Look.. I wanted to report on the new light rail line on the Eastside. It looks great. Can’t wait for it to be properly connected. But instead, the Seattle City Council are being fuckos.
I mentioned the Sara Nelson sponsored bill to repeal the gig workers protections in the last open thread. But The Stranger had one detail that stood out to me. “Her law undermines enforcement by eliminating penalties on companies who fail to pay workers, denying them the right to sue companies for breaking the law and cutting provisions that protect workers against retaliation.”
Wage theft is a huge problem. A quick Google didn’t turn up much recent info, but this post from 2018 has information from the Economic Policy Institute that has it as by far the largest form of theft. And the City Council, specifically Councilmember Nelson, ran on being tough on crime. Yet here they are making it easier to get away with it.
Tough on crime, my ass.
Wage theft by employers surpasses retail shoplifting theft ten fold.
Wage theft by employers is a far greater drain on our economy than shoplifting has ever been.
The reason MAGA Republicans prefer to focus more on shoplifting and ignore wage theft has to do with the identities of those doing the stealing.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton plots DNC convention floor strategy, while the Biden team decides that at least 10 aides encircling my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president are required for his rapidly declining physical state to be hidden from the cameras during his walk from Marine One to the White House.
2024 ELECTIONS
DeSantis meets with Trump to help with 2024 election
It’s about 2028.
This will fall on deaf ears of the people who enjoy any reason to hurt brown people but….
Sanders says there’s not ‘any doubt’ Netanyahu is perpetrating ‘ethnic cleansing’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4627250-bernie-sanders-benjamin-netanyahu-ethnic-cleansing-israel-gaza/
Ethnic cleansing is not what Judaism stands for. Bibi’s policies are not Judaism.
I think he figured it out
Beat at GOP convention, Gov. Cox tells delegates: ‘Maybe you just hate that I don’t hate enough.’
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/04/27/trump-endorses-trent-staggs-senate/
“Don’t get me wrong. I do hate. Just not ‘enough’ for my colleagues.” Gov. Cox under his breath.
Be interesting to see how much the people of Utah will love their new extra hate filled republican governor.
Because Hamas has killed all of the others.
Israel reduces number of hostages to be released in Hamas deal to 33 – report
Hamas will reject it, of course. Why should Hamas do anything Israel wants when it knows that Joe Biden takes Hamas’ side?
@ 4
Be interesting to see how much the people of Utah will love their new extra hate filled republican governor.
The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, he’s been governor for more than three years. Nothing new about him.
@4 Senator to replace Romney. I misstyped.
AJ Kagan, last week:
This is a better argument than Bork’s contention that the right to privacy isn’t found in the Constitution.
Strict originalism is new for liberals. Clarence Thomas and the ghost of Antonin Scalia welcome you to their side!
One drawback to Portland building on the cheap with the MAX Line to Gresham, They used the venerable Steel Bridge to get across the Willamette. Right now the bridge is out of action due to a train derailment, not MAX, a freight train using the lower deck of the bridge.
Pittsburgh has a backup if the Mount Washington tunnel is blocked, but that is because when ridership on the Brown Line dropped, they kept the track and OCS intact,, and also comes in handy for operator training, and dead heading. It also is because Pittsburgh never abandoned all their streetcar lines.
In a five-way race Trump beats Biden 42-33, CNN’s poll results told us. We talked about it yesterday.
The 9-point spread is the largest in CNN’s presidential campaign polling history.
If Biden would transition to Finish them., his polling would probably jump five points.
There are those of us who still think that the Holocaust was a bad thing. Go figure.
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@ 9
Pittsburgh has a backup if the Mount Washington tunnel is blocked, but that is because when ridership on the Brown Line dropped, they kept the track and OCS intact,, and also comes in handy for operator training, and dead heading. It also is because Pittsburgh never abandoned all their streetcar lines.
Who said radon is a bad thing?
– Senator Fetterman
Hey, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron @ 4, 7, how do you think Pennsylvanians like their new senator?
4,
Utah is certainly one red state where the Venn diagram of regular church attendance and MAGA rapture will not help The Rapist nor especially down ballot candidates.
Still, as anything that suppresses turnout ultimately promotes extremism, Utah will remain safely red for the foreseeable future, even as the GOP loses support.
8,
The Village Idiot once again finds himself pie-hole deep in a clownservatik cesspool that he scarcely comprehends.
The entirety of U.S. sovereign and qualified immunity doctrine resides outside of original intent and original documentation. All of it is judge-made law.
The most recent and relevant case law from this court supports the conclusion that a current President is not immune until and unless they are first impeached and and removed from office.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/520/681/#tab-opinion-1960128
The “impermissible intrusion” into the independence of the Executive function that corrupt plutocrats like Date Rape and Alito warn about already exists. The office of the President has survived and thrived gaining even more sway and authority in the ensuing twenty five years and four different Presidents.
@ 15
The case you cite pertains to behavior by a president before he became president.
The case argued last week at SCOTUS pertains to behavior by a president during his presidency.
The two examples are nothing alike.
Did Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit post that @ 15 spew under your screen name, QoS McHillbilly?
The Hamasshole protesters at Columbia have 22 minutes to get the hell off the quad, as of this spew.
Those who don’t will be suspended for the remainder of the Spring semester.
We’ll see.
Shares in the Trump media company have doubled in value since mid-April.
Crickets from the HA libbie crowd.
In roughly the same time period Tesla has rocketed upward more than $50/share. Up 25 bucks just today, as of this spew.
What, nobody wants to talk Tesla anymore?
A case study in propaganda.
In December 2023, The New York Times published “Screams Without Words: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7.” The paper relied on Jeffrey Gettleman for the bulk of reporting on the story. Gettleman’s story relied heavily on Sources within the Israeli government who were not witnesses to any of the alleged activity. Gettleman hired Anat Schwartz a filmmaker and television producer to conduct the bulk of the investigation in Israel
The most relevant account in the story was Gal Abdush whose body was described as found with her legs spread. Also her body was burned so actual evidence of rape would be hard to pin down during autopsy. Abdush’s relatives including her sisters have reported that no official from IDF or local Police informed them she had been raped. Her mother states that the first she heard her daughter may have been raped was a New York Times reporter asking her how she felt about it.
Schwartz, it is now revealed to have liked and forwarded Zionist social media posts even before October 7th calling for the absorbtion of all of Gaza into Isreal. Post October 7th has reposted calls to kill all Arabs in Gaza and take the land.
It is now revealed that Schwartz did conduct interviews with eyewitnesses to the attack on October 7th but those eyewitnesses did not support claims of more than a few cases of sexual assault. Medical Staff at Israeli Hospitals and Rape Crisis centers have now come forward with reports that Schwartz accused them of a “conspiracy of silence” and covering up the mass rapes. Why Israeli medical facilities would decide to downplay such an event are unexplained.
What did Schwartz do with her failure to find direct evidence? Well she wrote up a story based on unnamed sources within the IDF attesting that these events happened.
60 Heads and Professors of American Journalism schools have now called on the New York Times to retract the article.
But it doesn’t matter at this point. Hundreds of thousands of DumbFucks will forever type the tale of the mass rapes on October 7th much as they type the mass beheading of infants carried out on that day.
Shorter Hamasshole @ 19
Reuters:
US military’s humanitarian aid pier in Gaza to cost $320 million US dollars
All for something that Hamas will destroy as soon as it becomes clear that stealing aid is more difficult from the pier than from the border.
Justice Kavanaugh making up facts about how people feel.
And giving away the game. Kavanaugh from oral appears in the bag for granting the 45th President sweeping if not total immunity.
The pardoning of Nixon can’t be dealt with without acknowledging that the prosecution of a President for crimes committed while in office (elections crimes of course) is absolutely on the table and constitutional. Without the potential for criminal charges a pardon is of course totally unnecessary. So either Ford committed political suicide for not a single good reason or it is well understood that criminal activity by the president is prosecutable.
Own goal.
Apparently the thrust of the Hamas-appeasing asshole @ 19 is that because they burned the woman to death on October 7, it’s difficult to determine with certainty whether or not she was raped before she was set aflame:
The most relevant account in the story was Gal Abdush whose body was described as found with her legs spread. Also her body was burned so actual evidence of rape would be hard to pin down during autopsy.
Except for the warmed semen with numerous DNA homologies floating in her uterus, which was only heated to rare-medium rare, I guess it might be difficult to determine whether a burned body was raped before murder. After all, maybe the woman was just a common Israeli prostitute who whored herself out to Palestinians living in Israel, and that’s how the semen got there. Or maybe she was coming home from a gang bang with Palestinians. Might not have been a rape at all.
Somehow this is intended to generate sympathy for the plight of the Hamas fighters still hiding behind children in Rafah.
@18
You have a very long way to go to hit the $400/share you were predicting in early 2023.
Still down 22% YTD.
And this is on news that China is allowing self driving mode. Irrational exuberance is the words of the day. China is manufacturing lots of E-Cars with price points below Tesla. Tesla Model Y (the cheapest) has dropped to #3 in sales and is the only Tesla in the top 20 Chinese sales. Self driving mode isn’t going to drive sales the way today’s buy-in imagines.
And drivers assist killed a pedestrian just last week here in the USA. It’s linked to 29 deaths here in the U.S. which is a class-action. Add in the 600 non fatal crashes and that class gets pretty big.
Shorter @ 19
Emmett Till just fell down, that’s all.
@23
And you have this evidence that you blithely type….where?
Because you believe it to be true because IDF says it’s true but hospitals and eyewitnesses as we have now been made aware do not corroborate.
It’s like you didn’t even pay attention.
Reporter is tasked with investigating if an event happened the way one side is claiming it happened.
a: Goes to source of story and they claim it happened.
b: Goes to eyewitnesses of where event was alleged to have happened and eyewitnesses do not agree that it happened.
c: Talks to doctors who would have treated the victims. Doctors say it did not happen.
D: Accuses doctors of covering up the event.
e: Goes back to non-eyewitness sources in step a and types up a story that their story is true, no matter what b and c said.
Dumbfuck says, yep! They found the SEMEN!
A case study in propaganda
The cited difference is entirely irrelevant to either the statutes or precedent argued by petitioner. Trump argues that as a former President he enjoys full immunity until and unless he has first been impeached and removed from office. As petitioner Trump argues that anything he does at any time enjoys absolute immunity in order to preserve the independent action of his office. Trump as petitioner argues that the only recognized mechanism where by that immunity may be extinguished is when Congress fulfills the Constitutional process of removing that immunity through impeachment and conviction. Trump’s argument sweeps in all conduct, making no distinction between “official” and “purely private” conduct.
As in Clinton, petitioner’s challenge is also jurisdictional, arguing that until Congress has intervened to extinguish immunity the judicial branch may not enforce proceedings upon the petitioner at any point including such point as may come many years after the petitioner has been removed from office by the voters, because the threat anticipated by such enforcement would remove the independence of the Presidency.
Yet in Clinton this very court held that the mere exercise of their core Article III jurisdiction to decide cases and controversies, and, whatever the outcome, contained “no possibility that the decision here will curtail the scope of the Executive Branch’s official powers.”
Knowing and confident that a criminal conspiracy to recruit imposter state electors to forge fraudulent electoral certificates and then attempt to unlawfully substitute those forgeries in order to defraud the government is not, by the nature of the acts themselves, within the confines of “official acts” of the office of President of the United States, petitioner makes no such claim.
And so it is abundantly clear that Trump’s claim to immunity being considered by the court is not dependent upon the nature of the acts, which nature includes the time in which they occurred relative to his office. The claim is instead to the nature of the immunity itself.
But as this court held in Clinton “the Judiciary may severely burden the Executive Branch by reviewing the legality of the President’s official conduct…
and may direct appropriate process to the President himself…
It must follow that the federal courts have power to determine the legality of the President’s unofficial conduct.”
There’s nothing of a unique nature about petitioner Trump’s unlawful scheme to defraud the United States with forged state documents prepared by imposters that would prevent the application of that exact same holding from Clinton, and rejection of petitioner’s claims to a heretofore unprecedented kind of absolute immunity.
@ 24
You have a very long way to go to hit the $400/share you were predicting in early 2023.
Still down 22% YTD.
Indeed I do, although TBH I don’t recall “predicting” a climb to $400. Good thing I sold covered calls with a $400 strike price back when the shares were knocking at the door of three Benjamins, and sold them again at a $300 strike price when the shares were back down to the $250 range – both positions still held. I also sold naked puts but bought back some of that this morning to take some profit and reduce some risk, with the spike in share price.
There’s (1) the share price of TSLA and there’s (2) the TSLA option chain. The real money’s in the options because the shares are so volatile. The shares can go sideways for years and yet one can still make a killing with naked option sales.
My point is that I don’t really care about the TSLA share value. I just want to profit by naked put sales when the shares are down, and lock in some profit by covered call sales when shares are up. There is so much government money supporting the continued purchases of EVs that TSLA faces zero existential threat risk – creates a floor for the share price, which we saw a year ago is around $100/share. There is so much political warfare around Tesla’s non-union status and Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter that share volatility will remain very high, and options trading will remain very profitable for those with the stomach to roll with the punches.
If someone offers you several hundred to one thousand dollars in exchange for your willingness to purchase TSLA shares for, say, $140 between now and, say, a year from now, you probably should take it. In fact, right now June 2025 $140 puts are trading at $1470/100 sh contract. You don’t lose money until the share price drops below $125.30. It’s free money. You should take it.
Tesla’s future is quite bright in a second Trump term, after all.
@ 27
… “no possibility that the decision here will curtail the scope of the Executive Branch’s official powers.”
Agreed. Because the decision pertained to Clinton’s behavior before he became president and upon his swearing-in he obtained said powers.
The operative word in your linked sentence fragment is “here”. The court was deciding based on Clinton’s gubernatorial conduct, not his presidential conduct.
@ 26
And you have this evidence that you blithely type….where?
The Worst 45 Minute Film You Will Ever See
Israel assimilated video shot by Hamas of the October 7 atrocities, made a video of the compilation, and has been showing it around to journalists and world leaders.
The evidence was obtained, real-time, by Hamas members themselves.
Those of you attempting to make light of the October 7 atrocities, are you actually listening to yourselves as you amplify each other’s claims in your echo chamber that the eyes of those who have witnessed are lying to them? Is there any self-awareness at all?
There is no defense for what was done on October 7. It was barbaric and depraved. Full stop.
You just haven’t seen the video. Yet.
Point of clarification WRT @ 30:
Screams Before Silence and the IDF-assembled video of the atrocities are two different entities.
Google would never allow that second video on its site.
@2 “Hillary Clinton plots DNC convention floor strategy”
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Meanwhile, Lindsey Graham endorses putting a criminal in the White House.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senator-lindsey-graham-still-support-trump-convicted_n_662ed20ae4b09dcb78301d1c
The dog-shooting party has no credibility left.
@3 BiBi is a fascist, just like his chief American admirer.
@5 “Hamas will reject it, of course. Why should Hamas do anything Israel wants when it knows that Joe Biden takes Hamas’ side?”
Of course Hamas will reject it, but not for the reason you’re floating. I explained their thinking at #158 in the preceding thread: They want Israel to kill Palestinian elderly men, nursing mothers, children, and infants to re-stoke hatred of Israel — and revitalize their recruiting.
And BiBi is walking right into it. He’s too dumbfuck to figure it out. So are you.
@30
You mean the video you haven’t seen. The article that says “beheaded babies and mass rape” that according to those who’ve seen it though disturbing acts of murder and slaughter contain neither of those thing.
Even the things you are now citing as proof do not contain what you think it does.
Israeli officials held private screenings of the graphic footage for influental audiences, requiring agreements to not publish or share any footage from the film and prohibiting recording devices This is why you haven’t seen it either. There have only been very controlled private screenings. of those who have seen it and described it publicly, weird how rape isn’t one of the things described. Ever. By Anyone.
You’ve gone from “They found semen and that is proof” to “Terrorists killed people and that is proof of mass rape” inside of an hour. Good job.
What we are talking about here is a SPECIFIC allegation made in a SPECIFIC NYT article that turns out to be total bullshit and actual journalists are calling for that SPECIFIC article to be retracted. Because there is no evidence that the allegations contained in that SPECIFIC voyeuristic article of mass rapes ever actually happened.
21 Democrat congresspersons send the Columbiz prez a letter telling the spineless twat that enough is enough.
They watched Morning Joe today. They know this student silliness will help elect Trump.
@8 “Strict originalism is new for liberals.”
It’s inchoate for conservatives who think the Second Amendment establishes something other than a right to bear a flintlock muzzle-loading smoothbore musket with an effective range of 50 yards as a member of an organized state-controlled militia.
@11 Young voters won’t flock to Trump. They will weigh the fact Biden is putting at least some pressure on BiBi whereas Trump will put none.
@12 “Who said radon is a bad thing?”
What’s good about it? Do tell us.
BiBi is a fascist
and a racist..
https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsWithJingjing/comments/17ouuqm/benjamin_netanyahus_interview/
@ 38
@11 Young voters won’t flock to Trump. They will weigh the fact Biden is putting at least some pressure on BiBi …
Yes, that’s exactly what the polling says, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit:
2024: Genocidin’ with Biden
@ 39
@12 “Who said radon is a bad thing?”
What’s good about it? Do tell us.
You’re the one with three hundred 222-Rn seeds shoved through your asshole and into your prostate, Robinhood Dumbuck Rabbit. At minimum you felt the joy of an ass-pounding you hadn’t received since your shower days in Vietnam. When you recovered from sedation you asked if you could take the rectal template home with you.
This is what happens when you arm the general public with military-grade weaponry and a large stockpile of ammunition:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/us/officers-shot-charlotte-north-carolina/index.html
Sure, there are “good guys with guns” out there, but they’re useless in a situation like this, which is a job for highly-trained and specialized law enforcement teams. And when “good guys” have easy access to guns, so do bad guys. Republicans don’t want any background checks or restrictions at all, which means they have no inhibitions about arming criminals and psychopaths. I don’t understand that. I chalk it up to Republicans being crazy themselves. And their approach is very anti-police when you get a situation like this.
@13 I don’t think doing anything for Hamas is helpful, but I don’t think that’s what 98% of the protesters are doing. Sen. Fetterman, who not long ago you were calling a vegetable, suddenly is one of your heroes for doing this:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sen-fetterman-takes-swipe-at-anti-israel-college-students-and-their-pup-tent-for-hamas-protests/ar-AA1nOTjF
I think it’s fair to say at this point he’s demagoguing and pandering on this issue; few if any of the protesters are “pro-Hamas,” and I’m sure he knows that. But as liberals, we still would rather have his vote than Dr. Oz’s in the Senate, when issues like health care, Ukraine aid, and Biden appointees come up for votes. You can suck on that.
@16 The case he cited was brought while Clinton was president, which makes it relevant.
You’re too untrained and inexperienced in legal unreasoning to understand that while the two cases aren’t exactly alike, they aren’t totally unlike, either. The first may not be binding precedent on the second, but it’s strongly arguably on point.
@17 “The Hamasshole protesters at Columbia have 22 minutes to get the hell off the quad, as of this spew.”
I wouldn’t give them that long, but I think the rest of the protesters should be allowed to stay.
@18 “Shares in the Trump media company have doubled in value since mid-April.”
Which is profitable for everyone who bought at the low and is now dumping those shares. Those who bought at $70 are still fucked, though.
Shorter Eichmann apologist @20: “6,000,000 Jews were murdered by the Nazis in WW2,” not 6,000,005.
See how that works both ways?
@21 That’s what security guards are for, dumbfuck.
If this was still the Bush regime, they’d be hiring them at six-figure salaries under no-bid contracts awarded to Betsy DeVos’s brother.
@22 “Justice Kavanaugh making up facts about how people feel.”
Probably perplexed and disappointed that the president who appointed him didn’t pardon himself.
@23 “they burned the woman to death”
Yeah, they burned her to death after shooting her in the heart:
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2024/03/05/israel-hamas-oct7-report-gaza
Uncritically parroting Israeli propaganda, as always. Click here for updated photo of Doctor Dumbfuck.
@25 In other words, southern racists lie like Israelis.
@28 “Tesla’s future is quite bright in a second Trump term, after all.”
I assume because of all the Biden infrastructure spending he’s not going to rescind …
@29 “The court was deciding based on Clinton’s gubernatorial conduct, not his presidential conduct.”
If this was a bar exam question, you’d flunk. The court was deciding based on what the immunity of a sitting president is.
@30 So, if I understand correctly, you’re basing your “facts” on Hamas propaganda disseminated by Israeli propagandists?
@41 For starters, why don’t you provide a link to that article, instead of USA Today’s homepage, so we can look at it?
But even without seeing it, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t say young voters are flocking to Trump. I don’t see why young voters who don’t like Biden’s pro-Israel policies would like Trump’s more.
@43 Really? My brain is less affected by radiation than yours. But then, I didn’t stand near x-ray machines as long as you did.
What Kavanaugh wrote about presidential immunity in a law review article before he became a Supreme:
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-trump-immunity/
This court took considerable pains in Clinton to meaningfully distinguish between immunity that might attach to conduct as opposed to immunity that might attach to identity such as when the individual engaging in the aforementioned conduct assumes the identity of POTUS.
There is no distinction between “gubernatorial conduct” and Presidential conduct”. That is a distinction in terms of identity not in terms of the actual nature of the conduct itself. The relevant distinction in terms of conduct is between “official” acts falling within the legal scope of powers authorized to a President by the constitution and statutes, and purely private acts that fall outside of that scope of office.
In Clinton the court expressly declared that it was the nature of the acts themselves, distinguishing between purely private conduct and official conduct associated with the office, that brought any immunity from legal jurisdiction into existence.
Here in this comment defending his prior foolishness, the Village Idiot demonstrates that he is incapable of comprehending that distinction made by this court – which distinction I might add the court may be preparing to abandon for what can only be purely partisan purposes.
@60 Making distinctions is very important in any legal analysis. The Village Idiot is terrible at it. He’d never pass a bar exam.
Update on NC shootout with LE: Task force was serving a warrant on a felon; 3 cops killed, 5 wounded, 1 shooter dead, 1 shooter in custody.
61,
It’s an exceedingly important distinction here, because the petitioner’s argument in part has been based on Fitzgerald v Nixon, which is the foundational case that grants “absolute” immunity for “official” acts. That’s why the court took such pains in Clinton v Jones to distinguish between the nature of the acts in question and not the identity of the actor.
Given the subsequent precedent of Clinton v Jones, the application and availability of the “absolute” immunity described in Fitzgerald would be significantly limited. And it was clearly the court’s intention in Clinton to create that limitation and place it where it did, distinguishing not between any findings of identity of the individual seeking immunity protection, but findings regarding the essential nature of the acts being immunized.
In Fitzgerald the hearing examiner held that his dismissal violated civil service statutes. But the hearing examiner denied claims of retaliation. Fitzgerald filed seeking damages based on retaliation denied in the administrative hearing and outlawed by statute. The district court dismissed citing SOL. Fitzgerald appealed. The Circuit found that predicate acts of Alexander Butterfield in the Nixon White House served the purpose of concealing the illegal dismissal from Fitzgerald and that this had the effect of “tolling” the SOL. The case went back to the district on remand. Upon subsequent civil disco Fitzgerald was able to file an ammended complaint naming Nixon (and Butterfield). The court denied a motion for summary and moved the case to trial. The defendant moved to the district for dismissal on grounds of immunity and was denied. Then defendant moved to the Circuit on grounds of immunity and was denied. In rulings from both the district and subsequently the circuit it was held that the President of the United States was not entitled to absolute immunity for violating statutes.
The Supreme Court subsequently reversed and created the grant of “absolute” immunity, doing so for the very first time, and preventing Fitzgerald from ever going to trial. The court declared that it was the President’s unique role that created the need for this immunity. But also that it was the nature of the immunized acts themselves that would determine when immunity applied and when it did not.
However, the court was unclear, and essentially silent with respect to any question about whether or not a President’s unique “role” was alone sufficient to invoke a shield of immunity.
President Bill Clinton sought precisely such a shield when he moved for dismissal of Jones v. Clinton on grounds of “absolute” immunity. Ultimately, as we know, the court concluded that it was not the “role” of President that brought the begged for immunity into existence, but rather the nature of the acts being immunized. Clinton as a sitting President was not immunized and was compelled by the jurisdiction of federal and state courts to undergo civil suit for damages while he was still serving as President of the United States.
Taken in total, only by significantly reversing these precedent cases can this court now grant that shield of immunity to former President Donald Trump for acts that he has never argued in court fell inside the “outer perimeter” of the duties of his office.
It’s more than convenient that when Democrat Clinton was being sued for civil damages while serving a President of the United States this court was entirely unconcerned about how such a suit for damages in state court and the consequent prospect of thousands of such suits for damages for anything under the sun, might “burden” the “unique role” of President. While Republican Nixon could never be sued for anything that might be “within the outer perimeter” of official acts.
Having between these two cases created a unique, but defining set of conditions for deciding when immunity applies, this court now finds itself keenly interested in modifying those conditions to the apparent benefit of another Republican (former) President.
It’s nakedly partisan bullshit. I can only hope they don’t go through with it. But if they do, then Democrats will simply gain more ammunition justifying expanding the court.
The GOP is never getting the youngs back.
Cigna is not even one of the top 20 health insurers in the world. Medical TikTok is a thing and what the kids know is Cigna posted a $6.7B profit last year. Yes, as an individual just coming into the job market in your early 20s you too can pay $375/month individual and then $5,000 out of pocket before your health insurance pays anything at all EVERY SINGLE YEAR FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (It will get more expensive with each birthday) so that a CEO can have a 5th home and the shareholders can have your money.
The youngs aren’t arguing about how socialized medicine makes the well pay for the sick they’re sharpening the pitchforks to kill the industry altogether.
The irony that one can legally carry an AR-15 or any kind of lethal firearm on UT campuses.
@ 64
Yes, as an individual just coming into the job market in your early 20s you too can pay $375/month individual and then $5,000 out of pocket before your health insurance pays anything at all EVERY SINGLE YEAR FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (It will get more expensive with each birthday) so that a CEO can have a 5th home and the shareholders can have your money.
Best of all, this the outcome of Democrats passing a law to fuck with one-sixth of the US economy. At the time ACA passed, 83% of Americans were satisfied with their health care plan. 83%.
Why fuck up 83% satisfaction rate?
Democrats asked for this.
I must say I am certainly enjoying the crackdowns at UT-Austin and UGA.
Those universities must not wish to experience the millions of dollars of vandalism damage caused by protesters in places like Humboldt.
This isn’t the headline of the actual story, but it’s on the CNN front page right now.
Hamas presented with ‘extraordinarily generous’ ceasefire proposal, Blinken says
At Camp David Yassir Arafat was presented with an extraordinarily generous offer, too.
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Just watch.
Liberals are fucking assholes.
It was an enjoyable video. I’ll give the guy two thumbs up for honesty.
Why fuck up 83% satisfaction rate?
Why did repukes babble non-stop in 2018 about protecting voters from their “pre-exisiting conditions”? Geez, they couldn’t dance harder to Pelosi’s tune if they tried.
Why betray the insurance companies that fill their campaign coffers?
yawwwn.. next?
Liberals are fucking assholes.
Maybe just a bit overheated at times about kreepshit repuke asswipes…
When amongst teh magats, just grin and bear their dumbassery.
@69
Puts his finger tight on the pulse of why so many are disillusioned by the Obama years.
Compare to the cult that thinks killing a million people preventably and crashing the economy and governing over a massive loss of jobs is ‘a Grwst President”
We could have had A National Healthcare system but instead we got the Republican Ronneycare and a massive handout to private insurers.
America’s dumbest senator is worried about illegals joining the military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9hNpwG7z9I
Two words: Sylvestre Herrera
@63 “Taken in total, only by significantly reversing these precedent cases can this court now grant that shield of immunity to former President Donald Trump for acts that he has never argued in court fell inside the ‘outer perimeter’ of the duties of his office.”
Not necessarily; I can visualize this court interpreting the prior cases to mean Republican presidents are immune and Democratic presidents are not by a 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 to 😒😒😒 vote.
@66 The other 17% died in the ER while waiting for charity care.
@67 “I must say I am certainly enjoying the crackdowns at UT-Austin and UGA.”
I thought for sure you’d be disappointed at the small number of fractured skulls and absence of deaths.
“Those universities must not wish to experience the millions of dollars of vandalism damage caused by protesters in places like Humboldt.”
But they won’t mind paying false arrest settlements, because indiscriminate mass arrests are fun to watch, amirite?
@68 If I’m right @34, they’ll reject it.
@69 Good. I’m glad he was caught. I’m sure you’ll agree that vandalism by “tourists” should be punished. You do, don’t you?
vandalism by “tourists” should be punished.
The urination and defecation by “cosplaying grandmother” “tourists” are exempt.
@79 No, but pardonable in Trump’s eyes.
I’ve heard Martha Stewart has goats at her estate. She probably shouldn’t have Gov. Noem as a house guest.
Even though Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles is a Yale graduate, he’s an idiot.
I’ll take a wild guess that many of us aren’t eating dog meat right now. We may eat chickens, we may eat pigs, we may eat cows; but in America, nobody (except possibly Vietnamese and Laotian immigrants) eats dogs.
Instead, we adopt them, cuddle them, love them, and get real real pissed when some asshole shoots one in the head to get rid of it. Even Fox’s Jeanine Pirro said, “America — if nothing else, we are dog lovers.”
It doesn’t help, of course, that the dog’s name was “Cricket”. If you’re going to shoot a dog, name it “Brutus” or “Hannibal,” but don’t name it “Cricket.” That’s like blowing away a rabbit named “Fluffy.” It’s no wild guess that Noem sucks at PR.
Trump lawyer and coup plotter Christina Bobb thinks she’s going to get life in prison.
https://www.rawstory.com/christina-bobb-2668084440/
We can wish, can’t we?
So how did a felon manage to amass an arsenal?
Oh. It was almost exactly a year ago.
Bidenomics touches all.
Bidenomics ass-fucks the weakest. Most of them are the ones who voted for it.
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Walmart to shutter health centers, virtual care service in latest failed push into health care
Obamacare has fucked up health care so badly that not even Walmart can keep from losing money providing it.
POS Hunter Biden only wanted DOCTOR Jill Biden to see photos of his dick, not the whole world.
And he feels his otherwise sterling reputation was harmed by the photo of him passed out with a crack pipe in his mouth.
Trump with the lead in every single battleground state in this poll:
Democrats lost the ability to make voters fear a felon in the White House when they nominated #CrookedHillary in 2016.
One of the big selling points of the Tesla has always been the Supercharger Network. The promise of having ‘filling’ stations along every major highway.
Elon just fired the division that was building it.
Also the division tasked with creating new models. So how’s that low cost Tesla Elon promised about a week ago going to get to market?
Because self driving is the only thing that matters. Shitty trucks, shitty build, shitty leadership.
One might wonder why TESLA did spin off the Supercharger Division or sell it outright? Make it the Arco/Shell/Mobil of fast charging infrastructure?
Possibilities, seeing what Europe did to the Apple Fire cable (Stolen Tech from Sony) knowing they would have to retrofit all stations to be Universal was a thing no one with a business sense could have seen coming.
More EVs being sold with the non-Tesla universal port than Tesla Vehicles (hi China) making the Tesla Exclusive Super Charger a thing that is going to die eventually anyway.
No one wanted Elon’s shitty technology because they’ve surpassed it with their own.
Tesla was losing way more on it than they have disclosed.
@88
Continues to change his mind on RV polls and pay no attention to the coming guilty verdict.
@ 90
One of the big selling points of the Tesla has always been the Supercharger Network. The promise of having ‘filling’ stations along every major highway.
Elon just fired the division that was building it.
Two things:
• Hertz reversed its plan to purchase 100,000 EVs. The company is now selling as used cars the bulk of the 20,000 it did purchase.
• Ford lost $1.3 billion on the sale of 10,000 EVs in the most recent quarter. That’s a $130,000 loss per vehicle sold.
A supercharger network for vehicles that are not Teslas is less necessary if there aren’t going to be vehicles that are not Teslas. Musk’s company is responding accordingly, and there should be no surprise in that.
@ 92
Continues to change his mind on RV polls…
OK, let’s play this out. If those polls were likely voter polls or enthusiastic voter polls instead of registered voter polls, would it help, or hurt your candidate?
Would it help, or hurt Trump?
Make them LV polls and Trump’s lead jumps another 0.5-1.5 points. Make them enthusiastic voter polls and Biden’s support gobes into the negatives.
85,
Alignable is a social media platform for rookie small business owners struggling to build reputation and clout who are willing to face an hourly tsunami of unsolicited promotional messages and cold calls in exchange.
It is not a business research company.
It is not a data clearinghouse.
It is like Facebook Marketplace for first time business startups.
What Alignable’s own members tell Alignable about their own experiences trying to start pet grooming businesses, pillow stores, and Ned Flanders’ Leftorium is not a reliable indicator of economic conditions.
The Village Idiot should learn how to distinguish between real news and AI generated sponsored promotional content.
ftfy
Reporting ties has a much lower click-through rate
GEHC down about 11 bucks as of this writing. Nice entry point.
@ 96
Yup, it’s always the leading candidate whose supporters talk about statistical ties. One need only peruse the 2012 Monte Carlo spew threads on HA to verify.
Massive show of strength from the likes of QoS McHillbilly.
@ 96
I’m reminded of Joe Lieberman running in 2004 and coming in fifth in an early primary. His team spun it as a “three-way tie for third”.
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@ 95
Don’t tell me. Tell Bloomberg, which reports it.
I guess I’ll have to use stuff like the consumer confidence index as a barometer of how things are going, since you’ve trashed Alignable.
Bidenomics touches all. Some, it assfucks.
By bringing up statistical ties and by inference the 3.0 MOE in @ 88 those above-cited polls, what QoS McHillbilly is trying to say is that Trump’s lead over Biden might be as many as 3 points greater than reported.
That’s the other part of what MOE means. Think about that, and ponder the 15.5% chance (if you included the results from the late Trafalgar and Remington Research polls) that Darryl’s final poll aggregate gave Trump of beating #CrookedHillary.
http://horsesass.org/follow-up.....pollsters/
There are surprises on both ends of the polling spectrum, after all.
Defendant acting like a jerk is held in contempt, fined $9,000, and warned he’ll get jail time if he does it again. Get the jail bedsheets ready; he’ll do it again, he can’t help himself.
@84 I guess you could argue the legislature, in a way, killed those LE officers. But it isn’t really true, because felons get guns in background check states, too. It’s lax regulation by SCOTUS and GOP politicians, along with our gun culture, that has made gun violence a leading cause of death in the United States.
@85 You sound like you think cheap rent is an entitlement like cheap labor.
@86 “plans to bring its low-priced reputation to the dentist and doctor office”
In a country where you get what you pay for, how many people shop for “ALWAYS THE LOWEST PRICE” health care?
ftfy
It’s not great for Republicans that facing a financial catastrophe, dozens of criminal trials, and increasing frailty and cognitive decline the Republican nominee is only tied among registered voters in polls. So it’s little wonder they choose to lean into their own ignorance of mathematics for desperately needed reassurances.
@86 “Obamacare has fucked up health care so badly”
Yes, by making it available to millions who didn’t have it.
The conservative dumbfuck can’t stand the “others” having even a shadow of what he has.
@93
Just Dumbfuck making shit up. You missed the part about firing the entire division for new model development?
Yep, Ford is losing money on each F-150 Lightning. Probably made a mistake on what the consumer of a truck wants. Ford also stated from the get-go that they did not expect EV profits for four years of rolling out the Mach-E and Lighting. Ford made $1.8B last year despite bringing a whole new line and technology to the market in 2022. Propped up by high end ICE sales sure but you know the pesky law of decreasing costs…
Tesla is a rudderless ship getting crushed in China with BYD claiming seven of the top 10 in volume. The only vehicle selling in any numbers in China is the Model Y which Tesla just announced they are raising the price of the base model in China to approx. $36,500USD. Estimates on the cost to manufacture the Model Y are between $36,000 and $40,000.
But Dumbfuck has thoughts on why axing two major divisions of the company are smart moves.
Bloomberg relies extensively on sponsored AI generated content they obtain from third parties as in this case.
I’m fine if Republicans will rely for their intelligence upon fabricated, unreliable garbage being spoon fed to them by the growing crowd of Alex Jones Wannabes yearning to get in on milking the mouth breathers. If it inspires them to get all excited about the promise of future triumphs and empty their pockets in useless tribute to their chosen Shit-Lord puppeteers that’s even better.
I enjoy it when Republicans waste time and energy on stupid useless bullshit.
@87 The more people who sue Fox the better. The Murdochs are the Sacklers of the media business.
@88 is Doctor Dumbfuck getting high on his favorite drug again.
@93 A supercharger network for Teslas is also less necessary if the Teslas coming off the assembly line are sitting unsold in parking lots. Face it, dumbfuck, Musk is being forced to tighten his company’s belt because Teslas aren’t selling.
@97 Another one you bought high? I thought you didn’t like anything GE, and now you’re bragging you own it. I won’t, because I don’t consider a P/E of 25 a “nice entry point,” or a sudden plunge in a stock that’s been declining for weeks as a buying opportunity. But go ahead and help yourself to GEHC, you can take all of them; I don’t want any.
Health care stocks in general aren’t doing well this year. (Is that because investors expect the party of socialized medicine to win in November?)
Indeed. More and more in every years for some “reasons”.
Which is why assessments of campaigns and candidates and recent election results have proved to be a more reliable indicator of future events. We’ve been saying this now for years. And we haven’t been wrong. The Village Idiot can’t say that.
The Village Idiot has been entirely wrong about everything for many years now. Good times.
33,360,789 women now live in a state where abortion is banned without exceptions for rape or incest.
That’s a good example of a valuable statistic to pay attention to six months ahead of a major historical election.
@100 Consumers are doing great. Flush with Covid relief cash, plentiful jobs, and higher wages, they’re spending like there’s no tomorrow. GDP growth was through the roof in the final quarter of last year. The Fed couldn’t engineer a hard landing if they tried.
NBC news corroborated by multiple observers from inside the courtroom reports this morning that the Republican nominee for president has once again fallen asleep at the defense table while his is on trial for 34 felonies.
That’s another good example of valuable objective reporting to pay attention to six months ahead of a major historical election.
@106 I don’t think you even need to do that. Doctor Dumbfuck is a corner
drugpoll dealer. Don’t buy his merchandise or swallow his pills and you’ll be fine.A UT history professor has this to say about conservatives with Ivy League degrees:
A dog that bites the hand feeding it is a dog that people into shooting dogs can shoot without remorse.
In a lengthy interview with Time magazine Trump The Rapist offered for the first time some insight into the details of the deportation program he has said he would order if he were to be elected President.
In order to accomplish the deportation of over 11 million people from the United States (a huge percentage of whom are here perfectly legally with our permission) he would build potentially hundreds of very large open air concentration camps to confine the 11 million while awaiting transportation. And he would deploy active duty U.S. federal armed forces domestically into U.S. states and communities to carry out door to door searches of homes and businesses in order to locate, subdue, arrest, and confine anyone suspected of being not a U.S. citizen.
That’s another good example of candidate policy statement to pay attention to six months ahead of a major historical election.
Trump has now been convicted of nine counts of criminal contempt, fined $1,000 per violation, and warned that further violations will result in confinement.
That’s another good example of valuable objective reporting to pay attention to six months ahead of a major historical election.
@121 I’m not sure he would stop with immigrants. A view gaining currency among his fascist crowd is that so-called anchor babies (children of immigrants born in the U.S.) aren’t citizens, even though the Constitution plainly says they are. If Trump latches onto this idea, he could be deporting U.S. citizens, too, to a country where they’re not citizens, don’t speak the language, and could readily be exploited or fall victims to violence. The eventual civil rights judgments against the successor to Trump’s government are too large to contemplate and would represent a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars. One could only hope his minions, who enjoy no presidential immunity, would be held personally responsible.
@122 I posit he lacks the self-control necessary to keep himself out of jail, so the days ahead should be fun.
Today’s “Keep the schools safe” headline:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-3-year-old-shoots-foot-school-officer-moms-gun-rcna149960
Hey, let’s not just arm the teachers, let’s arm the kids, too! — GOP
At Columbia University, the stern crackdown and show of force by administrators has resulted in student protesters taking over the same building that Vietnam War protesters occupied in 1968.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/campus-protests-live-updates-students-occupy-columbia-university-rcna149926
It’s back to the drawing board for MLB uniforms. Things that look good on paper don’t always fly in real-world conditions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/mlb-uniforms-nike-set-overhaul-players-fans-cry-foul-union-says-rcna149757
As Elon Musk well knows …
Doctor Dumbfuck @133 in previous thread: “IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi approves plans for Rafah op. All Hamas has to do in order to prevent this is return 33 hostages. Easy-peasy.”
Blinken: Hamas should take this deal, because it’s the best they’ll get.
Netanyahu: If they do, I’ll invade Rafah anyway.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israel-palestinians_n_6630d092e4b0849b2edce67c
BiBi just gave Hamas a compelling motivation to release no hostages.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-local-police-immigration-crackdown_n_6630fdc0e4b0c9bc8758f712
Many cities, including Seattle, have police staffing shortages; and diverting cops to Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade will give criminals even freer reign in the streets. But Republicans have a solution for this, too: They’ll turn every citizen into an armed vigilante.
When Party Is More Important Than Country
With Republicans, all the time. GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz, who was born and raised in Ukraine, voted against military aid to Ukraine.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/victoria-spartz-voted-against-ukraine-aid_n_6630e91fe4b0849b2edcf50f
What some CPB agents think of migrant children:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/border-patrol-agents-joked-about-killing-migrant-children-records-show_n_662bfa3fe4b0ab66ede493de
It’s not hard to figure out how Trump will staff his Einsatzgruppen.
Now that Marge’s attempt to remove her party’s speaker has been blocked, her next task is to try to persuade the speaker she tried to oust to move her legislative priorities along.
Hillary Clinton’s response to Kristi Noem’s animal cruelty perhaps is the best of all: “Don’t vote for anybody you wouldn’t trust with your dog.”
https://www.rawstory.com/a-governor-her-dog-and-the-u-s-presidential-election/
Bess Truman once said of Washington D.C. and living in the White House: “If you want a friend in this town, get a dog.”
If Kristi Noem ever moves to D.C., she won’t have any friends. They’ll all be lying dead in a gravel pit somewhere.
A CNBC headline today says, “McDonald’s and other big brands warn that low-income consumers are starting to crack.”
The story continues, “Some of America’s best-known corporations are saying their consumers are being pinched by inflation as prices continue rising, and quotes the CEO saying, “It is clear that broad-based consumer pressures persist around the world.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/30/companies-from-mcdonalds-to-3m-warn-inflation-is-squeezing-consumers.html
McDonald’s profits have doubled since 2020. Maybe they overshot on price increases?
(Full disclosure: Roger Rabbit owns McDonalds stock worth nearly three times what I paid for it.)
@115
Moderatley interesting and why Dumbfuck if he had a brain would be worried that the polling isn’t a great picture right now.
One, the number of undecideds. In a matchup that’s been a forgone conclusion for about two years who are these undecideds. Probably they are single issue voters who are trying to determine if that single issue is enough to get them to vote for someone else? Could it be Dobbs? Could it be Palestine? Could it be ‘Takin’ muh GUNS!”? No one knows.
Two, the downballot.
AZ d+7
PA- d+10
Previous Emerson Polling but most recent
MI- D+2
NV D+8
WI D+4
(NC and GA are not in play 2024)
That’s a whole lot of R President D Senate voters which strains credibility.
The last one and maybe they fix this in their weighting, 39% of respondents are 60+ The population as a whole 60+ is a hair under 17% of the total population and the only age group that preferred Donald in 2020. Even if 80% of the registered 60+ vote, it was 75% in 2020, that’s not enough to make that bracket 39% of the total vote. Not by a long shot.
So at least a tiny grain of salt would be good but not for our Dumbfuck.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit does investing.
Health care stocks in general aren’t doing well this year.
The S&P Health care index YTD is up nearly 3%. That’s a nearly 95 annualized gain. Less than the S&P 500 but also not loaded with tech the way the latter is.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit would kill for a 9% return over a lifetime. Most people would.
The greedy racist incel’s pattern is to cite a fact but then spin lies about the fact.
@129
Could you imagine if Joe Biden proposed federalizing the “Constitutional’ Sheriffs and local and state police departments and how apeshit the Republican party would be?
There’d be a couple thousand Cliven Bundy sit-ins all over the flyover states.
Nate @ 135
That’s a whole lot of R President D Senate voters which strains credibility.
Credulity, I believe you intended to write.
And The Hill/Emerson has Senate races in AZ, MI, WI within 2-3 points, and PA at D+4. There’s that vexing MOE again.
The Drug Enforcement Agency is proposing to change the federal policy of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical uses to a less-dangerous drug with some medical benefits.
To which begs the question: What took you so long, lads?
Republicans.
When did you stop paying attention, lad?
– Nixon Domestic Policy Czar John Erlichman
124,
He lacks the self-control because he is quite clearly entering into a rapidly advancing state of cognitive and emotional decline owing to a complex assortment of factors that are likely to include old age dementia, accumulating stress, habitual abuse of stimulant prescription narcotics, and generally poor health.
His confinement in a segregation unit in Rikers may be among the least demoralizing things in store for Republicans in the months ahead.
“This is Mogul detail to all units. CODE BROWN! I repeat CODE BROWN!
We need the code brown crash kit in the courthouse immediately. And I need a team to requisition some ventilator fans and a case of Glade. This is an all-hands-on-deck CODE BROWN emergency to MOGUL immediately!”
86,
An actual irl doctor would be much more familiar with “unfavorable payer mix”.
For its entire history Walmart Health has struggled with its own inability to integrate its transaction systems with basic, fundamental requirements to validate things like payer eligibility, copays, and other simple out-of-pocket expenses for the very basic healthcare services that it has offered, or to successfully connect to and access EHRs. The accumulation of billing errors, under billing, overpayments, reimbursements, and missing or erroneous records resulted in huge administrative costs to the provider brought about by their own incompetence.
The Village Idiot comes here to lie.
Does it quite badly.
141
Marijuana was made illegal during the Roosevelt Administration in 1937. Google “Harry J. Ainslinger” and read about it.
When did you stop paying attention, lad?
6th Circuit chips away at Qualified Immunity.
In finding that the body cam footage did not match the official police report.
Heater v Bowers.
The facts, a man told his family he planned to commit suicide. Police arrived to find subject sitting at the table with a handgun. Verbally the subject told police he would put the gun away if they left. Instead they stormed the house shooting and killing the subject.
Background, two calls to 911 described Heeter as suicidal and in need of ‘talking down’. In one the caller clearly stated ‘do not shoot him!’ The officers who arrived were made aware by dispatch and specifically told Hester had not threatened anyone but himself.
Officer Bowers approached the house M-16 ready while the other officers approached without unholstering. They had a conversation with a resident who relayed the offer to ‘put up’ the weapon of Police leave. Officer bowers response, “We can’t take that chance. We’re going home tonight.” Note the syntax. This follows the us v them kill or be killed training US Police receive at present.
After entering the house the senior officer on scene states that he saw Hester place the gun on the table. He then moved ‘slightly to the left’ (Sgt’s Testinony) at which point Officer Bowers shot Heeter the only officer to feel firing was necessary and the only
Officer to discharge a weapon. Bowers stood and did not administer first aid while other officers called paramedics.
Bowers in his motion to dismiss sue to qualified immunity cites Hester’s ‘tone of voice’ as threatening to the point requiring deadly force.
Given the testimony of the lead officer that Heeter was unarmed at the time of the shooting the court finds that Heeter can stand trial as there is sufficient evidence for a charge of unlawful death.
Further the court found that charges can move forward as the officer violated Heeter’s 14th Rights after depriving him of life without proper trail.
TLDR version, trigger happy poorly trained cop who went looking to shoot someone did and for a massive judgement personally and against the department.
@136 Since early January, Humana -35%, Roche -17%, CVS -15.3%, Amgen -11.2%, United Healthgroup -11%, Johnson & Johnson -9.8% …
Sure, you can cherrypick HC stocks that are up, like Eli Lilly and other weight-loss drug makers, but the companies above are among the biggest and widely-held.
@138 “There’d be a couple thousand Cliven Bundy sit-ins all over the flyover states.”
Give ’em 24 hours to clear out their tent encampments, then send in the
goon squadsriot police.In 1937, Congress passed the Marihuana Tax Act to “impose an occupational excise tax upon certain dealers in marihuana, to pose a transfer tax upon certain dealings in marihuana, and to safeguard the revenue therefrom by registry and recording.” The act did not criminalize the drug, per se, but failure to pay said taxes or follow regulations was punishable by fines up to $2,000, up to five years in jail, or both. The Marihuana Tax Act stayed on the books until 1969 when the Supreme Court struck it down as a violation of the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination in Leary v. United States.
After the Marihuana Tax Act was deemed unconstitutional, the Nixon administration encouraged Congress to create a new system for classifying drugs based on their medical utility and addictive potential. The result was the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, which established federal drug policy. Marijuana — like heroin and LSD — was classified as a Schedule I drug.
Pay attention, lad.
@140 “To which begs the question: What took you so long, lads?”
Republican hatred of pot-smoking hippies.
@143 “He lacks the self-control because he is quite clearly entering into a rapidly advancing state of cognitive and emotional decline owing to a complex assortment of factors that are likely to include old age dementia, accumulating stress, habitual abuse of stimulant prescription narcotics, and generally poor health.”
It’s simpler than that. He lacks self-control because he’s never had any.
@146 Kyle Rittenhouse would make a great cop. He’s the one guy you can count on to shoot when nobody else is pulling a trigger. Without him at the scene of the Kenosha riots, no one would’ve been shot. He’s great SWAT team material. I’m surprised no team grabbed him in the first-round draft. Maybe because he’s a squirt?
Brown University negotiated an end to the student protest encampment by agreeing to hold a vote on divestment. In Texas, the local DA asked the University of Texas-Austin to negotiate because their crackdown on protests is diverting resources from serious crimes in favor of prosecuting offenses that are barely crimes at all.
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/university-protests-palestine-04-30-24/index.html
This is what a school project by a non-lawyer looks like:
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4631023-stefanik-jack-smith-ethics-complaint/
After writing a school paper about her experiences with the bar discipline system, she’ll go on a speaking tour, and hope for a book contract.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4633571-college-protests-columbia-building-takeover-hinds-hall/
Not really. Protesting is about civil disobedience, not legal obedience. The way protesters figure, nobody cares unless they create inconvenience for others, to make them care.
Agent Chris (at) spooked75 on Xitter
>> If the greedy racist incel is an example, they are not capable of it.
https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/
What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.
>> And that was two weeks ago.
>> Vote Blue
The Rapist is already threatening to refuse to pay Todd Blanche because Blanche has failed to follow his instructions to attack and threaten the judge, the jury, and witnesses.
💕💕🥳🥂🕺👍
@156 I remember when people were too busy working and pulling themselves up by the bootstraps to have time or energy for whining. To me, all the complaining going on now is a sign of affluenza and folks with too much time on their hands.
Northwestern University has also negotiated a deal with protesters. In exchange for protesters ending their occupation, the university agreed to allow protests and gatherings and disclose its investments in companies with Israel ties.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2-universities-have-now-reached-deals-with-pro-palestine-protesters-to-end-encampment_n_66313f52e4b0c558f742013c
“Israel’s far-right national security minister has reportedly asked whether the military could kill some of the Palestinians taken captive instead of arresting them.”
It’s “not the first time that far-right Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for executing Palestinian captives to manage overcrowding in prisons.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israeli-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-kill-palestinian-captives_n_66313a76e4b0c9bc87592bf5
He is, of course, advocating that the IDF commit war crimes and atrocities. This Israeli government has got to go, and this genocidal freak should be handed over to the ICC.