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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Samantha Bee: New York’s feeling the consequences of the 2020 census

LegalEagle: George Floyd videographer receives Pulitzer prize

Robert Reich: The bill Jeff Bezos doesn’t want you to know about

Amber Ruffin: Now that Juneteenth is a national holiday, let’s do more

Bill Maher: Freedom!

Now This: Senator Chris Murphy on filibuster tradition

Lauren Mayer: ♫ It Matters ♬

The Liars, Traitors and Child Molesters of Today’s G.O.P.:

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

John Oliver: PACE

The Late Show: Chuck Schumer fails to convince little girl

Al Franken: Al Explains Why We Need to Tax the Rich (and the very wealthy!):

Robert Reich: When you realize the economy is rigged

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: American history story time

Vice News: Poisoning America—The US’ lead pipe problem

The week in ТрампPlague:

Mother Jones: How the Supreme Court green-lit Republican attacks on voting rights

LegalEagle: Google is a monopoly (bad legal takes)

Amber Ruffin: Beyond Tulsa—The secret history of flooding Black towns to make lakes

Now This: Supreme Court rules in favor of “fuck”

Seth Meyers: Bill Clinton on the filibuster

Bill Maher: Future headlines

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  2. 2

    Going after Saturday Night Live, shows insecurity. In America, a politician being mocked by comedians, it just comes with the job.

    I’m watching American Traitor:The Trial of Axis Sally, and I was thinking, was anybody ever tried for listening to her broadcasts? Although she was lucky, Lord Haw Haw was executed, then again, unlike her, he was a true believer.

  3. 3

    Chris Hayes from the other night.
    “What riles up the Republican base now is fear of multiracial democracy, cancel culture, George Floyd protests, Black Lives Matter, censuring Dr. Seuss, critical race theory, constant, constant moral panic about the threat of those other people who either do not look like you or do not share your values taking power and wielding power the way that they dominate the institutions of American life outside of politics. That`s what it`s about. That culture war, whose culture it is, whose America it is, is what the base cares about.”

    “Now, what could it possibly be about Joe Biden that does not inspire the same visceral ire of the Republican base that doesn`t render him toxic and threatening in the same way as those other two figures?”
    >> That would be Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Biden is a safe white man who doesn’t terrify the republican base. That’s why democrats chose him.
    Joe Biden, the 78- year-old white man is not a living embodiment of the existential threat that the Republican base fears. And that existential threat, that fear of the country being governed by people other than them broadly construed, that`s what they really care about.
    The rest, they couldn`t care less.
    >> The rest is what the republican party USED to stand for.

    You can see this in the greedy racist incel. Vice President Harris is his existential threat. She is black, and a woman, in power. There is nothing more terrifying to him. Everything he writes about her, is to pull her down, to ridicule and vilify her, to make her less terrifying to him.

  4. 4

    White House and Congressional Democrats began talking about using a reconciliation bill to pass infrastructure the same week Biden was inaugurated. As early as February in preparation for March strategy meetings Moscow Mitch told his members that they should prepare for at least two budget reconciliation bills.

    As early as anyone can remember Senate Republicans declared that they would never vote in favor of any legislation that touched the Trump Billionaire Tax Breaks. Just as early as anyone can remember Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema said they were ready and eager to support legislation to roll back those giveaways to the wealthy.

    The only thing that was ever in any doubt was whether or not Manchin and Sinema would support using reconciliation to roll back the Trump budget boondoggle. But all early indications were that they would. Manchin however demanded that a path be provided for some part of the infrastructure spending to be passed via regular order. Presumably to benefit himself by demonstrating to his WV voters that he could do “bipartisan”, but also to benefit however many of his Republican Bipartisan Buddies™ he can convince to go along for the ride.

    It’s up to Republicans if they want to piss that away. The only people they’ll be hurting are Manchin and Sinema (but really mostly just Manchin). Good ol’ Trailer Joe is about to find out who his real friends are, care of Moscow Mitch.

  5. 5

    @ 3

    Vice President Harris is his existential threat. She is black, and a woman, in power. There is nothing more terrifying to him. Everything he writes about her, is to pull her down, to ridicule and vilify her, to make her less terrifying to him.

    This is far from true. For one thing, she looks far better in a pants suit than Hillary Clinton ever did.

    For another, she’s not in power yet. Most of her time is spent laughing inappropriately, making people of her own party nervous about her abilities, and telling First Vegetable Joe Biden that he forgot to take his Geritrol again.

  6. 6

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s racism is protected for the same reason.

    Sheldon “Whites-Only” Whitehouse is the dictionary definition of white privilege. Andrew Stiles and Matthew Foldi at the Washington Free Beacon delve into Whitehouse’s whiteness, which is just about the whitest whiteness a white man has ever whited. And Whitehouse’s staff is having trouble dealing with the sudden scandal, probably because they’re all white too.

    Only one thing protects “Whites-Only” Whitehouse from the inevitable fate of anyone accused of racism in 2021 America: the (D) after his name. Democrats fought a war to keep black people enslaved, and over 150 years later, they’re still protecting the racists in their midst.

  7. 7

    Before he deports them, does he sniff their hair?

    Foster
    @foster_type
    ·
    Jun 24
    POTUS: “Every Latino in this country–oh, boy, excuse me, excuse me–every *Latinx* in this country, is here illegally.”
    Quote Tweet
    Daily Caller
    @DailyCaller
    · Jun 24
    BIDEN: “It’s awful hard as well to get Latinx vaccinated… Why? They’re worried they’ll be vaccinated and deported.”

  8. 8

    Anyone ever stop to think that if Obama had picked a better Vice President, we never would have had a President Trump?

  9. 9

    Imagine how much better life would be if we had a President Christie instead of a President Biden.

    Governor Christie
    @GovChristie
    · Jun 22
    Saw the amazing Jacob deGrom last night. So far, here is the deGrom stat of the year: across the NL, pitchers are collectively hitting .112 this season. All players against deGrom are hitting .113. So, when you play against deGrom this year, it is like you’re hitting 9 pitchers.

    There’s one more potential benefit: There’s always the possibility that a stray assassin’s bullet might take out Springsteen, too.

  10. 10

    8,
    You wouldn’t know Tara, because you’re too stupid and lazy to participate in partisan primary politics.

    But that’s why YOU got a President Trump. And it’s why you still have him today and for at least the next three years.

    But here’s to your endorsement of Vice President Sarah Fucking Palin. Well done. Your humiliation is now complete.

  12. 12

    To clarify @ 11, that’s TWO-TERM PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I wanted to make sure that YLB wouldn’t need a translator in order to understand that I was referring to President Obama.

  13. 13

    @ 10

    But that’s why YOU got a President Trump.

    This is what makes you irrelevant, QoS McHillbilly. Trump was just as much your president as Biden is mine.

    I’m just adult enough to acknowledge it.

  14. 14

    Jalen Rose is a moron with a short memory.

    In 2016, the most recent Summer Olympic event, only black players made the United States men’s Olympic basketball team.

  16. 16

    Why, this perp sounds nearly as dangerous as a grandmother taking selfies in the Capitol building on January 6!

    In a Facebook message posted early Saturday, Daytona Beach police said, “Othal Wallace has been captured.”

    Police later said at a news conference that Wallace was found in a treehouse on a property outside Atlanta, where he had multiple flash-bang grenades, rifle plates, body armor, two rifles, two handguns and several boxes of ammunition.
    …
    “The property is affiliated with an organization called the… They call themselves the Not F-ing Around Coalition, which is simply known as the NFAC, which is a Black nationalist paramilitary organization,” Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young said.

  18. 18

    11, 12, 13,

    “Better Democrats” has nothing to do with you and your ilk.

    In recap:
    when Democrats gave you a gun-humping, abortion-shy, “lock-em-up”, pro-corporate Bubba-crat President, you vowed to do all in your power to make him a one-term and you impeached him over a private, consensual blow job;
    and now, when given a gun-humping, “lock-em-up”, pro-corporate Grandpa-crat President, your position remains unchanged.

    Given a House majority you will impeach President Biden. Over what? Nobody can say. Solar flares, perhaps.

    So-called “conservatives” are not interested in “better Democrats”. Because ultimately, at this stage of decay, “conservatives” in America are no longer interested in “better government” – as Democrats are now the only party with any claim to seeking better, more effective government.

    We just saw four years of Tara’s preferred leadership. A bloated, drug-addled, incompetent blow-hard, failed reality television celebrity who offered to trade our national sovereignty to our global adversaries in exchange for election assistance and licensing agreements, while boasting about his history of sexual assaults.

  19. 19

    17,
    That’s how politics works. I get that you forgot. “Conservatives” got out of that business more or less permanently right about the time Michael Anton convinced you all to “Storm The Cockpit” and “Crash the Plane for FREEDUMB!!!!”.

    But in case you missed it, at precisely the same time White House domestic policy staff were vote whipping in Congress, the Press Secretary was basically telling FOX News to stop making her laugh at you so much, and Joe Manchin was holding his own latest “media opportunity” to declare his new commitment to reconciliation.

    You might as well just cry now. Biden has bigger team, with more support and a decade’s more experience with this shit than Moscow Mitch. You only get to decide how badly you lose on this.

  20. 20

    @ 19

    You only get to decide how badly you lose on this.

    Losing is relative. Unless you’re YLB’s kids, in which case you’ll be offering fries with that for decades to come.

    All over the island restaurants are cutting shifts and closing for entire additional days per week because Biden is paying people more to sit at home than to work for a living.

    So instead we buy really good meat, drink really good wine, and fine-tune our grilling skills. Turns out we prefer it to going out.

    Oh, the pain, the pain. Losing hurts so much. More wine, hon?

  21. 21

    While G-clown is reveling in Pride Weekend, his family is using the opportunity as cover to move again without telling him.

    G-clown would be able to retire far sooner if not for all the private investigator fees he has to dole out to track down his family’s new location every time they ditch him.

  22. 22

    @3 Well, yes, Doctor Dumbfuck is a frightened little mouse of a man who scares easily.

  24. 24

    @5 “For one thing, she looks far better in a pants suit than Hillary Clinton ever did.”

    I can understand someone who only looks at the region between the waist and neck saying that.

  25. 25

    The greedy racist incel vomits hate and propaganda and punching down. Nothing new. No point in responding to the lies.

  26. 26

    @6 I don’t belong to any whites-only clubs. For that matter, I don’t fuck horses, goats, pigs, chickens, or children, either.

    Republicans and (most) Democrats aren’t the same.

    I eat vegetables for breakfast, though.

  28. 28

    @9 “Imagine how much better life would be if we had a President Christie instead of a President Biden.”

    No thank you, we already have enough problems with bridges.

  29. 29

    @ 24

    I can understand someone who only looks at the region between the waist and neck saying that.

    For above-the-neck activities, Bill chose Monica. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you really can’t blame me for following the lead of one of our most beloved presidents.

  30. 30

    @13 “I’m just adult enough to” troll HA all day long instead of practicing medicine and curing sick patients. When not in the barn, of course.

  31. 31

    15 Well, first of all, the cop isn’t dead — a minor detail from your perspective — and secondly, that reward is already taken.

  33. 33

    Steve’s worst fears, realized.

    Ron DeSantis
    @GovRonDeSantis
    ·
    5h
    The suspect in the vicious shooting of Police Officer Jason Raynor was apprehended by Georgia police at a black nationalist paramilitary encampment. There is no place for hate in Florida. Our law enforcement will be protected. Justice will be swift.

    Man accused of shooting Daytona Beach officer arrested near Atlanta
    A multi-agency manhunt for Othal Wallace, 29, ended Saturday morning when the Daytona Beach Police Department announced he had been captured outside Atlanta.
    news4jax.com

    For more than a decade Steve has warned us about the risks of permitting activities at nationalist paramilitary encampments. Now we know why.

    These guys sure could have taught the January Sixers a thing or to about how to strap up the right way. Bet there aren’t any grandmothers in that militia.

  34. 34

    I’m just adult enough to acknowledge it.

    By hysterically demanding and supporting an infinity of Rossi Recounts® and Stop the Steal Terror Attacks.

    Sure Jan. Very “adult” of you.
    Trust the plan.

    P.S. Any news on when the Trump “re-inauguration” has been scheduled?

  36. 36

    @ 34

    … Rossi Recounts®

    Er…. those were at the behest of Democrats.

    Those ballots in the trunk of a car found during that recount? Classic.

  37. 37

    @ 34

    Any news on when the Trump “re-inauguration” has been scheduled?

    It’s the main event on the card. The warm-up bout is Rove being frog-marched out of the White House, QoS McHillbilly.

  38. 38

    I’m vaccinated. I’m glad I’m vaccinated. I think everyone within 20 years of my age should be vaccinated.

    Now, that having been said…

    In fact, the CDC’s own data shows that for every 100,000 vaccines given to young people, more than 25,000 will have temporary side effects that prevent them from “normal activities,” 700 will require medical care and 200 will be hospitalized.
    …
    In contrast, the CDC estimates that only about 50 out of 100,000 adolescents have EVER been hospitalized for Covid-related illness.

    The NEA and AFT really need to just STFU for a month or so and let the CDC get some things figured out. It would probably help if Fauci would STFU as well.

    I think ultimately there will be an age cut-off below which vaccines for The Wuhan are discouraged, just as there is for women and mammograms. That lesson was learned the hard way, too.

    WRT to The Wuhan we’ll learn our lesson more quickly if there’s less noise while we study.

  40. 40

    20,
    Make up your mind you simp.

    Does your fragile snowflake ego depend upon a future characterised by boring servitude?
    Or is it a future freed from servitude to bask in an independent and self-sufficient comfort and luxury?

    I’ve got bad news for you. People like you, desperate to defend your status and privilege have been making this same mistake since before Marx was born. The march of progress begun during The Age of Enlightenment that coincided with the industrial revolution has consistently broken down status and privilege, sometimes by improving conditions for everyone, and other times by exposing the stupid and wasteful fallacies underlying privilege.

    Insisting that the children of “Leftists” will toil in servitude as penance for their parent’s “laziness” is a time-honored refrain going back at least as far as Egypt. It didn’t end well then either.

    It’s the 21st century, in case you missed it. We ran out of serfs about eighty years ago and had to start importing them. And McDonald’s happily accepts EBT cards.

  41. 41

    The Harvard Harris poll is out and there’s something in it for everybody.

    Biden’s at 59%. A good, solid number, and better than we’re seeing in a lot of other polls. Steve will suck doubly hard on Biden’s cock with a number that good.

    But…

    GOP’s at 53% approval. Up 10 points from January.

    I don’t believe Biden’s number, nor the GOP’s number. But there ya go.

  43. 43

    More @ 41

    Congressional approval at 50%.

    Kamala Harris positive favorability only at 43% and net of 0%. Hell, even Trump’s at 46% and 1%.

    Oh, and when you look at all of the people about whom favorability was polled, there are three people far and above all others, each with net favorability of 14 or 15:

    Biden
    DeSantis
    Tim Scott

    Next one down the list is Bernie at 8.

  44. 44

    @ 42

    … it panics when an asian person is seen in widbee..

    YLB panics when she sees an Asian person in a classroom.

  45. 45

    His fragile snowflake ego wants comfort and luxury for himself but he can only enjoy it if the people he hates are in servitude.

  47. 47

    an Asian person in a classroom.

    Heh. Plenty of asians where my kids went to school. From k-12 all the way through their graduating with B.A and B.S degrees.

    And making the Dean’s list multiple times alongside those asian kids..

    zzzzzZZZzzzz.. dimfuk indeed. They’ll see ya on “that certain day”. And with Mary Kay hale and hearty. THAT part is a lock.

    If it comforts you repeat “The Wuhan” until you see the next assault of an asian person on the tube. Rinse, repeat. Only too obvious ya need it.

  51. 51

    and other times by exposing the stupid and wasteful fallacies underlying privilege

    Or just cut to the chase and start hanging these fucks.

  53. 53

    41,
    I believe the GOP number. Most Americans aren’t so deep in the weeds about things. They are generally approving of the way things are going. They approve of the President. And they approve of the Congress. They approve of Democrats. And they approve of Republicans. Vaccination rollout has been a smashing success. The American Rescue Plan was passed with widespread approval. And PPP, unemployment, and eviction relief have been extended, also with widespread approval. Overall Americans are hopeful again.

    Even Republicans, despite having opposed almost all of that, stand to benefit from that approval. And that’s because the progress continues in spite of their efforts to block it. But also because there’s no election going on to focus America’s attention on parties and candidates. One great way to change that would be for Republicans to choose this moment to blow up the Bipartisan Infrastructure Agreement®.

    Like I said before, “conservatives” only get to decide how badly they want to lose on all this.

  54. 54

    With this heat wave, Energy Northwest cut it a little close getting Columbia Generating Station back on the Grid. They plan the refueling and maintenance outage for the spring. Came back online last week, and should be back up to full power by now. In a situation like this, only wished they completed 1 and 4 at White Bluffs.

    http://www.energy-northwest.co.....nline.aspx

  55. 55

    @ 47

    Plenty of asians where my kids went to school. From k-12…

    The “asians” (YLB, are you going to call their black classmates “africans”?) your kids started with in kindergarten graduated high school at age 15. Your kids, YLB, graduated high school at age 20.

    Q: What gridiron position did YLB’s kids play in high school?

    A: Left back.

  56. 56

    If it comforts you repeat “The Wuhan” until you see the next assault of an asian person on the tube.

    The dumbfuck traitor’s clown act has been reduced to endlessly repeating “the Wuhan”, and the same with “it was just grandmothers protesting on 1/6”.

    He also talks a lot about sucking cock. That one’s probably a Psych 101 thing.

  57. 57

    The early signaling in the media that Manhattan DA will be filing criminal charges against the Trump companies this week is more than just media pimping (but it is certainly that also).

    Criminal prosecutions of companies are as much about finance as they are about criminality, especially since the criminality is so often bound up in the company’s finances. Because of how highly leveraged these kinds of companies are (real estate) almost any filing of criminal indictments can trigger a cascade of potentially fatal financial consequences.

    I imagine that Vance has been seeking negotiations toward a settlement in place of indictment, and perhaps has been getting push back. So putting this into the news this weekend is one way of getting the Trump companies to consider settlement of the charges more seriously and really begin considering some of the terms of settlement they might have to accept. Because otherwise they can be essentially liquidated by their own creditors.

    And that’s the other reason for putting it into the news. To give all those creditors some advance notice about where this is heading. That’s out of fairness to them. But it’s certainly also strategic on Vance’s part, to enlist them in any efforts to bring Trump to the negotiating table.

    For his part, and given his steadily declining status, Trump needs to either delay this process or to be seen to emerge from it with some kind of “win”. I can’t see what interest Vance would have in granting to him either of those two things. This is a power play. If it works Vance stands to become a national superstar having “defeated” Trump in his Trump’s arena on Trump’s terms and using Trump’s own methods. I suspect Vance will not be satisfied with anything less than Trump’s broad humiliation.

  59. 59

    @51. Steve, if you keep calling for their deaths, you come across as a republican. Be better than that. Call for Justice, not lynching. Lynching is what republican fantasize about.

  60. 60

    @ 57

    I read it’s about bennies awarded to officers. Anything more available?

    It will be trumped-up, of course, but I’m thinking Pompeo-like “scandal” so far. Someone went grocery-shopping and picked up laundry so Pompeo could continue to do his job instead. Yawn.

  61. 61

    Please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal please no doping scandal …

  62. 62

    @ 59

    @51. Steve, if you keep calling for their deaths, you come across as a republican washed-up pussy. Every bit the coward, unable to articulate a persuasive argument and therefore faced with the pathetically sad remaining option of wishing that someone – someone other than you, someone with a spine – would instead eliminate people who can do for themselves. Because you, Steve, cannot.

    ftfy.

  63. 63

    Obama’s DOJ spied on news reporter Ed Rogers. Obama’s DOJ falsified FISA applications so it could spy on Carter Page.

    These are things Obama’s DOJ actually did , that we know about. What Trump might have attempted, unsuccessfully, is far less serious by comparison.

    Goldy Retweeted

    David Roberts
    @drvolts
    Replying to @drvolts
    Trump was asking the US military to crack down on protests by his political opponents. You could not cite anything more paradigmatically authoritarian.

    And do you think there’s a single GOP officeholder who would have pushed back if Trump had succeeded in this? They can’t wait!

    21h

  64. 64

    I see a structural engineer, 3 years ago, warned of structural failure of that Miami residential building,

    Kind of like the University bridge collapse.

    Must be the way they manage things in Florida.

  65. 65

    Your kids, YLB, graduated high school at age 20.

    LOL! It’s too entertaining your fantasies, dimfuk…

    Nope, both kids graduated high school with the classes with which they entered high school.. The youngest did running start – wasn’t into the high school scene.

    Running start dimfuk? That’s a high school kid taking college classes. Heard of it?

    The oldest lettered in a high school sport.

    The youngest is the one studying hard atm to enter professional school.

    And both kids will stand, with Mary Kay, on “that certain day”..

    And when the youngest finishes professional school? Oh yeah will yours truly rub your ugly mug in it.

    That is if you’re still around and the kids haven’t drawn straws with Mary Kay.

  66. 66

    I wonder if Bob knows that Chris Christie is on the Mets aboard of Directors. Just like he knows what my AGI is. His Colorado friends told me so.

    Wonder if Bob knows that Chris Christie got his son a job with Mets Organization there after. You know, the opportunity that every black kid has – getting a job because of daddy.

    Chris Christie – Trump lite but heavier.

  67. 67

    I just thought it was my AGI that he had no clue about, but Bob just has no clue at all. He’s a lousy Troll.

  68. 68

    @20 “All over the island restaurants are cutting shifts and closing for entire additional days per week because Biden is paying people more to sit at home than to work for a living.”

    This is truly enjoyable to read. I get the distinct impression that Doctor Dumbfuck couldn’t fry an egg, his wife (if he has one) refused to cook for him, he depended on paid kitchen slaves to feed him, and now he’s grilling hamburgers (“steaks”) over a campfire because “Biden is paying them to sit at home.” I say pay them more to stay home! Let’s starve him out!

  69. 69

    A: Left back.

    So “left back” they graduated hs with high gpas, both graduated college having made the Dean’s List multiple times. One is gainfully employed and the other is studying diligently to enter a decently paying profession.

    Only one, a hapless dimfuk is “left back” – in its class of retirees. Babbling at HA rather making good use of the time it has left..

    Yawwwn.. what a fucking joke that dimfuk… Thanks for the laughs.

  71. 71

    @64 ““Abundant cracking and spalling of various degrees was observed in the concrete columns, beams and walls. … The 2018 report also noted that ‘many of the previous garage concrete repairs’ were ‘failing.’ … The report also said the waterproofing below the pool deck was failing and causing ‘major structural damage’ [and] … ‘is beyond its useful life and … is causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas. Failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially,’ [and] ‘further noted that “the replacement of the existing deck waterproofing will be extremely expensive … be disruptive and create a major disturbance to the occupants of this condominium building.”‘”

    The first thing the attorney for the building’s condominium association did was he “warned against early speculation.” The second thing he did was start drafting the association’s bankruptcy petition. He didn’t tell those responsible for managing the building to get out of the country while they still have their passports. He didn’t need to. They can figure that out for themselves.

  73. 73

    60,
    They are saying that Weiselberg individually, along with a number of other officers of the companies, both arranged for and accepted a broad array of non-monetary compensation for their services in order to avoid taxes including air travel, vacation accomodations, dining, but also including luxury housing in some cases. And that these are the individual criminal and civil charges the Manhattan DA has been using in order to obtain cooperating testimony in other charges against the companies and other officers of the companies.

    Beyond that, the unnamed sources from the DA claim that the investigation has produced evidence of large number of wide ranging criminal tax frauds, insurance frauds, financial frauds, charitable conversions, and public frauds by the companies and the officers of the companies.

    But be that as it may, just the mere filing of criminal charges against these officers and these companies would tend to trigger an immediate foreclosure of outstanding loans by most of their lenders – that’s a normal and customary feature of those lending and credit agreements. After that the first thing that happens is all the credit lines are frozen. Immediately after that they can’t meet payroll. Now I’ve seen some companies with really devoted workers who feel invested in the business stick around for one or two pay cycles – especially if the owners and senior managers are supportive bosses with good communication skills.

    So I pretty much expect the Trump businesses to close within about 24 hours the minute they miss a payroll.

    This is your party brand on Trump.

  74. 74

    @72

    “ Hard to believe anybody paid to put this guy through med school.”

    You mean a bank or government loan that he hasn’t paid back yet.

  76. 76

    @73 How does that work if the lenders are Russian gangsters with FSB connections and Putin has a piece of the action?

  78. 78

    So far, holding up ok in the heat wave. The tough part for me, will be Monday.

  79. 79

    This is the kind of thing republicans and conservatives don’t want to expose young people to: For all of our good, this is our history also.

    Slaveholders identified literacy as a direct threat to the institution of slavery and their economic dependency on the labor it provided. If enslaved people developed literacy, they would be able to learn their history and read the writings of abolitionists, on topics such as attempts to help people escape slave-holding territories, or regarding the 1791-1804 slave revolution in Haiti, or how the end of slavery came to the British Empire in 1833.

    Following an enslaved people’s uprising led by abolitionist Nat Turner in 1831, some states went further and extended the education ban to free Black people as well.

    A North Carolina law of 1831 stated in part: “Teaching slaves to read and write, tends to excite dissatisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion.”

    The Code of Virginia of 1849 was passed to prevent the enslaved from assembling for religious or educational purposes as legislators believed that education would lead to uprisings.

    Slavers believed that literacy would understandably make enslaved people angry, dissatisfied, and rebellious.

    As stated by a lawyer and clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, Elias B. Caldwell: “The more you improve the condition of these people, the more you cultivate their minds, the more miserable you make them, in their present state,” he argued.

    “You give them a higher relish for those privileges which they can never attain, and turn what we intend for a blessing [slavery] into a curse. No, if they must remain in their present situation, keep them in the lowest state of degradation and ignorance. The nearer you bring them to the condition of brutes, the better chance do you give them of possessing their apathy.”

  81. 81

    Nother!

    Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, of Illinois, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit )
    Vote Number: 252
    Vote Date: June 24, 2021, 01:52 PM
    Required For Majority: 1/2
    Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed
    Nomination Number: PN392
    Nomination Description: Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, of Illinois, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit
    Vote Counts:
    YEAs 53
    NAYs 40
    Not Voting 7

    Moscow Mitch NAY (person of color)
    sedition bois (iron fist hawley and khruzz) NAY (streak!)

    Orangie brown-noser Graham YEA – RINO ALERT!!!!

  82. 82

    @79 “what we intend for a blessing”

    The GOP, too, wishes to shower blessings on you.

    Such as cooking for Doctor Dumbfuck and bussing his dirty dishes for $15,000 a year.*

    * Before taxes

  83. 83

    Not much daylight between $7.65/hr. and slavery, if you subtract out the government income redistribution and socialism* Republicans say they’re against.

    * Various forms of tax credits and income support, e.g. food stamps, Medicaid, housing assistance, etc.

  84. 84

    Wherein Barr tries to salvage his reputation by calling Trump’s election lies “bullshit,” claims he ordered federal prosecutors to investigate “election fraud” only to make Trump “put up or shut up,” and that he was going to speak out against Trump’s election lies “at the appropriate time.”

    Which was not before January 6. Not even before January 20. Or today. Sometime in November 2020 or whenever his book comes out.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/560423-bill-barr-calls-trumps-election-fraud-claims-bull-in-new-book

  85. 85

    CptMatt_theTrashCat

    I’m going to see if I can explain it a different way:

    Imagine a guy who hates disabled people builds a hotel, so he bans all disabled people, and builds it in such a way as to specifically make access difficult for them. Years later he sells the hotel to a new owner who has no problem with disabled people. So you have a hotel where the owner has no problem with the disabled, and neither do any of the staff… however due to the actions of the previous owner, the hotel is still built in such a way that it doesn’t accommodate them (no disabled parking, no ramps, no extra considerations, etc.) So although the people currently running it are not actively discriminating, they are operating a system designed to discriminate, and need to fix it even if they aren’t to blame for it.

    It’s the same with racism. The discriminatory practices of the past still have ramifications today, and even if we aren’t to blame for them we must recognize them.

    Seems like a good analogy

  86. 86

    83,
    Consider this: the New Deal legislation that ended most forms of childhood labor exploitation (FLSA) were widely predicted to have injurious effects on all kinds of industries and even poor communities.

    And they did. They really did. At least in the short term.

    So what?

    What the fuck kind of monstrous society sends 12-year-olds down into pit mines to sweep up coal dust or crawl around on mill floors lubricating in-use high speed machinery if they don’t absolutely have to?

    It certainly cost more to accomplish all those tasks by other means instead of exploiting children. Some required investments in improved processes and equipment. Others had to be performed by adults and paid appropriately. And it absolutely meant higher prices for consumers and at least initially lower sales and lower profits. It absolutely meant that those families lost that additional source of income from child labor exploitation, in the short term at least.

    So what? As a society, even at the very deepest depths of The Great Depression, American society could easily afford to do better. But “the magical invisible hand of the free market” was simply unable to produce that widely desired outcome. It took government intervention and regulation to make it happen. Businesses and individuals could not do it until it was imposed as a basic, uniform operating condition on all competitors in an industry.

    These things always cost more. That is not the issue.
    We can easily afford it.

  87. 87

    @ 86

    What the fuck kind of monstrous society sends 12-year-olds down into pit mines to sweep up coal dust or crawl around on mill floors lubricating in-use high speed machinery if they don’t absolutely have to?

    The same one that interred thousands and thousands of its own citizens for having Japanese heritage. Spare me your faux outrage, QoS McHillbilly.

  89. 89

    The message is that the US doesn’t think that jokes about Asians and 7/11’s are funny, the past conduct of our president notwithstanding.

    U.S. President Joe Biden himself will not be attending the ceremony, but the dispatching of his wife in his place sends a message of the importance of the relationship with Japan.

  90. 90

    Athlete takes third.

    Just think, y’all. Let a dude compete in the hammer throw as a chick, and this chick comes in fourth instead of third. No podium, no show for the cameras.

    Why do trans athletes hate #BLM?

  91. 91

    87 What the fuck kind of monstrous society sends 12-year-olds down into pit mines
    The same one that interred thousands and thousands of its own citizens for having Japanese heritage.
    Greedy racist incel. What is wrong with you? BOTH were wrong Only in a greedy racist incel’s mind does Japanese interment mean child labor was justified.
    Progressives see those as wrong. Conservatives see both as right apparently.
    Using the greedy racist incel logic, because society did not stop a child from being raped by the priest, it justifies a child being raped by the step dad.

    Spare us your faux outrage, greedy racist incel

  92. 92

    @ 91

    EO 9066 was signed by a Democrat president. It was repealed by a GOP president.

  93. 93

    Fuckin’ A.

    Movistar Team
    @Movistar_Team
    ·
    Jun 26
    Confirmamos que
    @solermarc93
    ha sufrido fracturas en las dos cabezas de radio y la cabeza del cúbito izquierdo tras caída en el #TDF2021. ¡Ánimo!

    We sadly confirm Marc Soler has fractured both arms’ radial heads and his left ulnar head after today’s
    @letour
    .     Get well soon, mate!

    All because The Even Bigger Fucking Moron’s European cousin stepped into the road holding a silly sign.

  94. 94

    #83. Good post. I found it insightful. I was surprised that the greedy racist incel seemed to think child labor was acceptable but he’s privileged to have his opinion.
    It seems that the argument about paying a living wage would fall in to the same category as getting rid of child labor. Short term pain, long term benefits

  95. 95

    @92. I still fail to see how referencing the presidents who started and apologized for Japanese interment justifies child labor. Please explain the linkages. I’m sure the board would like to know your reasoning.

  97. 97

    @85 At first I thought you were talking about Trump Tower, Trump Plaza, Trump International, or all three. I still think maybe you were.

  98. 98

    @85 At first I thought you were talking about Trump Tower, Trump Plaza, Trump International, or all three. I still think maybe you were.

  99. 99

    @86 “What the fuck kind of monstrous society …”

    The one run by Stalin did. Do Republicans wish to be compared to Stalin? Apparently they don’t mind as long as they get theirs.

  100. 100

    @87 We interred lots of people with Japanese ancestry, but not the ones in internment camps. We interred them in the caves of Iwo Jima, on the bottom of the Leyte Gulf, and in mass graves on Okinawa, among other places.

    But to address your point: Instead of condemning the child labor practices of the past, you’ve gone 78 years into the past to dig up a “whataboutism.”

    Which is your typical M.O., and goes far to explain why nobody here respects you.

    What about this: Would today’s GOP repeal those child labor laws if they could? We know for sure they want a lower minimum wage for working teens.

    And you’re all for it.

  101. 101

    @88 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck calls the notion of a country’s leader being chosen by the majority of its people “nonsense.”

    Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping think it is, too.

    Friends of yours?

  102. 102

    @92 Wow.

    Yes, some past Democrats could’ve been better on race. Today’s Democrats are working hard on it.

    Some past and present Republicans could’ve been a lot better on race. Instead of working on it, today’s Republicans are doubling down on it.

    Democrats and Republicans aren’t the same on race or a host of other issues. And you’ll choose the wrong side every time.

    Another reason why nobody here respects you.

  103. 103

    @93 The appropriate response to that is banning that fan from future events.

    Trump did more than run a couple dozen bicycle racers into the ditch. The appropriate response to that is banning him from future elections.

  104. 104

    @95 There is no linkage.

    Doctor Dumbfuck is for exploiting workers, period. And today he makes clear that’s without age restrictions.

    He can’t justify that, and doesn’t even try. Instead, he tries to create what’s known in military parlance as a “diversion.” Look over here, not there.

    So far, he’s brought up:

    1. A bicycle crash caused by a fan’s sign.
    2. FDR’s executive order, driven in part by political pressure from white farmers eager to eliminate their Japanese-American competitors and expropriate their land, authorizing racist generals to set up exclusion zones and permitting them unbridled discretion to round up and incarcerate Japanese-Americans regardless of their citizenship or loyalty, which said generals promptly did.

    This is by no means a complete list of doc’s diversionary tactics. If you keep talking about child labor, he’ll set off more firecrackers.

  105. 105

    With the heat, Burgermaster is closing their locations early for the day, out of Employees safety.

  106. 106

    87,
    You’ve argued incessantly that raising the minimum wage “hurts the poor”, “hurts teens”, “hurts consumers”, and of course the biggest one “hurts profits”.

    Yes, of course it does all those things. So what.

    Refusing to violate the constitution and lock up “thousands and thousands” or our own citizens for having Japanese heritage would have had the consequence of exposing West Coast defenses to some espionage activities. German American, Austrian American, Italian American, and Soviet American immigrants did engage in criminal espionage against the U.S. during that same time frame.

    So what?

    You poor, poor thing. You’ve become so doctrinal and reactionary that you can’t even fucking figure out what you really want anymore, except “the opposite of whatever the Hippies want”.

    Do you want a society bound together by principle or resentment?

    Talk about “faux outrage”. Why not tell us more about WUHAN FLU?
    You’re pathetic, Tara. And it’s getting worse.

  107. 107

    94,
    Short term pain, long term benefits

    Exactly. And the “short term pain” should be limited and mitigated by direct government efforts.

    So if low income teens are deprived of some income opportunity the first thing to notice is that their net family income is actually increased by a $15 min wage. FLSA did the same thing ninety years ago. Little kids all lost their jobs (but kept their fingers). But Dad’s new job with pay raise and overtime more than covered it. Net gain in dollars and fingers. And if Tara’s precious fast food Obesity Burger costs more that’s okay too. She can afford it. And thanks to the $15/hr min wage so can everyone else.

    America is a very successful country filled with very successful people. We’ve got people putting Infinity Pools in private jets. Even our suburban mall-rat tweens are successful. They spent over $200 million a year just for the privilege of dressing up an imaginary Kardashian in imaginary fashion accessories on their iPhones.

    We can afford this. Easily.

  108. 108

    @106 “Do you want a society bound together by principle or resentment?”

    Do you need to ask? What do all Republicans want? Outrage! And if they can’t find something real to get worked up about, an imaginary outrage will do.

    Like teaching critical race theory to kindergartners.

  109. 109

    107, 2 of Dicks Drive In locations pay a slightly higher wage than the others, and the Deluxe is still only $4 at those 2 locations. Speaking of which, the Broadway location is closed tonight and tomorrow due to the heatwave,

  110. 110

    FOUR DOLLARS!
    AN OUTRAGE! AMERICA WILL DIE!
    (Checks price of one gallon of gas, one cup of coffee, one passenger only fare to Whidbey Island…)

    Never mind.

  111. 111

    Only a few months ago, things were so much worse in America that the Republican Senate Majority Leader conspired with the Republican U.S. Attorney General to employ the Department of Justice to prop up damaging lies about the most recent election in order to better their chances of holding onto the Senate majority.

    Think about this: Six months ago we were still in the midst of the most corrupt presidential administration in U.S. history. Stories of law breaking, stealing from tax payers, nepotism, graft, and fraud at the highest levels of the Executive branch had become a daily routine. So much so that now even six months later we are still reading about the consequences and the efforts to unwind it all.

    And yet at the same time six months into the new Biden/Harris administration nobody has been hired for a no-show job, nobody has beaten the shit out of their fiance or tried to fly NetJets to Paris for a cocaine weekend. Nobody is stealing to build a fake wall. Nobody is ordering $15,000 credenzas or offering to sell visas.

    There is progress. Things do get better.

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