Mary Trump, clinical psychologist and niece of Donald Trump, joins Ali Velshi to discuss the latest developments in Trump’s criminal trial, including Judge Merchan warning he will consider “incarceratory punishment” if Trump continues to violate his gag order. “This person will continue to push the envelope for as long as he’s allowed to,” Mary says.
The only way that orange shitgibbon will ever shut the fuck up is when he dies. And even then that might not be enough.
re: #1 Ace Rothstein
Ugh. Zombie Trump. That’s truly a nightmare image.
re: #1 Ace Rothstein
The only way that orange shitgibbon will ever shut the fuck up is when he dies. And even then that might not be enough.
Some asshole will run his social media account after he dies, so that the faithful have something to hang on to.
re: #200 Nerdy Fish
The presidential immunity decision won’t come down from the Supreme Court until July, at which time they will send it back to the district court to determine what, if anything, is covered by their new definition of “presidential.” Trump will then appeal that decision up to SCOTUS again, by which time it’s already November.
The immunity challenge has nothing to do with the Mar a Lago case, since all of those acts happened after Trump was booted from office.
on the currently inflated price of the djt stock and whether it’s some kind of money laundering or money transfer scheme
im still trying to figure out how that could work
So Swiss media is more ethical than US media. Huh. Who knew?
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-05T18:54:40.710Z
re: #1 Ace Rothstein
The only way that orange shitgibbon will ever shut the fuck up is when he dies. And even then that might not be enough.
L Ron Hubbard’s putting out a book this year
Kristi Noem wants to shoot more dogs
Like all conservatives, everything is a zero-sum game. The dog either lives or dies. Adoption or rescue never enters into her equation.
I think the video is downstairs
Here’s the words
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) refused to take responsibility in a CBS News interview for falsely claiming in her new book that she met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Said Noem: “As soon as it was brought to my attention, we went forward and have made some edits. So I’m glad that this book is being released in a couple days and that those edits will be in place.”
She added: “I’m saying that this book is very, very good. And I’ve met with many world leaders and there are world leaders that I’ve met with that are in this book and there are many that I’ve met with that are not in this book. This is an anecdote that I asked to have removed because I believe it’s appropriate at this point in time.”
Wtf is wrong with these people?
And the people who support these people?
re: #8 silverdolphin
Kristi Noem wants to shoot more dogs
Like all conservatives, everything is a zero-sum game. The dog either lives or dies. Adoption or rescue never enters into her equation.
Or training
Let’s face it, she just digs killing dogs.
Trump VP hopeful Kristi Noem suggests Biden’s dog should be put down
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-05T19:11:33.754Z
re: #8 silverdolphin
Kristi Noem wants to shoot more dogs
Like all conservatives, everything is a zero-sum game. The dog either lives or dies. Adoption or rescue never enters into her equation.
The interesting thing about conservative is that not only do they force a binary, but they do so specifically to create of facade of utilitarianism: the thing they did, are doing, are or going to do is the “necessary, and thus smart and moral” thing. All things are power struggles, and there is one way to be powerful and many ways to be weak.
It’s not just an A or B, it’s that one side embodies strength—shooting the dog—and all alternatives are weakness and hesitation and thus are the same thing. Which is why she can turn around and mouth off about Biden’s dog: there is only one way to strong.
re: #9 Dangerman
I think the video is downstairs
Here’s the words
Wtf is wrong with these people?
And the people who support these people?
“This is an anecdote that I asked to have removed because I believe it’s appropriate at this point in time.”
She speaks a language that has no word for “bullshit”.
re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea
The interesting thing about conservative is that not only do they force a binary, but they do so specifically to create of facade of utilitarianism: the thing they did, are doing, are or going to do is the “necessary, and thus smart and moral” thing. All things are power struggles, and there is one way to be powerful and many ways to be weak.
It’s not just an A or B, it’s that one side embodies strength—shooting the dog—and all alternatives are weakness and hesitation. Which is why she can turn around and mouth off about Biden.
Yep, Authoritarians are all about action. She denigrated Biden for letting his dog bite 25 times. Hers just tried to bite her and it was toast.
One thing about making everything binary (with only one strong choice) no matter how complex, is that it makes it easier to take an action or make a decision. Yes or no simplifies things that should actually include a maybe. Then they take the strongest choice given. I win and you lose. No mater how stupid it really is. It is all testosterone. Authoritarians are about taking an action, even if it is stupid. Binary formulations make this easier. Zero-sum is the approach.
The other approach, win-win, used by many liberals does a much better job of dealing with complexity, of making a wise decision but can take some time to take an appropriate action (ie Biden and Gaza) as it searches for the best or wisest one. Authoritarians turn this into a weakness, even as people marvel at the continuing stupid actions they take quickly.
U.S. Put Hold on Ammunition Shipment to Israel
As I mentioned in #14, dealing with a complex situtation realistically can take some time. But it looks like Biden is beginning to exert some pressure that might lead to a solution.
re: #1 Ace Rothstein
The only way that orange shitgibbon will ever shut the fuck up is when he dies. And even then that might not be enough.
When Diaper Man dies you can count on one of those so-called “prophets” constantly posting “messages from Hay-Venn” that they get from that dork!
re: #16 Joe Bacon ✅
When Diaper Man dies you can count on one of those so-called “prophets” constantly posting “messages from Hay-Venn” that they get from that dork!
I can almost guarantee that some of them will be camped out at his grave, waiting for his resurrection. Being that he’s just like Jebus, ‘n all.
re: #19 BeenHereAwhile
Those irises are very pretty.
re: #18 sizzzzlerz
I can almost guarantee that some of them will be camped out at his grave, waiting for his resurrection. Being that he’s just like Jebus, ‘n all.
It’ll be interesting when they meet people who are there to pee.
For those who are wondering if AI is the future of medicine, it just told Dril to chug piss to pass a kidney stone
— Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.bsky.social) 2024-05-05T14:52:03.813Z
re: #9 Dangerman
It’s the kayfabe of ‘conservative’ politics. They worship their ‘faces’, fear and hate their ‘heels’.
They wallow in the emotions generated by this worship and hate; warm, comfortable and untroubled by complexity.
If the Borg come along they’ll line up to be assimilated.
re: #22 goddamnedfrank
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So, does the 2 quarts of urine need to be your own, or can it be from others? I don’t think I can produce that much by myself.
Republican National Lawyers Association
2023 Republican Lawyer of the Year: Honoring Charlie Spies
rnla.org
Top RNC lawyer quits after clashing with Trump.
If you recall from the early Trump days when it was called a well-oiled machine.
This guy was touted as evidence of how professional and serious the new Trump campaign is this year.
Everything Trump Touches Dies
re: #24 sizzzzlerz
So, does the 2 quarts of urine need to be your own, or can it be from others? I don’t think I can produce that much by myself.
Kidney stones are NO fun. Very painful.
So hey, let’s ingest the waste products the body expelled. That should help.
Where is the sweet meteor of death?
re: #18 sizzzzlerz
I can almost guarantee that some of them will be camped out at his grave, waiting for his resurrection. Being that he’s just like Jebus, ‘n all.
They are that stupid.
re: #5 Dangerman
on the currently inflated price of the djt stock and whether it’s some kind of money laundering or money transfer scheme
im still trying to figure out how that could work
a couple of deep-pocket donors just buy lots of the stock from each other, back and forth.
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social
In March the RNC hired three new lawyers. At the time I wrote: “If history is a guide, they will end up ethically and perhaps legally compromised.”
Let’s check in on them.
Christina Bobb - Indicted for election fraud.
Charlie Spies - Forced out by team Trump.
Bill McGinley - ?
re: #15 silverdolphin
U.S. Put Hold on Ammunition Shipment to Israel
As I mentioned in #14, dealing with a complex situtation realistically can take some time. But it looks like Biden is beginning to exert some pressure that might lead to a solution.
“The incident raised serious concerns inside the Israeli government and sent officials scrambling to understand why the shipment was held.”
OOOH PICK ME! I CAN ANSWER THIS ONE!!
LOL
With Jack’s departure, we are searching for a new board member for the Bluesky public benefit company who shares our commitment to building a social network that puts people in control of their experience. More to come!
re: #31 goddamnedfrank
Maybe try someone who hasn’t become a billionaire by doing the opposite.
re: #27 Joe Bacon ✅
The Leader Principle (it sounds better in the original German) means people give all of their trust to one person or sometimes a very small select group. Once they have done that it’s very difficult for them to ever back out from supporting their Leader unconditionally. Reality and clear evidence to the contrary, the Leader is always right and has always been right and will be right forever.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984.
Big Brother, Jim Jones, Stalin, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Hitler, Jesus Christ, their every word was Gospel and not to be contradicted by the believers and any attempt to point out their failings gets the heretic shouted down or sometimes killed. It’s how people are, the Germans standing around in the ruins of Berlin seventy-nine years ago couldn’t understand how they could have failed their Fuhrer. If only they have believed harder somehow, if they had been even more faithful to his vision then everything would have worked out for the best. Such is the thinking that leads to “stab in the back” fantasies (again, it sounds better in the original German).
mark @gnostichippie.bsky.social
I remain slightly bemused by coworkers who are literally unaware of stuff like Texas banning abortion. seems good to know!
Paul Musgrave 🍦 @profmusgrave.bsky.social
Mark aren’t you in … Texas
mark @gnostichippie.bsky.social
It *really* seems like it’d be good to know news like that, right? I feel insane
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
anecdotally it seems like there are many people who do not find out that they for-real, no-kidding banned abortion until they, personally, need to get an abortion or abortion-adjacent-healthcare.
The love affair with Ayn Rand ties conservatism to one of the most disturbing killers
There’s a direct link between a sociopathic killer in 1927 and the GOP’s willingness to embrace a sociopathic president like Trump. That link runs through the work of Ayn Rand.
Instead, the man who so inspired Ayn Rand’s fictional heroes was a real sociopath named William Edward Hickman, who lived in Los Angeles.
Ten days before Christmas, in 1927, Hickman, a teenager with slicked dark hair and tiny, muted eyes, drove up to Mount Vernon Junior High School in Los Angeles, California, and kidnapped Marion Parker—the daughter of a wealthy banker in town.
Hickman held the girl ransom, demanding $1,500 from her father—back then about a year’s salary. Supremely confident that he would elude capture, Hickman signed his name on the ransom notes, “The Fox.”
The Pittsburgh Press detailed what Hickman, in his own words, did next.
“It was while I was fixing the blindfold that the urge to murder came upon me,” he said. “I just couldn’t help myself. I got a towel and stepped up behind Marion. Then, before she could move, I put it around her neck and twisted it tightly.”
Hickman didn’t hold back on any of these details: he was proud of his cold-bloodedness.
To nearly everyone, Hickman was a monster. The year of the murder, the Los Angeles Times called it “the most horrible crime of the 1920s.” Hickman was America’s most despicable villain at the time.
But to a young Russian idealist just arriving in America, Hickman was a hero.
Now, Ayn Rand’s philosophy is a central tenet of today’s Republican Party and the moral code proudly cited and followed by high-profile billionaires and the president of the United States.
Ironically, when she was finally beginning to be taken seriously, Ayn Rand became ill with lung cancer, and went on Social Security and Medicare to make it through her last days. She died a “looter” in 1982, unaware that her sociopathic worldview would one day validate an entire political party’s embrace of a sociopathic narcissist president.
re: #9 Dangerman
I think the video is downstairs
Here’s the words
Wtf is wrong with these people?
And the people who support these people?
Said Noem: “As soon as it was brought to my attention, we went forward and have made some edits. So I’m glad that this book is being released in a couple days and that those edits will be in place.”
IOW, “I got caught out trying to publish a lie, so we’re going to yank it from the book”
It’s actually moderately impressive, for a an official GOP BS tract: I would have thought they would have had Kristi’s screed already printed and ready to distribute to the pulping mill Wingnut Book Club Circuit. Normally, I would have expected Noem’s idiot claim abut meeting Kim to just get in the book: and have her just bullshit about it afterwards….
re: #3 Nerdy Fish
Some asshole will run his social media account after he dies, so that the faithful have something to hang on to.
He will appoint a Medium to transmit messages from him in his name from Beyond the Grave.
re: #40 Jay C
IOW, “I got caught out trying to publish a lie, so we’re going to yank it from the book”
That’s what it means
She never says anything like that
Never admits to making it up..because it couldn’t possibly be true
re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He will appoint a Medium to transmit messages from him in his name from Beyond the Grave.
Can I hope that he also stipulates that monetary donations be burned every day in an urn there so that he can smell the money?
(Viewed as a minor positive as it will still be draining conservative coffers.)
re: #45 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Can I hope that he also stipulates that monetary donations be burned every day in an urn there so that he can smell the money?
Would burning a check work just as well?
re: #45 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Can I hope that he also stipulates that monetary donations be burned every day in an urn there so that he can smell the money?
(Viewed as a minor positive as it will still be draining conservative coffers.)
The solid-gold urn will be shaped like a giant diaper so that the smell will be all the more pleasing
re: #43 jeffreyw
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LOL is thrown around a bunch but this truly gave me a good sustained laugh.
“Hominy and understanding Spaghetti squash and trust abounding “
“When the shoots are in the greenhouse, and wa-ater aligns with roots, then green will guide the springtime, and lo-ove will bear the fruits”
m.facebook.com
re: #46 Nojay UK
Would burning a check work just as well?
Nope. Remember this from the way back time when people used a lot of checks?
In God we trust. All others pay cash.
re: #51 Joe Bacon ✅
Caution, will only write Ws and Vs.
re: #51 Joe Bacon ✅
Yes. It looks like a cheap knockoff of a Parker.
re: #53 PhillyPretzel ✅
Yes. It looks like a cheap knockoff of a Parker.
And it’s Made In China, too! 😏
re: #51 Joe Bacon ✅
I bet it’s a cheap Parker knockoff!
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“Themed”
About as authentic as “inspired by”
Marco angling for vp
He even talks like tfg
Marco Rubio: “Joe Biden is feek and he’s and, fa, he’s weak and he’s feeble.” pic.twitter.com/gnTGDSaYbt
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 5, 2024
The seven children of Rehab Abu Daqqa crowd around their mother. She is the last safe harbour in their lives. They have shared things, these children and their mother, which cannot be communicated to those who have not seen the things they have seen. Is there a word to express what a child feels knowing that just a few yards away, animals are dragging a body from a grave?
The vocabulary of childhood is inadequate amid the horrors of this emergency cemetery in Rafah.
Scared is the word Rehab Abu Daqqa uses.
WARNING: This report contains descriptions some readers may find disturbing
That is accurate. But there is more to it, she knows. The children have seen dogs eating the bodies. A human leg lying by a fence. So yes they are scared. But revolted too, and uncomprehending. The children who once had a home, went to school, lived according to the established rhythms of their family and community, are now refugees in a place that reeks of death.
“This morning the dogs took out a body from one of the graves and were eating it,” Rehab Abu Daqqa says. “From night until dawn the dogs do not let us sleep… our children keep holding on to me because of how scared they are.”
The dogs come in packs of dozens. Domestic pets whose owners are dead or displaced, mixed with Rafah’s existing population of strays, all of them now feral and scavenging for whatever they can eat. The cemetery has numerous shallow graves where people place their dead until a time comes when they can be taken to their home area. On some graves relatives have placed bricks to try to keep the dogs away from the dead.
re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅
And it’s Made In China, too! 😏
A lot of “Trump stuff” isn’t connected to Trump himself, it’s sold by scammers to his followers with his name on it and he doesn’t see a penny from the sales. The sneakers, the Bibles and the Goya canned food, that’s all promoted by the man himself and you can be sure he gets his cut for those products but the rest, the flags and shirts and Trump Bucks genuine Federal Reserve gold deposit certificates, nope.
re: #56 Dangerman
On Marco Rubio:
“Traitors showed themselves openly, stripped even of hypocrisy; men who had gone over to the enemy on the eve of a battle made no secret of their bribes and shamelessly walked abroad in daylight in the cynicism of wealth and honor; deserters of Ligny and Quatre-Bras, brazen in their purchased shame, nakedly exposed their devotion to monarchy, forgetting the notices posted on the interior walls of public toilets in England: Please adjust your dress before leaving.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Book Three; In The Year 1817
I still have plenty of anxiety about November, but I have to force myself to remember that the media is pushing a false horse race narrative. The voters know what Trump is about, and they aren’t having it.
The new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows how the population you poll matters.
Among adults, it’s Trump+2.
Among registered voters, it’s Biden+1.
Among likely voters, it’s Biden+4.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/6-m…
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot.bsky.social) 2024-05-05T13:49:28.443Z
Doughy Pantload asks….
So, you’re … going back. https://t.co/6TeZ9hyVEb
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) May 5, 2024
re: #67 Dave In Austin
Doughy Pantload asks….
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Did she do get own voice-over in the audiobook? Cuz if she did, she knew what it said.
re: #68 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Did she do get own voice-over in the audiobook? Cuz if she did, she knew what it said.
She sure did. Lying psycho bitch.
There’s a guy around the corner from me with a Trump 2024 flag out front of his house.
It has Trumps mugshot on it. 🙄
re: #70 wrenchwench
The CEO’s should stand inside them.
re: #72 Belafon
One of the biggest is on or next to the Navajo reservation, south of 4 Corners. It was already visible from space.
re: #9 Dangerman
I think the video is downstairs
Here’s the words
Wtf is wrong with these people?
And the people who support these people?
Trump’s policy is never to admit to a mistake or error or lie, and just brazen it out. And that’s the behavior you must adopt to get his approval.
re: #13 Decatur Deb
She speaks a language that has no word for “bullshit”.
Do fish need a word for water?
re: #70 wrenchwench
I’ll bet Texas is fuming……
Hey walmart we have some notes on your product placement can we talk
— hammancheez (@hammancheez.bsky.social) 2024-05-05T23:03:17.670Z
re: #7 Dangerman
L Ron Hubbard’s putting out a book this year
The Co$ continues to put out revised and updated versions of LRH’s dreck as part of ongoing moneymaking schemes. See, it’s not just enough that you have an audio version of the Philadelphia Doctorate Course (hours and hours of LRH babbling on). You need to buy the cleaned up (better sound, allegedly) version. Oh, and then revised versions of print editions come out, and it’s not just enough for you to buy a new one for yourself, you need to buy sets for the library program (where sets are sent to libraries around the world, and, in practically all cases, they end up in the library’s yearly sale). It’s all a constant grift. And it’s not just books and recordings; it’s giving money to the latest org that needs to go Ideal, or to the International Association of Scientologists for your dues, or to get up your own bridge so that eventually you might finally make it to OTVIII and learn: “Now that I know what I am not, I can now find out who I am.” $cientology puts every other religion to shame in its ability to hoover money out of adherents’ wallets.
re: #51 Joe Bacon ✅
I bet it’s a cheap Parker knockoff!
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re: #45 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Can I hope that he also stipulates that monetary donations be burned every day in an urn there so that he can smell the money?
(Viewed as a minor positive as it will still be draining conservative coffers.)
You can buy joss paper (incense paper) on Amazon, you know the paper used in some Chinese death ceremonies to honor the ancestors or pay off the gods for an easier passage. Maybe some “smart” person will come up with Trump offering money.
re: #67 Dave In Austin
Doughy Pantload asks….
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And that all assumes it will sell enough copies to require a reprint. Is there enough MAGA interest in her to have them buy up bunches of books to foist on non-reading buffoons?
re: #69 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
She sure did. Lying psycho bitch.
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SIX HOURS AND 45 MINUTES OF LISTENING TO HER? Not in this lifetime.
Worse. She read the audio version so she knew what’s in the book—meaning she knew it included this lie. https://t.co/Ci8jR2JJ6u
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 5, 2024
re: #87 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
she knew it included this lie
And she’s such a narcissistic horror show she assumed she would get away with it.
And is pissed off because she didn’t.
re: #83 mmmirele
You can buy joss paper (incense paper) on Amazon, you know the paper used in some Chinese death ceremonies to honor the ancestors or pay off the gods for an easier passage. Maybe some “smart” person will come up with Trump offering money.
I’m waiting for Trump communion wafers and Trump communion grape juice for right wing megachurches. After that comes Trump Holy Water for baptisms!
We know that’s coming!
re: #85 BeachDem
SIX HOURS AND 45 MINUTES OF LISTENING TO HER? Not in this lifetime.
I can only imagine the level of hatred and derision in her voice. Not a chance I’d listen to her dribble.
re: #87 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Exactly what I said in 68/69 above.
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I can only imagine the level of hatred and derision in her voice. Not a chance I’d listen to her dribble.
Her target audience is entirely composed of people who would not only listen to it, but would… “enjoy” it, if you catch my drift.
Indiana Senator Mike Braun said Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage
Running for governor of Indiana https://t.co/DIm66TqdqI— Al Gore Won Florida in 2000 (@gore_won) May 5, 2024
“Make America Segregated Again”
re: #93 DodgerFan1988
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“Make America Segregated Again”
There’s a reason why certain things are decided federally and consistently
re: #93 DodgerFan1988
Thanks to Congress in 2021, he doesn’t even get to run to the Supreme Court for this.
re: #93 DodgerFan1988
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“Make America Segregated Again”
Didn’t we learn how well states having different marriage laws (doesn’t) work with same sex marriage?
re: #93 DodgerFan1988
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I watched “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” last night for some nostalgia. That movie came out in 19fucking67!
re: #94 Dangerman
There’s a reason why certain things are decided federally and consistently
You mean like Roe v. Wade?
re: #93 DodgerFan1988
I bet Clarence Thomas would agree (but with certain exceptions)
I’m pretty sure this maiz is de Mexico but its super sweet and about to become corn puddin’.
We’ll have roasted kiebasa with it…and maybe a little sorrel salad.
re: #102 darthstar
I’m pretty sure this maiz is de Mexico but its super sweet and about to become corn puddin’.
We’ll have roasted kiebasa with it…and maybe a little sorrel salad.
image:
re: #93 DodgerFan1988
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The article was written in 2022 and Braun retracted his statements within hours of making them, claiming he had misunderstood the question.
re: #93 DodgerFan1988
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“Make America Segregated Again”
I will never cease to be amazed at the things people are willing to say out loud, in public, into a microphone. (not so surprised there’s people would think it, but. Microphone. Public. Where everyone can hear him.)
re: #93 DodgerFan1988
Oh Mike Braun!
You say that the Loving decision was wrong.
So how do you “square” that with your pal Slappy Thomas?
re: #93 DodgerFan1988
Are Clarence Thomas and his Insurrectionist White Wife paying attention? Wouldn’t shock me if he agreed with this Joker given how anti-Black Thomas is as a jurist.
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”
—-Ian Fleming
Getting close:
Second Boeing whistleblower dies ‘suddenly’ in Oklahoma
A second Boeing whistleblower has died just two months after his colleague was found dead with gunshot wounds in a car park.
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, warned of manufacturing defects in the planemaker’s 737 Max.
He filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alleging “serious and gross misconduct by senior quality management of the 737 production line” at Spirit.
The 45-year-old died on Tuesday after developing pneumonia following a “fast-moving” infection of Influenza B and MRSA.
According to reports, Mr Dean had an active lifestyle and was believed to be in good health until his “sudden” death in Oklahoma.
re: #33 Nojay UK
Herr Shicklegruber was none too pleased that the German people failed him either.
re: #111 Patricia Kayden
Are Clarence Thomas and his Insurrectionist White Wife paying attention? Wouldn’t shock me if he agreed with this Joker given how anti-Black Thomas is as a jurist.
No ruling Thomas was involved in would affect him
re: #51 Joe Bacon ✅
And once again I’m stuck by how much The Donald’s signature looks like a failed polygraph test.
re: #117 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
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As every tiresome pedant knows, Vikings didn’t really wear horned helmets. Maybe he is a 1-6 rioter from Texas, shown disembarking from a Trump boat parade. Would explain the shield, axe, and scraggly beard.
They didn’t before he got to Texas.
re: #113 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”
—-Ian FlemingGetting close:
Second Boeing whistleblower dies ‘suddenly’ in Oklahoma
I like fun conspiracies, if only to poke holes in them, but, on this one, no, just no; these sort of click-bait titles have been rife over on Reddit for days and days.
Dude had the flu which turned into pneumonia; he went to the hospital, got MRSA, the doctors threw everything including the kitchen sink at it, but that is what killed this guy.
Boeing’s been a whole bunch of fail for years now, but I seriously doubt they assassinated this guy; I’d be more inclined to sideeye them for the one that committed suicide than this one.
The Lemon Twigs were always an, uh, interesting band. But their latest album is an amazing deep dive into influences like Badfinger, Todd Rundgren, the Beach Boys, the Beatles of course, and I hear some XTC too. But not imitating, finding new ways to use their amazing musical syntax.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-06T00:45:02.000Z
you kids today take your free https for granted. back in my day some of us paid through the nose for a prized ssl certificate from verisign. through the freakin’ nose.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-06T00:27:12.000Z
I’m talkin’ about through the freakin’ nose, for reals.
re: #122 Charles Johnson
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Nowadays, any old young whippersnapper can set up LetsEncrypt and get end-to-end https with auto-renewing certificates, for free. Damn kids. Get off our lawn.
re: #120 TedStriker
That’s what they want you to think.
re: #124 Nerdy Fish
Nowadays, any old young whippersnapper can set up LetsEncrypt and get end-to-end https with auto-renewing certificates, for free. Damn kids. Get off our lawn.
“The internet” used to be 300 baud.
On a good day.
re: #123 Charles Johnson
I’m talkin’ about through the freakin’ nose, for reals.
I didn’t have a certificate on the websites I run for my Scout troop and pack until Let’s Encrypt (and Dreamhost) made it as easy as clicking some settings and made it free (which has been a few years at this point).
re: #120 TedStriker
I like fun conspiracies, if only to poke holes in them, but, on this one, no, just no; these sort of click-bait titles have been rife over on Reddit for days and days.
Dude had the flu which turned into pneumonia; he went to the hospital, got MRSA, the doctors threw everything including the kitchen sink at it, but that is what killed this guy.
Boeing’s been a whole bunch of fail for years now, but I seriously doubt they assassinated this guy; I’d be more inclined to sideeye them for the one that committed suicide than this one.
The germ theory of disease is a scientism scam to cover up the murders, obviously. Do your own research.
re: #126 Dangerman
“The internet” used to be 300 baud.
On a good day.
For which you paid through the nose.
re: #128 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
The germ theory of disease is a scientism scam to cover up the murders, obviously. Do your own research.
They slipped him a philtre that threw his humors out of balance.
tbch, Jack’s involvement in Bluesky was a pretty big issue for me, because at the point where I was considering the big switch, the last thing I wanted was someone who called Elon Musk the “light of humanity” or some stupid shit like that.
Good riddance, I say.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-06T00:55:15.000Z
re: #124 Nerdy Fish
Nowadays, any old young whippersnapper can set up LetsEncrypt and get end-to-end https with auto-renewing certificates, for free. Damn kids. Get off our lawn.
Let’s Encrypt and Cloudflare’s free services are a godsend when setting up a reverse proxy for my media server stuff.
re: #134 Charles Johnson
Did Jack leave Bluesky?
re: #136 darthstar
Yep, he’s off the board.
re: #136 darthstar
Did Jack leave Bluesky?
See the story now. At some point these billionaires realize that they really don’t have anything of value to contribute to society so they go hang out with their money.
re: #138 Belafon
A couple of weeks ago the overpass at John King and I-30 in Rockwall developed a pothole. On Friday, the underpass developed a sunroof:
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It got fixed today.
OH FUCK
re: #139 darthstar
See the story now. At some point these billionaires realize that they really don’t have anything of value to contribute to society so they go hang out with their money.
And other like-minded douchebros.
re: #138 Belafon
Nothing a couple of steel plates and a few buckets of blacktop can’t fix.
Yes, it’s official now. Jack hasn’t been around much on Bluesky for a while after being relentlessly bullied the last time he showed up, which was before I registered. Now he’s gone, baby, gone.
re: #142 darthstar
Nothing a couple of steel plates and a few buckets of blacktop can’t fix.
Some Gorilla Tape, some Flex-Seal, and slapping it while saying, “that ain’t going anywhere!”
re: #144 TedStriker
Some Gorilla Tape, some Flex-Seal, and slapping it while saying, “that ain’t going anywhere!”
Worked for MacGyver.
re: #139 darthstar
in order to entertain myself over on BlueSky, I started a #Billionaire Hobbies thread of hobby ideas for Idle Billionaires. Apparently too many of these guys are patterning their behavior after 80’s movie villains.
re: #145 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Worked for MacGyver.
You’d have to work in trash bags and his trusty Swiss Army knife first…
re: #137 Charles Johnson
Yep, he’s off the board.
What’s interesting is the way it all went down, with Dorsey basically breaking the news by answering some random 15 year old kid’s question in a since deleted Tweet.
Jack Dorsey confirmed to me on Twitter he’s no longer on the Bluesky board :/
#Bluesky #jackdorsey
I’m sorry if I did this. I asked out of curiosity - didn’t mean anything bad to happen
Makes me wonder if Dorsey actually intended to leave the board for good or if he was just high af and a one off tweet became a resignation. Could go either way.
re: #126 Dangerman
“The internet” used to be 300 baud.
On a good day.
I still remember the day in 1995 that my dad brought home a new “super fast” 14.4 modem.
re: #135 TedStriker
It’s a godsend when setting up a reverse proxy for my media server stuff.
We use it at work for setting up self-renewing https for our many microservices. That way, we don’t have to manually manage renewal and rollout of certificates for dozens of different subdomains.
re: #126 Dangerman
“The internet” used to be 300 baud.
On a good day.
If cable companies hadn’t figured out how to provide internet Access, we wouldn’t be much higher than 56k today because the phone companies wouldn’t have innovated.
re: #102 darthstar
I’m pretty sure this maiz is de Mexico but its super sweet and about to become corn puddin’.
We’ll have roasted kiebasa with it…and maybe a little sorrel salad.
Update:
re: #156 Belafon
OK, this is hilarious. Here he’s talking about the fact that things don’t disappear into the event horizon, they just get more and more red-shifted and if we could see see the infrared light we could still see them, including a reference to an older video:
re: #154 Belafon
If cable companies hadn’t figured out how to provide internet Access, we wouldn’t be much higher than 56k today because the phone companies wouldn’t have innovated.
DSL predated Cable by a few years, so we would have been a little higher than 56k.
So last night I went with a girl friend and her cousin to a performance of the Steve Rashid Octet at Studio 5 in Evanston. Before each song, Steve provided a brief story related to the music or lyrics. But one introduction was astounding (do not recall the song at all) and showed how I really need to read newspapers or news articles on a more regular basis.
Some astronomers accidentally pointed their telescope to the wrong coordinates and discovered a “dark” galaxy filled only with gas and without any visible stars “only” 270 million light years away — so not the distant past where you might expect to make such an observation. The galaxy is rotating like a normal galaxy.
Is anyone here familiar with this discovery?
Watched that yesterday! It’s my next post.
re: #160 Hecuba’s daughter
I seem to remember something mentioned about it, perhaps on a YouTube video.
The use of “dark” by the authors is a bit off-putting ot me, since it clearly is not “dark” as in “dark matter”.
It’s just really, really dim,
Since we now know that most stars are red dwarf varieties, and their low surface brightness makes them hard to see individually, there could be several such in that galaxy.
Still, interesting discovery.
In our galaxy, the remaining gas clouds are rather small (on galactic scales.)
re: #102 darthstar
I’m pretty sure this maiz is de Mexico but its super sweet and about to become corn puddin’.
We’ll have roasted kiebasa with it…and maybe a little sorrel salad.
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