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re: #128 Dangerman
There isn’t one
Perhaps there is.
A fundamentalist mindset is fixated on being right.
It’s really, really important.
Combine that with people who think they are on a mission from some god, and we get people who are intent on being more Catholic than the Pope, so to speak.
There’s nothing inherently bad about wanting to look at Social Security honestly.
But the belief system of Johnson and today’s GOP is that taxes are sinful, so instead of just bumping up taxes a bit they have to insist on cutting benefits.
As for the idea that they want to enforce the belief that life begins at conception - this is one of the planks of the religious right, who now run the GOP.
Maybe we should be glad that Johnson et. al. put their cards on the table.
re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Republicans have made it clear that they want to bring back the Poor Farms and the Poor Houses with those rules that required every person to work or they go hungry.
re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Perhaps there is.
A fundamentalist mindset is fixated on being right.
It’s really, really important.
Combine that with people who think they are on a mission from some god, and we get people who are intent on being more Catholic than the Pope, so to speak.
There’s nothing inherently bad about wanting to look at Social Security honestly.
But the belief system of Johnson and today’s GOP is that taxes are sinful, so instead of just bumping up taxes a bit they have to insist on cutting benefits.
As for the idea that they want to enforce the belief that life begins at conception - this is one of the planks of the religious right, who now run the GOP.
Maybe we should be glad that Johnson et. al. put their cards on the table.
You’re not wrong
But ill rephrase
There isn’t one that can be explained as a viable election strategy
Adding externalities like suppressing the vote doesn’t count
re: #4 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Have you never read:
I remember a certain kook from Minnesota named Bachman who endlessly recited that phrase like she was a Chatty Cathy doll…
re: #4 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The next verse is not going to go over well at the next HOA meeting.
For we hear that there are some among you who walk disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.biblegateway.com
The thing about food is this: in the US today we can produce much more food than we could ever consume.
We have to beg countries to take our chlorinated chickens, to bring up an example from a couple of years ago wrt the UK.
Our (in the US) problem today is primarily one of social malaise, of not knowing what to do, what to believe, or what our goals are.
We can make food, clothing, shelter more than enough for all.
That we fight over these things is about our need for hierarchies, to figure out who is the top dog.
I’m getting March Madness overdose.
Yeah, Oakland!
Dog, I’m tired and I’m off to bed.
Adios, sweet scaly dreams.
*sigh*
GOP pollster tells Letitia James how she might accidentally ‘elect Donald Trump’
Yep, you guessed it, it’s Frank Luntz:
For Luntz, it is pure political suicide for the Democrats to revel during Trump’s financially vulnerable hour.
“I want you to remember this moment and don’t forget it: if the New York Attorney General starts to take his homes away, starts to seize his assets so it’s all going to be on-camera, and pundits are going to sit and scream about this — ‘This man cannot be elected!’ — you’re going to create the greatest victimhood of 2024, and you’re going to elect Donald Trump.”
That’s all they’re left with at this point: “If you punish him, you only make him more powerful.” And yes, I have no doubt whatsoever if I check, Luntz was also confidently predicting in the fall of 2019 that impeaching the walking turd would help him win reelection.
re: #11 Targetpractice
*sigh*
GOP pollster tells Letitia James how she might accidentally ‘elect Donald Trump’
Yep, you guessed it, it’s Frank Luntz:
That’s all they’re left with at this point: “If you punish him, you only make him more powerful.” And yes, I have no doubt whatsoever if I check, Luntz was also confidently predicting in the fall of 2019 that impeaching the walking turd would help him win reelection.
Hey, Frank, Star Wars is a fantasy story.
re: #11 Targetpractice
It’ll be a worthwhile experiment.
The usual suspects are trying to brag about COP28 as they set expectations for COP29, which is in another petro-state (Azerbaijan). I started the video near the end, with the statement of the US delegate:
As near as I can tell, the US delegate is objecting to the proposal that national commitments (of developing countries) are to be tied to funding from developed countries.
On the day that the Administration targeted Apple for being a monopoly in smartphones (which it isn’t really), same Administration rolls out the big bucks for Intel
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Intel has faltered for sure.
But this move, like with the lawsuit against Apple, is purely politics by Biden.
Apple is rich, and therefor bad, so sue it.
Intel can open plants in OH and AZ… which turn into jobs there… which turns into Electoral College votes.
Intel fell behind TMSC in part due to Intel being too bought into its own product line.
It insisted for so long on the x86 products that it didn’t invest enough in other product categories.
Meanwhile, TMSC had Apple (and Nvidia) as loyal customers willing to spend billions on TMSC.
TMSC had no loyalty to legacy products - they just wanted to make Apple and Nvidia happy.
And therein lay the lesson.
All of this strikes me as a rerun of the late 1970’s and early 80’s, when American automobile manufacturers were clearly going to get clobbered by the Japanese.
At that time the fact that the US gov’t was going to save Chrysler was seen as some big change of how the US government should work in the free market.
Today, Biden throws $20B at Intel and hardly anyone notices.
As noted in the video, the US used to be a leader in semiconductor manufacturing. Back in the day, not just Intel (who really were pioneers), but Motorola and Texas Instruments were important, among others.
But in the past few decades the industry is mostly centered on Taiwan, and other east Asian countries.
The TSMC plant in Arizona was supposed to have Apple as an important customer. But the AZ plant ran into issues when TSMC planned to bring over many people from Taiwan to work in said plant, too many for some US politicians.
AFAIK, the plant is still supposed to be a thing that is going to happen, regardless of the above faux pas.
Economic nationalism is the playbook of populists, and Trump isn’t the only one playing from that book.
From downstairs:
re: #133 Dangerman
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Daily Beast: Half-Dozen Haley Fundraisers Are Now Backing Biden: Report
A half dozen big-time fundraisers for Nikki Haley are now working to rake in cash for Joe Biden, CNBC reports, citing sources. Among them, however, is former MGM Chair Harry Sloan, who was urged to help re-elect Biden by Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, who co-chairs the the president’s campaign.
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re: #15 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Chipmaking has become a national security issue.
re: #18 Belafon
Chipmaking has become a national security issue.
It always was. ICBMs were originally hard wired. Cruise missiles could only happen because of ICs.
re: #15 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The only monopoly Apple has is on profits in the smartphone industry. So apparently the DOJ is saying that is the true market, thus making Apple open to anti-trust. Even though it represents a minority in the marketplace, the DOJ seems to want to redistibute Apple’s profits to the large developers.
Like so many anti-trust cases, most of this will likely be moot by the time a judgement is made. Already huge parts of the complaint are moot or close to being. I expect, as time goes on this will become more of an attempt to make all the IP Apple has created feeely open to any large developer. Apple makes a shitt on of money and the big developers want it (likely all). And will not pass on savings to the customers. Nothing in the case seems to be geared to actually helping the customers.
re: #19 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It always was. ICBMs were originally hard wired. Cruise missiles could only happen because of ICs.
Not to mention how intertwined it became when CPU’s came along.
And now for the latest chapter of The Adventures Of Talcum X!
Shaun King’s Invite to Minnesota Ramadan Event Yanked Over Community ‘Concerns’
Shaun King is going to have to find somewhere else to enjoy his iftar on Sunday. Originally booked to keynote a Minneapolis fundraising dinner that evening, his invitation has since been rescinded by a local branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in response to community backlash.
On Thursday morning, the Minnesota chapter of CAIR announced that it had engaged the “Civil Rights Icon” King as keynote speaker to its annual Ramadan fundraiser this weekend. “Known for his passionate advocacy and having been deplatformed from social media sites like Instagram for his efforts to speak up for Gaza, his address promises to be a highlight of an unforgettable evening,” the organization said in an email to supporters.
The immediate blowback was fierce, with social media users crowding the group’s replies to warn that King was “a prolific scam artist” and that CAIR would be “tainted by association.” The Racket, an alt-news site covering Twin Cities, picked the story up and included it in its daily newsletter. “CAIR, What Are You Thinking?” its headline read.
re: #20 silverdolphin
The irony is the US effectively banned Huawei from the US market, the same Huawei which uses Android in its devices, the same Android that Google uses… and the same Android that is open to exploitation not just by Huawei but other CCP actors.
There is so much fear mongering over China, yet the only effective US company which can out-compete Chinese companies is Apple.
At least currently, in today’s market.
There are three basic camps in today’s global smartphone/table race:
1) Samsung, using mostly Android;
2) Huawei (and other Chinese gov’t sponsored companies) also mostly using Android;
3) and Apple.
I don’t know why the national strategy folk in the Administration didn’t get over to Justice and explain this to them.
Android itself is an outgrowth of Linux, which is fine (maybe even good), but that also means its not ever going to be an American product.
My parents paid for my college education. I had no student loans. I am a privileged motherfucker. I am an elite skier. My Mother and I live in a neat house in the middle of Vail and Aspen.
What is wealth?
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yep, the national security issues if the DOJ breaks up or severely hurts Apple are going to be huge. No longer having an American company anywhere in the top 5 will be disastrous. No one would be trustworthy, since all would be selling user data to whoever would pay. (One example is that GM is moving away from Carplay, almosy purely because they want to get ahold of users data and sell it, like to insurance companies. Carplay does not allow this.)
re: #15 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
On the day that the Administration targeted Apple for being a monopoly in smartphones (which it isn’t really), same Administration rolls out the big bucks for Intel
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Intel has faltered for sure.
But this move, like with the lawsuit against Apple, is purely politics by Biden.
Apple is rich, and therefor bad, so sue it.
Intel can open plants in OH and AZ… which turn into jobs there… which turns into Electoral College votes.
Intel fell behind TMSC in part due to Intel being too bought into its own product line.
It insisted for so long on the x86 products that it didn’t invest enough in other product categories.
Meanwhile, TMSC had Apple (and Nvidia) as loyal customers willing to spend billions on TMSC.
TMSC had no loyalty to legacy products - they just wanted to make Apple and Nvidia happy.
And therein lay the lesson.
All of this strikes me as a rerun of the late 1970’s and early 80’s, when American automobile manufacturers were clearly going to get clobbered by the Japanese.
At that time the fact that the US gov’t was going to save Chrysler was seen as some big change of how the US government should work in the free market.
Today, Biden throws $20B at Intel and hardly anyone notices.
As noted in the video, the US used to be a leader in semiconductor manufacturing. Back in the day, not just Intel (who really were pioneers), but Motorola and Texas Instruments were important, among others.
But in the past few decades the industry is mostly centered on Taiwan, and other east Asian countries.
The TSMC plant in Arizona was supposed to have Apple as an important customer. But the AZ plant ran into issues when TSMC planned to bring over many people from Taiwan to work in said plant, too many for some US politicians.
AFAIK, the plant is still supposed to be a thing that is going to happen, regardless of the above faux pas.
Economic nationalism is the playbook of populists, and Trump isn’t the only one playing from that book.
Intel’s issues are similar to Boeing’s: business people taking over leadership from engineers. There’s nothing wrong with x86. It’s still king in many domains. Intel’s fabs/process have fallen behind. Was Intel the only firm given money to build fabs? Although they’re the most prominent foundry left in the US, they’re not the only one.
re: #100 Dangerman
Two court clerks tell me that the New York AG has effectively placed liens on everything Donald Trump owns in Westchester County.
Her target? Seven Springs, his 212-acre forested family estate.
“Everything”
Where is Trump gonna hide his collection of classified documents now?
For those not aware, currently hot on YouTube is a denier propaganda piece called “Climate: The Movie”.
It’s nothing new, just the usual nonsense. It’s straight out of the creationist playbook.
But the know-nothings love it.
re: #24 teleskiguy
I am an elite skier. My Mother and I live in a neat house in the middle of Vail and Aspen.
What is wealth?
My Mom and I are just kind of getting by at the moment. Still dealing with accountants and lawyers. Dad had a lot of stuff…
re: #26 JC1
Intel’s issues are similar to Boeing’s: business people taking over leadership from engineers. There’s nothing wrong with x86. It’s still king in many domains. Intel’s fabs/process have fallen behind. Was Intel the only firm given money to build fabs? Although they’re the most prominent foundry left in the US, they’re not the only one.
I believe TSMC was going to go to the trough for the AZ plant. But after the blow-up over the Taiwanese nationals in the workforce I’m not sure where the project is at now.
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We have all seen Apple take advantage of vendor lock-in.
No, Android isn’t an American product. The core code isn’t any single country’s product. Torvalds may have his name attached to Linux, but he doesn’t own it. Android may be built on top of Linux, but the main running part is on a Java implementation.
re: #26 JC1
Intel’s issues are similar to Boeing’s: business people taking over leadership from engineers. There’s nothing wrong with x86. It’s still king in many domains. Intel’s fabs/process have fallen behind. Was Intel the only firm given money to build fabs? Although they’re the most prominent foundry left in the US, they’re not the only one.
No, TMSC and Samsung will also get some money from CHIPS Act. Biden has just not announced them yet.
“Our Republican majority is a complete failure.”
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), on X.
And I’m sure you all heard what Ken Buck did on his way out the door? Signed the discharge legislation dealing with money for Israe, and Ukraine. So now up to 188 but needs 218, I think.
Edit: just checked and they only need 216 to have a majority at the moment. So if they get all the dems (212) and Buck, the Dems only need 2 more Republicans to get this out there.
Just remember: Apple is the reason eBooks cost more than paperback books.
re: #34 Belafon
Just remember: Apple is the reason eBooks cost more than paperback books.
Not sure I follow since Apple lost the ebook anti-trust case, Amazon is the huge monopolist that sets its own prices and uses its own device - the Kindle - to read the e-books. How does Apple set any prices? Am I misremembering the case?
re: #29 teleskiguy
My Mom and I are just kind of getting by at the moment. Still dealing with accountants and lawyers. Dad had a lot of stuff…
And also…
re: #34 Belafon
Just remember: Apple is the reason eBooks cost more than paperback books.
re: #36 silverdolphin
Not sure I follow since Apple lost the ebook anti-trust case, Amazon is the huge monopolist that sets its own prices and uses its own device - the Kindle - to read the e-books. How does Apple set any prices? Am I misremembering the case?
Ahh. I did some deeper reading. I would not say though, that Apple is solely responsible. The book publishers are the ones that wanted the agency model (where they set the price) and Apple was willing to go along in order to gain market share.
Amazon’s warehouse model (where it sets the price) won but the DOJ sanctions did not permanently erase the agency model, eventually expired and the publishers forced Amazon to use the agency model for e-books.
But, yeah, without Apple to support the publisher’s agency model, there would be cheaper e-books. As a good anti-trust lawyer said, the DOJ should have sued them all - Amazon, Apple and the publishing cartel. They all use monopolies to hurt the consumer.
EDIT: Looks like Amazon will be seeing an anti-trust court case soon.
Recently there has been a massive FUD effort globally around climate change.
Murdoch’s outlets in Australia and the UK have been running multiple clips per day on YouTube, for example.
The latest polemical mash-up, the video I referenced earlier, is getting pushed everywhere.
This resurgence of FUD comes on the heels of the big temperature upswing in 2024.
So here’s my guess: the more dramatic a climate phenomenon, the more the denier industry will push FUD.
You’d think that skyrocketing temps would tamper down the FUD, but instead the opposite is happening.
In Congress this week too the GOP has been going on and on about Biden’s “extremism” on climate, whining about carbon tax even though there is no carbon tax law being proposed.
What can we conclude, if anything?
Well, someone’s scared is all I can gather.
I do wonder if this has something to do with Trump.
The deeper Trump digs himself a hole, the more likely the Dems will win in November and not just the Presidency but also control of Congress.
And that is scaring vested interests. I can only speculate they are in the fossil fuel industry, but I do wonder if it’s the petro-states themselves.
re: #41 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Recently there has been a massive FUD effort globally around climate change.
Murdoch’s outlets in Australia and the UK have been running multiple clips per day on YouTube, for example.
The latest polemical mash-up, the video I referenced earlier, is getting pushed everywhere.
This resurgence of FUD comes on the heels of the big temperature upswing in 2024.
So here’s my guess: the more dramatic a climate phenomenon, the more the denier industry will push FUD.
You’d think that skyrocketing temps would tamper down the FUD, but instead the opposite is happening.
In Congress this week too the GOP has been going on and on about Biden’s “extremism” on climate, whining about carbon tax even though there is no carbon tax law being proposed.
What can we conclude, if anything?
Well, someone’s scared is all I can gather.
I do wonder if this has something to do with Trump.
The deeper Trump digs himself a hole, the more likely the Dems will win in November and not just the Presidency but also control of Congress.
And that is scaring vested interests. I can only speculate they are in the fossil fuel industry, but I do wonder if it’s the petro-states themselves.
It reminds me of short-sellers, who favor the greater idiot model - there is always someone who is a greater idiot than they are, whom thay can scam, allowing them to get out from under. They know that say FDA approval is coming in a few months but not sure when. They know that something huge is coming and know they will have to get out at some future date. But, because of greed, they will stay short as long as they can. They think they are the smart ones in the room. So they will manipulate a stock to drive it lower and give them a few more days to exit. They will use FUD at every chance. At some point, there wll be a short squeeze when the drug is approved but most of them believe they will be out of the stock by then. They won’t.
re: #43 silverdolphin
I think that at the moment (and hopefully, extending into campaign season proper knock on wood), it’s a money issue. Trump simply doesn’t have the money for multiple campaign rallies across multiple states.
re: #44 Dr Lizardo
I think that at the moment (and hopefully, extending into campaign season proper knock on wood), it’s a money issue. Trump simply doesn’t have the money for multiple campaign rallies across multiple states.
And Biden’s rapid response team is hitting back hard. Here they have a thread with 17 former Trump Executive branch employees who worked for him that will not endorse him. This tweet has been seen almost 1 million times 9 hours!
The people who know Trump best won’t support him.
Why should you?
A thread pic.twitter.com/a88f6srNw4— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 21, 2024
re: #44 Dr Lizardo
I think that at the moment (and hopefully, extending into campaign season proper knock on wood), it’s a money issue. Trump simply doesn’t have the money for multiple campaign rallies across multiple states.
Yep. The DNC War Room tweeted this and it was reposted by the Biden-Harris HQ. Just rubbing it in that Haley has more money than the RNC.
CNN: Nikki Haley isn’t even running anymore and she has more money than the RNC. That tells you everything that you need to know about the RNC’s weak state pic.twitter.com/ghprZAneOl
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) March 22, 2024
Fired up my ancient PowerBook, now 21 years old, and to my surprise it works.
But the big problem is that web browsers are so out of date that they can’t be updated.
Which means most sites cannot be security checked.
Google is fine… Bing tries to load but is such a hog on memory… Amazon sorts of load but it too is a memory hog.
LGF is a no go as are most sites, including Cox.
Oddly or not, Drudge is still ok with old browsers.
These old Apple machines were built very well.
re: #43 silverdolphin
Loving the Biden-Harris HQ trolling. Reporters need to ask Trump if he is just too tired to campaign.
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It’s hard to campaign when you are diverting all your campaign contributions to your legal defense fund!
re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Fired up my ancient PowerBook, now 21 years old, and to my surprise it works.
But the big problem is that web browsers are so out of date that they can’t be updated.
Which means most sites cannot be security checked.
Google is fine… Bing tries to load but is such a hog on memory… Amazon sorts of load but it too is a memory hog.
LGF is a no go as are most sites, including Cox.
Oddly or not, Drudge is still ok with old browsers.
These old Apple machines were built very well.
Yeah, my 10 year old Macbook is starting to show some of these problems. Time marches on. Still plays all my music.
re: #43 silverdolphin
Loving the Biden-Harris HQ trolling. Reporters need to ask Trump if he is just too tired to campaign.
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Or ask if Trump’s dementia is getting too advanced to risk exposing him on the campaign trail!
Back to par. Good morning all!
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President Biden will have massively more money to spend on the campaign than Trump, the latest polls have him ahead or even with Trump nationally, and Biden’s approval rating is at its highest level in five months. Meanwhile, despite a terrible map, Democratic Senate candidates are running ahead of their GOP opponents, the GOP is broke, the Republican Study Committee decided now is the time to promote toxically unpopular positions such as raising the retirement age, voucherizing Medicare and banning IVF, Trump properties are on the verge of being seized by NY State, and, fingers crossed, Trump will soon be sitting in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks on trial for multiple felonies for which he only has legalistic defenses. All in all, I would much rather be the Democrats than the Republicans right now!
re: #53 No Malarkey!
President Biden will have massively more money to spend on the campaign than Trump, the latest polls have him ahead or even with Trump nationally, and Biden’s approval rating is at its highest level in five months. Meanwhile, despite a terrible map, Democratic Senate candidates are running ahead of their GOP opponents, the GOP is broke, the Republican Study Committee decided now is the time to promote toxically unpopular positions such as raising the retirement age, voucherizing Medicare and banning IVF, Trump properties are on the verge of being seized by NY State, and, fingers crossed, Trump will soon be sitting in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks on trial for multiple felonies for which he only has legalistic defenses. All in all, I would much rather be the Democrats than the Republicans right now!
My happy note this week - Montana may be in play for Tester to get re-elected. Montana Supreme Court said that Abortion rights will be on the ballot in that state in November. This goes along with a district court in Montanathrew out the 3 latest abortion banning laws (one banning abortion at 20 weeks) at the endof February. 60% of Montanans support abortion rights. This could bring a lot more people to the polls. Dems win when abortion is on the ballot.
National Organizing Call w/ President Biden, President Barack Obama, & Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi
Sign up to hear it on Saturday. So, besides all the traveling he will be holding virtual events. Hope he retells the quote he made to Obama about theis being a BFD.
re: #56 silverdolphin
National Organizing Call w/ President Biden, President Barack Obama, & Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi
Sign up to hear it on Saturday. So, besides all the traveling he will be holding virtual events. Hope he retells the quote he made to Obama about theis being a BFD.
So far, Biden’s campaign is doing good. He’s got a great social media team, and overall, they follow those old axioms, “Slow and steady wins the race” and “Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.”
re: #53 No Malarkey!
There’s so much self-destruction going on right now within the GOP. In the last few months we’ve seen them go after recreational sex, IVF, Social Security and all of it completely unrepentant. We’ve watched them nominate odious people who are against everything from school lunches to women having the vote. People that have called for the public execution of nationally elected positions. People that call for the recuse of prosecutors for non-consequential affairs while ignoring issues of national interest by their own spouses. The fact that in certain cases, States can ignore federal law, unless that application of state law is somehow hurtful to Conservatives.
we’ve watched their phony Impeachment hearings, their Impeachment of current administrative officials without a crime and reneging their own verbal and written agreements on everything from foreign aid, Immigration and the national budget.
They still refuse to budge on guns and gender issues, abortion or damn near anything that could be seen in good faith and it appears that those that are not corrupted by a foreign power, are beholden to a religious/social outlook better suited to the 1840s.
They’ve gone so crazy that even the totally in the bag MSM is having troubles normalizing all of the bullshit despite their creative use of language and euphemism.
Just hope that we’re ready for what follows after we win, it’s putting all of these creeps back under their rocks at a minimum and those that need to be, in jail.
LOL…..good luck this November, GOP 😄
Despite earlier denials by Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump, the organization will foot some of Donald Trump’s legal bills, according to an Associated Press report on Thursday.
The campaign of the former president, who is the father-in-law of Lara Trump, struck an agreement with the RNC that will direct donations to his campaign and his Save America political action committee that has been paying Trump’s legal bills. Last year, his campaign reportedly spent $50 million of donor money on his legal expenses alone. The AP reported:
The unorthodox diversion of funds to the Save America PAC makes it more likely that Republican donors could see their money go to Trump’s lawyers, who have received at least $76 million over the last two years to defend him against four felony indictments and multiple civil cases. Some Republicans are already troubled that Trump’s takeover of the RNC could shortchange the cash-strapped party.
According to the AP, legal spending made up a whopping 85% of Save America PAC’s operating expenses in the first two months of 2024. When asked this month if the RNC would direct money to help pay Trump’s lawyers, Whatley told Fox News, “Look, the president’s campaign has made it perfectly clear that they are not going to ask for any of those legal funds to be coming out of the RNC. So, that’s a done deal.”
re: #58 piratedan
There’s so much self-destruction going on right now within the GOP. In the last few months we’ve seen them go after recreational sex, IVF, Social Security and all of it completely unrepentant. We’ve watched them nominate odious people who are against everything from school lunches to women having the vote. People that have called for the public execution of nationally elected positions. People that call for the recuse of prosecutors for non-consequential affairs while ignoring issues of national interest by their own spouses. The fact that in certain cases, States can ignore federal law, unless that application of state law is somehow hurtful to Conservatives.
we’ve watched their phony Impeachment hearings, their Impeachment of current administrative officials without a crime and reneging their own verbal and written agreements on everything from foreign aid, Immigration and the national budget.
They still refuse to budge on guns and gender issues, abortion or damn near anything that could be seen in good faith and it appears that those that are not corrupted by a foreign power, are beholden to a religious/social outlook better suited to the 1840s.
They’ve gone so crazy that even the totally in the bag MSM is having troubles normalizing all of the bullshit despite their creative use of language and euphemism.
Just hope that we’re ready for what follows after we win, it’s putting all of these creeps back under their rocks at a minimum and those that need to be, in jail.
Job one after we win in November is stopping the Trump coup attempt in January. Both the US Senate and SCOTUS could’ve, but both abdicated their responsibilities under the Constitution, thanks to one Mitch McConnell.
re: #59 Dr Lizardo
Forgot to add, maybe - if they’re lucky - they can reschedule the GOP Convention to this fine place:
re: #44 Dr Lizardo
I think that at the moment (and hopefully, extending into campaign season proper knock on wood), it’s a money issue. Trump simply doesn’t have the money for multiple campaign rallies across multiple states.
And it’s only going to get worse in the summer and fall when first NY and then GA drag his ass into a closed courtroom for weeks at a time. Unlike the civil trials, he can’t just decide he’s had enough ego-bashing and storm out to whine to the cameras. And with all the shit he’s tried up til now, the judges are very unlikely to put up with grandstanding like showing up late or bellyaching just loud enough for the jury to hear him. And there is not a doubt in my mind that if the judges give the typical order not to discuss the case outside the courtroom, he will have violated it (and been reamed by the judge for doing so) within the first week of both trials.
I offer a prediction of one stunt he’s probably going to try within the first month if not the first week of each trial: He’s going to publicly announce a huge rally somewhere across the country (minimum 2 hour flight) at a ridiculously early time (say 2pm local time) and make sure it gets national attention. Then, on the day of the rally, he’s gonna tell the judge that either the trial needs to be put on-hold for the day or session ended way early so he can make it to the airport with time to get to the rally before the start time. So that, when the judge inevitably tells him to STFU and STFD, he can run screaming to the press as soon as the court is recessed for the day to scream about how the “partisan” judge deliberately held him in court past the start of the rally to hurt his campaign.
re: #62 Targetpractice
And it’s only going to get worse in the summer and fall when first NY and then GA drag his ass into a closed courtroom for weeks at a time. Unlike the civil trials, he can’t just decide he’s had enough ego-bashing and storm out to whine to the cameras. And with all the shit he’s tried up til now, the judges are very unlikely to put up with grandstanding like showing up late or bellyaching just loud enough for the jury to hear him. And there is not a doubt in my mind that if the judges give the typical order not to discuss the case outside the courtroom, he will have violated it (and been reamed by the judge for doing so) within the first week of both trials.
I offer a prediction of one stunt he’s probably going to try within the first month if not the first week of each trial: He’s going to publicly announce a huge rally somewhere across the country (minimum 2 hour flight) at a ridiculously early time (say 2pm local time) and make sure it gets national attention. Then, on the day of the rally, he’s gonna tell the judge that either the trial needs to be put on-hold for the day or session ended way early so he can make it to the airport with time to get to the rally before the start time. So that, when the judge inevitably tells him to STFU and STFD, he can run screaming to the press as soon as the court is recessed for the day to scream about how the “partisan” judge deliberately held him in court past the start of the rally to hurt his campaign.
I guess he can try that stunt if he wants to, but in the real world any break in the trial schedule has to be worked out between the judge and the attorneys ahead of time, barring a medical emergency.
re: #62 Targetpractice
I offer a prediction of one stunt he’s probably going to try within the first month if not the first week of each trial: He’s going to publicly announce a huge rally somewhere across the country (minimum 2 hour flight) at a ridiculously early time (say 2pm local time) and make sure it gets national attention. Then, on the day of the rally, he’s gonna tell the judge that either the trial needs to be put on-hold for the day or session ended way early so he can make it to the airport with time to get to the rally before the start time. So that, when the judge inevitably tells him to STFU and STFD, he can run screaming to the press as soon as the court is recessed for the day to scream about how the “partisan” judge deliberately held him in court past the start of the rally to hurt his campaign.
Oh, I can definitely see Trump pulling some BS stunt like that.
re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅
Republicans have made it clear that they want to bring back the Poor Farms and the Poor Houses with those rules that required every person to work
ortheyand still go hungry.
re: #63 No Malarkey!
I guess he can try that stunt if he wants to, but in the real world any break in the trial schedule has to be worked out between the judge and the attorneys ahead of time, barring a medical emergency.
That’s why he’ll do it, because when the court inevitably tells him that he’s no different than any other defendant and has to abide by court rules and procedures, he’s gonna squeal that he’s Donald J. Trump, that he’s the leading candidate for the presidency, and he can’t put his campaign on hold for some “political trial.”
re: #9 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The thing about food is this: in the US today we can produce much more food than we could ever consume.
There is food as a commercial commodity and food as a basic human need.
There is housing as a commercial commodity and as a basic human need.
There is medical care as a commercial commodity and as a basic human need.
There is also labor as a commercial commodity and as a basic national resource, one whose benefits that go beyond the purely economic but which also depend on human needs, resources and limitations.
Our late capitalist system refuses to recognize anything but the commercial commodity aspect of any of these.
re: #17 The Ghost of a Flea
Everest climbers prepare to pick up their own poo as season gets under way
Standard practice for decades in the Grand Canyon.
re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Fired up my ancient PowerBook, now 21 years old, and to my surprise it works.
But the big problem is that web browsers are so out of date that they can’t be updated.
Which means most sites cannot be security checked.
I still have one of those, last used around 2015.
re: #56 silverdolphin
National Organizing Call w/ President Biden, President Barack Obama, & Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi
So now she has adopted a Latina first name to sound more woke?
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re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Standard practice for decades in the Grand Canyon.
I was thinking about whether there was any place on earth humans have ever been and not copulated. The summit of Everest is probably one such place, because your exposed parts would likely develop frostbite. The last base camp on the mountain before you attempt the summit would be the highest elevation sex occurs, because sharing body warmth makes sense there anyway. I assume people have had sex in both spacecraft and one of those deep sea submersibles, though I have yet to hear confirmation of either.
After my team, Kentucky, suffered its second shocking first round upset in the last three years, #FireCal is trending in Kentucky. Considering he has a $34 million buyout clause in his contract, I don’t think that is going to happen.
re: #57 Dr Lizardo
So far, Biden’s campaign is doing good. He’s got a great social media team, and overall, they follow those old axioms, “Slow and steady wins the race” and “Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.”
He has had so much experience watching others run as well as himself. He has a plan (that sonehow included Dark Brandon) and it went into execution with the killer SOTU (which I think will be the focus of several PhD theses;-). He knows the value of flipping the press narrative.
Trump started too so. He is tired and has no money. Meanwhile, Biden is getting on board a lot of the big whales that funded Haley. This is how you do it:
“A few days after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican presidential primary on March 6, veteran media executive and Haley backer Harry Sloan got a call from movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, who asked Sloan to help President Joe Biden take on Donald Trump in the general election.”
“Sloan agreed to help raise money for Biden’s reelection effort and try to reel in Republican-aligned business leaders to get behind the president, he told CNBC in a recent interview.”
There are also several major Never Trump PACs with plans to spend $50 million to keep Trump out of the White House. ANd Biden is doing some glad-handing directly, reaching out to several Haley backers via Zoom.
Then you have Mark Cuban, who voted for Haley as a protest who has said if it was “[Biden] versus Trump, and [Biden] was being given last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden,”.
Not reaching out to Haley voters and in fact threatening to black ball any of the money people who supported her, is a real own goal.
re: #66 Targetpractice
That’s why he’ll do it, because when the court inevitably tells him that he’s no different than any other defendant and has to abide by court rules and procedures, he’s gonna squeal that he’s Donald J. Trump, that he’s the leading candidate for the presidency, and he can’t put his campaign on hold for some “political trial.”
Yep, no way does a court fall for this. Because if they did, every defendent would declare themselves candidates for political office.
I thik Trump is going to have a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Summer. And I do not think he is getting the emotional rise he used to get from the adoring crowds. What happens to a narcissist who is not getting the pleasure from adulation they desire?
Narcissistic Collapse.
re: #22 Joe Bacon ✅
So CAIR wasn’t aware of Shawn being a scammer before inviting him to speak? Really? I don’t believe that for one minute.
re: #63 No Malarkey!
I guess he can try that stunt if he wants to, but in the real world any break in the trial schedule has to be worked out between the judge and the attorneys ahead of time, barring a medical emergency.
there is the real world and the new media reality. DJT and his followers live fully in the latter
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re: #75 silverdolphin
I thik Trump is going to have a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Summer. And I do not think he is getting the emotional rise he used to get from the adoring crowds. What happens to a narcissist who is not getting the pleasure from adulation they desire?
Narcissistic Collapse.
And we’ll be here for it.
re: #75 silverdolphin
My jaded side expects that some White Knight will step in and front the money and that the appelate courts will rule in his favor and he will continue playing the Victim Card for the rest of the campaign.
But nonetheless, I do still wish him an awful, long, cold shower of a summer.
re: #76 Patricia Kayden
So CAIR wasn’t aware of Shawn being a scammer before inviting him to speak? Really? I don’t believe that for one minute.
There’s a whole story I saw over on Bluesky. Not only were they aware, they first attempted to silence those people who were pointing out his history of being a scammer and a grifter. Apparently, the stink they made outside of the channels CAIR could control was big enough that they finally decided, however reluctantly, to cancel him.
re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My jaded side expects that some White Knight will step in and front the money and that the appelate courts will rule in his favor and he will continue playing the Victim Card for the rest of the campaign.
But nonetheless, I do still wish him an awful, long, cold shower of a summer.
On the other hand, if New York does start seizing his properties, then he can really play up the martyr card and kvetch endlessly about how “THEY’LL DO THIS TO YOU NEXT!!” and his base (and no one else) will continue to lap it up.
All the while draining the RNC of much-needed campaign funds to pay for his two-bit lawyers.
re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But nonetheless, I do still wish him an awful, long, cold shower of a summer.
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re: #81 Nerdy Fish
Yeah, of course they knew. I don’t even pay attention to Shawn and knew about the Tamir Rice scam. I just didn’t know that a court had to seize the money and turn it over to Tamir’s family. Shawn always discourages his followers from supporting the Democratic presidential nominee so I’m sure he’s busy disparaging “Genocide Joe”. Never liked him.
re: #83 Dr Lizardo
Honest Don is one of the few examples of someone who isn’t better off than he was four years ago. Most of the others are in prison for J6.
re: #87 darthstar
Honest Don is one of the few examples of someone who isn’t better off than he was four years ago. Most of the others are in prison for J6.
Well, arguably, a lot of his supporters probably aren’t better off, either - but that’s only because they’re sending him all their money.
re: #86 Patricia Kayden
Yeah, of course they knew. I don’t even pay attention to Shawn and knew about the Tamir Rice scam. I just didn’t know that a court had to seize the money and turn it over to Tamir’s family. Shawn always discourages his followers from supporting the Democratic presidential nominee so I’m sure he’s busy disparaging “Genocide Joe”. Never liked him.
I remember him from the Ferguson days and having a few stopped-clock moments on BLM, but things rapidly went downhill from there. I heard about the grift from here and whatever positive thoughts I still had for him went straight out the window.
re: #83 Dr Lizardo
On the other hand, if New York does start seizing his properties, then he can really play up the martyr card and kvetch endlessly about how “THEY’LL DO THIS TO YOU NEXT!!” and his base (and no one else) will continue to lap it up.
that does seem to be the only strategy still open to him
re: #89 Nerdy Fish
I remember him from the Ferguson days and having a few stopped-clock moments on BLM, but things rapidly went downhill from there. I heard about the grift from here and whatever positive thoughts I still had for him went straight out the window.
I didn’t like him from day 1. From the moment his first gofundme went viral and he became a twitter celebrity pumping it to see how high it could go I smelled a rat. Proper GFMs reach their goal then thank the donors and disable it. They don’t say, “Let’s try for twenty…thirty…forty…fifty grand!” (they raised 60k)
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re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that does seem to be the only strategy still open to him
It’s a hell of a risky strategy - I guess it depends on how much of a gambler Trump is. It could well pay off, but it could just as likely backfire spectacularly.
re: #93 Dr Lizardo
It’s a hell of a risky strategy - I guess it depends on how much of a gambler Trump is. It could well pay off, but it could just as likely backfire spectacularly.
What other options will he have unless some big bucks blow his way over the weekend?
re: #93 Dr Lizardo
It’s a hell of a risky strategy - I guess it depends on how much of a gambler Trump is. It could well pay off, but it could just as likely backfire spectacularly.
I just don’t think “they’re seizing all my business assets for fraud, if they can do this to me, they can do this to you” is going to land. Most of his base - his actual base - is poorly educated working-class people. They’re not going to empathize with having luxury high-rises and golf courses being seized; even if they agree that it’s a manifest injustice because something something Deep State, it’s not relatable to them. And his high-powered billionaire donor class has long stopped buying his bullshit; they see this court case for exactly what it is, which is that he stuck his neck out too far and is now paying the price for his hubris. The fact that no one has stepped up to pay the bond, despite every last one of them knowing the situation he’s in for weeks, is proof positive of that.
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What other options will he have unless some big bucks blow his way over the weekend?
That’s still a possibility and I can’t count it out…but don’t forget that now, Trump’s gotta be able to show his financial overseer exactly where those big buck are coming from. Barbara Jones has oversight on damn near everything, looking up the Trump Orgs financial butthole with a mini Mag-Lite.
re: #95 Nerdy Fish
The fact that no one has stepped up to pay the bond, despite every last one of them knowing the situation he’s in for weeks, is proof positive of that.
Yeah, Trump’s good at playing up the working-class schtick, but something like this really isn’t gonna land with your average Joe Sixpack (or Cletus and Brandine - no offense to Cletus Spuckler meant).
I admit taking a certain schadenfreude in watching Trump sweat this bond issue out for the moment. It’s entirely possible someone will swoop in at the last moment and save his worthless ass, but if not….oh man, Trump’s gonna be screaming come Monday.
re: #92 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
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re: #96 Dr Lizardo
That’s still a possibility and I can’t count it out…but don’t forget that now, Trump’s gotta be able to show his financial overseer exactly where those big buck are coming from. Barbara Jones has oversight on damn near everything, looking up the Trump Orgs financial butthole with a mini Mag-Lite.
There goes the Columbian cartel loan idea.
re: #99 darthstar
There goes the Columbian cartel loan idea.
And no payoff coming from Comrade Putin, if he even has any money left.
Though seeing Trump try to pay the bond with a truckload of 1s, 5s, 10s and 20s would be kind of hilarious.
Intel went fabless a long time back but nowadays having your own production capabilities is worth a lot in terms of cost control and availability. Saying that fabs back then had the useful and profitable lifespan of a banana as the newer, faster litho techniques rolled out of the lab and into the production lines negating the billions invested in a three-year-old plant that’s a generation back from the bleeding edge. See also the billions invested in 3G wireless not so long ago.
As for the Apple imbroglio, the Apple board control everything Apple does whereas Android is a software platform used and abused by a few large companies (Samsung and Google being the prime examples) and a host of smaller smart device producers. I can buy, for example, an Android phone with a built-in thermal imaging camera from one of a dozen manufacturers whereas Apple has no thermal-camera phone model and no-one else can licence the Apple software and hardware to build off-brand versions which might include such a feature. There are upsides and downsides to this walled-garden approach aka a monopsony but it is concerning. See also AT&T of fond memory.
re: #100 Nerdy Fish
And no payoff coming from Comrade Putin, if he even has any money left.
Putin is under sanctions in any event, as are many of the oligarchs in his circle.
re: #102 Nojay UK
Getting ready to fly to Mexico tomorrow and I was digitally uploading my passport and the app for that asked me to lay my phone on the passport so it could scan the hidden chip…
1. Passports now have a hidden chip in them?
2. My phone has the ability to scan it?
Two new things I learned yesterday.
re: #104 darthstar
Getting ready to fly to Mexico tomorrow and I was digitally uploading my passport and the app for that asked me to lay my phone on the passport so it could scan the hidden chip…
1. Passports now have a hidden chip in them?
2. My phone has the ability to scan it?Two new things I learned yesterday.
Yeah, all US passports have an NFC chip.
re: #103 Dr Lizardo
Putin is under sanctions in any event, as are many of the oligarchs in his circle.
Gonna be tough for Trump to launder a half billion in a weekend without raising some financial red flags.
re: #101 darthstar
Though seeing Trump try to pay the bond with a truckload of 1s, 5s, 10s and 20s would be kind of hilarious.
A normal selection of 1s, 5s, 10s and 20s would fill a hell of a truck. A mere 3.5 million dollars takes up 2.5 Army duffel bags, weighs a couple hundred pounds, and makes a very poor cushion in a pick-up bed. Adventures in the Fighting Finance Corps.
re: #106 darthstar
Gonna be tough for Trump to launder a half billion in a weekend without raising some financial red flags.
Oh yeah. A transaction like that would certainly set off alarm bells pretty much everywhere.
Unless, of course, it was literally in cash. Which would set off another set of alarm bells.
re: #105 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, all US passports have an NFC chip.
I wonder what telling MAGA nuts to throw their passport in the microwave for 30 seconds and stop that gov’t intrusion would do…
re: #107 Decatur Deb
A normal selection of 1s, 5s, 10s and 20s would fill a hell of a truck. A mere 3.5 million dollars takes up 2.5 Army duffel bags, weighs a couple hundred pounds, and makes a very poor cushion in a pick-up bed. Adventures in the Fighting Finance Corps.
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Extrapolation suggests that the amount we’re talking about would be north of 300 duffel bags and weigh in excess of 50,000 pounds. An eighteen-wheeler ought to do.
re: #109 darthstar
I wonder what telling MAGA nuts to throw their passport in the microwave for 30 seconds and stop that gov’t intrusion would do…
Passports bursting into flames and shorted-out microwaves from sea to shining sea, that’s what it’d do.
re: #111 Dr Lizardo
Passports bursting into flames and shorted-out microwaves from sea to shining sea, that’s what it’d do.
Guess I’ll have to get one of those faraday bags so they won’t track me using the toilet multiple times before my flight.
Having a hard time looking at Mastodon this morning. Russia’s missile attack last night was massive and my disgust for certain Republicans is boiling over…too early for that shit.
Coolio…Bragg wants to start the trial on April 15…that’s right around the corner.
re: #114 darthstar
Coolio…Bragg wants to start the trial on April 15…that’s right around the corner.
Just a little over three weeks.
So, if that happens, let’s say….a six to eight week trial. Especially if the judge slaps down Trump’s delaying bullshit whenever he tries to pull that.
Trial over by late May, early June or thereabouts - and with any luck (knock on wood) a guilty verdict as an end result.
All just in time for the GOP convention in July. Imagine the spectacle, if you will….the Republican Party nominating a convicted felon as their candidate for President of the United States of America.
re: #107 Decatur Deb
A normal selection of 1s, 5s, 10s and 20s would fill a hell of a truck. A mere 3.5 million dollars takes up 2.5 Army duffel bags, weighs a couple hundred pounds, and makes a very poor cushion in a pick-up bed. Adventures in the Fighting Finance Corps.
Money is elastic, not pillowy
re: #11 Targetpractice
Strike me down, and I become even more powerful.
Bulkshit. He’ll be bankrupt. Tell me again how a great business person he is after yet another bankruptcy and having assets seized to fulfill a fraud judgment for business misconduct going back years.
He’ll likely be a convicted felon. He’ll likely be facing the rest of his life in prison.
But the right wing echo chamber are going full Sith/fascist. Because that’s all they know and care about these days.
re: #115 Dr Lizardo
Just a little over three weeks.
So, if that happens, let’s say….a six to eight week trial. Especially if the judge slaps down Trump’s delaying bullshit whenever he tries to pull that.
Trial over by late May, early June or thereabouts - and with any luck (knock on wood) a guilty verdict as an end result.
All just in time for the GOP convention in July. Imagine the spectacle, if you will….the Republican Party nominating a convicted felon as their candidate for President of the United States of America.
A convicted felon found guilty by a jury of his peers after indictments handed down by a grand jury composed of his peers.
That’s justice.
re: #118 lawhawk
A convicted felon found guilty by a jury of his peers after indictments handed down by a grand jury composed of his peers.
That’s justice.
The GOP spinmeisters are gonna be spinning faster than a neutron star, LOL. 😄
re: #118 lawhawk
What is neat about this is that Trump can’t even vote for himself in Florida with a felony conviction without resulting in another felony.
re: #35 Targetpractice
The fact that a metal-head shredder nerd from Canada can produce a song more Country than just about anything from Nashville these days speaks volumes about the state of Country Music.
If you don’t know who Stevie T is, he is a very popular YouTuber who shreds Metal but refuses to join popular Metal bands who ask him because he has severe stage fright. lol.
re: #117 lawhawk
Strike me down, and I become even more powerful.
Bulkshit. He’ll be bankrupt. Tell me again how a great business person he is after yet another bankruptcy and having assets seized to fulfill a fraud judgment for business misconduct going back years.
He’ll likely be a convicted felon. He’ll likely be facing the rest of his life in prison.
But the right wing echo chamber are going full Sith/fascist. Because that’s all they know and care about these days.
Bizarre Trump post. I don’t know if he is going to use his campaign as an excuse not to post a cash bond, or post a cash bond and use that as an excuse for a limited campaign.
So I go thru the junk mail filter and this piece of detritus appears from a Jesusbot relative whose church is pleading with members to send money to Gawd’s Anointed King and of course they include the latest Soviet-inspired piece of artwork crap from McNaughton entitled…
Trump Shrugged
“He has the whole burdens of the world on his shoulders yet Almighty God gives him the strength to carry on”…
Feezzus Jucking Key-Rist…knowing this brainwashed nincompoop she probably already sent that grifter at least $100…
Trump and Navarro are appealing his prison sentence to… God?
Your god is dead, and no one cares. If there is a hell, I’ll see you there. /nin
In other words, no one is going to help you. You’re done. Trump’s also appealing to the soon to be Christian white nationalist terrorists who will act on Trump’s messaging to kill or threaten justices, courts, court officers, and politicians who stand in Trump’s way, and they’ll offer up the excuse that god made them do it.
re: #122 No Malarkey!
Bizarre Trump post. I don’t know if he is going to use his campaign as an excuse not to post a cash bond, or post a cash bond and use that as an excuse for a limited campaign.
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Yeah, I can’t figure out what Trump’s trying to say there. Obviously, he’s saying he’s got $500 million cash-on-hand…but I can’t figure out what he’s gonna do with that $500 million. Is it going to his campaign, forgoing the bond - or the other way around?
re: #125 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, I can’t figure out what Trump’s trying to say there. Obviously, he’s saying he’s got $500 million cash-on-hand…but I can’t figure out what he’s gonna do with that $500 million. Is it going to his campaign, forgoing the bond - or the other way around?
He’s not saying any of that. He’s saying that this trial is a political witch hunt and that the judge “conveniently” made the judgment almost the exact size of his personal campaign war chest, because he wanted to make sure Trump lost.
Donald Trump’s leadership PAC has now paid Melania’s fashion stylist over $400,000 for his keen strategic insights since April 2022. pic.twitter.com/9QkrWgFBeh
— Rob Pyers (@rpyers) March 21, 2024
What the fuck is a stylist doing getting paid $400k? Keeping silent for being Melania’s side dish? Because what does a stylist know about campaign strategy? It’d be criminal not to speculate.
This is the kind of grift that Trump pulls off, and it just adds to the corruption and criminality that surrounds Trumpworld.
re: #127 Nerdy Fish
He’s not saying any of that. He’s saying that this trial is a political witch hunt and that the judge “conveniently” made the judgment almost the exact size of his personal campaign war chest, because he wanted to make sure Trump lost.
I admit, Trumpese always throws me for a loop. Thanks for the translation.
re: #129 Dr Lizardo
I admit, Trumpese always throws me for a loop. Thanks for the translation.
You know I speak fluent Wingnut. Trumpese is, admittedly, a less coherent dialect, and even I sometimes struggle with it.
re: #107 Decatur Deb
A normal selection of 1s, 5s, 10s and 20s would fill a hell of a truck. A mere 3.5 million dollars takes up 2.5 Army duffel bags, weighs a couple hundred pounds, and makes a very poor cushion in a pick-up bed. Adventures in the Fighting Finance Corps.
Back when the Army would pay their enlisted in cash, there was a system of which denominations dollar bills to give to each soldier.
If the payroll officer followed the system, he would have exactly the right number of bills in the correct denominations. Many in the Army viewed that as almost magic.
If he didn’t… well.. everybody found out very quickly who couldn’t follow a simple plan.
re: #128 lawhawk
So Melania’s “fashion stylist” has gotten $400K so far from suckers like my Jesusbot relatives.
But what we really want to know is how much Melania’s “personal gym coach” gets for his or her or hell maybe even both of their “services”?
re: #51 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #133 ckkatz
Back when the Army would pay their enlisted in cash, there was a system of which denominations dollar bills to give to each soldier.
If the payroll officer followed the system, he would have exactly the right number of bills in the correct denominations. Many in the Army viewed that as almost magic.
If he didn’t… well.. everybody found out very quickly who couldn’t follow a simple plan.
Yes—that’s what we were doing on the truck, picking up the monthly pay for the main post agent officers. Somebody probably did the math during the Civil War.
Joe Bacon ✅ -
Some years back you posted a recipe for Hoppin’ John. To my loss, I regret that I never saved it.
Recently I went back and tried to search for it. For some reason, the search engine appears to only search the last year of data. So I have had no luck there.
I was wondering if you, or somebody else here, might have preserved a copy and might be willing to share it.
tia!
re: #136 Decatur Deb
Yes—that’s what we were doing on the truck, picking up the monthly pay for the main post agent officers. Somebody probably did the math during the Civil War.
Yup!
That ancient formula was considered just like magic.
The junior officer stuckee usually didn’t mind this duty, unlike most of the scut work extra duty he was assigned.
- He got to draw a cal. 45 pistol and wear it like some badass. And,
- All the enlisted actually payed attention to him. Well… For at least a short time while they drew their pay.
Gannett and McClatchy ending decades long relationship with AP, meaning that AP will no longer have stories and photos run in the hundreds of newspapers owned by those two paper conglomerates.
two major American newspaper chains have said they will no longer use the AP for news. Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and more than 200 local newspapers, and McClatchy, which publishes the Miami Herald and Kansas City Star among more than two dozen other newspapers, said this week that they were ending their content relationship with the AP.
It’s going to be a disaster for anyone seeking news from around the nation or world. It’s being called a cost-saving move, but it’ll mark yet another degradation of newspaper quality nationally.
re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Standard practice for decades in the Grand Canyon.
And when I was in the Sierra Nevadas over a decade ago a requirement for hiking the trails (John Muir Trail for instance). Had a long conversation with a hiker I met at Devils Postpile who I gave a ride to from Mammoth Ski Area down into the town and he had his bucket with him and mentioned that it was a requirement.
re: #138 ckkatz
Yup!
That ancient formula was considered just like magic.
The junior officer stuckee usually didn’t mind this duty, unlike most of the scut work extra duty he was assigned.
- He got to draw a cal. 45 and wear it like some badass. And,
- All the enlisted actually payed attention to him. Well… For at least a short time while they drew their pay.
It could go bad. One 2LT had every one of his payees sign the soldier’s copy and gave them the return receipt. He spent payday weekend trying to track them down in Louisville bars.
re: #137 ckkatz
Joe Bacon ✅ -
Some years back you posted a recipe for Hoppin’ John. To my loss, I regret that I never saved it.
Recently I went back and tried to search for it. For some reason, the search engine appears to only search the last year of data. So I have had no luck there.
I was wondering if you, or somebody else here, might have preserved a copy and might be willing to share it.
tia!
CK I had to dig in my WORD file
Ingredients
6 thick-cut bacon slices, chopped (Note—Mom used Turkey Bacon)
4 celery stalks, sliced (about 1 1/2 cups)
1 medium-size yellow onion, chopped (about 1 1/2 cups)
1 small green bell pepper, finely chopped (about 1 cup)
3 garlic cloves, chopped (about 1 Tbsp.)
1 tsp. chopped fresh thyme
1/2 tsp. black pepper
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
1 1/2 tsp. kosher salt, divided
8 cups lower-sodium chicken broth
4 cups fresh or frozen black-eyed peas
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 1/2 cups uncooked Carolina Gold rice
Fresh scallions, sliced
Cook bacon in a Dutch oven over medium-high, stirring occasionally, until starting to crisp, about 10 minutes.
Add celery, onion, bell pepper, garlic, thyme, black pepper, cayenne, and 1 teaspoon of the salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is tender, about 8 minutes.
Add broth and black-eyed peas, and bring to a boil over medium-high. Reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until peas are tender, about 40 minutes.
Drain pea mixture, reserving cooking liquid. Return pea mixture and 1 cup of the cooking liquid to Dutch oven. Cover to keep warm; set aside.
Heat oil in a medium saucepan over medium-high. Add rice and cook, stirring often, until fragrant and lightly toasted, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in 3 cups of the reserved cooking liquid and remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil, and reduce heat to medium-low; cover and cook until rice is tender, 15 to 18 minutes.
Fluff rice with a fork.
Gently stir into pea mixture in Dutch oven. Stir in remaining cooking liquid, 1/4 cup at a time, until desired consistency is reached. Sprinkle servings with sliced fresh scallions.
The end result…
re: #117 lawhawk
Strike me down, and I become even more powerful.
Bulkshit. He’ll be bankrupt. Tell me again how a great business person he is after yet another bankruptcy and having assets seized to fulfill a fraud judgment for business misconduct going back years.
He’ll likely be a convicted felon. He’ll likely be facing the rest of his life in prison.
But the right wing echo chamber are going full Sith/fascist. Because that’s all they know and care about these days.
The “independents” (in name only) I know on Facebook will get a full salvo about this since the GQP has voluntarily hung the Trump albatross around their own necks.
The only good thing Dead Ashli Babbit was to Trump—Bringing in cash from the marks…
Surprise: Donald Trump Didn’t Give Two Good Sh*ts About Saint Ashli Babbitt’s Jan 6 Martyrdom
A newly released transcript of testimony from Donald Trump’s valet before the House January 6 Select Committee shows the valet recalled Trump threatening Mike Pence on a phone call the day of the insurrection — although not with death — and that Trump didn’t appear to have any particular reaction to the news that one of his beloved supporters was shot dead during the riot, the New York Times reported yesterday. It was the only time police ever killed someone who didn’t have it coming, after all, other than at Waco. Mostly Trump was angry at Pence all day for not helping to overturn the 2020 election results.
As for the shooting of Ashli Babbitt, who has become a Holy Martyr to MAGA world because she was only trying to climb through a broken window to lead the crowd straight to escaping members of the House, and why would some cop murder her for that you monsters, Trump “appeared unconcerned” when told of the event:
“I just remember seeing it in front of him,” the valet said of a note card Mr. Trump was given bearing news of the casualty as he watched the riot unfold on television. “I don’t remember how it got there or whatever. But there was no, like, reaction.”
He added that he didn’t know whether the shooting had anything to do with Trump’s tweets that day, or his eventual decision to tell the rioters how much he loved them and he wanted to have their babies but they should probably go home and know that it’s entirely understandable how angry they were.
re: #141 Decatur Deb
It could go bad. One 2LT had every one of his payees sign the soldier’s copy and gave them the return receipt. He spent payday weekend trying to track them down in Louisville bars.
Hopefully you did not have to participate in this fiasco.
That is definitely not a good way to spend the weekend . For any of the involved.
And I suspect that the weekend of unscrewing up what he had screwed up was only the first step in his ‘get-well’ process.
On the positive side, I am sure that he got meet a lot of new people in finance, post and unit command. On the bad side, I suspect that the circumstances did not make for a good first impression.
re: #140 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And when I was in the Sierra Nevadas over a decade ago a requirement for hiking the trails (John Muir Trail for instance). Had a long conversation with a hiker I met at Devils Postpile who I gave a ride to from Mammoth Ski Area down into the town and he had his bucket with him and mentioned that it was a requirement.
We used a .30 cal ammo case for the sealable lid
re: #142 Joe Bacon ✅
Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou!
Reading through it, I see why I found it so memorable!
Now to save it before I add the ingredients to my shopping list for this weekend.
re: #139 lawhawk
“Cost savings” ie the execs want more yachts.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We used a .30 cal ammo case for the sealable lid
If I recall it correctly it was a plastic bucket with a handle and a fitted plastic lid that also had clips to secure it. Looked like a pretty standard build that I suspect you probably get from any outfitter in that region.
re: #148 ckkatz
CK here I am with cottage cheese mixed with mandarin orange slices for breakfast and now you got me hungry for Hoppin John at 6AM in the morning… 😏
Who needs JC when Trump is Your Big G?
Charlie Kirk echoes thoughtless claim that you can’t “be a Christian and vote Democrat”
Over the weekend, during a “Freedom Night in America” event hosted at Calvary South OC, a church in California, conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk insisted that Christians were required to vote for Republicans.
Gee sounded like wacko aunt’s Pulpit Pimp Paul “I not only fleeced the flock I fleeced a bunch of Foursquare Pulpit Pimps with my Ponzi Scam” Risser!
re: #128 lawhawk
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What the fuck is a stylist doing getting paid $400k? Keeping silent for being Melania’s side dish? Because what does a stylist know about campaign strategy? It’d be criminal not to speculate.
This is the kind of grift that Trump pulls off, and it just adds to the corruption and criminality that surrounds Trumpworld.
Because she does so many public appearances for the “campaign”
re: #151 Joe Bacon ✅
CK here I am with cottage cheese mixed with mandarin orange slices for breakfast and now you got me hungry for Hoppin John at 6AM in the morning… 😏
My ex was a Southern gal and was very much a purist regarding black-eyed peas. (Never field peas or cow peas!)
Despite my efforts to corrupt her with Hoppin John, she stood firm on black eyed peas as the only correct sacrament.
I have since dedicated myself to finding the best Hoppin John recipe. Your recipe is worthy of that ambition!
And yes, I also am feeling that hunger for Hoppin John.
re: #66 Targetpractice
That’s why he’ll do it, because when the court inevitably tells him that he’s no different than any other defendant and has to abide by court rules and procedures, he’s gonna squeal that he’s Donald J. Trump, that he’s the leading candidate for the presidency, and he can’t put his campaign on hold for some “political trial.”
Weeks ago a friend expressed concern that the monetary judgement against him was unreasonable and unfair — she is not one who would ever vote for him — but if the RW media keeps on with their drumbeat that the Biden administration is persecuting him, they may find “persuadable” voters who would accept that storyline. Again — thanks to
the abominable EC, you don’t need a lot to change the results. Hopefully the Democratic focus on the issues that affect ordinary people— Social Security, health care, women’s rights— will drown out the misinformation from Trump and Trump-adjacent sources.
I just wish that a competent and someone judge other than Trump acolyte Aileen Cannon were handling the documents case.
re: #133 ckkatz
Back when the Army would pay their enlisted in cash, there was a system of which denominations dollar bills to give to each soldier.
If the payroll officer followed the system, he would have exactly the right number of bills in the correct denominations. Many in the Army viewed that as almost magic.
If he didn’t… well.. everybody found out very quickly who couldn’t follow a simple plan.
Mash episode, the goat ate the payroll
re: #156 Dangerman
Mash episode, the goat ate the payroll
Other mash episode $10 bill left over after everyone was paid
I was listening to one of the Tim Snyder (Yale History professor) lectures on the history of Ukraine.
During the lecture, he pointed out how similar MAGA was to the basic Genesis story.
We lived in paradise;
We lost paradise; Never through our own fault, of course;
We can get it back;
re: #147 GlutenFreeJesus
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I doubt this will help him. 😂
Won’t hurt with his fanatics either
re: #11 Targetpractice
*sigh*
GOP pollster tells Letitia James how she might accidentally ‘elect Donald Trump’
Yep, you guessed it, it’s Frank Luntz:
That’s all they’re left with at this point: “If you punish him, you only make him more powerful.” And yes, I have no doubt whatsoever if I check, Luntz was also confidently predicting in the fall of 2019 that impeaching the walking turd would help him win reelection.
“Homes” plural. Not the plural homes of well-off working folks, i.e. three-bedroom ranch and a small vacation house on a lake.
We are talking mansions and luxury resorts gained by breaking financial laws, ripping off contractors and not paying taxes.
Heart bleeds over here, he’s treated worse than anyone has ever been treated (that includes the guy in El Salvador with jumper cables on his junk as he posted that whine).
So it was a summary judgement, the trial itself was just about establishing the amount of damages. The Defendants were not at all forthcoming with information, dissembled and distracted, while insulting, defaming and indirectly threatening the judge, Prosecuting Attorney and various witnesses, all of which more than justified a very large settlement amount.
Ditto for E. Jean Carrol.
re: #155 Hecuba’s daughter
Weeks ago a friend expressed concern that the monetary judgement against him was unreasonable and unfair — she is not one who would ever vote for him — but if the RW media keeps on with their drumbeat that the Biden administration is persecuting him, they may find “persuadable” voters who would accept that storyline. Again — thanks to
the abominable EC, you don’t need a lot to change the results. Hopefully the Democratic focus on the issues that affect ordinary people— Social Security, health care, women’s rights— will drown out the misinformation from Trump and Trump-adjacent sources.I just wish that a competent and someone other than Aileen Cannon we
NY grand jury made up of random new yorkers
NY AG
NY court
NY judge
it was tfgs lawyers who didn’t request a jury trial
Biden’s quite the puppet master
re: #163 Dangerman
NY grand jury made up of random new yorkers
NY AG
NY court
NY judge
it was tfgs lawyers who didn’t request a jury trialBiden’s quite the puppet master
Again, to reiterate: They didn’t ask for one because that was not an option for this particular set of circumstances. He would probably argue that this is the work of the Deep State, but the fact remains that this has been the law in New York for long enough that he should’ve known what to expect.
re: #159 ckkatz
I was listening to one of the Tim Snyder (Yale History professor) lectures on the history of Ukraine.
During the lecture, he pointed out how similar MAGA was to the basic Genesis story.
We lived in paradise;
We lost paradise; Never through our own fault, of course;
We can get it back;
Regaining a lost mythic past is a core tenent of fascist movements.
re: #161 Oblongatis
“Homes” plural. Not the plural homes of well-off working folks, i.e. three-bedroom ranch and a small vacation house on a lake.
We are talking mansions and luxury resorts gained by breaking financial laws, ripping off contractors and not paying taxes.Heart bleeds over here, he’s treated worse than anyone has ever been treated (that includes the guy in El Salvador with jumper cables on his junk as he posted that whine).
In short, stealing. (You know the Seventh or eight commandment (ymmv))
He is a thief. Nothing more
re: #163 Dangerman
NY grand jury made up of random new yorkers
NY AG
NY court
NY judge
it was tfgs lawyers who didn’t request a jury trialBiden’s quite the puppet master
Don’t forget the other fraud trials: Trump University and Charity.
re: #164 Nerdy Fish
Again, to reiterate: They didn’t ask for one because that was not an option for this particular set of circumstances. He would probably argue that this is the work of the Deep State, but the fact remains that this has been the law in New York for long enough that he should’ve known what to expect.
Right sorry
I misread this headline “Trump lawyers didn’t forget to check a box on jury trial, Judge Engoron says”
re: #167 garzooma
Don’t forget the other fraud trials: Trump University and Charity.
Then Biden’s mastery just went up
re: #11 Targetpractice
*sigh*
GOP pollster tells Letitia James how she might accidentally ‘elect Donald Trump’
Yep, you guessed it, it’s Frank Luntz:
That’s all they’re left with at this point: “If you punish him, you only make him more powerful.” And yes, I have no doubt whatsoever if I check, Luntz was also confidently predicting in the fall of 2019 that impeaching the walking turd would help him win reelection.
Why it’s bad for Biden. :/
re: #109 darthstar
I wonder what telling MAGA nuts to throw their passport in the microwave for 30 seconds and stop that gov’t intrusion would do…
Why would MAGA nuts have passports? They’d never leave this country, not for a dray, not for a minute, not for any reason. Everyplace else is communist shitholes.
re: #145 ckkatz
Hopefully you did not have to participate in this fiasco.
That is definitely not a good way to spend the weekend . For any of the involved.
And I suspect that the weekend of unscrewing up what he had screwed up was only the first step in his ‘get-well’ process.
On the positive side, I am sure that he got meet a lot of new people in finance, post and unit command. On the bad side, I suspect that the circumstances did not make for a good first impression.
Read a thread on the hellsite a year ago about a monumental screwup at Ft Irwin/NTC that incurred a visit from Washington DC investigators. Unauthorized access into a classified network was logged and got a massive response. The wargames were halted and every single internet capable device and computer on post had to be surrendered and evaluated. The commanding general summoned everyone, visiting units included, to make some hair raising statements about espionage and a lifetime tour of Ft Leavenworth or worse. So they found a lot of weird porn but no spy device. Finally after several days they figured out what happened: A laptop at a battalion TOC meant only for classified access had been used by mistake by an unauthorised user because the post it note saying hands off had…fallen off.
re: #152 Joe Bacon ✅
Yawn. Say something new, Charlie. We’ve heard that before.
Good Morning. I bear good tidings!
MAGA: My Assets Got Auctioned
— Steven Thomas (@tom__builder) March 22, 2024
re: #168 ckkatz
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You can get by being a functioning adult Monday-Friday and letting go on the weekends. It’s lower stress than doing it 7-days a week.
re: #175 Dave In Austin
Good Morning. I bear good tidings!
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Appellate courts really don’t like it when you try to do an end run around the trial court by introducing new stuff on appeal. Basically, if you couldn’t get it into the record the first time, that’s a you problem, not a them problem. It’s different if there is new evidence that comes to light after the trial, which is the basis for many overturned convictions for felons on long sentences or Death Row. Letting the AG address the new material is a no-brainer, basically, “Yeah, go ahead, rip him to shreds so we don’t have to.”
re: #61 Dr Lizardo
Forgot to add, maybe - if they’re lucky - they can reschedule the GOP Convention to this fine place:
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Home town shout-out!
And there’s adult entertainment right next door.
Good Morning. I bear more good tidings!
Good morning.
Please join Ben Carson in a moment of silence for Candace Owens. After months of promoting anti-Semitism she’s been fired from Daily Wire. pic.twitter.com/p699zRmp5L— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) March 22, 2024
re: #176 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
You can get by being a functioning adult Monday-Friday and letting go on the weekends. It’s lower stress than doing it 7-days a week.
especially over a 3-day weekend.
German Easter is grand, Good Friday and Easter Monday are both holidays.
It falls early this year, but usually comes about the time that the weather really starts to pick up.
re: #178 cat-tikvah
Home town shout-out!
And there’s adult entertainment right next door.
and a place to dispose of the bodies
re: #179 Dave In Austin
Where’s my tiny violin when I need it?
Did she marry this guy? pic.twitter.com/5JIpdhGLIO
— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) March 22, 2024
re: #179 Dave In Austin
The race for absolute purity in the lurch towards more and more right-wing extremism and its inherent power-through-division will always, always leave dead bodies in the wake.
re: #177 Nerdy Fish
The original trail is where evidence is submitted and judged. Appeals are only interested in matters of law. You can challenge a legal ruling of the trail judge on appeal not on the facts the trail weighed.
The MAGAts will scream how unfair it is that Trump can’t get redo because the defense came up (made up?) with some new piece of evidence. As is typical they don’t know how anything works so someone can rile them up with bullshit.
re: #184 Florida Panhandler
The race for absolute purity in the lurch towards more and more right-wing extremism and its inherent power-through-division will always, always leave dead bodies in the wake.
The Dobbs victory did not mean that they were going to consolidate and wait out their next move, it made them ready to keep going and totally Purify America by banning contraception, gender therapy, gay marriage and sex education.
Reminder: Justice Engoron’s earlier judgment included having a court appointed monitor to review Trumpworld business operations. That monitor, former judge and attorney Barbara Jones, got additional power this week to review asset moves to secure the $465 million judgment or bond.
re: #185 Oblongatis
and as it was a summary judgement, there is little chance of achieving of anything other than a reduction of the amount.
Which is why nobody wants to underwrite an appeal, they know that there will be at most a slight reduction but no reversal.
re: #188 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and as it was a summary judgement, there is little chance of achieving of anything other than a reduction of the amount.
“Which part of ‘you lost’ dont you get?”
re: #190 jeffreyw
it must really suck to be Wile E. Coyote’s mailman
Unless you get paid by the pound…
re: #190 jeffreyw
That delivery guy got off lucky. I wonder who will get stuck with the ACME Piano in the delivery depot.
re: #185 Oblongatis
The original trail is where evidence is submitted and judged. Appeals are only interested in matters of law. You can challenge a legal ruling of the trail judge on appeal not on the facts the trail weighed.
The MAGAts will scream how unfair it is that Trump can’t get redo because the defense came up (made up?) with some new piece of evidence. As is typical they don’t know how anything works so someone can rile them up with bullshit.
The Appellate Division can review matters of fact and reverse only if the finding was clearly erroneous. That’s what Trump is hoping for, but there’s no evidence that Engoron’s findings are erroneous, let alone clearly erroneous. What we’ve seen is decades of misinformation and lying about valuations to both creditors and investors, to say nothing of tax authorities. The claims re: Trump Tower and the penthouse are a prime example of this - and everyone up and down the Trump Org org chart was knowingly lying about the valuations and size of the penthouse, inflating values.
The App Div will find for the OAG, and Trump will be on the hook (until he tries to appeal this all the way to the Court of Appeals).
re: #193 lawhawk
The Appellate Division can review matters of fact and reverse only if the finding was clearly erroneous. That’s what Trump is hoping for, but there’s no evidence that Engoron’s findings are erroneous, let alone clearly erroneous. What we’ve seen is decades of misinformation and lying about valuations to both creditors and investors, to say nothing of tax authorities. The claims re: Trump Tower and the penthouse are a prime example of this - and everyone up and down the Trump Org org chart was knowingly lying about the valuations and size of the penthouse, inflating values.
The App Div will find for the OAG, and Trump will be on the hook (until he tries to appeal this all the way to the Court of Appeals).
I think Trump is just trying to hold up any enforcement until after he ostensibly takes office again and can use a weaponized DOJ to strongarm the states.
re: #123 Joe Bacon ✅
Dragging the flag on the ground. The flag is always a prop.
re: #195 nines09
Dragging the flag on the ground. The flag is always a prop.
That symbolizes what the Deep State is doing, and what DJT is trying to prevent.
re: #173 Scottish Dragon
Ouch!
And a good time was had by none…
There’s the old saying “Never attract attention, it’s generally followed by fire. Which annoys everybody else in the foxhole.”
re: #179 Dave In Austin
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What took them so long?
Oh silly me! I keep forgetting it’s the Daily Wire! 😏
re: #197 ckkatz
Ouch!
And a good time was had by none…
There’s the old saying “Never attract attention, it’s generally followed by fire. Which annoys everybody else in the foxhole.”
The easy way is probably mined.
re: #183 gocart mozart
Wow KKKandace got married.
Wonder how much Nazi stuff was listed on her wedding registry?
re: #198 Joe Bacon ✅
What took them so long?
Oh silly me! I keep forgetting it’s the Daily Wire! 😏
Antisemitism is the one form of bigotry that upsets bigotry aficionado Ben Shapiro, so I am a little surprised that it took this long.
re: #200 Joe Bacon ✅
Wow KKKandace got married.
Wonder how much Nazi stuff was listed on her wedding registry?
Straight out of the “Nazi Regalia for Gracious Living” Catalogue
re: #200 Joe Bacon ✅
Wow KKKandace got married.
Wonder how much Nazi stuff was listed on her wedding registry?
Harlan Crowe sent the linens
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Straight out of the “Nazi Regalia for Gracious Living” Catalogue
Definitely her zone of interest.…
I’m well read compared to a lot of people I know, and you guys put me to shame, so I suspect some of you know who this guy was:
Vernor Vinge, author of many influential hard science fiction works, died March 20 at the age of 79.
Vinge sold his first science-fiction story in 1964, “Apartness”, which appeared in the June 1965 issue of New Worlds.
In 1971, he received a PhD (Math) from UCSD, and the next year began teaching at San Diego State University. It wasn’t until almost thirty years later, in August 2000, that he retired from teaching to write science-fiction full time.
His 1981 novella True Names is often credited as the first story to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace.
He won Hugo Awards for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1993 — tie), A Deepness in the Sky (2000), Rainbows End (2007), and novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002), and The Cookie Monster (2004). A Deepness in the Sky also won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and in translation won Spain’s Ignotus Award, Germany’s Kurd Lasswitz Preis, and Italy’s Italia Award.
re: #207 Belafon
I’m well read compared to a lot of people I know, and you guys put me to shame, so I suspect some of you know who this guy’s was:
I read him a lot in the early 90s. A Fire Upon The Deep was very good
Another reason to shut the TV off…
Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Moves to NBC News As Commentator
re: #211 Joe Bacon ✅
Another reason to shut the TV off…
Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Moves to NBC News As Commentator
Gee I can’t wait for her to show up on Press The Meat…
re: #51 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #207 Belafon
I’m well read compared to a lot of people I know, and you guys put me to shame, so I suspect some of you know who this guy’s was:
Vernor Vinge was also the person who articulated the concept of The Singularity with respect to self aware AI. Basically everything after that moment is opaque and unknowable to us beforehand, but the changes will be fundamental (possibly catastrophic) and could happen in a matter of hours world wide.
re: #210 ckkatz
I assume DJT has a gasoline-powered golf cart
re: #207 Belafon
I’m well read compared to a lot of people I know, and you guys put me to shame, so I suspect some of you know who this guy’s was:
Saw a note from David Brin yesterday. 😟 Mr. Vinge will be missed.
If you’ve never read him, “The Peace War” and it’s sequel “Marooned In Real-time” are good places to start.
re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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re: #218 William Lewis
Saw a note from David Brin yesterday. 😟 Mr. Vinge will be missed.
If you’ve never read him, “The Peace War” and it’s sequel “Marooned In Real-time” are good places to start.
There’s a short novella that links both those stories.
re: #219 Scottish Dragon
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re: #220 Scottish Dragon
There’s a short novella that links both those stories.
+1 for The Peace War.
MTG JUST MOVED TO VACATE THE CHAIR PER CSPAN
Well, they literally built their house out of oil soaked rags
— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) March 22, 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Study ofLiberal Democracy: Should citizens be required to pass the US citizenship test before they can vote?
Is “ironic” the correct terminology considering that anyone answering yes would fail the US citizenship test?
A nice way to spoil the do-nothing Republicans’ vacation. https://t.co/zv3eRe3Uco
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 22, 2024
I did manage to find a copy of True Names at Half Price Books. Since Neuromancer is one of my favorite books, it seems like this should be a book I would be interested in.
re: #230 dat_said
Skip that and just institute the Religious Test.
Only those Saved by the Blood of Jesus may vote.
re: #230 dat_said
The only thing that keeps me from saying yes is how tests get abused.
re: #225 Joe Bacon ✅
MTG JUST MOVED TO VACATE THE CHAIR PER CSPAN
THERE ARE PEOPLE VERTICAL AND PEOPLE SUPINE AND BETWEEN THEM IS THE CHAIR
re: #214 ckkatz
As one of Menendez’s constituents, I approve Fetterman’s message.
re: #230 dat_said
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Candidates for elected office first
I was going to make a joke about MTG’s current arson attempt as a potential “Why this is bad for Joe Biden” headline, but honestly? I know people who will blame Biden for the self-inflicted GOP civil war.
re: #194 Scottish Dragon
I think Trump is just trying to hold up any enforcement until after he ostensibly takes office again and can use a weaponized
DOJDOD to strongarm the states.
re: #238 Mattand
I was going to make a joke about MTG’s current arson attempt as a potential “Why this is bad for Joe Biden” headline, but honestly? I know people who will blame Biden for the self-inflicted GOP civil war.
And the effort to delay and sabotage the funding of the US government is precisely the point.
The GOP cannot and will not govern, legislate, or do the business of the people. They’re out to wreck government and inure power in themselves.
Burn the GOP to the ground. Sherman needs to muster his troops.
re: #238 Mattand
I was going to make a joke about MTG’s current arson attempt as a potential “Why this is bad for Joe Biden” headline, but honestly? I know people who will blame Biden for the self-inflicted GOP civil war.
It is another gift to the Democrats, like the GOP promise to raise the retirement age and voucherize Medicare. The Republicans are going to put on another clown show
3.22.24 1145 am ET **UPDATE** Motion to Vacate: The Sequel as CNN Newsroom Anchor Jim Acosta @acosta with Chief Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju @mkraju with the latest from the hill . pic.twitter.com/ajqX6sMqB5
— Jeff Storobinsky (@jeffstorobinsky) March 22, 2024
re: #241 lawhawk
And the effort to delay and sabotage the funding of the US government is precisely the point.
The GOP cannot and will not govern, legislate, or do the business of the people. They’re out to wreck government and inure power in themselves.
Burn the GOP to the ground. Sherman needs to muster his troops.
re: #242 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Small enough?
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🚨 Minibus PASSES the House, 286-134, with 101 Republicans voting in favor. https://t.co/I4VVGr9igG
— Caitlin Emma (@caitlinzemma) March 22, 2024
re: #248 Scottish Dragon
ALERT — MTG has walked out of the chamber…..Doesn’t seem as if she will as for privilege today. So this will remain in the hopper.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 22, 2024
So every member can go home and have this story hanging over them the whole two weeks https://t.co/Rqv9D3r8mr
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) March 22, 2024
FREE TRUMP SIGNS.
What would you do? 🤣 pic.twitter.com/C02jrPAxKE— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) March 22, 2024
damn what’s the budgets to speakers ratio like these days??
ringweiss says that since MTG isn’t a chair or anything, just a member, there’s like four ways johnson can just dodge the motion, so this may be a kerfluffle for nothing
one of the funnier bits here is that she also didn’t try to make it a privileged motion, so it is effectively tables until after the recess anyway
guess what every House Republican gets to spend the next two weeks talking about whether they want to or not?
it’s clowns all the way down
re: #238 Mattand
I was going to make a joke about MTG’s current arson attempt as a potential “Why this is bad for Joe Biden” headline, but honestly? I know people who will blame Biden for the self-inflicted GOP civil war.
SRSLY? Assuming for a moment that the word “reasoning” would apply in this situation, why would these people think so?
I know RW media (and, to the minimal extent that it exists, LW media) tends to create alternate realities for its audience(s), but on any kind of real analysis, - at least AFAICT - President Biden has pretty much indulged the House GOP’s antics, and tried to work with them as much as possible. It’s not Joe’s fault that the House GOP caucus has ceded its legislative leadership to a bloc of extremists (and MTG isn’t the sole source of the problem she’s just the loudest mouth in the HFC, aka the KooKoo Kaucus).
Jesus H. Christ. I walk away for 15 minutes to cook lunch, and the whole goddamn Congress burns down. Did I read that correctly, that Margarine Tater-Greens introduced a motion to vacate and then just walked the fuck out?
re: #261 Nerdy Fish
Jesus H. Christ. I walk away for 15 minutes to cook lunch, and the whole goddamn Congress burns down. Did I read that correctly, that Margarine Tater-Greens introduced a motion to vacate and then just walked the fuck out?
No, she just waved a lit flamethrower (with the safety off) across the room without squeezing the trigger…
re: #262 Jay C
Pronouns: Welsh/Welsh
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re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And that was their nickname.
So Trump’s boutique social site successfully merged under the SPAV, making him $4 billion in the new company’s stock.,,
re: #261 Nerdy Fish
Jesus H. Christ. I walk away for 15 minutes to cook lunch, and the whole goddamn Congress burns down. Did I read that correctly, that Margarine Tater-Greens introduced a motion to vacate and then just walked the fuck out?
Yep. She did just that. According to TPM, she’s planning on using the upcoming Easter Recess to figure out what to do (her motion “isn’t privileged”, so it doesn’t have to be acted on right away).
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
scaramuchi + mccarthy
_______________________santos
i was told, well, you know….
Coffee break time. Last night I bought a box of Entenmann’s Mini Blueberry Muffins so I just opened the package and damn the Grocery Shrink Ray struck again.
The last time I bought a pack they had 5 mini muffins in each bag and now it’s 4…
re: #269 A Cranky One
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re: #261 Nerdy Fish
Jesus H. Christ. I walk away for 15 minutes to cook lunch, and the whole goddamn Congress burns down. Did I read that correctly, that Margarine Tater-Greens introduced a motion to vacate and then just walked the fuck out?
I go to work for a few hours, and all hell breaks loose. 😄
re: #267 Captain Magic
So Trump’s boutique social site successfully merged under the SPAV, making him $4 billion in the new company’s stock.,,
“$4 billion”, because that’s technically what it’s worth on paper, but he can’t sell it for 6 months and it’s not even going to be worth the paper it’s printed on by the time he can.
re: #268 Jay C
Yep. She did just that. According to TPM, she’s planning on using the upcoming Easter Recess to figure out what to do (her motion “isn’t privileged”, so it doesn;t have to be acted on right away)
So she dropped a pinless hand grenade into the chamber and now is diving to her foxhole while she figures out if she should jump on it or not? What a fucking loon.
re: #274 Nerdy Fish
“$4 billion”, because that’s technically what it’s worth on paper, but he can’t sell it for 6 months and it’s not even going to be worth the paper it’s printed on by the time he can.
Of course, that would be true with a free market. Likely, his buddies in SA and elsewhere (ie Musk) could prop the stock up until he can sell it. Money laundering like that is fine with Wall Street. Stock manipulation 101.
The MOST hilarious lesson. https://t.co/s0YzMiKY7E
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 22, 2024
re: #278 silverdolphin
Of course, that would be true with a free market. Likely, his buddies in SA and elsewhere (ie Musk) could prop the stock up until he can sell it. Money laundering like that is fine with Wall Street. Stock manipulation 101.
Well, and isn’t there a position he can take on the market if he expects the value to decline over time that will make him money if he’s right? He’s stupid, but not when it comes to money; he knows Twoof Social is a money pit.
re: #278 silverdolphin
Of course, that would be true with a free market. Likely, his buddies in SA and elsewhere (ie Musk) could prop the stock up until he can sell it. Money laundering like that is fine with Wall Street. Stock manipulation 101.
6 months is after the election and at least 1 criminal trial though.
re: #280 Nerdy Fish
Well, and isn’t there a position he can take on the market if he expects the value to decline over time that will make him money if he’s right? He’s stupid, but not when it comes to money; he knows Twoof Social is a money pit.
Is it legal to short your own company? Investors would really want to know about that kind of chicanery.
re: #281 Scottish Dragon
6 months is after the election and at least 1 criminal trial though.
I was going to say, the problem is that he has to come up with the collateral for his $450M+ judgment now, and for a bank to take a speculative loan for that amount, on that stock, with the history that this client has with fraud, would be beyond absurd risk management.
re: #282 Scottish Dragon
Is it legal to short your own company? Investors would really want to know about that kind of chicanery.
Shorting your own stock is insider trading, I believe, so I guess the answer is, “not if he doesn’t want another felony charge.”
re: #283 Nerdy Fish
I was going to say, the problem is that he has to come up with the collateral for his $450M+ judgment now, and for a bank to take a speculative loan for that amount, on that stock, with the history that this client has with fraud, would be beyond absurd risk management.
To say nothing about the fact any bond issuer would need accurate figures on his properties and how they are leveraged.
I was in my car when MTG filed her Motion to Vacate on MAGA Mike. Happy to see her fail miserably on this. I’ll bet even Gaetz and BoBo abandon her.
re: #274 Nerdy Fish
“$4 billion”, because that’s technically what it’s worth on paper, but he can’t sell it for 6 months and it’s not even going to be worth the paper it’s printed on by the time he can.
and meantime he cannot use it as collateral or pledge it
that’s part of the ‘6 months’ terms
re: #286 darthstar
I was in my car when MTG filed her Motion to Vacate on MAGA Mike. Happy to see her fail miserably on this. I’ll bet even Gaetz and BoBo abandon her.
The Republican Party is a full-on shitshow. It’s all petty squabbling and “me first” demands; they can’t govern, don’t even want to. They just want to prevent anyone else from governing. They want to steal all the toys, and the toybox, but they have no intention of playing with any of them.
re: #274 Nerdy Fish
“$4 billion”, because that’s technically what it’s worth on paper, but he can’t sell it for 6 months and it’s not even going to be worth the paper it’s printed on by the time he can.
That’s what he’s been claiming. I’ve also heard that he cannot use his share as collateral. The only problem is that if takes over the board and manages to get them to remove these clauses — I also do not know how feasible that is, or is it legal?
But even if he does that…
- I really wonder whether the profits justify a valuation of $4 billlion. Probably not.
- I wonder whether the lack of profits + future growth that will lead to profits justify a valuation of $4 billlion. I doubt it.
- He can’t just sign over 500 million worth of stock over in lieu of cash. The Federal government and state governments accept the legal tender currency, US Dollars only.
- So he’ll have to use the shares to get money somehow.
If you own a few hundred shares in a company with millions of shares trading, you selling of your stake isn’t going to move the needle concerning prices. If you own half the company, and you sell so much stock, the price is necessarily going to collapse, so selling 500 million dollars worth of stock will net you much less, and the value of the _rest_ of your shares will bemuch less.
The really, really, really rich people don’t sell stock when they need cash. They put it down as collateral for a line of credit and just pay down the interest. Instead of having stock that might be due to inheritance tax, they have loans that need to be paid off. It works out tax wise, apparently. (I obviously don’t have personal experience with this :-).
But Donnie is reportedly not allowed to use stocks as colateral. But even if he did…… Who would give him cash with stocks as collateral?
- Those ultra rich people own shares in relatively stable companies with a proven track record. Who knows what the real financials of Trump Social are?
- No one who loans him anything knows whether the assets are liable to be seized for his felonies and fraud convictions.
re: #282 Scottish Dragon
Is it legal to short your own company? Investors would really want to know about that kind of chicanery.
I’m pretty sure that many or most companies do not allow their employees to short their company stock, buy put options, etc… Whether that is due to SEC regulations, law, or just corporate policy that makes good business sense, I don’t know.
Note about Social Security, with a hat tip to our Lizard expert in this field:
If you have to change the account your check is being deposited to, they warn you not to close the old account till you’ve seen the check show up in the new account.
If you have to make this change in a hurry — say, due to closing the old account due to fraud — it’s worth it to spend the hold time on the phone while you wait for a real person rather than just doing it online.
The lovely, friendly real person can make a manual change that will take effect within 30 days, so my April check should go to the right place. She told me the online changes take effect within 60 to 90 days.
Hearty thanks to the agent I talked to this morning! I was very polite and remembered to say thank you very much, and I hope it was one of the pleasant transactions in her day. (Thought of you, Joe.)
Now back to read the rest of the thread and catch up on today’s insanity…
re: #291 aatharuv
I’m pretty sure that many or most companies do not allow their employees to short their company stock, buy put options, etc… Whether that is due to SEC regulations, law, or just corporate policy that makes good business sense, I don’t know.
Put options, that’s what I was thinking of. I suppose those would be insider trading for the same reason selling short would be.
Looks like Trump has a voice at MSNBC now
re: #115 Dr Lizardo
Just a little over three weeks.
So, if that happens, let’s say….a six to eight week trial. Especially if the judge slaps down Trump’s delaying bullshit whenever he tries to pull that.
Trial over by late May, early June or thereabouts - and with any luck (knock on wood) a guilty verdict as an end result.
All just in time for the GOP convention in July. Imagine the spectacle, if you will….the Republican Party nominating a convicted felon as their candidate for President of the United States of America.
I’d be shocked if it was a 6-8 week trial. It’s not that complicated and there aren’t that many witnesses. Plus, it’s pretty common that criminal defendants don’t call any witnesses, given the burden of proof the prosecutor has to satisfy.
re: #294 darthstar
Looks like Trump has a voice at MSNBC now
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re: #122 No Malarkey!
Bizarre Trump post. I don’t know if he is going to use his campaign as an excuse not to post a cash bond, or post a cash bond and use that as an excuse for a limited campaign.
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Dreher’s sham spiral continues! https://t.co/tL5dzGV9fV
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) March 22, 2024
re: #297 Mike Lamb
He won in 2016, lost in 2020, yet somehow “did better”?
He got more votes in 2020. Unfortunately for him, Biden got more. Of course, he believes that’s all a lie, and that he really won the popular vote both times.
- re: #290 aatharuv
just to add
- even *if* he were allowed to sell, where’s the market?
- who would buy into a company:
- that has never made a dollar
- that the userbase is shrinking
- that the majority shareholder is bailing on
- which majority shareholder is also the face of the company
- and whose initials are the ticker symbol
- and is essentially bailing on at the first opportunity he could?
James Comer admits defeat
Impeachment is over
The Hill: Comer suggests impeachment vote not ‘best path’ on Biden probehttps://t.co/VGrF3g6R1B— Ian Sams (@IanSams46) March 22, 2024
Not with a bang but a shart.
Endless hours of nothing for absolutely nothing, the worst by far Congress in US history. Take a bow, assholes.
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Endless hours of nothing for absolutely nothing, the worst by far Congress in US history. Take a bow, assholes.
The Republicans’ no good, very bad Friday continues to get worse.
re: #300 Dangerman
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just to add
- even *if* he were allowed to sell, where’s the market?- who would buy into a company:
- that has never made a dollar
- that the userbase is shrinking
- that the majority shareholder is bailing on
- which majority shareholder is also the face of the company
- and whose initials are the ticker symbol
- and is essentially bailing on at the first opportunity he could?
His financially illiterate cultists.
- People bought NFT’s.
- People massively bought the stock of Gamestop and some other heavily other shorted stocks because of reddit.
re: #297 Mike Lamb
He won in 2016, lost in 2020, yet somehow “did better”?
got more popular votes
ignores that biden got more votes than him
re: #301 ericblair
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Endless hours of nothing for absolutely nothing, the worst by far Congress in US history. Take a bow, assholes.
give him some time, he’ll come around for another pass
re: #236 Mattand
Running as in Independent, in a three way race between Andy Kim (D-NJ somewhere in southern New Jersey), Bob Menendez, and an unknown Republican (I don’t know New Jersey politics that well), wouldn’t Andy Kim lose?
Candace Owens: “I demand the end of DEI.”
Daily Wire: “We agree, you’re fired.” pic.twitter.com/PPGTO9gAA4— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) March 22, 2024
re: #303 aatharuv
His financially illiterate cultists.
People bought NFT’s.
People massively bought the stock of Gamestop and some other heavily other shorted stocks because of reddit.
$450m is a lot of illiteracy
re: #301 ericblair
There’s a but in there somewhere, because they’ll try to keep investigating even though they know they’ll never find anything on Joe to impeach him over.
That’s something anyone with two functioning neurons to rub against each other would recognize.
re: #306 aatharuv
Running as in Independent, in a three way race between Andy Kim (D-NJ somewhere in southern New Jersey), Bob Menendez, and an unknown Republican (I don’t know New Jersey politics that well), wouldn’t Andy Kim lose?
Kim has gotten a lot of support from the base and is doing well in polling here. Menendez loses. Kim first has to win the primary in June against Menendez and Murphy’s wife. Party leaders had wanted Murphy’s wife, but the base and some leaders wanted Kim, who announced first that he was running for Menendez’s seat.
I don’t think Tammy Murphy has anything to offer the state, and name recognition isn’t enough. Kim would be a good Junior Senator from NJ behind Cory Booker *Booker*
I had great ambitions today, but spent 3 hours of the time I was going to dedicate to Spring yard work looking for the special spot I put the mower key so I wouldn’t lose it over the Winter. I never found which spot I selected because I forgot to take it out of the mower’s ignition…
I read an article yesterday (forget where) that said that the value of Trump’s stock is directly tied to his chance of winning the election - if he wins, the value skyrockets, if he loses, it will plummet to where it should be (worthless). So buyers are betting he will win.
SO the more competitive Trump is (or appears to be), the more the stock price will remain high. Trump can sell his shares in October. If Trump dumps his shares before the election, it will be a no confidence vote in himself.
I wonder how Trump is taking the stress of knowing that losing the election might cost him billions overnight, literally.
re: #296 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Not if Ronna is upset at getting burned by the maniac that she gave up part of her name for.
Oh, god… she’s going to try to reinvent herself like Michael Steele did… except he’s actually an interesting person and quite funny.
re: #314 KingKenrod
If he is convicted in New York, his stock will be in the toilet before the election.
Talcum X strikes again:
Via xT:
Shaun King is disinvited from Ramadan event and accused of using Islam as a grift after launching $1,000-a-ticket speaking tour a day after converting ‘in solidarity with people of Gaza’ trib.al
re: #152 Joe Bacon ✅
Who needs JC when Trump is Your Big G?
Charlie Kirk echoes thoughtless claim that you can’t “be a Christian and vote Democrat”
Over the weekend, during a “Freedom Night in America” event hosted at Calvary South OC, a church in California, conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk insisted that Christians were required to vote for Republicans.
Gee sounded like wacko aunt’s Pulpit Pimp Paul “I not only fleeced the flock I fleeced a bunch of Foursquare Pulpit Pimps with my Ponzi Scam” Risser!
It’s the opposite: you can’t be Christian and vote Republican, given Trump represents the opposite of Biblical teaching.
re: #301 ericblair
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Not with a bang but a shart.
Endless hours of nothing for absolutely nothing, the worst by far Congress in US history. Take a bow, assholes.
They can still impeach the Speaker… twice in one year would be a record.
re: #312 lawhawk
Kim has gotten a lot of support from the base and is doing well in polling here. Menendez loses. Kim first has to win the primary in June against Menendez and Murphy’s wife. Party leaders had wanted Murphy’s wife, but the base and some leaders wanted Kim, who announced first that he was running for Menendez’s seat.
I don’t think Tammy Murphy has anything to offer the state, and name recognition isn’t enough. Kim would be a good Junior Senator from NJ behind Cory Booker *Booker*
Menendez has said he won’t run in the Democratic primary in June, but he _might_ run as an independent, so it’ll either be D-R-Menendez or just D (presumably Kim).
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sen-bob-menendez-says-he-wont-run-in-democratic-primary
re: #318 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s the opposite: you can’t be Christian and vote Republican, given Trump represents the opposite of Biblical teaching.
You haven’t heard about the Newer Testament?
It supplants everything
Let me give you the good news
re: #320 aatharuv
Andy Kim is my sister’s congressperson!
Senator Kim has a nice ring to it.
re: #319 darthstar
They can still impeach the Speaker… twice in one year would be a record.
McCarthy probably could have negotiated a 10 member support minimum at the time
Too late now
re: #311 lawhawk
There’s a but in there somewhere, because they’ll try to keep investigating even though they know they’ll never find anything on Joe to impeach him over.
That’s something anyone with two functioning neurons to rub against each other would recognize.
At this point, anyone subpoenaed by this farce should just refuse to show as there is no stated legislative purpose to any of this anymore.
He goes to sleep ranting this same thing every night, he wakes up ranting it, and he rants it throughout the day. pic.twitter.com/NHrq7Cu7pW
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 22, 2024
House Republicans advocating for millions of workers to get furloughed and go without pay. https://t.co/dycexf5Igq
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 22, 2024
re: #327 Dangerman
Oh, good, he’s still raging.
re: #327 Dangerman
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He’s freaking out. Maybe his dumb luck has run out and he’s started to realize it.
re: #320 aatharuv
Sounds to me more like Sen. Goldfinger knows he’s done, and is just holding on to that “I’ll run as an Independent if/when I’m exonerated” shtick as a face-saving dodge. I think it will be a straight D vs R race in November.
DWAC sank 5.8% in morning trading after news of the approval was reported.
That reversed an earlier gain of 12.1% or so
Katrina Middleton has been diagnosed with cancer.
re: #315 darthstar
Oh, god… she’s going to try to reinvent herself like Michael Steele did… except he’s actually an interesting person and quite funny.
Another one bites the dust! Hey Hey!
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING — GALLAGHER LEAVING APRIL 19 pic.twitter.com/cIs8l32KHC
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 22, 2024
re: #335 Dave In Austin
Another one bites the dust! Hey Hey!
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re: #333 Belafon
Katrina Middleton has been diagnosed with cancer.
That explains her absence - she’s been receiving chemo since she was apparently diagnosed after abdominal surgery in January. And of course, King Charles III has been getting treatment for prostate cancer.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) “is about to drop to a one-vote majority, as retiring Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) has decided he will exit the House as soon as next month,” Politico reports.
“The timing couldn’t be worse for Johnson, who is now potentially facing a vote on his ouster in the coming weeks.”
re: #338 Dr Lizardo
That explains her absence - she’s been receiving chemo since she was apparently diagnosed after abdominal surgery in January. And of course, King Charles III has been getting treatment for prostate cancer.
Weird how her and her FiL both diagnosed with cancer almost simultaneously
re: #207 Belafon
I’m well read compared to a lot of people I know, and you guys put me to shame, so I suspect some of you know who this guy was:
Loved “A Fire Upon the Deep”. One of my favorite sci-fi novels.
re: #339 Dangerman
Let the Friday night news dumps continue dumping on the GOP and Trump.
re: #336 Scottish Dragon
JFC.
More details, though not a lot, she had abdominal surgery in January, and after that is when she found out. She’s on chemo. cbs broke in to broadcast part of a video from her.
re: #339 Dangerman
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) “is about to drop to a one-vote majority, as retiring Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) has decided he will exit the House as soon as next month,” Politico reports.
“The timing couldn’t be worse for Johnson, who is now potentially facing a vote on his ouster in the coming weeks.”
[NY Times pitchbot]: “House GOP in disarray and Trump fleecing the RNC. Here’s why that may be bad news for President Biden.”
re: #338 Dr Lizardo
BREAKING
Kate Middleton announces she has cancer and is undergoing the early stages of chemotherapy. pic.twitter.com/60fEKb6xhc— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 22, 2024
re: #339 Dangerman
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) “is about to drop to a one-vote majority, as retiring Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) has decided he will exit the House as soon as next month,” Politico reports.
“The timing couldn’t be worse for Johnson, who is now potentially facing a vote on his ouster in the coming weeks.”
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If just one freaking Biden District Republican flipped, we could have Speaker Jeffries.
re: #340 No Malarkey!
Weird how her and her FiL both diagnosed with cancer almost simultaneously
One of those freaky coincidences. In both case, hopefully, it was caught soon enough. After all, cancer treatment has advanced considerably in my lifetime. When I was a kid in the 1970s, the “Big C” was pretty much a death sentence.
re: #333 Belafon
Katrina Middleton has been diagnosed with cancer.
Ugh that sucks. I have many varied opinions about the Royal Family but fuck cancer across the board.
re: #317 lawhawk
Talcum X strikes again:
Shaun King is disinvited from Ramadan event and accused of using Islam as a grift after launching $1,000-a-ticket speaking tour a day after converting ‘in solidarity with people of Gaza’ trib.al
Who in their right mind would spend $1000 to go see Crooker T Washington?
re: #346 No Malarkey!
If just one freaking Biden District Republican flipped, we could have Speaker Jeffries.
I think some new gerrymandering in NC could complicate that, although Wisconsin might make up for it.
re: #335 Dave In Austin
Another one bites the dust! Hey Hey!
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Anyone know what WI rules are on Special Elections for Congressional vacancies? April 19 is just over six months til the General: wonder how long that seat will have to be vacant.
House Republicans……… The new number pic.twitter.com/C8ajUG11lW
— TravisBlues 🦉🦉💙 (@Travisblues01) March 22, 2024
re: #350 Scottish Dragon
I think some new gerrymandering in NC could complicate that, although Wisconsin might make up for it.
We do have a couple of new majority Black districts in the South though.
re: #348 Eclectic Cyborg
Ugh that sucks. I have many varied opinions about the Royal Family but fuck cancer across the board.
Thinking of her little kids, first and foremost.
Hope they caught it early enough to do effective treatment.
re: #344 Dr Lizardo
[NY Times pitchbot]: “House GOP in disarray and Trump fleecing the RNC. Here’s why that may be bad news for President Biden.”
your presidential nominee is ahead in the polls
people quit early
probably because like Nate silver said the GOP is going to have a historic win with black and Latino voters.
everyone is quitting because they’re oh so confident?
Polls can’t be off. right?
//
re: #351 No Malarkey!
Active shooters in Moscow.
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I just saw some video and it’s horrifying.
re: #351 No Malarkey!
Active shooters in Moscow.
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(France 24 20 minutes ago)
Gunmen in combat fatigues open fire at Moscow concert hall
Several gunmen in combat fatigues burst into a big concert hall in Moscow on Friday and fired automatic weapons at the crowd, injuring an unspecified number of people, Russian media said.
Smoke rises above the Crocus City Hall concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, March 22, 2024.
Smoke rises above the Crocus City Hall concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, March 22, 2024. © Reuters, StringerRussian news reports said that the assailants also used explosives, causing a massive blaze at the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow. Video posted on social media showed huge plumes of black smoke rising over the building.
re: #361 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
(France 24 20 minutes ago)
Gunmen in combat fatigues open fire at Moscow concert hall
Ukrainians? Chechnyans? Some other
disgruntled minority? I guess we may find out eventually
re: #335 Dave In Austin
Another one bites the dust! Hey Hey!
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re: #359 Scottish Dragon
I just saw some video and it’s horrifying.
Yeah, just saw it too. Looks like the roof on that shopping center is fully engulfed and probably won’t hold up much longer.
re: #362 No Malarkey!
Ukrainians? Chechnyans? Some other
disgruntled minority? I guess we may find out eventually
Could be FSB. Putin has used false flag bomb attacks to blame Chechnya before.
re: #366 Scottish Dragon
Could be FSB. Putin has used false flag bomb attacks to blame Chechnya before.
It’s likely he’ll blame it on Ukrainians, even if he put Wagner group up to doing it. He’s that vicious, criminal, and desperate.
re: #362 No Malarkey!
Ukrainians? Chechnyans? Some other
disgruntled minority? I guess we may find out eventually
Lots of online speculation that it could also be a false flag attack. No doubt people recollecting the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings, which are widely suspected to have been false flags operations to gin up support for the Second Chechen War.
re: #366 Scottish Dragon
Could be FSB. Putin has used false flag bomb attacks to blame Chechnya before.
Unconfirmed reports of 40 dead.
Anyway, I was looking at the financial information about a college my son wants to attend, and I am going to be working forever. At least I won’t have to worry about finding something to do during retirement
re: #357 CleverToad
Thinking of her little kids, first and foremost.
Hope they caught it early enough to do effective treatment.
Lost two sisters and Dad to cancer and wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Hoping that she has a full recovery…
re: #348 Eclectic Cyborg
Ugh that sucks. I have many varied opinions about the Royal Family but fuck cancer across the board.
Especire: #339 Dangerman
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) “is about to drop to a one-vote majority, as retiring Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) has decided he will exit the House as soon as next month,” Politico reports.
“The timing couldn’t be worse for Johnson, who is now potentially facing a vote on his ouster in the coming weeks.”
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Is it even a one vote majority?
Wikipedia says 219 Republicans showing Gallagher and Buck as still in the House. It’ll be down to 217 out of 435 with 5 vacancies.
Does a majority have to just be amongst non-vacant members? If so, then 216 is needed.
Could just be some of the criminals Putin drafted and pardoned enjoying a little R&R. There have been several other incidents of violence after they got home from the front…newly armed.
re: #367 lawhawk
It’s likely he’ll blame it on Ukrainians, even if he put Wagner group up to doing it. He’s that vicious, criminal, and desperate.
Yep. Some Ukranian accounts are celebrating the shootings. That’s a bad misstep IMHO. Terrorist attacks on people at a concert venue are vile and reprehensible no matter how we feel about the nation they are in.
I see no moral difference between this and what Hamas did at the concert venue last October. It’s degenerate.
re: #369 Dr Lizardo
Unconfirmed reports of 40 dead.
Lower range is 12, and I saw the report of 40 also
WOW! Like Buck, Mike Gallagher carefully timed his departure. Under Wisconsin law, congressional vacancies occurring “prior to the 2nd Tuesday in April” in an election year get filled on a faster timeline. An April 19th resignation will keep Gallagher’s seat vacant until November pic.twitter.com/7VxSv4Bld5
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) March 22, 2024
Gallagher is fucking over his constituents for good measure by denying them representation through November. He could have resigned sooner, triggering a special election to fill his seat. This also means the GOP loses one more seat on their already razor thin margin.
re: #376 lawhawk
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Gallagher is fucking over his constituents for good measure by denying them representation through November. He could have resigned sooner, triggering a special election to fill his seat. This also means the GOP loses one more seat on their already razor thin margin.
I was going to say, the timing of his resignation had to be intentional, and I assumed it had to do with the rules for special elections. He’s flipping everybody a double bird on his way out.
re: #376 lawhawk
Gallagher is fucking over his constituents for good measure by denying them representation through November. He could have resigned sooner, triggering a special election to fill his seat. This also means the GOP loses one more seat on their already razor thin margin.
This feels very personal. Wow.
re: #362 No Malarkey!
My guess is Russians because of Navalny.
re: #378 Scottish Dragon
This feels very personal. Wow.
If it’s anything like Buck’s resignation, it was probably intended directly for the Weaker of the House. House Republicans are showing their contempt for the spineless wonder by giving him very specific “fuck you’s”.
re: #377 Nerdy Fish
I was going to say, the timing of his resignation had to be intentional, and I assumed it had to do with the rules for special elections. He’s flipping everybody a double bird on his way out.
If we could flip just two Republicans from districts Biden won in 2020. My god, Trump/MAGA would go absolutely insane. The meltdown would be the stuff of legend!
re: #380 Nerdy Fish
If it’s anything like Buck’s resignation, it was probably intended directly for the Weaker of the House. House Republicans are showing their contempt for the spineless wonder by giving him very specific “fuck you’s”.
Tragic Mike: Last Chance
Permanently depriving the Republicans of a seat in the House of Representatives (until the next election, anyway) is a very targeted message: “I’m sick of your games, and I’m going to actively help our political opposition by making your job harder.”
re: #304 Dangerman
got more popular votes
ignores that biden got more votes than him
It was scary enough that he got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016, and it was the second-largest total in history (behind Biden in 2020)
re: #383 No Malarkey!
Could be ISIS.
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That’s bad. Would be a significant expansion of their capability outside the Levant.
re: #383 No Malarkey!
Could be ISIS.
Now that’s one helluva way to make a comeback, ain’t it?
And as I recall, the US issued a warning a couple weeks back about the possibility of a terrorist attack in Russia.
Maybe this was what the warning was about.
re: #362 No Malarkey!
Ukrainians? Chechnyans? Some other
disgruntled minority? I guess we may find out eventually
It’s Russia. Who they say it is should be seriously questioned.
Watch Jamie…….
This is the most murderous takedown I’ve seen by a Democrat in years. pic.twitter.com/Wj50VbQ1M0
— Walter Masterson (@waltermasterson) March 22, 2024
re: #372 aatharuv
Well, after Gallagher exits, and disregarding any replacements via Special Elections for the rest of the year, the House numbers are going to be 217 Republicans and 213 Democrats. Which, if all the Ds hang together (likely, but FAR from a given), gives the GOP (whoever is Speaker) a remarkable thin Majority to work with. Which doesn’t look to be much of an issue, as very few of the House Rs seem to want to *work* anyway. And those that do tend to collect more shit from their own side of the aisle…
112 dead from another OSINT source. Video of a dozen or so bodies piled by the entrance doors and laying outside. I won’t share that here.
Still from the video showing attackers pic.twitter.com/RUXZWXiXXj
— Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) March 22, 2024
I am back from my Poll Book training. They really want us to use these poll books. They also want to compare the accuracy of the physical books to the electronic poll books. They are also trying to encourage us to use the electronic version and make sure we get paid faster by insisting that we not only enter our names on the old fashioned paper payroll sheet and the new electronic payroll sheet.
re: #312 lawhawk
Kim has gotten a lot of support from the base and is doing well in polling here. Menendez loses. Kim first has to win the primary in June against Menendez and Murphy’s wife. Party leaders had wanted Murphy’s wife, but the base and some leaders wanted Kim, who announced first that he was running for Menendez’s seat.
I don’t think Tammy Murphy has anything to offer the state, and name recognition isn’t enough. Kim would be a good Junior Senator from NJ behind Cory Booker *Booker*
Kim famously stayed after the dust settled on Jan 6 to clean up the Capitol. Right now, he’s the diametric opposite of Menendez and has my vote if he wins the primary, which it looks like he should.
Also worth noting that he’s representing a district that leans heavily GOP.
JFC are you kidding me?!
According to Russian media 4 suspects were able to leave the site of attack at Crocus City Hall. Additional security measures ordered for police, at the railway, bus stations and airports of Moscow region
re: #390 Jay C
BTW: here are the current Congressional vacancies (from Wikipedia).
California 20: Kevin McCarthy (R) resigned on December 31, 2023.
The special election will be held on May 21, 2024.
Ohio 6: Bill Johnson (R) resigned on January 21, 2024.
The special election will be held on June 11, 2024
New York 26: Brian Higgins (D) resigned on February 2, 2024.
The special election will be held on April 30, 2024.
Ken Buck’s resignation from CO-04 isn’t on the list yet.
Unfortunately, it looks like these are all “safe” seats, so no chance (AFAICT) for a pickup for the current session.
re: #401 Scottish Dragon
They left?!
They fucking left??
Apparently so. Czech media is reporting via Russian media that the gunmen are on the loose. As you can imagine, a dragnet is ongoing (and rightly so).
The title alone is making me ROTFLLMFAO!
Trump’s $454M Penalty Is Exceptional Because Trump Is an Exception
He’s always demanded special treatment. Now he’s getting it.
Holy Cthulhu is he getting it…
re: #399 Dr Lizardo
JFC are you kidding me?!
According to Russian media 4 suspects were able to leave the site of attack at Crocus City Hall. Additional security measures ordered for police, at the railway, bus stations and airports of Moscow region
What happened to the fifth guy?
He stay behind to give a press conference??? ////
And four of the gunmen just walked* away and escaped? Something smells here, and it ain’t blini…
* They probably ran, but same difference…
🚨Announcement🚨
After today’s embarrassing showing in the house I have reflected and decided that I can no longer be part of the Republican Party…
The Republican Party continues to lie and swindle its voter base. I in good conscience cannot affiliate myself with a party that…— George Santos (@MrSantosNY) March 22, 2024
Something else to consider. Russia’s actions in Syria.
re: #294 darthstar
Looks like Trump has a voice at MSNBC now
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re: #404 Joe Bacon ✅
The title alone is making me ROTFLLMFAO!
Trump’s $454M Penalty Is Exceptional Because Trump Is an Exception
He’s always demanded special treatment. Now he’s getting it.
Holy Cthulhu is he getting it…
His blessings are available to everyone. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
re: #299 Nerdy Fish
He got more votes in 2020. Unfortunately for him, Biden got more. Of course, he believes that’s all a lie, and that he really won the popular vote both times.
He knows the truth — it’s his cult that doesn’t and accepts his words at face value.
re: #300 Dangerman
-
just to add
- even *if* he were allowed to sell, where’s the market?- who would buy into a company:
- that has never made a dollar
- that the userbase is shrinking
- that the majority shareholder is bailing on
- which majority shareholder is also the face of the company
- and whose initials are the ticker symbol
- and is essentially bailing on at the first opportunity he could?
Russian oligarchs? The Saudis? Musk? Mere pocket changes to them.
Lead me not into temptation…
UNLESS
It is in the form of a Kraft Caramel on top of a Girl Scouts THIN MINT cookie!
re: #399 Dr Lizardo
Almost guaranteeing that this was a false flag or that allegations of same are reasonably credible, since the Russian FSB, FSS, and their related alphabet agencies, plus Moscow police decided to completely skip town and fail to do their fucking jobs in stopping an armed rampage in Moscow.
re: #413 Joe Bacon ✅
Lead me not into temptation…
UNLESS
It is in the form of a Kraft Caramel on top of a Girl Scouts THIN MINT cookie!
Oh, now that just sounds sinfully delicious. Kraft Caramels were a staple in my household growing up. Nobody makes them quite the same way.
re: #413 Joe Bacon ✅
One of my favorite wineries in the Finger Lakes is doing a wine tasting pairing with Girl Scout cookies all month.
Damn them… I’m too far away to enjoy.
From Kevin Rothrock on X:
Three days ago, Putin dismissed U.S. warnings about possible terrorist attacks in Moscow at crowded venues. he said it was “outright blackmail” by the West and an attempt to “intimidate and destabilize our society.”
re: #414 lawhawk
Almost guaranteeing that this was a false flag or that allegations of same are reasonably credible, since the Russian FSB, FSS, and their related alphabet agencies, plus Moscow police decided to completely skip town and fail to do their fucking jobs in stopping an armed rampage in Moscow.
yeah, that’s just hard to take at face value. It would be the biggest LE failure since the Mumbai attacks by Lashkar-e-Taiba
re: #414 lawhawk
Almost guaranteeing that this was a false flag or that allegations of same are reasonably credible, since the Russian FSB, FSS, and their related alphabet agencies, plus Moscow police decided to completely skip town and fail to do their fucking jobs in stopping an armed rampage in Moscow.
The only thing that might change that is if IS-K takes responsibility or something. Looking at videos of the attack, it reminded me of the Bataclan Massacre back in 2015.
Nonetheless, yeah, a lot of people are gonna be wondering what the fuck were the authorities doing? Just jerkin’ it in their offices or something?
re: #310 Dangerman
$450m is a lot of illiteracy
10 million people spending $45 each? 1 million spending $450? To help their savior?
re: #420 Hecuba’s daughter
10 million people spending $45 each? 1 million spending $450? To help their savior?
The GoFundMe, despite being against its terms of service, has stalled out somewhere north of $1M. So, yeah, no, that ain’t happenin’.
re: #419 Dr Lizardo
Letting it happen, yep. (Just one of many possibilities)
re: #419 Dr Lizardo
The only thing that might change that is if IS-K takes responsibility or something. Looking at videos of the attack, it reminded me of the Bataclan Massacre back in 2015.
Nonetheless, yeah, a lot of people are gonna be wondering what the fuck were the authorities doing? Just jerkin’ it in their offices or something?
Apparently, the Uvalde PD donated their procedures manual to the Moscow PD.
First Kate and now the rumors are swirling that Charles has pancreatic cancer…not what we expect to hear on a Friday news dump…
re: #424 Joe Bacon ✅
First Kate and now the rumors are swirling that Charles has pancreatic cancer…not what we expect to hear on a Friday news dump…
Oh God. I thought they were saying prostate cancer, due to the fact that that’s the area they were in during the exam. If it’s pancreatic cancer, that’s a death sentence. Elizabeth almost succeeded in her goal.
re: #423 Mike Lamb
Apparently, the Uvalde PD donated their procedures manual to the Moscow PD.
[Police Commander Ivanov]: “Hey, what’s this? A new manual. ‘Active Shooter Response Guide: When Seconds Matter’ and it’s from the…Uvalde Police Department? Hmm…never heard of ‘em.”
From Liveuamap on X:
Big malls are being evacuated in Moscow and St.Petersburg, all public events cancelled in Lipetsk and cities-satellites of Moscow
Czech news reporting that roof of the Crocus Hall has begun to collapse.
re: #419 Dr Lizardo
The only thing that might change that is if IS-K takes responsibility or something. Looking at videos of the attack, it reminded me of the Bataclan Massacre back in 2015.
Nonetheless, yeah, a lot of people are gonna be wondering what the fuck were the authorities doing? Just jerkin’ it in their offices or something?
This may be coincidence, but it’s the eighth anniversary of the Brussels airport bombing to the day today.
I don’t have a real problem believing that Russian security services completely missed this. Like any authoritarian state, they are fixated on threats to the leadership and chasing the Usual Suspects, so a threat outside those parameters is just ignored until it’s too late.
one possible suspect arrested? Not sure. Haven’t seen confirmation.
re: #424 Joe Bacon ✅
First Kate and now the rumors are swirling that Charles has pancreatic cancer…not what we expect to hear on a Friday news dump…
CBS said Charles has an enlarged prostate.
re: #430 ericblair
This may be coincidence, but it’s the eighth anniversary of the Brussels airport bombing to the day today.
I don’t have a real problem believing that Russian security services completely missed this. Like any authoritarian state, they are fixated on threats to the leadership and chasing the Usual Suspects, so a threat outside those parameters is just ignored until it’s too late.
The Russian security services all have their eyes hyper-focused on Ukraine. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if by focusing so heavily on that, they could’ve missed a threat coming from a direction they didn’t anticipate.
Rosgvardia arrived an hour after the attacks began. WTF
re: #432 Belafon
CBS said Charles has an enlarged prostate.
Digging, I can’t find anything that specifically says what type of cancer Charles has been diagnosed with.
re: #362 No Malarkey!
Ukrainians? Chechnyans? Some other
disgruntled minority? I guess we may find out eventually
Maybe we will learn the truth— maybe not. Lies are all you get from Putin and the FSB.
Edited to clarify.
re: #362 No Malarkey!
Ukrainians? Chechnyans? Some other
disgruntled minority? I guess we may find out eventually
the azeris have their own angle to the tragedy in Moscow pic.twitter.com/3UPZyJXaL2
— forcefemmed calvinist (@Sharon_Kuruvila) March 22, 2024
It was the Armenians (according to Aliyev Stans).
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... Cheechako
5 weeks ago
Views: 622 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 5- A Closer Look at the Eastman State Bar DecisionTaking a few minutes away from work things to read through the Eastman decision. As I'm sure many of you know, Eastman was my law school con law professor. I knew him pretty well because I was also running in ...KGxvi
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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