Video: Andrew Weissmann on Why Trump May Have Violated His Bail Conditions: “Threatening the President Is a Crime”
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“Threatening the President Is a Crime”
ITS NOT A CRIME WHEN TEH PRESIDENT DOES IT!!!!1!!1!!!!!
I like Katie Phang - she has a decent legal mind and sticks to the facts that have been presented like a mathematician to a formula. Andrew Weissmann tries to ‘interpret’ the law for the viewers, but mostly what he ends up doing is raising anxiety levels with possible red herrings Trump could throw at the court…and will…as if those are relevant.
I have a Doppelganger!
Here is a lady, who looks exactly like me, but who is not me, dancing with joy at the opportunity to prepare food packages for the needy at my son-in-law’s soup kitchen in Israel.
Dancing Lady, whatever your name is, I hope to meet you and we can dance together!
So this may be one of the most sad and confusing things I have read in a long time:
A fifteen year old boy with autism, Sebastian Rogers, from Hendersonville, TN, went missing at the end of February. His mom went up to his room to wake him and he wasn’t there. The police went looking for him, but haven’t found him yet.
Recently, a group calling itself the Royal Cajun Navy, decided to go look for him. I know nothing about the group, but before they really got started they stopped because people started making threats against them. I’m not sure if they’re good or bad people, but I definitely don’t understand people sometimes.
re: #7 Belafon
The Cajun Navy is a bunch of Good (Great) ol’ Boys with serious bass and other sport boats. Over time they have organized and trained themselves for water rescue in that part of the world.
re: #9 ckkatz
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Are they still whining about Ronna? Because the knock on her isn’t that she’s a Republican (Joe Scarborough is a Republican.)
It’s that she participated in a plot to overthrow Democracy. Come to think of it, so did Cruz.
re: #7 Belafon
I understand that the Cajun Navy was formed after Hurricane Katrina to provide emergency response during disasters. I also understand that they proved helpful after Hurricanes Harvey (2017) and Laura (2020). According to the Wiki article the United Cajun Navy is part of that group.
re: #6 Vicious Babushka
Your doppelganger definitely can move!
Made arroz con pollo at home for our last night here in Punta de Mita…let’s just say it was authentic Meh-xican…but limited ingredients and I will credit myself for making a tequila lime marinade from scratch though I’d like those last two shots of Tres Generaciones back…
This guy (who I first thought was Matt Walsh, but he isn’t) makes it plain as day:
This is what Christian Nationalism means.https://t.co/3hTWAopFr5
— James William Garrett 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@JamesWGarrett1) April 1, 2024
MAGA Pastor Says ‘200 Bibles’ Set Ablaze Outside His Church on Easter Morning
It’s that Asshole Greg Locke and I would not be surprised if it’s a stunt he set up.
Pastor Greg Locke, Global Vision’s founder and a self-professed “social media firebrand,” took to Facebook and Instagram to share photos of a charred utility trailer holding dozens of burned Bibles. In a caption, he said that the church’s security cameras had caught “a man” parking the trailer “right in front of our church.”
During his Sunday sermon, Locke framed the burning trailer as another warning shot. “The average church would be like, ‘Oh, my goodness, they’re coming against us.’ And I’m like, thank God they are. Thank God they are,” he told his audience, who cheered back at him.
“If you think that Christianity is not under attack more than ever before in the United States of America, you have not been paying attention. 🤣
Uh, Greg the problem is YOU and the ASSHOLES you encourage to go after people.
Le fantôme de l’opéra pic.twitter.com/eCVEKLxlIK
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) March 24, 2024
Higher prices for chocolate Easter treats hide the struggles of African farmers and climate change https://t.co/HuqCXCyBzr
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 28, 2024
“A pro-Trump rally in Georgia went terribly wrong as large speakers kept crashing to the ground, and at another point, their stage tipped over, and the pulpit hit the ground. The organizer, apparently not familiar with basic physics blamed ‘Democrats.’”
re: #25 Joe Bacon ✅
🤔 Somebody is trying to tell them something.
re: #12 Unabogie
Are they still whining about Ronna? Because the knock on her isn’t that she’s a Republican (Joe Scarborough is a Republican.)
It’s that she participated in a plot to overthrow Democracy. Come to think of it, so did Cruz.
While that is 100% true, and sufficient (for me)
The kicker is she was gonna work for a news organization. She’s a liar. No credibility. Couldn’t or wouldn’t even redeem herself on her first interview.
A favorite pastime is searching for old photographs of people and places of whom I’ve known of or been to just to actually see how they used to be. I ran across this photo, taken in 1915 from Red Bluff, CA showing the eruption of Mt. Lassen. Just one year later, Lassen National Park was created. While dormant now, Lassen is still considered a potential threat.
re: #18 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Worked that way with Israel.
LGF, 2010:
The Truth about Area 51: Project Have Doughnut and the Israeli connection.Much of the gear, tanks for instance, was familiar in the west,
And entrepreneural middlemen with Israeli connections like a old neighbor in Miami, sold captured Egyptian weapons to Central and South American dictators and political leaders like Anastasio Somoza.
My neighbor who got into weapon sales said Samoza was a good customer until he had leave Nicaragua. Samoza subsequently caught a bazooka shell in Paraguay.
re: #30 sizzzzlerz
A favorite pastime is searching for old photographs of people and places of whom I’ve known of or been to just to actually see how they used to be. I ran across this photo, taken in 1915 from Red Bluff, CA showing the eruption of Mt. Lassen. Just one year later, Lassen National Park was created. While dormant now, Lassen is still considered a potential threat.
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Wow. This is an amazing picture. To someone in 1915, it would have looked downright apocalyptic. We’d still be awed today. Back in the early 1970s, my family went camping around Mt. Lassen and I remember walking through a lava tube. At the time, we were told the volcano was dormant. I guess we’ve learned more in the last 50 years.
re: #33 darthstar
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I don’t know if my kids saw that, but they stopped wanting easter baskets long before wife stopped giving them one.
re: #30 sizzzzlerz
I grew up in Palo Cedro, about 50 miles west of Lassen. As a kid I took my dad’s truck to the Millville plains behind our property and collected lava rocks to line my mother’s garden. Must have collected 20 truckloads of rock.
All from the 1915 eruption.
re: #30 sizzzzlerz
A favorite pastime is searching for old photographs of people and places of whom I’ve known of or been to just to actually see how they used to be. I ran across this photo, taken in 1915 from Red Bluff, CA showing the eruption of Mt. Lassen. Just one year later, Lassen National Park was created. While dormant now, Lassen is still considered a potential threat.
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I love Lassen. We went there a few times when I was a kid (1960s) and we’ve gone nearly every year for the last 30 years. It is amazing how much things have changed over the years. It’s interesting to see how trees have grown back in the “devastated area” compared to the ’60s.
re: #31 BeenHereAwhile
And entrepreneural middlemen with Israeli connections like a old neighbor in Miami, sold captured Egyptian weapons to Central and South American dictators and political leaders like Anastasio Somoza.
My neighbor who got into weapon sales said Samoza was a good customer until he had leave Nicaragua. Samoza subsequently caught a bazooka shell in Paraguay.
I’ve never heard of the captured weapons being exported to Nicaragua. I do know that Somoza, among others, had a lot of Israeli made weapons and munitions, including small arms of every kind, artillery ammunition, aerial bombs and rockets, and vehicles. They also had Israeli uniforms, web gear, helmets etc.
Jimmy Carter did force Israel to end these deliveries after the start of the Sandinista revolution.
Israel also had a very extensive arms trade with South Africa, apparently including plans for the Jericho missile and even top secret material for the South African nuclear weapons program. Post apartheid revelations by the South African government are how we know that the Jericho was a direct copy of the French SSBS silo launched ballistic missile. The plans were apparently transfered before the French Israeli split in 1968.
That is all a dirty semi-secret but it does not invalidate anything I have said, or reduce the value of what we received from that relationship.
Successive administrations in this country have had leverage with Israel and largely refused to use it.
re: #34 Belafon
I lived with my grandparents while I was in college. Despite my being an adult, my grandmother would always give me a few chocolate treats every year on Easter.
She was sweet that way. I miss her so damn much. 😢
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
I lived with my grandparents while I was in college. Despite my being an adult, my grandmother would always give me a few chocolate treats every year on Easter.
She was sweet that way. I miss her so damn much. 😢
We had to go see my son about his phone this weekend. My wife took him a few things.
The problem is my kids stopped eating the big easter bunnies years ago. I told him when we went up to his room that he could leave them in the common area if he doesn’t want them.
re: #37 calochortus
I love Lassen. We went there a few times when I was a kid (1960s) and we’ve gone nearly every year for the last 30 years. It is amazing how much things have changed over the years. It’s interesting to see how trees have grown back in the “devastated area” compared to the ’60s.
It’s one of my favorites as well although I haven’t visited it nearly as often. I have always loved places like Lassen. Places like Mammoth Lakes, central Oregon around Bend, and Mt. Rainer in Washington.
re: #42 sizzzzlerz
It’s one of my favorites as well although I haven’t visited it nearly as often. I have always loved places like Lassen. Places like Mammoth Lakes, central Oregon around Bend, and Mt. Rainer in Washington.
All delightful locations. I’m also very fond of Great Basin Nat’l Park. There are just too many great places to visit especially if one wants to see them at different times of year, etc.
I know we’re occasionally fond of quoting this, so we’ll give it a source (I’m getting this from craftinginterpreters.com on making your own interpreted programming language, the author provides a literary quote he thinks matches the feeling of the chapter):
“As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.” - Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
The Somozas weren’t just popular with international arms dealers. His wife, Hope Portocorrero, was something of a jet set fashionista, noted for her elegant wardrobe and named to the World’s 10 Best Dressed Women list in 1968. She was refered to as “Madame Somoza,” (something like “Princess Grace”) in the celebrity press. She and Anastasio separated but did not divorce before the revolution. She re-married late in life and died in Miami in 1991. Her daughter with Anastasio, Carolina, is married to the son of New York real estate developer Henry H. Minskoff.
A rabbi was asked by one of his students “Why did God create atheists?” After a long pause, the rabbi finally responded with a soft but sincere voice. “God created atheists” he said, “to teach us the most important lesson of them all - the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs an act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that God commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his actions are based on his sense of morality. Look at the kindness he bestows on others simply because he feels it to be right. When someone reaches out to you for help. You should never say ‘I’ll pray that God will help you.’ Instead, for that moment, you should become an atheist - imagine there is no God who could help, and say ‘I will help you’.”
— Martin Buber, “Tales of the Hasidim”
re: #46 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I’ve been thinking about making a shirt that says “What would you do differently if God didn’t exist?”
re: #45 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
The Somozas weren’t just popular with international arms dealers. His wife, Hope Portocorrero, was something of a jet set fashionista, noted for her elegant wardrobe and named to the World’s 10 Best Dressed Women list in 1968. She was refered to as “Madame Somoza,” (something like “Princess Grace”) in the celebrity press. She and Anastasio separated but did not divorce before the revolution. She re-married late in life and died in Miami in 1991. Her daughter with Anastasio, Carolina, is married to the son of New York real estate developer Henry H. Minskoff.
Every time I am at some upper crust society event, which is not often but it does happen, I find myself wondering what kind of misery, cheating, and exploitation underpins the elegant lifestyles and expensive trappings. This is hardly an original observation but being from a poor background, I am probably more attuned to it than many others. They aren’t all scumbags by any means but many of them are and it is almost impossible to tell the difference in many cases.
It’s like “Borat” only Real Life!
re: #12 Unabogie
Are they still whining about Ronna? Because the knock on her isn’t that she’s a Republican (Joe Scarborough is a Republican.)
It’s that she participated in a plot to overthrow Democracy. Come to think of it, so did Cruz.
She could have acknowledged what she did was wrong and either offered a sincere apology or a standard insincere Repub non-apology (i.e. “I thought what I did was right, BUT…”) but she did neither. Instead, she first tried to deny she did anything wrong, and then when confronted with what she did she doubled down and insisted she was right to do it. After that, she was just another Rinsed Prius, another Trump apologist that the network hired because they wanted to appeal to MAGAts.
Pretending I’m Donald Trump selecting a VP. It’s not enough for someone to be sycophantic; Pence did that. Trump’s VP has to be someone who will commit any crime for Trump without hesitation or conscience. So if I were Trump, I would give each candidate a puppy to hold during the interview, then at some point I would order them to murder the puppy with their bare hands. The candidate who could do that without hesitation would be my VP. 
re: #46 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
My son was ranting about fundamentalists the other day. I shrugged and said that anyone who does something from the fear of hell or the hope of heaven has so missed the point of Jesus that He was irrelevant to them anyway.
Just do what is right and DGAF about them.
re: #37 calochortus
I love Lassen. We went there a few times when I was a kid (1960s) and we’ve gone nearly every year for the last 30 years. It is amazing how much things have changed over the years. It’s interesting to see how trees have grown back in the “devastated area” compared to the ’60s.
We used to camp between Mt Lassen and Chester CA. The National Forest campgrounds along the Feather River were primitive and empty. Now there are houses everywhere around there.
re: #51 No Malarkey!
Pretending I’m Donald Trump selecting a VP. It’s not enough for someone to be sycophantic; Pence did that. Trump’s VP has to be someone who will commit any crime for Trump without hesitation or conscience. So if I were Trump, I would give each candidate a puppy to hold during the interview, then at some point I would order them to murder the puppy with their bare hands. The candidate who could do that without hesitation would be my VP. [Embedded content]
I expect Trump to drag out the VP selection process as long as he possibly can, as not only does he not like sharing the spotlight, but he also absolutely loves the ego-stroking that all the hopefuls have been engaged in for months.
re: #38 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I’ve never heard of the captured weapons being exported to Nicaragua. I do know that Somoza, among others, had a lot of Israeli made weapons and munitions, including small arms of every kind, artillery ammunition, aerial bombs and rockets, and vehicles. They also had Israeli uniforms, web gear, helmets etc.
Jimmy Carter did force Israel to end these deliveries after the start of the Sandinista revolution.
Israel also had a very extensive arms trade with South Africa, apparently including plans for the Jericho missile and even top secret material for the South African nuclear weapons program. Post apartheid revelations by the South African government are how we know that the Jericho was a direct copy of the French SSBS silo launched ballistic missile. The plans were apparently transfered before the French Israeli split in 1968.
That is all a dirty semi-secret but it does not invalidate anything I have said, or reduce the value of what we received from that relationship.
Successive administrations in this country have had leverage with Israel and largely refused to use it.
I knew a couple of young men, ok, boys who were younger than me, in the early 80’s in my high school. Their father was my econ prof at the Uni when I was a HS senior (he was a good supply sider & I was a good democratic socialist. Enormous amounts of fun that went over most of the heads of the class. I got an A in the end).
The family had first fled from Somoza for being too leftist, went back to fight for the Sandinistas (the boys literally - they were the first ones to describe the Galil rifle to me as actual users of them) before they had to flee again, this time for being too right wing and ended up in Eau Claire WI.
re: #54 Targetpractice
I expect Trump to drag out the VP selection process as long as he possibly can, as not only does he not like sharing the spotlight, but he also absolutely loves the ego-stroking that all the hopefuls have been engaged in for months.
That makes sense. Trump treats the selection like a reality show contest, so the obvious time for the big reveal is at or just before the GOP Convention.
Dani J is a Bachata singer from Seville, Spain.
This clip is Entre Tú Y Mil Mares. It was originally done by Italian singer Laura Pausini in Italian. She then did a Spanish crossover version. It has since been covered by a lot of singers.
This version is the only ‘Official’ version of his that I could find.
re: #54 Targetpractice
I expect Trump to drag out the VP selection process as long as he possibly can, as not only does he not like sharing the spotlight, but he also absolutely loves the ego-stroking that all the hopefuls have been engaged in for months.
Trump is especially not interested in anyone more exciting, attractive, or eloquent than he is. He doesn’t want to be upstaged by a more dynamic personality, especially one that is actually knowledgeable.
Some good news out of Türkiye:
Turkey’s main opposition party dealt an unexpected blow to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule on Sunday with a sweeping victory in Turkey’s local elections, maintaining control of major cities including the capital, Ankara, and Istanbul, where Ekrem Imamoğlu secured a second term as mayor.
“My dear Istanbulites, you opened the door to a new future today,” Imamoğlu told overjoyed supporters of his opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) while declaring victory. “Starting from tomorrow, Turkey will be a different Turkey. You opened the door to the rise of democracy, equality and freedom … You ignited hope at the ballot box.”
Favourable turnout continued benefit the opposition as the night wore on, and the CHP secured control of a broad swath of western Turkey and scored wins across more conservative regions next to the Black Sea and central Anatolia, areas traditionally seen as hostile to its policies.
re: #55 William Lewis
The Galil was an interesting rifle. It was based upon a Finnish copy of the AK-47 . But was mostly built in the US M-16 (5.56x45) cartridge. It was intended as replacement for the standard IDF rifle, the FN-FAL after the 1973 war.
(Can’t blame them. The FN-FAL is long unwieldy, heavy and shoots the old 7.62x51 cartridge. Plus it really sucked due to many malfunctions from the desert dust. It got so bad that during the 1973 war a lot of soldiers ditched their FN and scrounged up very old Uzi submachine guns.)
However, as production geared up, the US decided to sell Israel M-16 and M-4’s. The US could produce the M-16 family much more cheaply than Israel could the Galil.
Eta- Galil is the Hebrew word for Galilee.
re: #52 William Lewis
My son was ranting about fundamentalists the other day. I shrugged and said that anyone who does something from the fear of hell or the hope of heaven has so missed the point of Jesus that He was irrelevant to them anyway.
Just do what is right and DGAF about them.
I always get a chuckle any time someone suggests or implies that the only thing keeping them “moral” is fear of “God” or eternal damnation. I can just go on Google and be deluged with plenty of examples of “Men of God” who buggered, stole, and lied their asses off because they know all they have to do is ask “forgiveness” and it’ll be granted for the right price.
re: #60 ckkatz
The Galil was an interesting rifle. It was based upon a Finnish copy of the AK-47 . But was mostly built in the US M-16 (5.56x45) cartridge. It was intended as replacement for the standard IDF rifle, the FN-FAL after the 1973 war.
(Can’t blame them. The FN-FAL is long unwieldy, heavy and shoots the old 7.62x51 cartridge. Plus it really sucked due to many malfunctions from the desert dust. It got so bad that during the 1973 war a lot of soldiers ditched their FN and scrounged up very old Uzi submachine guns.)
However, as production geared up, the US decided to sell Israel M-16 and M-4’s. The US could produce the M-16 family much more cheaply than Israel could the Galil.
Eta- Galil is the Hebrew word for Galilee.
I’d like to get a Galil sometime but they tend to $$$ in civilian versions.
re: #60 ckkatz
The Galil was an interesting rifle. It was based upon a Finnish copy of the AK-47 . But was mostly built in the US M-16 (5.56x45) cartridge. It was intended as replacement for the standard IDF rifle, the FN-FAL after the 1973 war.
(Can’t blame them. The FN-FAL is long unwieldy, heavy and shoots the old 7.62x51 cartridge. Plus it really sucked due to many malfunctions from the desert dust. It got so bad that during the 1973 war a lot of soldiers ditched their FN and scrounged up very old Uzi submachine guns.)
However, as production geared up, the US decided to sell Israel M-16 and M-4’s. The US could produce the M-16 family much more cheaply than Israel could the Galil.
Eta- Galil is the Hebrew word for Galilee.
Still, the FAL (and its British inch-dimensioned and semi-auto-only variant, the L1A1) wasn’t referred to as “the right arm of the free world” for decades for nothing, since many of the nations outside of the Soviet bloc used it at some point (or still use it), with the notable exception of the US (who trialed it in the 50s, but ended up going with the M14 instead). It definitely made some interesting history at times, like this:
In the more than 70 years of use worldwide, the FAL has seen use in conflicts all over the world. During the Falklands War, the FN FAL was used by both sides. The FAL was used by the Argentine armed forces and the L1A1 Self Loading Rifle (SLR), a semi-automatic only version of the FAL, was used by the armed forces of the UK and other Commonwealth nations.[108]
re: #40 Belafon
We had to go see my son about his phone this weekend. My wife took him a few things.
The problem is my kids stopped eating the big easter bunnies years ago. I told him when we went up to his room that he could leave them in the common area if he doesn’t want them.
My mother used to send me a Collin St. Bakery fruit cake every December when I was in college. I am no fruitcake fan, but there were a bunch of us who stayed in the co-op across the holidays and I used to share those fruitcakes, which were devoured. No meals were being served so yeah, some people made a meal out of that fruitcake. But not me.
re: #63 TedStriker
Still, the FAL (and its British variant, the L1A1) wasn’t referred as “the right arm of the free world” for decades for nothing, since many of the nations outside of the Soviet bloc used it at some point (with the notable exception of the US, who trialed it in the 50s, but ended up going with the M14 instead).
You are very correct that the FN-FAL was a very popular rifle among militaries of the world. And it does have many supporters. And even today there are a lot of collectors of it. And the NATO standard cartridge it is based on, 7.62x51 still also has a lot of supporters.
re: #65 ckkatz
You are very correct that the FN-FAL was a very popular rifle among militaries of the world. And it does have many supporters. And even today there are a lot of collectors of it. And the NATO standard cartridge it is based on, 7.62x51 still also has a lot of supporters.
Well, because, like the similar AK rounds, 7.62x51 NATO hits like a loco mule, if you can get it on-target, which is why some DMR and sniper rifles still use it.
re: #64 mmmirele
My mother used to send me a Collin St. Bakery fruit cake every December when I was in college. I am no fruitcake fan, but there were a bunch of us who stayed in the co-op across the holidays and I used to share those fruitcakes, which were devoured. No meals were being served so yeah, some people made a meal out of that fruitcake. But not me.
Mom would get the Claxton fruit cake bars every holiday season. Mom would put them in the freezer, slice them real thin and then put a shmear of cream cheese on a slice. Mom did her magic and make them edible.
One year we got the Harry & David fruitcake that is more of a confection and dad literally gobbled up half of it at one setting topping slice after slice with whipped cream.
re: #67 Joe Bacon ✅
Mom would get the Claxton fruit cake bars every holiday season. Mom would put them in the freezer, slice them real thin and then put a shmear of cream cheese on a slice. Mom did her magic and make them edible.
One year we got the Harry & David fruitcake that is more of a confection and dad literally gobbled up half of it at one setting topping slice after slice with whipped cream.
Fresh Claxton fruit cake is some good shit…
re: #63 TedStriker
Still, the FAL (and its British inch-dimensioned and semi-auto-only variant, the L1A1) wasn’t referred to as “the right arm of the free world” for decades for nothing, since many of the nations outside of the Soviet bloc used it (or still use it) at some point (with the notable exception of the US, who trialed it in the 50s, but ended up going with the M14 instead). It definitely made some interesting history at times, like this:
Put together one from a parts kit in another lifetime. It was a sweet rifle but feeding it .308 got to be too hard on the very limited budget I had at the time. 7.62x39 is much easier to deal with these days. I became very intimately aware of the pros and cons of the FAL/L1 design from it (it was an Inch parts kit with a healthy chunk of metric parts thrown in for confusions sake 😉 ) Should have kept it on the one hand but on the other, my current Zastava AK is probably better suited to me in many many ways.
re: #38 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I’ve never heard of the captured weapons being exported to Nicaragua. I do know that Somoza, among others, had a lot of Israeli made weapons and munitions, including small arms of every kind, artillery ammunition, aerial bombs and rockets, and vehicles. They also had Israeli uniforms, web gear, helmets etc.
Jimmy Carter did force Israel to end these deliveries after the start of the Sandinista revolution.*Snip*
That is all a dirty semi-secret but it does not invalidate anything I have said, or reduce the value of what we received from that relationship.
Successive administrations in this country have had leverage with Israel and largely refused to use it.
Didn’t mean to do anything but to substantiate what you wrote.
Israel did what was natural with captured weaponry they or the US had no need of - they sold it along with whatever else was allowed.
The 1960s & 1970s were a wild time in Miami, and Central America wanted arms to thwart expansion of the Cuban Revolution.
Being subsequently involved in several federal criminal court cases involving weapon sales, I bumped into enough ATF, MPD Bomb Squad, and attorneys who verified the neighbor’s activities.
As it was said, “in Miami, the rules are different.
re: #72 ericblair
The best thing about these two event happening on the same day is that by listening to those who whine the loudest we get a quick peek at who knows Jesus the least.
re: #63 TedStriker
Still, the FAL (and its British inch-dimensioned and semi-auto-only variant, the L1A1) wasn’t referred to as “the right arm of the free world” for decades for nothing, since many of the nations outside of the Soviet bloc used it at some point (or still use it), with the notable exception of the US (who trialed it in the 50s, but ended up going with the M14 instead). It definitely made some interesting history at times, like this:
They “trialed” in the sense that they put a FAL prototype chambered in 7.62x51mm against a prototype M14 (T44) and another prototype (T25) in a series of trials that were designed to favor the T44, came away with all three rifles giving similar results, and then coming up with petty excuses for why the T44 was “better” and adopting it instead.
Birb today. I was gonna say that I got a hole in one, then April Fool’s! but I’m really not into that.
BTW, isn’t an eagle a birdie? And why is one called out and the other is generic? I mean, what kind of birdie is it?
Sorry…4 am morning thoughts.
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re: #74 Targetpractice
They “trialed” in the sense that they put a FAL prototype chambered in 7.62x51mm against a prototype M14 (T44) and another prototype (T25) in a series of trials that were designed to favor the T44, came away with all three rifles giving similar results, and then coming up with petty excuses for why the T44 was “better” and adopting it instead.
The biggest lie in the whole mess was Springfield promising they could use most of the M1 tooling to produce the M14 so it could be built at significant savings (this is outlined in General Hatcher’s book “Hatcher’s Notebook”. He loved the M1 & there is insane levels of pro-M14 propaganda & anti FAL, AK, STG, & M-16 in his writings.) that of course was false & known by Springfield to be false. The costs of this was one of the biggest single causes of the closure of the armory.
I’ll be spending all of the daylight tomorrow this morning driving with my colleague from Ketchum, ID back to Edwards, CO. 11-12 hours. Oy.
re: #75 teleskiguy
I shared this to my Facebook. Fully expect to wake up to angry shit from the Christians in my “friends” list. Fuck ‘em.
re: #79 teleskiguy
I shared this to my Facebook. Fully expect to wake up to angry shit from the Christians in my “friends” list. Fuck ‘em.
It could’ve been worse. There is this meme.
re: #80 teleskiguy
It could’ve been worse. There is this meme.
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If I were any good at photoshop, I’d get Tom Ellis as Lucifer Morningstar high fiving him & going “Hell yes, Brother!” 😈
re: #77 William Lewis
The biggest lie in the whole mess was Springfield promising they could use most of the M1 tooling to produce the M14 so it could be built at significant savings (this is outlined in General Hatcher’s book “Hatcher’s Notebook”. He loved the M1 & there is insane levels of pro-M14 propaganda & anti FAL, AK, STG, & M-16 in his writings.) that of course was false & known by Springfield to be false. The costs of this was one of the biggest single causes of the closure of the armory.
If you can find a copy, I recommend the book that was recommended to me on the subject: “Misfire: The History of How America’s Small Arms Have Failed Our Military.” Long and short of it, the US Army came into being in the post-Revolution landscape of limited resources and war-time stories about men with Kentucky/Pennsylvania Rifles changing the tide of war with single shots and adopted the mindset that an army built around slow, accurate long-range fire was the ideal.
re: #82 Targetpractice
If you can find a copy, I recommend the book that was recommended to me on the subject: “Misfire: The History of How America’s Small Arms Have Failed Our Military.” Long and short of it, the US Army came into being in the post-Revolution landscape of limited resources and war-time stories about men with Kentucky/Pennsylvania Rifles changing the tide of war with single shots and adopted the mindset that an army built around slow, accurate long-range fire was the ideal.
I’ve read it. That misbegotten fantasy/ideal crippled the US Army for generations.
Bibi is trying to navigate massive unrest in Israel over the war, the hostages, and the possible conscription of Ultra-Orthodox men. If his government falls and new elections bring Benny Gantz to power, it could pave the way to a peace deal which includes some level of Palestinian self-determination.
re: #84 No Malarkey!
Bibi is trying to navigate massive unrest in Israel over the war, the hostages, and the possible conscription of Ultra-Orthodox men. If his government falls and new elections bring Benny Gantz to power, it could pave the way to a peace deal which includes some level of Palestinian self-determination.
This, from the article, is important:
Netanyahu is also facing a litany of corruption charges which are slowly making their way through the courts, and critics say his decisions appear to be focused on political survival over the national interest. Opinion polls show Netanyahu and his coalition trailing far behind their rivals if elections were held today.
Unless his governing coalition falls apart sooner, Netanyahu won’t face elections until spring of 2026.
Bibi understands full well that if his government falls apart, and new elections are held, the next phase of his career will most likely be as a prison inmate.
re: #85 Dr Lizardo
This, from the article, is important:
Bibi understands full well that if his government falls apart, and new elections are held, the next phase of his career will most likely be as a prison inmate.
Here is another article about how his coalition is split over the conscription issue. It’s going to take all of Bibi’s political skill to hold his majority together, because the ultra-orthodox parties will pull out if conscription of their men begins; Bibi is trying to get an extension of time to resolve the issue.
re: #86 No Malarkey!
Here is another article about how his coalition is split over the conscription issue. It’s going to take all of Bibi’s political skill to hold his majority together, because the ultra-orthodox parties will pull out if conscription of their men begins; Bibi is trying to get an extension of time to resolve the issue.
Yeah, if the IDF starts conscripting the Haredi, the ultra-orthodox parties will leave his coalition immediately, or at least, they’ve threatened to do so. Another issue is that funding is supposed to be cut, effective today. So far, I haven’t seen any mention in English-language Israeli media sources as to whether that’s happened or not.
re: #87 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, if the IDF starts conscripting the Haredi, the ultra-orthodox parties will leave his coalition immediately, or at least, they’ve threatened to do so. Another issue is that funding is supposed to be cut, effective today. So far, I haven’t seen any mention in English-language Israeli media sources as to whether that’s happened or not.
And what is gonna happen to the morale and morality of the IDF if those ultra-Orthodox guys are turned loose on Gaza?
re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And what is gonna happen to the morale and morality of the IDF if those ultra-Orthodox guys are turned loose on Gaza?
Honestly, I have no idea.
April Fools Day is our real anniversary—the day in 1966 when Wife and I became aware of each other. We were in the middle of an epic AWOL parachute club road trip to a dropzone in Ohio.
Must get a bottle of Snob Wine this afternoon.
re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And what is gonna happen to the morale and morality of the IDF if those ultra-Orthodox guys are turned loose on Gaza?
Even if conscription began today, it’s going to be awhile before those men are ready to deploy, and that is assuming they don’t resist conscription, basic training and deployment.
re: #91 No Malarkey!
Even if conscription began today, it’s going to be awhile before those men are ready to deploy, and that is assuming they don’t resist conscription, basic training and deployment.
And I could swear I read somewhere that Bibi managed to get a 30 day extension or something. Basically, he’s just kicking the can down the road a little bit rather than confronting the issue immediately.
re: #91 No Malarkey!
Even if conscription began today, it’s going to be awhile before those men are ready to deploy, and that is assuming they don’t resist conscription, basic training and deployment.
It will take some time, but what will it be like if they are deployed in a sensitive zone of conflict? (as if there were any other kind for them to be deployed in)
re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It will take some time, but what will it be like if they are deployed in a sensitive zone of conflict? (as if there were any other kind for them to be deployed in)
Or perhaps deployed to bases in the center of the country to free up reliable troops for use elsewhere?
re: #94 William Lewis
Or perhaps deployed to bases in the center of the country to free up reliable troops for use elsewhere?
Which will again have a negative impact on overall morale
re: #87 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, if the IDF starts conscripting the Haredi, the ultra-orthodox parties will leave his coalition immediately, or at least, they’ve threatened to do so. Another issue is that funding is supposed to be cut, effective today. So far, I haven’t seen any mention in English-language Israeli media sources as to whether that’s happened or not.
Aren’t they the most hawkish?
re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It will take some time, but what will it be like if they are deployed in a sensitive zone of conflict? (as if there were any other kind for them to be deployed in)
As I understand it, and keep in mind I am speaking from the expertise derived from reading an article on the internet, these Ultra-Orthodox are primarily focused on religious study, and aren’t the same people as the ultra-nationalists settling in the West Bank and displacing Palestinians. I’m sure VB is vastly more knowledgeable about this.
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The most hawkish but exempt from service.
It’s easy to be an ultra-hawk from the comfort of one’s tastefully-furnished parliamentary office.
re: #96 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Aren’t they the most hawkish?
Hawks don’t like to actually get shot at. It’s for the peons to shed blood and die for them.
re: #25 Joe Bacon ✅
“A pro-Trump rally in Georgia went terribly wrong as large speakers kept crashing to the ground, and at another point, their stage tipped over, and the pulpit hit the ground. The organizer, apparently not familiar with basic physics blamed ‘Democrats.’”
I finally went back and clicked through on this…OMG that stage is massive! I’m surprised thousands of people weren’t hurt!
re: #103 darthstar
I finally went back and clicked through on this…OMG that stage is massive! I’m surprised thousands of people weren’t hurt!
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You’re joking right? Was that seriously the stage that collapsed?
re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You’re joking right? Was that seriously the stage that collapsed?
Anybody have an extra holding pin for a tilt-a-bed? We lost ours as we were dumping manure just before we set up for the rally.
re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You’re joking right? Was that seriously the stage that collapsed?
Oh. I see. This was a 10 person “rally” for trump but he wasn’t there.
An interesting AP article here concerning Brazil….
Two days after Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco’s 2018 assassination, her widow sat down with the chief of the state’s civil police, Rivaldo Barbosa, who pledged to do everything in his power to hold the guilty parties to account.
In fact, the man Veja magazine once exalted as “Rio’s Sherlock” had the exact opposite intent, according to newly revealed allegations. Federal Police arrested Barbosa on March 24 — over six years later — for allegedly helping orchestrate Franco’s killing and taking money to obstruct the very investigation he would oversee.
“Hours after my wife’s murder, I was in front of a man who knew exactly what had happened and, more than that, who was part of ordering it,” Mônica Benício said through tears in an interview with TV Brasil after his arrest.
The explosive revelations in the nearly 500-page Federal Police report offer an unprecedented glimpse into how organized crime has undermined Rio’s institutions and reveal the extent of corruption in a city where militias allegedly pay police to look away. The death of Franco, a rising political star who resisted militias’ expansion and fought ardently for the poor, has driven home the consequences of allowing organized crime to run roughshod over Rio’s sprawling landscape.
re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Sadly, it is not a joke. But happily, look at that huge audience and stage with an amazing sound system!
re: #92 Dr Lizardo
And I could swear I read somewhere that Bibi managed to get a 30 day extension or something. Basically, he’s just kicking the can down the road a little bit rather than confronting the issue immediately.
The hold on yeshiva support seems to be a temporary freeze until a wider court ruling
A “source close to Netanyahu” said in response on Sunday that it was “unclear what was so urgent for the attorney general to create a schism in Israeli society on the draft issue, after the High Court accepted the prime minister’s request to complete a new plan within 30 days with an expanded bench of nine judges. The attorney general’s office is not authorized to empty the content of the High Court’s decisions.”
The comment by this “source close to Netanyahu” referred to the fact that the High Court’s directive to cease funding was given as a temporary measure, and that in May an expanded bench of nine justices will decide whether or not to make the measure permanent. This means that while yeshivot are likely to lose funding for the month of April, they can begin to receive funding once again as soon as May if the government can come up with a new proposal for the haredi draft that will earn the support of the attorney general.
re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It was a good excuse to dress up and listen to Carl talk about DEI chemtrails in the water and get a handful of Corinne’s flag cookies.
re: #109 Decatur Deb
Ah, OK, that clarifies the matter.
So, it wasn’t just American intel agencies that warned about the recent Moscow attack. The Iranians warned them too.
Iran tipped off Russia about the possibility of a major “terrorist operation” on its soil ahead of the concert hall massacre near Moscow last month, three sources familiar with the matter said.
In the deadliest attack inside Russia in 20 years, gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers on March 22 at the Crocus City Hall, killing at least 144 people in violence claimed by the Islamic State militant group.
“Days before the attack in Russia, Tehran shared information with Moscow about a possible big terrorist attack inside Russia that was acquired during interrogations of those arrested in connection with deadly bombings in Iran,” said one source.
re: #112 Dr Lizardo
So, it wasn’t just American intel agencies that warned about the recent Moscow attack. The Iranians warned them too.
Further proof that Ukraine was behind it, they are all in cahoots.
re: #115 darthstar
Why don’t we have systems like this in place for automobiles?
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Why don’t we have systems like this in place for automobiles?
Mostly the size of the batteries needed. There have been proposals but you need something like a quick lube change location so you could drive in, have a hatch on the vehicle opened, a large several hundred kg battery pulled out by a robot arm and a fresh one installed before driving away, probably (knowing American capitalism) for an “appropriate” service charge. So - a vehicle built to accept a standard battery, a standard battery, a standard changing station and a standard charger at the station. All built new.
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Why don’t we have systems like this in place for automobiles?
Auto batteries weigh over 800 lbs.
re: #118 Randall Gross
Yeah, that’s using something without permission of the trademark holder.
But, I will give the Murrieta PD a point or two for creativity. It made me chuckle the first time I saw it.
re: #117 William Lewis
You drive over one hatch, drop the battery, the car is then shunted over the next hatch where a battery is hydraulically raised into place.
Quick, simple efficient, easily implemented for municipal or commercial vehicle fleets.
There is one reason we don’t have this:
re: #117 William Lewis
It would take a high level of cradle-to-grave standardization, but swapping out from below could involve a system much like a pull-through car wash, but faster and drier.
Par…but as Palm Sunday was over a week ago I should be forgiven.
re: #122 Decatur Deb
It would take a high level of cradle-to-grave standardization, but swapping out from below could involve a system much like a pull-through car wash, but faster and drier.
We could have had it ages ago but…the whole would would think we were gay.
re: #61 Targetpractice
I always get a chuckle any time someone suggests or implies that the only thing keeping them “moral” is fear of “God” or eternal damnation. I can just go on Google and be deluged with plenty of examples of “Men of God” who buggered, stole, and lied their asses off because they know all they have to do is ask “forgiveness” and it’ll be granted for the right price.
Yep. Bonhoeffer’s cheap grace. The man did write a book about it (the Cost of Discipleship.
re: #120 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, that’s using something without permission of the trademark holder.
But, I will give the Murrieta PD a point or two for creativity. It made me chuckle the first time I saw it.
Thank god they can use Steamboat Willie’s head for free now in their mugshots.
re: #120 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, that’s using something without permission of the trademark holder.
But, I will give the Murrieta PD a point or two for creativity. It made me chuckle the first time I saw it.
It’s a way for the police to flout a law they don’t like I guess, the basic thing is they shouldn’t post pics of people who might be innocent (Like this guy)
However they still want to post pics instead of just releasing a statement that they have captured a suspect, or someone was detained, etc.
re: #119 darthstar
Auto batteries weigh over 800 lbs.
That makes their “fuel” to payload ratio something like 1:1. Half their effort is moving batteries around.
Considering everything else going on right now, I’ll take the little things.
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re: #127 Randall Gross
It’s a way for the police to flout a law they don’t like I guess, the basic thing is they shouldn’t post pics of people who might be innocent (Like this guy)
However they still want to post pics instead of just releasing a statement that they have captured a suspect, or someone was detained, etc.
Well, as Darthstar said, now they can just use Steamboat Willie’s head. Granted, they should probably content themselves with a press release or something.
re: #125 steve_davis
Yep. Bonhoeffer’s cheap grace. The man did write a book about it (the Cost of Discipleship.
An excellent book and probably one of the greatest works of theology in the last several hundred years that I’ve read. Of course, I’m just an amateur so I’m sure I’ve missed a lot.
To go along with my comment up thread, “Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
And Nietzsche’s Übermensch had nothing to do with the Nazi’s racial ideal (although they tried to co-opt him as one of their own) but rather also the sort of person who does not need a strict moral code or fear of punishment to understand how and want to be a good and moral person of their own free will.
And isn’t Free Will also the basis of what Christian Morality is supposed to be about?
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And Nietzsche’s Übermensch had nothing to do with the Nazi’s racial ideal (although they tried to co-opt him as one of their own) but rather also the sort of person who does not need a strict moral code or fear of punishment to understand how and want to be a good and moral person of their own free will.
And isn’t Free Will also the basis of what Christian Morality is supposed to be about?
Dunno about that, but as stated above Willy is free.
Willy has been liberated, but we are Born Free
re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Willy has been liberated, but we are Born Free
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
For some reason, whenever I read Nietzsche’s name, I always think of A Fish Called Wanda, and then I immediately think of this…
“Now let me correct you on a couple things, okay? Aristotle was not Belgian! The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself!” And the London Underground is not a political movement! Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked ‘em up.”
👀 A massive fire has broken out at one of Russia’s largest “defense” factories, Uralmash, in Yekaterinburg.
The causes are currently unknown. pic.twitter.com/HjDyr3ZJdV— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) April 1, 2024
Dear oh dear.
re: #125 steve_davis
Yep. Bonhoeffer’s cheap grace. The man did write a book about it (the Cost of Discipleship.
If the only reason you are moral is because of fear, you are a bad person.
re: #56 No Malarkey!
That makes sense. Trump treats the selection like a reality show contest, so the obvious time for the big reveal is an announcement at or just before the GOP Convention, that there will be an announcement in two weeks.
re: #114 darthstar
I did it, and I didn’t regret it.
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re: #91 No Malarkey!
Even if conscription began today, it’s going to be awhile before those men are ready to deploy, and that is assuming they don’t resist conscription, basic training and deployment.
More likely support than frontline soldiers.
Imo, but what do I know?
re: #92 Dr Lizardo
And I could swear I read somewhere that Bibi managed to get a 30 day extension or something. Basically, he’s just kicking the can down the road a little bit rather than confronting the issue immediately.
That delay tactic. Where have I seen it before?
re: #139 ericblair
According to updated information, the area of the fire at the Uralmashzavod plant has increased to 4000m², the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports.
re: #139 ericblair
Always skeptical of these kinds of videos. I’m sure the truth is somewhere in the middle.
re: #125 steve_davis
Yep. Bonhoeffer’s cheap grace. The man did write a book about it (the Cost of Discipleship.
I can sort of understand someone “sincerely” interpreting things in a way that ultimately proved incorrect when they arrived at the gates.
I do not understand those who think they’re smarter than god, can “cheat” and get away with it or that god doesn’t know everything including their every thought and motivation
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Why don’t we have systems like this in place for automobiles?
You want to take my battery and give me some stranger’s battery?
Americans can’t have nice things because Americans are too selfish and short-sighted.
re: #154 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
You want to take my battery and give me some stranger’s battery?
Americans can’t have nice things because Americans are too selfish and short-sighted.
But we have a scale model in the big box store propane tank swaps.
𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗴𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁
re: #156 Decatur Deb
But we have a scale model in the big box store propane tank swaps.
Where communists tried to take my tank and give me someone else’s rusty tank!1!
re: #154 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
You want to take my battery and give me some stranger’s battery?
Americans can’t have nice things because Americans are too selfish and short-sighted.
How do I know you didn’t give me a battery filled with GREEN energy?
Meanwhile in the Villages:
Hasbeen actor and nutjob Randy Quaid will be here, along with nutjob Laura Loomer for a “fundraiser for January 6th defendants”. Tickets, for those stupid enough to want to attend, will be from $150 to $1000 each.
Someone ought to give these “Villagers for Trump 47” assholes some cognitive tests, because they have clearly lost their minds, and seem to be dangerous to themselves and others.
re: #153 Dr Lizardo
Ah, a movie from my childhood… where being an architect was heroic.
re: #157 Joe Bacon ✅
𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗴𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁
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If Joe Biden had deliberately changed the policy on egg decoration to allow religious symbols on eggs, Republicans would have either (1) mischaracterized it as a religious symbol mandate and complained about Democratic government mandates; or (2) complained about Democrats desecrating of religious symbols by allowing them on a non-religious Easter symbol.
This has nothing to do with any principles. Its being contrarian. To everything.
Mark Burns, a résumé-padding, culture war-obsessed MAGA cultist and preacher who failed in his 2022 bid for Congress, has finally launched a Christian military academy he first announced back in October.
Last year, Burns described the “Burns Military Christian Academy” as necessary “to save our children from the evil public school system.”
He said on Facebook that the school would ensure that students “are not exposed to LGBTQ, CRT, or ‘woke’ teachings.” They would also wear “military-inspired” uniforms while using the Abeka curriculum (a fundamentalist Christian company that specializes in writing textbooks for parents who don’t want their kids to actually learn anything).
It’s familiar rhetoric for anyone who’s followed Burns and his political trajectory over the years. In November of 2021, he called for the establishment of a theocracy, saying that anything “contrary to the word of God” needs to be removed from the country and made “illegal.” This is a man who offered up a biblical defense when Trump condemned African nations as “shithole countries.”
Burns is a professional liar who wants to put his hand on the Bible while torching the Constitution. For a preacher who falsely claimed he spent six years in the Army Reserve, this was just the latest example of Burns disrespecting the people who actually serve in uniform.
re: #161 Joe Bacon ✅
Meanwhile in the Villages:
Hasbeen actor and nutjob Randy Quaid will be here, along with nutjob Laura Loomer for a “fundraiser for January 6th defendants”. Tickets, for those stupid enough to want to attend, will be from $150 to $1000 each.
Someone ought to give these “Villagers for Trump 47” assholes some cognitive tests, because they have clearly lost their minds, and seem to be dangerous to themselves and others.
None of the defendants will see a dime
re: #163 Dangerman
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This has nothing to do with any principles. Its being contrarian. To everything.
re: #139 ericblair
A massive fire has broken out at one of Russia’s largest “defense” factories, Uralmash, in Yekaterinburg.
The causes are currently unknown.
The factory workers were glowing with such patriotic ardour that they spontaneously combusted.
re: #142 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
If the only reason you are moral is because of fear, you are a bad person.
All it takes is enough alcohol, drugs, mass anonymity or mass hyteria and you revert to a completely animalistic brute.
Sigh…looks like next weekend’s not a good weekend to go down to Nepenthe..
re: #148 Dr Lizardo
According to updated information, the area of the fire at the Uralmashzavod plant has increased to 4000m², the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports.
They did the mash, the Uralmash, it was a zavodnik smash
re: #152 GlutenFreeJesus
Would be really cool if it was widespread.
The American auto industry woldn’t consider it, but the Norwegian would…
re: #156 Decatur Deb
But we have a scale model in the big box store propane tank swaps.
I go down every six months or so and swap out my 11kg propane tank for my stove (around 4 gallons volume) for a new one.
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The American auto industry woldn’t consider it, but the Norwegian would…
No Beatles earworms on a Monday morning!
re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I go down every six months or so and swap out my 11kg propane tank for my stove (around 4 gallons volume) for a new one.
I take mine down to the station where they refill it. Got two empties at home right now…probably need to do that before I try to grill again.
re: #177 darthstar
I take mine down to the station where they refill it. Got two empties at home right now…probably need to do that before I try to grill again.
just put two racks of ribs on the grill (Easter Monday is a holiday here and in most of Europe)
got cole slaw marinating and the spuds will get put in the coals once the ribs have been smoked nice and tender.
GOP Congresswoman Going After OnlyFans Doesn’t Have a Clue
Daily Beast is wrong about that.
Rep. Ann Wagner is jealous of all those folks doing “naughty” things and getting paid for it.
Back in 2017, Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO) orchestrated the passage of a pair of laws, known as FOSTA/SESTA, targeting sex workers. Now, she’s launching a new war on OnlyFans.
According to XBiz’s Gustavo Turner, Wagner recently accused the subscription-based platform of pushing illegal child porn videos and facilitating sex trafficking. “It is absolutely unconscionable,” she told Reuters in March. “These findings confirm what my office has known for years: Americans are being sexually exploited on OnlyFans. Congress and federal law enforcement must do more.”
I take it Wagner doesn’t subscribe or post on OnlyFans, but I do. And as one of the top earners on the platform, I know her accusations aren’t just far-fetched—they contradict the very nature of the website.
When do ghosts play tricks on each other?
On April Ghoul’s day….
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re: #182 Joe Bacon ✅
It wouldn’t be April Fool’s without this classic!
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Told my daughter I was going to build a car out of spaghetti….
Should have seen her face when I drove pasta
In our house, fusilli is referred to as “you crazy bastard” pasta
It is that day again… Puns, innuendo and broken locks - what is not to like?
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In our house, fusilli is referred to as “you crazy bastard” pasta
Going to start using that.
LP looking to get under Trump’ skin again…fine.
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
just put two racks of ribs on the grill (Easter Monday is a holiday here and in most of Europe)
got cole slaw marinating and the spuds will get put in the coals once the ribs have been smoked nice and tender.
In Northern Italy, it’s Pasquetta (Little Easter). That’s considered the opening day of picnic season.
re: #189 Decatur Deb
Good.
It’s safe to say neither will their lawyers. It’s in Florida, it’s being underwritten by Save America PAC who will see that money gets to its rightful beneficiary..
They ID’d the guys who had the horrendous Biden sticker on the back of their truck.
Get yours now for just 30 pieces of silver. pic.twitter.com/rMCl5wzL46
— Carlos Larana (@Dikototo) March 30, 2024
◼ “So many people ask, ‘Why would you move back to Kansas?’ I tell them all the same thing — you’ve got to take your vacation goggles off”
◼ “It wasn’t the utopia on any level that I thought it would be….I didn’t expect it to be literally 100 degrees at night.”
◼ “Everyone is walking around with guns there….I consider myself a conservative guy, but if you want to carry a gun you should be licensed, there should be some sort of process.”
◼ “You cannot engage in a conversation there without politics coming up, it is just crazy. We’re retired, we’re supposed to be in our fun time of life….I learned quickly, just keep your mouth shut”
◼ Homeowners insurance rates in Florida rose 42% last year to an average of $6,000 annually, driven by hurricanes and climate change, and car insurance in Florida is more than 50% higher than the national average
◼ But while hundreds of thousands of new residents have flocked to the state on the promise of beautiful weather, no income tax and lower costs, nearly 500,000 left in 2022, according to the most recent census data.
LOL!
re: #195 Dr. Matt
But while hundreds of thousands of new residents have flocked to the state on the promise of beautiful weather, no income tax and lower costs, nearly 500,000 left in 2022, according to the most recent census data.
Even more will flee as the state sinks and sinks and sinks…
re: #170 darthstar
Sigh…looks like next weekend’s not a good weekend to go down to Nepenthe..
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re: #197 Joe Bacon ✅
They are already feeling the waters rising around them in the form of insurance rates. If they can find insurance at all…
re: #76 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Birb today. I was gonna say that I got a hole in one, then April Fool’s! but I’m really not into that.
BTW, isn’t an eagle a birdie? And why is one called out and the other is generic? I mean, what kind of birdie is it?
Sorry…4 am morning thoughts.
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So as of today it is legal to grow up to three cannabis plants per person in Germany, and to possess up to 25g in public and up to 50g at home.
And to consume it in public, they even published a map of where it is allowed and where not (within 100 meters of a school or playground, for example, and not in pedestrian precincts between 7am and 8pm, etc.)
I even ordered and planted some seeds for the balcony. The popped up and immediately started lecturing me about the Patriarchy and systemic wage inequality.
Then I realized they were feminized seeds…
re: #164 Joe Bacon ✅
Mark Burns, a résumé-padding, culture war-obsessed MAGA cultist and preacher who failed in his 2022 bid for Congress, has finally launched a Christian military academy he first announced back in October.
Last year, Burns described the “Burns Military Christian Academy” as necessary “to save our children from the evil public school system.”
Queue news reports of sexual and disciplinary misconduct by members of the school staff.
re: #78 teleskiguy
I’ll be spending all of the daylight
tomorrowthis morning driving with my colleague from Ketchum, ID back to Edwards, CO. 11-12 hours. Oy.
In that amount of time you could drive from Detroit to the Holland Tunnel in New Jersey (driving across Manhattan & through Brooklyn will take another 11-12 hours.)
Lead Shoes…… If they want to wear them.
Party officials in several counties have adopted resolutions against H-E-B for a litany of alleged offenses against the state Republican platform. 🤦🏻♀️ #txlege https://t.co/QXzkEJn7lV
— Michelle (@LoneStarLeft) March 31, 2024
Republicans in disarray as GOP House members take sides in the GOP primary of HFC leader Bob Good.
re: #76 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Birb today. I was gonna say that I got a hole in one, then April Fool’s! but I’m really not into that.
BTW, isn’t an eagle a birdie? And why is one called out and the other is generic? I mean, what kind of birdie is it?
Sorry…4 am morning thoughts.
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re: #209 No Malarkey!
Republicans in disarray as GOP House members take sides in the GOP primary of HFC leader Bob Good.
NYT: Republican Party disarray is bad news for the unified Democrat Party
re: #211 Dr. Matt
lol. Real bad new for the D’s. Biden might actually be re-elected.
re: #209 No Malarkey!
Republicans in disarray as GOP House members take sides in the GOP primary of HFC leader Bob Good.
I wish them luck. Would be great if it was the start of a move to get rid of the nihilists.
just got one of those spam emails about sending $2k because they took over my machine months ago and have been recording the audio and video from my webcam*.
*of which i don’t have one
DJT Stock is having an April Fools kinda of day
Yahoo Ticker
Meta is shutting down CrowdTangle, a vital tool for tracking election misinformation, in August, just in time for the presidential election!
re: #215 Broad With Sass
$DJT -10%
❖ FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY LOST OVER $58 MILLION IN 2023, AXIOS REPORTS IN CITING A SEC FILINGS
re: #218 lawhawk
$DJT -10%
❖ FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY LOST OVER $58 MILLION IN 2023, AXIOS REPORTS IN CITING A SEC FILINGS
So by the time he is clear to sell this stock it will be worth less than a McDonald’s Happy Meal?
Building close to Iranian embassy hit in Syria, Iranian media report https://t.co/AdfIfe7bzZ pic.twitter.com/JrJqqcjgv8
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 1, 2024
Someone or something blew up the building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He’ll be able to buy a happy meal for the full cost of the happy meal, plus the paper receipt from his stock sale.
re: #76 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
My wife got me today with an April fools joke. I asked her to pop a package in the postal mailbox for an eBay sale I made while she was on her walk. She came back looking very concerned and satire she dropped it in a storm rain, was agreed in and she needed help to get it out: what was it, how much, etc. Brain was saying I believe this, very her … Back and forth… Not happy, but about to get up and help her retrieve it, when HA! Gotcha.
re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So by the time he is clear to sell this stock it will be worth less than a McDonald’s Happy Meal?
He’ll be lucky to afford a cheeseburger. Not a value menu cheeseburger, though.
Just the cheeseburger.
re: #224 Dr Lizardo
He’ll be lucky to afford a cheeseburger. Not a value menu cheeseburger, though.
Just the cheeseburger.
no Pepsi
re: #226 Joe Bacon ✅
In a purely Free Market system, repairs and maintenance are expenses to be minimized in order to enhance bottom line profits.
In a healthy economic system, Infrastructure maintenance is seen as an investment in a vital resource.
Just look at what happened to the UK after the mass privatization wave starting with Thatcher.
Same applies to things like education, health care, environmental and safety protections.
re: #215 Broad With Sass
DJT Stock is having an April Fools kinda of day
Yahoo Ticker
The smart money bought on Thursday and is dumping today because who knows how fast it will fall when he loses his shit and blames President Biden…
Down 18% - it can go lower.
BREAKING: Trump rushed to hospital after collapsing at campaign event
Trump was in the middle of remarks about his legal issues while addressing a group of Florida donors when he suddenly gripped the podium and collapsed moments later.
Reports indicate he was taken to Sanitas Medical Center in Palm Beach.
Little is known about his condition at this time but this article will be updated as more information becomes available.
A Trump campaign spokesperson declined to comment on the incident at this time.
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
Don’t give us hope like that.
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
Gonna treat anything relating to Trump or Biden health today as fake unless multiple sources confirm and there’s unadulterated live feed to show.
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
BREAKING: Trump rushed to hospital after collapsing at campaign event
Cruel to give us false hope like that!
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
Nice. An April Fools Joke.
re: #234 lawhawk
Gonna treat anything relating to Trump or Biden health today as fake unless multiple sources confirm and there’s unadulterated live feed to show.
unadulterated live feed
re: #237 wrenchwench
unadulterated live feed
Was gonna repeat that like 10 times, but it want to get up there.
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
BREAKING: Trump rushed to hospital after collapsing at campaign event
April’s fooling us? 😢
re: #231 darthstar
The smart money bought on Thursday and is dumping today because who knows how fast it will fall when he loses his shit and blames President Biden…
Down 18% - it can go lower.
If I’m reading this correctly, I can put in a bid to buy at roughly half the current value this Friday?
Many years ago when I worked at John Wanamaker in a lease department we had a boss who came in from Florida. He was in Philly for the day and did a quicky tour of City Hall. A few of my fellow salespeople got wind that his last name was Fox. You guessed it he was given the phone number of the Philadelphia Zoo and told to check in with his relatives. Fortunately he used to live in the area and recognized the number.
re: #239 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yesterday, some wag posted on Reddit’s Movies sub a headline that said, “Margot Robbie in talks to star in next film of Legendary’s Godzilla trilogy”.
Yeah, it got me, I admit. 😄
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
BREAKING: Trump rushed to hospital after collapsing at campaign event
Know what would be really side-splittingly hilarious right now?
If the Cheeto beast actually did croak today. We have 13 hours here in CDT, California has even more. LET’S GO NATURE!
re: #239 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
April’s fooling us? 😢
Didn’t even bite…he hasn’t done a campaign event in two weeks.
re: #243 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Know what would be really side-splittingly hilarious right now?
If the Cheeto beast actually did croak today. We have 13 hours here in CDT, California has even more. LET’S GO NATURE!
I’d rather one or more DAs prosecuting him revoked his bail and demanded he show up by noon on Friday in NY or GA to be remanded into custody.
If we’re gonna have a shit show, let the feces fly.
re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg
We wouldn’t be that lucky. He’s still alive.
re: #244 darthstar
Didn’t even bite…he hasn’t done a campaign event in two weeks.
Plus it’s too early in the day. I don’t think he wakes from his junk food high until now.
re: #247 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Plus it’s too early in the day. I don’t think he wakes from his junk food high until now.
Also, a medical DQ from the race would immediately throw a Haley/Pence/Christie hot oil wrestling match on the card…even Vivek would be jumping on that pile. Do they try to woo the MAGA base or kick them to the curb and shoot for the moderate vote knowing conservatives will vote R no matter what?
re: #248 darthstar
Also, a medical DQ from the race would immediately throw a Haley/Pence/Christie hot oil wrestling match on the card…even Vivek would be jumping on that pile. Do they try to woo the MAGA base or kick them to the curb and shoot for the moderate vote knowing conservatives will vote R no matter what?
We’d suffer an immediate national popcorn shortage.
re: #215 Broad With Sass
DJT Stock is having an April Fools kinda of day
Yahoo Ticker
Screw you for this, btw…now I’m obsessed hoping it hits -19% soon. It’s close - only about .24 to go…
re: #170 darthstar
Sigh…looks like next weekend’s not a good weekend to go down to Nepenthe..
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re: #241 PhillyPretzel ✅
Many years ago when I worked at John Wanamaker in a lease department we had a boss who came in from Florida. He was in Philly for the day and did a quicky tour of City Hall. A few of my fellow salespeople got wind that his last name was Fox. You guessed it he was given the phone number of the Philadelphia Zoo and told to check in with his relatives. Fortunately he used to live in the area and recognized the number.
I was assigned a number that used to belong to a Mr Lloyd Beaver. After repeated calls from people asking for Mr Beaver I started asking if they would like to speak to Mr Woodchuck instead.
re: #250 darthstar
Screw you for this, btw…now I’m obsessed hoping it hits -19% soon. It’s close - only about .24 to go…
at $60 his share was 4.7 billion….now it’s closer to 3.8 billion - so he’s lost close to a billion dollars this morning (on paper). I’m okay with that.
re: #253 darthstar
at $60 his share was 4.7 billion….now it’s closer to 3.8 billion - so he’s lost close to a billion dollars this morning (on paper). I’m okay with that.
He cannot sell it for another five weeks…
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He cannot sell it for another five weeks…
I thought it was six months not six weeks.
re: #255 darthstar
I thought it was six months not six weeks.
then it will not even be a Happy Meal. And nobody is gonna take it as collateral for a loan either.
Hello all. Got my Philles game in yesterday. Packed house, not too hot and a come from behind victory where 2 potential inning ending outs were reversed on replay FOR the Phils.
Two in one game for the same team?
Not common.
House was a rocking.
Mom was at daughters house and we came back and ate at Maggiano’s in King Of Prussia.
Great day, great game, great meal and great company.
re: #257 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
then it will not even be a Happy Meal. And nobody is gonna take it as collateral for a loan either.
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[Trump walks into a McDonalds]: “Can I have a napkin?”
[McD’s counter person]: “No. Go away.”
[Trump walks away to sad trombone noises]
And….scene.
re: #151 Dangerman
I can sort of understand someone “sincerely” interpreting things in a way that ultimately proved incorrect when they arrived at the gates.
I do not understand those who think they’re smarter than god, can “cheat” and get away with it or that god doesn’t know everything including their every thought and motivation
the Catholic church already went through all of this with the idea of indulgences, which were really promulgated on an idea with absolutely zero basis for why it would exist—Purgatory. Somehow, you can either buy your way to salvation with coin, or with a kind of arduous pilgrimage (which you have to pronounce “pilgrimajuh” so that you sound appropriate for the early 1300’s), or by just paying an amount of gold sufficient to give you a literal “get out of jail not-so-free” bit of paper. And all of THAT, by the way, was helped along by a clever little man named Gutenberg, who allowed mass printing of indulgences via his invention, the printing press (here endeth my impression of James Burke and Connections).
One of the central tenets of the protestant sects—the whole “you can’t get to heaven based on Acts”—was built precisely because of the distaste those groups had for the pilgrimages and the indulgences. And of course, the less educated Baptist sects, along with pentecostals and other various holy rollers, have managed to bring it all around full circle by now imagining that Trump isnt’ the antichrist because a)they don’t wish that to be so and b)he grants them precisely the sorts of things that they want, which is precisely what Antichrist does, as all demons do.
re: #259 Dr Lizardo
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[Trump walks into a McDonalds]: “Can I have a napkin?”
[McD’s counter person]: “No. Go away.”
[Trump walks away to sad trombone noises]
And….scene.
You forgot the part where he screams “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!” and the counter grunt goes “Yes, I just don’t give a shit.”
Ukrainian Defender of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade rescued two boarlets in the forests of the Kharkiv region and named them Tisha and Tosha. Another Defender with the call sign “Sladkii” (“Sweet”) sheltered a red-listed marbled polecat.
Ukrainian soldiers constantly rescue wild… pic.twitter.com/osgiLQ5twq— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 1, 2024
Oh, yeah….
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re: #264 darthstar
Oh, yeah….
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re: #115 darthstar
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When electric cars were first starting to get seriously discussed, I thought this idea would be best. All agree on a standard battery that could be dropped into the car when the old battery ran out, rather than stand around waiting for the currently installed battery to charge. I knew this was far fetched because battery technology would change too often to make that feasible, but something along those lines would be nice.
re: #21 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
Had to stop watching that vid. I was about to vomit.
To that bearded, Christo-fascist: Stop using the Bible as an excuse to gain power.
re: #261 steve_davis
They can get their souls washed clean and walk away, promising never to sin again.
But liberals and gays and transvestites/transgenders, feminists, etc., all those whose entire lifestyle is an abdomination unto the Lord cannot be forgiven until they abandon their sinful ways.
Best possible use case for AI: Algorithmically duplicating my Dad on the phone with a company service rep (also probably AI) complaining about some trivial detail in an attempt to get a refund for a used item. Does that new counter top soap dispenser not shoot out at the 45 degree angle you were expecting? Does it just shoot straight down into the sink like some kind of disgusting slut? Call Moen today and get PAID!
Today is also National One Cent Day!
…which is how much TRUTH stock is going to be worth by the time the market closes today!
re: #261 steve_davis
the Catholic church already went through all of this with the idea of indulgences, which were really promulgated on an idea with absolutely zero basis for why it would exist—Purgatory. Somehow, you can either buy your way to salvation with coin, or with a kind of arduous pilgrimage (which you have to pronounce “pilgrimajuh” so that you sound appropriate for the early 1300’s), or by just paying an amount of gold sufficient to give you a literal “get out of jail not-so-free” bit of paper. And all of THAT, by the way, was helped along by a clever little man named Gutenberg, who allowed mass printing of indulgences via his invention, the printing press (here endeth my impression of James Burke and Connections).
One of the central tenets of the protestant sects—the whole “you can’t get to heaven based on Acts”—was built precisely because of the distaste those groups had for the pilgrimages and the indulgences. And of course, the less educated Baptist sects, along with pentecostals and other various holy rollers, have managed to bring it all around full circle by now imagining that Trump isnt’ the antichrist because a)they don’t wish that to be so and b)he grants them precisely the sorts of things that they want, which is precisely what Antichrist does, as all demons do.
thanks for the overview
so there are no new ideas really
re: #267 Eventual Carrion
When electric cars were first starting to get seriously discussed, I thought this idea would be best. All agree on a standard battery that could be dropped into the car when the old battery ran out, rather than stand around waiting for the currently installed battery to charge. I knew this was far fetched because battery technology would change too often to make that feasible, but something along those lines would be nice.
I remember reading a proposal ages ago that suggested something similar, only it was a way to retrofit gas stations so ICE owners converting over to EVs could feel comfortable making the transition. It was similar to Ford’s idea for their own nuclear car back in the day, with stations keeping fully charged battery packs in underground storage bays and the act of “refueling” being nothing more than pulling atop an automated machine that would remove your car’s flat battery pack and swap it for a charged one. The only stumbling block is (of course) that the industry would have to standardize on battery packs and we know how they feel about using something that everybody else is using.
re: #117 William Lewis
Mostly the size of the batteries needed. There have been proposals but you need something like a quick lube change location so you could drive in, have a hatch on the vehicle opened, a large several hundred kg battery pulled out by a robot arm and a fresh one installed before driving away, probably (knowing American capitalism) for an “appropriate” service charge. So - a vehicle built to accept a standard battery, a standard battery, a standard changing station and a standard charger at the station. All built new.
Tesla floated this idea over a decade ago… and it never went anywhere
If Donald gives himself 78.5 million shares of stock at $61.97 a share on Friday afternoon, and Monday trading closes at $47.83, how much money did he lose in one day?
(Markets aren’t closed yet, but do the math…and hope the TV analysts all mention how much money he lost so he gets reminded of it every hour after the market closes in 20 minutes).
re: #277 KGxvi
Tesla floated this idea over a decade ago… and it never went anywhere
As mentioned, it has to be an industry-wide standard that benefits all users and brands equally.
I wouldn’t trust Musk to come up with a scheme that would not push him into a monopoly position.
aging well
shocked — shocked! — that the stock for Trump’s worthless social media platform is trending toward worthless pic.twitter.com/MvwbrxXkXa
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2024
re: #280 Dangerman
aging well
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— Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) April 1, 2024
So how many Powerball tickets is Trump buying today since the jackpot just went over a billion dollars?
re: #280 Dangerman
aging well
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re: #282 Joe Bacon ✅
So how many Powerball tickets is Trump buying today since the jackpot just went over a billion dollars?
Crap…I’m still in Mexico. Won’t be back in CA until later tonight…wait. That draw is on Wednesday right?
re: #84 No Malarkey!
Gantz had better have air tight security in that case. Remember what happened to the last guy that tried to make peace with one of Israel’s opponents?
Another thought to warm the viscous black fluid pumping through our cold, dead hearts: Donny’s burned through 6.5 of his 10 days to cough up $175m before Tia James starts measuring Trump Tower for new drapes.
re: #276 darthstar
The invisible hand of the free market.
Or in this case, maybe the invisible finger.
/
With 12 minutes to go Trump should ‘truth’ - BUY ON THE DIP!! and see how well that works with the street.
Okay…back under 48…end of day sell off should keep it close to that. A 22%+ drop.
A meme stock is imploding? The hell you say!
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46.95-15.01 (-24.23%)
Didn’t stay, but it did dip its toe…
re: #292 Targetpractice
A meme stock is imploding? The hell you say!
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What is the Guinness world record for a meme stock dissolving into nothing?…at 23% a day he could be wiped in a week.
i said ‘going concern’ way, way back when (1)
they did the deal and it didnt help
it’s still true now (2)
In a regulatory filing on Monday, Trump Media said it lost $58.2 million in 2023, compared with a profit of $50.5 million in 2022.
The Truth Social owner generated just $4.1 million in revenue, although that was up from $1.5 million in 2022.
The losses are so severe that Trump Media’s accountants warn they “raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern,” (2) which is Wall Street for: We may not be able to stay in business. That warning echoes one made in November when accountants said Trump Media might not survive unless it soon completes its merger to go public (1).
re: #295 darthstar
What is the Guinness world record for a meme stock dissolving into nothing?…at 23% a day he could be wiped in a week.
re: #278 darthstar
If Donald gives himself 78.5 million shares of stock at $61.97 a share on Friday afternoon, and Monday trading closes at $47.83, how much money did he lose in one day?
(Markets aren’t closed yet, but do the math…and hope the TV analysts all mention how much money he lost so he gets reminded of it every hour after the market closes in 20 minutes).
He hasn’t gained or lost a dime. Paper gains or losses are imaginary until he cashes out after his required 6 month lockup (and yeah, I wish that was prison, not merely a prohibition to sell the stock during the IPO period).
re: #271 goddamnedfrank
Update: Capitalism just took 1 HP damage. Dude’s got a new free soap dispenser on the way.
re: #295 darthstar
What is the Guinness world record for a meme stock dissolving into nothing?…at 23% a day he could be wiped in a week.
it does not fly so much as plummet
re: #250 darthstar
Screw you for this, btw…now I’m obsessed hoping it hits -19% soon. It’s close - only about .24 to go…
Was briefly down -24% for the day and still hovering near that level.
ED: for clarification
Oh, shit…I was thinking it was almost closing…that shit’s got three more hours to suffer.
re: #303 Hecuba’s daughter
Was briefly down -24% and still hovering near that level.
I was thinking the market closed at 1pm (I’m a PST kind of guy). He was in the 46 dollar range for a few minutes…I think he can get back there.
re: #304 darthstar
Oh, shit…I was thinking it was almost closing…that shit’s got three more hours to suffer.
re: #295 darthstar
What is the Guinness world record for a meme stock dissolving into nothing?…at 23% a day he could be wiped in a week.
I only wish there also was a leveraged ETF of this thing that could magnify the damage to his biggest believers.
re: #163 Dangerman
Best comment
This has nothing to do with any principles. Its being contrarian. To everything.
Kinda the same with the International Transgender Day of Visibility falling on Easter this year. The day has been recognized since 2009 but happened to fall on Easter this year, so according to them it was an evil plot to invade their precious holiday (only this year). Good thing Easter won’t fall on March 31st again until … 2086. Maybe they’ll be over this foolishness by than.
re: #308 Eventual Carrion
Kinda the same with the International Transgender Day of Visibility falling on Easter this year. The day has been recognized since 2009 but happened to fall on Easter this year, so according to them it was an evil plot to invade their precious holiday (only this year). Good thing Easter won’t fall on March 31st again until … 2086. Maybe they’ll be over this foolishness by than.
They’re still bitching about the war they lost 160 years ago. I wouldn’t get your hopes up.
Now gotten as low as 46.33 - more than 25 percent down.
re: #300 lawhawk
He hasn’t gained or lost a dime. Paper gains or losses are imaginary until he cashes out after his required 6 month lockup (and yeah, I wish that was prison, not merely a prohibition to sell the stock during the IPO period).
first 6 months after the lockout, sales would be short term cap gains. brutal
after that long term of course
and if i understand correctly, his tax basis is zero, so all the proceeds are 100% cap gains
re: #304 darthstar
Oh, shit…I was thinking it was almost closing…that shit’s got three more hours to suffer.
suffer/schadenfreude
potato/potahto
As with any type of stock please remember that most of the heaviest trading is done in the last half hour before Wall Street rings the closing bell.
re: #308 Eventual Carrion
Kinda the same with the International Transgender Day of Visibility falling on Easter this year. The day has been recognized since 2009 but happened to fall on Easter this year, so according to them it was an evil plot to invade their precious holiday (only this year). Good thing Easter won’t fall on March 31st again until … 2086. Maybe they’ll be over this foolishness by than.
of course biden should have seen this coming and moved the date for this year//
he’s got nothing else to do
re: #311 TarHellion
Now gotten as low as 46.33 - more than 25 percent down.
Just touched 45.9 for a sec. Going to get ready to head to the airport. Will have to follow on my phone.
Enjoy the schadenfreude everyone.
re: #293 darthstar
46.95-15.01 (-24.23%)
Didn’t stay, but it did dip its toe…
Down 26.53% — for a brief moment. Let’s see where it ends up by the close today.
re: #311 TarHellion
Now gotten as low as 46.33 - more than 25 percent down.
that is soooo 2 minutes ago
26.5% down now
re: #316 darthstar
Just touched 45.9 for a sec. Going to get ready to head to the airport. Will have to follow on my phone.
Enjoy the schadenfreude everyone.
it’s probably already been coined:
schadenfraud
Even if you shorted the trump stock the day it opened, it could’ve been hard to get your order filled as there might not be enough shares available to close a transaction.
As with everything trump, steer clear.
From the AP: Bibi vows to shut down Al Jazerra.
So, will there be a criminal backstory for the multi-billion valuation of Donnie’s vanity website? Or will be the result of more slimy cultist worship?
re: #324 PhillyPretzel ✅
Israeli public to Bibi - we’re marching to shut you down.
re: #314 PhillyPretzel ✅
Good point. And if a particular stock has taken a beating during the day, it tends to get a late rally from people thinking tomorrow will be a dead cat bounce
re: #327 lawhawk
I hope so. Bibi is a curse to Israel.
re: #329 PhillyPretzel ✅
I hope so. Bibi is a curse to Israel.
Bibi is to Israel what Roger Waters is to Pink Floyd
re: #300 lawhawk
He hasn’t gained or lost a dime. Paper gains or losses are imaginary until he cashes out after his required 6 month lockup (and yeah, I wish that was prison, not merely a prohibition to sell the stock during the IPO period).
His reputation takes a hit.
The info about Trump’s social media company has some pretty insane numbers involved.
Like a company that has never made a dollar in net income is giving Devin Nunes hundreds of thousands of dollars all for surviving to get the company to an IPO.
Some info on Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes
$750,000 base salary
(subject to increase to $1,000,000)
$600,000 retention bonus within 30 days of closing
Shares - 115,000
(at current price of approx $50 is worth $5,750,000 - but subject to 6 month lock-up)https://t.co/JTz4EEAjM2 pic.twitter.com/GyBYVceijm— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) April 1, 2024
re: #302 Dangerman
it does not fly so much as plummet
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
Mohammed Reza Zahedi, the top commander in the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) for Lebanon and Syria was assassinated in an air strike on Monday.Zahedi is the highest ranking Iranian killed since the current war started, even higher than Sayyed Reza Mousavi, who was killed in December, the Jerusalem Post has learned.
Besides his wide ranging responsibilities for terror on Israel’s borders, he was the highest level interlocutor for Tehran with Hezbollah.
This means that although Israel has not taken credit, Iran and Hezbollah are already accusing Jerusalem of involvement, since removing Zahedi could be seen as a blow to the management of the Lebanese terror groups’ rocket attacks on Israel.
Iranian press reported that Zahedi was meeting with leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad at the time of the strike, but these reports could not be independently verified.
re: #220 lawhawk
Israel apparently killed the top IRGC general after blowing up the Iranian consulate. Iranian sources blame an Israeli airstrike. Israel hasn’t confirmed, but taking out the general would help Israel by knocking out a key intermediary between Iran and Hizbullah and PIJ.
re: #163 Dangerman
This has nothing to do with any principles. Its being contrarian. To everything.
They’re articulating the second secret Constitutional Amendment:
The right to be petty and disingenuous but never be called out.
re: #339 Backwoods Sleuth
Swiss Army knives were clearly a lot bigger in the early 17th century.
re: #340 Dr Lizardo
One had to make a statement about power.
Looks like the IRGC guy who got blown to smithereens was a big fish in the org. He was the head of the IRGC’s Operations Directorate, the commander of the ground forces and the commander of the air forces in the Revolutionary Guards.
That’s a pretty big get.
re: #332 lawhawk
The info about Trump’s social media company has some pretty insane numbers involved.
Like a company that has never made a dollar in net income is giving Devin Nunes hundreds of thousands of dollars all for surviving to get the company to an IPO.
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2023 revenue under 5 million. 50 million loss.
re: #322 EstebanTornado1963
Even if you shorted the trump stock the day it opened, it could’ve been hard to get your order filled as there might not be enough shares available to close a transaction.
As with everything trump, steer clear.
Amen. Remember folks, the market will always remain _irrational_ longer than your ability to hold out on any margin calls that come by your way. Never short stocks.
Was not An April fools joke
Four years ago today, Trump downplayed rising domestic violence as a necessary “cost” during the pandemic
“A lot of people are going to be lost” pic.twitter.com/ILvbYzoMIQ— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 1, 2024
“As God is my witness, I thought that turkey would fly.”
— Larry Kudlow
foxbusiness.com
re: #345 JC1
2023 revenue under 5 million. 50 million loss.
Anyone who thinks that’s some kind of golden investment has rocks in their heads.
re: #336 lawhawk
Israel apparently killed the top IRGC general after blowing up the Iranian consulate. Iranian sources blame an Israeli airstrike. Israel hasn’t confirmed, but taking out the general would help Israel by knocking out a key intermediary between Iran and Hizbullah and PIJ.
Not sure I approve of bombing consulates.
re: #350 JC1
Not sure I approve of bombing consulates.
From what I’m seeing, it wasn’t the consulate itself, but rather, a building adjacent to it. IOW, a close shave.
re: #340 Dr Lizardo
Swiss Army knives were clearly a lot bigger in the early 17th century.
You can see how the toothpick evolved to where it is today.
One week away!
From: science.nasa.gov
The Monday, April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The total solar eclipse will begin over the South Pacific Ocean. Weather permitting, the first location in continental North America that will experience totality is Mexico’s Pacific coast at around 11:07 a.m. PDT.
re: #354 Dr. Matt
Hmm. If there are any Lizards who live in Erie, PA or western NY State you are going to have some of the best views of the eclipse.
An addled and haggard 71 year old calls for civil war…..how precious. She wouldn’t last 24 hours without her steady supply of oxy and cocaine.
On my way to Maralago to help
Support the great @KariLake!
We must try to vote our way out of this for at least one last year….
and then if that doesn’t work #1776— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) April 1, 2024
re: #347 Dangerman
Was not An April fools joke
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Is an April fools joke
They finally grew back! pic.twitter.com/WmKBN70mpt
— Jon Tester (@jontester) April 1, 2024
re: #356 dat_said
Whaling captain obsessively tracks and attempts revenge on white whale for removing his leg, accompanied by founder of famous pricy burnt coffee chain.
re: #356 dat_said
Tried to hide this but, for some reason, couldn’t get an image into the private popup so I apologize to subjecting you to this level of stupid without a warning.
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elmo discovers cliff notes
re: #359 Dr. Matt
An addled and haggard 71 year old calls for civil war…..how precious. She wouldn’t last 24 hours without her steady supply of oxy and cocaine.
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This fucking timeline is weird.
re: #354 Dr. Matt
One week away!
From: science.nasa.gov
The Monday, April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The total solar eclipse will begin over the South Pacific Ocean. Weather permitting, the first location in continental North America that will experience totality is Mexico’s Pacific coast at around 11:07 a.m. PDT.
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And we are right underneath the line. Lots of people taking off work.
“Variable clouds with scattered thunderstorms. High 73F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%”
re: #359 Dr. Matt
An addled and haggard 71 year old calls for civil war…..how precious. She wouldn’t last 24 hours without her steady supply of oxy and cocaine.
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We’ll vote but if we don’t win and get what we want we’ll take it anyway
Asshat
re: #362 Dr Lizardo
And that $58 million dollar loss last year is why the stock is taking a hit today. Investors have realized that it’s a giant, steaming turd.
Right, cause the fundamentals were so strong last week. //
re: #358 PhillyPretzel ✅
Hmm. If there are any Lizards who live in Erie, PA or western NY State you are going to have some of the best views of the eclipse.
I am going up to my brother’s place in western NY to view. Weather forecast for it so far is clear.
re: #358 PhillyPretzel ✅
Hmm. If there are any Lizards who live in Erie, PA or western NY State you are going to have some of the best views of the eclipse.
Yep. I am in the path of total here in NW PA. Got my solar filters ready for the cameras, just hoping for a fairly clear day. Extended forecast still has us at 60F and partly cloudy.
re: #359 Dr. Matt
An addled and haggard 71 year old calls for civil war…..how precious. She wouldn’t last 24 hours without her steady supply of oxy and cocaine.
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Hope Rosie has her musket ready
re: #346 aatharuv
Amen. Remember folks, the market will always remain _irrational_ longer than your ability to hold out on any margin calls that come by your way. Never short stocks.
You can short certain funds, I do it with UVXY, but the market always goes up.
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