:42pm

re: #101 Ace Rothstein

The balance on my car is about $18,000 with almost two years to go to paying it off. The interest rate is 1.9%. I have the cash to pay it off and be done with the payment and it wouldn’t hurt me one bit if I did. Should I pay it off now?

No reason to. You can earn more in a money market fund.

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BeachDem  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:36:22pm

re: #163 jaunte

@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social

meanwhile on the other website

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He won it last year without playing the first round. Just took a score from several days before and started the second round with a 5 stroke lead.
Hey, when you’re a star…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:37:06pm

On a different note, here’s a poem I wrote I thought many of you would appreciate.

STARS

I looked to the stars tonight
And all I saw was you.
That time we danced by candlelight.
All the wars we battled through.

That summer night I held your hand
Our first quiet autumn trip.
A hundred things I should have said
That never left my lips.

The little pranks you played on me,
The lame, unfunny jokes.
That goofy hat you used to wear,
When we spent time with your folks.

Ours weren’t always easy lives
There were times of guilt and shame.
But if I ever had the chance
I’d go back there just the same.

I remember how you hugged me so,
I remember your sweet touch.
The moments that we shared together,
How I miss them oh so much.

We were two imperfect people.
“Too different”, some might say.
But we always made it work
Because we wanted things that way.

It was worth every dime and penny.
Worth every bead of sweat.
Worth every little, annoying thing.
Worth it all, and yet…

I never knew what it would feel like
If I didn’t have you here.
To calm my ever racing mind.
To loose me from my fears.

There’s a subtle breeze in the evening air,
A few distant, drifting clouds.
No bright lights distract my gaze,
No busy, noisy crowds.

It’s just me and my thoughts out here,
And a future still untold.
I don’t know where the story goes.
I don’t know what’s down that road.

Things are so much different now,
But I suspect somehow you knew
That when I looked at the stars tonight,
All I saw was you.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:37:07pm

re: #168 BeachDem

He won it last year without playing the first round. Just took a score from several days before and started the second round with a 5 stroke lead.
Hey, when you’re a star…

Was this the one where somebody said Trump picked up somebody else’s ball and threw it into a sand trap?

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immigrant  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:38:43pm

re: #101 Ace Rothstein

We have a car loan with Nissan at 2.99%. It’s way more money efficient to have to service that loan than draw upon savings earning around 5%, even after paying tax.

This is one of many solid savings offers:
cit.com

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:47:13pm

re: #163 jaunte

@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social

meanwhile on the other website

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He’s undefeated at his clubs.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:48:26pm

re: #165 Joe Bacon ✅

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They had cell phones in the 30s?

And why aren’t those of us at LGF walking into the same dictatorship?

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:49:41pm

re: #163 jaunte

@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social

meanwhile on the other website

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And that’s a great slam from Biden. (Why are people talking about Trump and not the Biden team?)

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BeachDem  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:52:55pm

re: #170 Nerdy Fish

Was this the one where somebody said Trump picked up somebody else’s ball and threw it into a sand trap?

That probably could have been any time he played!

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2024 • 7:55:52pm

re: #114 Jay C

I tend to disagree somewhat (though I think your basic premise is more-or-less sound): the MAGA “base” is, IMO wider than *just* the hicks and Jesus-jumpers “working-class whites/rurals” and politicized evangelicals: though pretty much all of them reside fixedly in a RW-media bubble. The latter problem is the worse one, in my estimation: we can snark away about “alternative facts/reality”, but on a political level, an awful lot of folks (I.e. voters) live there full-time…

The ones of my acquaintance are not evangelicals or working-class whites/rurals, but they all reside in the “alternative reality”. Maybe it’s the white supremacy that has them in its hold or the anti-immigrant fervor. But they are all people living comfortably and financially secure. There is one that I have slight hope that maybe can be brought to see the light — he talked to me about how we are faced with two weak candidates. In the past, he seemed to have bought into the Biden crime family nonsense. But most of our conversations are non-political and, given our ages, very health focused.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2024 • 8:10:29pm

re: #149 Dangerman

- having cash in the bank and a manageable loan is better than having less cash and no loan
- the last part of a term loan is mostly principal, so the loan has mostly been ‘paid for’ already. this is interest free money.
- already having a loan is better than having to ask for one

if you can afford to pay off the loan, then you dont.
you keep the money and use it to pay the loan each month.

and if something unplanned or unforeseen comes up, you still have that cash available, just in case.

correctly managed debt, like this, is not a vice, or to be feared.

if you don’t have a credit issue (ie need to reduce your outstanding credit to say, better qualify for a mortgage), then there is, imo no benefit to paying of a loan like this early.

one danger’s opinion

And if you have sufficient money, you can earn 5% on the funds keeping it in the bank while paying 1.9% interest on the loan.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 8:13:52pm

When you go to bed tonight remember that when you wake up Trump will still be fooked.

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2024 • 8:15:06pm

I hate money.

I inherited like $20,000 in the form of guitars.

I play guitar. Don’t get me wrong. But I don’t know what to do with that stuff. I guess sell ‘em off when shit hits the fan for me financially?

I hate money. And I’ve been surrounded by it my whole gotdam life living next to world class skiing.

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silverdolphin  Mar 24, 2024 • 8:15:09pm

USMNT beats Mexico in Leagues Cup 2-0. Great game ruined by the Mexican fans acting like British hooligans. Their homophobic discrimitory chant caused the game to be stopped twice. The fans keep doing this. Hope they get under control before the World Cup.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2024 • 8:16:15pm

re: #169 Eclectic Cyborg

On a different note, here’s a poem I wrote I thought many of you would appreciate.

STARS

I looked to the stars tonight
And all I saw was you.
That time we danced by candlelight.
All the wars we battled through.

That summer night I held your hand
Our first quiet autumn trip.
A hundred things I should have said
That never left my lips.

The little pranks you played on me,
The lame, unfunny jokes.
That goofy hat you used to wear,
When we spent time with your folks.

Ours weren’t always easy lives
There were times of guilt and shame.
But if I ever had the chance
I’d go back there just the same.

I remember how you hugged me so,
I remember your sweet touch.
The moments that we shared together,
How I miss them oh so much.

We were two imperfect people.
“Too different”, some might say.
But we always made it work
Because we wanted things that way.

It was worth every dime and penny.
Worth every bead of sweat.
Worth every little, annoying thing.
Worth it all, and yet…

I never knew what it would feel like
If I didn’t have you here.
To calm my ever racing mind.
To loose me from my fears.

There’s a subtle breeze in the evening air,
A few distant, drifting clouds.
No bright lights distract my gaze,
No busy, noisy crowds.

It’s just me and my thoughts out here,
And a future still untold.
I don’t know where the story goes.
I don’t know what’s down that road.

Things are so much different now,
But I suspect somehow you knew
That when I looked at the stars tonight,
All I saw was you.

Beautiful!!

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2024 • 8:30:24pm

Tx A&M hit buzzer beater to take #1 seed Houston into OT!

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2024 • 8:41:35pm

re: #178 darthstar

When you go to bed tonight remember that when you wake up Trump will still be fooked.

People should remember that even if they had a bad day at the office, or their car battery drained out, or whatever minor calamity befalls them on any given day, that at least when they drift off to sleep at night…

…they don’t owe the state they live in half a billion simoleons.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2024 • 8:48:48pm

re: #170 Nerdy Fish

I think that was in a book about him a few years ago.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 24, 2024 • 8:55:44pm

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 9:02:59pm

re: #183 Dr Lizardo

People should remember that even if they had a bad day at the office, or their car battery drained out, or whatever minor calamity befalls them on any given day, that at least when they drift off to sleep at night…

…they don’t owe the state they live in half a billion simoleons.

I had some less than exceptional frog legs at dinner (still better than what Navarro was served to be sure), but knowing that Trump is fooked makes the fact that they were over cooked less painful. The sunset helped.

Yes, the were drowning in boiling butter. The poor garlic was browned.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 9:10:46pm

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 9:16:54pm

This darkness has got to give.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 9:18:21pm

Great word play… Bedtime for me now.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 9:34:07pm

One last thing and then I’ll go to bed I promise…for those on Facebook, your morning status.

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2024 • 9:34:16pm

re: #189 darthstar

I’m going skiing tomorrow. Foot plus snow totals, maybe two feet. It’s dumping…

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2024 • 9:35:20pm

re: #191 teleskiguy

I’m going skiing tomorrow. Foot plus snow totals, maybe two feet. It’s dumping…

Life is good, and then it dumps and life is better. May all your lines be steep and untouched.

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2024 • 9:38:50pm

It’s water. All this snow up in the Rocky Mountains. Water for 40 million people downriver…

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2024 • 9:39:55pm

re: #186 darthstar

I had some less than exceptional frog legs at dinner (still better than what Navarro was served to be sure), but knowing that Trump is fooked makes the fact that they were over cooked less painful. The sunset helped.

Yes, the were drowning in boiling butter. The poor garlic was browned.

Very nice. The kind of photos taken by someone who knows they don’t have to come up with some $500,000,000 in the next (checks the clock) 11 hours and 20 minutes. 😄

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mmmirele  Mar 24, 2024 • 9:42:19pm

re: #123 Joe Bacon ✅

Dr put me first on Victoza 4 months ago that I had to inject daily then I went on Ozempic. So far I am down 5 pounds but the big fall is the a1c into the low 6 range.

I take Trulicity (lowest dose 0.75 mg). There are doses up to 4.5 mg or 5x what I take now. I did drop about 45 pounds since being on it, but I’ve plateaued and I could probably lose another 30 or 40. I see the doctor tomorrow and I’m wondering whether to ask about it. Thing is, my A1C is in the mid 6s (and would probably be better if I wasn’t so stressed out) and my concern is that if I up the dose, I could be dealing with hypoglycemia, rather than hyperglycemia.

Brother news:

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 9:59:10pm

re: #169 Eclectic Cyborg

Very nice! And very enjoyable!

Thanks for posting it

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:01:52pm

re: #95 Vicious Babushka

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:04:18pm

re: #195 mmmirele

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:11:10pm

re: #186 darthstar

Hey! What you had for dinner sure beat Navarro’s Bean Soup! 😉

But then again I liked how Grandma made her Bean soup from scratch with chicken stock or chicken broth. She chopped a lot of celery, onions and carrots adding them after the chicken broth. She never used a ham hock.

I wish I had Grandma Bacon’s bean soup recipe. Campbell’s or Rao’s don’t come close to how good Gram’s was.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:14:09pm

re: #195 mmmirele

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William Lewis  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:23:32pm

driving to work tonight …

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:24:58pm

Another uneven day for internet, but I’ll get a picture through…

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Captain Ron  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:29:44pm

re: #201 William Lewis

re: #202 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

What a contrast.

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Captain Ron  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:29:52pm
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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:38:28pm

re: #195 mmmirele

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Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:40:36pm

re: #204 Captain Ron

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The rest of world is probably watching this unfold like one watches courtroom videos on YT or TikTok of guys with gold-plated watches and blinged-out street racers trying to convince a judge that while they got the money “right now” to get caught up with their house payments and avoid getting tossed out on the street that they can’t use it because they got bills, they got kids to feed, they got other loans they gotta pay back, and begging the judge to “give me more time.”

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:41:07pm

re: #201 William Lewis

How much snow are you due for this evening? I seem to remember 6-12 inches from the forecast I heard over the weekend.

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William Lewis  Mar 24, 2024 • 10:51:13pm

re: #207 ckkatz

How much snow are you due for this evening? I seem to remember 6-12 inches from the forecast I heard over the weekend.

4 ~ 7” here, more just a bit further north.

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silverdolphin  Mar 24, 2024 • 11:10:07pm

Joe is brilliant. The comments are epic.

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piratedan  Mar 24, 2024 • 11:30:46pm

re: #209 silverdolphin

the persons that handle his social media are incredibly savvy and have an uncanny knack for just the right tone for each response.

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silverdolphin  Mar 24, 2024 • 11:52:19pm

re: #210 piratedan

the persons that handle his social media are incredibly savvy and have an uncanny knack for just the right tone for each response.

They also know the best attack on a narcissist like him is laughter because Trump onl thinks humor is used against people without power so where does that leave him?

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silverdolphin  Mar 24, 2024 • 11:54:28pm

Come on over, the pool is pretty nice

If Murkowski actually can be convinced to caucus with the Dems (I think unlikely) then I’d suspect Collins might also. That would be some coup.

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Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2024 • 11:58:43pm

I like how it’s 2024 and there’s still people saying “Trump would never do that” as though we haven’t watched him repeatedly do stuff they were also confident he’d never do. I’ll call it right now: He’s going to file for bankruptcy to stop James from collecting on the judgement. He’ll be the biggest fucking baby about it and treat every moment as though it is the worst political crime in our nation’s history, BUT he’ll do it because he’s positive that his deal with Beelzebub is still good and some higher court will let him walk free. And before you point out all the details and points of a bankruptcy that he either can’t or won’t abide by, I’ll save you time: It’s just another shell game meant to buy time.

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silverdolphin  Mar 25, 2024 • 12:12:19am

re: #213 Targetpractice

I like how it’s 2024 and there’s still people saying “Trump would never do that” as though we haven’t watched him repeatedly do stuff they were also confident he’d never do. I’ll call it right now: He’s going to file for bankruptcy to stop James from collecting on the judgement. He’ll be the biggest fucking baby about it and treat every moment as though it is the worst political crime in our nation’s history, BUT he’ll do it because he’s positive that his deal with Beelzebub is still good and some higher court will let him walk free. And before you point out all the details and points of a bankruptcy that he either can’t or won’t abide by, I’ll save you time: It’s just another shell game meant to buy time.

I’ve come closer to seeing this as a real possibility. The thing holding me back is what happens if he wins in the end and does not have to pay? Can he undeclare his bankruptcy? What happens to any properties sold in the meantime?

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steve_davis  Mar 25, 2024 • 12:32:56am

re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg

We have something like that where I live, we have a Chick-Fil-A, Five Guys, a Chinese Buffet, a Moes Southwest and a Starbucks all at the same end of a shopping plaza.

The end with the fewest parking spots. 🙄

Everybody has that where they live. I’ve been in traffic jams in other cities where my thought was “I’ll bet there’s a chik fila up here,” and sure enough…”

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2024 • 12:37:38am

re: #214 silverdolphin

I’ve come closer to seeing this as a real possibility. The thing holding me back is what happens if he wins in the end and does not have to pay? Can he undeclare his bankruptcy? What happens to any properties sold in the meantime?

Any money seized or acquired as a result of property sales would be refunded and any property not sold returned to him if the appeals court rules in his favor. But the sales themselves would effectively be final, he couldn’t just call up the people who bought them from the city and demand their return.

His gamble is that the full panel of appellate judges will either drop the bond to $100m or just grant him a stay on the ruling in full, absent which he’s left choosing between bankruptcy or watching his empire picked apart in the belief that he’ll end up winning oodles of political support for being seen as a “victim.” Personally, I think he’ll just declare bankruptcy and try to pretend to his voters that it was done under duress.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2024 • 1:22:49am

re: #213 Targetpractice

I like how it’s 2024 and there’s still people saying “Trump would never do that” as though we haven’t watched him repeatedly do stuff they were also confident he’d never do. I’ll call it right now: He’s going to file for bankruptcy to stop James from collecting on the judgement. He’ll be the biggest fucking baby about it and treat every moment as though it is the worst political crime in our nation’s history, BUT he’ll do it because he’s positive that his deal with Beelzebub is still good and some higher court will let him walk free. And before you point out all the details and points of a bankruptcy that he either can’t or won’t abide by, I’ll save you time: It’s just another shell game meant to buy time.

Why would Trump declare bankruptcy when he just posted on his Hell site that he has the cash on hand to post the bond?//

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2024 • 1:34:54am

re: #217 No Malarkey!

Why would Trump declare bankruptcy when he just posted on his Hell site that he has the cash on hand to post the bond?//

Called that shit, didn’t I? “Oh, I’ve got all this money to campaign on and they’re trying to take it away from me!!!” Everybody was asking why he’d claim to have the money on hand while his lawyers were swearing on a stack of Bibles that he was poor as a church mouse, yet Faux that same night was already starting the “THIS IS ELECTION INTERFERENCE BECAUSE HE NEEDS THAT MONEY TO RUN!!!” talking point.

My prediction is when the appellate court tells him to put up or shut up, he’s gonna squeal even louder that they’re also a part of the “conspiracy” and that’s why he needs the Supreme Court to intervene and save his ass.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2024 • 1:40:03am

re: #218 Targetpractice

Called that shit, didn’t I? “Oh, I’ve got all this money to campaign on and they’re trying to take it away from me!!!” Everybody was asking why he’d claim to have the money on hand while his lawyers were swearing on a stack of Bibles that he was poor as a church mouse, yet Faux that same night was already starting the “THIS IS ELECTION INTERFERENCE BECAUSE HE NEEDS THAT MONEY TO RUN!!!” talking point.

My prediction is when the appellate court tells him to put up or shut up, he’s gonna squeal even louder that they’re also a part of the “conspiracy” and that’s why he needs the Supreme Court to intervene and save his ass.

This is going to be the most bizarre presidential election in American history. Dog help us muddle through without it turning into a complete disaster.

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2024 • 1:46:11am

re: #219 No Malarkey!

This is going to be the most bizarre presidential election in American history. Dog help us muddle through without it turning into a complete disaster.

Yep, a major party candidate who is not only fighting over $600m in civil judgments against him, but is fighting 88 criminal charges (with the possibility of one or more convictions for such) by the time he washes up at his party’s convention. In any other year, he’d have been considered unelectable before the primaries had even started. Yet not only is he still considered a viable candidate, but the party’s leadership and the bulk of its voters are “ride or die.”

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2024 • 2:03:04am

re: #220 Targetpractice

Yep, a major party candidate who is not only fighting over $600m in civil judgments against him, but is fighting 88 criminal charges (with the possibility of one or more convictions for such) by the time he washes up at his party’s convention. In any other year, he’d have been considered unelectable before the primaries had even started. Yet not only is he still considered a viable candidate, but the party’s leadership and the bulk of its voters are “ride or die.”

The EW recording of Trump bragging about sexual assault should have ended his political career eight years ago, and yet somehow it didn’t. Thanks James Comey!

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Decatur Deb  Mar 25, 2024 • 2:50:20am

re: #201 William Lewis

re: #202 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

The individual shots are great—together they are narrative.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:04:06am

re: #33 GlutenFreeJesus

Bingo. Wouldn’t be surprised if the actual guys appear on video in a few days once they’re safely out of Russia.

and back home in Ukraine celebrating in their Zionist/Nazi/Soros terror cell HQ?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:05:24am

re: #212 silverdolphin

Come on over, the pool is pretty nice

If Murkowski actually can be convinced to caucus with the Dems (I think unlikely) then I’d suspect Collins might also. That would be some coup.

I’d be concerned about that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:06:50am

re: #72 darthstar

She’s a mess.

and not even a hot mess

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William Lewis  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:09:57am

re: #224 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’d be concerned about that.

I see what you did there …

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:13:39am

re: #170 Nerdy Fish

Was this the one where somebody said Trump picked up somebody else’s ball and threw it into a sand trap?

That one is an anecdote going back to before 2016. There was an article about Trump’s golf antics that included it. Plus the fact that pros would play with him simply to watch how outrageously he cheated.

I played golf casually in the late 80s and 90s. Lots of public courses with cheap greens fees back then just outside of Pittsburgh. Messing with another player’s golf ball was well outside the decorum of the game.* Even when playing with some people with very competitive personalities.

* - About the only exception to this I ever saw was someone I was playing with knock a ball over into the rough. This was after people behind us on the tee drove balls into our group without yelling “Fore” or essentially giving us time to get clear.

In comparison I once reached a par 5 in two with a really good fairway shot. Yelled “Fore” in case and then when I got to the green apologized to the group ahead who was still putting out. One of them asked me “Was that in two?”. I said “Yes”. He said “No apology required.”

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William Lewis  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:22:35am

A snarky short from youtube 🤣

youtube.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:23:54am

re: #219 No Malarkey!

This is going to be the most bizarre presidential election in American history. Dog help us muddle through without it turning into a complete disaster.

One sign of a functioning democracy vs a failed state is the ability to effect regime change without chaos or bloodshed.

I really hope America passes that test this time around as it got a D- last time.

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:31:29am

re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

One sign of a functioning democracy vs a failed state is the ability to effect regime change without chaos or bloodshed.

I really hope America passes that test this time around as it got a D- last time.

Which was only really a half-step down from 2000s “Oh fuck it, let’s just give it to the Texan with the room-temp IQ, I’m sure he can’t fuck things up too badly in 4 years…”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:34:34am

re: #230 Targetpractice

Which was only really a half-step down from 2000s “Oh fuck it, let’s just give it to the Texan with the room-temp IQ, I’m sure he can’t fuck things up too badly in 4 years…”

At least there was very little in the way of violence or bloodshed (save for the Brooks Brothers Riots)

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Decatur Deb  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:36:21am

re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

At least there was very little in the way of violence or bloodshed (save for the Brooks Brothers Riots)

That was a dress rehearsal for 6 Jan.

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:43:56am

re: #232 Decatur Deb

That was a dress rehearsal for 6 Jan.

In a lot of ways, it was. I’m still of the opinion that Trump’s original plan that day was for a sizable group of counter-protestors to show up that he’d direct the MAGAts anger towards and declare that “they” were the ones that he’d talked about when he spoke of the need to “fight” for the country. The violence would have been limited the grounds outside the Capital Building, he’d have felt comfortable calling in the National Guard while Congress was evacuated, and then had plenty of excuse to lock down the building from reentry until it could be “secured.” Thus while it was up in the air if Congress would have time before midnight to finish the count, the effort to get the SCOTUS bench to weigh in would have had time to make an “emergency appeal.”

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:52:30am

re: Trump and bankruptcy: It is important to note that this judgment cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. The court will bend over backwards to find ways to help him pay, because overall, that is the point; but similar to Steve Carell in The Office, just yelling, “I declare… BANKRUPTCY!!!” is not a magic bullet that solves all your financial problems. He may well file for bankruptcy, but it’s going to be everybody else who owes him money who is going to be screwed over. The State of New York is going to get their due, in this life or the next.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:52:45am

re: #233 Targetpractice

In a lot of ways, it was. I’m still of the opinion that Trump’s original plan that day was for a sizable group of counter-protestors to show up that he’d direct the MAGAts anger towards and declare that “they” were the ones that he’d talked about when he spoke of the need to “fight” for the country. The violence would have been limited the grounds outside the Capital Building, he’d have felt comfortable calling in the National Guard while Congress was evacuated, and then had plenty of excuse to lock down the building from reentry until it could be “secured.” Thus while it was up in the air if Congress would have time before midnight to finish the count, the effort to get the SCOTUS bench to weigh in would have had time to make an “emergency appeal.”

Jan 6 was a sloppy riot in scale, but it was designed to give cover to at least one disciplined, well-planned, paramilitary attack. That’s obvious in the “stack” of uniformed goons pushing up the steps to the breached doors.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 3:54:28am

I trusted my gut, and it worked out.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:02:49am

re: #233 Targetpractice

yes, the absence of Antifa and BLM counter-protesters sounds like it was planned…as part of a cunning plot to let the MAGAs totally fuck things up.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:05:57am

re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Experience, street smarts and dumb luck made them listen to their better social media angels.

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:08:21am

re: #234 Nerdy Fish

re: Trump and bankruptcy: It is important to note that this judgment cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. The court will bend over backwards to find ways to help him pay, because overall, that is the point; but similar to Steve Carell in The Office, just yelling, “I declare… BANKRUPTCY!!!” is not a magic bullet that solves all your financial problems. He may well file for bankruptcy, but it’s going to be everybody else who owes him money who is going to be screwed over. The State of New York is going to get their due, in this life or the next.

As a lot of folks have commented, it’s not so much about making the ruling go away as it is about preventing James from picking his bones clean and then cracking them for the marrow. All the talk is about how he expects to gain political capital by portraying each seizure and sale as an attack on his campaign, but Tia James is going to go for the low-hanging fruit first which will be his bank accounts and slapping liens on his properties. It could be days or weeks before she actually gets around to slapping locks on anything.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:16:36am

Just woke up
Making coffee
Realized I don’t owe $500m
And don’t need a compensating bond
Smiled

Now I can watch what happens to someone who does

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:22:25am

Grrrrrrrr.
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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:26:14am

re: #239 Targetpractice

As a lot of folks have commented, it’s not so much about making the ruling go away as it is about preventing James from picking his bones clean and then cracking them for the marrow. All the talk is about how he expects to gain political capital by portraying each seizure and sale as an attack on his campaign, but Tia James is going to go for the low-hanging fruit first which will be his bank accounts and slapping liens on his properties. It could be days or weeks before she actually gets around to slapping locks on anything.

I mean, as I would say as a D&D DM, he can certainly try. (I have to admit, I didn’t have “fining me hundreds of millions of dollars is ILLEGAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE because I need that money to campaign” on my bingo card.) It isn’t going to work, though. He’s not going to be penniless today. He won’t be penniless tomorrow. It’s going to be years, probably, before all appeals are exhausted, all avenues of delay explored, and the final hammer falls on the Trump Criminal Empire. However, today marks the beginning of the end, the slow, inexorable march of justice.

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:27:58am

If anything, I expect that Tia James will probably end up getting all sorts of criticism before the day is over because after weeks of playing up today and the financial ruin that Trump faces, it will likely be mostly paper being pushed for the first few days. We’ll hear reports about banks getting served with paperwork to freeze his assets, others being notified about liens being placed upon his properties, and (perhaps) a few having city workers showing up to assess for value. But there’s not going to be locks slapped on the doors of 40 Wall St or Trump Tower. We’re not going to see Don Poorleone outside, chaining himself to the doors and screaming that they can’t have his property.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:28:32am

re: #243 Targetpractice

No, he’ll get Laura Loomer to do that bit for him. /half

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Decatur Deb  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:30:17am

If owning a half-billion in personal wealth is required for a fair election, shouldn’t Biden be given a bunch of folding money? He only has 10 million according to Forbes.
forbes.com

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Targetpractice  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:36:12am

*facepalm*

Guy came into the lobby without any issue, took time to grab himself some coffee and a cup of instant oatmeal, walked into the vestibule only to realize his card didn’t work…and then knocked on the lobby door and motioned for me to come let him in.

Some people truly have the memory recall of a goldfish.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:39:24am

re: #246 Targetpractice

*facepalm*

Guy came into the lobby without any issue, took time to grab himself some coffee and a cup of instant oatmeal, walked into the vestibule only to realize his card didn’t work…and then knocked on the lobby door and motioned for me to come let him in.

Some people truly have the memory recall of a goldfish.

I’ve done similar when my brain is running on autopilot in the morning. Nagging feeling at the back of my head but I’m out the door and in trouble by the time I realize what I forgot to do or bring. In a hotel I guess not having the key card is probable since it’s not an item that is in my usual morning routine. (Which is why I usually put the key card on top of an item I will definitely grab as a reminder to take it.)

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:41:45am

re: #243 Targetpractice

We’re not going to see Don Poorleone outside, chaining himself to the doors and screaming that they can’t have his property.

Admittedly, that’d be quite the spectacle. 😄

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:49:29am

re: #248 Dr Lizardo

Admittedly, that’d be quite the spectacle. 😄

He could probably talk one of the sons into doing it.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 4:58:11am

re: #2 Nerdy Fish

She does realize that cancer patients only lose their hair because of radiotherapy, right? It’s not actually a side effect of cancer? Ugh… Never mind, she’s a Faux News bimbo, of course she doesn’t know.

Click to Reveal

Even then, radiotherapy isn’t always going to cause hair loss. Some of the chemotherapies can cause hair loss, but not always. Mom avoided doing chemo, and doing just enough radiotherapy to ease pain (and lived with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer for almost 7 years after getting a 6 month prognosis - she was a tough bitch). She did what she wanted, ignoring all the expert advice, and outlived all of the prognosis, despite the constant pain and the cancer hitting her spine and other bones.

Cancer therapy now can involve narrow beam 3d targeting that minimizes exposure to tissues beyond the isolated tumors. Chemotherapies are also specifically targeted to the kinds of cancer involved. Immunotherapies and other measures means you can treat cancer and still have your hair.

These people are lunatics.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:08:25am

re: #241 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

You and me both.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:12:33am

After the great state of NY seizes all of Diaper Donnie’s bank accounts, will he be able to use food stamps at the McDonalds drive-thru?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:14:37am

re: #252 Dr. Matt

After the great state of NY seizes all of Diaper Donnie’s bank accounts, will he be able to use food stamps at the McDonalds drive-thru?

He will be working the drive-through window there

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:14:38am

Dear Wall Street, are you going to let Trump turn you into a money laundering facility?

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:15:17am

re: #234 Nerdy Fish

re: Trump and bankruptcy: It is important to note that this judgment cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. The court will bend over backwards to find ways to help him pay, because overall, that is the point; but similar to Steve Carell in The Office, just yelling, “I declare… BANKRUPTCY!!!” is not a magic bullet that solves all your financial problems. He may well file for bankruptcy, but it’s going to be everybody else who owes him money who is going to be screwed over. The State of New York is going to get their due, in this life or the next.

Not only that, but the spectacle of Trump having to declare bankruptcy is going to be the worst insult of all. Trump has spent years boasting he’s the best businessman ever, and convinced the rubes he knows more than everyone else, and yet he’s had 6 bankruptcies and a string of failed businesses. He’s bankrupted casinos. He’s failed at football. He’s failed airlines, steaks, and vodka.

All of that is secondary to the fact that he’s a criminal who faces nearly $500 million in fines and prison for the rest of his life. But his perceived wealth and identity is inexorably linked to his ego and he is in a death spiral as all of his wealth is questioned and his business empire is nothing but a house of cards where everything is highly/over-leveraged, and he can’t scrape together $500 million in cash or bond to cover his judgment. That’s not something a billionaire would have a problem coming up with unless they were in significant financial difficulty to begin with - and that he can’t secure the bond shows that financial companies recognize that Trump is in real trouble and doesn’t have the assets to cover.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:16:01am

re: #254 Belafon

Dear Wall Street, are you going to let Trump turn you into a money laundering facility?

He gave them a half-trillion-dollar bailout during Covid with minimal oversight. I think that returning the favor would be the least thing that they could do to ensure the system continues to function as it was intended.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:17:22am

re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He gave them a half-trillion-dollar bailout during Covid with minimal oversight. I think that returning the favor would be the least thing that they could do to ensure the system continues to function as it was intended.

Alternatively - fuck you, I got mine. We’ve already got a Trump legal filing where he’s claimed that he can’t get a financial company (going to 30 of them) to front the $500 million.

They’re not going to lend to a high risk like Trump, where they’re likely to never recoup the outlay.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:19:07am

re: #255 lawhawk

An added bit of humiliation would be that if he declares bankruptcy, this would be the first time he’s declared personal bankruptcy. His previous ones were business bankruptcies.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:21:13am

re: #258 Dr Lizardo

An added bit of humiliation would be that if he declares bankruptcy, this would be the first time he’s declared personal bankruptcy. His previous ones were business bankruptcies.

Bring back debtors’ prisons!!!

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:26:43am

re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Bring back debtors’ prisons!!!

If - and that’s a big “if” - Trump were to declare personal bankruptcy, it’d be yet another tiresome attempt on his part to slow things down.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:31:33am

re: #260 Dr Lizardo

If - and that’s a big “if” - Trump were to declare personal bankruptcy, it’d be yet another tiresome attempt on his part to slow things down.

and he would of course whine about how “The Deep State did this to me and they will do it to you if you dare cross them!”

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:31:40am

re: #260 Dr Lizardo

If - and that’s a big “if” - Trump were to declare personal bankruptcy, it’d be yet another tiresome attempt on his part to slow things down.

Wait until he sees how well financial ruin helps him in the polls!

Nice bed here…super soft sheets. Slept through without a 3am wordle.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:32:52am

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of this year.

abcnews.go.com

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:33:54am

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:34:32am

re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and he would of course whine about how “The Deep State did this to me and they will do it to you if you dare cross them!”

Of course. It’s all a “YUGE CONSPIRACY!!”

Fortunately, I have no intention of committing fraud. Hence, I can rest easy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:35:04am

re: #263 Dr Lizardo

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of this year.

abcnews.go.com

As a Boeing exec, he should be required to step down 30,000 feet…

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:35:22am

re: #263 Dr Lizardo

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of this year.

abcnews.go.com

You beat me by the amount of seconds it takes for a Boeing hatch to land in a back yard after it’s popped off the plane.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:35:42am

re: #264 darthstar

It’s only a meaningful change if they put the engineers back in charge at Boeing and not the McD bean counters who drove the company into the crisis we’re seeing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:36:02am

re: #265 Dr Lizardo

Of course. It’s all a “YUGE CONSPIRACY!!”

Fortunately, I have no intention of committing fraud. Hence, I can rest easy.

and you are a woke vassal of the Deep State who dares not think outside the liberal box of intolerance and hatred of all things decent and godly

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:36:56am

Speaking of finances, I’ve been working through a bunch of math this morning, preparing for the replacement of our air conditioner and furnace. Based on other advice seen here, I think I am going to let the existing loan (for the roof and siding, which is set to be paid off in a mere 3 months) run its course, and use the saved cash from my annual bonus in conjunction with a smaller new loan to pay for the new projects. With all the high finance completed, all that remains is for this blasted snow to clear outta here so that we can get started with the work.

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:43:41am

They caught and euthanized that mountain lion that killed that person.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:45:41am

re: #123 Joe Bacon ✅

Dr put me first on Victoza 4 months ago that I had to inject daily then I went on Ozempic. So far I am down 5 pounds but the big fall is the a1c into the low 6 range.

Old-fashioned weight loss here! Under 200 pounds this week for the first time in 15 years. Thank you Covid-symptom diarrhea!

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:50:08am

Another reason I read electoral-vote.com every morning

I never thought of this

One final note here is worth tossing out. If Letitia James begins seizure shortly, she could seize his stock in the merged company and announce that she plans to sell it. That would not only drive the price down, but it would also drive Trump up the wall

And imagine doing it now…swiping it just as he gets his hands on it

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:52:41am

re: #273 Dangerman

Another reason I read electoral-vote.com every morning

I never thought of this

And imagine doing it now…swiping it just as he gets his hands on it

Those assets came AFTER THE PENALTY WAS ANNOUNCED!

Speaking of seizures…Uday and Qusay also needed to drop $4 million each by today…maybe that’s why Kimbo was looking so bedraggled…Jr used her inheritance as collateral on his bond.

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:52:45am

re: #273 Dangerman

Another reason I read electoral-vote.com every morning

I never thought of this

And imagine doing it now…swiping it just as he gets his hands on it

That could be quite interesting. What value would she be required to assess it at? And what if she can’t sell it for six months? Does she actually have to hold onto it until appeals are done, or can she sell it, and hold onto the money that she would have to return if he somehow won?

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:53:35am

It’s been raining here since about midnight. It’s been raining here about every four days since the beginning of February. My yard can’t take it anymore.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:54:37am

Trump is holding a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago on April 6. The fine print on the invitation states that the first $6,600 of all donations will go to Trump’s campaign. The next $5,000 will go to the misnamed Save America PAC, which actually is a Save Trump PAC since it pays Trump’s legal bills. Anything over that will go to the RNC. However, donors will also be given an opportunity to also toss some money at the Trump 47 Committee, which also shovels a goodly piece of its money to the Save America PAC.

Link

Idiots

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Dr. Matt  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:54:51am

He seems upset. 😥😥

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:55:01am

“crowd” size

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:55:39am

Awww… Tammy Murphy calls it quits and backs Andy Kim for the general.

The NJ Senate race to replace Menendez has come into sharp focus after Gov Murphy’s wife quits the race. Murphy must have thought all the NJ Democrats and county bosses would just show fealty to Murphy and anoint her as their chosen one.

Turns out that Kim overproduced and showed that he had popular support in a way Murphy didn’t. She would have needed to spend a lot to overcome Kim’s advantages, and that would have been a bruising fight. NJ county bosses have oversized weight in choosing candidates and their ballot positions, and that’s got to change too.

Those fights need to happen to reduce the power of the party bosses here in NJ.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:56:28am

re: #278 Dr. Matt

He seems upset. 😥😥

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He’s confusing his black female lawyers again.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:57:16am

re: #279 darthstar

“crowd” size

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And those that showed up came for the free donuts and coffee.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 5:59:07am

re: #282 Dr. Matt

And those that showed up came for the free donuts and coffee.

You’ll find better donuts and coffee at an AA meeting.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:00:22am

re: #278 Dr. Matt

Goddamn he’s freaking out.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:00:33am

re: #283 darthstar

Better company too.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:02:14am

re: #281 darthstar

He’s confusing his black female lawyers again.

I fully expect Trump to drop the N-bomb, crystal-clear and unambiguously, either on live TV or at one of his rallies in the next few days.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:02:34am

re: #227 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

That one is an anecdote going back to before 2016. There was an article about Trump’s golf antics that included it. Plus the fact that pros would play with him simply to watch how outrageously he cheated.

I played golf casually in the late 80s and 90s. Lots of public courses with cheap greens fees back then just outside of Pittsburgh. Messing with another player’s golf ball was well outside the decorum of the game.* Even when playing with some people with very competitive personalities.

* - About the only exception to this I ever saw was someone I was playing with knock a ball over into the rough. This was after people behind us on the tee drove balls into our group without yelling “Fore” or essentially giving us time to get clear.

In comparison I once reached a par 5 in two with a really good fairway shot. Yelled “Fore” in case and then when I got to the green apologized to the group ahead who was still putting out. One of them asked me “Was that in two?”. I said “Yes”. He said “No apology required.”

Disc golf is my sport. Whenever I can I leverage Trump’s cheating a golf to make points within our community. I think there is more power to be put on that theme. Over time it resonates. Nobody really likes a cheater.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:02:58am

re: #278 Dr. Matt

Sell his babies?

So, he’s admitting that he’s got no cash on hand, and needs to sell (and that process would be prolonged and overseen by the Special Master to verify arms length sales and all laws are followed).

He’s desperate to distract from his circling the drain.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:03:15am

re: #283 darthstar

You’ll find better donuts and coffee at an AA meeting.

You’d find better coffee and donuts at a truck stop outside of Killeen, Texas at 2:30 a.m.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:07:16am

re: #289 Dr Lizardo

You’d find better coffee and donuts at a truck stop outside of Killeen, Texas at 2:30 a.m.

And more discriminating women.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:08:06am

Gah…mastodon’s 503 for a bit.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:08:42am

GOPer Senator Murkowski open to leaving the GOP.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump, signaled that she would be open to leaving the Republican Party.

Pressed on whether she is considering becoming an independent, Murkowski replied, “I’m very independent-minded,” adding, “I just regret that our party is seemingly becoming a party of Donald Trump.”

Murkowski demurred when asked whether she would be open to being an independent who caucuses with Republicans.

“I am navigating my way through some very interesting political times. Let’s just leave it at that,” she said in an interview that aired on CNN Sunday.

The Alaska Republican also reiterated her stance against voting for Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

“I wish that as Republicans, we had a nominee that I could get behind. I certainly can’t get behind Donald Trump,” she said.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:09:41am

re: #290 darthstar

And more discriminating women.

Some of those ladies hanging out at Mar-a-Lago make your average lot lizard look like a Miss America contestant.

And that’s all I’m gonna say about that.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:17:15am

re: #288 lawhawk

Sell his babies?

He has never talked so fondly about his own children.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:23:00am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:23:31am

re: #294 Dr. Matt

He has never talked so fondly about his own children.

He never calculated the collective value of their organs until now.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:27:58am

re: #275 Belafon

That could be quite interesting. What value would she be required to assess it at? And what if she can’t sell it for six months? Does she actually have to hold onto it until appeals are done, or can she sell it, and hold onto the money that she would have to return if he somehow won?

EV has some answers though I think its more fantasy than what she’s actually thinking

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:29:15am

re: #278 Dr. Matt

He seems upset. 😥😥

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Congratulations, Donald.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:30:44am

re: #284 Dr Lizardo

Goddamn he’s freaking out.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:36:59am

Reminder: tfg has six months to prepare for this.

Judge issued his primary ruling in September
It was obvious then that at least $250m would be at stake.
Then the number just grew larger with 5 months of testimony and antics
Oh, then an additional 30-day grace period.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:38:05am

re: #299 Dangerman

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:39:57am

re: #300 Dangerman

Reminder: tfg has six months to prepare for this.

Judge issued his primary ruling in September
It was obvious then that at least $250m would be at stake.
Then the number just grew larger with 5 months of testimony and antics
Oh, then an additional 30-day grace period.

Exactly. He’s known about this for a half a year. And now…now he’s bitching about all this.

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sagehen  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:41:21am

re: #271 Belafon

They caught and euthanized that mountain lion that killed that person.

are they sure they got the right one?

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:45:08am

re: #302 Dr Lizardo

Exactly. He’s known about this for a half a year. And now…now he’s bitching about all this.

He’s been bitching about this for six months. It’s just that he’s increased his volume in recent days because he can’t push off the consequences further. He has to tell the judge either his lawyers lied on their filing that he can’t get the money together, or that he lied in saying he has the cash on hand.

He’s lying, of course. He doesn’t have the money. He might be able to cobble together some money out of the Truth Social sales, but that’s caught in a six month lockup to avoid self dealing sales, insider trading, etc. You know - the things Trump simply doesn’t care about, but which the special master would care deeply about.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:54:15am

re: #304 lawhawk

He had six months to secure the funds that he knew he would need. Either he didn’t want to or knew six months ago he would be unable to do so.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:55:43am

re: #305 darthstar

He had six months to secure the funds that he knew he would need. Either he didn’t want to or knew six months ago he would be unable to do so.

a prudent businessman could have…

oh who am i kidding, never would have been caught in this situation

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:55:58am

re: #303 sagehen

are they sure they got the right one?

Mountain lions are highly territorial and usually don’t suffer having any competition in their area. If the animal was found in the same area as the location of the attack, it’s a good bet that it is the same one. Of course, if they could confirm it with human DNA or other evidence, it would be better.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:58:48am

re: #304 lawhawk

re: #305 darthstar

I really can’t help but think that Trump has fallen prey to his “power of positive thinking” BS. You know, if he just thinks it’ll happen - it will happen. He wills it to happen.

BTW, don’t get me wrong, I’m a generally optimistic person myself. However, I know the difference between optimism and magical thinking. Trump doesn’t seem to.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 6:59:38am

the weekend’s doings - only got rained out for part of saturday so we ended up having a mostly productive weekend

urethaned the trough - two coats over two days. no pix. looks the same. just darker

the solar distribution panel is mostly done (story still to come). and we already buried the new feed wire from the barn to the sub panel.

so i started cleaning up the wiring at the sub panel that’s behind the filter at the pond - 40 feet from the barn. in a week or so, i’ll rewire the panel with heavier busses and circuit breakers for each pump. then we can connect the new feed wire and see if we’ve cut the voltage drop.

six months ago our waterfall pump died. couldnt figure out why. ended up having to replace the wire from the subpanel to the waterfall. but i didnt bury it as this was the ‘old’ style probably too thin wire.

yesterday i found the break in the original wire. now there are two feeds to the falls. this might come in handy. instead of running a new beefy wire we can use both of the old feeds, one for pos, one for neg, and double the gauge. a quick test will tell.

recently found out about Chip Drop. today we’re getting our first delivery

“ChipDrop finds local tree companies working in your area and notifies them that you would like some wood chips or logs (or both). The next time their truck is full they can pull up your information through our service and deliver the wood chips straight to your driveway, even if you’re at work”

what a great idea. they dont have to pay to dump the stuff and we get free stuff. win /win.

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jeffreyw  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:01:47am

Good morning!

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:01:54am

re: #308 Dr Lizardo

I really can’t help but think that Trump has fallen prey to his “power of positive thinking” BS. You know, if he just thinks it’ll happen - it will happen. He wills it to happen.

BTW, don’t get me wrong, I’m a generally optimistic person myself. However, I know the difference between optimism and magical thinking. Trump doesn’t seem to.

Remember he surrounded himself by prosperity gospel preachers in the White House wen he was resident…Paula White…those kinds of grifters.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:02:56am

re: #308 Dr Lizardo

I really can’t help but think that Trump has fallen prey to his “power of positive thinking” BS. You know, if he just thinks it’ll happen - it will happen. He wills it to happen.

BTW, don’t get me wrong, I’m a generally optimistic person myself. However, I know the difference between optimism and magical thinking. Trump doesn’t seem to.

steamrolling has worked for him up to now
he’s lived on lying, finagling and getting other people to spend their money so that he could live off it
he’s clearly misjudged what he’s up against

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BeachDem  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:03:47am

re: #263 Dr Lizardo

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of this year.

abcnews.go.com

Maybe Nikki can fill in. She’s got time on her hands and can continue the tradition of not giving a damn about safety. When she was on the board before:

Haley was on the board when it unanimously opposed shareholders’ transparency proposal, which proponents said was designed to uncover whether Boeing had bought itself regulatory relief from federal safety officials.

jacobin.com

That’s our Nikki.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:08:11am

re: #311 darthstar

IIRC, his parents were chummy with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, so he would’ve been exposed to that power of positive thinking schtick since his childhood.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:10:26am

re: #311 darthstar

Remember he surrounded himself by prosperity gospel preachers in the White House wen he was resident…Paula White…those kinds of grifters.

I despise those prosperity gospel types. The only prosperity they’re interested in is their own and they’ll gleefully fleece their flock to buy that vacation villa in the Seychelles - and, of course, the private jet to get them there.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:12:42am

Trump’s in Criminal Courthouse today on that pretrial hearing regarding the discovery issue Trump claims should end the case in his favor, but which does no such thing. It was a delaying tactic, and DA Bragg is going to argue that the trial is on schedule for April 15 and no further delays are necessary or warranted as Trump fails to state a case or cause of action for such delay, let alone dismissal.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:12:53am

re: #315 Dr Lizardo

I despise those prosperity gospel types. The only prosperity they’re interested in is their own and they’ll gleefully fleece their flock to buy that vacation villa in the Seychelles - and, of course, the private jet to get them there.

Send me money and you’ll see this country succeed like it never has before…we’ll all be rich…you just see. $27 with recurring payments is a good start. Give more if you can afford. MAGA!

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:13:38am

In a nearby courthouse, Trump’s financial empire is going to be up for grabs.

Try to keep track of Trump’s legal jeopardy? Heh… fuck that guy.

Don’t do all of the crimes if you’re not going to be willing to do the time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:15:12am

re: #312 Dangerman

steamrolling has worked for him up to now
he’s lived on lying, finagling and getting other people to spend their money so that he could live off it
he’s clearly misjudged what he’s up against

He was disappointed that he did not make more money from his golden tennis shoes

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:17:02am

re: Trump and having 6 months to prepare for this - if he had started preparing 6 months ago, he probably could have the funds on hand. Even someone as inept as him could doubtless close a deal on a few properties in the span of 6 months, enough to get him most of the way there, or even all the way. He was living in denial, because men like him Just Don’t Face Consequences. As someone else said, he misjudged what he was up against - and badly. It all goes back to the one thing we’ve been hammering home since the later hours of 1/6/2021: If he’d just laid low, kept things quiet, none of this would’ve happened. He only started getting in trouble once he started drawing attention to his various misdeeds, compounding the wrongdoing in a spectacular fashion by trying to overthrow the government in order to avoid accountability for all the other stuff. He effectively Streisand Effect-ed himself into losing his real estate empire and his freedom.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:17:04am

re: #319 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He was disappointed that he did not make more money from his golden tennis shoes

Yeah, didn’t sell enough of ‘em.

Also, he’s got less than 1 hour and 45 minutes to fork over the dinero.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:19:46am

re: #321 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, didn’t sell enough of ‘em.

Also, he’s got less than 1 hour and 45 minutes to fork over the dinero.

Not that we’re watching the clock or anything. “I was in another court getting my ass handed to me! I should get more time!”

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:20:14am

Know who probably has more cash on hand than Trump?

Jerry Seinfeld. I know… right?!

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:20:48am

re: #319 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He was disappointed that he did not make more money from his golden tennis shoes

When you set up a money-laundering operation to take payoffs, you have to have people willing to bribe you. Why would anyone want to bribe a prison-bound corrupt failed politician?

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:22:44am

re: #322 darthstar

Not that we’re watching the clock or anything. “I was in another court getting my ass handed to me! I should get more time!”

LOL I could totally see him saying something dumb just like that.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:23:01am

Trump’s hearing is underway and it’s already going great for Trump, and by great I mean Trump’s lawyers are getting steamrolled by the facts and the Judge.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:25:32am

Marchan is questioning the Trump legal jenniuses why they didn’t raise this issue in January/February, instead waiting until now, knowing that the trial was supposed to originally start last week/today.

Because they’re trying to stall, and they should not be allowed to delay further - because they’re fucking around to avoid the finding out.

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Nojay UK  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:28:06am

re: #324 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Why would anyone want to bribe a prison-bound corrupt failed politician?

Actors at the state level may well consider it worthwhile to do so as part of their ongoing political aspirations. The next person of influence they approach in the future can be reassured that even when things go west and he or she is no longer an asset to them they will be looked after. Getting a rep as a deadbeat (like, say, Donald J. Trump) who will abandon useful idiots immediately after they cease to be of use means making future deals more difficult.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:30:26am

re: #327 lawhawk

They’re getting absolutely creamed on the facts and the law, and the judge isn’t standing for any of it.

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nines09  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:31:58am

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:33:36am

re: #329 lawhawk

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They’re getting absolutely creamed on the facts and the law, and the judge isn’t standing for any of it.

The Mueller investigation? What in the flying fuck does that have to do with campaign finance fraud from paying off a prostitute?

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:35:05am

re: #331 Nerdy Fish

They’re trying to claim that there’s financial documents and Cohen testimony involved, but it’s irrelevant to the case at hand.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:35:07am

re: #331 Nerdy Fish

The Mueller investigation? What in the flying fuck does that have to do with campaign finance fraud from paying off a prostitute?

“I was totally exonerated. I used to be onerated but now I am fully ex in that respect!!!”

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:35:20am

re: #309 Dangerman

about 12 yards of mulch

should keep us busy for a few weekends

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:36:28am

re: #317 darthstar

Send me money and you’ll see this country succeed like it never has before…we’ll all I’ll be rich…you just see. $27 with recurring payments is a good start. Give more if you can afford. MAGA!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:36:37am

re: #323 lawhawk

Know who probably has more cash on hand than Trump?

Jerry Seinfeld. I know… right?!

Jerry is celebrating at Mendy’s today with his favorite sandwich

Watch How Mendy’s “Jerry Seinfeld Sandwich” Is Made

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gocart mozart  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:36:58am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:37:45am

I am slogging through my last lenten vegetarian/vegan week…cannot wait for Easter to fire up the BBQ and slap on a big fat rack o’ ribs!!!

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:37:46am

re: #337 gocart mozart

He’s in court, so definitely not a hoax.

It’s not a “witch” hunt if they keep finding witches.

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:37:49am

re: #334 Dangerman

about 12 yards of mulch

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should keep us busy for a few weekends

You’re gonna put 12 yards of mulch into ONE yard?!?!

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:37:58am

re: #332 lawhawk

They’re trying to claim that there’s financial documents and Cohen testimony involved, but it’s irrelevant to the case at hand.

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“Thousands of documents.” Riiiight. And are these “thousands of documents” in the room with you right now?

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:38:15am

re: #332 lawhawk

“But the documents could mention the the pee tape.”

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:39:51am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:41:01am

re: #343 darthstar

AI will definitely replace surrealists. Dali would be proud of those photos.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:41:47am

re: #343 darthstar

Riigghhtt. With those pictures no one will believe any photos ever again.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:43:08am

re: #345 PhillyPretzel ✅

Riigghhtt. With those pictures no one will believe any photos ever again.

Which means you truly can go back to living in whichever reality you choose.

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:43:39am

Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. Wordle 1,010 5/6*

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:43:54am

re: #326 lawhawk

Trump’s hearing is underway and it’s already going great for Trump, and by great I mean Trump’s lawyers are getting steamrolled by the facts and the Judge.

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Have his lawyers tried the Chewmaga defense? It’s like the Chewbacca defense except you just shout MAGA! and get a bunch of angry bigots to help you shout down any further discussion.

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gocart mozart  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:46:29am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:48:09am

re: #292 lawhawk

GOPer Senator Murkowski open to leaving the GOP.

Yap yap yap. I will believe it when she actually takes a concrete action and also starts voting that way. Otherwise, she is a member of the Bootlickers.

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gocart mozart  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:48:48am
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Dr. Matt  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:50:34am

re: #337 gocart mozart

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If someone made a word cloud of all everything he said in public, “witch’”, “hunt”, “hoax”, “tremendous”, “maga”, “fake”, and “news” would be the largest words by far.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:51:19am

re: #236 Nerdy Fish

I trusted my gut, and it worked out.

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Par here.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:52:43am

re: #352 Dr. Matt

If someone made a word cloud of all everything he said in public, “witch’”, “hunt”, “hoax”, “tremendous”, “maga”, “fake”, and “news” would be the largest words by far.

That was his most defeated sounding ‘witch hunt’ yet you have to admit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:53:45am

re: #354 darthstar

That was his most defeated sounding ‘witch hunt’ yet you have to admit.

In the 1600’s, he would have been a prominent and vocal advocate of Witch Hunts…

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:54:00am

re: #339 lawhawk

He’s in court, so definitely not a hoax.

It’s not a “witch” hunt if they keep finding witches.

Maybe Donald Trump is a hoax. Is it realistic that one person could represent everything wrong with the Republican party? No. It’s clear that the man is a hoax.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:54:14am

re: #242 Nerdy Fish

I mean, as I would say as a D&D DM, he can certainly try. (I have to admit, I didn’t have “fining me hundreds of millions of dollars is ILLEGAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE because I need that money to campaign” on my bingo card.) It isn’t going to work, though. He’s not going to be penniless today. He won’t be penniless tomorrow. It’s going to be years, probably, before all appeals are exhausted, all avenues of delay explored, and the final hammer falls on the Trump Criminal Empire. However, today marks the beginning of the end, the slow, inexorable march of justice.

Only if he loses the election. There are too many out there eager to turn us into Hitler’s America.

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:55:34am

re: #354 darthstar

That was his most defeated sounding ‘witch hunt’ yet you have to admit.

And he followed it with, ‘thank you’.

Thank you for the opportunity to say ‘witch hunt’ and ‘hoax’ one more time to the camera.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:56:36am

re: #355 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In the 1600’s, he would have been a prominent and vocal advocate of Witch Hunts…

Also in 1989, with the Central Park Five.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:58:04am
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Teukka  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:59:05am

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:59:12am

Btw, as I’m scrolling through the hearing, I’ve got this on in the background….

One of these days, I’m going to cut you into little pieces…

Pink Floyd Live At POMPEII Full Live CONCERT 1972

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:59:26am

re: #351 gocart mozart

“Views” has never really had any correlation to views. One guy tested with a temporary account that he made private with only one post, and even that got multiple “views”.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:59:33am

re: #242 Nerdy Fish

I mean, as I would say as a D&D DM, he can certainly try. (I have to admit, I didn’t have “fining me hundreds of millions of dollars is ILLEGAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE because I need that money to campaign” on my bingo card.) It isn’t going to work, though. He’s not going to be penniless today. He won’t be penniless tomorrow. It’s going to be years, probably, before all appeals are exhausted, all avenues of delay explored, and the final hammer falls on the Trump Criminal Empire. However, today marks the beginning of the end, the slow, inexorable march of justice.

The hundreds of millions are for business fraud…the illegal election interference is a criminal matter. Right now the former is his biggest public concern…but the latter will dawn on him soon enough as a bigger threat to his liberty.

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gocart mozart  Mar 25, 2024 • 7:59:51am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:00:15am

T minus one hour.

Europe - The Final Countdown

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Belafon  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:04:32am

re: #361 Teukka

According to the conspiracies I’ve read, the first I in ISIS stands for Israeli.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:06:43am

re: #236 Nerdy Fish

I trusted my gut, and it worked out.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:10:05am

re: #368 Belafon

According to the conspiracies I’ve read, the first I in ISIS stands for Israeli.

Fascist Zionist Islamists

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:11:05am

Wapo live thread: (about 5 min ago)

By Shayna Jacobs
Courts, law enforcement and criminal justice
Justice Juan Merchan is visibly irritated as he presses Trump attorney Todd Blanche on why his team did not subpoena investigation records from federal prosecutors sooner than January. “We know that what you did could have been done in June and been successful,” Merchan said. “Why didn’t you do it in June or July?”

“In June or July it wouldn’t have provided a good reason to delay the case, your honor.”

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:11:41am

Merchan is dressing down Trump’s lawyers in no uncertain terms:

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Dr. Matt  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:16:22am

re: #371 darthstar

Wapo live thread: (about 5 min ago)

“In June or July it wouldn’t have provided a good reason to delay the case, your honor.”

Wait…..is that an actual quote or is that your sarc?

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steve_davis  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:17:51am

re: #362 lawhawk

Btw, as I’m scrolling through the hearing, I’ve got this on in the background….

One of these days, I’m going to cut you into little pieces…

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ashtray and tugbar suggest that may well be a ‘54 Precision. As I recall, the ‘54 was the last of those that had the one-piece straight-across pickup, and thus the last that technically needed the cover to help offset some of the extraneous noise the straight pickup tended to accentuate. After that, Leo invented the one-piece where the pickups are staggered into the two rows. No idea why that improved the dampening of extraneous sounds, but hey, it worked!

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:18:39am

20 years older than Trump, and looks and sounds better.

William Shatner on Turning 93, Going to Space & He Gets a Do-Over of His Star Trek Death Scene

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BeachDem  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:20:36am

As always, Alexandra Petrie has a hilarious take on events of the day.

It’s a Trump fire sale, and everything must go!

A sampling:

Act now — before the state of New York does — and add any of the following exciting investments to your portfolio today!

Tower: Lightly used, escalator included! If you love brass fixtures, you are going to love this place. Free brass letters convey but don’t need to.
Gift link
wapo.st

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:21:52am

re: #372 lawhawk

Merchan is dressing down Trump’s lawyers in no uncertain terms:

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I’ll update my analysis here and say it appears they’re using the Alina Habba defense. Make as many glaring errors before the judge as possible so Trump can file an appeal based on incompetent representation.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:22:26am

Merchan is taking a 45 minute break - surprising the parties.

I don’t think this looks good for Trump. Merchan’s not finding anything even remotely in favor of Trump.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:23:19am

re: #377 darthstar

Wont work either. But it’ll be hilarious when Habba finds that Trump’s not going to pay his bills and bankrupts her law firm in the process. Two birds - one stone.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:23:40am

re: #376 BeachDem

As always, Alexandra Petrie has a hilarious take on events of the day.

It’s a Trump fire sale, and everything must go!

A sampling:

Act now — before the state of New York does — and add any of the following exciting investments to your portfolio today!

Tower: Lightly used, escalator included! If you love brass fixtures, you are going to love this place. Free brass letters convey but don’t need to.
Gift link
wapo.st

Any relation to Rob and Laura?

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BigPapa  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:25:00am

re: #378 lawhawk

Merchan is taking a 45 minute break - surprising the parties.

He’s probably sick of the bullshit and gonna do a quick statement and call it a day.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:25:20am

re: #379 lawhawk

Wont work either. But it’ll be hilarious when Habba finds that Trump’s not going to pay his bills and bankrupts her law firm in the process. Two birds - one stone.

If she did not insist on a retainer up front then it is truly her own fault

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:25:25am

Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social

New: I wrote about my widely-read Ronna McDaniel email to MSNBC, the power, freedom and pitfalls of being a freelance journalist, and the inability to shut my mouth.
thehandbasket.co

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:28:51am

re: #380 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

It’s a Fire Sale and Everything Must Go

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:31:42am

joemygod.com

- Appeals court reduces bond to just $175 million to satisfy the appeals process.

It’s not clear he’s got the cash for that either, but sure. That’s a win.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:32:53am

They did it. They actually fucking did it. The Appellate Division has lowered the bond amount to $175M.

iapps.courts.state.ny.us

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BigPapa  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:33:25am

re: #385 lawhawk

joemygod.com

World’s biggest poster boy for white privilege privileges again. Utterly repulsive.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:33:35am

The billionaires’ (and fake billionaires’) asymptotic justice system.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:33:54am

WHAT????

The bond reduced to $175 million????

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:34:07am

re: #385 lawhawk

joemygod.com

- Appeals court reduces bond to just $175 million to satisfy the appeals process.

It’s not clear he’s got the cash for that either, but sure. That’s a win.

But like you said, not clear he’s got $175 million cash on hand. Guess we’ll know soon enough.

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danarchy  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:34:19am

re: #379 lawhawk

Wont work either. But it’ll be hilarious when Habba finds that Trump’s not going to pay his bills and bankrupts her law firm in the process. Two birds - one stone.

Keep dreaming, her lawfirm has already been paid almost $7 million by Trump super pacs.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:34:46am

re: #390 Dr Lizardo

But like you said, not clear he’s got $175 million cash on hand. Guess we’ll know soon enough.

Best guess is, he has someone willing to back him for that amount (but not more). He still owes the full amount if he gets his cheeks clapped on appeal, though, so on the whole, I’m OK with this.

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steve_davis  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:35:36am

re: #381 BigPapa

He’s probably sick of the bullshit and gonna do a quick statement and call it a day.

Is it possible that he is just literally gonna take the time to have his law clerks look for anything relating to Trump’s allegations, and then when he can’t find anything, come back and say, “As I suspected, there’s no case law supporting any of the defense’s positions or allegations here. Unless I hear something surprising in the next hour, I’m going to wrap this up and we’ll continue to plan for a trial starting April 15.”

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:38:06am

re: #392 Nerdy Fish

Best guess is, he has someone willing to back him for that amount (but not more). He still owes the full amount if he gets his cheeks clapped on appeal, though, so on the whole, I’m OK with this.

And even though he got it reduced to $175 million, he’s probably still gonna bitch about it.

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steve_davis  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:38:22am

oh, fuck me. Whoever the deep cynic was who thought the appeals court would reduce Trump’s appeals bond, you were right. I keep having way too much faith in the system.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:38:41am

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Decatur Deb  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:39:06am

Remind me to haggle with the judge in traffic court.

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:39:14am

re: #395 Dr Lizardo

And even though he got it reduced to $175 million, he’s probably still gonna bitch about it.

It’s a bitch hunt.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:39:16am

re: #390 Dr Lizardo

He’s got another 10 days to figure that out.

White fucking privilege. No one else gets that many chances, and he has always failed upwards.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:40:27am

re: #398 Decatur Deb

Steal some classified documents and refuse to give them back.

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JC1  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:40:37am

re: #398 Decatur Deb

Remind me to haggle with the judge in traffic court.

Often works.

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nines09  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:41:09am

Watching this play out makes me wonder where the Mafia went.
They went legit. Bought people. Elected people. Silenced people. Intimidated and frightened people.
You can make more money with a briefcase than a gun.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:41:17am

From the AP: Bibi cancelled Wash DC trip to protest UN call for cease-fire during Ramadan
apnews.com

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:42:11am

re: #404 PhillyPretzel ✅

From the AP: Bibi cancelled Wash DC trip to protest UN call for cease-fire during Ramadan
apnews.com

Well, that’s some good news at least.

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:43:07am

re: #236 Nerdy Fish

I trusted my gut, and it worked out.

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:43:07am

re: #403 nines09

Watching this play out makes me wonder where the Mafia went.
They went legit. Bought people. Elected people. Silenced people. Intimidated and frightened people.
You can make more money with a briefcase than a gun.

Some will rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen. —Woody G.

Needs a digital update.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:43:11am

Monitor and Director of Compliance still in place.

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Jay C  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:43:39am

re: #404 PhillyPretzel ✅

From the AP: Bibi cancelled Wash DC trip to protest UN call for cease-fire during Ramadan
apnews.com

Good.
What was he going to do here anyway but stand up in front of Congress at the Republicans’ request to run down the Biden Administration?

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:43:42am

re: #400 lawhawk

He’s got another 10 days to figure that out.

White fucking privilege. No one else gets that many chances, and he has always failed upwards.

Trump’s the poster boy for failing upwards - and that invariably happens due to institutional decisions.

You or I sure as hell would never have been given so many chances. We’d have been told to pony up now…or else.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:45:11am

I think I posted here a few weeks back that the appellate division could reduce the bond, but all this does is stave off the inevitable. He’s still got to win the case in chief on appeal, and that’s a very hard bar to overcome - Trump’s lacking facts and evidence to support overturning the decisions on appeal.

The bond is a sideshow compared to the verdict.

The appeals court could reduce the final verdict. This doesn’t change the verdict, and the wording of the bond amount reduction was designed to mitigate against business interruptions at this stage. It delays the inevitable.

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Jay C  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:46:09am

re: #408 jaunte

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Monitor and Director of Compliance still in place.

Anyone know exactly who it was that reduced the bond amount? Was it one particular judge, or was it a group decision by someone?

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:47:05am

re: #412 Jay C

I haven’t seen any reporting yet.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:47:27am

re: #411 lawhawk

I wouldn’t be surprised if the disgorgement was reduced by the Appeals Court - they often do. It’s just a question of by how much.

And yeah…it’s simply delaying the inevitable.

Now, let’s say what Judge Merchan has to say…..

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nines09  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:49:51am

re: #411 lawhawk

But it gives the appearance that the charges are weak to the uninformed.
We are so plugged in here sometimes we forget how many are not paying attention.
It’s like the way the GOP used Rush to push the agenda. People would go “I heard that too!” like they were given the truth somehow.
Christ I’m sick of this shit.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:50:00am

re: #412 Jay C

Anyone know exactly who it was that reduced the bond amount? Was it one particular judge, or was it a group decision by someone?

It’s the Appellate Division. 5-judge panel:

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Dr. Matt  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:57:44am

It’s been 2 years already…..wow…..

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Jay C  Mar 25, 2024 • 8:58:22am

re: #416 lawhawk

Thanx.

BTW, how come Ivanka gets tagged on “below the line” of defendants?
I thought she was dropped from the case.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:01:27am

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:02:26am

re: #418 Jay C

Thanx.

BTW, how come Ivanka gets tagged on “below the line” of defendants?
I thought she was dropped from the case.

She was but she’s still on the original filing - she’s not an appellant.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:03:07am

Florida Man live
local10.com

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:07:07am

re: #421 jaunte

Florida Man live
local10.com

You only live once, and for Florida Man some of that time will be spent in prison, so he should have as much fun as he can and flee the police until he runs out of gas or wipes out.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:07:39am

re: #403 nines09

Watching this play out makes me wonder where the Mafia went.
They went legit. Bought people. Elected people. Silenced people. Intimidated and frightened people.
You can make more money with a briefcase than a gun.

“Robbing a bank is for amateurs. Real professionals open one”

-Berthold Brecht

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:08:15am

re: #422 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

He hasn’t been making much use of the all-terrain feature.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:14:05am

re: #423 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Robbing a bank is for amateurs. Real professionals open one”

-Berthold Brecht

Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:15:37am

Trump got one win today, but he just got a big loss!

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:17:55am

Judge Merchan: Trial to start April 15 with jury selection.

Trump lawyers - but that’s conflicting with his campaign.

Judge:

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:19:10am

re: #421 jaunte

Florida Man live
local10.com

He’s hauling ass. And looks like he knows the area pretty well, too.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:21:50am

re: #389 Joe Bacon ✅

WHAT????

The bond reduced to $175 million????

Dammit. Just when I was getting excited that Trump was finally entering the FO phase. 😢

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mmmirele  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:22:13am

re: #428 Dr Lizardo

He’s hauling ass. And looks like he knows the area pretty well, too.

Annnd it’s over. I suspect he was running out of gas, given the way he slowed down towards the end.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:22:24am

re: #421 jaunte

Florida Man live
local10.com

Got him. Looked like he ran out of gas and pulled over.

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:22:26am

re: #429 Eclectic Cyborg

Dammit. Just when I was getting excited that Trump was finally entering the FO phase. 😢

He still has to come up with the money. That’s not assured.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:23:10am

re: #426 No Malarkey!

Trump got one win today, but he just got a big loss!

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:23:29am

re: #427 lawhawk

Court adjourned. They’ll be back on the 15th for jury selection and the motion/reply on that last bit is due in a week.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:23:45am

Okay, so the news isn’t all bad today…

Mastodon

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:26:40am

More good news!

Mastodon

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Jay C  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:27:16am

re: #432 lawhawk

He still has to come up with the money. That’s not assured.

Maybe: but $175M (while not exactly pocket change) is likely a lot easier to get - especially if secured. Don Poorleone just MAY have that much cash/equity in some asset to pay that sum: whereas $450M was (apparently) just too big to chance.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:27:39am

re: #435 darthstar

Okay, so the news isn’t all bad today…

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And if Trump is indeed found guilty by a jury of his peers - then the GOP will be nominating a convicted felon as their Presidential candidate.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:28:46am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:28:47am

re: #437 Jay C

Maybe: but $175M (while not exactly pocket change) is likely a lot easier to get - especially if secured. Don Poorleone just MAY have that much cash/equity in some asset to pay that sum: whereas $450M was (apparently) just too big to chance.

Remember him whining about how that was the size of his campaign fund chest?

He will still whine.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:31:13am

re: #439 Dr Lizardo

And if Trump is indeed found guilty by a jury of his peers - then the GOP will be nominating a convicted felon as their Presidential candidate.

As if they cared! There is no way that a single Republican has any concern about the hush money case. The stolen documents case could make a difference — but that’s not seeing the light of day before the election.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:31:40am

re: #441 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember him whining about how that was the size of his campaign fund chest?

He will still whine.

Of course he will. He’s a tightwad and the thought of having to part with more than $20 no doubt causes him to fume.

OTOH, now he can also fume about his NY criminal trial starting in three weeks. 😄

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:33:04am

re: #442 Hecuba’s daughter

As if they cared! There is no way that a single Republican has any concern about the hush money case. The stolen documents case could make a difference — but that’s not seeing the light of day before the election.

Republicans don’t matter. There is no more GOP - it’s all MAGA now.

Swing/independent voters matter.

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KGxvi  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:34:18am

re: #432 lawhawk

He still has to come up with the money. That’s not assured.

And then he has to win on appeal, which is also, very much, not assured.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:35:00am

This music store owner sold Trump $100,000 worth of pianos. Trump refused to pay.

theweek.com

He played a sour note on that bill…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:35:37am

re: #445 KGxvi

And then he has to win on appeal, which is also, very much, not assured.

That is not gonna happen. It was a summary judgement, best they can hope for is a reduction in the amount.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:36:44am

re: #447 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is not gonna happen. It was a summary judgement, best they can hope for is a reduction in the amount.

Yeah, best case scenario, Trump gets it reduced to $225 million or something.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:37:37am

re: #446 Joe Bacon ✅

Anyone who does business with DJT without demanding payment in full up front is a fucking moron.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:38:46am

re: #449 Eclectic Cyborg

Anyone who does business with DJT without demanding payment in full up front is a fucking moron.

Trump is absolutely notorious for stiffing people. This has been well-known for the last 20 years, at minimum.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:42:57am

Sleazy E coming to the aid of Anti-Vaxxers.

Last August, notoriously thin-skinned billionaire Elon Musk announced on the Social Media Site Still Known As Twitter To Anyone Who Isn’t A Fascist that he would pay the legal bills of anyone “unfairly treated by [their] employer due to posting or liking something on this platform,” with “no limit.”

This is not because he is any kind of big fan of workers’ rights — in fact, it is the quite the opposite — but rather because he wants to make it more socially acceptable to, say, use racial slurs or get misogynistic or spread harmful conspiracy theories.

Musk announced on Sunday morning that he will be paying the legal bills of one Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill, a Canadian doctor who said a bunch of very stupid things about COVID and the vaccine on Twitter during the pandemic.

wonkette.com

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Captain Magic  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:46:50am

Reduced to $175 million

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:48:32am

re: #452 Captain Magic

Reduced to $175 million

That’s just the bond he has to post. If he loses his appeal, he still has to pay the full amount, whether it’s the half-billion or whatever is settled on if the Appeals Court reduces the disgorgement amount.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:48:53am

re: #410 Dr Lizardo

Trump’s the poster boy for failing upwards - and that invariably happens due to institutional decisions.

You or I sure as hell would never have been given so many chances. We’d have been told to pony up now…or else.

You have to first lie and say you’re worth billions.
Then say you can’t come up with a mere 450m.

When you pretend you’re rich they let you do it

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wrenchwench  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:50:11am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:51:58am

i cant believe this pretend billionaire mook is drowning out today’s news about our mulch delivery

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Mattand  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:53:21am

re: #450 Dr Lizardo

Trump is absolutely notorious for stiffing people. This has been well-known for the last 20 years, at minimum.

I need to do a better job of collecting links, but I’m constantly reading stories about businesses in South Jersey and Philly who went belly up because they got stiffed by him when he was building his casinos.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:55:24am

re: #457 Mattand

I need to do a better job of collecting links, but I’m constantly reading stories about businesses in South Jersey and Philly who went belly up because they got stiffed by him when he was building his casinos.

I’ve heard of businesses in the NYC area that went under because Trump didn’t pay up. Hell, look how many cities have complained that Trump never paid them monies owed for previous campaign rallies.

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Axolotl  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:55:26am

re: #278 Dr. Matt

He seems upset. 😥😥

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What a world, what a world, what a world……
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dat_said  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:56:49am

TheNewRepublic: Elon Musk Loses Pathetic Defamation Case Against Hate Speech Watchdog

Musk sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate in August, accusing the research group of conducting “a scare campaign to drive away advertisers.” The group had shared research that hate speech had flourished on X (formerly Twitter) after Musk took over in the fall of 2022.

Link to ruling: documentcloud.org

“Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation, and only by reading between the lines of a complaint can one attempt to surmise a plaintiff’s true purpose,” Breyer noted. “Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose. This case represents the latter circumstance. This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech.”

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:58:24am

re: #442 Hecuba’s daughter

As if they cared! There is no way that a single Republican has any concern about the hush money case. The stolen documents case could make a difference — but that’s not seeing the light of day before the election.

We don’t need a single Republican. We need swing voters who don’t like either Biden or Trump to pull the lever for Biden, and convicting Trump for multiple felonies will help with them.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:58:50am

re: #460 dat_said

“…This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech.”

Ah, yes - lawsuit filed by Elon Musk, champion of free speech.

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 25, 2024 • 9:59:17am

re: #400 lawhawk

MAGA has many complaints. Many MAGA types are also the exact same people who have constantly complained about Elites and their special privileges in this country based on falling out of the right vagina.

Once again, they are proven correct… but I seriously doubt they will acknowledge it on this case concerning their cult leader.

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gocart mozart  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:04:31am
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Mattand  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:07:11am

re: #416 lawhawk

It’s the Appellate Division. 5-judge panel:

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I’m basically thinking out loud here, because I haven’t looked it up yet, but I’m wondering how many of these judges are Republicans and/or Trump appointees.

That is really the only thing I can think of at this point to keep giving the guy more breaks. It’s fucking insane.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:07:47am

vre: #464 gocart mozart

Chances he’s driving under the influence? High.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:08:41am

re: #449 Eclectic Cyborg

Anyone who does business with DJT without demanding payment in full up front is a fucking moron.

Certainly true now. Probably not so obvious 35 years ago when that sale happened.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:09:52am

I’m sick and tired of the rich and powerful playing “hot potato” with Don Poorleone, everyone having their turn to talk a big game, but refusing to actually do anything about him. The system needs to put up or shut up.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:11:10am
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Dave In Austin  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:12:14am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:13:14am

re: #450 Dr Lizardo

We know he couldn’t…. stiff… Stormy Daniels.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:17:10am

re: #471 GlutenFreeJesus

We know he couldn’t…. stiff… Stormy Daniels.

Heh, here’s to hoping that Stormy testifies about Trump’s pathetic pud under oath. And also, his poor performance and his predilection for being spanked. 😄

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:18:00am

re: #465 Mattand

NYS judges, so Trump’s not involved at all.

The 2d Department of the Appellate Division covers NYC, so it’s not a conservative bastion in the slightest. They’re appointed by the governor (who in recent years has been Hochul (D), Cuomo (D), etc.).

Why the appellate division ruled this way is impossible to know since they didn’t give a reason. Putting the amount up is designed to insure that frivolous appeals are not undertaken. I know, it’s likely that Trump loses all of his appeals here, but I don’t think he’s going to put forth a frivolous matter (sanctions against the lawyers is a possibility too). He may still end up owing the full amount in disgorgement plus interest. He may be banned from serving on any board in NY. And all the rest of the verdict could get sustained.

This is procedural, and while it would have been fun watching him squirm to pay up the appeal/bond - and it’s been fun watching him admit that he can’t get the money together despite being a self-proclaimed billionaire, he’s still got 10 days to get the lower but still significant amount together.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:20:49am

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lawhawk  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:24:53am

re: #474 Patricia Kayden

There are countless cases of where criminal defendants can’t post bond and are stuck in jail for months or years. It’s yet another double standard in criminal justice where white guys (and they’re usually white guys engaging in “white collar crimes” don’t get treated like everyone else. The justice system isn’t rigged.

It’s fixed to favor the white guys.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:27:07am

Donald Trump, billionaire is turning to a group of wealthy fundraisers who have been loyal to him for years to help raise money for his campaign and assist in paying his legal bills”

What is with these idiots??

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:27:54am

re: #475 lawhawk

There are countless cases of where criminal defendants can’t post bond and are stuck in jail for months or years. It’s yet another double standard in criminal justice where white guys (and they’re usually white guys engaging in “white collar crimes” don’t get treated like everyone else. The justice system isn’t rigged.

It’s fixed to favor the white guys.

Who makes the laws? //

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Decatur Deb  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:28:42am

re: #472 Dr Lizardo

Heh, here’s to hoping that Stormy testifies about Trump’s pathetic pud under oath. And also, his poor performance and his predilection for being spanked. 😄

Hey!! That’s client-perv privilege!!1!

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:30:19am

re: #477 Dangerman

Who makes the laws? //

America: Land of the free*, home of the brave**

* = for varying definitions of “free”, based on your skin color
** = only as long as your bravery is in the right direction, i.e. against “others”

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:30:51am

Formerly known as Christian University of Nebraska

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Charmingly Persistent  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:31:03am

re: #438 Hecuba’s daughter

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Dr. Matt  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:33:23am

Is the $175 million bond subject to interest, or is it fixed and the $454+ million judgement still subject to interest?

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:35:19am

@thedailybeast.bsky.social

The wife of James Ho, one of the circuit judges who banned mifepristone last year, took multiple payments from the group that brought it to court.
thedailybeast.com

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:35:40am

re: #482 Dr. Matt

Is the $175 million bond subject to interest, or is it fixed and the $454+ million judgement still subject to interest?

It’s fixed, the judgment is subject to interest. The bond is just to keep him honest and make sure that his appeal isn’t frivolous. (Narrator: Of course it’s frivolous.)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:36:52am

re: #464 gocart mozart

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Rudy listening to opera as he drives.

Someone should get a hold of that clip and replace it with gangsta rap. 😈

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Dr. Matt  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:37:31am

re: #484 Nerdy Fish

Gracias

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:38:27am

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:39:30am

re: #483 jaunte

@thedailybeast.bsky.social

The federal judiciary is being openly bribed, and there seems to be nothing anyone can do about it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:40:56am

re: #488 No Malarkey!

The federal judiciary is being openly bribed, and there seems to be nothing anyone can do about it.

The federal judiciary now answers to only one person—Leonard Leo and he doesn’t give a fuck about anything else except turning the US into a right wing Opus Dei Theocracy.

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jaunte  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:41:41am

The Supreme Court’s ethics problem is a credibility problem
donmoynihan.substack.com

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Dr. Matt  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:42:32am

re: #400 lawhawk

He’s got another 10 days to figure that out.

White fucking privilege. No one else gets that many chances, and he has always failed upwards.

And it gives Letitia James’s office 10 more days to to scour through all of Diaper Donnie’s rusty empire to find the gems.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:42:43am

Found the stl of the Putin brush holder if anyone wants to print their own.

cults3d.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:44:02am

re: #491 Dr. Matt

And I hope she and her office find a whole bunch of them.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:44:51am

re: #474 Patricia Kayden

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That was for a criminal case; this is a civil case.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:44:53am

re: #488 No Malarkey!

re: #489 Joe Bacon ✅

Somehow, in all of this, I can’t help but think of this little scene…

The Dark Knight Rises - Bane Blackgate Prison Speech FULL HD 1080p

Solid acting by Tom Hardy, BTW. His take on Bane was fantastic.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:45:15am

re: #488 No Malarkey!

The federal judiciary is being openly bribed, and there seems to be nothing anyone can will do about it.

one side wants this
Its just about their only weapon

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:47:29am

re: #476 Dangerman

Donald Trump, billionaire is turning to a group of wealthy fundraisers who have been loyal to him for years to help raise money for his campaign and assist in paying his legal bills”

What is with these idiots??

Because their goal is to get him reelected and have a further reduction in their taxes. Totally sensible financial arrangement — if you are the typical billionaire or multi-millionaire with no ethics or morals and a focused desire to increase your bottom-line.

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Randall Gross  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:47:43am

bsky.app

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:48:33am

re: #494 Hecuba’s daughter

That was for a criminal case; this is a civil case.

That’s a bit beside the point. Do you think that Donald Trump wouldn’t have gotten favorable treatment if he had been unable to pay bail in his criminal indictments? He’s (ostensibly) rich, (ostensibly) powerful, and a white man. The system is designed to let men like him skate. He’s only in as much trouble as he is because he pushed the boundaries too far, and the powers that be had to make an example of him.

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Dangerman  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:49:32am

Letitia James

Donald Trump is still facing accountability for his staggering fraud. The court has already found that he engaged in years of fraud to falsely inflate his net worth and unjustly enrich himself, his family, and his organization. The $464 million judgment - plus interest - against Donald Trump and the other defendants still stands,” James said in a statement.

Rando

Maybe this is the best outcome for the dems.
He still has to pay ton of money, which he likely doesn’t have.
The clock keeps running
And he can’t play his victim card now
he still looks bad and looks like he is lying about his wealth.

This is a win, win for Biden.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:53:23am

re: #500 Dangerman

Letitia James

Rando

Maybe this is the best outcome for the dems.
He still has to pay ton of money, which he likely doesn’t have.
The clock keeps running
And he can’t play his victim card now
he still looks bad and looks like he is lying about his wealth.

This is a win, win for Biden.

Unpossible, all news is Bad News for Joe Biden!/

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BeachDem  Mar 25, 2024 • 10:59:29am

re: #483 jaunte

@thedailybeast.bsky.social

The Guardian’s header/subhead says it all:

The next Clarence Thomas? Abortion pill case spotlights rightwing judge and his wife’s shadowy connections
Judge James Ho ruled to restrict mifepristone. His wife Allyson is linked to the anti-abortion group that brought the case

When the former president Donald Trump appointed the Texas attorney James Ho to the fifth circuit court of appeals in 2017, lawyers at the prominent law firm Gibson Dunn - where Ho worked before his appointment - had a problem: how to replace the politically connected Ho. Turns out, they didn’t even need to change the home address for his replacement. Ho’s wife, Allyson, moved into her husband’s position and his old office.
theguardian.com

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Mar 25, 2024 • 11:13:16am

re: #309 Dangerman

recently found out about Chip Drop. today we’re getting our first delivery

what a great idea. they dont have to pay to dump the stuff and we get free stuff. win /win.

I am on my 31st dump of wood chips since about a year ago!

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steve_davis  Mar 25, 2024 • 1:35:09pm

re: #473 lawhawk

NYS judges, so Trump’s not involved at all.

The 2d Department of the Appellate Division covers NYC, so it’s not a conservative bastion in the slightest. They’re appointed by the governor (who in recent years has been Hochul (D), Cuomo (D), etc.).

Why the appellate division ruled this way is impossible to know since they didn’t give a reason. Putting the amount up is designed to insure that frivolous appeals are not undertaken. I know, it’s likely that Trump loses all of his appeals here, but I don’t think he’s going to put forth a frivolous matter (sanctions against the lawyers is a possibility too). He may still end up owing the full amount in disgorgement plus interest. He may be banned from serving on any board in NY. And all the rest of the verdict could get sustained.

This is procedural, and while it would have been fun watching him squirm to pay up the appeal/bond - and it’s been fun watching him admit that he can’t get the money together despite being a self-proclaimed billionaire, he’s still got 10 days to get the lower but still significant amount together.

it’s also possible the justices are having a bit of fun with Trump, keeping the amount high enough to where he likely can’t put it up without significantly busting his own balls, but low enough to where he once again has to come up with an excuse for why a billionare can’t come up with an “easy” 200 mill.

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darthstar  Mar 25, 2024 • 2:45:52pm

re: #440 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Sucks to be them.


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