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Kindly bite your tongue, Kirk. ;D
Seriously... I know you're kidding.
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Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
Kindly bite your tongue, Kirk. ;D
Seriously... I know you're kidding.
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Fucking savage 🤣 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell
https://youtu.be/WkBou9Rp11E
When a person is reduced to cheering for/ supporting a politician based on how he "owns" a network, an interviewer, a political opponent... especially by lobbing insults and coming up with snazzy nicknames... I know we've come full circle on the debasing of mankind.
That is the point.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
Cruelty.
Trump allows them to feel good about the worse part of themselves. It's all he has. His motto could just as easily be 'Embrace The Hate' rather than MAGA.
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Originally Posted by Beanz
Both apply (and are words). I'll use them both and get 6 times the word score in both directions. :cool:
BOOM.
called it. but blind refuse to see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVUEtrA0rSg
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Originally Posted by Spicoli
Most already have.
By the tankerful.
This is the awful thing. There's a huge chunk of Americans who love the fact that he says out loud the things they can't say anymore and they absolutely love him for it. I think we'd have the same thing in Britain if we had primaries for party leader. I'm sure Farage would have beaten somebody like Cameron at some point in the runup to or just after Brexit and aided by a fucking horrifically left Labour leader at the time he would have won a general election. There is a massive amount of racism and nationalism in Britain bubbling just below the surface that would explode given the right conditions just like it has in the States.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeanzThat is the point.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
Cruelty.
Trump allows them to feel good about the worse part of themselves. It's all he has. His motto could just as easily be 'Embrace The Hate' rather than MAGA.
Whoever did it has excellent photoshop skills. Maybe it's one of those AI things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
Seventh inning stretch here and I picked the wrong Yankees game to watch. Should have avoided the score from yesterday and watched that instead.
Related to GOP voters voting for Trump. This particular fucker has a lot to answer for. The electorate is like it is due to him and people like him creating the culture war and finding endless ways to turbocharge it:
https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/statu...89932631646208
Border latest:
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/...65432152424448
Coups and how not to deal with them:
https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/st...54127215349762
Free speech absolutist Elon shuts Twitter down in Turkey at the behest of the government he's trying to do more business with and has people point out how Twitter and others handled Turkish requests in the past:
https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/stat...94022741426180
and
https://twitter.com/MattBinder/statu...71482928869376
Meatball Ron doing retail politics. Looks like he didn't have his Louboutins on here:
https://twitter.com/BenjaminPDixon/s...72805888692225
GOP white nationalist Senator:
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/sta...74633413582850
GOP current state of race relations:
https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/statu...40410267369472
related:
In the nearly two weeks since Daniel Penny was recordedkilling Jordan Neely on a New York City subway with a minutes-long chokehold, the 24-year-old Marine Corps veteran has faced calls to be arrested, been denounced as a vigilante byactivists and been labeled a “murderer” by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
But in the lead-up to the Manhattan district attorney’s office charging him with second-degree manslaughter, Penny has found a groundswell of financial and online support from high-profile Republicans such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Fox News personalities and conservatives on Elon Musk’s Twitter. Many of them have rallied around Penny and hailed the veteran as a “hero” and “good Samaritan.”
“We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny,” DeSantis tweeted Friday night. “Let’s show this Marine … America’s got his back.”
“The Marine who stepped in to protect others is a hero,” tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...conservatives/
You may remember the parable of the Good Samaritan from the Bible. The Samaritan, seeing a man in distress at the side of the road and other people ignoring him, placed the man in a chokehold for several minutes until he killed him.
Ooooh Volpe.
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Meatball Ron latest. When he steps outside of the conservative media bubble and he's live, unscripted and under some pressure on national tv, say in a debate for instance, it's going to make for some great clips:
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/s...27236532600850
I read that the political strategy team that make all the decisions on how his campaign does everything are him and his wife, mainly his wife. It looks to be going to be as successful as Kamala Harris and her sister were.
The Trump town hall not working out for CNN:
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1658212837230104576
Not a DeSantis fan. But the phrase "doctored video" stuck with me a bit. Nowadays (unfortunately) you can do just about anything with the proper technology. Photoshop is child's play compared with the stuff readily available out there today. Sadly we've arrived at a time when you can't even trust pictures and videos in the hands of someone with an agenda.
THAT being said... it IS sad to think that the GOP nomination is going to come down to a choice between a dangerous, relative unknown... and a very well-known clown to whose description we can soon hopefully add "felon."
It's a sad statement for a political party whose traditional platform policies (some) are totally worthy of merit. I've said here before that, on a spectrum where 1 is totally to the left, and 100 is totally to the right... I place myself somewhere around the low 60's mark. So more conversative than liberal... but depending on the particular issue, can be totally on the left.
None of that shit matters anymore, though. Not when people like MTG continue to roam the halls of Congress, and are allowed within talking distance of a mic.
Tiny D is at the wheel....
Disney Pulls Plug on $1 Billion Development in Florida https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/b...-android-share
Well that's working out well for Florida :S....
Apparently he announces his run at president next week.
Just saw that, couple thousand jobs down the drain :-X. Bigger for Desantis would have been rubbing California's nose in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by palmerq
The Meatball doesn't seem to be any different to your standard issue GOP presidential hopeful. Already bought and paid for by corporate interests:
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status...00906073120772
The party of small government:
https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1660056580061110274
Tiny D is announcing his run in twitter with Elon musk tomorrow, great stuff, Elon and Ron v trump and truth social, this has great comedy potential
At a speech in Ankeny, Iowa, Mr Pence argued that Mr Trump had encouraged the mob that attacked the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, and had incorrectly asserted that Mr Pence had the power to overturn the election result.
"But the American people deserve to know that on that day, President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and the constitution," he said.
"Now, voters will be faced with the same choice: I chose the constitution and I always will."
He added that Mr Trump's actions on 6 January should disqualify him from returning to power.
"I believe that anyone who puts themselves over the constitution should never be president of the United States," he said.
"And anyone who asked someone else to put them over the constitution should never be president of the United States again."
In a later CNN town hall, he continued attacking his rivals, critising Mr Trump for having previously called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "genius".
"I know the difference between a genius and a war criminal, and I know who needs to win in the war in Ukraine," he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65839793
Trump claims his lawyers have been told he's being indicted over the classified stuff. Mark Meadows testified last week, trumpet could be in trouble this time. He says he's off to court to hear the charges on Tuesday.
The Disney woke mind virus
https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/1667296912943493120
I was looking forward to the free speech absolutist grilling the Meatball over Florida crackdowns on free speech, the free press and book bannings but he didn't mention any of those things for some reason. Although nobody said much to anybody apparently. That's what happens when you sack all your engineers.Quote:
Originally Posted by palmerq
Also, too:
https://twitter.com/Jason_Garcia/sta...82018269937668
Also also too:
https://theroyfamily.tumblr.com/post/187140576844
Youneed to have watched the show to get that last one. Great bloody show.
More Musk:
Under Elon Musk, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments
Twitter’s acquiescence to autocratic or non-liberal regimes is not an exaggeration by critics of the social network. The data, which the public audit receives automatically, speaks for itself. Since Musk’s takeover, the company has received 971 requests from governments (compared to only 338 in the six-month period from October 2021 to April 2022), fully acceding to 808 of them and partially acceding to 154. In the year prior to Musk taking control, Twitter agreed to 50% of such requests, in line with the compliance rate indicated in the company’s last transparency report (none have been published since October 2022). Following the change of ownership, that figure has risen to 83%, according to the analysis of the data by the technology information portal Rest of World.
https://english.elpais.com/internati...html?ssm=TW_CC
and
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1665439266170609666
and last but not least all og his twitter files bullshit was indeed bullshit:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/...ce-at-twitter/
As Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida begins his presidential bid, officials in his administration have solicited donations from lobbyists and endorsements from lawmakers in the state, blurring the line between his taxpayer-funded office and his political campaign.
The outreach by the governor’s office, which would normally fall to Mr. DeSantis’s campaign staff, was described by two people who said they were approached by administration officials and who insisted on anonymity. In at least one case, a member of Mr. DeSantis’s administration sent a text message to a lobbyist with a link to his presidential fund-raising platform.
NBC News first reported the solicitations to the lobbyists.
The people who were approached discussed the conversations only on the condition of anonymity, out of fear of reprisals by the governor’s office, and insisted that the government officials not be named so as to avoid revealing their own identities.
Representatives for Mr. DeSantis’s office and campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Mr. DeSantis has yet to sign Florida’s $117 billion budget, over which he retains a line-item veto — meaning he can, with the stroke of a pen, eliminate spending projects sought by lobbyists and legislators in Tallahassee, the capital, where he has exerted firm control over the Republican-controlled Legislature.
The outreach to lobbyists gave the impression that donations would be tracked by the governor’s office, according to two people familiar with the matter.
In addition to the efforts to secure support from lobbyists, the main super PAC backing Mr. DeSantis’s bid announced last week that 99 of Florida’s 113 Republican state legislators had endorsed Mr. DeSantis for president. Several lawmakers said privately that they feared he might veto their bills or spending projects if they did not support him. Two said they had been contacted by members of the governor’s administration about making endorsements.
As governor, Mr. DeSantis has sought to expand the power of his office and has relied on the specter of political retribution, bending legislators to do his bidding or else face primary challenges and targeting corporations like Disney that he has clashed with.
The unusual outreach to lobbyists and lawmakers highlights the careful line that Mr. DeSantis and his allies must walk as he seeks the nation’s highest post while governing its third largest state.
Under Florida law, state employees are generally allowed to participate in political campaigns if they do so during their personal time, with their personal devices and without making reference to their official duties or authority, among other factors.
Ethics experts said the accounts of DeSantis administration officials’ aiding his campaign merited further scrutiny — but the members of the Florida Commission on Ethics, which looks into allegations of ethical violations by government employees, are appointed by Mr. DeSantis and his allies in the Legislature.
“The conduct raises very serious and substantial questions,” said Anthony V. Alfieri, founding director of the Center for Ethics and Public Service at the University of Miami School of Law.
Juan-Carlos Planas, a Florida elections lawyer, said the governor’s executive staff and political team should maintain clear boundaries.
“Government is not supposed to be overtly political,” Mr. Planas said. “People have to be able to deal with the government knowing that the campaign is a separate entity. When you start blurring the line, it becomes autocratic.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/u...donations.html
Mapped: The U.S. states where school librarians face years in prison and tens of THOUSANDS in fines for providing 'harmful' books for children
- Several states have passed laws that could sentence librarians and book vendors to years in jail if they provide 'obscene' titles to minors
- Laws have been introduced in at least five states and are pending in nine others, allowing for the criminal prosecution of school and library personnel involved
- Previously, librarians were exempt from prosecution over obscene materials in almost every state
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-children.html
Comer Takes Credit Out Loud for Tanking Biden Polls With BS Hunter/Family Probe — Just Like McCarthy Did With Hillary
James Comer followed in the footsteps of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy by admitting out loud that his BS investigations of President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and other family members is about one thing: helping Donald Trump and defeating Joe Biden.
On Monday morning’s edition of Fox & Friends First, Comer leaped at the suggestion that his probes have thrust these amorphous allegations into the media bloodstream and volunteered that they have also helped to put Trump on top and tank Biden’s poll numbers:
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/com...-with-hillary/
Looks like government being weaponised there. How about that.
The Trump crime wave looks like it's gone into reverse:
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/stat...13729436033024
Some observations while the Yankees beat the Red Sox.
The Trump indictment.
This is it! We've got him!
Bill Barr says he's toast!
https://www.mediaite.com/news/trumps...e-he-is-toast/
George Conway says the case against him is airtight!
https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/...34728872017921
Look what he did!
https://twitter.com/bobcesca_go/stat...57450771238940
and
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/stat...58066204692481
and
https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/sta...12086928486401
and
https://twitter.com/AntiToxicPeople/...81899613081602
and
https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1667984450678915072
and
https://twitter.com/mrbenwexler/stat...33797870981124
and Trump's views on classified information back when Hillary was being investigated:
https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/...40447577145347
Not only is his bathroom stuffed with boxes you can see but look either side of the tasteful light fixture above the Wal Mart shower curtain:
https://twitter.com/Philip_Germain/s...74887462219779
It certainly looks like the shower is full of boxes too. I suppose they're keeping that photograph for the trial.
So that's it then. He really is toast.
Not so fast though. Read this:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...707479552.html
and then this:
https://themessenger.com/politics/tr...jury-challenge
And it gets worse. The worst possible judge has been appointed to the case. She's already tried to wreck the investigation once, just read this:
Judge Aileen Cannon Can Absolutely Sink the Federal Prosecution of Trump
Imagine, though, that Cannon does preside over this case. She has infinite tools at her disposal to thwart the prosecution at nearly every turn. Big swings, like tossing out the whole case—a very real possibility in her courtroom of chaos—can be appealed and overturned. But at every step, there are opportunities for sabotage. Cannon can try to rig voir dire to help the defense stack the jury with Trump supporters. She can exclude evidence and testimony that’s especially damning to Trump. She can disqualify witnesses who are favorable to the prosecution. She can sustain the defense’s frivolous objections and overrule the prosecution’s meritorious ones. She can direct a verdict of acquittal to render the jury superfluous. She can declare a mistrial prematurely for any number of reasons, including lengthy juror deliberations, and stretch out various deadlines to run out the clock. Many of these procedural moves could not be appealed until the proceedings have drawn to a close; appeals courts do not referee every little dispute in a jury trial as they happen. Cannon will be in control.
You really need to read the whole thing.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...ald-trump.html
How the politics plays out:
https://twitter.com/jefftimmer/statu...85148223131648
and the latest polling:
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/s...90548152348673
I saw one recently with the Meatball under twenty percent.
How Trump is reacting to the indictment:
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status...01931857309697
and
https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/s...60621142192133
Sounds familiar.
The GOP just over a decade ago. It had the crazy paranoid racist base but leaders who knew how dangerous that base could be and who refused to ride the tiger even if it would cost them an election:
https://twitter.com/geoffgarin/statu...10211544182784
Now they're going all out for the white racist vote:
https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/...06460236087303
That nice moderate Christian Mike Pence has also said exactly the same thing too:
Mike Pence: Fort Liberty Will Once Again Be Fort Bragg | C-SPAN.org
Here's the military genius they're on about:
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/stat...94609700700162
WHO assigns judges to these cases... and isn't there some sort of auditing of this process to ensure the impartiality required of this position?
Crazy isn't it. Lost elections for the highest Office. State Governors and Mayors, countless endorsements and 101 ??? court cases and appeals. Dunno have lost count. Yet in the face of clear and obvious findings literally in his own words of guilt, the flies flock to the highest mound of grifter shat. 7,8 years of but but whatabouts. And have the nerve to go on about "defending the Constitution" after criminal indictment meanwhile getting bent over once again. Even rats have stronger backbones. Sad.
https://i.imgur.com/JD9MBC3.jpg
Normally courts are impartial separate from the government to ensure proper checks and balances of the state.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
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Originally Posted by MasterNormally courts are impartial separate from the government to ensure proper checks and balances of the state.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
That's how it's supposed to work. But the question still stands. WHO assigned Judge Cannon to this case??
Trump Appointee Will Remain Judge in Documents Case, Clerk Says https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/u...-android-shareQuote:
Originally Posted by TitoFanQuote:
Originally Posted by MasterNormally courts are impartial separate from the government to ensure proper checks and balances of the state.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
That's how it's supposed to work. But the question still stands. WHO assigned Judge Cannon to this case??
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Originally Posted by palmerqTrump Appointee Will Remain Judge in Documents Case, Clerk Says https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/u...-android-shareQuote:
Originally Posted by TitoFanQuote:
Originally Posted by MasterNormally courts are impartial separate from the government to ensure proper checks and balances of the state.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
That's how it's supposed to work. But the question still stands. WHO assigned Judge Cannon to this case??
"Randomly assigned"
Ok. I guess it's either
a. Nobody knows, or
b. chief clerk of the federal court system there, Angela E. Noble
Wonderful...
My faith in the American judicial system just keeps growing by leaps and bounds.
The nation's premier ethics lawyers reckon she'll have to recuse herself at some point or get the boot:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and...r-be-forced-to
and
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...en-cannon.html
I haven't read either of these articles but recognise the names of the lawyers.
Apparently the indictment only shows a small part of the evidence the feds have:
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status...48876279578624
How GOP voters are seeing all this:
https://twitter.com/SarahLongwell25/...40403311988736
I endorse these messages:
https://twitter.com/CaulfieldTim/sta...55903273951232
https://twitter.com/Kaylan_TX/status...59956719788033
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1668319279085699072
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...54613718704134
https://twitter.com/AntiToxicPeople/...69974238654464
Changing the subject, remember Trump's signature and only major piece of actual passed legislation, the great big corporate tax cut? The idea was that the extra profit being handed to corporations would be handed out by them in wage increases to their employees and they'd also invest a lot more into the economy making everybody wealthier as the money would trickle down. Of course wages actually fell in real terms even before the pandemic and corporations cut jobs, but maybe investment actually increased?
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...92653990477826
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, sorry for repeating myself. Graphs set me off. Oh also:
https://i.ibb.co/Bq1ckgH/blog-profit-income-drum.jpg
And remember the GOP briging the country to the brink of default a couple of weeks ago because we were drowning in debt supposedly and I said they're just after cuts to create the fiscal headroom for new tax cuts? Well here we go, this is just one of them, here's a twitter message from a paid up member of a billionaire funded think tank:
https://twitter.com/Brian_Riedl/stat...93292352847872