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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Lewis Black: Is AI perpetuating racial stereotypes or way too woke?

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week?

Electile Dysfunction:

Liberal Redneck: Congress vs TikTok

Residual SOTFU (Mostly a Pile of Britt):

Stephen: Should Congress ban TikToc?

Трамп, Трамп Cultists, And Other Liars and Fascists:

Vox: Is the US running out of Social Security?

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

Comments

  1. 1

    Winder which Senator will filibuster the TikTok bill. It’s support and opposition seem bipartisan.

  3. 3

    Metro breaking ground on a new facility, Interim Base. Up to 120 Battery Electric buses will be parked there. The overhead gantries for the chargers are more of an eyesore than the overhead wire at Atlantic Base.

    https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/03/15/metro-breaks-ground-on-new-electric-bus-base-in-tukwila/

    I do have issues with how Metro uses BEBs. The ones used on 100 series routes(South King County) run on short blocks because the bus needs to be charged at the base. The New Flyer XE60s used in Rt101(South Renton to Downtown Seattle), run up to 7 hour blocks, which is up to 3 round trips, 1 round trip if the coach is also used on Rt102 Fairwood.

    When Metro acquired Seattle Transit and Metropolitan Transportation Company all the bases were pretty much in Seattle. South Campus in Tukwilla was built after, consisting of South Base, the Boneyard, the Trailer Park(a new annex off-site, just south of the end of the runway at Boeing Field, used for driver training): and possibly this new facility.

  4. 4

    2,
    Hur is a lifelong Republican.

    Ergo, Hur lies constantly and should never be trusted by thoughtful, intelligent people.

  6. 6

    The first and only time the RNC will tell the truth:

    The Republican National Committee’s new chair Friday gave a resounding “No” to a question he asked himself on nationally broadcast television: Was the nation better off under former President Donald Trump? …

    “At the end of the day, this comes down to a very simple contrast between President Trump and President Biden,” Whatley said Friday. “Were you better off four years ago than you are today? The answer for this entire country is no.” He then tried to correct himself, but again stumbled: “I mean, yeah, we are better off today.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/michael-whatley-rnc/

  8. 8

    “Sergeant Kunovich died a hero protecting the citizens of St. Johns County” when he grabbed Guatemalan farmworker Aguilar Mendez, 19, for looking “suspicious,” threw him to the ground and put him in a chokehold, then suffered a fatal heart attack “which may have been a result of the severe heart disease he was noted to have, a prior heart attack, or heart and lung deterioration due to smoking.”

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/guatemalan-migrant-accused-police-officers-death-released-after/story?id=108169697

    My sincere condolences to the officer’s family. I’m not judging his lifestyle. Not at all. That’s not my place. You wonder, though, with his medical history why they didn’t give him a desk job.

  10. 10

    St. Johns County Sheriff Rob Hardwick said in a statement “Sergeant Kunovich died a hero protecting the citizens of St. Johns County from scary brown people.” /s

  11. 11

    RedReformed made a mea culpa on Saturday morning because he a typed a number wrong. In 9, he meant 7, not 8, when posting a joke that Ingram posted a graphic of Steve Urkel instead of Nathan Wade.

  13. 13

    12,
    Dark Brandon gets to campaign on it daily from now until November. But more than campaign.

    Pending legislation to secure our southern border, blocked by Republican filibuster in the Senate and currently stalled by the Republican Speaker, falls very squarely within the constitutional bounds of official duties of the President. President Biden can employ whatever Executive branch resources he likes every day in every location to keep U.S. citizens well informed on this important topic. He can make televised addresses from inside the oval office sitting at the resolute desk. He can stand in the Rose Garden and talk about it. He can host high level dignitaries at summits and talk about it. He got to devote a good portion of his SOTU to it. Basically all of the unpaid media opportunities available to a U.S. President can be bent to this specific objective. It’s like a giant free year-long campaign ad.

    And his opponent handed it to him.

  14. 14

    @ 12

    The bottom line: If the election were today, most of the participants said they’d choose Biden over Trump.

    It was two focus groups with a total of 13 participants, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.

    They were shown 3 minutes of SOTU video that consisted of Biden talking about Trump, zero material from Trump or his campaign that might serve as rebuttal, and then asked what they thought.

    While you amplify 13 fellow morons to your heart’s content, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, realize that Biden is losing (two recent polls, totaling 1700 registered voters) in Wisconsin, and it’s not all that close:

    Wednesday, February 28
    Wisconsin: Trump vs. Biden
    Bloomberg/MrnConsult
    Trump 46, Biden 42
    Trump
    4
    Monday, February 26
    Wisconsin: Trump vs. Biden
    The Hill/Emerson
    Trump 45, Biden 42
    Trump
    3

  15. 15

    @ 7

    To somebody at Fox Noise, all black people look alike.

    To Democrats, all black people vote alike:

    Democrats are hemorrhaging support with voters of color
    The trend is real in polls, and in at least some election results.

    NATE SILVER
    MAR 15, 2024

    As you may know, I’m not much of a fan of digging into poll crosstabs. Because of the small sample sizes and difficulties in reaching certain underrepresented groups, you can always find something “wrong” with them and use that to dismiss polling results you don’t like. However, the Adam Carlson1 has been performing an invaluable service by aggregating the results of different polls together, which at least solves the sample size problem. And he’s finding that Joe Biden’s share of the vote has dropped dramatically among Black and Hispanic voters as compared with an average reliable estimates of the 2020 vote:

    As you can see, Biden’s margin against Donald Trump has basically not moved an inch among white voters; he’s losing them by 12 percentage points, as he did in 2020. However, Biden is now only winning Hispanics by 7 percentage points — down from 24 points in 2020 — and Black voters by “only” 55 points, as compared with 83 points in 2020.

    So please, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, please tell me more @ 12 about the voting preferences of 13 lily-white “swing” Cheeseheads, probably none of whom live anywhere near the north end of the state.

  16. 16

    Op-Ed in today’s WaPo:

    For the country’s sake, Vice President Harris should step aside

    “The Democratic Party’s indulgence of identity politics has proved successful in building a diverse organization, but its strategy of courting (and pandering to) minority voters is the road to ruin.”

    See @ 15.

    Oh, and before blaming Kathleen Parker for stating the obvious, realize that Elizabeth Warren said it a year ago:

    (CNN)— Elizabeth Warren has called twice to apologize. Over a month later, Kamala Harris hasn’t called back.

    In a local Boston radio interview in late January, Warren was enthusiastic about President Joe Biden running for reelection but, asked if Biden should keep Harris as his running mate, she said, “I really want to defer to what makes Biden comfortable on his team.”

    Everyone comfy with the knowledge that Kamala Harris will help re-elect Donald Trump? ’cause this is just one price that fealty to unquestioning DEI demands of you.

  17. 17

    Biden will lose in November because the Democrats have not managed to get Biden to step down. He is simply too old and “gone” to be president.

    The same goes for Trump. Both need to be out of politics forever.

  18. 18

    realize that Elizabeth Warren said it a year ago:

    Now do Tulsi.. big yawwwwwn…

    And Kathleen Parker??? a middle of the road repuke who rarely writes anything worth noting.. Is she a never drumpfer? Fine.. Anything else? Didn’t think so..

    This babbling about Kamala didn’t raise her standings.

  19. 19

    btw kreepshit by touting Liz’ smackdown of “mini mike” you “dishonor” the former repuke mayor of NYC..

    ya know, where Wall fucking street is …

    lmao..

  21. 21

    Op-Rd,: the opinion of an author or entity with no affiliation with the publication’s editorial board.

    The septuagenarian Save the Males author, forever longing for a long gone youth, is an alcoholic ruin who’s biggest complaint against Harris is her “too-loud laugh” which is apparently insufficiently lady-like and threatening to some “Males”.

  22. 22

    @ 20

    Black gay Republican says Missouri heckled him at MAGA event

    But to The Even Bigger Fucking Moron it’s OK to heckle a black Republican – or a Jew of any political persuasion, for that matter – if you’re a liberal.

    The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, how does a US state heckle? States themselves are inanimate.

  23. 23

    Save the Males

    There’s no salvation for teh moldering kreepshit of widbee..

    defeat of drumpf in November means a long slow “thinking on its sinz” til the grave..

    if drumpf prevails, it cheerleads anarchy, retribution, corruption, the scapegoating of millions into detention camps.. the country backsliding into an authoritarian backwater.. not a good look.. to the grave..

  24. 24

    it’s OK to heckle a black Republican – or a Jew of any political persuasion

    wadda a dumfuck… Some who oppose heckle, from the left or the always wrong.. Was Obama “dishonored” with heckling from always wrong wingers? Yep..

    On the always wrong, it’s perfectly acceptable to heckle a “self-hating” Jew..

    or spray them with chemical warfare….

  25. 25

    Re WaPo/Parker, I’ll make a couple of comments.

    • It’s an expected response from an unserious twat @ 18 that the messenger receives criticism because of the message. I’m a little surprised that the more serious QoS McHillbilly @ 21 is doing it, too.

    • As the year progresses and the time before the election grows shorter, we’ll hear increasing calls for Momala to step aside and, especially as the end of June nears, calls for the Wise Latina to resign. The worse Democrat prospects for retaining the White House look, the more shrill these calls will be. Write that down.

  26. 26

    Liberals call Republicans out on their impact of their political actions. For example, Republicans don’t want border security. Republicans are calling for cuts to social security. Republicans consider being challenged as heckling apparently.

    White Republicans call out their own for not being white enough or not straight enough.

    “Last night in Phoenix, I was confronted and surrounded by some White Supremacists that don’t like gays or blacks in the Republican Party. They shouted ‘n*****’ and ‘f*****’ at me to make their point.

    I posted a news article. The greedy racist incel posts accusations without proof. So he’s lying to make himself feel good

  27. 27

    25,

    It literally did not read. Can’t, I guess.

    Parker says nothing more than she, a seventy-three-year-old white lady from an affluent Florida gated community dislikes Vice President Harris. And so therefore Harris owes it to “America” to disappear. It’s fundamentally an eliminationist appeal. “Other” Harris for her voice, or her laugh, or her manner of dress, or her “attitude”. Then demand that the “other” be eliminated.

    However careful Parker may be to avoid complaints about Harris’s racial characteristics, she might as well. She wants her gone. She wants Harris to “go back” to wherever she came from. It would be remarkable except that from Parker this shit is just commonplace.

  28. 28

    @ 27

    QoS McHillbilly, in what column did Parker laud Trump? Please include a link.

    Warning America that the diastrous Momala on the Democrat ticket will aid the election of Donald Trump is not an out-of-the-mainstream opinion.

    Even among Democrats her favorability is only 76%, and among independents it plummets to 28%, barely one in four.

    She’s a fucking ball and chain on the Democrat campaign.

    Kathleen Parker cannot stand Donald Trump. That she doesn’t think much of Momala, either, is not disqualifying. It’s merely common sense.

  29. 29

    Momala’s net favorability is negative 17.8, and we’re roughly beginning the fourth year of Biden’s only term. Her net favorability is about where Sarah Palin scored at the beginning of the fourth year of Obama’s first term.

    Momala will never win another election.

  30. 30

    Speaking of Vice Presidents, I saw this last week that former VP Mike Pence, he who narrowly escaped being lynched by dumbfuck’s “dozen cosplaying grandmothers” which the former twice-impeached president who dumbfuck has voted for four times so far, turned loose on him, announced that he refuses to endorse dumbfuck’s fav candidate, Orange Jesus.

    Geez, I wonder why?

  32. 32

    Donald Trump has higher favorability and lower unfavorability than does Joe Biden.

    Gee, it’s too bad that DeSantis isn’t around so his numbers can be cherry-picked to make it seem as if Democrats have a prayer this year.

  35. 35

    @ 30

    … he refuses to endorse dumbfuck’s fav candidate, Orange Jesus.

    Geez, I wonder why?

    Same reason Elizabeth Warren @ 16 wouldn’t endorse Momala.

  36. 36

    Fewer than eight months remaining before Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit resumes telling the world for at least four years that the Democrat won the popular vote.

    The combination of bloviation and weakness in Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is rare. It most recently was demonstrated on primary election night by California’s Katie Porter.

  37. 37

    An electoral vote is allocated to a state for every – roughly – 600,000 residents.

    In just the past two years Los Angeles County alone lost 262,000 residents. Oh. They didn’t move to San Franciso or Bakersfield, either.

    Democrats aren’t going to like the next census result.

    The 10 counties with the largest net domestic in-migration were mostly in the South. In contrast, the top 10 counties with largest net domestic out-migration were mostly in large metro areas…

    https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/population-estimates-more-counties-population-gains-2023.html

  38. 38

    Kathleen Parker cannot stand Donald Trump.

    No doubt. Probably why like this stupid lying troll Parker is constantly in search of some way to blame Democrats for Trump.

    Too late. It’s his party now. Parker like most of the Chardonay class of country club elite conservatives have no choice but to grovel just like our troll. The corrupt authoritarian rapist is their only hope.

    #grovegrovel

  39. 39

    A few years ago, the London School of Economics studied 50 years of such “trickle-down” policies in 18 industrialized nations, including the U.S., and found that their only result was increasing the wealth of the already wealthy.

    https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4534670-bidens-populist-budget-marks-the-overdue-end-of-trickle-down-economics/

    Democrats have known for decades that Reaganomics is a fraud based on a lie. The lie is transparent in GOP opposition to funding the IRS to catch wealthy tax evaders who cheat under a system that grossly already favors them.

    The sham is also revealed by GOP tax proposals. They want to eliminate all capitals gains and inheritance taxes, and shift the entire tax burden to wage earners. Schemes like replacing the income tax with a federal VAT tax (mislabeled as “Fair Tax,” because it’s anything but fair), or the tariffs favored by Trump, largely accomplish the same thing by shifting tax burden from income to consumption.

    This doesn’t bother the MAGA trailer park morons at all. They happily pay sky-high taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, and spend hundreds on lottery tickets, which is another form of tax. By voting Reopublican, they’re voting to tax themselves even more, while the super-rich skate (or, rather, fly off into the sunset to island getaways in their private jets).

    I’ve been a Democrat for 60 years because the Democrats are for the working classes. But somehow the GOP has captured a big chunk of the working-class vote, and now I wonder if trying to save these people from themselves is worth the effort. I joined the capitalist class years ago, and now enjoy its special (and definitely undeserved) tax privileges; if blue-collar Trumpers want to pay all the taxes I guess that’ll just have to be fine with me.

  40. 40

    This doesn’t bother the MAGA trailer park morons at all. They happily pay sky-high taxes….
    Because Republicans promised to hurt the people they hate. They will happily go bankrupt so long as they’re still “above” the black and brown and LGBT people they hate
    Racism and bigotry are one hell of a drug.

  41. 41

    It’s this LBJ quote.

    “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

    Trumpers do not vote for their economic self interest, they vote for grievance and bigotry.

  42. 42

    Shorter greedy racist incel: “Please make the scary black woman go away” he wails over and over in terror.

  43. 43

    41,
    The first modern Republican to observe that quote and act on it was David Duke. Most of the tactical methodology adopted by Trump came from Duke. Even the fucking hats.

  44. 44

    42,
    For no other reason than that she’s a woman and she’s black.
    And predictably, the lying idiot troll is confused and unable to understand why that wouldn’t be sufficient.

  46. 46

    Missing from Breitbart’s BLACK CRIME coverage:

    The suspect arrested in the vast, nationwide smash-and-grab theft is California mom Michelle Mack, a white lady in a nice suburban home with it’s own mini vinyard and space she rents out for weddings, who also allegedly recruited a ring of women to steal tens of millions of dollars in makeup and other products she resold on Amazon.

    Sounds about white.

  47. 47

    Sounds about white.

    The worst crime a white klownservatic can commit is getting caught.

    The “brand” has been wrecked countless dozens ways to heaven already but the rule still applies.

  48. 48

    Even among Democrats her favorability is only 76%, and among independents it plummets to 28%, barely one in four.

    We see here a bit of the whiny baby who cried when “fucking child whores” appeared nowhere in the Menendez indictment.

  49. 49

    My incompetant Senile U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio Bernie Moreno (age 57) addressed a tRump rally today.

    You get to heaven. Imagine what that’s like. What that feels like and imagine who you get to meet. You get to meet the 55 people who signed our declaration of independence. You get to meet James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington…”

    Well eventually he’ll get to a signer of the declaration. Also, Washington was, according to his own letters about as Atheist as a person in his day could publicly be.

    And probably not ALL the 55 signers. Jefferson probably didn’t get invited to the party what with the raping of Slaves.

    If you Christains believe in that only through Jesus thing you’re always on about, there goes Madison. Adams signed that Treaty that said flat out America is not a Christian nation and, “Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, ‘This would be the best of all possible Worlds, if there were no Religion in it!!!’ ”

    Also, Bernie? About that Porn dating site you are a member of. You’re married right? Let’s see if that bible of yours says anything about lust and adultery….

    Ohio goes blue.

  51. 51

    Car salesman Bernie “Hi, looking for young guys to have fun with while traveling” Moreno is running in the Ohio GOP Senate primary.

    In 2016, he called Trump a “lunatic” and “maniac,” and tweeted that listening to him was “like watching a car accident that makes you sick, but you can stop looking.”

    Now, if he isn’t sucking Trump’s dick, he’s kneeling in front of it. By the way, he’s an immigrant. From the drug-soaked country of Colombia, no less.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/election-2024-trump-ohio-bloodbath_n_65f630d0e4b08b384f1b72ca

    A Republican is someone who stands for nothing and bends in the breeze.

  55. 55

    @17 “Both need to be out of politics forever.”

    Suppose you’re right, but the parties nominate them anyway. What will you do then? Vote for the president who’s competently managing foreign affairs and the economy, or for the enfeebled maniac who promises to burn everything down?

    You don’t have to answer that if doing so would cause you severe embarrassment.

  57. 57

    @28 “QoS McHillbilly, in what column did Parker laud Trump? Please include a link.”

    In what comment did he say she did? He’s right, you don’t read.

  58. 58

    @36 I don’t have to rationalize for my candidate by arguing who the people want doesn’t matter.

  59. 59

    @37 This from a guy who sneers at averages: “An electoral vote is allocated to a state for every – roughly – 600,000 residents.”

    California: Pop. 38,940,231 ÷ 54 EVs = 1 EV per 721,115 pop.
    Alaska: Pop. 733,391 ÷ 3 EVs = 1 EV per 244,464 pop.

  60. 60

    @49 I have a feeling he’s going to be disappointed by what’s at the other end of that white light. Probably the first person he’ll meet up there is the last person he wants to — his mother.

  61. 61

    A Republican is someone who believes Biden’s a liar and Trump isn’t, and bleach works but vaccines don’t.

  62. 62

    Jill hates Momala.

    After a primary debate in June 2019, Jill Biden blew up over Kamala Harris’ challenges to her husband’s stance on race, according to the soon-to-be released book Battle for the Soul. On a call with supporters, the now-first lady reportedly said, “With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he’s committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis?” “Go fuck yourself,” she continued.

    Wait until next year, perhaps on Trump’s inauguration day, when Jill and Momala get to sit in the same row together.

  63. 63

    Hetero N’s screwing up and killing and costing taxpayers money

  65. 65

    @62

    Remember back when you were making fun about how public opinion was shifting on Jan 6th and too bad team Joe was still talking about it?

    Eight more months of Donald vowing to pardon them all, even the feces smearers, and

    “If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.

    Does threatening another rebellion gain or lose swing voters. Just wondering.

  68. 68

    A bloodbath, huh? The POS traitor posting here had better pray it doesn’t come to that because if it does, I will bath in his fucking blood.

  69. 69

    Trump Says There Will Be a ‘Bloodbath’ and Elections Will End if He Isn’t Reelected
    —
    So republicans will kill me and trump won’t allow another election if I don’t vote for him but republicans will kill me and trump won’t allow another election if I do vote for hm.

  70. 70

    President Biden at last night’s Gridiron dinner: “The big news this week is two candidates clinched their parties’ nomination for president. One candidate is too old, mentally unfit to be president: The other’s me.”

    “You know he ain’t the same guy that I beat in 2020…But don’t tell him. He thinks he’s running against Barack Obama.”

  71. 71

    40 out of his 44 cabinet members will not endorse him.

    His VP will not endorse him.

    Many of his former staffers will not endorse him.

    Anyone who believes there are brighter days ahead for America, will not endorse Donald Trump.

  72. 72

    Waaaah! I want a tax cut! Waaaah.. I’m so scared the IRS will audit me.. Waaaah.. I don’t wanna PAY FOR MY SINS..

  75. 75

    “You have — appear to have a photographic understanding and, and recall of the house,”

  77. 77

    @74 Pence is, at his best, a mealy mouth on a good day. On a typical day he’s a coward, afraid to confront the MAGA mob. He needs to level with Republican voters that Trump is a criminal, voting for him is unpatriotic, and he must be defeated. But he’s unwilling to say what must be said to save the GOP and the country.

  78. 78

    POS brothers J.D. Vance and Elon Musk are claiming the MSM took Trump’s “bloodbath” comment out of context. No, they didn’t. Trump speaks in code. Hitler didn’t say “we’re going to murder all the Jews,” he spoke of “a final solution to the Jewish problem,” which was exactly the same thing. The Nazis spoke of Jews as “subhuman;” Trump just said migrants “are not people.” His “bloodbath” language isn’t code at all; it means exactly that, and only a blind fool would fail to connect it to Trump’s talk of revenge and retribution. Vance and Musk aren’t fools; they know what they’re aiding and abetting, so judge them accordingly.

  79. 79

    78,

    Omitting context is not precisely the same thing as taking words out of context. Many reports about Trump The Rapist’s “bloodbath” warning have indeed omitted the context in which he used the threat.

    But that’s really the point. He used the warning as a threat. And that’s what the media all seized upon. Trump warned of the threat that if he were not elected there would be a bloodbath. The specific context of that threatened bloodbath concerned the auto industry but it certainly was not limited to that. He specified clearly that his promised bloodbath would extend to the whole country.

    And not only is there zero indication of any kind that he meant to promise his bloodbath metaphorically, it would in fact be a truly bizarre thing to threaten in that way, in this context. It’s quite reminiscent of his claims from eight years ago that the audio recording of him boasting to a bus filled with total strangers about “getting away with” sexual assault was “locker room banter”.

    Either way it clearly describes a pathologically disordered and very disturbed mind.
    Either he’s a rapist who takes great pride in rape as an accomplishment. Or he’s not a rapist, but wants strangers to admire him as one.
    Likewise here, either he’s promising waves of bloody violence by his supporters to ripple outward across America the next time he loses to President Biden. Or he fantasizes that without his crippling tariffs on imports American workers will launch a bloody revolution slaughtering each other in his name.

    Dude is dangerously fucked up insane either way.

    Conservatives still refuse to take him literally. So it’s imperative that the rest of us all take him seriously.

  80. 80

    When Trump gets rid of Mary Kay’s Social Security I promise I’ll return to work to help make America great again.

  81. 81

    @80 “When Trump gets rid of Mary Kay’s Social Security I promise I’ll return to work to help make America great again because I won’t have a fucking choice if I want to eat.”

  82. 82

    Haiti is once again proving itself to be a permanent mess and failed state. Business as usual for them.

  83. 83

    Don’t worry. If Haiti does stabilize and start the claw its way back to being a democracy, America will invade it again or will destroy their economy ,you know, business as usual for us.

  85. 85

    Haiti is once again proving itself to be a permanent mess and failed state. Business as usual for them.

    Breeders (HN type)…im still being censored….are the problem.

    I can’t profoundly say more because it gets censored and then I have to completely retype and retry. Bunch of assholes in HA land .

    HA editors are causing the 🩸 bath.

  89. 89

    Trump worked with four different brokers reaching out to more than thirty different gigantic surety companies. Most wanted no part. The only sureties willing wanted their security in cash – none were willing to accept security in the form of inflated trash places, penny stock, or crypto.

    Imagine that.

  90. 90

    In sworn testimony taken during deposition ahead of the NY real estate fraud trial, Trump The Penniless Rapist repeatedly informed the court that he had ready access to cash “substantially in excess of $400 million”.

    🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡💩

  91. 91

    Maybe it’s time Trump The Penniless Rapist made an honest assessment of his finances and started living within his means instead of running up all this debt and crying about it.

    He’ll need to start with a realistic monthly budget that trims out all the excesses like streaming subscriptions, avocado toast, and paying porn stars to fuck him.

    Peter Navarro could provide some excellent advice, as he always has over the years for so many others in similar money trouble.
    But unfortunately he goes to prison tomorrow.

  92. 92

    Mueller, She Wrote on Xitter.

    If you can’t secure a $464M bond, not only are you not a billionaire, you have no billionaire friends, and no bank will touch you because you’re bad at business.
    Donald is broke, inept, and friendless.

    >> Why do republicans want THAT GUY to be dictator of America?

  94. 94

    Securing a bond in the Trump/NYC case:

    Monday’s nearly 5,000-page court filing by his lawyers detailed his inability to get a bond to secure the full judgment.

    The filing includes an affidavit from Gary Giulietti, president of the Northeast division of the Lockton Companies, which he describes as the largest privately held insurance brokerage firm in the world.

    Giulietti, who was hired to help the defendants to obtain a bond, in that statement wrote, “Despite scouring the market, we have been unsuccessful in our effort … for the simple reason that obtaining an appeal bond for $464 million is a practical impossibility under the circumstances presented.”

    Only a handful of bond surety companies are approved by the Treasury Department to underwrite a bond that large, and many of those firms will only issue a single bond to a maximum of $100 million, Giulietti wrote.

    He also said that none of those companies will accept non-liquid assets — such as real estate — as collateral.

    “Simply put, a bond of this size is rarely, if ever, seen,” Giulietti wrote. “In the unusual circumstance that a bond of this size is issued, it is provided to the largest public companies in the world, not to individuals or privately held businesses.”

    The Trump Organization is privately held.

    Apparently if Trump had $4B net worth in stocks he’d be able to secure a bond because stocks are liquid. Because he holds $4B net worth in illiquid RE, he can’t. It’s the same $4B in net worth. One is easily disposed of, the other is not.

    One would think that going deeply sub-prime could net Trump the bond, although I suspect that a lender willing to put up funds in that scenario would not be acceptable to the court.

    Meanwhile, the HA bloviator who claims to be a millionaire still cannot afford his own Barron’s subscription.

  95. 95

    After calling for regime change in Israel during a Senate floor speech, Chuck Schumer realizes that maybe he went more than a little bit too far.

    Chuck Schumer
    @SenSchumer
    The U.S. cannot dictate the outcome of an election.

    That is for the Israeli public to decide.

    As a democracy, Israel has the right to choose its own leaders.

    But the important thing is that Israelis are given a choice.

    There needs to be a fresh debate about the future.
    12:28 PM · Mar 14, 2024

    The future will not have Hamas in it, Chuck. That’s what you don’t like about it. An Israel without the distraction of a parasite like Hamas is scary to congenitally underperforming Muslims and their US benefactors.

  96. 96

    As Hamas runs out of places to hide in Gaza, it’s revisiting its old haunts.

    Soldier killed as IDF raids Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, battles Hamas gunmen inside
    Military says it has ‘concrete intelligence’ terror operatives regrouped in Strip’s largest medical center; senior terror commander among 20 killed; dozens of suspects captured

    The IDF released footage (above) showing what it said were Hamas gunmen shooting at troops from the hospital premises and the nearby area. The footage also showed a roadside bomb being detonated against an Israeli armored vehicle, which the IDF said was activated by operatives at Shifa.

    Also at Shifa, the IDF said troops also found weapons and money provided by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to its operatives at the hospital.

    Israel’s intelligence indicated that Hamas operatives and commanders from the northern Gaza Strip recently arrived at the hospital premises to use the buildings as a command center to manage the fighting against IDF troops and carry out attacks against Israel.

    The IDF said in a statement that it had “concrete intelligence” Hamas operatives had regrouped at the hospital and were planning terror activity.

    What a surprise.

  97. 97

    There are four Hamas battalions left in Gaza, all trapped in Rafah.

    Israel is finishing them.

    Good.

  98. 98

    Hamas says 31,000 dead. Israel says 13,000 Hamas killed after the retaliatory invasion of Gaza, in addition to 1,000 Hamas killed while invading Israel on 10/7.

    Let’s assume claims from both side are true. 18,000 civilians killed in addition to 13,000 Hamas is a civilian fatality rate of less than 1% of the 2M Gaza inhabitants, after 5-plus months of house-to-house fighting.

    It’s a stunningly small number of civilian dead to date.

    A year from now we’ll all be laughing at today’s claims of genocide. All of us except the unserious twats among us.

    Finish them.

  99. 99

    Shorter 94 excuse:

    As we all have always known for many, many years, Trump consistently disregards the best advice of his own attorneys and financial experts.

    As anyone who is a “great success” in business does.

    He built his trash empire on fraudulently inflated valuations.
    The bonding companies large enough to secure an appeal bond refuse to accpet inflated trash as security. He lied under oath in his depostitions when he informed the court and his own lawyers that he could “easily” obtain the cash. He began these negotiations with brokers and sureties many months ago. Because he knew all along that he was living on loans secured by fraudulently overvalued trash. And he intentionally engaged in this fraud over many, many years in order to maintain a lavish lifestyle without working.

    In considering a stay of the judgement the full appellate panel in NY will have to weigh the liklihood that the appellant will in fact prevail on the merits of his appeal. In the very filings accompanying that motion for a stay the appellant appears to be making admissions that not only did the appellant perjure himself before the court when he intentionally misrepresented his cash or other liquid assets, but moreover his looming inability to bond the judgement in order to obtain the sought after relief arises from the very nature of the civil offense being appealed.

    If the judgement remains in place James promises to begin civil process to seize and liquidate assets immediately.

    He probably shouldn’t have called her “Peekaboo”.

    And this must be another day for the lying idiot troll to talk about the roasting alive of starving Gazan infants and the relatively popularity of Alben Barkley Kamala Harris.

    🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

  103. 103

    @92 “>> Why do republicans want THAT GUY to be dictator of America?”

    Because he hates the same people they hate.

  105. 105

    @95 Schumer never said he doesn’t believe in democratic elections. Trump and the MAGA mob have never said they do. For that matter, neither have you.

  107. 107

    In today’s other court news, banned-for-life insurrectionist’s last hope for reinstatement to his elective county position goes poof:

    The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was kicked out of office over his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

    SCOTUS has better things to do than listen to this guy’s whining. He can still run for federal office, though:

    https://www.rawstory.com/cowboys-for-trump-founder-wants-to-be-trump-s-vp-after-14th-amendment-disqualification/

  110. 110

    So if the state randomly issues you a license plate with the numbers “666” in it, that makes you a Satan worshipper, just as reading magazines in a public library makes me not a millionaire.

    https://www.rawstory.com/shasta-county-gop/

    This is called “dumbfuck logic,” and the Whidbey doctor isn’t the only dumbfuck; this species is found in northern California, too.

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