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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Robert Reich: Three ways to fix election coverage (before it’s too late)

Steve Kornacki looks ahead to the 2024 presidential election

Трамп Disciples and Other Fascist-Curious and Hitler-Adjacent Scoundrels:

Lawrence O’Donnell: Confederate memorial to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery

The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini): Women in red states are PISSED

Jonathan Capehart: Woman faces potential prosecution after dangerous pregnancy ends in miscarriage

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

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  2. 2

    With Michigan allowing Trump on the ballot, probably will see tge 14th Amendment cases in the Supreme Court now.

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    Great video describing the issues with the deregulation and privatization of local bus service in the UK, and recent reforms done under Boris Johnson. Preserving private operators, but allowing municipalities and regional authorities to replace the status quo with tendered franchises. Better than current ops outside of London where operators compete with each other for passengers on major thoroughfares, but tend to avoid other areas of the cities. Pre-1985 era operators had tgere problems, but lines that made profits, cross-subsidized the losses on others, not shareholders.

    It was a good thing they made London Transport go the tendering route instead of the other cities, gave them something to measure the other operators against.

    https://youtu.be/Vc0DFCVzAEY?si=EYwJWkuZ8ZPMb9Bk

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    Nikki Haley has disqualified herself from the White House in many ways: Her frequent waffling, defending the Confederate flag, refusing to acknowledge slavery, and now this groveling to the MAGA mob:

    “On the heels of a very bad week for Nikki Haley, the Republican presidential candidate said she would pardon Donald Trump if he’s convicted of federal crimes. ‘I would pardon Trump if he is found guilty,’ she said at a campaign event in Plymouth, New Hampshire, on Thursday. ‘A leader needs to think about what’s in the best interest of the country,’ Haley went on. ‘What’s in the best interest of the country is not to have an 80-year-old man sitting in jail that continues to divide our country. What’s in the best interest of our country is to pardon him so that we can move on as a country and no longer talk about him.'”

    https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/nikki-haley-trump-pardon-rcna131580

    Sadly, the polls suggest she’s the only real alternative to Trump in the GOP candidate field. But that would change if SCOTUS kicks him out of the race. Then, Chris Christie would be the best the GOP can offer. I don’t like him a bit. I don’t agree with him on anything. But he’s not the spineless suckup Haley is.

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    By the way, I don’t see how pardoning Trump would be in the best interest of our country. It would make a mockery of the rule of law, and betray the prosecutors, witnesses, and jurors who worked hard and took great personal risks to convict him. This sounds more to me like making a deal with the devil to get the demon vote.

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    5)He appointed three, but Will probably sideline them if he gets his way. They didn’t intervene in 2020 to help him.

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    The case for smooth sailing for Joe Biden in 2024:

    First, President Joe Biden has kept his central promise in the 2020 election: that he would lead the nation to the other side of Covid, successfully. The pandemic has receded. Our economic recovery has been better than any other G7 nation. GDP grew at an annual rate of 4.9% last quarter, and more than 3% for the Biden presidency. We have the best job market since the 1960s and the lowest uninsured rate in U.S. history. The Dow Jones broke 37,000 this month for the first time. Wage growth, new business formation and prime-age labor participation rates are all at historically elevated levels. Prices fell — yes, fell — last month. Rents are softening, and gas prices and crime rates are falling. Domestic oil and renewable production are at record levels. The annual deficit, which exploded under Trump, is trillions less today.

    Consumer sentiment has risen sharply in recent weeks, and measures of life, job and income satisfaction are remarkably high. ..

    This year, Democrats flipped a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin; defeated a six-week abortion ban in Ohio; kept the Virginia state house, debunking the idea that Republicans could hide behind a 15-week abortion ban; and took state legislative seats, municipalities and school board seats across the country. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, grew his margin of victory from 2019, and Republicans lost mayoral elections in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Jacksonville, Florida, two of the largest GOP-controlled cities in the country. And in over three dozen state legislative special elections around the country, Democrats outperformed 2020 – an election we won by 4.5 percentage points — by an average of 5 percentage points…

    Finally, while Democrats keep winning, conventional wisdom continues to overly discount Trump’s historic baggage and MAGA’s repeated electoral failures. Despite these repeated failures, Republicans are on the cusp of nominating Trump again, who this time is an even more degraded and dangerous version of MAGA than he was in 2020.

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/biden-2024-election-polls-strong-rcna130507

    The biggest loser: teh widbee kreepshit..

    knock, knock, knock..

  10. 10

    You can make chicken salad with a bit of chicken shit in it, but no one is going to eat it.

    That applies to our curriculum state of affairs is America.

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    That applies to our curriculum state of affairs is America.

    Anyone have a decoder ring? Can’t make head or tails of this piffle.

  13. 13

    @11 He’s saying college attendance has fallen off a cliff and no one wants degrees anymore; and, in particular, Harvard is having trouble recruiting students to fill the seats in its lecture halls.

    This is what happens to people who never leave their mother’s basement, and haven’t seen sunshine or heard birds chirping since they were in diapers.

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    In today’s Nikki Haley news, a nine-year-old accused her of being a flip-flopper (which she is), she evaded a voter’s question as to whether she’d accept the vice presidency on a ticket with Trump, and what she says about abortion depends on which state she’s in. Her fellow Republicans, who know her well, have her pegged:

    Ramaswamy: “When you try to be everything to everyone, you’re nothing to anyone.”

    DeSantis: “The minute she faces any kind of scrutiny, she tends to cave.”

    Christie: “Unwilling to offend anyone by telling the truth.”

    What an awful candidate she’s turned out to be.

    https://www.aol.com/news/haley-faces-tough-questions-voters-182451887.html

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    He’s saying college attendance has fallen off a cliff and no one wants degrees anymore

    I told the wife one day that University or College is a trade school – for academia. So if that’s your goal – go to college and attend all the way to Masters or Phd.. Do a postgrad, fellowship, whatever.. You get good enough, become a Prof. knock yourself out..

    She didn’t like that for some reason..

    All schools are trade schools: medical, law, music, art, dance, welding, automotive, IT, laser tech.. Do whatever floats your boat.

    Most employers demand a formal credential. That gives them comfort. No gets fired for hiring someone who got good marks at the right school. However if you can demonstrate competency without a credential, run rings around a credentialed person from the best school – fine, people have been known to succeed that way. Rare perhaps, but it has been known to happen.

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    @15 “All schools are trade schools: medical, law, music, art, dance, welding, automotive, IT, laser tech.. Do whatever floats your boat.”

    I disagree. A well-rounded undergraduate education gives students foundational knowledge of the sciences, economics, history, geography, and cultures and arts, so they aren’t fucking ignoramuses like Doctor Dumbfuck and the average Republican. It also gives them basic skills in finding and evaluating information, writing and speaking, and above all critical thinking. In short, college classrooms turn people into not-a-dumbfucks.

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    NBC News headline: “More than 13 million people lost Medicaid coverage this year, with Texas an epicenter of the ‘unwinding'”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/medicaid-unwinding-texas-rcna131366

    Not really surprising. Texas is an epicenter of nearly everything bad. People are moving there from California for jobs and cheaper housing, but will they stay when they find out how bad the schools, electricity grid, and medical care are?

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    You can make chicken salad with a bit of chicken shit in it, but no one is going to eat it.

    There you are, you worthless bastard. Give me back all the money you stole out of my purse.

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    It deeply saddens me to inform the dumbfuck Nazi coward that DeSantis and his 6″ lifts are still in free-fall in the RCP 2024 GQP Nomination Averages, now down to 11.3, only an infinitesimal 0.3 ahead of Nikki.

    I say he drops out after Iowa.

  21. 21

    Great news. Yours truly just received a check for $120 courtesy of the good work of the next Governor of WA State, Bob Ferguson.

    Don’t know why. I thought the check was for low income people. Our household brings in just north of 6 figures.

    But I appreciate a small reward courtesy of criminals being held accountable.

    Thanks Greedflators!

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    I disagree. A well-rounded undergraduate education gives students foundational knowledge of the sciences, economics, history, geography, and cultures and arts, so they aren’t fucking ignoramuses like Doctor Dumbfuck and the average Republican.

    Sure but after 4 years, the question remains – what are you going to do with yourself?

    My remarks were informed by the autobiography of composer Philip Glass. After 4 years at the University of Chicago, he said he’d had enough of academics. He had no use for what he had learned. He enjoyed it well enough and was enriched by the experience but at the end of 4 years he was more than ready for what he really felt compelled to do.

    So he went to what he called “trade school” in New York – the Julliard School of Music.

  23. 23

    @22 “Sure but after 4 years, the question remains – what are you going to do with yourself?”

    One of the countless jobs in the economy that require an ability to gather and process information, make decisions, and manage work groups that may include technical experts.

    Many companies look for general skills and train hires for specific roles in management, marketing, customer service, or whatever they need done. Most jobs require more than just technical skills.

    The fact that liberal arts graduates consistently have a lower unemployment rate, and earn more, is evidence that the kind of education I described has practical value in the work world.

    Plus, that type of education produces better citizens and voters. It’s not an accident that Trump’s angry populism mostly appeals to non-college-educated voters, although he occasionally snags a retired doctor who fucks horses.

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    Florida State proved today it didn’t belong in the final four, and the million dollars DeSantis threatened to spend litigating the issue would’ve been a total waste of taxpayer money. To wit,

    “Florida State University vowed revenge after being left out of the four-team College Football Playoff despite an undefeated 13-0 record. But on Saturday at the Orange Bowl, Florida State faced a historic defeat by No. 6 Georgia, falling behind 42-3 at halftime, and lost by a final score of 63-3 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The 60-point margin of victory is the largest ever in a bowl game ….”

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/30/sport/florida-state-left-out-of-the-college-football-playoff-wins-loses/index.html

    Now of course they were missing some key players, including their star quarterback. But that was the whole point of leaving them out of the playoffs.

  25. 25

    Lots of commentators are weighing in on Section 3. For example, a guy I never head of wrote in an op-ed for CNN that efforts to keep Trump off the ballot are “breathtakingly foolish,” because Trump represents a “political problem, which means he can only be beaten in the political arena.” Therefore, it’s an “illusion” that Trump “can be neutralized by appealing to a clause of the Constitution written to exclude members of an armed rebellion against the United States.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/21/opinions/colorado-removes-trump-from-ballot-linker/index.html

    This is basically a variant of the “let the people decide” argument. As I’ve pointed out before, the Constitution doesn’t let the people elect Arnold Schwarzenegger or send Obama back for a third term, no matter how much they might want to. It also expressly prohibits the voters from installing an insurrectionist in the White House, absent a congressional override of the disqualification.

    Another problem with his argument is, what if letting the people decide fails to keep Trump out of the White House, and then he abuses power if he gets back in?

    Think about this: If conservatives are going to hop on the popular-vote train, and argue voters should decide everything, then why not let the voters elect the president by direct popular election, and whoever gets the most votes wins? Trump wouldn’t have been elected in 2016 if that system was in place. He’s unlikely to win the popular vote in 2024. So what, exactly, is the rationale for submitting the possible election of an insurrectionist and coup plotter to the vagaries and inequalities of the Electoral College?

    If you ask me, what’s breathtakingly foolish is not disqualifying him, of taking a chance that small-state rightwingers can again outvote popular majorities and install a would-be dictator who’s vowed to trash the rule of law?

    Section 3 was written to keep Confederates from taking over the government. This was no longer seen as a threat when the disqualification was lifted from most of them a few years later (but not from Jefferson Davis until over 100 years later). But Section 3 wasn’t repealed; it was left on the books, in case a Trump came along in the future.

    What’s foolish is not using that amendment for what it was enacted for, and opening the gates for an insurrectionist to take over and then topple our constitutional scheme of government.

  27. 27

    Charles Rodman Campbell is back in the news. He was hanged at Walla Walla in 1994 for the 1982 Clearview murders. Now DNA has connected him to the 1975 murder of a University of Washington coed.

    After being released from prison for a 1974 rape, Campbell went to the victim’s home and killed her, her 8-year-old daughter, and a neighbor by slitting their throats. The little girl was nearly decapitated. During his 11 years on death row, he was often described in the media as “Washington’s most hated man.” According to today’s Seattle Times story his own parents believed he should be executed to protect the public from him. Wikipedia notes, “Then-governor Mike Lowry was an opponent of the death penalty, but upon hearing the details of Campbell’s crimes, he refused to commute his sentence to life in prison.”

    There are problems with the death penalty, but unlike many of my liberal friends, I’m not against it in all cases. Where the crime is especially heinous, and guilt is not in question, I believe some people have it coming. Ted Bundy was executed for raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl, whose body was tossed into a pigpen. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured 680 others.

    Campbell was long believed to be a triple murderer. Now we know he was a serial rapist and killer. To the end, he fought his death sentence, arguing executing him was against his religion.

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    Washington secretary of state Steve Hobbs apparently is queasy about disqualifying Trump from the ballot here, according to the Seattle Times.

    “Hobbs’ misgivings reflect deep divisions and unease among elected officials, democracy experts and voters over how to handle Trump’s campaign to reclaim the presidency four years after he went to extraordinary lengths in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election.”

    https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/in-some-state-including-wa-voters-and-officials-have-misgivings-about-removing-trump-from-the-ballot/

    It shouldn’t. The 14th Amendment isn’t discretionary. If Trump engaged in insurrection, he’s disqualified. The Constitution doesn’t leave it up to election officials, experts, or voters. The only decision to be made is whether his actions fall within Section 3, and most experts say it clearly does. Hobbs should get off the dime and bar him from our ballot. Whether somebody takes offense is immaterial.

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    27)DNA Evidence probably will see more cases solved, that the prosecutors only chose to charge on what they felt they could convict on. The Yipsalanti Ripper was one, charged with only one count, but authorities believed he was responsible for the murders of several college students in Washtenaw County. Ironically, he made tge mistake of moving one body through his uncle’s place while watching the property while his uncle, the state trooper was on vacation. I believe recently DNA connected him to another of the victims.

    Graham could only be charged with one count because blowing up an airliner was so new, there was not a federal statute yet. So the DA for the City and County of Denver could only charge for the pre-meditated murder of Graham’s target, his mother. Graham may have got tge idea hearing about the bombing of Canadian Pacific 108, but missed what happened to the perpetrators. In 1952, Canada still had the Death Penalty, and like Britain, was pretty much automatic for murder convictions. The bomber and two accomplices, , were hanged. Last time Canada executed a woman.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sault-au-cochon-plane-crash-1949-1.5274763

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    “Some people think of bigotry as a mental malady of the ignorant or as the character flaw of people they envision in cartoonish terms: unkempt buffoons with heavy Southern accents in pickup trucks covered in Confederate flags; Christian fanatics carrying placards outside Pride events. While such people exist, professionals of all types are bigots, too.”

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/hamas-israel-antisemitism-islamophobia-rcna131486

    We know a bigoted doctor, don’t we? But not having seen his F-250, I can’t swear this isn’t his truck.

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    YLB, I appreciate your sympathy but it’s not a filter that’s moderating my comments. It is the HA Thugs that are Maoists!

    They Censor and blocking my IP addresses.

    They suck and are biased.

    Yours truly – G

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    They are sensitive to the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus. Snowflakes can’t deal with the reality that heterosexual Neanderthals are angry violent lady groomers.

    I’m sure they’ll do a special post just so people don’t see these posts.

    The can just stop censorship, that’s all.

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    The question remains: why did the country that can do no wrong fail to secure the border with Gaza?

    Obviously not. Almost like they wanted it to happen so the could annialate the Palestinians

  34. 34

    With Michigan allowing Trump on the ballot, probably will see tge 14th Amendment cases in the Supreme Court now.

    FINISH HIM!

    I have to post using The Man because if I didn’t maybe it would get moderated by the censors…..biased censors.

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    Stay safe ladies. Don’t let The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus get you.

    The groomers could get angry tonight, and if you’re lucky the just ask so the shit out of you.

  38. 38

    Tesla, last seen @ 136 disparaged by a guy who will never give up his ICE vehicles, closed at $123 last December. It closed at $248 on Friday, a 101% gain for the year.

  39. 39

    38 is Choose Your Own Adventure for degenerate gamblers.

    It works so well because the degenerate gambler mind experiences the same flood of oxytocin from a market timing near miss as from an actual winning bet.

  41. 41

    Our degenerate troll is inflamed by the hunt of greedhead Bill Ackman for the “scalp” of Claudine Gay.

    Gay is complying with demagogic demands for the repression of speech on campus.

    ON OCTOBER 27TH, after roughly three weeks of campus turmoil surrounding student responses to Hamas’s October 7th attacks and the ensuing Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Harvard president Claudine Gay announced at a Shabbat dinner at Harvard Hillel that she was establishing an advisory group to guide her efforts to combat antisemitism on campus…

    Gay’s letter suggests that the task force will explore what she casts as a worrisome relationship between antisemitism and activism for Palestinian rights, none of its members have conducted scholarly research into this supposed intersection. Most notably absent from the advisory group was Derek Penslar, the director of Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies and a leading scholar of Zionism and its critics…

    Why wasn’t Penslar chosen? One likely factor is that he signed the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), which states that “criticizing or opposing Zionism” is not necessarily antisemitic. By contrast, most of the people appointed to the advisory group—none of whom have Penslar’s expertise—have made public statements alleging that anti-Zionism is antisemitic, or are affiliated with organizations that hold that view…

    https://jewishcurrents.org/harvard-is-ignoring-its-own-antisemitism-experts

    Will we see a “good on her” or “she’s right” from our degenerate troll for Claudine Gay?

    ‘course not.. the dark scalp is too much of a treasured trophy for the degen crowd proudly doing its “hasbara” duty for the country that can do no wrong.

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    Here’s one for Elijah, whose participation here we can’t be grateful for enough..

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21093976/?ref_=nm_flmg_c_3_act

    I just finished bingeing the last season of “Killing Eve” and I didn’t have high hopes for it because the preceding couple of seasons were, with some exceptions, lackluster. It was a pleasant surprise. The writing explored the backstories of some of the main characters in interesting ways.

    Jodie Comer is a sensation. A force of nature that makes her perfectionism look effortless. I blown away by how she pours a glass of water to the rim while riffing away looking at the audience the whole time.

    She has two movies in the tank. One with Tom Hardy doing Brando in “The Wild Ones”.. You can’t take your eyes off her.

  43. 43

    This is apparently not a joke.

    Navajo Nation president asks NASA to delay Moon launch over possible human remains

    Nygren says he recently learned of the Jan. 8 launch of the Vulcan Centaur carrying the Peregrine Mission One. The lander will carry some payloads from a company known to provide memorial services by shipping human cremated remains to the Moon.

    Nygren wants the launch delayed and the tribe consulted immediately. He noted the Moon is sacred to numerous Indigenous cultures and that depositing human remains on it is “tantamount to desecration.”

    No word yet on how they feel about hipster homeless dudes depositing fresh feces in front of park totem poles.

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    @ 41

    Will we see a “good on her” or “she’s right” from our degenerate troll for Claudine Gay?

    You’ll see a query from me as to how this erases her plagiarism, Queen YLB.

    That’s alongside a query from me as to how her gender and skin color erase her plagiarism, Queen YLB.

    Gay’s response to the House questioning won’t get her ass fired; that’s been established. The Penn chick’s gender wasn’t enough to save her job but gender PLUS skin color papered over the stumbling testimony by Gay.

    It’s the plagiarism that Harvard continues to suffer from, girlfriend. 40 instances is nearly four per publication over the woman’s career, and that career was far from stellar even without the plagiarism.

    If this chick was a white male she wouldn’t have come close to being a finalist for the job. Harvard now realizes it gave the job to a woman who faked her way into candidacy for it.

    You expect the institution to roll over because she excluded a single problematic Jew from a task force? It’s just what we’ve come to expect from the silly twat that you have always been.

  45. 45

    @44 .. yet another “whatabout”…

    yawwwn.. typical…

    You expect the institution to roll over because she excluded a single problematic Jew

    More than one kreepshit.. how about EVERY “problematic jew” who doesn’t march lockstep with the genocidal jungle fever of your degen tribe?

    Heh.. Thanks for playing…

  46. 46

    The Harvard Crimson‘s editorial board finds no major fault with plagiarism if it’s committed by a box-checker it identifies with.

    Editorials
    President Gay Plagiarized, but She Should Stay. For Now.

    If you’re a woman and a minority, you can be anything you want to be no matter how badly you perform.

  47. 47

    It’s the plagiarism that Harvard continues to suffer from

    But whadabout’ teh anti-semitism kreepshit???

    That fades into the background when a black scalp is in your sights..

    Hillary got a “good on her” despite “marrying well” and being “corrupt”..

    Hillary’s white.. Claudine is black.. Explains you much.. lmao..

  48. 48

    And Liz Warren??

    She got kudos from kreepshit for cutting a “problematic jew” down to “size”..

    Despite her “affirmative action” profile.

    Yawwwn.. what an asswipe you are..

  49. 49

    We have a Dumbfuck around here who will state, “No one has the RIGHT to live near a hospital.” And also state, “Healthcare isn’t a RIGHT” and “For profit capitalist healthcare is better than any Medicare plan.”

    Alabama this year gave checks to every resident paid for with the federal welfare, Alabama can’t exist as a functioning state without Washington and other states providing for their needs. Alabama has also been closing down Hospitals due to lack of funds and with that Ambulance services go away and the whole domino. What could go wrong? And of course it would be socialism to spend the Federal Covid funds on healthcare services.

    Did we mention Alabama steadfastly refuses to accept Medicare expansion?

    An Alabama man died waiting for an ambulance on Christmas: ‘that should have never happened’

    On Christmas night, a call came into Pickens County emergency dispatch about a man with shortness of breath.

    But the county’s only ambulance crew was 40 minutes away, dropping off another patient at a hospital in Tuscaloosa. No other ambulances in neighboring counties could respond to the call,

    The GOP that runs Alabama only cares about a fetus surviving. Anyone alive dying is just the cost of being free.

  50. 50

    @38

    Which would be relevant if you hadn’t already told us at what values you bought.

    Any day now your shares will break even but your losses on the options in the $400 range cost you a boatload.

    Unless you’ve been lying the whole time.

  51. 51

    @ 45

    @44 .. yet another “whatabout”…

    This is rich. Claudine Gay is under fire, rightfully, because she used other researchers’ words as her own no fewer than 40 times over.a thin resume of merely 11 publications, and (so far) has had to issue seven corrections. That’s not counting her refusal to share her data with researchers from Stanford and Dartmouth who questioned her conclusions based on them. Or her deletion of that data and the resultant conclusions from future mentions of her work.

    It has been shared that the Harvard Corporation has asked her to resign, and that she has refused to do so and has lawyered up and is threatening to sue.

    So with these major issues hanging over the head of a black woman fewer than six months into her job, HA’s unserious twat Queen YLB attempts @ 41 to refocus attention by throwing out some miniscule non-appointment decision by Gay as, well, as evidence that she’s not totally in the tank for the anti-Semitic crowd at Harvard. Just 99% in the tank.

    And when I @ 44 bring the conversation back to what is eventually going to cost Gay her job, HA’s unserious twat accuses me of whataboutism.

    A more unserious twat than Queen YLB has yet to spew on HA.

  52. 52

    The editorial @ 46 was far from unanimous. Here’s a dissenting editorial.

    Editorials
    Dissent: For Harvard’s Sake, It’s Time to Let Gay Go

    As students, we are exhausted.

    We are tired of reading about Harvard’s failures every time we check the news. We are sick of reporters hassling us for interviews in the Yard. We don’t want to return home for break and get pestered by friends and family, asking what is happening on campus or how we’re holding up in this awful environment. Our classes and our studying should not be interrupted by noisemakers and megaphones. Signing an affirmation that we will follow the Harvard College Honor Code before we take our final exams should not feel like a farce.

    Students are not the only ones frustrated. Faculty are concerned with her academic misconduct too, though many refuse to go on the record, perhaps for fear of the consequences (a fact the Board’s opinion notes but seems not to take to heart).

    Donors are tripping over each other to sever ties with the University. A senator has written in the Wall Street Journal that he was accosted in Widener Library. Congress has launched — and now expanded — an investigation into Harvard. Early application numbers have dropped sharply compared with peer institutions, perhaps in response to the turmoil.

    The authors are the two whitest dudes to ever attend Harvard:

    Brooks B. Anderson ’25, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Government concentrator in Pforzheimer House. Joshua A. Kaplan ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Computer Science concentrator in Currier House.

    I’ll leave it to Queen YLB to point out that at least one of them is a Jew.

  54. 54

    @ 50

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    @ 53

    Obama has gone from a modest favorite to win re-election to, probably, a slight underdog.

    That’s nothin’. You should see Bill Clinton’s polling in December, 1991.

    Or, more recently, #CrookedHillary’s polling:

    Clinton
    84.5% probability of winning
    Mean of 282 electoral votes

    Trump
    15.5% probability of winning
    Mean of 256 electoral votes

    The only reason it was that close was the inclusion of what Goldy referred to as bullshit polls. If those were excluded:

    Clinton
    98.7% probability of winning

    Trump
    1.3% probability of winning

    Thank you, Darryl. Thank you even more, Goldy.

  57. 57

    The one thing the pollsters got right in 2016.

    Nate Cohn
    @Nate_Cohn
    We believe Clinton is very likely to win the national popular vote.
    8:50 PM · Nov 8, 2016

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit sucked on this pacifier for four years.

  58. 58

    I wonder if Darryl would claim today that Joe Biden “is not the least bit corrupt”.

    Darryl spews:

    Tuesday, 11/8/16 at 5:16 pm

    Sloppy,

    Clinton is not the least bit corrupt. You asswipes have been pushing that meme since 1992 and you have failed. Except that you now seem to be brainwashed by the bullshit.

    That is your failure, not hers.

    Probably not. But not definitely not. Because if he was put on the spot and didn’t make the claim, I don’t think Queen YLB could recover from the loss of innocence that would result, and Darryl would know that.

  61. 61

    @38 “Tesla … closed at $123 last December. It closed at $248 on Friday, a 101% gain for the year.”

    And $352 the December before that, a 65% loss year-to-year, but merely a 30% loss over the last two years. But not Doctor Dumbfuck, who calls the highs and lows with a precision unmatched by any other gambler investor in the history of the world.

  63. 63

    @43 Don’t delay the launch, just kick that payload off it. Not just for the Navajos, but for all of us. The moon isn’t polluted yet, so let’s not start. Our descendants may have to live there when we finish off this place.

  65. 65

    @49 Probably saved the hospital some free emergency care. Nobody in Alabama has health insurance, nor can anyone there earn enough to pay a hospital bill. It’s better for the hospital if they’re DOA.

  66. 66

    @51 If all this is true, a more pertinent question is how someone with a background compatible with the academic standards of private conservative colleges got through pre-employment screening at an institution like Harvard.

  67. 67

    Claudine Gay is under fire

    For giving lawyerly answers to a demagogic inquisition by degenerate repukes, one of which attended her institution,

    Her academic record was good enough for Bill Ackman and whatever loaded donor who at one time gave a fortune to Harvard and now is a bit put off by reaction to what more than one Jewish scholar calls a genocide.

    They can’t have it both ways.. Too fucking bad.

    Munee drumpfs all kreepshit.. Yes you degenerates will claim your scalp.. But not without a fight. She’s dancing to your tune on Israel asswipe.

  68. 68

    @53 He should run for reelection. If Trump is eligible for another term, so is Obama. Either you enforce all of the amended qualifications for the presidency, or you enforce none of them.

  69. 69

    @57 “Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit sucked on this pacifier for four years.”

    And you’ve sucked on an undemocratic electoral system created to preserve slavery even longer because you realize, as all Republicans do, that a GOP candidate will never win a popular vote. Your party is terminally unpopular.

  70. 70

    We are tired of reading about Harvard’s failures every time we check the news. We are sick of reporters hassling us for interviews in the Yard. We don’t want to return home for break and get pestered by friends and family, asking what is happening on campus or how we’re holding up in this awful environment. Our classes and our studying should not be interrupted by noisemakers and megaphones.

    Poor privileged babies.. They can’t cope..

    Focus babies, focus.. You do want to get ahead attending an elite institution, amirite?

    But you have kreepshit’s kompassionate klownservaticm in sympathy from afar in widbee.. The freek thinks of you while performing horseshit shoveling duty… when it’s not dreaming of being John Dutton.

    heh..

  71. 71

    @58 I’ll bet if Daryll spoke for himself, he’d say there’s not the least bit of evidence that Joe Biden is corrupt. But there I go, putting words in his mouth, just like you.

  72. 72

    Probably not. But not definitely not. Because if he was put on the spot and didn’t make the claim..

    What is this degenerate freek babbling about now?

    Of course Biden is “corrupt”…

    That’s why America produces more oil today than ever after “raping the SPR”.. lmao..

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/31/us-oil-production-has-hit-record-under-biden-he-hardly-mentions-it/

    Makes sense.. of course it does.. as much as “loss of innocence”…

    Joe is messing up on Israel and compromising the future by greenlighting fossil fuels.. Politics sucks. What else is new?

    boring degen asswipe…

  73. 73

    Next thing ya know kreepshit will be on board for Chisum Gym Jordan and Farmer Jim’s “impeachment”..

    Let’s see who shows up next November and who sits at home..

    Can’t fucking wait.

  74. 74

    67,

    Harvard is under fire.
    Deservedly no doubt.

    But it’s worth remembering that Donald Trump attended an Ivy on his daddy’s mob adjacent grift money while President Joe Biden attended a land grant school while his father sold used cars.

    Let Harvard burn.

  75. 75

    Our degen asswipe troll is so outraged by “from the river to the sea” along with all the loaded elite institution donors.. blah .. blah..

    Have they ever heard of “the greater Israel”?

    https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/israel-zionism/2022/08/why-israels-settlers-splintered/

    They don’t seem so outraged about that.. Or Bibi’s annexation designs..

    https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Benjamin-Netanyahu/Netanyahus-promise-to-annex-the-West-Bank-settlements-explained-586212

  76. 76

    36)Is it still geofenced in Toronto? The system could not see a Toronto Streetcar, which is about 100ft long. Ironically Toronto cops could, was easier to ticket the operator for blocking an intersection, than motorists who were not following the rules on a street where car traffic was restricted. Toronto cops got such bad PR, they started enforcing the transit priority on King Street. Still motorists keep thinking streetcar tunnels are good shortcuts, when they often are just for subway access, as when streetcars and buses drop their passengers off at subway stations, they are already in the subways fare paid area. The tunnels at Union and Spadina stations are meant for streetcars only, so as the tracks leave the streets, the pavement ends. Motorists then get stuck. TTC has tried plenty of barriers to stop them.

  77. 77

    Your party is terminally unpopular.

    It isn’t just that Republicans are now an unpopular minority party.

    It’s that virtually all Republicans, including the profoundly stupid troll, accept and embrace that status and pin their entire electoral identity and future on a complex assortment of arcane legal maneuvers, ballot “hacks”, and baroque arguments designed to empower and institutionalize that minority identity.

    They aren’t even trying to persuade any new converts to their MAGA faith. They are only trying to stir up more grievance and resentment among the same basic, deplorable sub culture. And then employ that energy along with the remnant traces of white privilege, to tilt public institutions and elections in their favor.

    Consider Rep Thomas Massie’s threat this week to somehow use a slight House advantage to disenfranchise Colorado and Maine. It amounts to revealing the game plan. They want to take the election away from the states where the constitution places it, and give it to themselves in Congress. And that was the end game in January of 2021.

    Republicans don’t plan strategies to win elections.

    They plan criminal conspiracies to steal elections.

  78. 78

    @77 “Consider Rep Thomas Massie’s threat this week to somehow use a slight House advantage to disenfranchise Colorado and Maine.”

    If they could do it, they would’ve done it long ago. They tried to disenfranchise 7 states in 2020, but didn’t have the votes. They still don’t have the votes to disenfranchise anybody.

    Btw, what is wrong with Kentucky voters? Mitch, Rand, Massie …
    The state is known for horses. Are they all fucking horses?

  79. 79

    78,

    They’re too dumb for their own good.

    The minute some Republican dipshit like Massie leads a rebellion to prevent counting of Colorado, the Senate steps in to stop every other red state that follows. Leaving Joe Biden the winner.

    They go in alphabetical order.

    What state comes before Colorado ?

    Point is, they don’t even expect to be in the running to win with votes anymore. It’s always down to some bogus lawsuit, delay tactic, forged documents, weird Ted Cruz parliamentary procedure, and maybe a few pipe bombs.

  80. 80

    @ 66

    …got through pre-employment screening at an institution like Harvard.

    • Gender
    • Skin color

    No different, really, from admission standards to, say, the University of California.

  81. 81

    Did someone mention Bill Clinton?

    Court documents naming Jeffrey Epstein’s associates to be unsealed: What to know

    Former President Clinton, who ABC News has learned is identified as “Doe 36,” is mentioned in more than fifty of the redacted filings, according to court records. Several of those sealed or redacted entries are focused on an effort by Giuffre’s lawyers in mid-2016, first reported by ABC News, to subpoena the two-term Democratic president for deposition testimony about his relationship with Epstein.
    …
    According to a publicly available transcript, Giuffre’s team was then seeking to preclude Maxwell’s side from presenting testimony suggesting that Clinton hadn’t been on Epstein’s island. Her attorneys argued it would be “inherently unfair” to Giuffre because they had not been permitted to ask the former president if he had ever been to Little St. James, as Epstein’s private island estate was known.

    “You did not allow us to depose him because you said it was irrelevant,” McCawley told Judge Sweet. “So now we’re in a position where at trial they want to put forth that information against my client, and I don’t have an under-oath statement from that individual saying whether or not he actually was,” she added.

    On the surface, quite titillating. But in reality, I suspect not much is there:

    Each person was afforded an opportunity to argue for keeping the records sealed. Clinton’s legal team, after reviewing the excerpts, did not lodge any objections to the publication of the documents, according to Preska’s order last month.

    Still, I don’t think this helps #CrookedHillary’s forthcoming efforts to be nominated from the floor at the ’04 DNC.

  82. 82

    @ 79

    The minute some Republican dipshit like Massie leads a rebellion to prevent counting of Colorado, the Senate steps in to stop every other red state that follows. Leaving Joe Biden the winner.

    Not if after these shenanigans neither candidate gets to 270. What happens if neither candidate gets to 270?

    Libbies don’t wanna talk about it.

    An election thrown to the House is not good for libbies. So QoS McHillbilly’s proclamation that the Senate will step in to cancel out red states won’t happen. An election decided by the House won’t result in Biden, nor Momala, getting the nod.

  85. 85

    Some rude bitch has been promising me a porn tape with some awe inspiring MLK BBC for years now

  87. 87

    83)The NFL only fined the previous Carolina Panthers owner, but fine was miniscule compared to the sale price.

  88. 88

    I wish I didn’t have to spend my NYD alone waiting for her to come home from her “date”.

  89. 89

    @89 What, the horse got out of the barn? Maybe he wanted the real thing for once.

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