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So, if you follow me on Bluesky, you may know that someone threw up on me on the 1 Line the other day. Not the most pleasant experience, but I was standing up and the people near me, sitting down got it much worse. Yuck, but!

Also quite a community Light Rail has. Within a second, people were reaching into their bags getting napkins and wipes and hand sanitizer. The guy who threw up ran out at the next stop, but there was real sympathy for him. A bunch of people jamed on the bus during rush hour looked after each other, felt sympathy, and even joked around. Too bad it took that to make it happen.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

Comments

  1. 1

    McAfee’s decision reminds me of the SCOTUS Kelo decision. “Gee, this is awful, but sadly we are unable to do anything about it. We do encourage state legislators or Congress to do something about it, tho.”

    McAfee follows the paths of other investigators who identified clear evidence of awful behavior by the investigation targets, but then declined to act.

    Perhaps Willis will find justice meted out by voters later this year, as did #CrookedHillary and as will my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president.

  2. 2

    Former #CrookedHillary minion tweets about some very telling video of my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president.

    Peter Daou
    @peterdaou
    Oh my Lord. This man is not well.

    5:57 PM · Mar 5, 2024

    She’s running. DNC Convention 2024.
    ·

  3. 3

    1, 2,

    Starting the day with more dumb lies.

    McAfee says nothing of the sort. Defense failed to prove ALL of their claims.

    Daou runs Cornell West’s grift campaign for tax free luxury travel and book sales. Gets paid a fortune. West is running. Nobody cares.

    Idiot. Lying idiot.

  4. 4

    @ 3

    I wasn’t referring to the defense. Agree that the only advantage defense gained from this is time.

    I was referring to the discipline of Willis for her behavior. Whichever analyst was interviewed on Morning Joe this morning called it a near-fatal blow to her and that her only path forward is to recuse.

  6. 6

    Whichever analyst…

    They’ve all been entirely wrong so far.

    They failed to understand the standard. They failed to appreciate the gravity of the false claims made by the defense and the substantial burden of proof. They failed to appreaciate the important equities rooted in the democratic process that always argue against removing an elected official, even a prosecutor, for all but the gravest and most compelling of purposes.

    Very much like the weak-assed attempt to impeach President Joe Biden that only wound up exposing a corruptly financed Russian spy ring tied directly to Trump The Rapist.

    It’s much easier to avoid lying than it is to try and dig your way out of that hole.

  7. 7

    @ 3

    What Daou is doing right now is immaterial. Softening the beach in Bidenworld is just preliminary work, and he can do that no matter whom he is currently being paid by, QoS McHillbilly.

    There are a lot of pro-Trumpers not currently being paid by Trump. Clintonistas are no different.

  8. 8

    I hope it was worth it, Terry.

    First, the Court finds itself unable to place any stock in the testimony ofTerrance Bradley. His inconsistencies, demeanor, and generally non-responsive answers left far too brittle a foundation upon which to build any conclusions. While prior inconsistent statementscan be considered as substantive evidence under Georgia law,Bradley’s impeachment by textmessage did not establish the basis for which he claimed such sweeping knowledge of Wade’spersonal affairs.5

    Was it?

  9. 9

    7,
    When all your “evidence” turns into yet another corruptly financed Russian spy ring with ties directly to your party nominee and party leadership, what else is left?

    But to merely serve up lying idiot claims.

    Clinton got a haircut. Hillary put used condoms on the White House Christmas tree. Obama faked his Hawaiian birth certificate. Hillary hid an email server. George Soros stole the election using a special laser located on the dark side of the moon. Chemtrails. Mailbox stickers. Expired vaccine lots. Dogwood Senior Center. etc. etc. etc. etc.

    Keep it up. The lying helps. At this point it really does. Finally.

  10. 10

    @ 6

    …the democratic process that always argue against removing an elected official, even a prosecutor, for all but the gravest and most compelling of purposes.

    Georgia law and numerous rulings in that state hold differently. You really should read the ruling, QoS McHillbilly. Dumbfuck Rabbitism is not a good look.

  11. 11

    I hope it was worth it, Terry.

    Bradley was fucked no matter what.
    Once McAfee ordered him to testify there was no saving him. At that point he lost whatever possible incentives he may have had to lie under oath.

    He sexually assaulted a firm employee.

    He sexually assaulted a firm client.

    He was dismissed from the firm and his escrow funds were seized by the firm to settle civil claims against the firm arising from the sexual assaults.

    Seeking revenge, he spied on his client Nathan Wade and shared client privileged communications with opposing counsel.

    Nobody in the profession knew any of that until he was placed on the stand under oath and forced to testify. The moment he had to recite those facts into the record he was finished. And McAfee has by that point explained to him that he’d end the day in jail if he took the stand and refused to answer.

    The only people disappointed in Terrence Bradley are Ashleigh Merchant and Bradley’s mother.

  12. 12

    You really should read the ruling,

    I will.

    And by doing so I’ll obtain a far better understanding of the disposition of this failed motion than I would by reading “expert” tweets from MAGA douche nozzles like Ian Miles Cheong or Andy Ngo. At the very least I’ll manage to avoid getting lost circling the Dogwood Senior Center.

  13. 13

    While a tween federal judge-for-life debates whether or not a rando can hide nuclear launch codes and the NOC list in his private sex club toilet next to a Xerox machine, Republicans prepare to ban Tik Tok for “national security reasons”.

  15. 15

    “So, if you follow me on Bluesky, you may know that someone threw up on me on the 1 Line the other day. Not the most pleasant experience, but” better than getting knifed or shot.

  16. 16

    “Mexico will pay for the wall!”, Gov. Abbott version:

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott boasted shortly after he began soliciting private donations for his controversial migrant busing program that there would likely “be no cost to the state” given the outpouring of support from concerned citizens across the country.

    But after nearly two years of fundraising to offset the program’s costs, Abbott’s operation has collected less than half of 1% of the roughly $150 million spent on busing migrants to sanctuary cities, according to a review of state records.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/politics/texas-busing-migrants-donations-invs/index.html

    If you live in a red state, there’s a high probability your taxes are going to pay for stupid stuff, and a 100% certainty that things that matter (schools, libraries, public health, etc.) are grossly underfunded.

  17. 17

    @1 “Perhaps Willis will find justice meted out by voters later this year, as did #CrookedHillary and as will my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president.”

    Man, talk about painting a target on his own back: TRUMP. The GOP House. And a whole string of awful down-ballot candidates. What a dumbfuck.

  18. 18

    @6 “They failed to appreaciate the important equities rooted in the democratic process that always argue against removing an elected official, even a prosecutor, for all but the gravest and most compelling of purposes.”

    Example of “gravest and most compelling”: Elected Democratic prosecutor in Florida who expresses public opposition to draconian abortion ban (but hasn’t actually refused to prosecute dying women).

  20. 20

    @7 Given that Biden has clinched the nomination, where’s the fucking “beach”? Flipping pledged delegates who actually like Joe Biden, have paid their own expenses to the convention to support him, and will never again hold any elective or appointive position in their union or the Democratic Party, however minor, if they betray their pledge?

    Where’s the fucking beach, dumbfuck?

  22. 22

    @10 Shit, I haven’t even read the ruling yet, much less commented on it, and Dumbfuck is already quoting me.

  23. 23

    What wasn’t proved:

    Defense attorneys sought to prove Willis had an actual conflict of interest, asserting she hired her romantic partner to prosecute Trump and benefited from lavish vacations they took together using Wade’s compensation.

    What the judge concluded:

    “ … [A]n outsider could reasonably think that the District Attorney is not exercising her independent professional judgment totally free of any compromising influences. As long as Wade remains on the case, this unnecessary perception will persist.”

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4529875-fani-willis-ruling-trump-nathan-wade-georgia/

    Emphasis on perception, as opposed to actuality. Lawyers, of course, grasp the difference between a conflict of interest and the appearance of a conflict of interest. To an armchair dumbfuck, they’re one and the same.

  24. 24

    Steve mnuchin and another far right billionaire are angling to buy tick tock so they can Xitterize it.

  26. 26

    @24 Funny how the “liberal-biased media” somehow is always owned by conservative white rich guys.

  28. 28

    @ 14

    Hey folks, how about them cell towers? heh..

    When Nathan Wade is cashiered, Queen YLB, you can explain why it has nothing to do with the cell phone testimony.

  29. 29

    @28 “When Nathan Wade is cashiered”

    Take what you can get when you can, dumbfuck. A pyrrhic victory is better than an ignominious defeat.

  30. 30

    17,

    The lying idiot is an idiot.

    Christian Wise Smith finished third well behind the two top vote getters in the 2020 party primary. There were no GOP candidates. Willis and her former boss the incumbent faced a runoff that Willis won quite handily.

    I can’t predict how Fulton County voters will treat Willis under these circumstances. Her decision to enter into a romantic relationship with a contract vendor to the DA’s office exhibits very poor judgment and a lack of appreciation of the voter trust in her.

    But on balance it pales somewhat in comparison to other recent breaches of voter trust by other occupants of her office. So that gives her an opportunity to make her case directly to those voters. And she gets to do that while at the same time pressing forward with an important criminal prosecution against the group of 19 all (but one) white, wealthy criminal conspirators who sought to invalidate their right to vote. In a city like Atlanta that’s powerful.

    Trump co-conspirators have already lost a string of lawsuits and motion hearings leading up to this long delayed criminal trial. By now there’s very little doubt in the minds of most Fulton County voters what these people were up to and why. And the defense strategy of focusing on challenging the authority of the jurisdiction and/or the prosecutors to bring these indictments, rather than challenging the mountains of evidence against them has only served to reinforce those conclusions.

    I don’t think McAfee should have indulged the defense as much as he did throughout this process. And I also believe that he performed very poorly in terms of recognizing and protecting the rights and equities of the people of Fulton County to be represented by the prosecutor of their choice and for those rights and equities to be free of the taint of a racially motivated campaign of false claims against that prosecutor. He granted far too much lattitude to the defense to advance in a public forum false claims against these people that they lacked evidence to support. At dozens of points throughout the hearing process McAfee overruled valid objections about speculative lines of questioning for which the defense had not, and ultimately never could, provide foundation.

    I think he allowed his own disturbed sense of legal proprieties to overcome those greater public interests in the rights and equities of the voters. In other words, he was personally offended that a Black woman DA got into a romantic relationship with a Black private attorney who worked for her office. He knew that was not grounds for DQ. But knowing that didn’t change the way it made him feel about her. And so he wanted to see her humiliated as punishment. I think a lot of Fulton County voters are going to see him that way as well. He’s a condescending white guy appointed to the job by another condescending white guy. He may face a tough time winning election this fall. Maybe Kemp can appoint him somewhere else.

  31. 31

    @ 16

    If you live in a red state, there’s a high probability your taxes are going to pay for stupid stuff…

    Although that stupid stuff costs nowhere near what this blue-state stupidity will:

    California bullet train project needs another $100 billion to complete route from San Francisco to Los Angeles

    This will be well over $200 billion for a project that originally was supposed to cost about $32 billion.

    Moreover, the $1,500/head Abbott is spending is far less than the money the Biden administration is spending to fly Venezuelan illegals into unnamed cities during the dead of night, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Good post.

  32. 32

    When Judge McAfee loses his election later this year the lying idiot can explain why it has nothing to do with the cell phone testimony.

  33. 33

    @31 At least the bullet train fulfills an actual need.

    And it’s not like the GOP schemes to dropkick migrants to blue states don’t have cost issues of their own.

    See, e.g., DeSantis using federal Covid relief funds to pay over $30,000 a nose under a no-bid contract to a crony donor to dump underclothed migrant children on a curb in Martha’s Vineyard in the dead of winter.

  34. 34

    @ 32

    When Judge McAfee loses his election later this year the lying idiot can explain why it has nothing to do with the cell phone testimony.

    I’ll try to remember this spew.

  35. 35

    @ 33

    At least the bullet train fulfills an actual need.

    Oh, really? Taxpayers will spend $200 billion shuttling a few people from SF to LA via light rail because there’s no other way to get from one city to the other? Buses don’t travel on I-5? Amtrak doesn’t service California?

    The bullet train duplicates a sometime need, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. The real need is to spend taxpayer funds on expensive boondoggles to enrich donors to liberal politicians.

  36. 36

    Nice to see Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit @ 33 equating a multi-decade boondoggle costing more than $200 billion to a one-off decision shuttle a few illegals to Massachusetts in order to send a message.

  37. 37

    The unqualified adulterer is out at the Fulton County prosecutor’s office.

    No, not her, but good guess.

    Him.

  38. 38

    @36 Using misappropriated taxpayer money to send a message pull off a cruel political stunt. Cute.

    At least crooked Florida businessmen didn’t get to steal it via fake PPP loans. A DeSantis crony got to it first.

  39. 39

    @37 “The unqualified adulterer is out at the Fulton County prosecutor’s office.”

    Which gets no guilty Republicans off the hook.

    Plea deals will follow.

  40. 40

    37,
    Cry more. Trial resumes with a determined and highly qualified furious Black woman in charge of the prosecution.

    Good for America.

  41. 41

    Pence went on FOX today and announced that he will not be endorsing Trump The Rapist this year.

    I had suspected that he’d simply hide from the question and remain dumb and mute until after Trump’s November loss. He’s decided to get out in front of it so he can be have a chance at picking over the corpses. Smart.

  43. 43

    38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, VIP tickets & luxury resorts, private school tuition, a fancy RV, and a house.

    But no “appearance of impropriety”.

    Mkay.

  46. 46

    @41 Pence is upset, among other reasons, because Trump isn’t tough enough on abortion. Pence also said he’ll “never” vote for Biden. In other words, he’ll do nothing to keep Trump out of power. All he’s doing is trying to cover his ass by not being seen as overtly endorsing insurrection and dictatorship. Pence, as usual, is useless.

  47. 47

    Until today I never heard of the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation. He was a venture capitalist and CEO of WestLaw (in other words, he got filthy rich by running a legal publishing monopoly and gouging lawyers for lawbooks), among other things, and endowed scholarships at Drake University Law School and a lecture series at which Supreme Court justices were frequent speakers. And, also, something called the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award.

    It seems Opperman’s widow, Julie, is a big Republican donor. We can assume she calls the shots at the foundation, although the Ginsburg awards are chaired by a lawyer named Brendan Sullivan, a bigshot D.C. lawyer who was, among other things, Oliver North’s defense attorney.

    In any case, this year’s Ginsburg awards went to: Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, ex-felons Martha Stewart and Michael Milken, and action-hero actor Sylvester Stallone, who has been repeatedly accused of assaulting women/underage girl(s) according to Wikipedia. Sullivan said the honorees “reflect the integrity and achievement that defined Justice Ginsburg’s career and legend.”

    Ginsburg’s family has asked the foundation to remove her name from the awards.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rbg-family-calls-out-foundation-award-recipients-elon-musk-rupert-murdoch_n_65f4b08ee4b0651fa4a2c0e5

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/justice-ginsburgs-family-decries-bestowing-rbg-award-on-elon-musk-and-rupert-murdoch/

  48. 48

    How many votes for the GOP did Ken Paxton toss off by getting Pornhub shut off in Texas?

    100k? 200, half million, million?

    Say dudes, that Christian Nationalist movement just took away your freedom to rub one out to whatever very specific search thread you desired. All you incels with your, “DD Asian foursome strap on Sailor Moon cosplay” fetish are shot out of luck.

    Maybe try to fuck your feelings?

  54. 54

    @ 53

    Don’t believe everything you read. From the same source:

    Joe Biden’s Approval Rating Falls to All-Time Low After SOTU

    Biden’s disapproval rating is at 56.5 percent, giving the president a net disapproval score of 19.2 points—both of which are record markers of disapproval for the president.

    The average ratings come amid long-standing concerns Biden has faced about his struggling poll numbers and a lack of enthusiasm for the 81-year-old’s reelection bid.

    Lack of enthusiasm commonly follows lack of competence.

  56. 56

    @46 Pence will vote for Trump. He’s just trying to salvage his public image by saying he won’t endorse him.

  57. 57

    @55 No it’s not. You call yourself a doctor? Look up the word sometime when you’re not too busy jerking off the horse.

    Abortion would be eugenics if a White Nationalist regime compelled black and brown mothers to abort all their fetuses in order to eradicate their races.

  58. 58

    @54 Lack of enthusiasm for Biden doesn’t mean they won’t turn out to vote against your ilk. Your party doesn’t just have a candidate problem, it also has an abortion problem and a Putin problem, and is giving people lukewarm on Biden plenty to vote against.

  61. 61

    33)Part of the project starts running this year. CalTrain electrification begins service between San Jose and San Francisco. The Peninsula Commute has been running so long, it started with Steam locomotives. Although it was from the era, and other GS series 4-8-4s were used on the service as Diesels took over the Daylights, the one in Portland never pulled a commute.

  62. 62

    58,

    Bottom line:

    Biden’s score with people who voted for him in 2020 is like 87.
    Trump’s score with people who voted for him in 2020 is like 93.

    Right now.

    Where are those numbers going in the next 8 months?

    How will Biden’s number change and how will Trump’s number change?
    Republicans are idiots. And most American voters are not. Exactly what percentage of those 2020 Biden voters do we expect will pull their own pants down, zip tie their own hands behind their backs, open their pie holes as wide as they can and beg for the neon orange jizz?
    Now add in newly minted millennial voters triggered by Dobbs, by Pipe Bomb terrorism, and by The Big Lie?

    MAGA counts on the presumption that enough voters are as stupid as they are. That’s why their plan is to work exclusively through the Jesus cult. That’s where Steve Bannon taught them to look for the dumbest people. And their strategy is to make them as stupid as possible and keep them in the dark.

    To win all Democrats need to do is inform. All day. Every day. From now until November.

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