If I trusted Seattle Police to act well, the South Precinct memo described here would be pretty benign. Your partner is speeding “hey slow down, man” is probably a better response than making a formal complaint.*
But many people don’t trust the police. I don’t know if they’re just doing it for minor things or if things that need to be corrected are being handled internally or at all. A department where no offers could take down rapist Donald Trump’s flag or gravestone of people who offers shot probably won’t be able to correct bad behavior.
* I have never been a cop or OPA. So who am I?
“Last month, the state deployed a 1,000-foot floating barrier in the river made from a line of buoys with mesh hanging below them and what appears to be circular saw blades mounted between them.”
What kind of sick fucks would do that?
“The river is shallow enough in this part of the border that migrants can be seen walking around the barrier.”
What the hell, it’s a Maginot Line.
https://www.rawstory.com/eagle-pass-residents-sour-on-texas-gov-greg-abbotts-operation-lone-star/
Judge Cannon is a loose cannon. She’s ordering Jack Smith to disclose secret grand jury proceedings in another district.
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-classified-documents-2662882842/
@1 Republicans must not see migrants and asylum seekers as humans, but more as vermin to be kept out.
A Maginot Line has since become a metaphor for expensive efforts that offer a false sense of security.
I would argue it’s not about security, it’s about cruelty to brown people. From his posts, we know the greedy racist incel gets off on that and he’s republican, so there you are.
THE THIN BLUE LINE OF OUR BROTHERHOOD MUST BE PROTECTED.
Oh and evil is all around us. Satan is tempting you. Turn to Jesus.
Rightwing presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who argues 19-24 year olds aren’t mature enough to vote unless they’re in the military or working as a cop (I’m not sure he’s even aware that raising the voting age to 25 would require amending the Constitution), “suggested canceling Juneteenth, calling it a ‘useless’ holiday in a conversation with Iowa voters Saturday.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/vivek-ramaswamy-calls-juneteenth-useless-rcna98428
The Republican Party just might have their next Ron DeSantis in this guy.
With nothing substantive to go on, and apparently under overwhelming pressure from fellow Republicans in the House and Senate, just a few weeks before voters went to the polls in 2016 then FBI director Comey re-launched an already thoroughly unproductive four year old criminal investigation of the Democratic Presidential nominee.
And that was not improper election interference.
Yes.
This comment is whaddaboutism.
But sometimes, especially whenever we are trying to understand legal issues and decisions of prosecutors, precedent is helpful.
Being a candidate for elected office is not and never has been a grant of immunity from criminal public inquiry. And history demonstrates ample evidence and examples of politicians including filed candidates being investigated if there is credible evidence supporting such an investigation.
The entire nation watched somewhat unbelieving in the months following his election loss as then President Trump and Republicans in general, grew increasingly frustrated and irrational in their efforts to change the outcome. Those same Republicans have done all they could to memory-wipe that. But we all saw it happen. And the House investigation clearly showed a fuck ton of very credible evidence of criminal wrong doing.
@3 “A Maginot Line has since become a metaphor for expensive efforts that offer a false sense of security.”
More specifically, a barrier you can walk around, which is literally the case in Eagle Pass, Texas. Gov. Abbott’s floating barrier is only 1,000 feet long, and the river is only waist-deep where it ends.
5,
Just as soon as any misshapen turd floats to the surface of the Republican nomination cesspool and primary voters get their first good look at them this is always their fate.
They are who they are.
Republican.
@8 “Turd” is a good description of this guy. The Democrats have their own turd in the form of JFK Jr.
How Fox News is covering the Ohio Special Election where the GOP is suddenly trying to make it much much harder to get an Initiative on the ballot specifically to keep Ohio voters from having a chance to codify legal abortion into law.
Like, they’re not even trying to HIDE that the whole enterprise is about making sure one never has to run in a fair election.
America’s white majority is aging out
https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4138228-americas-white-majority-is-aging-out/
thought these comments were insightful and accurate.
“The people worried about this are hilarious because they’re the same ones claiming minorities get special treatment. Like you’re terrified of getting special considerations due to your minority status?
Or maybe you’re worried they’ll start treating you like you treat them. ”
“It’s even worse.
They’re not just worried that they will be treated like they treated other people, they are worried that they will be treated JUST LIKE everyone else. Not special treatment no “legs up”.
If EVERYONE was actually treated equally, they would start out near the bottom of the curve instead of near the top.”
>> For example: who’d hire a white person for good job with a Florida education?
9,
The Democrats have their own turd in the form of JFK Jr.
And all of that turd’s support comes from Republican voters.
So pretty much checks out.
@ 4
Oh and evil is all around us.
It is if you make up shit. Like with the Antifa POS who bought it after shooting a cop in Atlanta.
Never heard from you after the gunpowder residue was found on the POS’s hands, ACAB.
Starbucks announces to closure of two more downtown Seattle locations due to rampant crime and concerns for the safety of employees.
@ 6
With nothing substantive to go on…
Other than classified State Department documents nestled between pornography and saved DMs with 15 year old girls about their periods and their selfies on a former congressman’s laptop, you mean.
It was an FBI criminal referral. And it was a problem in late October and early November because the husband of a failed Democrat candidate for state office sat on it when it reached his desk in early September.
Other than those inconvenient facts, QoS McHillbilly, you seem accurate. Please do go on.
@13 Calling a cop shooter “anti-fascist” sounds to me like you’re calling the cop a fascist.
@14 Well, at least it wasn’t because the employees voted for a union.
@ 16
Calling a cop shooter “anti-fascist”…
I called him a POS.
Just as The Moral Majority isn’t, Antifa isn’t anti-fascist.
Antifa is a collection of people who have become POS.
@15 Just out of curiosity, who’s culpable for the contents of Anthony Weiner’s laptop? (This is a trick question.)
Ferry service to and from Whidbey Island has been suspended until some asshole gets his crab pots out of the ferry route.
@18 “I called him a POS.”
Then I must be seeing things. I could’ve sworn you called him “the Antifa POS” @13.
It’s not just the greedy racist incel
Why are Republicans so obsessed with Kamala Harris?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/06/opinion/renee-graham-kamala-harris-approval-rating/
“If Harris were ineffective, she wouldn’t be drawing as much — in some cases even more — ire from Republican presidential candidates as Biden does.”
>> If she were ineffective she’d be Tusli or Sarah Palin.
>> Black people having power never sits well with conservatives. Conservatives need to be better people.
@20 WSF says, “The Mukilteo/Clinton route is suspended until further notice due to shrimping equipment blocking the safe navigation to the Mukilteo terminal. The US Coast Guard and WSF Tribal Liaison have been notified. Updates will be provided when information is received.”
Doctor Dumbfuck gets a bonus rant if the gear belongs to a tribal member exercising treaty rights.
…that he just finished rinsing the “Santorum” from after pulling them from his rectum.
It’s all just pointless failure now. The fabricated disinfo can’t land. The landing zone has been previously demolished into cratered rubble by “FB friends from CO”, “Christmas Tree Cock-rings”, “Forged Hawaiian BIRF Certificates”, and “Salacious Pics Packages” galore. Two-plus decades of completely fabricated “Tan Suit” garbage that can now only serve to barely sustain a rapidly diminishing minority of trailer-bound, angry diabetic racists.
An only slightly less stupid Republican would have long since moved this “concern” grift to the still fertile grounds of 8chan and Gab, and Truth Social where at least it could be monetized. This one continues to maintain a spreadsheet of laughably inept misinformation and dutifully presents it to us here, presumably only to prop up an entirely fantasy driven self-concept.
@ 23
… a bonus rant if the gear belongs to a tribal member exercising treaty rights.
Said tribal member relinquished his treaty rights in exhcange for a $500 Cabela’s gift card, two cases of Thunderbird, and a blanket that was used to cover up the body of the first murder victim in The Durkan Kill Zone during Jenny’s Summer of Love.
Route restored.
11,
Whenever I read anything like this I find it helps to keep in mind a couple of really important things about race in America.
The first is the more obvious one, that being that race is not a biologically scientific concept having any origins in objective reality beyond human social constructs. It’s just a thing we made up. And like all such thing humans make up, it is incredibly plastic and our ideas about race have shifted and changed immensely over time. How we view race today is very different even from how we viewed race a half century ago. And it’s really important to keep that in mind because of the second thing.
And the second thing is that nearly any “think piece” about race like this one in The Hill begins from a premise that white identity and “whiteness” is the default setting, and therefor the focus for any exploration of racial conflict is made from that perspective, and the identified “problem” for which a solution is being sought is always all the non-white identities and how those identities can be “integrated”. This is a deeply misleading perspective. At least in terms of our concepts or race in America the source of the problem or the focus for seeking solutions to racial concept is and always has been the default norm concept of “whiteness” and white identity.
And just like our broader entirely social concepts of race have changed a lot over time, so too have our concepts of “whiteness”. For example, at one time Mediterranean people were not considered included in our social definition of “whiteness” in America. In many Hispanic families and cultures in America, individuals, family members, family groups, family histories, their identities, and their origins are considered “white”, even while still simultaneously self-identifying as very, very Hispanic. Quite a few Native Americans simultaneously identify as “white”. Yet among other groups those self-identities and definitions would be rejected. There’s not a lot of agreement about what “whiteness” is anymore. Nevertheless, more than anything else, it is our enduring social concepts of “whiteness” that are primarily responsible for racial conflict in America.
And fundamentally those conflicts and the tensions they expose have a lot to do that increasing erosion of certainty around the idea of “whiteness”, substantially because so many institutions and cultural norms are established around some shared understanding of “whiteness”. Thus ultimately “whiteness” itself has become the problem. And the solution lies in the eradication of “whiteness”.
Now of course, as the Shit-Lord Crybaby reads that he sees a red-flag statement that he’s going to tell himself justifies all of his vile bigotry and race-based hatred and fear. Who cares? What really matters in fact are the many, many “moderate” and “liberal” white people who would read those same words and be significantly unsettled by them. These aren’t white supremacists. In many cases these are people with almost no real concept of their own ethnicity. They just know they are “white”. And that matters to them. A lot.
We needn’t wonder why, of course. Being white in America conveys enormous privilege. And just about every white person knows it. Even if they might deny the existence of “white privilege” their powerfully negative reaction to the idea of the eradication of “whiteness” belies their own denial. To be clear here, I’m not talking about St Fucking Patrick’s Day, or Columbus Day parades, or banning the teaching of Plato or Shakespeare. That’s European or Classical ethnicity and culture. That’s not “whiteness”. After all these are often people who have almost no connection to any of that. That is not what they are reacting to.
It’s of course the loss of the privilege. It’s the favorable tipping in the balance of respect, deference, opportunity, benefit of the doubt and second chances that accrue constantly and almost invisibly to anyone identified as “white”. Eradicate the social construct of “whiteness” and the primary and most significant source of racial conflict disappears.
Elon Musk plans to have some bicep grafts before his boxing bout with Zuckerberg. Arm extensions may be on the menu, too.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/07/elon-musk-may-require-surgery-he-says-.html
Trump just keeps on winning. So much winning!
“A federal judge dismissed a defamation counterclaim by Donald Trump against the writer E. Jean Carroll in her pending lawsuit that accuses him of defaming her after she wrote that he had raped her.
“Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a separate order, ruled that Carroll’s lawyers can give the Manhattan District Attorney’s office a videotape and transcript of their deposition of Trump that they took last fall for the lawsuit.
“That order raises the chance that Trump’s sworn testimony in Carroll’s case could be used against the former president as part of the DA’s pending criminal prosecution.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/07/judge-trump-deposition-in-e-jean-carroll-case-can-go-to-prosecutors.html
Shitty defendant. Shitty lawyers. Shitty case. Any rational adviser would tell him to settle the civil matter out of court and take a plea deal on the criminal charges.
@27
As long as one of them dies in the ring it’s all good. Either one. Not choosy.
@25 Wow. Full-throttle racist stereotyping. Didn’t know you had it in you. But I do now.
@ 26
The first is the more obvious one, that being that race is not a biologically scientific concept having any origins in objective reality beyond human social constructs. It’s just a thing we made up.
You’re confusing race with transgenderism, QoS McHillbilly.
DNA homology is a biologically scientific concept. Just ask Hunter Biden’s attorneys.
Fyi.
“Zoom wants to train its artificial intelligence models using some of your data, according to recently updated terms of service.
“The latest update to the video platform’s terms of service front-loads sections on software licensing, beta services and compliance, but if you read past that, the fine print seems to reveal a key decision in Zoom’s AI strategy. The update, effective as of July 27, establishes Zoom’s right to utilize some aspects of customer data for training and tuning its AI, or machine-learning models.
“The ‘service-generated data’ that Zoom can now use to train its AI includes customer information on product usage, telemetry and diagnostic data and similar content or data collected by the company. It does not provide an opt-out option.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/07/zoom-ai-tools-trained-using-some-customer-data.html
Presumably the police could use videoconferencing that way, too, because according to Thomas and Alito there’s no constitutional right to privacy.
Cops are already using AI to misidentify suspects.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/detroit-woman-sues-city-falsely-arrested-8-months-pregnant-due-facial-rcna98447
@26 Yep, and who even knows if they’re “white”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Xalws7TF0
@31 I see Doctor Dumbfuck still reads his 40-year-old biology textbooks to keep his understanding of science up to date.
DeSantis says Republicans will lose if election is about
Jan. 6 and TrumpAbortionWokeBook BanningFlorida InsuranceSocial Security cutsThe EconomyHating the GaysJason AldeanClimateHigher Education CostsStudent LoansFREEEEDOM!Hunter BidenImitation MeatBud LightWeaponization of GovernmentJesusLetting Gen Z voteDeep StateRon DeSantis
Yet another court of law makes a finding of fact that I am, indeed, a sexual predator. I even brag about it.
I promise you all, that while DNA homology is real, what the demonstrably racist troll desperately needs it to mean is fundamentally untrue.
Can phenotype be tied to genotype? Of course. That’s a concept fundamental to biological science and genetics.
But can any arbitrarily or even culturally selected collection of phenotypes be tied to some deeper or more significant meaning? Nope. At least not the “meaning” that the Shit-Lord Crybaby and Nick Fuentes need. So yep. Sickle cell is a real deal. But whoops! A whole bunch of “white” people suffer from it. This fact tells us much more about our arbitrary and entirely cultural definitions of “whiteness” than it tells us about anything else.
Ear lobes attached? Autosomal Dominant Compelling Heliopathic Outburst (look that one up, it’s a hoot)? Asparagus pee? Odd toe lengths? We just notice some shit way more than some other shit. And with tens of thousands of years to ponder the differences we notice, and with the perfectly normal and to be expected effects of genetic drift, we arbitrarily settled on some more than others. We told ourselves stories about those random collections of phenotypes. And those stories were all about as reliable as the stories about an invisible Super-Dude named Jupiter riding a flaming chariot across the sky or “FB friends in CO”.
Only a few of the dumbfucks among us still rely desperately on those absurd stories to comfort themselves in a chaotic world that never really loved them.
See what happens when a bunch of wannbe hillbillies spend the day slammin’
Bud LightWhite Claw and listenin’ to that racist ass small town song and decide to go wildin’ and not givin’ a fuck about where the master race can and can’t park the party boat?Bunch o thugs I tell you what. Animals. Savages. It’s in their inbreeding makes em inferior to reg’l’r folk.
38,
Those look like a couple of major felony convictions to me.
Lives ruined.
Not that any of those fucks care much about losing their voting rights. Nor that the loss of a few “aggrieved, economically threatened, socially insecure white males” is a loss the GOP can’t easily absorb in a place like Alabama.
But not being able to pass a basic background check is a bar to most private employment these days, at least to any of the good jobs. It gets sucked into lending decisions, insurance rates, insurance coverage, and plenty of other things. Public records go everywhere in real time in the age of high speed mobile data.
Between the ultra-MAGA Trump-suckers holding forth on what are now apparently all our CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS to hand robbery notes to bank tellers and pass forged checks, and the wildly wishful dreaming of Resistance Sisters and Brothers about Trump’s suffering in prison any minute now, I’m not really sure where to turn. So I’ve kind of checked out on the media for a while. They aren’t really making much sense unless they are just linking to a court order or reporting on a date being set.
The rest of it is really just a lot of mid-summer trash competing for our attention.
Trump’s not going to jail this year or even next.
The Declaration of Independence isn’t a get-out-of-jail-free card in White Guy Political Monopoly.
And just because something completely fucking nuts happened that one time in 2016 doesn’t mean it is always about to happen again at any moment forever and ever.
The truth is just always less dramatic and a lot more mundane and tedious. That’s probably not such a great thing for Republicans, who now seem to be entirely reliant on unicorns, black swans, and pigs flying.
There’s an important detail about Fifth Amendment protections that sometimes gets overlooked in lazy media reports that seldom manage to keep civil and criminal proceedings straight.
And it’s a detail that is now rearing its head in the John Eastman disbarment before the Court of the California State Bar.
In a criminal case a defendant may not be compelled by the state to take the stand and testify. Everybody knows that bit. But along with that comes a pretty strict rule that the prosecution may not call the jury’s attention to that if the accused asserts that right. You can’t really even mention it at all. Not even in argument. And most of the time, often based on local rules, the jury in such a criminal case is given a specific instruction just in case they decide to notice it all on their own.
And as we recently saw in the E. Jean Carrol Trump-trial, a defendant can’t be compelled to take the stand to defend themselves in a civil trial either. And Trump didn’t. Which was one of the few smart legal moves we’ve ever seen from Trump.
But… in a civil trial the plaintiff can absolutely draw the jury’s attention to it if the defendant declines to defend him or herself against the civil complaint. It’s very much fair game and sure to be part of any closing argument to the jury if the actual named party in the complaint has nothing to say to the jury in their own defense.
So now Eastman, who is facing a pending trial for his disbarment from the California State Bar, appears to have reached the exact same conclusion as every other lawyer in America and nearly every journalist covering the fake electors fraud scheme indictment of Trump. He too seems pretty convinced that “co-conspirator number 2” described in the indictment carrying out a shit ton of nakedly criminal shit on Trump’s behalf is actually a California lawyer named John Eastman. And Eastman’s big worry is that if he opens his fat mouth to defend himself from disbarment in California those statements could be used against him later on when the Jack-Hammer finally comes down on him. Likewise he’s afraid that if he declines to respond to his disbarment by defending himself on the stand the Court (no citizen jury) could rule against him. So last Friday he filed a motion begging for a stay or postponement.
I for one am perfectly willing to see him get the delay. I can’t really imagine there’s anyone willing to pay this guy for legal services of any kind at this point. Any boards or legal associations that he may serve on should already be taking steps to suspend his ass if they haven’t already. And of course an indictment and conviction on federal charges of fraud, obstruction, and seditious conspiracy will seal the deal on his disbarment anyway.
He’s a legal cockroach. The kitchen lights are on now and he’s been scared back under the baseboards to cringe and hide for as long as he can. He’s not crushed yet. But it’s inevitable.
“More than 558,000 customers are without power across eight states as severe weather begins to roll through the region, according to PowerOutage.Us.”
https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/eastern-us-weather-storms-08-07-23/index.html
These aren’t Alabama rednecks living in trailerparks. Many of them can afford home generators. And this is only the beginning of climate change effects.
@39 Nah. In an age when nearly all real Republicans (as opposed to RINOs) sport, or soon will, felony records they’ll work for each other. (E.g., in a cake shop decorating celebratory get-out-of-jail-day cakes.) No problemo.
@40 “Trump’s not going to jail this year or even next.”
Like death row inmates, he’ll just keep the appeals going until he dies of natural causes. Which for him probably isn’t all that many years away. His criminal career isn’t exactly the same as shooting a cop at age 22. Well, close, but the statute of limitations has run on the stuff he got away with when he was younger.
@41 “And Trump didn’t. Which was one of the few smart legal moves we’ve ever seen from Trump.”
More likely from his lawyers. Keeping his mouth shut is the one thing Trump is worst at. He probably was straining at the bit. I don’t know how they did it, but his lawyers in that case pulled off a major coup by getting him to sit still and be quiet for the first time in his life.
More fun from Fox.
By Bombshell you mean when Archer said he knows Hunter talked on the phone with his dad a lot and there’s a possibility that at some point the word Barisma came up and that he categorically stated that he is unaware of any unethical or unlawful conduct committed by then Vice President Joe Biden?
That bombshell? More like a so lightly filled water balloon you could toss it 50 feet and have a better than 60% chance of it not breaking.
If they had covered it the actual news and journalism shows would have had to deal with saying, “Archer literally provided nothing of value to enhance a prosecution or impeachment” so not covering it keeps the sideshow going as a favor to the GOP.
So the newest from Dumbfuckistan USA. Shedding from Covid-vax workers has contaminated huge swaths of the world Olive Oil supply and you really shouldn’t by any Kirkland brand and in fact since Kirkland is based in Inslee Commie Washington true blood patriots shouldn’t buy any uncooked items there.
This is a real thing bleeding from Truth Social to the TickyTocky.
47,
Republicans will believe anything and pay handsomely for the privilege of “being in on it”.
@46 “If they had covered it the actual news and journalism shows would have had to deal with saying, ‘Archer literally provided nothing of value to enhance a prosecution or impeachment’”
Actually, I think they did say that. I remember reading it.
“DeSantis says Republicans will lose if election is a ‘referendum’ on Jan. 6, classified documents”
Or abortion.
Or jailing teachers.
Or violent insurrections.
Or government shutdowns.
Or more tax cuts for billionaires.
Or cutting Social Security benefits.
Or anything else Republicans are for.
Trump’s lawyers argue Biden is using his indictment for campaign purposes. Their evidence is this:
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1687120734793986048
Was hoping for this company, but curse of being the first in the US in this category. Their bus had issues with operators, but tge drive train was pretty good, that it is licensed to other manufacturers. Figured they would hit hard times when the traditional bus builders got in the act. The 40ft bus transit bus category is saturated, manufacturers come and go.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ev-firm-proterra-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy-2023-08-07
23)Was going to say, wasn’t my company, our tenders are up in Alaska for salmon season.
Demorat-Pfizer National Committee Emergency Warning, Don’t Be Fooled By Russian Disinformation, Especially If It’s On Video Like That One Where Joe Bidet Brags About Getting That Ukranian Prosecutor Who Was Investigating Burisma Fired –
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Russian spies have been circulating a fake video purporting to show Demorats denying elections. It never happened. So don’t believe it. And if you think you remember them doing it on live TV don’t worry, people remember wrong all the time. And don’t be a smart ass and check C-SPAN or something, Russians are always hacking sites like that and posting fake stuff.
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1626658911322312705
@54
The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus. Nothing to see there.
Apeshit Neanderthal Heterosexuals suffering from Violent Derangement Syndrome. Who me?! Yeah You!
Seek help Neanderthal Ape. Stop raping and killing the womenz and kiddies, you sick mother fuckers.
@54 easy to speak it, but harder to show the evidence, unless it’s the case of the FUCKHUMP and the GOP that are guilty as fuck at trying to steal an election, so bad that they tried to hang their own VP for it.
DeFuckFace say election no stolen from The FuckHump.
Lookie, Lookie here.
https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/arlington-heights-man-kills-wife-then-commits-suicide
Man kills wife – worse than Chicago, Chicago, Chicago.
You know in Chicago they are expected to be animals, amirite. But the whitey ones they so friendly and moral and righteous.
Punjab! Punjab!
https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/punjab-man-kills-wife-with-axe-at-crowded-market-in-sangrur-later-attempts-suicide-video-surfaces
victim lying on the floor and nobody even cares. Womenz, you dumb as fuck. They want your baby alive and you dead!
Nothing special about you Bitch. Many people have what you have/had and some have it worse.
Keep you stupid shit to yourself. Your hubby (and you) are POS fascists.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/casey-desantis-battle-breast-cancer-ron-desantis-rcna98517
A1,
Did any Democrats hire fake electors, train them on how to forge fake state electoral certificates, gather them to do so, collect the forged documents, and attempt to pass them off as the real thing by threatening to assassinate their own VP if he refused to go along?
Did that specific thing ever happen before?
Ever?
Cuz there was this one time at band camp…
I’m not totally out of cash and enthusiasm and dropping in the polls and ‘replacing my campaign manager’.
I’m ‘Reloading’!
with all interviews happening AFTER the most recent indictments…Morning Consult, GOP Primary Trump 59%, DeSantis 16% and note that third place is full on batshit, take away the vote from the kids, “Juneteenth is useless” Fossil fuels are GOOD because the led to LESS climate change Ramaswamy at 8% and then a surging Pence at 6%.
Here’s where a Dumbfuck will point out that Clinton had a 20ish point lead over Obama at this point because 43 points is exactly the same. They’re gonna run the felon, the youth are going to turn out and an allegedly senile can’t find his toilet without being given directions every morning Joe Biden coasts to four more years.
@60
I saw it with my own eyes. They were rioting in the Park Slope. The Muslims were ululating their dismay from rooftops in New Jersey. In Berkeley there was news footage of them burning a million flags of this great nation. People were commiting suicide Boston by the hundreds by strapping bombs and blowing themselves up at police stations. The Battle of Santa Monica was fierce but the forces of the U.S. Military got things under control.
You all remember that right?
@59. As much as I would not mind if the greedy racist incel had bone cancer, I would forgo that if nobody would get cancer. I’m glad she beat it.
I take it as a another sign of how badly Desantist is doing, that he has to trot out his wife’s cancer story so soon, so he could get some secondhand likability.
“Please clap”
62,
I think you left out the part where AOC looked on cackling and stroking a white Persian cat.
So now, is this the part where thousands of “aggrieved, economically uncertain, socially insecure, angry white males” each send me $5?
63,
I guess the “good news” for the long lost Shit-Lord Crybaby is that this at least shows that Fat Midget’s campaign now finally recognizes their candidate has a very serious personality problem.
The bad news would seem to be that they have concluded they must rely on the candidate’s spouse to fix it.
Making guns freely available, and letting everybody have them, is a really bad idea.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/us/uvalde-shooter-cousin-arrested-threats-nathan-cruz/index.html
@66
So Big City, Liberal, San Antonio takes threats seriously while rural deep red parts of Texas just wait an hour for the shooting stops after the fact to take action.
Duly noted.
61,
I’m just having a blast watching how utterly powerless Republicans are to do any kind of course correction.
The very instant the messaging begins to soften or diverge in any meaningful way from the Q-Cray ultra-MAGA STOPTHESTEAL extreme idiocy then the enthusiasm dips, and the audience disengages. And so they lean right back into it. Some Republican somewhere always gives in to the irresistible lure of the media attention and goes full retard. And then the race is back on again.
We haven’t even made it to the primary season.
And already Republicans have promised to take voting away from young people, pass a nationwide abortion ban, cut off and abandon Ukraine and NATO, implement citizenship tests for everyone under 25, take over your local school district at gunpoint, ban contraception without a marriage license, outlaw your plug-in vehicle, and force your kids to pray to Jesus every morning in public school.
I could not have planned this any better if Republicans put me in charge.
“But the deeper his legal mire gets, Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination are getting braver in suggesting that his fight against becoming a convicted felon could be a general election liability.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/politics/trump-legal-action-chaotic-2024/index.html
And that’s as much courage as you’ll ever see emanate from the GOP camp.
A Florida teacher reacting to partially banning Shakespeare from public schools sees method behind the unfolding chaos:
“Honestly, it feels that much of this is intentional, in order to cause as much chaos in public education as possible, so that the collapse of public education is swift and the agenda of education privatization can move forward with less obstacles.”
Which makes perfect sense, given what Republicans’ agenda is and how they operate.
https://www.rawstory.com/william-shakespeare/
Now why wouldn’t a clinically insane person be the perfect candidate to represent insane voters? It does seem like a good fit.
https://www.rawstory.com/adam-kinzinger-2662920950/
You don’t hear as much climate change denial coming from Republicans now that climate change is kicking them in the teeth, but it’s getting a second wind in Florida classrooms thanks to DeSantis’s education policies.
https://www.rawstory.com/prageru-florida-2662923106/
Election integrity crusader Mike Lindell thinks Trump will get more votes in 2024 “than there are people in the United States.”
He stopped short of suggesting this could only happen as a result of massive ballot box stuffing by Republicans.
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-trump-votes/
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And that’s as much courage as you’ll ever see emanate from the GOP camp.
We have to recall that beginning with the Impeachment, and then advancing rapidly with President Biden’s inauguration, Republican political leaders everywhere began to tell their voters that it was all an illusion. That what happened culminating in a deadly riot attacking Congress and attempting to assassinate then Vice President Pence was merely “vacationing tourists who got out of hand”. That naturally led to those voters tending to believe the narratives that absolved them and their party of a treasonous attack on our most fundamental democratic processes.
Having led their own voters into that trap, for what were and are essentially short-term political ends, they can’t abandon them there without suffering a huge loss of support. Certainly the less gullible and the slightly more analytical of “conservative” voters have figured out by now that they let themselves be duped by greedily supping up ridiculous lies merely to avoid any close examination of the truth. But those voters pin their faint hopes on some other candidate winning the 2024 Republican nomination. There just aren’t nearly enough of them. And having now once been badly deceived and lied to, they won’t show up for polls and rallies. And they won’t give one cent. Their enthusiasm will continue to decline as their ranks grow. But that still leaves Trump as the nominee. And that means he will hold the power over the party in 2024.
So they all have no real choice but to play it safe and to act the coward for as long as Trump remains around. Which is likely to be a long time.
Not having anything to do with BudLight but still interesting.
The major brewers are finally coming around to the idea that “craft” owned by a multinational has never really been successful. The people who deeply support the product flee once the buyout is announced and the craft industry has now spent 40 some years unsuccessfully trying to get the fizzy yellow light flavor beer crowd away from (Grandpa’s) Dad’s, Good ole ‘merican beer.
ABInBev just sold 7 of their “craft” brands that they either developed themselves or bought in the last decade or so to Tilray brands, the largest cannabis producer in the world.
Shock Top
Breckenridge Brewery
Blue Point Brewing Company
10 Barrel Brewing Company
Redhook Brewery
Widmer Brothers Brewing
Square Mile Cider Company
and seemingly an afterthought HiBall Energy.
Tilray becomes the largest ‘craft’ brewer in the U.S.
The market is littered with “Ice Road”, “Four Peaks”, “SkipJack” and “Patagonia” that were all major label beers introduced as “small batch artisan” product. “Patagonia” almost immediately got sued out of existence in the U.S. because the clothing and equipment company had for decades partnered with actual small breweries to do fundraising special releases. So no, you can’t violate the trademark on beer products from an established brand. Kind of like no one will ever be able to do a “Men’s Room” beer because of the Elysian / KISS radio collaboration.
Anywhoo, just more weirdness from the beer industry.
sumpin’ funee ’bout elmo musk:
“It’s interesting that you latch onto the logo.. feel like it’s the most undervalued asset that Twitter has going for it.. And now this X logo.. to me it literally looks like a wrapper for a condom that’s gonna break…”
heh.. and we all know our kreepee troll is pregnant and the kid is gonna make Rosemary’s baby look like the second coming…
The other unserious twat has no mojo, none at all. Sad!
Well that’s why I’m a career 61% winner at this here football. Never did win that dang championship. Oh and as a side note, after my star was CONVICTED of raping a 15 year old I did the right thing and made him sit out the season opener.
There is no truth to the rumor that I was heard telling my friends in 1965, “We have planes and Battleships and they have rice. Tell your brother to have fun over there.”
Republicans wanted the states to decide.
Now Republicans want Republicans to decide how the states decide.
If they get the chance they are going to do the exact same shit with contraception, mandatory school prayer, elimination of Medicare, repealing the Fair Labor Standards Act, handing your Social Security funds over to Mitt Romney, and Separate-But-Equal. Count on it.
I was just thinking about what the foray into craft beer has cost the mega beer industry over the years.
Just to acquire the big three Craft Beer Alliance of Redhook, Kona and Widmer cost AB $320m. They just sold all of that and four other breweries for $85m.
Constellation bought Ballast Point for $1B and pushed Sculpin all over and then added fruit flavored Sculpin. Beer aficionados abandoned the brand and Constellation sold it at a 90% loss four years later.
I’m looking forward to see if Sapporo gets any value out of $156m for Stone.
Ron DeSantis will never be the other unserious twat’s president. Sad!
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The Fat Midget is now getting less than half of all the Republican primary support that is at least willing to consider an option other than Trump. Crowded field, winner-take-all primaries, and candidate #QUALITY will all but guarantee Trump wins the GOP nomination.
And most Republicans already admit that Trump can’t win.
It seems as if the majority of Republican primary voters have conceded this election to President Biden and are simply nominating Trump to be dicks about it.
Good.
Because Trump helps us win back the House.
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How quickly they’ve made ‘Make Liberals Cry Again’ into
‘They really underestimated our stupidity. And that was when they called us dumb’