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>>> THIS GUY <<<
re: #155 No Malarkey!
Trump ranting about immigrants
People act like Trump’s appeal is a mystery, or it’s based on economic anxiety or being “forgotten” in coal towns or whatever, but that’s nonsense. Trump is a racist, he says other countries are shitholes, and the who come from them are dirty criminals, and Republican voters nod their heads in agreement.
There’s no explanation for that aside from the obvious conclusion that they are bigots and he speaks for them.
Trump to the RNC:
Donations down? Fuck you, pay me!
Oh, you got wiped out in the primaries? Fuck you, pay me!
Three senate seats are on the verge of flipping, huh? Fuck you, pay me!
re: #2 Ace Rothstein
And they will pay him. It’s a cult.
re: #2 Ace Rothstein
We won an Alabama redistricting fight. If the local GOP goes broke we have a chance to pick up a House seat. Unfortunately the AL Dem party is the Three Stooges with sweet tea.
Trump and the fucking RNC are made for each other.
May the scummiest fraudsters win.
re: #2 Ace Rothstein
Trump to the RNC:
Donations down? Fuck you, pay me!
Oh, you got wiped out in the primaries? Fuck you, pay me!
Three senate seats are on the verge of flipping, huh? Fuck you, pay me!
I’m still processing the idea that a major political party will (and legally can) accept political donations for a national election, and send all of it to pay for the fraud judgement against one man who was found liable for rape, fraud, and defamation, and will soon be convicted of stealing nuclear secrets.
re: #9 Unabogie
I’m still processing the idea that a major political party will (and legally can) accept political donations for a national election, and send all of it to pay for the fraud judgement against one man who was found liable for rape, fraud, and defamation, and will soon be convicted of stealing nuclear secrets.
It’s like the Sopranos, but everyone is a fucking idiot.
re: #9 Unabogie
one man who was found liable for rape, fraud, and defamation, and will soon be convicted of stealing nuclear secrets.
“He gets us; he really gets us!”
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump and the fucking RNC are made for each other.
May the scummiest fraudsters win.
Truth. I hope they bankrupt each other.
re: #152 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Curious about why?
To expand on that, abortions in Israel are fully covered for women under 33 for any and all reasons. For women over 33, coverage is specifically in cases of rape, fetal defects, and risks to the mother’s life.
As for the reason? In a nutshell, a whole lot of bureaucracy. The state’s ministry of health determines each year which medications and treatments are covered in full or part based on demand, costs, age groups, impact and other factors. Due to budgetary constraints, not everything can fit in the “medicine basket”, as it’s referred to, so if a certain group needs something the least when compared to others, it’ll get left out.
While the decision-making isn’t made fully public (this year they explained a handful of choices out of hundreds), the reasoning appears to be that women aged 34-45 in normal circumstances don’t require it as much and can afford the full cost compared to younger age groups, and that covering medications/procedures for other groups is a higher priority.
I know Biden is following the advice of chess Grandmaster Victor Korchnoi
“I like to coax my opponents into attacking, to let them taste the joy of the initiative, so that they may get carried away, become careless, and sacrifice material”
re: #1 Unabogie
Most memorable quote from a Trump cultist that perfectly describes their love for him.
He talks the way I feel.
Double win for The Bear in male and female actor in comedy series. SAG awards streaming live on Netflix.
CNN exit polls in South Carolina primary:
White evangelical Christians:
75% Trump
24% Haley
Everyone else:
51% Haley
49% Trump— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) February 25, 2024
re: #15 Joe Bacon ✅
DAMN!
GHOST-NOTE ROCKS!!!!!!!!
this band is awesome i must agree
they are in the funk zone
re: #22 Belafon
Read everything this sick freak posted and if this is not a call to action to shut the GOP down I do not know what else is!!!!!!!!!
Pedro Pascal beats out three Succession actors for male actor in drama series. They may have split the Succession vote.
Watching “Possessor” on Kanopy. I would never have guessed that Brandon Cronenberg is David Cronenberg’s son.
/SARC
re: #21 Joe Bacon ✅
When you’re down 20 points in your home state and you’re only carrying 4 counties it just might be time to call it a day…
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Why she’s not calling it a day
“Nikki Haley is essentially auditioning, not to be his vice president, but to be his understudy.” Rachel Maddow offers an explanation of what Nikki Haley is still doing in the race. pic.twitter.com/vZXpaOVyp7
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) February 25, 2024
re: #28 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Why she’s not calling it a day
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One can’t be an understudy when they get 0 delegates in their home state…and she will also get slaughtered on Super Tuesday. Plenty of states will deny her any delegates.
re: #30 Patricia Kayden
Babies, the low-paid workers of tomorrow.
Fetuses, the low-paid workers of tomorrow.
Embryos, the low-paid workers of tomorrow.
“they love me…they really love me!!!!”
uh, no they don’t Candy Pants!
Lindsey Graham booed ‘relentlessly’ as Trump introduces him at S.C. victory speech
re: #29 Joe Bacon ✅
One can’t be an understudy when they get 0 delegates in their home state…and she will also get slaughtered on Super Tuesday. Plenty of states will deny her any delegates.
In the unlikely event Trump can’t run, his delegates at the GOP convention will pick a MAGA candidate, not Haley.
Anyone still watching election returns? I heard Haley is getting close to 40% of the vote; I hope she hits that mark.
re: #34 No Malarkey!
Anyone still watching election returns? I heard Haley is getting close to 40% of the vote; I hope she hits that mark.
Latest she’s at 38.7 down 22 points to Trump
She’s now carrying only 3 counties and getting 0 delegates
re: #35 Joe Bacon ✅
So you’re saying there’s a chance?
re: #20 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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Not a total blow-out if she got 51% of the non-evangelicals.
20 points down and four counties isn’t a resounding result, but she’s running against an opponent who’s already melting down and will continue to be stressed every week by another well-earned tribulation.
I don’t want her to win, of course, but I’m happy to see the gadfly effect on his nerves.
re: #36 jaunte
So you’re saying there’s a chance?
About as much chance as I will dine on a Primanti Brothers Sandwich tonight!
The Bear also wins best ensemble in comedy series, its third acting award tonight. It is a good show.
re: #37 CleverToad
Not a total blow-out if she got 51% of the non-evangelicals.
20 points down and four counties isn’t a resounding result, but she’s running against an opponent who’s already melting down and will continue to be stressed every week by another well-earned tribulation.I don’t want her to win, of course, but I’m happy to see the gadfly effect on his nerves.
Looking at the WaPo exit polling, my analysis is that I am surrounded by incredibly dumb assholes and that I am wise to leave my house as little as possible to avoid interacting with them.
re: #17 Joe Bacon ✅
I know Biden is following the advice of chess Grandmaster Victor Korchnoi
“I like to coax my opponents into attacking, to let them taste the joy of the initiative, so that they may get carried away, become careless, and sacrifice material”
emmanuel lasker did that for his entire career, baiting opponents into attacking. He also spent his career playing at a time when defensive skill was not nearly as advanced as it was in the 70’s, so once his opponent’s attacks fizzled, they were just dead fish ready to be skinned.
It’s funny, until you realize how tragic and ghastly it really is https://t.co/gxmbmt41Ns
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 25, 2024
Trump called his wife “Mercedes” today. Maybe the NYT will run twelve articles about that.
independent.co.uk
re: #42 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Jimmy Kimmel proves the effectiveness of the 24/7 GOP Bullshit Machine.
Robert Downey Jr wins supporting male actor for Oppenheimer
re: #43 jaunte
Trump called his wife “Mercedes” today. Maybe the NYT will run twelve articles about that.
independent.co.uk
Slipped and said what they’d agreed she’s getting for showing up.
re: #46 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Slipped and said what they’d agreed she’s getting for showing up.
Maybe Mercedes was her escort name when they first met.
re: #46 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Trump displaying his flair for synecdoche.
re: #43 jaunte
The Screw York Times only wants to endlessly stick shivs in “senile Biden” to help their pal Trump get back in the White House.
re: #43 jaunte
Mercedes could be his current side chick. Nothing would surprise me. He should be asked who she is.
re: #29 Joe Bacon ✅
One can’t be an understudy when they get 0 delegates in their home state…and she will also get slaughtered on Super Tuesday. Plenty of states will deny her any delegates.
She’s not doing this for this presidential election, she’s doing this for the next.
re: #52 BeenHereAwhile
She’s not doing this for this presidential election, she’s doing this for the next.
She won’t be a candidate in 2028. MAGATS will never forgive her for attacking Gawd’s Anointed King.
60-40 is the sort of result that’s pretty bad for both of them, right? The headlines are “Haley can’t win home state” but also “quasi-incumbent only gets 60%” is not a big vote of confidence in Trump
Beware the Weak Man
Thoughts from the Munich Security Conference
snyder.substack.com
Good essay from Timothy Snyder.
re: #55 retired cynic
Beware the Weak Man
Thoughts from the Munich Security Conference
snyder.substack.comGood essay from Timothy Snyder.
Portrait of a nation in decline.
re: #54 jaunte
quasi-incumbent
Tonight on NPR, Ron Elving referred to Trump as, ‘in essence, an incumbent president’. Irresponsible, but perhaps forgivable in a primary.
And here’s another episode of STUPID TREK!
Michigan Republican duped into reading the plot of ‘E.T.’ as an illegal immigrant story
State Representative Steve Carra (R) who bills himself as a “a Trump-endorsed conservative fighter” running for state representative in St. Joseph and Cass counties was captured sipping a cup of coffee while recording himself reading a submitted vignette from a viewer; possibly a constituent, and first reported by Michigan Tea.
“The other day I saw this wild story about an illegal alien who was seperated from his family and then taken in by some kids who hid him from the authorities and their parents,” he read. “I guess he was gifted at medicine and healing people.”
“But he also got the 10-year-old drunk at school and persuaded to sexually harass another student.”
Carra appeared to believe every word.
And he’s too F’n stupid to realize this is the plot of…”E.T.”!
re: #52 BeenHereAwhile
Perhaps you’re right. I’m assuming that if Trump is soundly defeated (again) by Biden, the cultish fever will break and Republicans will moderate out of necessity.
re: #43 jaunte
Trump called his wife “Mercedes” today. Maybe the NYT will run twelve articles about that.
independent.co.uk
And he couldn’t come up with his buddy Henry McMaster’s name — just called him the governor.
re: #45 No Malarkey!
His acting was top notch in the film, he put in a great performance as Lewis Strauss.
re: #58 Joe Bacon ✅
I have never watched ET so I could have been fooled too. 😂 😂 Man, the Michigan GOP is trash. They can’t stop embarrassing themselves
re: #54 jaunte
My district certainly loves him. 9 counties and he took 79, 74, 85, 70, 67, 77, 82, 60 and 57% in them.
re: #2 Ace Rothstein
Trump to the RNC:
Donations down? Fuck you, pay me!
Oh, you got wiped out in the primaries? Fuck you, pay me!
Three senate seats are on the verge of flipping, huh? Fuck you, pay me!
Props for the Good Fellas reference.
re: #63 BeachDem
Sorry. I live in a 75-85% county too.
re: #62 Patricia Kayden
I have never watched ET so I could have been fooled too. 😂 😂 Man, the Michigan GOP is trash. They can’t stop embarrassing themselves
And the Michigan State GOP is in full blown civil war…which the New York Times glosses over and instead focuses on aiding the national GOP by endlessly pushing the Muslim-Americans abandoning Biden over Gaza on their main pages.
Fuck the New York Times.
re: #59 Patricia Kayden
Perhaps you’re right. I’m assuming that if Trump is soundly defeated (again) by Biden, the cultish fever will break and Republicans will moderate out of necessity.
No, they will think the election was stolen again
re: #59 Patricia Kayden
Perhaps you’re right. I’m assuming that if Trump is soundly defeated (again) by Biden, the cultish fever will break and Republicans will moderate out of necessity.
Based on how brainwashed my Jesusbot relatives are I fully expect the MAGATS to double down on the stolen election ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream!
Took a jaunt into (formerly) Boebert country today for a demo event at the Powderhorn ski area. We’re talking rural western Colorado at its finest. Lots of weird junkyards and house trailers in between a few million dollar compounds. Lots of Trump signs.
Someone posted what the orange menace’s net worth was.
forbes.com
Here’s an article from 8 years ago that said he would be way richer if he just invested in the S&P500
forbes.com
He’d have 6 billion today if he just parked his money in the S&P500
This goes to show that he is such a shitty businessman that even his wealth could still overcome his dumb decisions and he can still be worth 2 billion.
How anybody can believe piece of shit is a genius is beyond me.
re: #69 Joe Bacon ✅
Based on how brainwashed my Jesusbot relatives are I fully expect the MAGATS to double down on the stolen election ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream!
Not every Trump supporter is a Trump evangelical.
Lily Gladstone wins for female actor for Killers of the Flower Moon. Cillian Murphy won for Oppenheimer
Watching Trump’s debt climb in real time is lowering my blood pressure.
As of this moment, Trump is leading Haley by just over 20%.
Anything less than a 20% victory for Trump over Haley should be considered a defeat.
And if he wins by less than 35 or 40%, he should be considered to have dramatically underperformed.
re: #40 BeachDem
Looking at the WaPo exit polling, my analysis is that I am surrounded by incredibly dumb assholes and that I am wise to leave my house as little as possible to avoid interacting with them.
Sounds like a reasonable conclusion.
Stay safe out there.
re: #77 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
As of this moment, Trump is leading Haley by just over 20%.
Anything less than a 20% victory for Trump over Haley should be considered a defeat.
And if he wins by less than 35 or 40%, he should be considered to have dramatically underperformed.
He just dropped below 60% of the vote!
Dobbs will prove ruinous for the Republican party.
Trump on himself: “There’s no cognitive problem. If there was, I’d know about it.” pic.twitter.com/F6FzsXHKh2
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 24, 2024
The mans a moron
re: #61 teleskiguy
The striking thing about “Oppenheimer” is the great number of close up shots of people’s faces. It took chops for all the actors to adhere to Christopher Nolan’s vision as best they can, he demanded all the chops including just looking into a camera blankly, trying to evoke what’s going on in the scene.
It is a marvelous film, even with its weird faults.
re: #82 Dangerman
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The mans a moron
I read today that data shows a dramatic drop in crime. But people who haven’t been victims believe it’s sky high because they listen to Fox News and Republicans
re: #83 teleskiguy
The striking thing about “Oppenheimer” is the great number of close up shots of people’s faces. It took chops for all the actors to adhere to Christopher Nolan’s vision as best they can, he demanded all the chops including just looking into a camera blankly, trying to evoke what’s going on in the scene.
It is a marvelous film, even with its weird faults.
Oppenheimer won the cast award for a movie tonight.
re: #72 Joe Bacon ✅
I need a laugh tonight.
Dad saw this when it first came out. He laughed so had he said he hurt himself!
it’s HELLZAPOPPIN with Olson and Johnson
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They had such good drugs back then ;-) And Martha Raye. It is the Slim and Slam music followed by the Lindy Hop dancing that send this into the stratosphere.
cre: #2 Ace Rothstein
Trump to the RNC:
Donations down? Fuck you, pay me!
Oh, you got wiped out in the primaries? Fuck you, pay me!
Three senate seats are on the verge of flipping, huh? Fuck you, pay me!
If Republicans don’t pay him he won’t pay their legal fees when they get indicted…(he won”t pay anyone’s legal fees of course…but it’s a good sound byte).
All of the contents of his properties that are not affixed would be subject to seizure as “chattels”. The stuff that is attached is considered a “fixture” and would be part of seizure of the real property.
So all the furniture goes.
The gold toilet should go to the National Portrait Gallery in D.C.
re: #86 silverdolphin
They had such good drugs back then ;-) And Martha Raye. It is the Slim and Slam music followed by the Lindsy Hop dancing that send this into the stratosphere.
Olson and Johnson had a NBC show in the early 50s “Fireball Fun For All” that was the 50s version of Laugh-In and they inspired Ernie Kovacs with their sight gags.
Alabama Sets the Stage for a Supreme Court Fight Over IVF
No mater what the politicians say, this is what the first birthers think. Big Fertility must be brought down.
The Alabama ruling should serve as a wake up call to Americans committed to defending unborn children. There are now two fronts in the battle to protect children’s right to life. We must not only challenge the baby-taking industry, but the baby-making industry.
Once again, they want the state to determine what happens instead of the people involved in the medical process.
I expect the GOP will have to alter their current “I’m for IVF” shortly, as the MAGA conservatives hit their emails.
re: #83 teleskiguy
The striking thing about “Oppenheimer” is the great number of close up shots of people’s faces. It took chops for all the actors to adhere to Christopher Nolan’s vision as best they can, he demanded all the chops including just looking into a camera blankly, trying to evoke what’s going on in the scene.
It is a marvelous film, even with its weird faults.
We just watched Oppenheimer. Yes, I was angry at Strauss and the board as it should be, but you know what also got me angry because I have experienced it before: The people around him not understanding how he could hold a more complex picture of the world in his head than they wanted. Specifically, in one case, how he could see the need for labor to organize and yet not be a communist. It was a running theme through the movie.
It was interesting seeing some of the actors needing to lose weight for their characters, and others needing to put on weight.
re: #92 silverdolphin
If SCOTUS upholds Alabama’s ruling, the GOP will face a backlash of epic proportions.
re: #94 Patricia Kayden
If SCOTUS upholds Alabama’s ruling, the GOP will face a backlash of epic proportions.
Are there 5 votes on the Opus Dei Court to outlaw IVF?
Possibly…
re: #94 Patricia Kayden
If SCOTUS upholds Alabama’s ruling, the GOP will face a backlash of epic proportions.
IMHO there are five to say that life begins at conception. That this violates the religious beliefs of millions of people will be of little concern. They don’t beleive any backlash will last long because they are the favored of God.
Thus they will be surprised when impeachment proceedings begin.
Trump Called His Wife ‘Mercedes’ in Speech
Bet this never gets mentioned by the NYT or WaPo. Or if it does, it will be buried. But if Biden called his wife Jennie, it would be front page 24/7.
re: #95 Joe Bacon ✅
Are there 5 votes on the Opus Dei Court to outlaw IVF?
Possibly…
Their church believes IVF is evil and counsels Catholics not to use the technology.
re: #96 silverdolphin
IMHO there are five to say that life begins at conception. That this violates the religious beliefs of millions of people will be of little concern. They don’t beleive any backlash will last long because they are the favored of God.
Thus they will be surprised when impeachment proceedings begin.
There are four definite votes to outlaw IVF—Slappy T, Don Alito, The Handmaiden and Gorsuch.
The three liberal ladies won’t outlaw.
Roberts being the fucking chicken that he is will probably side with the three liberals which means it will be the drunk who is the deciding vote.
re: #63 BeachDem
My district certainly loves him. 9 counties and he took 79, 74, 85, 70, 67, 77, 82, 60 and 57% in them.
Thank dog for Charleston, Hilton Head, and Columbia, eh?
re: #94 Patricia Kayden
If SCOTUS upholds Alabama’s ruling, the GOP will face a backlash of epic proportions.
It’s not going to SCOTUS. The Alabama Supreme Court was interpreting Alabama law, and there are no U.S. Constitutional issues to address, since Roe was reversed by Dobbs.
re: #88 darthstar
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If Republicans don’t pay him he won’t pay their legal fees when they get indicted…(he won”t pay anyone’s legal fees of course…but it’s a good sound byte).
Wait
We have to pay you so you can pay our legal fees?
Why dont we just pay our own legal fees?
Eat your cereal.
Just in case you’re in need of something delightful:
Here’s Norwegian adventurer Aleksander Gamme looking through a cache he’d left weeks earlier during a South Pole expedition and *losing his mind with joy* as he digs out the snacks.
re: #99 mmmirele
Their church believes IVF is evil and counsels Catholics not to use the technology.
Yep. It wants all the money to be diverted to making families larger, getting rid of contraceptives and abortions so that males can force more women to have families.
Oh and it wants to outlaw vasectomies.
Oh here’s a picture of how happy Nancy Mase and Lady G were tonight:
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re: #105 silverdolphin
Yep. It wants all the money to be diverted to making families larger, getting rid of contraceptives and abortions so that males can force more women to have families.
Oh and it wants to outlaw vasectomies.
Gee I wonder why a chunk of priests want families to have more kids? 🤔
re: #102 No Malarkey!
It’s not going to SCOTUS. The Alabama Supreme Court was interpreting Alabama law, and there are no U.S. Constitutional issues to address, since Roe was reversed by Dobbs.
My guess for the next step - in Alabama, lawsuits in Federal courts will be brought to protect the civil rights of these embryos, since they are human beings. who is responsible for their welfare - the state or the parents. (Heck, were they provided proper informed consent?/snark) That is how I believe this will eventually end up at SCOTUS.
re: #96 silverdolphin
IMHO there are five to say that life begins at conception. That this violates the religious beliefs of millions of people will be of little concern. They don’t beleive any backlash will last long because they are the favored of God.
Thus they will be surprised when impeachment proceedings begin.
They’re going to have to redefine conception.
because it doesn’t have to take place inside a woman anymore, or with a man present.
re: #109 Dangerman
Separate question, if a woman miscarried due to amniocentesis, is it murder?
who’s liable? The woman or the doctor?
re: #110 Dangerman
We’ll have to have a look at their voting history.
re: #110 Dangerman
Separate question, if a woman miscarried due to amniocentesis, is it murder?
who’s liable? The woman or the doctor?
There is no murder without intent. The doctor could have criminal liability using a negligence standard. The woman wouldn’t, unless she did something like drug use to create the risk of losing the baby.
re: #112 No Malarkey!
There is no murder without intent. The doctor could have criminal liability using a negligence standard. The woman wouldn’t, unless she did something like drug use to create the risk of losing the baby.
And to determine any of that:
Intent
Negligence
Risky behavior
There will have to be a thorough investigation. Every time.
Anyone know the turnout numbers for the primary tonight vs 4 years ago?
re: #109 Dangerman
They’re going to have to redefine conception.
because it doesn’t have to take place inside a woman anymore, or with a man present.
My son was born by artificial insemination by husband (AIH). The Catholic Church would accept this as we were married. If we had used a sperm donor that was not me, the Catholic Church would outlaw it.
Just as it would outlaw surrogacy. So, if the husband has bad sperm, they are SOL. Same if the woman cannot produce eggs.
So, no children for them and the entire genetic potential of two human bloodlines going back hundreds of thousands of years comes to an end.
re: #93 Belafon
We just watched Oppenheimer. Yes, I was angry at Strauss and the board as it should be, but you know what also got me angry because I have experienced it before: The people around him not understanding how he could hold a more complex picture of the world in his head than they wanted. Specifically, in one case, how he could see the need for labor to organize and yet not be a communist. It was a running theme through the movie.
except… he probably was a Communist.
His wife, his girlfriend and his brother were all card-carrying members of the Communist party. Robert wasn’t a joiner, but he led a communist-themed book club. (Einstein was also a communist, his ex-wife and mother of his children was a communist organizer in Serbia…)
re: #93 Belafon
We just watched Oppenheimer. Yes, I was angry at Strauss and the board as it should be, but you know what also got me angry because I have experienced it before: The people around him not understanding how he could hold a more complex picture of the world in his head than they wanted. Specifically, in one case, how he could see the need for labor to organize and yet not be a communist. It was a running theme through the movie.
This proves some of the brilliance of Nolan’s scriptwriting. He conveyed this whole affair, albeit slowly in the film. Strauss seeing from a distance Einstein’s hat fly off his head? Brilliant flourish by Nolan.
re: #114 Dangerman
And to determine any of that:
Intent
Negligence
Risky behavior
There will have to be a thorough investigation. Every time.
This. And you can bet that every thing she did would be under a microscope - drink some wine, take a prescribed medication that she got before getting pregnant, drink too much sugar, eat too much meat, vape, run too hard, take too hot a bath, go out in cold weather without proper protection, get in a car accident, fly in an airplane, yell at her husband, have constipation, have diarrhea, get depressed, become too excited, and so on.
For every miscarriage.
re: #119 sagehen
“Oppenheimer” spoiler alert…
The film shows Oppenheimer and known Communist Jean Tatlock fucking.
re: #121 silverdolphin
For every miscarriage period.
This is a good read…taking out the A-50s is so beneficial to Ukraine and this article explains it clearly and simply. 7 more to go.
re: #122 Patricia Kayden
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While funny, the last two are both true. The internet is American, and the WWW European. Though I think the American needs to fix his thinking.
re: #127 darthstar
Would an ascii image need alt text?
Trump sneakers are now being referred to as Aryan Jordans… Heh.
re: #119 sagehen
except… he probably was a Communist.
His wife, his girlfriend and his brother were all card-carrying members of the Communist party. Robert wasn’t a joiner, but he led a communist-themed book club. (Einstein was also a communist, his ex-wife and mother of his children was a communist organizer in Serbia…)
Probably in the same way I’m a unionist up at work. Half the company, not my half, is unionized. They negotiate the salaries, benefits, and vacation schedule for everyone at the plant. I can’t join because of the rules that currently exist, but I constantly argue with my peers when they badmouth the thing that guarantees them everything they like.
An ectopic pregnancy put her life at risk. A Texas hospital refused to treat her.
They keep talking about how the doctors would not perform the needed surgery, as if it was purely their decision. But I expect that it was the hospital liability insurance that got in the way. It is easier for the insurance companies to let a woman almost die than to do the right thing. So the hospital tells the doctors no so that it does not lose its insurance coverage..
re: #121 silverdolphin
This. And you can bet that every thing she did would be under a microscope - drink some wine, take a prescribed medication that she got before getting pregnant, drink too much sugar, eat too much meat, vape, run too hard, take too hot a bath, go out in cold weather without proper protection, get in a car accident, fly in an airplane, yell at her husband, have constipation, have diarrhea, get depressed, become too excited, and so on.
For every miscarriage.
It’s all about the fact that women have murderous uteri and they need to be prosecuted for each and every failure of a zygote to implant into the uterine wall.
They are all child murderers.
I’d like to put this in sarc tags, but these bug fuck religious freakazoids are deadly serious and want to track every zygote from generation to birth, and if it isn’t a birth, it’s a potential murder trial.
And that little rant (terrifying as it is) will be my sign-off tonight.
Be nice to each other, sweet dreams!
My nephew called to say he and his girlfriend were on the coast and wanted to stop by and visit us. I said we were up in Sonoma county at the groove pit and sorry to miss him. A while later he texted to say the harbor was crazy full of tourists so he parked in our driveway and hoped we didn’t mind. I said ‘No problem - there’s a key under the welcome bear if you need to go inside.’
Two hours later, I get texts from him and the neighbors - they saw him, said hi, and had him and his girlfriend on their deck for susnset cocktails (which is what we just did with them last night - lasted well beyond sunset)…I texted back for him to be careful because our neighbors were dangerous and he could end up sleeping at our house.
Another neighbor, whose wife is on an Antarctic cruise, apparently went over to join the cocktail party and texted to say my nephew was definitely related to me (he’s president of the mushroom council and a bit of a kick in the pants as well).
re: #132 silverdolphin
An ectopic pregnancy put her life at risk. A Texas hospital refused to treat her.
They keep talking about how the doctors would not perform the needed surgery, as if it was purely their decision. But I expect that it was the hospital liability insurance that got in the way. It is easier for the insurance companies to let a woman almost die than to do the right thing. So the hospital tells the doctors no so that it does not lose its insurance coverage..
Such was the case when a grieving family had to drag a Texas hospital to court because the legal department was barring doctors from taking a corpse off life support. Why? Because Texas Repubs had written a law requiring all life-saving measures be attempted to bring a fetus to term even if the mother’s life has expired so vaguely that the hospital’s lawyers wanted a judge to give them cover through judicial order to terminate life support.
re: #135 darthstar
Another neighbor, whose wife is on an Antarctic cruise, apparently went over to join the cocktail party and texted to say my nephew was definitely related to me (he’s president of the mushroom council and a bit of a kick in the pants as well).
re: #136 darthstar
Yes, Big Shroom is real.
Sounds like a
re: #138 ckkatz
He has that on a t-shirt already.
*sigh*
GM orders two brand new vacuums to replace units that housekeeping stole and used until they broke. And both have disappeared in less than a week.
But hey, one of the ones they stole has finally been returned./////
Steve Lehto is a Michigan Attorney. (I believe.)
He does short covers of interesting law cases.
Apparently a Houston case was adjourned when not enough people in the juror pool said that they were willing to fine a lady $500 for violating a city “Do not feed the homeless” ordinance.
He also did one on a guy who found out that his car warranty did not cover the car melting due to sunlight.
re: #142 ckkatz
Steve Lehto is a Michigan Attorney. (I believe.)
He does short covers of interesting law cases.
Apparently a Houston case was adjourned when not enough people in the juror pool said that they were willing to fine a lady $500 for violating a city “Do not feed the homeless” ordinance.
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Let me guess, he bought a Tesla?
re: #139 darthstar
I’m suddenly craving a bowl of Fortunate Amulets.
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re: #142 ckkatz
Steve Lehto is a Michigan Attorney. (I believe.)
He does short covers of interesting law cases.
Apparently a Houston case was adjourned when not enough people in the juror pool said that they were willing to fine a lady $500 for violating a city “Do not feed the homeless” ordinance.
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I think someone posted here a few months ago that Houston hasn’t been able to get a conviction of anyone under that ordinance.
re: #146 Belafon
I think someone posted here a few months ago that Houston hasn’t been able to get a conviction of anyone under that ordinance.
Iirc, according to Lehto, the city attorneys were only able to get one case through to verdict. And they lost that one.
re: #147 ckkatz
Iirc, according to Lehto, the city attorneys were only able to get one case through to verdict. And they lost that one.
Kind of makes me wonder what would happen in a small town. :)
What If Biden Only Won 60% In a Primary?
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G. Elliott Morris: “I have become a little obsessed tonight about what we should be expecting Trump to hit in this primary a priori. That is, given Trump is assumed to be the eventual party nominee and almost universally liked in the GOP, should he be winning more than 60 percent in South Carolina?”
Josh Marshall: “I’m not going to speculate what it means for the general election. But this is a lot of persistent opposition for a candidate who has always been running as a de facto incumbent. Even if you set that de facto incumbency aside, it’s quite a lot for a candidate who is, whatever technicalities you want to get caught up in, the presumptive nominee. 40% of Republican primary voters are still showing up to say they don’t want Trump even when they know they’re definitely going to get him.”
re: #147 ckkatz
Iirc, according to Lehto, the city attorneys were only able to get one case through to verdict. And they lost that one.
It’s pretty much the definition of a “victimless crime.”
re: #149 retired cynic
What If Biden Only Won 60% In a Primary?
politicalwire.com
Iowa Caucus:
• Final 538 Avg: Trump +37 (over RDS)
• Final Result: Trump +30
New Hampshire Primary:
• Final 538 Avg: Trump +18
• Final Result: Trump +11
South Carolina Primary:
• Final 538 Avg: Trump +28
• Estimated Result (per NYT): Trump +20 https://t.co/yhWfsl80hC— Adam Carlson (@admcrlsn) February 25, 2024
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So 7-8%. Not too far off from the special election Democrat shift (around 10%). And they got tyhose wrong also.
Maybe some of them should start including those numbers in ther poll models.
It’s looking like 2012 again, where the pollsters spent the spring and summer confidently telling folks that while Romney was trailing in virtually every poll that things would tighten up after the conventions when the “Rally ‘Round The Flag” effect took hold and it would be a nail-biter to the very end. Any time a poll came up showing Obama confidently ahead, they’d talk about demographics and voter enthusiasm being against him and that led to the BS about “unskewed polls.”
So what happened? Election Night came, Obama won confidently, and the stories the next morning were about how Romney had so bought into the pollster BS that he hadn’t even bothered writing a concession speech.
Oh my!
What Have We HERE????
Anti-LGBTQ+ Church Leader Ousted for Sending Sexy Photos
The leader of an ultra-conservative Catholic movement that targeted the LGBTQ+ community was allegedly sending his staff members sexually suggestive photos when he resigned in November.
Michael Voris, who led the Detroit-based Church Militant, quit due to a “morality clause,” the board of the church initially claimed. Then, it was revealed that Voris, who vehemently ran a McCarthyist campaign against social-political adversaries by claiming they were gay, was sending post-workout photos of himself, shirtless. Earlier in 2023, photos of Voris and screenshots of racy text messages appeared on the church’s database.
Then, staff members at Church Militant began making complaints. “I’ve learned Michael has been in the habit of sending shirtless selfies to multiple men inside and outside the apostolate,” then-Church Militant webcast host Christine Niles said in November. “They reveal an unhealthy obsession with his physique, not to mention the terrible optics—particularly considering his former lifestyle.”
In 2016, Voris admitted to having an “extremely sinful” life
in the LGBTQ+ community, but that admission clearly never stalled his judgment.
re: #153 Targetpractice
It’s looking like 2012 again, where the pollsters spent the spring and summer confidently telling folks that while Romney was trailing in virtually every poll that things would tighten up after the conventions when the “Rally ‘Round The Flag” effect took hold and it would be a nail-biter to the very end. Any time a poll came up showing Obama confidently ahead, they’d talk about demographics and voter enthusiasm being against him and that led to the BS about “unskewed polls.”
So what happened? Election Night came, Obama won confidently, and the stories the next morning were about how Romney had so bought into the pollster BS that he hadn’t even bothered writing a concession speech.
And the fact that 40% of the Republicans in SC actually went out of their way to vote against Trump should be worrying to his campaign.
re: #156 silverdolphin
And the fact that 40% of the Republicans in SC actually went out of their way to vote against Trump should be worrying to his campaign.
Hopefully they will stay home in the general.
You can just see the joy on their faces at the party celebrating the win of their candidate. And that the two so obviously appreciate each other’s company. //////
re: #153 Targetpractice
Ah, yes…the 2012 election. Remember the Republican cries of “UNSKEW THE POLLS!”?
Good times.
re: #156 silverdolphin
And the fact that 40% of the Republicans in SC actually went out of their way to vote against Trump should be worrying to his campaign.
Which is why it’s so hilarious that the pundits think that the story “voters unhappy with their candidate” only applies to Biden and that Repubs are universally thrilled to be running Trump for the third time in 12 years.
re: #81 teleskiguy
Dobbs will prove ruinous for the Republican party.
Hopefully that remains true — may it prove the death knell of the party.
re: #82 Dangerman
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His supporters are morons; he is a conman par excellence who knows how to keep his base angered and frothing at the mouth.
re: #156 silverdolphin
And the fact that 40% of the Republicans in SC actually went out of their way to vote against Trump should be worrying to his campaign.
Were they Republicans or were they independents and Democrats voting against Trump?
re: #164 Hecuba’s daughter
Were they Republicans or were they independents and Democrats voting against Trump?
CBS:
South Carolina has an “open primary,” meaning any registered voter could participate in the state’s Republican presidential primary as long as they did not vote in the state’s Democratic primary. Even so, just over a quarter of voters self-identified as independents and just about 5% as Democrats — a far smaller share compared to the GOP primary electorate in New Hampshire.
re: #163 Hecuba’s daughter
His supporters are morons; he is a conman par excellence who knows how to keep his base angered and frothing at the mouth.
The one - and only - thing I’ll give Trump credit for: he is the king of the con artists, the Caesar of swindlers, the God-Emperor of the grifters.
No doubt about that whatsoever.
“Oh, Dem voters are unhappy with Biden. They want somebody new!”
Biden wins SC primary by 95%+ of the vote.
“Trump is wildly popular with the party! He’s cruising to the nomination!”
Trump wins SC primary by 60% of the vote.
re: #167 Targetpractice
“Oh, Dem voters are unhappy with Biden. They want somebody new!”
Biden wins SC primary by 95%+ of the vote.
“Trump is wildly popular with the party! He’s cruising to the nomination!”
Trump wins SC primary by 60% of the vote.
Except it looks like, based on your prior comment, 30% of the voters were not Republicans. Assuming those 30% did not vote for Trump, that means that Trump won 86% of Republicans.
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
Except it looks like, based on a prior comment, 30% of the voters were not Republicans. Assuming those 30% did not vote for Trump, that means that Trump won 86% of Republicans.
Well WaPo has posted their own exit poll numbers that better show the breakdowns and even if you limit the vote to self-identified Repubs, Trump’s cut of the vote only improves by 10% (70/29).
Exit polls not that favorable for Trump.
Only 5% were registered Democrats and 27% were Independents (likely Republican-leaning). He only won 73% of the Registered Republicans. And 26% of those registered Republican voted against Trump. And 24% of white evangelicals voted against Trump. 79% called themselves conservative. Only 3% said liberal.
So, yeah, some democrats likely voted agaist Trump. But a large perecentage of Republicans also voted against Trump.
re: #170 silverdolphin
Exit polls not that favorable for Trump.
Only 5% were registered Democrats and 27% were Independents (likely Republican-leaning). He only won 73% of the Registered Republicans. And 26% of those registered Republican voted against Trump. And 24% of white evangelicals voted against Trump. 79% called themselves conservative. Only 3% said liberal.
So, yeah, some democrats likely voted agist Trump. But a large perecentage of Republicans also voted against Trump.
The GOP race moves to Michigan Tuesday, where the latest poll gives Trump a sixty point lead over Haley. The race will effectively end on Super Tuesday, March 5. We’ll see if Haley drops out and endorses Trump before his criminal trial begins in Manhattan on March 25.
re: #171 No Malarkey!
The GOP race moves to Michigan Tuesday, where the latest poll gives Trump a sixty point lead over Haley. The race will effectively end on Super Tuesday, March 5. We’ll see if Haley drops out and endorses Trump before his criminal trial begins in Manhattan on March 25.
I saw an article the other day where she indicated she intends to stay in until the very end, and she’s still bringing in enough money to do so.
re: #172 Targetpractice
I saw an article the other day where she indicated she intends to stay in until the very end, and she’s still bringing in enough money to do so.
Really, she’s got nothing to lose…so she might as well stay in and continue to bedevil Trump. And who knows? Maybe she’ll get a stroke of good fortune and Trump ends up in the slammer (or under house arrest) after being found guilty of committing a felony crime.
re: #172 Targetpractice
I saw an article the other day where she indicated she intends to stay in until the very end, and she’s still bringing in enough money to do so.
I guess if somebody was willing to pay me to travel around the country and give speeches, I’d roll with the gravy train as well. Travel first class, stay at the best hotels, why not? Her political career in the GOP is over; all that’s left for her to do after the GOP Convention is either campaign for Trump or start a new career at CNN as a talking head.
re: #174 No Malarkey!
I guess if somebody was willing to pay me to travel around the country and give speeches, I’d roll with the gravy train as well. Travel first class, stay at the best hotels, why not? Her political career in the GOP is over; all that’s left for her to do after the GOP Convention is either campaign for Trump or start a new career at CNN as a talking head.
She is Trump with tits…she’ll make an excellent OAN commentator.
re: #173 Dr Lizardo
Really, she’s got nothing to lose…so she might as well stay in and continue to bedevil Trump. And who knows? Maybe she’ll get a stroke of good fortune and Trump ends up in the slammer (or under house arrest) after being found guilty of committing a felony crime.
That’s really the long and short of it, she has little to lose by staying in the race and a lot to gain if she’s the only one standing as an alternative should something happen to him. He might neutralize that a bit if and when he announces his VP pick, but right now they’re the only two running so she’s the next in line if the party has to slam the panic button.
re: #176 Targetpractice
That’s really the long and short of it, she has little to lose by staying in the race and a lot to gain if she’s the only one standing as an alternative should something happen to him. He might neutralize that a bit if and when he announces his VP pick, but right now they’re the only two running so she’s the next in line if the party has to slam the panic button.
Unless Trump strokes out before Super Tuesday, March 5, the delegates at the GOP Convention will be overwhelmingly MAGA. Haley definitely won’t get their votes. If Trump is unavailable to be nominated at the Convention, there will be a titanic struggle between MAGA candidates for the nomination, people like DeSantis, Cruz, Noem, Lake and Marjorie Three Toes. It would be glorious to watch.
re: #173 Dr Lizardo
Really, she’s got nothing to lose…so she might as well stay in and continue to bedevil Trump. And who knows? Maybe she’ll get a stroke of good fortune and Trump ends up in the slammer (or under house arrest) after being found guilty of committing a felony crime.
Or maybe he’ll get a stroke, which will be to all our good fortunes.
re: #50 Patricia Kayden
“Possession is 9/10ths of the law!” say those who already possess 9/10ths of everything.
re: #177 No Malarkey!
If Trump is unavailable to be nominated at the Convention, there will be a titanic struggle between MAGA candidates for the nomination, people like DeSantis, Cruz, Noem, Lake and Marjorie Three Toes. It would be glorious to watch.
Imagine a repeat of the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention. 😄
re: #93 Belafon
Specifically, in one case, how he could see the need for labor to organize and yet not be a communist. It was a running theme through the movie.
And that in a nutshell is how Captialism came to triumph in America: we were taught that organized labor was equivalent to Communism.
re: #181 Dr Lizardo
Imagine a repeat of the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention. 😄
Almost every Republican you have ever heard of will at least consider joining the scrum. Trump absolutely will not endorse anyone to succeed him*, so it would be a free for all.
*Except possibly Don Jr. or Ivanka.
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This one lacks the malice of some other recent entries. They can’t all be bastards.
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re: #183 No Malarkey!
Almost every Republican you have ever heard of will at least consider joining the scrum. Trump absolutely will not endorse anyone to succeed him*, so it would be a free for all.
*Except possibly Don Jr. or Ivanka.
Hence why I mentioned his VP pick, because the party leadership will immediately hail them as the heir apparent if Orange Julius drops over before the convention. Until then, there’s nobody other than Haley who’s realistically still in the race, so if their God-Emperor croaked tomorrow, she’s the only one who could realistically argue that she’s still in the race.
re: #181 Dr Lizardo
Imagine a repeat of the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention. 😄
Not enough popcorn
re: #183 No Malarkey!
It’ll be like some WWE free-for-all. Chairs thrown, hell, probably even someone dropped from the stage into the press pool tables.
re: #188 Dr Lizardo
It’ll be like some WWE free-for-all. Chairs thrown, hell, probably even someone dropped from the stage into the press pool tables.
Even if DJTis dead, there are those who will vote for him beyond the grave.
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even if DJTis dead, there are those who will vote for him beyond the grave.
Heh, and I’ll bet more than a few of those folks fully expect that he’ll rise from the dead after three days.
re: #190 Dr Lizardo
Heh, and I’ll bet more than a few of those folks fully expect that he’ll rise from the dead after three days.
There will be plenty of mediums who claim to be channeling his spirit.
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There will be plenty of mediums who claim to be channeling his spirit.
Yeah, but that’s not really gonna be the same thing, is it?
Not quite…..messianic enough.
re: #180 No Malarkey!
There is no particular reason why independents wouldn’t have voted for Trump in the S.C. primary if he had their support, so the fact that Haley got lots of independent votes again like she did in NH demonstrates Trump is a weak candidate; he can’t win the election with GOP votes alone.
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Out of five races so far, Trump’s only done better than 70% in two: NV and the Virgin Islands. The former was because Nikki wasn’t on the caucus ballot, the latter…yeah, I don’t know either. But in the other three states, he hasn’t done better than 60% of the overall vote. And this is a guy who supposedly has 80%+ favorability with the party as a whole according to media polling.
re: #192 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, but that’s not really gonna be the same thing, is it?
Not quite…..messianic enough.
There are enough whackos out there to take it seriously. Not all DJT supporters are Fundamentalists.
re: #190 Dr Lizardo
Heh, and I’ll bet more than a few of those folks fully expect that he’ll rise from the dead after three days.
I’m willing to nail him to a cross to test that theory.
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There will be plenty of mediums who claim to be channeling his spirit.
“I’m getting something…a smell…I smell…ketchup…”
“Well, that could be anyon…”
“And I desire a Big Mac and a Diet Coke!”
“Yeah, it’s him.”
re: #196 Targetpractice
“I’m getting something…a smell…I smell…ketchup…”
“Well, that could be anyon…”
“And I
desire a Big Mac and a Diet Coke!demand that you donate a minimum of $1,000 to my Resurrection Fund!”“Yeah, it’s him.”
re: #195 Targetpractice
I’m willing to nail him to a cross to test that theory.
I’ll borrow a spear to make sure…
Anyways, I did not see any sign of celebrations to mark the Glorious Second Anniversary of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
I asked the people at the Putinversteher site what Russia has to show for all that the war has cost them so far in casualties, lost weapons, lost markets, brain drain, softening of the Ruble, etc,
and one answer was (and quote)
”-prevention of a complete Gaza type mass murder in Donetsk and Lugansk
-demilitarization of Nato and Europe”
Sweden and Finland joining NATO = demilitarization?!?
someone else went on to mention that a convertibvle Ruble and access to Western markets only benefited the oligarchs, and how “anecdotal evidence” indicates that the Russian people are better off now.
I have given up on that site. They are totally lost in some ideological fog.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yeah…not too sure how both Finland and Sweden joining NATO is the “demilitarization of NATO”.
That’s some 100% pure copium they’re huffing.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Anyways, I did not see any sign of celebrations to mark the Glorious Second Anniversary of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
I asked the people at the Putinversteher site what Russia has to show for all that the war has cost them so far in casualties, lost weapons, lost markets, brain drain, softening of the Ruble, etc,
and one answer was (and quote)
”-prevention of a complete Gaza type mass murder in Donetsk and Lugansk
-demilitarization of Nato and Europe”Sweden and Finland joining NATO = demilitarization?!?
someone else went on to mention that a convertibvle Ruble and access to Western markets only benefited the oligarchs, and that “anecdotal evidence” supports the assertion that the Russian people are better off now.
I have given up on that site. They are totally lost in some ideological fog.
Basically the only thing that Russia can boast is they’ve managed to freeze the front lines for the better part of a year, but the flip side is they can’t make any advances without tens of thousands of casualties. They’re down to bringing T-62s and T-55s out of storage and begging North Korea for artillery shells. Gone are the heady days of vatnik armchair generals warning the world that if they didn’t stop their support of Ukraine then Russian tanks would be rolling into Poland next. Now they’re left boasting about how it only took half a year and an army to finally raise the Russian flag atop a blasted pile of rubble.
How are the you tube shorts done again? this one is primo for hotels… I sure wish I could some days.
re: #202 William Lewis
How are the you tube shorts done again? this one is primo for hotels… I sure wish I could some days.
This is one of those times I miss our old GM, because she’d handle this based upon whether they’re still in the room or not.
Stuff in room but no people? She’d call the number on file and give them no more than an hour to get here, pack their shit, and vacate the room. So if 12:01pm got here before they did, their stuff got put on a luggage cart and wheeled down to the back office while the room was cleaned.
They were still in the room? They got until 12:00pm to pack their shit and leave, because at 12:01pm we were calling the cops and having them trespassed off the property.
Meanwhile, in China…..
China’s property crisis deepened as Moody’s withdrew a flurry of credit ratings from key companies.
The credit ratings agency issued sudden removals for 11 Chinese businesses today in a blow to Beijing’s efforts to revive the fortunes of the world’s second largest economy.
Moody’s withdrew scores from 10 Chinese developers, including Logan Group, Ronshine China and Zhenro Properties Group, saying the decision was down to “business reasons”.
Earlier it had removed its Baa3 score - one step away from junk territory - from one of the country’s major bad-debt managers, China Great Wall Asset Management.
The sudden action comes after Moody’s cut its outlook for Chinese sovereign bonds to negative in December.
You know, perhaps Xi Jinping should consider a different approach. I don’t think re-reading “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung” is gonna be all that helpful in this particular situation.
re: #206 Dr Lizardo
Meanwhile, in China…..
You know, perhaps Xi Jinping should consider a different approach. I don’t think re-reading “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung” is gonna be all that helpful in this particular situation.
Nationalize the entire real estate industry. Confiscate all the unoccupied properties and distribute them to the peasant classes.
re: #206 Dr Lizardo
Meanwhile, in China…..
You know, perhaps Xi Jinping should consider a different approach.
I know! He could invite Mitt Romney in to teach the Chinese about predatory capitalism, maybe introduce Collateral Debt Options like the US did back in the early 2000s after deregulating the Chinese financial sector. What could go wrong?
re: #208 Nojay UK
I know! He could invite Mitt Romney in to teach the Chinese about predatory capitalism,
“Corporations are comrades, too, Chairman!”
re: #203 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Birb.
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re: #193 Targetpractice
Out of five races so far, Trump’s only done better than 70% in two: NV and the Virgin Islands. The former was because Nikki wasn’t on the caucus ballot, the latter…yeah, I don’t know either. But in the other three states, he hasn’t done better than 60% of the overall vote. And this is a guy who supposedly has 80%+ favorability with the party as a whole according to media polling.
We’re dealing with two unprecedented factors: first time in the primary era that we’ve had ANY former president try to get the nomination again after losing reelection, so we don’t have any benchmark for whether to see Trump as a quasi-incumbent for nominating purposes…
…and of course the first time we’ve had an insurrectionist would-be strongman with 91 criminal charges pending against him, etc.
Anyone who tells you they know what’s going to happen next has no idea.
re: #211 ipsos
I mean, he’s been the de facto leader of the Republican Party since his ouster in 2020. In that sense, he definitely seems to have a quasi-incumbent edge for the purposes of nomination. With that said, there is also a bit of backlash against him because of his many crimes, so the quasi-incumbent effect is dampened somewhat.
Let’s talk about how Biden needs to spend hours on a tanning bed followed by sitting down for a comb-over and make-up job before he can make a public appearance…
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Let’s talk about how Biden needs to spend hours on a tanning bed followed by sitting down for a comb-over and make-up job before he can make a public appearance…
Donald Trump is a mincing fancy lad who wears makeup and high heels.
re: #216 Dr Lizardo
Donald Trump is a mincing fancy lad who wears makeup and high heels.
2024: Mods vs Rockers.
Tiny Frozen People have driven football below the fold in Alabama news.
Vote ‘frozen embryo’ for Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice
re: #216 Dr Lizardo
Donald Trump is a mincing fancy lad who wears makeup and high heels.
Like a good 17th century dandy
re: #8 Patricia Kayden
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Religious freedom != YOU can’t do that, it is against MY religion.
Awwww
Trump’s request to suspend E. Jean Carroll’s $83M verdict swiftly denied by judge
* Joins the birb group *
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Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” Sunday morning, the former chair of the Michigan Republican Party claimed stocking the Republican National Committee with Donald Trump loyalists will have a devastating impact 0nn the party both short and long term.
Speaking with the hosts, Saul Anuzis claimed it will be hard for anyone who is not in the Trump camp to get any help not just this election cycle but long after the former president has disappeared from the scene.
It’s “Z” Day—Zeppo Marx’s birthday.
Also George Harrison’s B-Day 😉
re: #227 Dr Lizardo
That was quick.
You love to see it. Time to pony up, Donnie.
He doesn’t have the money.
re: #153 Targetpractice
It’s looking like 2012 again, where the pollsters spent the spring and summer confidently telling folks that while Romney was trailing in virtually every poll that things would tighten up after the conventions when the “Rally ‘Round The Flag” effect took hold and it would be a nail-biter to the very end. Any time a poll came up showing Obama confidently ahead, they’d talk about demographics and voter enthusiasm being against him and that led to the BS about “unskewed polls.”
So what happened? Election Night came, Obama won confidently, and the stories the next morning were about how Romney had so bought into the pollster BS that he hadn’t even bothered writing a concession speech.
He lost Massachusetts! 😉😜
My favorite Romney story: On Election Night, he was holding court at the Boston convention center in the Seaport district. He paid for Atlas Fireworks to set up for his (eventual, he thought) victory celebration.
As we know now, the fireworks were never lit off.
At the scene, the Secret Service agent was said to have shook Mitt’s hand, and driven off.
re: #234 Joe Bacon ✅
(No, I’m sure Donalds didn’t actually say this)
“Kristen, you only think it’s racist because you’re black.”
re: #235 Belafon
She appears to be trying to dig herself out of the Chuck Todd hole she made for herself in her first few weeks in that role.
re: #126 Belafon
While funny, the last two are both true. The internet is American, and the WWW European. Though I think the American needs to fix his thinking.
People equate the 2 ALL the time. I have had a few discussions with people explaining the difference. But trying to explain the layers of networking to people that just know they type whatever.com and they get some pictures and words is tough.
Dakota NewsNow: Seattle woman’s car stuck in Sioux Falls for over five months after now-closed “Maga Motors” mess
Poor woman. Moving across country after a divorce to get away from an abusive husband. Car breaks down near Sioux Falls and a collaboration of chucklehead fraudsters decide to make it even worse.
Experts blast GOP’s plan to end recreational sex: ‘You’re gonna love what the Manhattan DA has coming’
US Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) Chief of Staff Adam Jentleson tweeted, “the highly influential heritage foundation, which would help staff and direct a future Trump administration, literally said that a key conservative policy goal is ‘ending recreational sex.’ they said it, not me. IMO we should take them both seriously and literally
re: #224 Joe Bacon ✅
Awwww
Trump’s request to suspend E. Jean Carroll’s $83M verdict swiftly denied by judge
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I feel for him.
Happy is what I feel for him.
So I feel for him.
re: #240 Joe Bacon ✅
John is letting his chief of staff talk with his ideas. Hmm. That information must have pissed John off a lot.
re: #242 Eventual Carrion
I feel for him.
Happy is what I feel for him.
So I feel for him.
I’m surprised we haven’t seen an all-caps meltdown on Truth Social. Maybe he’s too busy flinging those little ketchup packets and wailing, “I’m so screwed!!”
Comfort isn’t just a Vision Pro problem — it’s a wearable oneAs I sit here writing this in the Apple Vision Pro, I’m acutely aware of how the light seal presses against my forehead and cheekbones. It was relatively comfy when I slipped it on an hour ago. But now, every so often, I push up on the bridge — as if I’m a cartoon nerd saying, um, well, actually — just to give my face a break. This is despite the fact that I’ve done the scan to figure out my perfect light seal fit (33W, in case you’re wondering). So no, I’m not surprised that many Apple fans who returned their Vision Pros cited comfort as a major issue.
But this isn’t exclusively a Vision Pro problem. It’s a wearable problem.
I say this a lot in my reviews, but comfort is king. For other gadget categories, comfort is mostly a question of weight. With wearables, fit adds another layer of complexity. You’re not going to wear a smartwatch, smart ring, smart glasses, or a mixed reality headset if you don’t find it comfortable. The catch is that it’s hard to scale a comfy fit for the mass market. Even if a company tries its damnedest, somebody always gets left out.
I got to see this firsthand last night. Truly epic.
re: #178 sagehen
Or maybe he’ll get a stroke, which will be to all our good fortunes.
The system can only handle so many Big Macs.
re: #249 JC1
For once, gotta say, I agree with Trump.
Republican/MAGA voters should indeed turn out in force on 27 November this year.
re: #251 Dr Lizardo
For once, gotta say, I agree with Trump.
Republican/MAGA voters should indeed turn out in force on 27 November this year.
I approve of this.
re: #249 JC1
Drudge in full on anti-trump mode.
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The Nov 27th thing was a slip a lot of people would make. He had just mentioned November. With my blood sugar at 80, I could misspeak like that.
“We need you to get out and vote to set the stage for November. Go vote - November 27th. Remember this, that’s a date that is very important.”
Not knowing his wife’s name is much harder to explain without getting into serious incurable health issues.
re: #247 Dr. Matt
I got to see this firsthand last night. Truly epic.
Nice. I’m planning to go to the Vegas show later this year.
re: #245 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Our heads evolved to balance top of our neck. Any changes to that arrangement will be uncomfortable after a while. Occasionally even my glasses bother me.
re: #259 Eventual Carrion
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re: #223 Eventual Carrion
Yep
Religious freedom = I can’t do that, it is against my religion
Religious freedom != YOU can’t do that, it is against MY religion.
Religious freedom = Please may I build a shack on my deck to live in for a week?
HOA: NO! It spoils the look of the neighborhood!
Religious freedom = Please may I hang this fishing wire up on the utility pole?
CITY COUNCIL: NO! IT’S AN EYESORE!
But you can’t even see it!
CITY COUNCIL: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM!!!!
— Blue in texas (@678600James) February 25, 2024
Biden won 96.2% of the vote in SC for comparison purposes. I think this is a pretty worrying result for Trump
See Billy Joel and Sting Perform the Police’s ‘Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic’ at Co-Headlining Gigre: #249 JC1
Drudge in full on anti-trump mode.
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And the librul media will continue to obsess over Biden’s age and gaffs.
re: #258 Eclectic Cyborg
Nice. I’m planning to go to the Vegas show later this year.
My advice: get there early! Sting goes on just after 7 pm. Lots of people missed half his set because of traffic.
re: #93 Belafon
Yes, I was angry at Strauss and the board as it should be, but you know what also got me angry because I have experienced it before: The people around him not understanding how he could hold a more complex picture of the world in his head than they wanted. Specifically, in one case, how he could see the need for labor to organize and yet not be a communist. It was a running theme through the movie.
Yes! Everyone was so puzzled that he could have been in favor of nuclear weapons in WWII and iffy about them for anything else after. This isn’t puzzling to me at all. A lot of things made sense in WWII and not since.
re: #262 Vicious Babushka
Religious freedom = Please may I build a shack on my deck to live in for a week?
HOA: NO! It spoils the look of the neighborhood!Religious freedom = Please may I hang this fishing wire up on the utility pole?
CITY COUNCIL: NO! IT’S AN EYESORE!
But you can’t even see it!
CITY COUNCIL: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM!!!!
So how do you see it?
re: #264 Charmingly Persistent
Biden won 96.2% of the vote in SC for comparison purposes. I think this is a pretty worrying result for Trump
Dean: Biden should be worried, he lost more than 2% of the vote.
re: #231 jeffreyw
Sent that one to my sister 😹
re: #262 Vicious Babushka
This was posted yesterday. I thought you might get a kick out of the scenery:
Mike Johnson blames mass shootings on “no-fault divorce laws,” “feminism,” and Roe v. Wade.
pic.twitter.com/Ju8IQDa6nE— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) February 24, 2024
re: #126 Belafon
While funny, the last two are both true. The internet is American, and the WWW European. Though I think the American needs to fix his thinking.
XKCD had a panel on this a couple of days ago:
Reminder, this “anti-imperialist”, “denazificator”, “verified” on twitter is Russia’s senator of “Zaporozhye Oblast”, annexed part of Zaporizhizhia Oblast of Ukraine. He was the head of Russian space program before, wrote on him in The Thread. https://t.co/AFbEohDaCK pic.twitter.com/lAVswhGQFO
— Michael Vokabre (@Vokabre) February 25, 2024
re: #184 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿
Your Next Wordle will be the first Scotsman to play the bagpipes at the South Pole in an attempt to inherit one million pounds.
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re: #215 Patricia Kayden
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#BoycottWalgreens
All you need to know about Walgreen’s is that they sell cigarettes.
re: #257 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
The Nov 27th thing was a slip a lot of people would make. He had just mentioned November. With my blood sugar at 80, I could misspeak like that.
“We need you to get out and vote to set the stage for November. Go vote - November 27th. Remember this, that’s a date that is very important.”
Not knowing his wife’s name is much harder to explain without getting into serious incurable health issues.
People have slips of the tongue all the time and don’t even realize they made a mistake until brought to their attention. Let’s be fair here — he probably hasn’t seen her since her mother’s funeral so it’s not surprising he forgot her name.
The Human Shitstain goes after Harry.
Donald Trump has reopened his attacks on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, saying Harry will be “on his own” if Trump wins a second term.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, Trump said of Harry: “I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me.”
Inquiring minds want to know what Fartass means when he says “Harry will be on his own”!
re: #262 Vicious Babushka
Religious freedom = Please may I build a shack on my deck to live in for a week?
HOA: NO! It spoils the look of the neighborhood!Religious freedom = Please may I hang this fishing wire up on the utility pole?
CITY COUNCIL: NO! IT’S AN EYESORE!
But you can’t even see it!
CITY COUNCIL: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM!!!!
Religious freedom = you can do anything according to your religion that doesn’t violate the law or the appearance rules or the noise rules of the community or the HOA
re: #280 Joe Bacon ✅
And DT walked in front of the late Queen. That is unforgivable.
re: #273 Belafon
This was posted yesterday. I thought you might get a kick out of the scenery:
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Pro-Russia rebels in a separatist part of Moldova are preparing to ask Vladimir Putin to annex their region, amid warnings that an emboldened Kremlin is trying to destabilise Europe.Gennady Chorba, a politician in Transnistria, which borders Ukraine, has said the rebel government will submit its request to the Kremlin on Wednesday during a special congress that last met in 2006.
“This will be voiced to Russia on behalf of citizens living on the left bank of the Dniester River,” Mr Chorba, was quoted as saying earlier last week.
His statement came a few days after Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said the rights of pro-Russian separatists in Transnistria must be respected.
Western analysts believe the development is part of Moscow’s “hybrid warfare” campaign to destabilise Europe.
‘Imminent political crisis’
The US-based Institute for the Study of War said Putin was trying to ramp up tension in Transnistria to create an “imminent political crisis” in Moldova, a former Soviet state that wants to join the EU.
Russia keeps roughly 2,000 soldiers in Transnistria and there were concerns in 2022 that the Kremlin could use it to open a second front after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Concrete machine gun posts facing Transnistria dot Ukraine’s western border.
However, Ukrainian officials are sceptical that Putin wants to formally annex Transnistria, a sentiment backed up by analysts in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital.
One source, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that the Kremlin viewed the region and two other pro-Russia rebel states in Georgia as useful tools to use in its “hybrid warfare” against Europe, which has included funnelling migrants into the EU and spreading misinformation.
“Somebody may have ordered this to provoke tensions, to provoke reactions and it’s worked,” he said.
Alexandru Flenchea, a former Moldovan deputy prime minister and a former chief negotiator on Transnistria, said the statement may have been ordered by local businessmen who effectively run Transnistria as their fiefdom, because they want to derail EU customs integration with Moldova.
re: #287 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Shamrock Conoco at night:
PS Turns out it has its own wikipedia article:
U-Drop Inn
Just finished watching X-Men: Days of Future Past, which is by far the best of the 20th Century Fox’s X-Men movies, and I was reading something about the Marvel universes merging, and they made a good point: we could finally get the Kitty Pride from the comics.
How about this for a fancy Sunday Dinner?
Champagne Chicken
This champagne chicken uses—you guessed it!—champagne—to turn ordinary skinless, boneless chicken breasts into a truly amazing dish with a world-class mushroom pan sauce. These old-school-type pan sauces are classic for a reason. The depth of flavor is impressive.
Ingredients
4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
2 teaspoons kosher salt, plus more as needed
2 tablespoons olive oil
freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 pinch cayenne pepper
2 generous cups thickly sliced mushrooms
1/4 cup diced shallots
3 cloves garlic, minced
4 teaspoons all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups champagne
1/2 teaspoon tomato paste
2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves
1 1/2 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon aged balsamic vinegar (optional)
OK—DIRECTIONS!!!!
Season chicken with salt on both sides.
Heat olive oil over high heat in a nonstick pan large enough to hold the chicken breasts in a single layer, and cook chicken on both sides until lightly browned, 3 to 4 minutes per side. While the first side is browning, season tops of breasts with black pepper and cayenne to taste.
Once both sides are browned, turn off heat, and transfer chicken to a plate, and reserve. Chicken can be transferred into the refrigerator until needed.
Melt butter in the pan over medium-high heat, then add mushrooms and a pinch of salt to the pan cook, stirring occasionally, until the mushrooms begin to brown.
Stir in shallots and garlic, and cook, stirring, until shallots turn translucent, 3 to 5 minutes. Sprinkle in flour and cook, stirring, until the flour disappears and starts sticking to the bottom of the pan, about 1 minute.
Pour in champagne and use a spatula to scrape any caramelization off the bottom of the pan. Let mixture simmer until the champagne has reduced by about half, and has thickened enough that the trail left by a spatula dragged across the bottom of the pan takes a few seconds to fill in, 5 to 10 minutes.
Stir in tomato paste, fresh thyme, and chicken broth, and wait for the sauce to return to a simmer. Stir in cream, and let the sauce cook until reduced and thickened enough to coat a spoon, about 10 minutes. Reduce heat to low.
Stir in balsamic vinegar, and return reserved chicken to the pan. Finish cooking the chicken by simmering gently in the sauce, turning over and basting every few minutes, until an instant-read thermometer inserted near the center maintains a temperature of 150 degrees F (66 degrees C) for 3 to 4 minutes. The time it will take to complete cooking the chicken breasts will vary, but internal temperature is a sure guide to doneness.
Taste for seasoning, and serve chicken immediately with sauce spooned over the top.
Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?
NASA is conducting tests on what might be the greatest challenge of a Mars mission: the trauma of isolation.
Alyssa Shannon was on her morning commute from Oakland to Sacramento, where she worked as an advanced-practice nurse at the university hospital, when NASA called to tell her that she had been selected for a Mars mission. She screamed and pulled off the highway. As soon as she hung up, she called her partner, an information-security operations manager at the University of California, Berkeley, named Jake Harwood. . .
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re: #293 BeenHereAwhile
Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?
NASA is conducting tests on what might be the greatest challenge of a Mars mission: the trauma of isolation.Alyssa Shannon was on her morning commute from Oakland to Sacramento, where she worked as an advanced-practice nurse at the university hospital, when NASA called to tell her that she had been selected for a Mars mission. She screamed and pulled off the highway. As soon as she hung up, she called her partner, an information-security operations manager at the University of California, Berkeley, named Jake Harwood…
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At least they won’t be coming back going “We found a whole new race to rape and pillage.”
re: #287 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
We visited that on the Rt 66 phase of a trailer trip to Denver. It was the inspiration for the station in Cars.
re: #266 Dr. Matt
My advice: get there early! Sting goes on just after 7 pm. Lots of people missed half his set because of traffic.
That was already my plan. But he is primarily the reason I am going so thanks for the heads up. 💪🏼
Former Republican:
Some of Biden’s aides are goofballs. Some of Trump’s aides have told me to my face that I “belong in Guantanamo.” They make it easy to go with the goofballs.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) February 20, 2024
John Cole ran into a version of himself, and it is funny: balloon-juice.com.
CBS Sunday Morning did a segment on black soldiers convicted and hung for rioting in the way you can imagine it was done in 1917 and steps to fix it:
re: #299 Belafon
Good movie on that topic:
The 24th
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