Navarro reports to prison, but first he babbles interminably about … something.
Peter Navarro, an ex-White House aide to former President Donald Trump, has reported to a federal prison in Miami, making history as the first former White House official to be imprisoned for a contempt of Congress conviction. CNN’s Katelyn Polantz and Randi Kaye report. #CNN #News
“The alleged crime”. Said the alleged human being…
re: #212 lawhawk
Fox News anchor Sandra Smith cuts away from Peter Navarro’s speech outside of prison:
“To fact check there, it is no longer an alleged crime..]
His demeanor will greatly change during intake.
And his public lack of contrition could diminish his chances for early release.
re: #4 BeenHereAwhile
His demeanor will greatly change during intake.
And his public lack of contrition could diminish his chances for early release.
He’s only going in for four months.
Why did Henry VIII got rid of one his last wife over Chinese food?
Because Catherine Parr boiled rice!
re: #9 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
soooooo…The Rice Is Right…😏
re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅
soooooo…The Rice Is Right…😏
Don’t forget the famous French cook and singer, Edith Pilaf.
So, did Peter Navarro say that we sent the alter ego of Trump to prison? Good start.
GODFREY DANIELS! (channeling my inner WC Fields)
What The Fuck Did This Asshole Do?
GOP legislator horrifies colleagues by inserting their names into graphic account of rape
A Nebraska Republican legislator horrified colleagues by substituting in some of their names into a graphic account of a rape from a novel.
State Sen. Steve Halloran (R-Hastings) read an excerpt from the novel “Lucky,” by Alice Seabold, during a debate over an obscenity bill but apparently tried to make a point by substituting in the name of state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D-Omaha) to graphic scenes of sexual violence, reported the Nebraska Examiner.
“That was so out of line and unnecessary and disgusting to say my name over and over again like that,” said Machaela Cavanaugh said.
At least two of Halloran’s colleagues publicly called for him to resign.
re: #12 wrenchwench
So, did Peter Navarro say that we sent the alter ego of Trump to prison? Good start.
If DJT actually winds up serving four months I will be astounded…I still expect nothing worse than parole or house arrest.
GODFREY DANIELS Part 2!
Moms for Liberty co-founder sues to lock down evidence in husband’s rape probe
Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler and her husband are suing Sarasota police and prosecutors to stop the release of records related to his rape probe.
According to the couple’s lawsuit filed Friday, the release of records from the Sarasota Police Department (SPD) and State Attorney’s Office (SAO) would “cause great humiliation and harm to their individual reputations.” The Zieglers are asking Sarasota County court to bar the release of records and “order the permanent destruction” of any text messages.
re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If DJT actually winds up serving four months I will be astounded…I still expect nothing
worsebetter than parole or house arrest.
It’s all how you look at it.
re: #17 wrenchwench
It’s all how you look at it.
I think I’d end up settling for his political career being kaput and his access to social media and/or speaking engagements being seriously truncated. Once he is out of the news cycle I think more serious attention turns to issues that need to be addressed rather than the 24/7 Trump circus.
re: #13 Joe Bacon ✅
I wish Anymouse was still posting: he could always explain All Things Nebraska.
Though in this case, it seems that the simplest explanation (I.e., “Republican State Legislator” = “dickhead MAGA asshole”) covers it all…
re: #18 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I think I’d end up settling for his political career being kaput and his access to social media and/or speaking engagements being seriously truncated. Once he is out of the news cycle I think more serious attention turns to issues that need to be addressed rather than the 24/7 Trump circus.
Truncated is a good word. More truncation!
re: #18 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I think I’d end up settling for his political career being kaput and his access to social media and/or speaking engagements being seriously truncated. Once he is out of the news cycle I think more serious attention turns to issues that need to be addressed rather than the 24/7 Trump circus.
But the entire GOP has to be brought down with him since his dishonesty and treason has permeated the party. The party was racist before him — but the treason was mainly at his instigation.
re: #19 Jay C
I wish Anymouse was still posting: he could always explain All Things Nebraska.
Though in this case, it seems that the simplest explanation (I.e., “Republican State Legislator” = “dickhead MAGA asshole”) covers it all…
He seems to have vanished from BlueSky, too. I kind of miss him.
re: #15 Joe Bacon ✅
GODFREY DANIELS Part 2!
Moms for Liberty co-founder sues to lock down evidence in husband’s rape probe
Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler and her husband are suing Sarasota police and prosecutors to stop the release of records related to his rape probe.
According to the couple’s lawsuit filed Friday, the release of records from the Sarasota Police Department (SPD) and State Attorney’s Office (SAO) would “cause great humiliation and harm to their individual reputations.” The Zieglers are asking Sarasota County court to bar the release of records and “order the permanent destruction” of any text messages.
Its never we didn’t do it
Its we can’t have people find out
re: #21 Hecuba’s daughter
But the entire GOP has to be brought down with him since his dishonesty and treason has permeated the party. The party was racist before him — but the treason was mainly at his instigation.
I think there is a chance once Trump is sidelined is that GOP corruption and treason gets closer scrutiny. And the investigations work their way down and up at the same time and root out a bunch of their leaders and rank-and-file for what they are. And that the electorate opts to have none of them in office.
Fox News spent just four minutes on the story that former Vice President Mike Pence would not endorse Donald Trump for president.In contrast, CNN spent one hour and 19 minutes, while MSNBC spent one hour and 14 minutes.
Once again…..
My
Attorney
Got
Arrested
Stefanie Lambert was arrested by U.S. Marshals after a hearing over possible sanctions against her for disseminating confidential emails from Dominion Voting Systems, the target of conspiracy theories over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss https://t.co/R9BlYLqgGd
— Mike Balsamo (@MikeBalsamo1) March 19, 2024
NEWS: Michigan lawyer Stefanie Lambert, who’s championed dubious claims of election fraud, was arrested on a bench warrant in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
Story with reporting from @DNBethLeBlanc + @GrantSchwab: https://t.co/I8AumwIW35— Craig Mauger (@CraigDMauger) March 19, 2024
re: #19 Jay C
I wish Anymouse was still posting: he could always explain All Things Nebraska.
Though in this case, it seems that the simplest explanation (I.e., “Republican State Legislator” = “dickhead MAGA asshole”) covers it all…
A month ago, he said on Bluesky he was going to be in Texas for a few months because of his BIL’s health issues. So who knows when we will be hearing from him again on either site. Wish he was still here.
re: #25 Dangerman
I’m surprised Fox even gave it as much as four minutes.
re: #6 jeffreyw
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Is it just a coincidence that the three best monarchs in British history, and the longest-serving, were all women?
re: #30 sagehen
Hmm. It shows that women have what it takes to run a country. That is probably why the men do not want the women to to be in charge.
re: #30 sagehen
Is it just a coincidence that the three best monarchs in British history, and the longest-serving, were all women?
No
re: #30 sagehen
Is it just a coincidence that the three best monarchs in British history, and the longest-serving, were all women?
No, the women had much less opportunity, or taste for, debauchery.
re: #30 sagehen
Is it just a coincidence that the three best monarchs in British history, and the longest-serving, were all women?
What about Edgar the AEtheling? Okay, he didn’t make it three months but submitting to William the Conqueror is a pretty good excuse.
FWIW
Ted, you know I’m no supporter of Trump. That’s for damn sure.
How anyone can vote for someone who has so many of his executive employees turn on him, and, say he is incompetent is beyond me.
But you are wrong on this topic Ted.
Net worth is completely different than… https://t.co/WG6cY1t5qq— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) March 19, 2024
re: #30 sagehen
Is it just a coincidence that the three best monarchs in British history, and the longest-serving, were all women?
No love for Alfred the Great?
re: #37 Dr. Matt
Cuban is likely correct about liquid assets.
But Mar-a-lago, Trump Tower, Bedminster golf club, etc. are not foreign assets.
Cuban is asserting that no bond company will take those properties as collateral for bond.
I wonder if that is true?
re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Cuban is likely correct about liquid assets.
But Mar-a-lago, Trump Tower, Bedminster golf club, etc. are not foreign assets.
Cuban is asserting that no bond company will take those properties as collateral for bond.
I wonder if that is true?
The question is whether the properties are already over leveraged.
re: #41 Mike Lamb
The question is whether the properties are already over leveraged.
I asked yesterday if Trump Inc. was upside down.
AFAIK, the case in NY did not disclose the balance sheets to the public.
Two men held in Germany over Swedish parliament terror plot https://t.co/HzHEbmfO7M
— The Local Sweden (@TheLocalSweden) March 19, 2024
re: #37 Dr. Matt
FWIW
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Cuban is wrong
And admits tfg is broke. No net worth.
No liquidity
No borrowing power (read bad credit like the rest of us)
Can’t pay his upcoming obligations. That’s insolvency.
Doesnt matter if you don’t have the cash or can’t raise the cash timely (through operating revenue, sale of fixed assets, or borrowing)
If you have X billion dollars in assets
AND the same X billion amount in liabilities
You are not a billionaire. <<<——- thats a full stop
Three years ago today the volcanic activity on the Reykjanes peninsula started.
The current eruption north of Grindavik is still going though slowing down. It’s lasted longer than the prior two.
Fagradasfjall is still quiet.
re: #37 Dr. Matt
Mark Cuban makes a solid point at the end there….
And as far as the bond companies Trump’s assets are mostly interests in commercial real estate and foreign assets. No bond company is loaning against them in this commercial real estate market, if ever.
Trump’s assets are, by and large, commercial real estate. No one in their right mind is gonna lend him half a billion dollars in the current commercial real estate environment. Not to mention they’re almost certainly all leveraged to hell and back.
re: #44 Dangerman
One thing to consider is Cuban’s point about Trump Org’s assets being outside the US.
First off, that should be questionable for anyone running for President because it means foreign polities can influence a President.
Secondly, the strength of the dollar currently means any property overseas that could be converted to cash locally will be valued less in US dollars.
re: #46 Dr Lizardo
I think the good question is how heavily leveraged are those US properties. Though Trump over-valued those properties and hence the trial showed the fraud, those properties are still valuable.
re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Cuban is likely correct about liquid assets.
But Mar-a-lago, Trump Tower, Bedminster golf club, etc. are not foreign assets.
Cuban is asserting that no bond company will take those properties as collateral for bond.
I wonder if that is true?
Probably: it’s being taken as a given that Trump’s properties are highly leveraged: I’m guessing that few bond companies are going to go out on a multi-hundred-million-dollar limb to be second or third in line just for Donald Trump.
re: #44 Dangerman
Cuban is wrong
And admits tfg is broke. No net worth.
No liquidity
No borrowing power (read bad credit like the rest of us)
Can’t pay his upcoming obligations. That’s insolvency.
Doesnt matter if you don’t have the cash or can’t raise the cash timely (through operating revenue, sale of fixed assets, or borrowing)If you have X billion dollars in assets
AND the same X billion amount in liabilities
You are not a billionaire. <<<——- thats a full stop
This is elementary stuff.
So I checked wiki after I wrote this (cause, you know 45 years in the profession don’t mean shit)
Mark needs to read the first line
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion
re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I think the good question is how heavily leveraged are those US properties. Though Trump over-valued those properties and hence the trial showed the fraud, those properties are still valuable.
I reckon they’re all leveraged up to the helipad. I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that Trump’s actually underwater - which could explain why thus far, everyone’s saying, “LOL get the fuck outta here.”
re: #48 Jay C
Probably: it’s being taken as a given that Trump’s properties are highly leveraged: I’m guessing that few bond companies are going to go out on a multi-hundred-million-dollar limb to be second or third in line just for Donald Trump.
Probably fourth in line. Assuming each property has two loans against it, New York via the judgement will be first in line, won’t it?
re: #52 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Probably fourth in line. Assuming each property has two loans against it, New York via the judgement will be first in line, won’t it?
The bond would take the place of the State of New York, because the bond agency would be paying the judgment, and they would then own the collateral.
re: #50 Dr Lizardo
I reckon they’re all leveraged up to the helipad. I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that Trump’s actually underwater - which could explain why thus far, everyone’s saying, “LOL get the fuck outta here.”
Hence Ted Lieu has a point: Trump is not really a billionaire. His debts are larger than his assets.
I strong hint about his worth is that Chubb was willing to back a smaller bond, and was not willing to bite the big one. The realistic value is in that range.
re: #46 Dr Lizardo
Mark Cuban makes a solid point at the end there….
Trump’s assets are, by and large, commercial real estate. No one in their right mind is gonna lend him half a billion dollars in the current commercial real estate environment. Not to mention they’re almost certainly all leveraged to hell and back.
the current environment is not the reason (imo)
He Might have had a fighting chance if he owned any of them clear.
Its your last line. He’s got no equity.
And even if he did have some equity, nothing liquid enough.
That is why he’s got bad credit like the rest if us schlubs.
Its why part of credit score calcs is a percent of debt to assets
re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Cuban is likely correct about liquid assets.
But Mar-a-lago, Trump Tower, Bedminster golf club, etc. are not foreign assets.
Cuban is asserting that no bond company will take those properties as collateral for bond.
I wonder if that is true?
Because they have no idea how these properties are alread under lien and it would take ages to find out and even then they know that if they had to actually seize them it would be an endless legal clusterfuck
re: #50 Dr Lizardo
I reckon they’re all leveraged up to the helipad. I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that Trump’s actually underwater - which could explain why thus far, everyone’s saying, “LOL get the fuck outta here.”
He could also be underwater because the vultures in the real industry will low-ball the value of the properties to get them at bargain basement prices. They are circling overhead eager to pluck at his carcass and get buildings for less than they are worth. OTOH, his net worth without that consideration may be negative — or a fraction of his assertions.
re: #55 Decatur Deb
I strong hint about his worth is that Chubb was willing to back a smaller bond, and was not willing to bite the big one. The realistic value is in that range.
So about, what, $250 million to $375 million or somewhere in that ballpark?
So the Corrupted Court sides with Abbott
Texas gets the Supreme Court’s green light to enforce a harsh immigration law, for now
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Texas to begin enforcing a law that makes it a state crime for migrants to illegally cross the border and allows state officials to deport undocumented individuals. Liberal justices dissented, saying the change would invite “chaos and crisis” at the border.
re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter
He could also be underwater because the vultures in the real industry will low-ball the value of the properties to get them at bargain basement prices. They are circling overhead eager to pluck at his carcass and get buildings for less than they are worth. OTOH, his net worth without that consideration may be negative — or a fraction of his assertions.
Oh yeah, they smell blood.
re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
One thing to consider is Cuban’s point about Trump Org’s assets being outside the US.
First off, that should be questionable for anyone running for President because it means foreign polities can influence a President.
Secondly, the strength of the dollar currently means any property overseas that could be converted to cash locally will be valued less in US dollars.
I think the good question is how heavily leveraged are those US properties. Though Trump over-valued those properties and hence the trial showed the fraud, those properties are still valuable.
To your last point: who would to lend money to a guy to pay a losing judgment for committing fraud in valuing those properties?
Who is also known for not paying debts on time, dragging them out, suing and delaying for years….
re: #59 Dr Lizardo
So about, what, $250 million to $375 million or somewhere in that ballpark?
Bunch of people would like to know that. The people who turned him down have degrees and big calculators.
re: #60 Joe Bacon ✅
So the Corrupted Court sides with Abbott
Texas gets the Supreme Court’s green light to enforce a harsh immigration law, for now
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Texas to begin enforcing a law that makes it a state crime for migrants to illegally cross the border and allows state officials to deport undocumented individuals. Liberal justices dissented, saying the change would invite “chaos and crisis” at the border.
Just like they allowed the Texas abortion bounty law to take effect. They are telegraphing their decision on this issue.
God, I fucking hate it here. I wish there was something we could do now, now that we’re here, to stop this madness.
re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter
I see the conservative SCOTUS majority has decided to go back to the Articles of Confederation and that the Constitution is no longer relevant. That’s some pretty hardcore “originalism”.
re: #54 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Hence Ted Lieu has a point: Trump is not really a billionaire. His debts are larger than his assets.
Winner winner.
More so, if he had actual net worth no matter how small and still couldn’t pay his current debts on time, then he *is* insolvent.
Insolvency, net worth, equity, billionaire, retained earnings. These are definitional terms.
Cuban is playing with the definitions.
re: #65 Nerdy Fish
God, I fucking hate it here. I wish there was something we could do now, now that we’re here, to stop this madness.
Find like minds and organize. Otherwise, all we can do is bitch and write checks.
Trump slammed for ‘completely wacko’ suit against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos
Donald Trump is facing criticism for suing ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for defamation after the host said the ex-president had been found liable for “rape.”
“In an interview on ‘This Week,’ Stephanopoulos pressed Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, a rape survivor, over her continued support of Trump after a jury found he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $88 million for battery and defamation,” CNN reports. “Stephanopoulos asserted multiple times in the interview with Mace that Trump had ‘raped’ Carroll.”
Attorney George Conway took Trump to task while offering some legal insight.
“The theory of Trump’s complaint here is that, since the jury in Carroll II, the case tried last year, unanimously found that Trump forcibly and without consent penetrated Carroll’s vagina with his fingers and not his penis, and since this constituted sexual assault and not rape as defined by the New York Penal Code, Stephanopoulos libeled him by saying he had been held liable for ‘rape,’ even though the judge in the Carroll case has held multiple times since the verdict that in common parlance (and the law of most other jurisdictions) forcible digital penetration is rape,” Conway writes.
re: #37 Dr. Matt
Net worth isn’t the same as liquid wealth. He can claim to be worth X, but have only Y on hand in cash (or easily convertible to cash within say 30 days). The problem is that he’s claimed on video that he’s got $400m in cash, and that’s clearly a lie. He has perhaps 1/100 of that amount in cash, if that. He can’t easily or quickly sell enough assets because they’re highly leveraged.
He needed to leverage all of his holdings because without which, he couldn’t buy the next property or cook up a trademark/copyright deal to slap a Trump logo on the property. It’s also telling that he’s gotten out of actually building new buildings, and instead now busy slapping names on existing properties - like golf courses. He can’t get the construction loans, and now we know he can’t get the bond to cover $465 million judgments. He’d need that kind of money to build new office or residential buildings in NYC or Chicago or other major cities.
He doesn’t have it, but if he had a few million dollars, he could enter into a management deal where he becomes the face of the property but doesn’t have to put up the bulk of the money to build it.
re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter
He could also be underwater because the vultures in the real industry will low-ball the value of the properties to get them at bargain basement prices. They are circling overhead eager to pluck at his carcass and get buildings for less than they are worth. OTOH, his net worth without that consideration may be negative — or a fraction of his assertions.
This is a risk everyone takes when they buy fixed assets for investment.
Its why they’re categorized as long term/not readily convertible to cash for value.
Everyone knows a forced/distressed sale reduces the price/current market value.
Ever buy a house from someone who had to sell?
re: #66 Dr Lizardo
I see the conservative SCOTUS majority has decided to go back to the Articles of Confederation and that Constitution is no longer relevant. That’s some pretty hardcore “originalism”.
They don’t need that argument any more /right now
They don’t need any argument
They have the votes
re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter
He could also be underwater because the vultures in the real industry will low-ball the value of the properties to get them at bargain basement prices. They are circling overhead eager to pluck at his carcass and get buildings for less than they are worth. OTOH, his net worth without that consideration may be negative — or a fraction of his assertions.
Isn’t that “The Art of the Deal”?
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re: #20 wrenchwench
Truncated is a good word. More truncation!
Just stay away from my database tables.
re: #37 Dr. Matt
Oh mark. Stop slitting hairs. This is yugely embarrassing for Trump.
re: #76 GlutenFreeJesus
Oh mark. Stop slitting hairs. This is yugely embarrassing for Trump.
He should be steaming up for an epic rant. When is his next torchlight parade?
re: #73 Dangerman
They don’t need that argument any more /right now
They don’t need any argument
They have the votes
We call them the Calvinball Court for a reason. They’re just making up rules as they go along and commanding we obey them. And we will, because by breaking the rules, we destroy the very system we seek to protect.
re: #60 Joe Bacon ✅
So will Texas start mass deportations and rounding up the brownies already settled in the state? It will tank their economy. Even now they don’t have enough people to fill service jobs.
re: #70 lawhawk
if he had a few million dollars, he could enter into a management deal where he becomes the face of the property
I think even that time has passed.
re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Cuban is likely correct about liquid assets.
But Mar-a-lago, Trump Tower, Bedminster golf club, etc. are not foreign assets.
Cuban is asserting that no bond company will take those properties as collateral for bond.
I wonder if that is true?
all of those buildings are held by the Trump Org which is under the control of a receiver/special monitor at the moment. They are also probably leveraged to varying degrees, meaning any bond holder would not be first in line for payment should there be a foreclosure or other forced sale.
Why we can’t have things in Texas:
Austin’s effort to build a high-frequency urban rail network is facing a challenge from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose legal arguments seek to dismantle the funding mechanism behind the voter-endorsed transit expansion.
In a court filing, Paxton slammed the city’s payment plan for the 10-mile light-rail starter system. The financial strategy was designed to navigate the increasingly tight strictures the state Legislature has placed on how Texas cities raise money.
If a court sides with Paxton, it could kill the light-rail expansion known as Project Connect.
re: #70 lawhawk
He doesn’t have it, but if he had a few million dollars, he could enter into a management deal where he becomes the face of the property but doesn’t have to put up the bulk of the money to build it.
And if you were a serious businessperson, would you want TFG’s bloated ugly orange mug as the “face” of your property?
re: #3 Dr. Matt
🤔 No thanks. The 80s were great for music and movies but we had Reagan, Thatcher and apartheid so it’s a no for me.
re: #69 Joe Bacon ✅
Does Trump understand that he opens himself up to depositions when he files these frivolous lawsuits? You’d think one of his brilliant attorneys would warn him about that.
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
Does Trump understand that he opens himself up to depositions when he files these frivolous lawsuits? You’d think one of his brilliant attorneys would warn him about that.
Most likely, his attorneys are little more than toadies who tell him what they think he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear.
Because he doesn’t wanna hear that.
re: #70 lawhawk
Net worth isn’t the same as liquid wealth. He can claim to be worth X, but have only Y on hand in cash (or easily convertible to cash within say 30 days). The problem is that he’s claimed on video that he’s got $400m in cash, and that’s clearly a lie. He has perhaps 1/100 of that amount in cash, if that. He can’t easily or quickly sell enough assets because they’re highly leveraged.
…
just to add a fine point: he can’t sell quickly enough cause they’re long term assets, not specifically because of the loans against.
yes if he had some equity in them he could withstand some built in loss / write down of value.
but
the real problem is their long term nature. if you have to sell a long term asset fast, you’re gonna take a bath on selling price even if you own it outright.
further, if they are leveraged to the hilt, gills, eyeballs or whatever, then all a sale will do is pay off those attached loans.
he’d have to score a cash profit to help with his bond problem
he cant sell and take back a mortgage from the buyer. he needs cash.
so he’d need a deal that generated at least $454m (or whatever) in cash, *over* the total amount of the loans on a property
and fast
and any buyer he faces will know
…because it’s rare that accounting becomes *the* issue in the news, im riding it as long as it lasts…
(happy solstice)
At the end of the day Trump is melting down gloriously and everyone appears to be enjoying the train wreck.
U.S. Supreme Court declines to take Dallas strip club curfew case
Dallas approved an ordinance in 2022 restricting sexually oriented businesses from operating between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. and began enforcement in November 2023.Dallas approved an ordinance in 2022 restricting sexually oriented businesses from operating between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. and began enforcement in November 2023.
re: #60 Joe Bacon ✅
So the Corrupted Court sides with Abbott
Texas gets the Supreme Court’s green light to enforce a harsh immigration law, for now
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Texas to begin enforcing a law that makes it a state crime for migrants to illegally cross the border and allows state officials to deport undocumented individuals. Liberal justices dissented, saying the change would invite “chaos and crisis” at the border.
In other words, the Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to build concentration camps and form Death Squads.
You know there will be loads of Christian Conservatives with murder on their minds more than willing to form gangs and shoot at will against unarmed brown- skinned people. Texas quickly sinking deeper and deeper into the International Pariah State status.
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
Does Trump understand that he opens himself up to depositions when he files these frivolous lawsuits? You’d think one of his brilliant attorneys would warn him about that.
Even if he does (a doubtful proposition), it probably doesn’t matter to him or his creatures: I think these suits are filed mainly to provide talking-points to his campaign crowds, so that he can whine moar about how is he being so “slandered” and “persecuted”, etc.: figuring (probably correctly) that the red-hat mob is going to know little (and care less) about the law and how it operates.
re: #83 KGxvi
all of those buildings are held by the Trump Org which is under the control of a receiver/special monitor at the moment. They are also probably leveraged to varying degrees, meaning any bond holder would not be first in line for payment should there be a foreclosure or other forced sale.
you have a car loan, a house, and a mortgage.
say you have 10 years of equity in the house.
you own a bunch of other stuff
credit card company turned you down for a new card.
tfg has the same problem only with more zeros.
he also has ‘bankers’ who seem to have no problem with a very high debt to asset ratio (of course he lies a lot and they accept what he says)
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
Does Trump understand that he opens himself up to depositions when he files these frivolous lawsuits? You’d think one of his brilliant attorneys would warn him about that.
i think they’re starting to see him as an annuity client
re: #93 Florida Panhandler
The same logic will not apply to a blue state because they’re following federal rule and supremacy clause - federal govt controls immigration. SCOTUS will fuck over blue states, on everything from abortions to reproductive care to human rights.
This ruling is another sign of the calvinball court in action.
re: #91 darthstar
At the end of the day Trump is melting down gloriously and everyone appears to be enjoying the train wreck.
as soon as it starts to directly impact the campaign, i’m upping my popcorn futures
re: #91 darthstar
At the end of the day Trump is melting down gloriously and everyone appears to be enjoying the train wreck.
I feel so dirty.
BTW, if Peter Navarro serves all 4 months in prison, he will spend his 75th birthday (July 15) in prison. 🎂😂🎂🤣🎂😂🎂🤣🎂😂🎂🤣🎂
re: #100 Dr. Matt
BTW, if Peter Navarro serves all 4 months in prison, he will spend his 75th birthday (July 15) in prison. 🎂😂🎂🤣🎂😂🎂🤣🎂😂🎂🤣🎂
Dude needs to stay in until he learns some sick blues harmonica skills.
Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’ ex-deputy gets 20-year sentence in racist torture of 2 Black men
sometimes i weep for us as human beings
A white person phoned Rankin County Deputy Brett McAlpin and complained that two Black men were staying with a white woman at a house in Braxton, Mississippi. McAlpin told Deputy Christian Dedmon, who texted a group of white deputies so willing to use excessive force they called themselves “The Goon Squad.”
they did not have a warrant
the torture is creepy
when it went bad, they covered it up with planted drugs and a gun
the two victims faced false charges for months
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Fun fact: Navarro has dentures made out of black men’s teeth. https://t.co/QpuWfZH5ld
— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) March 19, 2024
re: #70 lawhawk
Net worth isn’t the same as liquid wealth. He can claim to be worth X, but have only Y on hand in cash (or easily convertible to cash within say 30 days). The problem is that he’s claimed on video that he’s got $400m in cash, and that’s clearly a lie. He has perhaps 1/100 of that amount in cash, if that. He can’t easily or quickly sell enough assets because they’re highly leveraged.
He needed to leverage all of his holdings because without which, he couldn’t buy the next property or cook up a trademark/copyright deal to slap a Trump logo on the property. It’s also telling that he’s gotten out of actually building new buildings, and instead now busy slapping names on existing properties - like golf courses. He can’t get the construction loans, and now we know he can’t get the bond to cover $465 million judgments. He’d need that kind of money to build new office or residential buildings in NYC or Chicago or other major cities.
He doesn’t have it, but if he had a few million dollars, he could enter into a management deal where he becomes the face of the property but doesn’t have to put up the bulk of the money to build it.
Don’t forget that not quite one year ago Trump claimed to have substantially more than $400m in cash on hand and that amount was going up substantially every month.
In a non fraudulent business normal cash flow should e sufficient to cover operating expense and any required debt service. So what happened to his cash? It probably never existed, but I would really like a reporter to ask him about it.
re: #102 Dangerman
Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’ ex-deputy gets 20-year sentence in racist torture of 2 Black men
sometimes i weep for us as human beings
they did not have a warrant
the torture is creepy
when it went bad, they covered it up with planted drugs and a gunthe two victims faced false charges for months
I think Ms Nina Simone said it best:
re: #101 Decatur Deb
Dude needs to stay in until he learns some sick blues harmonica skills.
Four months isn’t enough time to make a decent toilet moonshine.
re: #110 darthstar
Look at him here, with his aged vintage.
re: #102 Dangerman
What a horrible story: about the only positive thing I can see in it was (somewhat surprisingly, it being Mississippi and all) that the “Goon Squad” deputies were actually tried and punished for their crimes. It’s not that much to imagine that not so long ago, they would likely have not even been accused - and their victims would likely still be in prison.
re: #71 Dangerman
This is a risk everyone takes when they buy fixed assets for investment.
Its why they’re categorized as long term/not readily convertible to cash for value.
Everyone knows a forced/distressed sale reduces the price/current market value.Ever buy a house from someone who had to sell?
yeah, i actually exited a real estate venture because I just couldn’t handle only being allowed to sell once in any given year, with 60 days notice. The adage is only invest in stocks with money you can afford to lose. And I would add only invest in real estate with money that you won’t be thinking about while lying in bed every night: “I wonder what my money is doing right now? Is it working, or is it down putting my 20’s in some gal’s panties?”
re: #108 darthstar
Can’t say we did Nazi this coming…
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It’s been out there and KNOWN; 45% of the country agrees with him….
re: #88 Dr Lizardo
Most likely, his attorneys are little more than toadies who tell him what they think he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear.
Because he doesn’t wanna hear that.
He ought to understand it, since he has had to sit for depositions, unless his dementia is so advanced that he can’t remember.
re: #119 William Lewis
This one is called “Rachel Crying”. I note that passers by have put small glass beads in her hands…
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This one is with my modern Voigtlander Nokton 50/1.5 wide open.
I was talking to my accountant the other day and she mentioned that she used to do film photography and has (2?) Leica cameras around that are at least 30 years old. (I did not go into heavy details since it was a casual convo while doing tax work.)
I did mention to her that if she was going to get rid of them that the cameras themselves and lenses might be valuable to someone who still does work with such.
re: #108 darthstar
Can’t say we did Nazi this coming…
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“And America would be a lot better if we had someone like HItler in charge”
whose America?
re: #113 Jay C
What a horrible story: about the only positive thing I can see in it was (somewhat surprisingly, it being Mississippi and all) that the “Goon Squad” deputies were actually tried and punished for their crimes. It’s not that much to imagine that not so long ago, they would likely have not even been accused - and their victims would likely still be in prison.
everyone in here says they were framed //
re: #118 No Malarkey!
He ought to understand it, since he has had to sit for depositions, unless his dementia is so advanced that he can’t remember.
he passed that five word test so that’s not it
re: #122 Dangerman
“And America would be a lot better if we had someone like HItler in charge”
whose America?
Not Captain America’s since he prefers punching out overseas Hitlers.
re: #121 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I was talking to my accountant the other day and she mentioned that she used to do film photography and has (2?) Leica cameras around that are at least 30 years old. (I did not go into heavy details since it was a casual convo while doing tax work.)
I did mention to her that if she was going to get rid of them that the cameras themselves and lenses might be valuable to someone who still does work with such.
Oy, wish I could afford them… 😟
re: #107 jaunte
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Space-travel orientation.
those camera on pavement pics of the rolling road are always great.
What I’m gathering from this conversation is that the main difference between our Hitler and the original Hitler is that ours was considerably older when he first came to power, and is also quite a bit less intelligent.
re: #51 Joe Bacon ✅
Hey I always had a soft spot for THE LOBSTER MAN!
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—- this is a quote that was scribbled on the wall at a house a band used to live at, the author and provenance unknown.
re: #102 Dangerman
All because they were with a White woman? Really? Wowzers.
MinnesotaReformer: Republican lawmaker storms out of hearing over allowing police to buy armored vehicles
Rep. Walter Hudson, R-Albertville: “That’s what I’m hearing today. I know I was supposed to talk about the amendment to the bill, but religious liberty is under attack, vaccinations are being forced, and now this.”
He was upset because some of the DFLers expressed opposition to an amendment that would allow the buying of armored vehicles using one-time public safety aid money. Note that there’s other state aid money available for equipment. Also note that at least one other R briefly left because he didn’t like being told facts.
She bought an animal testing site and turned it into a rehab sanctuary
Freedom Fields is a rehab site for former lab animals, many of whom are scared and anxious and have health issues
gift link: wapo.st
Shannon Keith also founded the Beagle Freedom Project in 2010.
There are a bunch of angels, and good news, in this story.
re: #133 dat_said
If they storm out, does that stop the hearings from continuing? If not, let them storm out. Who cares?
re: #135 Patricia Kayden
If they storm out, does that stop the hearings from continuing? If not, let them storm out. Who cares?
No. The Republicans do not hold a majority, and not enough of them were throwing tantrums to break quorum. They’re just acting out because they don’t like being told how reality works, as dat_said said.
re: #117 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
150 year records keeping ice, this is the earliest ice-out for a big lake in New England:
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winnipesaukee is fun to say.
Rocket engineers have long had to choose between performance and toxicity.
The TOXMAX rocket concept resolves the problem decisively.
Lithium kept molten by radioactive Cesium-137, reacting with fluorine, provides superlative performance with maximum environmental impact. pic.twitter.com/oCJMhA7oc0— ToughSF (@ToughSf) March 19, 2024
re: #134 retired cynic
😢 Really wish that we had evolved beyond needing labs which test products/procedures on helpless animals. In a perfect world, there would be no research labs or puppy mills.
re: #137 sagehen
winnipesaukee is fun to say.
There’s another one we take the grandkids to, an ancient amusement park. It took a slight change of spelling on the trip to Tennessee. It was founded in 1924, but it rescues amusements from all over. The carousel is from 1903.
re: #132 Patricia Kayden
All because they were with a White woman? Really? Wowzers.
Oh you saw that….
Happy #PeterNavarro goes to prison day! #WashingtonDC pic.twitter.com/lLPeW67XdQ
— Anarchy princess (@SatireAP) March 19, 2024
Yet another reason why I am sure we are not taking climate change seriously:
The official US Global Change Research Program has a YouTube channel. Said channel is 7 years old.
It has 237 subscribers.
Ok, so the videos qualify as “boring” for most people. I do not expect masses of people around the world to watch their videos.
But only 237 subscribers over 7 years… what can we say.
And this is typical of many such information and discussion outlets.
Joe Rogan can get 20M people listening/watching the most mind-numbing of nonsense.
And while some institutions, such as the University of California, can have over a million subscribers the videos which have natural science content will often be limited to very small viewership.
And this is the deal with climate change: it’s too slow to really get people to change their lives.
And I get that. We all have little time on our individual clocks so we spend them as we see fit.
The future has to take care of itself.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
re: #136 Nerdy Fish
No. The Republicans do not hold a majority, and not enough of them were throwing tantrums to break quorum. They’re just acting out because they don’t like being told how reality works, as dat_said said.
Stormy Monday
re: #137 sagehen
winnipesaukee is fun to say.
July 4th it’s still like 45 degrees on the bottom
Yes I dove it
re: #115 gwangung
It’s been out there and KNOWN; 45% of the country agrees with him….
Hitler was inspired by the American South and the Western expansion. Nazis didn’t do night marches with torches by pure coincidence.
And for 80 years Americans have been habituated to the notion that there are existential threats to freedom such that the human rights from which those freedoms emanate can be excepted to.
From 1945 onward we’ve backed and armed White Terrors across the globe, because “Communists” don’t count. The minute we decided Operation Paperclip would fold in guys like Klaus Barbie, our state was making a decision that actually Hitler had good ideas but the wrong targeting parameters.
The allies with colonies have performed a similar magic trick, distancing what they did in Asia and Africa, and the logic used to justify those expropriations, from the logic of the German Reich and the Japanese Empire…two entities that specifically cited the logic of colonialism to explain their actions
Conservatives…and the occasional “tough on crime” or “but we need to fight the terrorists” Democrat…have put in a great deal of effort to underline how each expansion of the state’s power to commit terror is a response to an emergency.
There is always an emergency.
The emergency is never a systemic problem but a new kind of villain: this time, the abrogation of rights will be precise and temporary.
The solution is always destruction: more prison, more guns, more bombs, more international collaboration with dictatorships willing to do black site stuff for couch-cushion change.
Because nothing is a systemic problem, it is never predictable when the various dictators and petty local shitheads that are propped up and sold arms and given intelligence go sour, or that the bloody expedient solutions don’t actually solve problems; the nation is therefore always naively trying to be good and very sorry about all the dead [Cambodians, Filipinos, Iraqis, blacks occupants of Tulsa Oklahoma].
America is just a smol bean doing struggle carnage.
Now we’ve got a shiny new American fascism that’s still negotiating whether it’s based on the Lost Cause or whether it’s based on the Red Scare; Nazism is a red line only to the extent that America has a mythology in which we were unique moral actors in WW2. But for years there’s been English-speakers watering down of the Nazis—apologia for the Wehrmacht, apologia for the Waffen SS, fawning over Operation Valkyrie, excuses for sheep dipping scientists that did human experimentation, pay no attention to Operation Gladio or the Galen Organization—because excusing abuse of power means you can’t rule out their rhetoric.
Like Pokemon, authoritarians and kleptocrats only have four moves.
Donald Trump, pared down to coherence, proposes a stab in the back (Communist Democrats fund welfare and immigration), an authentic volk that experience that injury as economic decline and decay of morals (Real Americans…mostly white, mostly suburban
The Trumpian vision of governance is rule by Great Men that must be left unimpeded in their exercise of power, because intuitively Great Men will allocate resources to deserving kinds of people, and can properly discern who needs hurting.
That’s fascism, but it’s barely an elaboration on your average National Review piece on why Salazar’s legacy should be reconsidered, or how August Pinochet did nothing wrong: greatness requires identifying and punishing the lumpen inferiors that presume to equality.
And stealing their shit to hand out to your buddies
The objection to Hitler has always been aesthetic: he’s the supervillain of the Americead, not a meth-addled mediocrity allowed to spin out of control by a traditional elite that believed him and his idiot fellow travellers controllable, harvesting a field of rubes created by generation after generation of elite folly collapsing people’s prospects until what remained was pillage and sadism.
re: #136 Nerdy Fish
No. The Republicans do not hold a majority, and not enough of them were throwing tantrums to break quorum. They’re just acting out because they don’t like being told how reality works, as dat_said said.
He’s just articulating the implicit right to have unchecked coercion force to apply against all jimmy rustlers.
What kind of Communist are you to not understand that Republicans are Constitutionally entitled to be cool and have goon squads.
What is actually happening is that a South African immigrant marinated in apartheid took advantage of vulnerabilities in the American system to collect a quarter trillion dollars which he is now using to brainwash people into sharing his racist beliefs.
— Jim Stewartson, Anti-disinfo activist 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙 (@jimstewartson) March 19, 2024
re: #151 The Ghost of a Flea
He’s just articulating the implicit right to have unchecked coercion force to apply against all jimmy rustlers.
What kind of Communist are you to not understand that Republicans are Constitutionally entitled to be cool and have goon squads.
Our Republicans tend to be even more fragile little whiners than most, because they have absolutely no power in about 80% of the state. Those few little corners they do control - like my area - aren’t nearly enough for them. They feel cheated out of the ability to do cool things like Texas and Florida, all because we voted them out before the cool kids came up with their clever little legislative plans to pwn the libs.
Happening Now: Miami Federal Corrections adds the Green Bay Sweeper to its roster. pic.twitter.com/ybT372rCkp
— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) March 19, 2024
re: #153 Nerdy Fish
Our Republicans tend to be even more fragile little whiners than most, because they have absolutely no power in about 80% of the state. Those few little corners they do control - like my area - aren’t nearly enough for them. They feel cheated out of the ability to do cool things like Texas and Florida, all because we voted them out before the cool kids came up with their clever little legislative plans to pwn the libs.
Yeah, but what about their right to whine and their right to do gang violence against people who point out how whiny they are?
re: #155 The Ghost of a Flea
Yeah, but what about their right to whine and their right to do gang violence against people who point out how whiny they are?
Here in the proud and progressive North Star State, we don’t recognize those rights, any more than they recognize the right of gay or trans people to exist. So as far as I’m concerned, they can go fuck themselves with a rusty pitchfork.
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