Video: Michael Cohen’s Advisor on What Happens If Trump Is Convicted in NY: “He Will Go to Jail”

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Lanny Davis isn’t my favorite legal weasel, but he does a good job of laying out the basics in the historic trial set to begin tomorrow in New York.

The first president (or ex-president) to face criminal prosecution. Richard Nixon could have been here first, but was saved by Gerald Ford’s pardon.

Donald Trump is making history.

Lanny Davis, legal advisor for Trump trial witness Michael Cohen, joins Jen Psaki to discuss the start of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial.

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William Lewis  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:25:56pm

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William Lewis  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:26:14pm

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William Lewis  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:26:28pm

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Charles Johnson  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:26:53pm

Honestly never imagined I’d see a worse president than Richard Nixon.

I was just a sweet summer child then.

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:28:28pm

re: #4 Charles

Honestly never imagined I’d see a worse president than Richard Nixon.

I was just a sweet summer child then.

White people being threatened with loss of inadequacy are the most dangerous creatures on the planet.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:37:20pm

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:38:40pm

Nixon on tape ordering his soldiers to break into the Brookings Institution to blow up the safe and steal its contents (pentagon papers I think) is some pretty serious shit.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:38:57pm

Is Speaker Jesusbot really that dumb?

Mike Johnson embarrassed on Fox News by suggesting he doesn’t know noncitizens can’t vote

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Sunday pressed for a new law against immigrants voting in federal elections while Fox News reported on an existing law that already prohibits noncitizens from voting.

Mike Johnson wants noncitizen voting law even though there already is one

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:39:29pm

re: #4 Charles

Honestly never imagined I’d see a worse president than Richard Nixon.

I was just a sweet summer child then.

Nixon announced his resignation two nights before my eighth birthday. I literally was a sweet summer child then.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:41:10pm

re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅

Wasting time on non-existent nonsense while refusing to aid Ukraine. So Christ-like.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:41:35pm

I was a freshman at Pitt during the summer trimester when Nixon resigned. Almost the whole campus had a party to celebrate…except the Campus Crusade For Christ, Young Republicans and Young Americans For FreeDUMB.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:45:48pm

When Nixon gave his speech to the White House staff in his final hours in office, you can see that asshole Ben Stein crying his eyes out. What are you crying about??!! The motherfucker obstructed the investigation, ordered people to lie, and used campaign funds to shut people up.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:48:50pm

re: #32 silverdolphin

As a visual aid to my comment at #27, here is Hunt’s placement and sighting for the Union Cannons on the day of Pickett’s charge. The 2 Parrott cannons on Little Round Top are at the bottom, able to provide devastating crossfire. As if he had not covered all the rest of the field. If the fuses on Lee’s cannons had worked properly, Hunt’s plan might not have come to fruition.

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Angry Staff Officer used to tweet a chronological thread of the battle of Gettysburg each July.

I follow Angry Staff Officer and always looked forward his Gettysburg observance. To the best of my knowledge 2022 was the last year he did this.

Here’s one of his entries for July 3rd:

Angry Staff Officer
@pptsapper

From Round Top to Cemetery Hill, the bark and rumble of Hunt’s symphony of destruction begins, and now Longstreet and Lee are fully aware that their bombardment had no effect. The federal line spews flame for over a mile, the “compliments of a wrathful Republic”
2:13 PM • Jul 3, 2022
P

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:51:15pm

re: #7 Ace Rothstein

Nixon on tape ordering his soldiers to break into the Brookings Institution to blow up the safe and steal its contents (pentagon papers I think) is some pretty serious shit.

Yeah, but I honestly think even Tricky Dick would never have been stupid enough to stow a bunch of classified documents in his bathroom.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:54:44pm

re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, but I honestly think even Tricky Dick would never have been stupid enough to stow a bunch of classified documents in his bathroom.

He’d have had Haldeman do it.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:57:00pm

Rough Terrain Vehicle
(just dropped this downstairs before I noticed everyone had moved on …lol)

I guess we have to assume that the account is likely one of Elmo’s

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:01:33pm

re: #121 sizzzzlerz

I’m running 174.1 on both my iphone 14 and ipad. The iphone upgrade went off without a hitch and I have seen no issues in performance, battery life, or any feature I’ve used. The ipad, however, did have a painful upgrade experience. After it was complete, many of my apps stopped working. I’d launch them and they’d die immediately. Browsing the intertubes, I found a site suggesting the problem was with iCloud and that you should logout and then log back in. This worked for me. No idea why. The sites I looked at all indicated that the problem occurred with the iphone as well. Just not for me.

Thanks for the tip - haven’t found reason to use iCloud yet. Then again not using iCloud on this handheld could be the cause of my bluetooth issue.
Ain’t computers fun.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:02:17pm

An episode of To Tell The Truth from 1972.

Note who one of the imposters is in the first game!

Brent Spiner on To Tell The Truth (1972)

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garzooma  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:13:44pm

re: #109 silverdolphin

Absolutely. That forcd the battle that Meade did not want but which he accepted, to his everlasting credit. To my mind, the entire success of Gettysburg depends on the accurate decisions made by the generals under Meade, often with only minutes to make the decision. And the entire failure of the Rebels can be laid on the wildly inaccurate decisions of Lee. He asked his men to follow orders that were simply not realistic or possible.

For a contrary opinion of the generals under Meade, check out Kent Masterson Brown’s take from a YouTube video (he has a book Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command on this):

Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command

My take away was that Meade had wanted to defend a line a good deal closer to his supply base, but was forced by his subordinates into a much more sticky situation due to logistical problems of having to move supplies much further. From the Amazon overview:

Brown argues that supply deficiencies, brought about by the army’s unexpected need to advance to Gettysburg, were crippling.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:16:29pm

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:17:00pm

re: #16 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Rough Terrain Vehicle
(just dropped this downstairs before I noticed everyone had moved on …lol)

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I guess we have to assume that the account is likely one of Elmo’s

He’s sure driving slow. That’s an easy trail for my X-Terra.

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:18:08pm

re: #20 Patricia Kayden

That’s a big pile of Other People’s Money.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:18:10pm

re: #20 Patricia Kayden

Aw c’mon he had to have been hit with fines & settlements before 1988!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:19:00pm

re: #20 Patricia Kayden

Somewhere around $700 million total if my math is right.

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sagehen  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:19:24pm

re: #4 Charles

Honestly never imagined I’d see a worse president than Richard Nixon.

I was just a sweet summer child then.

I know it’s super-unpopular to defend the criminal Nixon, but…

EPA
OSHA
Title IX
Title X
saved Israel in ‘73
opened relations with China

Definitely a mixed record, but he does have legitimate counterweight to the shit he deserves downgrades for.

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Jay C  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:21:59pm

re: #16 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Rough Terrain Vehicle
(just dropped this downstairs before I noticed everyone had moved on …lol)

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I guess we have to assume that the account is likely one of Elmo’s

I dunno: as that clip is focusing on how slowly and awkwardly the Cyberjunk is lurching over that fire road, I’d say it was likelier to be a snark account…

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piratedan  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:22:11pm

re: #25 sagehen

well let’s not give him too much credit. Most of those advances were done by the Democratic house that Nixon signed off on in order to have a free hand with foreign policy. Sure he signed them into law, but not because he really supported them, he was much more concerned with legacy building across the world.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:25:20pm

‘Correct a black mark in US history’: former prisoners of Abu Ghraib get day in court

The widespread abuse at Abu Ghraib came to mainstream public attention on 28 April 2004, a year into the US invasion of Iraq, when CBS News first broadcast photos of US soldiers abusing detainees in their custody. The images depicted a hooded man standing on a box and hooked to electrical wires, and naked detainees piled on top of each other, dragged from a leash or forced to simulate sexual acts - while smiling soldiers posed in front of them with their thumbs up.

Detailed reports of the torture soon followed, and in 2004, an official investigation by US army Maj Gen Antonio Taguba concluded that “sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses” had been inflicted upon detainees.

Despite the global scandal caused by the photographs and subsequent media reports, accountability has been elusive, even as Abu Ghraib has come to epitomize the horrors of the US war on terror.

Only a handful of lower-rank soldiers faced military trials; no military or political leaders, or private contractors, were held legally accountable for what happened at Abu Ghraib or at any other facility where US detainees were tortured. Notably, the conduct at Abu Ghraib was condemned by the highest levels of the Bush administration, including the president and military leadership.

It has been an uphill battle to bring the case against CACI to trial. Since the lawsuit was filed in 2008, the company has tried to dismiss it more than 20 times, citing an array of technical arguments and primarily maintaining that because its employees were working for the US military, immunity and legal protections they argue should be afforded to the government should also apply to them. The company’s late former CEO, Jack London, went as far as writing an 800-page book - Our Good Name - in an effort to defend CACI’s reputation.

Admittedly I’m in a mood…but contrast twenty years to get a subcontractor to admit they did torture, with all of it documented, versus the short sharp utilitarian decision that civilian deaths are acceptable in drone strikes.

Until we summarily execute one, corporate people are more people than people.

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sagehen  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:27:35pm

re: #23 Joe Bacon ✅

Aw c’mon he had to have been hit with fines & settlements before 1988!

The violations before that, his dad was still in charge of the company so not exactly him getting fined.

But 1972 is the Fair Housing Act violations by their apartments in Queens…

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retired cynic  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:27:49pm

re: #4 Charles

Honestly never imagined I’d see a worse president than Richard Nixon.

I was just a sweet summer child then.

Me, too, but I really thought Reagan surpassed him, and then there was W/Cheney. I didn’t see how it could get worse. When Trump came down the elevator, I was so sure the American public would laugh him off the stage. And now… my world is not the same as this world, I can tell you that!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:28:07pm

Oh hey let’s square that circle:

A federal appeals court in 2009 dismissed a suit on behalf of 250 Iraqi civilians who had been subjected to torture, on the basis of a new legal doctrine known as “battlefield preemption” that has been used to dismiss similar suits against contractors used in war.

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silverdolphin  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:37:13pm

re: #19 garzooma

For a contrary opinion of the generals under Meade, check out Kent Masterson Brown’s take from a YouTube video (he has a book Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command on this):

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My take away was that Meade had wanted to defend a line a good deal closer to his supply base, but was forced by his subordinates into a much more sticky situation due to logistical problems of having to move supplies much further. From the Amazon overview:

I’m can see the argument, which is what was used to call Meade back to Washington to defnd his decisions. The thing is, if Meade has organizaed hir order of battle like everyone else did at the time, he would have have 3-4 generals under him with 3-4 generals under them. SO Lee split up his 75,000. So Longstreet and the toehr 2 has 25,000 men under them to deal logistically with. Which caused problems with the readiness of the men.

Meade has his roughly 75,000 men under 10 generals I beleive. So each one was responsible for 1/3 the men that they had in Lee’s army. I argue this made them much more nimble and able to react, even in the midst of logistical problems, often in minutes. These 10 generals were able to convince Meade in a council of war to stand and fight, in constrast to what the standard route espoused above.

And they were able to convey to him the actual state of the field of battle after the first day. Something Lee never got, leading to him making some real errors.

Lee, I beleive, never had all 3 of his generals together in the same rooom with him duing the battle.

Sure, the victory came from luck but luck that was possible because of the distribution of power. There were low level officer that, on their own decisions without orders, who made a huge difference. The right people got to the right place to assess what was happening. From my reading, a lot disparagement comes Meade because he was not able to raidly follow Lee’s retreat and end the war there. That is what Lincoln felt and so did much of Washington.

If he had retreated and won the day, would he have been in a better position to take out Lee in retreat? well, I am not convinced because Lee expected them to attack and had set up a place of his choosing to fight which would not have been to the North;s advantage. I believe we won because Gettysburg was not really where Lee wanted to fight.

Of course, what makes Gettysburg so great it that it is such a complex battle that everyone can cherrypick just about anything. I use it to explain why organizational structure can have a huge impact on outcome. Others have other reasons.

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teleskiguy  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:39:09pm

Mastodon

The ‘S’ shaped run is the downhill course. It skied nice today, did it twice.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:41:34pm

Owl Egg……

Way late in the year.

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silverdolphin  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:43:51pm

re: #33 teleskiguy

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The ‘S’ shaped run is the downhill course. It skied nice today, did it twice.

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so nice. Beaver Creek is where I finally put a string of turns together and really skied for the first time. Such a great memory.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:51:50pm

… “We’re looking at how we can assist evolution,” said Anthony Waddle, a conservation biologist at Macquarie University in Sydney.

It is an audacious concept, one that challenges a fundamental conservation impulse to preserve wild creatures as they are. But in this human-dominated age — in which Australia is simply at the leading edge of a global biodiversity crisis — the traditional conservation playbook may no longer be enough, some scientists said…

(No Paywall)

nytimes.com

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silverdolphin  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:52:58pm

Trump on track for $1 billion stock bonus — while outside investors lose up to 50%

Yep, he is going to get even more shares for free he gets to add to his haul. He has $70 million shares and is likely to get another $36 million as a bonus.

WHat a scammer.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:56:16pm

re: #37 silverdolphin

It’s all a testament to how desperately dimwitted a sector of America is… and Trump fleeces them for everything he can.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:56:31pm

Memories of Mom’s City Chicken that she would make only with veal cubes.

This recipe from Serious Eats uses pork instead.

City Chicken was a dish that originated in Western PA during the Great Depression when veal was plentiful and chicken was expensive and often served only on Sundays.

So what is city chicken? This 1932 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper ad spells it all out: “Tender, choice pieces of fresh veal and pork are cut into neat squares and alternated on skewers… four or five to the skewer. All you do, then, is dip the meat in egg and bread crumbs, brown quickly, add water, cover pan and simmer until tender and juicy.” You’ll still find city chicken fitting this simple description being turned out in home kitchens across the Rust Belt today, served on its own or dressed up with a quick pan gravy, as in the recipe I’m sharing here.

Ingredients
1 3/4 pounds (795g) boneless pork loin roast
Kosher salt
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
2 large eggs beaten with 2 tablespoons water
1 cup (90g) store-bought or homemade Italian-style or seasoned bread crumbs
1/2 cup (120ml) vegetable or other neutral oil, plus more as needed
1/4 of a small yellow onion (about 2 ounces; 57 grams), thinly sliced
1 cup (237ml) chicken broth, store-bought or homemade
Freshly ground black pepper (optional)

Directions

Remove fat cap from pork loin as well as any connective tissue or silverskin, then cut into approximate 1- to 1 1/4-inch cubes.

Set a wire rack inside a rimmed baking sheet and place the pork cubes on the rack. Sprinkle salt (about 1 tablespoon) all over pork, turning cubes to ensure even coating. Let rest at room temperature or in the refrigerator until the surface moisture has dried, about 45 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Thread pork onto each skewer (you should be able to fit 5 to 6 pieces on each). Set up a breading station with 3 wide, shallow bowls or 1/8 sheet pans. Add 1/2 cup flour (2 ounces; 60g) to the first bowl or pan; the beaten eggs to the second; and the bread crumbs to the third.

Working with one skewer at a time, dredge each skewer in flour, turning on all sides and spooning flour on top to make sure all crevices are coated. Gently shake skewer to remove excess flour, then coat thoroughly in egg wash. Roll in bread crumbs, again using a spoon or fingers as needed to cover evenly. Place the breaded skewers on a clean plate or baking sheet.

Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or foil. In a 12-inch cast iron or stainless-steel skillet, heat oil over medium heat until shimmering. Add 4 skewers to the pan, and cook, turning occasionally, until breading is toasted and brown, about 2 minutes per side. Using tongs, transfer skewers to prepared baking sheet. Add more oil to skillet if needed, then repeat with remaining skewers.

Transfer skewers to oven and cook until an instant-read thermometer inserted into center of pork registers 135°F (57°C), 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let rest on the baking pan at least 5 minutes (pork should reach 145°F in this time).

While city chicken bakes, make pan gravy: Pour off all but 3 tablespoons oil from skillet, return to medium heat, add onions, and season with salt. Cook, stirring frequently, until onions are softened and starting to turn translucent, about 6 minutes. Whisk in remaining 2 tablespoons flour (1/2 ounce; 15g) and cook, whisking constantly, until the roux is just beginning to turn golden, 2 to 3 minutes. Whisk in broth, scraping the skillet bottom to dissolve browned bits. Bring to a simmer and cook, whisking occasionally, until thickened, about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

To serve, drizzle city chicken skewers with gravy or serve on the side.

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teleskiguy  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:56:47pm

re: #35 silverdolphin

so nice. Beaver Creek is where I finally put a string of turns together and really skied for the first time. Such a great memory.

Beaver Creek is the first place I ever went skiing when I was four, it was basically daycare on weekends. Didn’t ski with my Dad until I was seven. Became semi-elite level in my late teens. Became an elite telemark skier in my mid 20s. I’ve done some other things since then, like this a while back.

teleskiguy (colored hood) heli-skiing in 2014 at Silverton Mountain, CO
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teleskiguy  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:00:17pm

I didn’t keep track this winter but I’m pretty sure I’m over 50 days skiing. Far cry from my 100+ days in my 20s and 80+ days in my 30s. But I’m still skiing goddamnit and it’s still the most fun you can have with your clothes on, and even then clothes can be optional. Just don’t crash.

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:04:11pm

I like coconuts
You crack them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun

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teleskiguy  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:06:12pm

re: #42 darthstar

I like coconuts
You crack them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun

Coconut (Live in Pensacola)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:07:16pm

re: #4 Charles

In a lot of ways, W was far worse.

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TedStriker  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:10:34pm

re: #18 Joe Bacon ✅

An episode of To Tell The Truth from 1972.

Note who one of the imposters is in the first game!

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Video

Damn, Spiner’s like college-age or not much more than that there; it took him kicking around Hollywood for about another 12-13 years before he got the recurring gig as Bob Wheeler on the OG Night Court (and he has also guested as Wheeler in the current continuation version of the show, in an episode just about a month ago [“Wheelers of Fortune”]) and a couple of more years before he had his real breakout with Data and ST:TNG.

As a nerd, I love Data, but, with Bob Wheeler, Spiner was/is able to show off much more of his comic chops and timing… he was always one of my favorite recurring characters from the original Night Court run (and that was only just over seasons 3 and 4, right before ST:TNG consumed him).

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:11:01pm

Nope. Not stopping there and gonna detour around it!

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Dangerman  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:13:28pm

re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅

Is Speaker Jesusbot really that dumb?

Mike Johnson embarrassed on Fox News by suggesting he doesn’t know noncitizens can’t vote

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Sunday pressed for a new law against immigrants voting in federal elections while Fox News reported on an existing law that already prohibits noncitizens from voting.

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it’s not so much there’s a law against noncitizen voting.

It’s how would hundreds, thousands, millions of them actually do it as claimed?

Because this conspiracy is so sneaky, so well coordinated and so disciplined that no one can find evidence of even one case to prosecute of this apparently pervasive and massive fraud.

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TedStriker  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:15:07pm

re: #46 Joe Bacon ✅

Nope. Not stopping there and gonna detour around it!

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Dangerman  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:18:01pm

re: #15 Ace Rothstein

He’d have had Haldeman do it.

Willingly

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Dangerman  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:23:11pm

re: #20 Patricia Kayden

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Around $679m or so, eyeballing it

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Dangerman  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:23:33pm

re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg

Somewhere around $700 million total if my math is right.

Damn!

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teleskiguy  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:24:32pm

re: #50 Dangerman

Around $679m or so, eyeballing it

Elon’s has to have surpassed. And it’s supposed to get worse for him, he’s also drowning in lawsuits.

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teleskiguy  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:29:09pm

In 1997 OJ Simpson was ordered to pay the family of Ron Goldman - the man he knifed to death along with his ex-wife Nicole Brown - $33.5 million dollars in a wrongful death civil suit. The Goldman family got a fraction of that.

Makes me think of Alex Jones…

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:29:29pm

Just gotta download a new gas pedal, that’ll fix the risk, “if any”

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:30:59pm

re: #54 goddamnedfrank

Vault 31 management will tell him what to do.

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:38:39pm

re: #43 teleskiguy

It’s a great fucking song…a fun song, but a great fucking fun song.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:40:00pm

re: #46 Joe Bacon ✅

Nope. Not stopping there and gonna detour around it!

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Population: 2. One man and his pecker.

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silverdolphin  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:45:37pm

re: #53 teleskiguy

In 1997 OJ Simpson was ordered to pay the family of Ron Goldman - the man he knifed to death along with his ex-wife Nicole Brown - $33.5 million dollars in a wrongful death civil suit. The Goldman family got a fraction of that.

Makes me think of Alex Jones…

$132,000 total!! Simpson got $400,000 a year from a pension that could not be touched.

Justice denied. But then, all OJ wanted was to be a movie star. Never got that.

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A Cranky One  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:51:13pm

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teleskiguy  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:51:18pm

re: #58 silverdolphin

$132,000 total!! Simpson got $400,000 a year from a pension that could not be touched.

Justice denied. But then, all OJ wanted was to be a movie star. Never got that.

And did nine years in Nevada Dept. of Corrections for a strong arm theft in a Las Vegas hotel room… of his own memorabilia!

Pretty pathetic dude.

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:52:03pm

re: #59 A Cranky One

An United States Burger from World’s Burger Experts

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:53:28pm

re: #59 A Cranky One

That’s ANGUS!

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teleskiguy  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:54:23pm

re: #56 darthstar

Something about fucking? Yeah.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:54:59pm

re: #59 A Cranky One

Cartman Has Ass Burgers - SOUTH PARK

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:55:24pm

re: #62 Captain Ron

Could have sworn it was calamari.

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JC1  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:00:31pm

re: #37 silverdolphin

Trump on track for $1 billion stock bonus — while outside investors lose up to 50%

Yep, he is going to get even more shares for free he gets to add to his haul. He has $70 million shares and is likely to get another $36 million as a bonus.

WHat a scammer.

Extra 36 million shares won’t matter if the stock is trading for pennies by the time he can cash out.

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Dangerman  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:14:10pm

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:18:14pm

re: #66 JC1

Extra 36 million shares won’t matter if the stock is trading for pennies by the time he can cash out.

In a just world anyone owning that big a share of a company should responsible for paying its debts.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:20:15pm

2024: The General’s Paws

I was doing some yard work out front ahead of the storm.
Dude I met like 6 months ago walks by, and says “How is State Farm”?
Me: State Farm?
Dude: yeah your cat
Me The General?
Dude: I knew it was named after an insurance company 😑

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teleskiguy  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:29:12pm

Deep Blue Day (Remastered 2005)

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silverdolphin  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:35:15pm

The Intercept Is Running Out of Money

Once Greenwald resigned I figured it was only a matter of time.

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mmmirele  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:42:01pm

re: #4 Charles

Honestly never imagined I’d see a worse president than Richard Nixon.

I was just a sweet summer child then.

Man, after Trump, I seriously have mixed emotions about Nixon. He’s no longer the worst president of my lifetime, and he actually did a few good things (Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act.) Of course, Vietnam and Watergate are always going to hang over him.

But, man, everything Trump touches dies.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:45:54pm

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mmmirele  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:47:19pm

re: #7 Ace Rothstein

Nixon on tape ordering his soldiers to break into the Brookings Institution to blow up the safe and steal its contents (pentagon papers I think) is some pretty serious shit.

Also, Nixon and G. Gordon Liddy completely FUCKED UP when they burgled Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. I mean, they had Ellsberg dead to rights, because arguing that he had the right to take those papers and leak them was always going to be dicey. But these guys wanted to be SURE they took down Ellsberg, and completely forgot that gee, evidence gathered via an illegal break-in is probably not admissible in court. (Both Nixon and Liddy were lawyers and should have known this.) Nixon’s overwhelming overreach in the service of his paranoia was his downfall.

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mmmirele  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:50:03pm

re: #11 Joe Bacon ✅

I was a freshman at Pitt during the summer trimester when Nixon resigned. Almost the whole campus had a party to celebrate…except the Campus Crusade For Christ, Young Republicans and Young Americans For FreeDUMB.

My parents were separated that summer (and three weeks later my mother would attempt to unalive herself). I remember sitting in my dad’s Impala in front of a clothing store, listening to confirm that bastard was actually gonna resign. My father thought I was crazy, but I was *invested*.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:54:05pm

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:55:02pm

re: #57 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Population: 2. One man and his pecker.

Is his name Woody?

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:55:05pm

re: #59 A Cranky One

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:58:39pm

re: #78 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

😂 Dying!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:02:04pm

The rapidity of disinformation coming out on social media these days is quite impressive… in the most depressing way.

The nuttery on YouTube is quite evident too. From the looney religious types to the professional disinformation machines (e.g. Heartland), the noise level is quite high.

I am convinced, quite convinced, that the noise level is so high that we as a society are unable to address the important long-term issues.

You might find a singular issue, abortion, which can drive a near-term political flip in this country.

But the long-term issues: no way.

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William Lewis  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:11:00pm

re: #4 Charles

Honestly never imagined I’d see a worse president than Richard Nixon.

I was just a sweet summer child then.

After Dubya, Nixon was never going to be the worst of my lifetime. He had the Clean Water Act. Dubya had the Forever War & Darth Cheney.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:21:37pm

re: #81 William Lewis

After Dubya, Nixon was never going to be the worst of my lifetime. He had the Clean Water Act. Dubya had the Forever War & Darth Cheney.

Dubya did give us PEPFAR to combat AIDs outside the United States and Medicare Part D. Both valuable programs.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:26:02pm

Jack Smith had to smack down Trump yet again today…

‘That must stop’: Jack Smith torches Trump’s ‘plainly wrong’ bid to delay docs deadlines

Special Counsel Jack Smith Sunday smacked down Donald Trump’s effort to ask Judge Cannon to delay certain deadlines in his classified documents case, citing the criminal hush money trial he is facing.

One day earlier, Trump moved to use his upcoming criminal case in New York to seek a delay on disclosure deadlines to reveal information to Smith. In Trump’s hush money trial set for Monday, the former president stands accused of falsifying business records to conceal a “catch-and-kill” scheme aimed at influencing the 2016 presidential election.

Smith’s response to Trump’s delay bid came the next day.

“This Court set the May 9 deadline fully apprised of defendant Trump’s New York trial. Although the defendants’ motion reads as though the Court were unaware of Trump’s other case, and as if the defendants had no forewarning that a Section 5 deadline would be set, those premises are plainly wrong,” Smith’s motion states. “The defendants have had ample notice that these deadlines would be scheduled and have already had months to complete the work. The cases the defendants cite to claim a constitutional right to postponement are inapposite for these reasons and others.”

Smith goes on to suggest that Trump’s pattern of delay “must stop.”

“Each time the Court sets a new deadline in this case and attempts to keep it moving toward trial, the defendants reflexively ask for an adjournment. That must stop,” the brief says. “The Court should deny defendants’ motions to continue the May 9 expert witness disclosure and CIPA Section 5 notice deadlines.”

National security attorney Bradley Moss used a fire emoji in describing the reply.

“Smith’s team snaps back at Trump for trying to indefinitely postpone the [Mar-a-Lago] docs proceeding, saying that Trump has had months to prepare for the pending CIPA deadline, he has local counsel who can sub in while his primary lawyers are busy in the NYC trial, and basically begs Judge Cannon to put an end to Trump’s delay tactics,” he wrote.

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:27:08pm

It’s sort of been lost in all the anticipation over tomorrow’s start of Trump’s first criminal trial, but don’t forget that Tia James also has a hearing set for tomorrow to decide whether or not his sketchy AF bond in the fraud case will be accepted.

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:29:33pm
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Belafon  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:38:16pm

re: #85 Captain Ron

The males me think of the Smallpox ER episode.

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:41:43pm
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JC1  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:47:50pm

re: #82 Hecuba’s daughter

Dubya did give us PEPFAR to combat AIDs outside the United States and Medicare Part D. Both valuable programs.

And he gave us Roberts and Alito…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:49:20pm

re: #82 Hecuba’s daughter

Dubya did give us PEPFAR to combat AIDs outside the United States and Medicare Part D. Both valuable programs.

Just a friendly reminder that Dumbya put Medicare D on the credit card and he made sure that Medicare is not allowed to bargain with pharmaceutical companies for lower prices—UNLIKE THE VA WHICH CAN DO THAT!

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:07:52pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:12:00pm

re: #90 DodgerFan1988

A Friendly Reminder that Hinkle is a full blown Putinista—AND of course the Screw York Times gladly gives him prominence in their corporate propaganda rag. Nevermind that Hinkle has been kicked off YouTube, Twitch and Instagram….

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:14:40pm
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piratedan  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:17:30pm

re: #90 DodgerFan1988

anything to prevent any in depth reporting on how the people of Israel are being held hostage to the war by its leaders. Very few folks are asking for them to forget the event of October, but its increasingly evident that the war has been changing from one of national security to revenge. No nuance offered by all of the parties involved that explain why the main parties are not inclined to seek peace as each believes that there is still an advantage to be gained that has very little to do with the people of Gaza or those in Israel who were attacked and taken hostage.

This is complicated and the NYT is more concerned with extolling opinionated bomb throwers who have no skin in the game than they are in adding any kind of clarity for those that are seeking it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:30:08pm

re: #93 piratedan

This is complicated and the NYT is more concerned with extolling opinionated bomb throwers who have no skin in the game than they are in adding any kind of clarity for those that are seeking it.

We know why the Screw York Times is doing that because they never miss an opportunity to stick a shiv in Biden.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:37:42pm

We are living in a kind of disinformation dystopia and it is completely of our making.

By “our” I mean the whole world, but if we focus on the US:

1) Our elected officials too often are not held accountable for their own cozying up to the information brokers.
2) Americans are too bored with life now and fill our time with silly made-for-TV dramas.
3) Americans pay money to information brokers to be entertained first and foremost. Education is hard and not loved. E.g., see what happened to so many early cable TV channels like The History Channel that discovered that Americans wanted religion and escapist conspiracies over real history.
4) Education threatens religious institutions and the loss-of-god problem has overridden the desire to discern facts from fantasies.

There is an infestation of magical thinking that is not going away.

And we are beginning to pay the price for it.

I am not one to hawk collapse-real-soon. I do not believe that is how societies like ours work.

Instead we unravel over decades, maybe a century or two.

We just become increasingly incompetent to address the problems before us.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 14, 2024 • 11:21:12pm

re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

To expand: I am not waxing nostalgic over some golden age of American journalism.

Uncle Walter was as much fiction as anything. Cronkite may have been a cut above today’s TV news casters, but the 1960’s and 1970’s were full of disinformation also.

And magical thinking.

Magical thinking is part of being Homo sapiens.

I am convinced that it is part of our evolution, and likely arose with us over 300kya.

But like anything we invent, we discover ways to use our inventions for bad as much as good.

And telecommunications falls right in line with that human trait.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 14, 2024 • 11:39:59pm

re: #31 The Ghost of a Flea

‘Battlefield preemption.’

Is that something like ‘pre-crime’?

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 14, 2024 • 11:54:59pm

re: #85 Captain Ron

?

Unless the virus leaks out of a lab there’s no sources of the virus. It is the only human disease we have managed to eradicate.

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Captain Ron  Apr 15, 2024 • 12:01:23am

re: #98 Romantic Heretic

?

Unless the virus leaks out of a lab there’s no sources of the virus. It is the only human disease we have managed to eradicate.

A dead body dug up from a permafrost area might yield some smallpox virus.

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silverdolphin  Apr 15, 2024 • 12:06:47am

re: #98 Romantic Heretic

?

Unless the virus leaks out of a lab there’s no sources of the virus. It is the only human disease we have managed to eradicate.

I think the real worry is that some state terror group takes the harmless vacinia virus and modifies it into small pox, since the small pox DNA sequence is known. I think it would not be likely as both viruses are large and have close to 200 genes. But who really knows.

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William Lewis  Apr 15, 2024 • 12:26:53am

re: #98 Romantic Heretic

?

Unless the virus leaks out of a lab there’s no sources of the virus. It is the only human disease we have managed to eradicate.

An archeological dig gone wrong could be a very bad thing.

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silverdolphin  Apr 15, 2024 • 12:56:33am

re: #96 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

To expand: I am not waxing nostalgic over some golden age of American journalism.

Uncle Walter was as much fiction as anything. Cronkite may have been a cut above today’s TV news casters, but the 1960’s and 1970’s were full of disinformation also.

And magical thinking.

Magical thinking is part of being Homo sapiens.

I am convinced that it is part of our evolution, and likely arose with us over 300kya.

But like anything we invent, we discover ways to use our inventions for bad as much as good.

And telecommunications falls right in line with that human trait.

TL:DR You are right about humans having evolved the need for useful metaphors to explain a complex world and the cultural environment we live in. As we are creating new rules of thumb to deal with a more complex cultural environment we now inhabit, we are having to break old ones that no longer provide a selective advantage. This scares many people, who fall back on old metaphors that used to work, for comfort. But as the selective advantages of the new metaphors become apparent, newer and stronger communties arise will arise, using better metaphors and stability will be restored. Conflict will lessen. Until next time.

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We seem to have evolved a very specific way to create large, complex groups, to deal with the complex and changing cultural environment we inhabit. Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations displays this as a bell curve. A functioning community has early adopters, innovators, the early and late middle. and laggards. Many innovations and changes have been shown to follow this normal curve as they flow through a community.

So what happens when the flow of change is greater than the community is organized to deal with? Data suggests that the rate of change follows a decaying exponential with a half life of 33 years. 150 years ago, there might be only a small amount of change in a person;s lifetime. Now we see that level of change in less than a decade. At current rates, that will be down to 5 years by 2040.

Dealing with those rates of innovative change is what is driving our need to reorganize ourselves.

Most people just want to keep doing what has worked in the past. Change brings risks that may end up in death. They think quickly based on rules of thumb and metaphors. They seldom think deeply about many things. It takes too much energy. They rely on early adopters and innovators, who can more easily think deeply and reason with facts, not metaphors, to filter out the useful change from change that breaks things.

This works well when the cultural environment is stable and we have developed the necessary new metaphors for the majority. But we are now adjusting to a new cultural environment, one driven by IT and its huge information glut, with change happning several times in a lifetime, not just once. The old metaphors no longer provide a selective advantage but we have not yet simplified the new complexities into simple rules of thumb the majority can deal with. Things begin to seem chaotic to most people.

So a lot of people are afraid and fall back into earlier metaphors and magical thinking that used to provide comfort. But, I believe that will pass as we are finally seeing strong communities that are developing better metaphors for the complex world we see today and finding real success.

DIE is an example where those groups using it generally make better decisions today than those that denigrate it. They are showing a better response to rapid change than those that do not. I think this will soldify as a useful metaphor to help communities succeed in the world IT is creating.

I feel comfortable that we will make it through this, that the new metaphors we are working out will stabilize and we can see less chaos. CHaos will diminish and we all will mainly start working better together. At least for a little while until the problems with this new model arise, more disruption occurs and we have to adapt again.

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silverdolphin  Apr 15, 2024 • 1:10:34am

re: #99 Captain Ron

A dead body dug up from a permafrost area might yield some smallpox virus.

Researchers have actually tried tha, from known smallpox victims buried in Alaska and Siberia. No virus was extracted. Variola is apparently not very stable. It is large enough that freezing will likely introduce introduce DNA strand breaks that destroy the integrity of the virus.

More likely is finding some vials in an old store room. This has actually happened.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2024 • 1:18:01am

Today’s the day; jury selection begins in the first criminal trial of a former US President ever! Expect Trump’s team to file another motion or three seeking a continuance, which the judge will swat away.

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IngisKahn  Apr 15, 2024 • 1:33:50am

re: #59 A Cranky One

Having just learned to read Arabic, I can confirm the name.

انس برگر

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William Lewis  Apr 15, 2024 • 2:12:00am

The other thing tomorrow is the sentencing of the armorer from the shooting death on the set of the “Rust” filming. Which is good so far as it goes but Baldwin needs to be convicted and imprisoned for his negligence too.

Er today - still feels like tomorrow when you work all night and it’s still dark out 🤣

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 2:34:13am

Monday, really?
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 15, 2024 • 2:53:16am

Happy Tax Day!

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Decatur Deb  Apr 15, 2024 • 3:03:51am

Alabama SoS has doubled down on his refusal to list a provisional Dem presidential candidate.

“Once again, Alabama is going to pull down its political pants and moon the nation,” said Alabama political historian Wayne Flynt, a professor emeritus at Auburn University. “There really never has been anything beautiful about the performance. Just a bunch of drunk fraternity boys mooning sorority houses.”

For those who think AL Republicans will magnanimously fix this, a bit of history: Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson never appeared on Alabama ballots.
al.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 3:16:04am

re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅

Is Speaker Jesusbot really that dumb?

Mike Johnson embarrassed on Fox News by suggesting he doesn’t know noncitizens can’t vote

It is like banning Critical Race Theory from schools although it was never even taught there.

That was just a foot in the door in order to ban anything that is critical of American Racial History.

Just like this non-Citizen Voting Bill is a foot in the door to ban anyone who looks like they might not be a citizen from voting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 3:17:56am

re: #28 The Ghost of a Flea

‘Correct a black mark in US history’: former prisoners of Abu Ghraib get day in court

Black Marks Matter

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 3:19:25am

re: #39 Joe Bacon ✅

I was just thinking about my mom’s city chicken recently.

Problem was, at the time, I hated meat in almost any form that could not be concealed. I would eat bacon samdwiches (because you could hide it in the bread) and one particular kind of hamburgers from The Lure drive-in (because they were likewise so thin that yxou could hide them in the bun)

I was wondering if I would like them nowadays.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 3:25:43am

re: #81 William Lewis

After Dubya, Nixon was never going to be the worst of my lifetime. He had the Clean Water Act. Dubya had the Forever War & Darth Cheney.

Dubya did support comprehensive and humane immigration reform, but his own party blocked him on that.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 3:37:19am

re: #83 Joe Bacon ✅

Jack Smith had to smack down Trump yet again today…

‘That must stop’: Jack Smith torches Trump’s ‘plainly wrong’ bid to delay docs deadlines

Special Counsel Jack Smith Sunday smacked down Donald Trump’s effort to ask Judge Cannon to delay certain deadlines in his classified documents case, citing the criminal hush money trial he is facing.

One day earlier, Trump moved to use his upcoming criminal case in New York to seek a delay on disclosure deadlines to reveal information to Smith. In Trump’s hush money trial set for Monday, the former president stands accused of falsifying business records to conceal a “catch-and-kill” scheme aimed at influencing the 2016 presidential election.

Smith’s response to Trump’s delay bid came the next day.

“This Court set the May 9 deadline fully apprised of defendant Trump’s New York trial. Although the defendants’ motion reads as though the Court were unaware of Trump’s other case, and as if the defendants had no forewarning that a Section 5 deadline would be set, those premises are plainly wrong,” Smith’s motion states. “The defendants have had ample notice that these deadlines would be scheduled and have already had months to complete the work. The cases the defendants cite to claim a constitutional right to postponement are inapposite for these reasons and others.”

Smith goes on to suggest that Trump’s pattern of delay “must stop.”

“Each time the Court sets a new deadline in this case and attempts to keep it moving toward trial, the defendants reflexively ask for an adjournment. That must stop,” the brief says. “The Court should deny defendants’ motions to continue the May 9 expert witness disclosure and CIPA Section 5 notice deadlines.”

National security attorney Bradley Moss used a fire emoji in describing the reply.

“Smith’s team snaps back at Trump for trying to indefinitely postpone the [Mar-a-Lago] docs proceeding, saying that Trump has had months to prepare for the pending CIPA deadline, he has local counsel who can sub in while his primary lawyers are busy in the NYC trial, and basically begs Judge Cannon to put an end to Trump’s delay tactics,” he wrote.

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As if tfg himself is “preparing” all these cases singlehandedly and not separate teams of lawyers

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 15, 2024 • 3:39:52am

Some Mondaze drive time music, where did the weekend go?

Knox - Not The 1975 (Official Visualizer)

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 3:43:55am

re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We are living in a kind of disinformation dystopia and it is completely of our making.

By “our” I mean the whole world, but if we focus on the US:

1) Our elected officials too often are not held accountable for their own cozying up to the information brokers.
2) Americans are too bored with life now and fill our time with silly made-for-TV dramas.
3) Americans pay money to information brokers to be entertained first and foremost. Education is hard and not loved. E.g., see what happened to so many early cable TV channels like The History Channel that discovered that Americans wanted religion and escapist conspiracies over real history.
4) Education threatens religious institutions and the loss-of-god problem has overridden the desire to discern facts from fantasies.

There is an infestation of magical thinking that is not going away.

And we are beginning to pay the price for it.

I am not one to hawk collapse-real-soon. I do not believe that is how societies like ours work.

Instead we unravel over decades, maybe a century or two.

We just become increasingly incompetent to address the problems before us.

It seems like there is not cost,no penalty,no consequence for brazen outright lying.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 3:51:56am

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sagehen  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:17:13am

re: #116 Dangerman

It seems like there is not cost,no penalty,no consequence for brazen outright lying.

Unless you’re Rudy Giuliani or Alex Jones.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:23:22am

re: #118 sagehen

Unless you’re Rudy Giuliani or Alex Jones.

Neither of them have missed a meal.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:27:35am

re: #116 Dangerman

We are living in a kind of disinformation dystopia and it is completely of our making.

And by the time of the 2028 election cycle, AI will be so advanced that it will be nearly impossible to tell real footage from Deep Fake and America will split off into a series of parallel realities, each determined by ideology and preconceived notions of what is “real”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:28:09am

re: #119 Decatur Deb

Neither of them have missed a meal.

Unless they were passed out after aperitifs

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:31:12am

re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And by the time of the 2028 election cycle, AI will be so advanced that it will be nearly impossible to tell real footage from Deep Fake and America will split off into a series of parallel realities, each determined by ideology and preconceived notions of what is “real”.

You keep pushing this narrative, but speaking as a computer scientist and someone who understands the inner workings of AI, that’s not happening. There are fundamental limits to how neural networks operate that will always introduce anomalies. A deepfake AI machine is only as good as its training set, and there are very few people for whom a broad enough data set exists to attain anything resembling a perfect copy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:34:24am

re: #122 Nerdy Fish

You keep pushing this narrative, but speaking as a computer scientist and someone who understands the inner workings of AI, that’s not happening. There are fundamental limits to how neural networks operate that will always introduce anomalies. A deepfake AI machine is only as good as its training set, and there are very few people for whom a broad enough data set exists to attain anything resembling a perfect copy.

I hope that is the case, but it does not take too much to get MAGAs to believe what they want to see.

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William Lewis  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:42:55am

re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I hope that is the case, but it does not take too much to get MAGAs to believe what they want to see.

That already exists with the narratives spun on Faux. No need for AI to get the MAGAts in a tizzyfit.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:43:20am

re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I hope that is the case, but it does not take too much to get MAGAs to believe what they want to see.

I don’t want to elaborate too much on this publicly because I don’t want a repeat of yesterday’s conversation, but I will say that I agree with your latter point. However, I don’t think deepfakes or AI are needed for any of that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:46:28am

re: #125 Nerdy Fish

I still recall MAGAts being presented with unaltered photos of the Inaugural Day crowds in 2017 and still shamelessly insisting that they were larger for DJT than for Obama.

That was when Kellyanne Conway coined her famous term “alternative facts” and reminded us “Don’t listen to his words but listen to what is in his heart.”

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:46:51am

re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I still recall them being presented with unaltered photos of the Inaugural Day crowds in 2017 and still shamelessly insisting that they were larger for DJT than for Obama.

That was when Kellyanne Conway coined her famous phrase “alternative facts” and reminded us “Don’t listen to his words but listen to what is in his heart.”

Precisely my point.

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steve_davis  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:52:02am

re: #9 A Three Hour Tour

Nixon announced his resignation two nights before my eighth birthday. I literally was a sweet summer child then.

yeah, I would have been 8, I think. I’ve got a weird late birthday that always makes it difficult for me to calculate quickly, or early in the morning when I’m still trying to do stuff like dump the coffee I just ground into the sink.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:56:03am

last extension went out friday
got approved yesterday

10 extended returns. 6 are virtually finished.

it’s over

YouTube

so I’m goin’

YouTube

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steve_davis  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:56:05am

re: #17 BeenHereAwhile

Thanks for the tip - haven’t found reason to use iCloud yet. Then again not using iCloud on this handheld could be the cause of my bluetooth issue.
Ain’t computers fun.

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ah! this would explain why I had to sign back in to Itunes. I’m guessing someone figured out quickly the bug, and then just directed the update to sign people out of everything before getting all services back later.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 4:57:23am

re: #119 Decatur Deb

Neither of them have missed a meal.

or even owned up to what they did

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 5:04:29am

stupid recalcitrant Achilles’s tendon must be healing somewhat

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lawhawk  Apr 15, 2024 • 5:16:31am

re: #20 Patricia Kayden

Misses the 1973 consent decree with the federal DOJ over housing discrimination.

Also misses a later consent decree over not having a reasonable accommodation for animals at Trump Village.

Trump has engaged in over 4000 lawsuits over the years. That’s a crazy number considering that most businesses are lawsuit adverse and try to do enough to avoid getting into lawsuits. Trump seems to relish screwing his opponents by making them spend money on going to court to enforce contracts and the like.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 15, 2024 • 5:34:59am

re: #132 Dangerman

stupid recalcitrant Achilles’s tendon must be healing somewhat

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I’ll trade you a pinched Rotary Nerve. Morning Lizards

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 5:37:27am

re: #133 lawhawk

Trump seems to relish screwing his opponents by making them spend money on going to court to enforce contracts and the like.

Or declaring bankruptcy and walking away paying pennies on the dollar.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 5:38:17am

re: #134 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I’ll trade you a pinched Rotary Nerve. Morning Lizards

would it impact my running?

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sagehen  Apr 15, 2024 • 5:44:06am

re: #129 Dangerman

last extension went out friday
got approved yesterday

10 extended returns. 6 are virtually finished.

it’s over

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Video

10 years, or 10 different people and/orr corporate entities?

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Randall Gross  Apr 15, 2024 • 5:54:57am

This am I am skimming youtube for new music, but I did not find much I wanted to hear. I did come across this trailer for a new MAX series

The Sympathizer | Official Trailer | Max

Robert Downey Jr. & Sandra Oh? I”m sold.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 5:58:19am

re: #137 sagehen

10 years, or 10 different people and/orr corporate entities?

9 1040s and one 1041

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coin operated  Apr 15, 2024 • 5:59:22am

re: #121 sizzzzlerz

I’m running 174.1 on both my iphone 14 and ipad. The iphone upgrade went off without a hitch and I have seen no issues in performance, battery life, or any feature I’ve used. The ipad, however, did have a painful upgrade experience. After it was complete, many of my apps stopped working. I’d launch them and they’d die immediately. Browsing the intertubes, I found a site suggesting the problem was with iCloud and that you should logout and then log back in. This worked for me. No idea why. The sites I looked at all indicated that the problem occurred with the iphone as well. Just not for me.

Unfortunately, there are a few apps that still don’t launch after this workaround. They broke my favorite time-wasting app, Civ6, and the developer has no idea when a fix will be available.

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lawhawk  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:09:47am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area - Today is Trump criminal trial day 1. Voir dire of the jury pool begins, despite Trump’s incessant and frivolous attempts to try and delay the case by any means necessary. I suppose he could try to claim he’s sick or that he’s firing his attorneys but those will not help him either, as Judge Merchan can refuse to allow counsel to withdraw (you have to make a motion to withdraw, provide reasons, etc.), and it’s used as a delaying tactic by defendants who want to stop trials - but usually doesn’t work because judges see this for what it is.

Reminder: Trump doesn’t have to put on a case here. He simply can have his lawyers claim that the prosecutors didn’t meet the burden of proof - that is the requirement - beyond a reasonable doubt.

Now, we all know that the evidence here is overwhelming of Trump’s malfeasance and wrongdoing. Cohen went to jail for his role in the crime (and other tax fraud related crimes separate from Trump). It’s not going to end well for Trump, and the jury pool is sufficiently diverse to allow for the trial to move ahead.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:10:20am

He’s there…

Mastodon

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mmmirele  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:14:00am

A rant about Melon Husk’s implementation of AI at the hellish birdsite, based on that implementation getting basic sumo facts wrong.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:16:34am

Jury selection behind closed doors. Not exactly sure what MSNBC’s all star line up is expecting to talk about all day.

If the media wanted to do their job right, they’d just ‘report’ that jury selection is under way then talk about other important news…like Ukraine.

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Targetpractice  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:17:50am

Happy Trump Criminal Trial Start Day to all who observe!

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:18:33am

Maybe you can rest just a bit easier

What Will Happen If Trump Loses in 2024?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:24:46am

re: #146 Dangerman

Al Schmidt was one of those few R’s who was called out by DT for being a RINO.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:25:17am

re: #146 Dangerman

Maybe you can rest just a bit easier

What Will Happen If Trump Loses in 2024?

And his criminal trials will all be held and moved to page A-5.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:30:16am

premarket

what a shame
and on his first day of his first criminal trial

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:31:06am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:32:09am

Can you believe it?
They’re treating me like a common criminal

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:32:20am

re: #149 Dangerman

Indeed…bouncing on 29 right now. So the trial isn’t improving his numbers.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:36:39am

Los Angeles Times: Trump’s trial is about more than sex and money. It’s about what presidents “can get away with.”

Note to LATimes: he wasn’t the effing president yet

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:37:50am

re: #151 Dangerman

Gee. Are these RSBN people afraid of spelling out Pennsylvania’s name?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:39:34am

re: #151 Dangerman

Can you believe it?
They’re treating me like a common criminal

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Trump can be sworn in and testify just like any other criminal defendant, and he has said he will (he won’t).

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:41:42am

For those still using Xitter, @Klasfeldreports will be covering the trial. NY law prohibits audio and video recording of trial proceedings.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:43:16am

re: #69 So Cal Greek Hippie

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I was doing some yard work out front ahead of the storm.
Dude I met like 6 months ago walks by, and says “How is State Farm”?
Me: State Farm?
Dude: yeah your cat
Me The General?
Dude: I knew it was named after an insurance company 😑

But is he Progressive?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:43:45am

re: #156 No Malarkey!

For those still using Xitter, @Klasfeldreports will be covering the trial. NY law prohibits audio and video recording of trial proceedings.

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Clicking on the link won’t work because apparently it’s now set up for Bluesky and that is Adam Klasfeld’s Xitter handle.

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lawhawk  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:44:22am

Inner City Press’ Russell Lee is also posting on Xt

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JC1  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:46:13am

re: #152 darthstar

Indeed…bouncing on 29 right now. So the trial isn’t improving his numbers.

They filed to issue more shares.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:46:42am

re: #159 lawhawk

Laffy follows those X accounts and reposts them on Mastodon. Works for me.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:47:16am

re: #160 JC1

They filed to issue more shares.

They did? LOL. Dilute the pool.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:48:26am

re: #162 darthstar

They did? LOL. Dilute the pool.

May it never stick its head above $30 again.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:49:34am

re: #162 darthstar

They did? LOL. Dilute the pool.

As long as the marks keep buying shares, I imagine they will keep issuing them.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:51:03am

re: #164 No Malarkey!

As long as the marks keep buying shares, I imagine they will keep issuing them.

I love the people who are like, “I keep buying shares, why does the price keep going down?” Well, for one, they keep issuing shares because literally 99% of them are shorted. For another, the stock isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, and everybody except the rubes recognizes that.

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lawhawk  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:52:54am

re: #162 darthstar

They did? LOL. Dilute the pool.

Yeah, they’d get more shares issued if the share price can get above $30, but that’s not likely to happen, and will also be subject to the ongoing suit/countersuit by Trump and the guys who brought this to market.

Corrected below by article that puts the price at $17.50, not $30 (IIRC was off).

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jeffreyw  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:55:09am

Good morning!

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dat_said  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:56:56am

Went on my typical suburban morning walk and saw a bald eagle, a turkey, swans, a couple of common loons, Canada geese, mallards, wood ducks, hooded mergansers, pied-billed grebes, great blue heron, deer, muskrat, gray squirrels, red squirrels, eastern chipmunks, and more. It seems spring has started.

Any news that I missed?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:58:43am

re: #168 dat_said

On my way to church yesterday, I saw a flock of wild turkeys, including one very bold tom who stood in the middle of the road, challenging oncoming cars. Turkeys give zero fucks.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 6:58:48am

Mastodon

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dat_said  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:01:55am

re: #160 JC1

They filed to issue more shares.

Per Forbes:

Moreover, the SEC S4 filings make clear, that if the stock price remains above $17.50 for 20 out of 30 trading days, Mr Trump will receive an additional 36 million “earnout” or bonus shares.

Today is the 20th day since issuance. Just another backdoor sleaze clause designed to enrich just one person.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:03:54am

Meanwhile let’s check in with the latest antics of Pulpit Pimp Mark Driscoll!

A Christian men’s conference that took place late last week took a bizarre turn after preacher (and spiritual abuser) Mark Driscoll accused organizers of effectively putting on an ungodly strip show. He then barged off-stage after being told he was out of line.

The church in question is James River Church in Springfield, Missouri. If that sounds at all familiar, it may be because it’s the place where, last year, a woman claimed (without evidence) that God regrew three of her toes.

That church hosted the “Stronger Men’s Conference” on Thursday and Friday. It’s one of those events where men are taught to be manlier men by listening to male pastors and professional bull riders and boxers and NFL quarterbacks. If that’s how you want to spend your money, then you’ve got problems. But it’s not all that unusual in the world of Christian megachurches.

The entertainment this year included Cirque du Soleil-style acrobat Alex Magala, whose impressive résumé includes multiple stints on the “Got Talent” franchise where he’s an “aerial sword swallower.”

The performance he delivered to the Christian crowd was no less daring. The shirtless Magala swallowed a sword, climbed up a pole, then appeared to drop from it face first only to put on the brakes with his legs at the very last second.

What does that have to do with Jesus? Nothing. But then again, neither do bull riders, BMX bikers, or wrestlers. Yet they are all staples of these kinds of events. The goal is to pump up the crowd for… sermons.

In this case, the problems began when Mark Driscoll took the stage.

The controversial and misogynistic preacher began his speech with a full-throated condemnation of the entertainment—and those who thought it would be a good idea to invite Magala to the festivities.

To recap: Driscoll claimed that the death-defying feat seen earlier was anti-Christian because it involved a strip club-like pole (which was not used for stripping) and a man who removed his shirt (which wasn’t sexual in nature) in order to climb the pole so he could complete his big stunt.

All of this, Driscoll said, was evidence of the “Jezebel spirit” infesting the conference.

Driscoll says ridiculous bullshit all the time. This is merely the latest example of it. The irony is that there’s so much he could criticize about Christian men’s conferences! He could have said the performance was a waste of money! He could have told the audience the Bible already has everything they need to get excited about Jesus. He could have condemned the conference’s other poor decisions, like inviting a guy like him to speak there at all.

Instead, he went with homo-erotic imagery that resembles lady strippers.

friendlyatheist.com

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dat_said  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:04:02am

re: #169 Nerdy Fish

On my way to church yesterday, I saw a flock of wild turkeys, including one very bold tom who stood in the middle of the road, challenging oncoming cars. Turkeys give zero fucks.

Canada geese were around when I first moved here but, unlike Rochester MN, not in the messy overabundance that they are now. Wild turkeys started showing up about 6 or 7 years ago. I fear they will flourish and they are so much meaner, messier, and destructive than the geese.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:06:50am

re: #172 Joe Bacon ✅

The sword swallower probably got him aroused.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:07:31am

re: #171 dat_said

Per Forbes:

Today is the 20th day since issuance. Just another backdoor sleaze clause designed to enrich just one person.

They set that bar so low, it was practically impossible for it to fail. Of course, as soon as the stock issues, it’s going to tank even further.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:08:12am

So I got to ask this!

Where’s his loving faithful wife Melania today?

Why isn’t she at his side like a good Xtian handmaiden?

Hmmm…is she getting down with her…”personal trainer” again?

Inquiring minds want to know!

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:11:43am

re: #172 Joe Bacon ✅

This Megachurch con man merely using an old con man trick Trump perfected long ago-

“Don’t trust your own judgement or values- trust in me, your leader, only.”

The fact that many enjoyed the non-Jesus related performances served only as a weapon for the con man to wield over the megachurch rubes.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:11:52am

Merchan’s going through the recusal motion:

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:13:42am

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:14:26am

re: #178 darthstar

Merchan’s going through the recusal motion:

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I just saw from Bluesky that it was denied.

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Jay C  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:16:16am

re: #154 PhillyPretzel ✅

Gee. Are these RSBN people afraid of spelling out Pennsylvania’s name?

It’s the Right-wing ShitBird Network: their graphics team probably can’t spell it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:19:33am

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:20:11am

This should have been his mug shot.

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:20:34am

Some preliminary date/court housekeeping:

No court on Wednesdays through the trial. There will be no court during Passover (April 22-23 and April 29-30). Trump asked for additional days off - one for Barron’s high school graduation and June 3 for an attorney to attend child’s graduation), but Merchan refused to rule on that saying it will depend on how the trial progresses.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:21:42am

re: #183 darthstar

This should have been his mug shot.

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So he sat in the makeup chair for an extra hour this morning doubling down on the face powder…

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:23:24am

Good morning. A Presidential hush money trial on tax day. That’s an all-timer.

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Jay C  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:24:20am

re: #176 Joe Bacon ✅

So I got to ask this!

Where’s his loving faithful wife Melania today?

Why isn’t she at his side like a good Xtian handmaiden?

Hmmm…is she getting down with her…”personal trainer” again?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Well, if she’s gone downtown with Donald, it’s only a few minutes away to the Slovenian Consulate down in the Financial District; she can check on the progress of her emigration visa….

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dat_said  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:25:33am

ABCNews: The less you vote, the more you back Trump

Polls shift to Biden 50 Trump 39 from Biden 26 Trump 44 if you only include engaged voters (people who have voted in the last three elections). Doing the whole adjusting polls thing is a fools game but this is an interesting breakdown.

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lawhawk  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:26:05am

Merchan denies yet another Trump motion to recuse. Says Trump has not identified a reason for recusal.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:26:57am

re: #186 Rightwingconspirator

Good morning. A Presidential hush money trial on tax day. That’s an all-timer.

The mailperson just picked up my state tax return which I have to file on paper because its too complicated for the online services.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:28:20am

re: #189 lawhawk

Merchan denies yet another Trump motion to recuse. Says Trump has not identified a reason for recusal.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump asks for a stay of the proceedings while he appeals to an appellate court to recuse Merchan.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:30:11am

re: #191 No Malarkey!

I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump asks for a stay of the proceedings while he appeals to an appellate court to recuse Merchan.

He can ask. The appeals court is pretty likely to say, “LOL, how about no. The trial continues, and we’ll rule on your recusal motion shortly.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:31:36am

Sure doing a lot for somone who is “gagged”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:33:11am

There’s a sucker born every second…

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Targetpractice  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:33:56am

re: #189 lawhawk

Merchan denies yet another Trump motion to recuse. Says Trump has not identified a reason for recusal.

“HE’S BEING MEAN TO ME, THAT’S REASON ENOUGH!!!”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:41:38am

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JC1  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:41:39am

re: #188 dat_said

ABCNews: The less you vote, the more you back Trump

Polls shift to Biden 50 Trump 39 from Biden 26 Trump 44 if you only include engaged voters (people who have voted in the last three elections). Doing the whole adjusting polls thing is a fools game but this is an interesting breakdown.

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I tend to pay more attention to likely voters vs registered voters.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:43:54am

Judge Merchan is going to allow a lot of evidence Trump would prefer the jury not hear about: the catch and kill deal with the National Enquirer, planting negative stories about his opponents, and his affair with the Playboy model. The judge did rule that the jury shouldn’t hear that Melania was pregnant with Barron during Trump’s affair.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:46:26am

re: #197 JC1

I tend to pay more attention to likely voters vs registered voters.

That was DJT’s strength in 2016: His voters could be counted to get out to the polls and vote. The GOP discovered that apathy and indifference were the best forms of voter suppression.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:48:00am

re: #198 No Malarkey!

Judge Merchan is going to allow a lot of evidence Trump would prefer the jury not hear about: the catch and kill deal with the National Enquirer, planting negative stories about his opponents, and his affair with the Playboy model. The judge did rule that the jury shouldn’t hear that Melania was pregnant with Barron during Trump’s affair.

from today’s electoral-vote.com

When the trial finally starts, one key witness will be Stormy Daniels. The judge might address her by her legal name, Stephanie Clifford, but it’s still Stormy. She will be asked what happened that fateful day. She is quite articulate and will describe what happened in as much detail as the prosecutors want. Remember that Trump is not accused of having an affair, but of cooking the books to hide it in order to win an election. Still, the prosecutors have to first establish that Trump had something he wanted to hide. Daniels can testify to that.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:54:41am

re: #200 Dangerman

from today’s electoral-vote.com

What was the date of the affair? Summer 2006?
And who’s graduating from high school in June? Barron?

You do the math.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2024 • 7:55:04am

re: #200 Dangerman

from today’s electoral-vote.com

In a small win for Trump, Merchan will not allow the Access Hollywood tape in which he brags about assaulting women to be played to the jury, but they will be allowed to read it since it helps provide a motive for Trump to kill other stories about his illicit sexual activity.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:00:30am

Merchan also disallows evidence of three other acts of sexual misconduct, describing them as “rumors.” He is demonstrating that he is not biased against Trump or in the tank for the prosecution.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:03:27am

re: #203 No Malarkey!

Merchan also disallows evidence of three other acts of sexual misconduct, describing them as “rumors.” He is demonstrating that he is not biased against Trump or in the tank for the prosecution.

And this is what we want, folks. I know he’s not doing this just to prove he’s not biased, but because the evidence being proffered doesn’t meet the criteria to bring value to the case without being unduly prejudicial to the defendant. That reduces avenues of appeal, as there’s no argument he can make to the appeals court that says, “This evidence should’ve been excluded, but the mean judge wouldn’t do it.” The “mean judge” excluded a bunch of state’s evidence because it wasn’t germane.

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Markm1960  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:04:40am

re: #171 dat_said

Per Forbes:

Today is the 20th day since issuance. Just another backdoor sleaze clause designed to enrich just one person.

So the 10k shows $9.8m cc ash on hand at their ye. Suppose Trump wants to sell it all on the day he’s allowed to. The company does not have enough cash on hand to buy back the shares and serious traders know the stock is a scam. How mid Trump going to convert the shares to cash?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:09:06am

re: #205 Markm1960

So the 10k shows $9.8m cc ash on hand at their ye. Suppose Trump wants to sell it all on the day he’s allowed to. The company does not have enough cash on hand to buy back the shares and serious traders know the stock is a scam. How mid Trump going to convert the shares to cash?

Trump has a couple of options. He can try to obtain loans using the shares as collateral. He can also sell shares a little bit at a time, because you’re right, if he tries to dump them all the day he is allowed to do so, the price will collapse.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:11:21am

re: #89 Joe Bacon ✅

Just a friendly reminder that Dumbya put Medicare D on the credit card and he made sure that Medicare is not allowed to bargain with pharmaceutical companies for lower prices—UNLIKE THE VA WHICH CAN DO THAT!

But didn’t he have a Republican House and Senate at the time — so getting any new Medicare benefits was a challenge? Nixon had a Democratic Congress so getting legislation that benefited the nation was relatively easy since they were the ones who made the decisions and pushed them through.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:11:29am

Next week is the hearing in his civil fraud case about the shady-ass deal he cobbled together to allegedly pay his (reduced) bond, right? That’s going to be some fireworks.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:13:46am

re: #205 Markm1960

So the 10k shows $9.8m cc ash on hand at their ye. Suppose Trump wants to sell it all on the day he’s allowed to. The company does not have enough cash on hand to buy back the shares and serious traders know the stock is a scam. How mid Trump going to convert the shares to cash?

he might try to sell
in which case it’ll probably tank first and then settle somewhere people are willing to buy at

or he might try to borrow against it immediately
in which case any sane lender would write down the ‘market value’ for collateral purposes.
tanking through door number 2

(of course no sane lender would touch it)

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:15:12am

re: #205 Markm1960

This is Trump. Never put it past him to have already formalized a contract with either a billionaire accomplice or a foreign government (hostile or not) to buy his shares at an agreed price way above its current price once his trading window is open.

The agreement of course would also imply heavy favoritism towards the entity who provided Trump with newfound $ Billions when he re-takes power in the White House. This is the gamble. These are the stakes we now face. I have no doubt such a contract has already been undertaken, whether legal or not.

Back in 2016 it was said a Trump Presidency would test every Constitutional limit there was. That was proven correct. But the stakes are now higher in 2020 with a vindictive and rapidly aging Trump on a rage of revenge and avarice. The entire world system will be overthrown with a return of empires quickly expanding throughout the globe and a retreating US operating with a lawless Caligula Caesar Trump.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:17:39am

re: #157 Eventual Carrion

No, but he was Allstate in mouse hunting

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:20:44am

re: #107 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Monday, really?
Wordle 1,031 4/6

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Birbie.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 1,031 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Group: 3,3,4,4
In my case, it was the only word I saw given my first 2 words. The other person who got 3 said it was pure luck.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:22:38am

re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter

But didn’t he have a Republican House and Senate at the time — so getting any new Medicare benefits was a challenge? Nixon had a Democratic Congress so getting legislation that benefited the nation was relatively easy since they were the ones who made the decisions and pushed them through.

I don’t justify excuses for the liar who killed my son.

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sagehen  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:22:46am

re: #203 No Malarkey!

Merchan also disallows evidence of three other acts of sexual misconduct, describing them as “rumors.” He is demonstrating that he is not biased against Trump or in the tank for the prosecution.

Is he allowing E Jean’s story? That’s not a rumor, that’s jury-certified.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:25:30am

re: #210 Florida Panhandler

This is Trump. Never put it past him to have already formalized a contract with either a billionaire accomplice or a foreign government (hostile or not) to buy his shares at an agreed price way above its current price once his trading window is open.

The agreement of course would also imply heavy favoritism towards the entity who provided Trump with newfound $ Billions when he re-takes power in the White House. This is the gamble. These are the stakes we now face. I have no doubt such a contract has already been undertaken, whether legal or not.

Back in 2016 it was said a Trump Presidency would test every Constitutional limit there was. That was proven correct. But the stakes are now higher in 2020 with a vindictive and rapidly aging Trump on a rage of revenge and avarice. The entire world system will be overthrown with a return of empires quickly expanding throughout the globe and a retreating US operating with a lawless Caligula Caesar Trump.

re: #209 Dangerman

yeah, silly me for assuming he’d have to play by the rules

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:26:04am

re: #211 So Cal Greek Hippie

No, but he was Allstate in mouse hunting

He’s bad. He’s Nationwide

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sagehen  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:26:16am

re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter

But didn’t he have a Republican House and Senate at the time — so getting any new Medicare benefits was a challenge? Nixon had a Democratic Congress so getting legislation that benefited the nation was relatively easy since they were the ones who made the decisions and pushed them through.

The Dem Congress came up with EPA, but it was Nixon who insisted on a special provision that California, whenever they want, can have stricter standards than the national. (he grew up in Whittier, he remembered that inversion layer).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:28:11am

re: #214 sagehen

Is he allowing E Jean’s story? That’s not a rumor, that’s jury-certified.

I cannot see how they can exclude previous court rullings involving him

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:29:50am

re: #119 Decatur Deb

Neither of them have missed a meal.

Or paid a cent.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:31:09am

Officially back from the South Pacific (I got back last week, but I’ve been catching up on delayed RW stuff and recovering from jet lag),with a birbie.

RjcvWWpHTEFldFhzejJITlhKa09HQW1LWGdQWm5sd2c1eGxYVUlYSWx6UktaWFl5M0FpUjdla3VkdFpNOHNTRm5jd1F3NlZRVk8zOHpnR2lsclRwVCtDWUpQbTdjMEhrRFVob0VPMWtOV1RucER0TU5tbnMyY3U3MWR4MzhCVTI6Oojq+wJhvSw9xVizosVvtMU=

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:32:18am

A view from the other side of the world.

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JC1  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:32:31am

re: #206 No Malarkey!

Trump has a couple of options. He can try to obtain loans using the shares as collateral. He can also sell shares a little bit at a time, because you’re right, if he tries to dump them all the day he is allowed to do so, the price will collapse.

Their best move is probably to issue and sell as many new shares as the market can bare, and then use most of the raised money to issue a dividend. If they raise a billion while diluting shares so that Trump’s stake is down to 50%, he can still pocket 500 million taxable at the preferred rate.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:32:50am

re: #221 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

A view from the other side of the world.

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that is like, the best water

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:32:56am

re: #124 William Lewis

That already exists with the narratives spun on Faux. No need for AI to get the MAGAts in a tizzyfit.

Father Coughlin had a huge following — and he had no visuals or special effects. Lies have been spread and believed for millennia — well before there was even a printing press to help promulgate them. So — really nothing new..

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Decatur Deb  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:34:55am

re: #222 JC1

Their best move is probably to issue and sell as many new shares as the market can bare, and then use most of the raised money to issue a dividend. If they raise a billion while diluting shares so that Trump’s stake is down to 50%, he can still pocket 500 million taxable at the preferred rate.

That’s pretty much the definition of a Ponzi Scheme.

But who’s watching?

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JC1  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:40:33am

re: #225 Decatur Deb

That’s pretty much the definition of a Ponzi Scheme.

But who’s watching?

Classic pump and dump. But that’s all it ever was.
Many MAGAs are losing significant chunks of money on this. I may be overly optimistic, but this should be enough for at least some of them to see Trump for what he really is.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:42:38am

re: #226 JC1

Classic pump and dump. But that’s all it ever was.
Many MAGAs are losing significant chunks of money on this. I may be overly optimistic, but this should be enough for at least some of them to see Trump for what he really is.

Even if it doesn’t make Democrats out of them, perhaps it will at least dampen their enthusiasm to get out and vote for him en masse.

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Jay C  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:46:26am

re: #225 Decatur Deb

That’s pretty much the definition of a Ponzi Scheme.

But who’s watching?

I have a feeling that whoever is really behind the Trump Media scam* has already taken the care to make sure all the legal and regulatory boxes have been properly checked off. It doesn’t make it any less of a scam, shuck and general ripoff, but at least it’s a LEGAL scam, shuck and ripoff….

*Not that Donald isn’t capable of crafting an elaborate scheme like this on his own: but I get the feeling that he’s pretty much just the front guy here: though, as usual, he’s made sure that the use of his name is WELL compensated-for (like via a couple of hundred mil in basically found money).

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Decatur Deb  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:48:41am

re: #228 Jay C

In 6 weeks or so his name might be worth shit. Then he can market his cell number.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:55:23am

re: #216 Dangerman

He’s bad. He’s Nationwide

Trying and failing to make a Prudential joke so a photo as I sign off for the day’s work

Uninsured and does not care
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:56:57am

re: #230 So Cal Greek Hippie

He is a beautiful cat.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 15, 2024 • 8:59:38am

re: #101 William Lewis

That I had not considered.

233
Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:02:26am

after a year he finally figured it out

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BeachDem  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:12:23am

re: #230 So Cal Greek Hippie

Trying and failing to make a Prudential joke so a photo as I sign off for the day’s work

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Uninsured and does not care

Not a very prudential decision on his part.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:15:10am

re: #234 BeachDem

My Jesusbot sister said that Trump was The Rock Of Gibraltar.

I replied he was a lump of lard. A very big lump of lard.

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A Cranky One  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:16:40am

re: #235 Joe Bacon ✅

My Jesusbot sister said that Trump was The Rock Of Gibraltar.

I replied he was a lump of lard. A very big lump of lard.

Praise to the lard!

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:18:02am

I need to find video of this.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:18:55am

re: #230 So Cal Greek Hippie

Trying and failing to make a Prudential joke so a photo as I sign off for the day’s work

[Embedded content]

I’ve got a great insurance joke, but I’m not at Liberty to reveal it.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:19:08am

re: #212 Hecuba’s daughter

Birbie.

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4/6 here

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:20:31am

I saw a Tesla truck in the wild yesterday. Those things are uuuuugly!

The guy driving it was probably checking for cross traffic, but it looked like he was keeping an eye out for accolades. Or tomatoes as projectiles.

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jaunte  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:27:49am

@twshiloh.bsky.social

“Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack.”

A typical day during his presidency.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:27:58am

And Crackhead Mike Loses Yet Again!

rawstory.com

Mike Lindell dealt another loss in Supreme Court ruling

My Pillow founder Mike Lindell suffered another court loss on Monday when the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal related to having his phone seized by the FBI as part of a vote tampering investigation.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:28:36am

Phew! Connections

Click to Reveal

Connections
Puzzle #309
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jaunte  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:28:54am

We’re in the “Executive Time” block, in which he recovers from strenuous posting.

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nines09  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:32:42am

re: #240 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

I saw a Tesla truck in the wild yesterday. Those things are uuuuugly!

The guy driving it was probably checking for cross traffic, but it looked like he was keeping an eye out for accolades. Or tomatoes as projectiles.

He probably bought it to impress people and make new friends.
Like the guy who buys a king cab 4 door extended bed 4 wheel drive pickup that will never see a day of hauling anything but his ass.
And he can’t park it for shit.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:33:21am

He just gets fucking bored out of his mind when he’s not the center of attention.

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:34:29am

re: #244 jaunte

[Embedded content]

We’re in the “Executive Time” block, in which he recovers from strenuous posting.

Note: “Stay awake, fucker! We’re just getting started.”

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:34:51am

re: #246 Eclectic Cyborg

He just gets fucking bored out of his mind when he’s not the center of attention.

But he is, in a way - this trial is all about him and his (criminal) behavior.

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jaunte  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:36:46am

re: #247 darthstar

This boring legal stuff is torture for him, and I’m here for it.

250
jaunte  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:37:50am

The boredom will be pressure on his disorder to get up and talk.

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Teukka  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:37:56am

JFC…

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darthstar  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:37:59am

re: #249 jaunte

This boring legal stuff is torture for him, and I’m here for it.

Trump will be so exhausted by the third round of jurors getting the same questions he’ll order his attorneys to stop objecting to them.

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Teukka  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:38:47am

How long before there is a legitimate accident in an Iranian location which is responded to by an immediate attack on Israel?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:40:59am

re: #246 Eclectic Cyborg

He just gets fucking bored out of his mind when he’s not the center of attention. it’s not all about how great he is, even if it is all about him.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:46:24am

The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field - Live at Coachella 2024

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jeffreyw  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:47:59am

mastodon link

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:48:23am

re: #256 jeffreyw

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mastodon link

*WHACK!*

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:50:11am

re: #251 Teukka

JFC…

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They tell themselves that treachery is patriotism. They’re completely gone.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:51:16am

re: #251 Teukka

JFC…

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Um. A case that ends in a hung jury usually doesn’t just go away, right?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:51:54am

re: #259 Eclectic Cyborg

Um. A case that ends in a hung jury usually doesn’t just go away, right?

anything to undermine or delay the process

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lawhawk  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:52:21am

re: #240 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

I saw a Tesla truck in the wild yesterday. Those things are uuuuugly!

The guy driving it was probably checking for cross traffic, but it looked like he was keeping an eye out for accolades. Or tomatoes as projectiles.

I’ve seen one in the wild here, and fugly doesn’t begin to cover it. I mean there are ugly cars on the road, and ones that were so ugly that they got their own enthusiast groups (El Camino, Ford Pinto, etc.) but this one will show every bit of rust and bad assembly and software glitch, all while the Musk bros think this is the bees knees and excuse all of the problems as just teething problems. Oh, and Tesla announced a 10% layoff.

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:55:32am

re: #238 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve got a great insurance joke, but I’m not at Liberty to reveal it.

the feeling is Mutual

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Dangerman  Apr 15, 2024 • 9:58:39am

oh dear, we’re solid in -17.5% territory

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 15, 2024 • 10:03:50am

re: #243 Eventual Carrion

Phew! Connections

[Embedded content]

Great here

Click to Reveal

Connections
Puzzle #309
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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 15, 2024 • 10:07:06am

re: #241 jaunte

@twshiloh.bsky.social

A typical day during his presidency.

“Sleepy Don” Trump. Too old and too weak. SAD!

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Apr 15, 2024 • 10:39:53am

re: #240 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

I saw a Tesla truck in the wild yesterday. Those things are uuuuugly!

The guy driving it was probably checking for cross traffic, but it looked like he was keeping an eye out for accolades. Or tomatoes as projectiles.

I saw one last week, It came up from behind in the right lane and when I first saw it back there my thought was: “WTF? Someone is catching up to me in that lane driving backwards and pushing a trailer?”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 15, 2024 • 12:35:35pm

alternet.org

Judge tells Trump’s attorney to sit down.


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