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The deep drop in TSLA stock this morning is due to:
A: The recall notice of every unit sold in the USA
B: The founder going full racist over the weekend tying rising housing prices to ‘illegals’
C: both
“You have blood on your hands. You have a product that’s killing people!”
-Sen Lindsay Graham, R-SC to CEO
Gun manufacturer? No
Cigarettes? No
Perdue Pharma? No
Facebook.
St. Louis police are continuing to stonewall releasing bodycam footage of an officer arresting a bar owner after he slammed his patrol car into the bar.
The city is threatening to condemn the building that is not only the bar but the owner’s residence if repairs to damage CAUSED BY A CITY EMPLOYEE are not finished by Feb. 19th.
Trump The Rapist: “I’m a genius I graduated top of my class.”
Wharton: “Donald Trump barely graduated at the bottom of his class without any honors or distinctions.”
Trump The Rapist: I was a very good student. I always earned top marks.”
Dean DiPrima: “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had,”
You are not guilty of “underestimating” Donald Trump.
You are guilty of overestimating Republicans and conservatives.
That has been true since 2015.
We all assumed in 2015 and early 2016 that Trump could not win the nomination. After the convention we all assumed that Trump could not defeat Hillary Clinton. We were wrong.
But we were not wrong about Trump.
We were wrong about Republicans.
We were wrong to assume that Republican base voters would never nominate an ignorant, incompetent, self-deluded, crude pig of a man who brags about his adolescent daughter’s breasts and cheats on his spouses with porn stars.
And we were wrong to assume that moderate, mainstream Republican voters would ever hold their noses and vote in large numbers for a nominee who bragged to a busload of total strangers about his many great successes at sexual assault.
But we were never wrong about Trump himself. We never underestimated him. That may not be possible.
But we are now once again possibly overestimating Republicans and Trump.
They will do their worst.
They will be their worst.
But they will also fuck up and ruin their own best chances just as they have consistently done before. All we have to do is see that clearly and prepare accordingly. All we have to do is stop hoping for or counting on “the pivot” from insanity to reason.
There is no pivot.
There will be no pivot.
Both Trump and Republicans will get worse.
And if enough of us just realize that in time then they will lose.
Republicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare — And Fast
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-republicans-privatize-medicare-1234960808/
The right-wing policy agenda written for a new Donald Trump presidency would “greatly accelerate” efforts to privatize Medicare.
The private plans are given a fixed amount of money every month to provide coverage for each enrollee; paying out fewer dollars means extra profit.
The private plans are using artificial intelligence and algorithms to deny services in bulk, with extreme error rates — allegedly as high as 90 percent
The elderly overwhelmingly vote for R’s so now they will find out what they voted for, if Rs win.
@1. It’s not illegals that are buying affordable homes, it’s investment firms.
https://www.stlpr.org/economy-business/2023-06-07/vinebrook-homes-owns-thousands-of-midwest-properties-st-louis-tenants-cry-foul
Check out the map
Politicians are addicted to power and privilege. They live to be in the limelight. Getting elected and staying elected is their primary mission in life.
@ 1
The deep drop in TSLA stock this morning is …
… less than the decline in Ford shares.
TSLA down 3.03%. F down 3.9%.
Heading into recession and war fewer people want to purchase vehicles.
@ 2
Facebook killing people is the direct result of triggering being treated as something to coddle snowflakes for claiming rather than laughing at them for it.
Call it the YLBization of society.
@ 5
We all assumed in 2015 and early 2016 that Trump could not win the nomination.
Trump led GOP polling for nearly all of the second half of 2015. Carson surged briefly but other than that it was all Trump from mid-2015 on.
You keep making these historical pronouncements that have no basis in fact.
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Fact is we ignored the polling with respect to the Republican primary.
By now it has been adequately explained to this profoundly stupid trust fund troll that pre and early primary polling of freak shit, hysterical, liver-spotted land line phones of gun humping, evango-fascist Republican base voters is considerably more predictive of primary election outcomes than nationwide surveys of non-voters and voters alike are in predicting general elections that ultimately depend upon six or fewer swing states.
The folks who will determine the outcome of the general election this fall are not hanging with Caribou Barbie and The Nuuuge in a campground in Texas.
But ever since MAGAmurica gunned up and carried out a terrorist attack on Congress to “Hang Mike Pence” at least we can all see MAGAmurica a lot more clearly today than we could in 2016. We were wrong then. Obviously.
The strength of character and the internal resource that rejecting Trump The Racist would require of Republicans is clearly far more than they are capable of. But that does not make him a more capable or more competent politician than he ever was.
Trump is a rapist.
And Trump is a fool.
A fool and a rapist is good enough for Republicans.
But not nearly good enough for the rest of us.
Despite Republican declarations of their determination to keep the border open, maintain their Republican Border Crisis, and snuff the legislation heading their way from the Senate, I think it will remain an open question whether or not MAGA Mike can perform his duty to Trump by pulling together the numerical majority required to defeat the bill. Keep in mind that as of this moment Mike Johnson has been unable to pass even a single piece of remotely important legislation without having to rely on Democrats for the majority of yes votes. In effect, other than ceremonially, Hakim Jeffries has held control of the House.
Schumer appears to have enough votes in the Senate to move the bill through each procedural vote to reach the Enrollment Clerk and be sent to the House. At that point in order for ultra MAGA House Republicans to obey Trump’s commands and keep the border open they would have to demonstrate a degree of party discipline that has not existed in their ranks since Paul Ryan started growing his retirement beard.
Every time the NFL shows Taylor Swift on Sunday I’ll be donating $25 to Trump.
@14,
Thanks.
“My generation has not aged well.”
Tell me about it.
TSLA down 3.03%. F down 3.9%.
schadenfuckup
scha·den·fuck·up
/ˈSHädənˌfukup/
when you count your losses as “wins” because some other guy lost even more.
See also: mutually assured destruction
There’s a reason why homes are cheaper in flood plains, hurricane zones, and forested hills that burn every year. Duh, can anyone figure it out? Also, home insurance is super-expensive there, if you can get it at all.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/05/what-homeowners-need-to-know-as-insurers-leave-high-risk-climate-areas.html
Doctor Dumbfuck, because he’s a know-nothing dumbfuck (like most Republicans), believes everybody who owes student debt has a useless degree in dance studies or some such.
Rep. Clyburn, a major supporter of student debt relief, begs to differ. “You’re not going to solve the climate crisis unless you’ve got well-educated and trained people to do it,” he said. “You’re not going to solve the health-care crisis without doctors and nurses.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/05/rep-clyburn-student-loan-crisis-is-just-as-big-as-climate-change.html
Actually, a whole lot of things don’t work or become unsolvable without a college-educated workforce. But don’t expect a Republican dumbfuck to figure that out. And MAGAites, just because they’re too dumb for college, and their kids are too dumb or strung out on drugs for college too, think because they and their stupid kids can’t go to college, nobody else should either.
Everyone glad they pointed with glee to the national polling last week?
’cause the national polling this week is very different.
National polling only matters to Democrats after they lose the electoral vote. Then Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit whines about the national popular vote result as if either candidate had a reason to campaign for NPV rather than EV.
Beginning in the second week of November he’ll whine about it for four years of Trump II followed by eight years of DeSantis.
@ 17
when you count your losses as “wins” because some other guy lost even more.
GM down 2.88%.
Automotive companies lost 3% across the board. It was nothing specific to TSLA. I didn’t count TSLA’s daily decline as a “win”. I counted it as part of across-the-board declines in automotive shares.
@ 12
Fact is we ignored the polling…
I’m fully willing to believe that ignorance was behind @ 5 your erroneous assumption about Trump, QoS McHillbilly. Blissful ignorance is how HA libbies roll.
@1 Yeah, look at Tesla go! If this keeps us, pretty soon TSLA stock will be worth what it’s actually worth, which on a P/E basis is about half of its present market value.
Here’s what a lot of people don’t understand about Tesla (I’ll skip over the shitty-cars bit, which is covered by @1 above, and focus on the fundamentals). First, Tesla isn’t the market leader in EVs, a Chinese brand is. Second, as more EVs enter the market, Tesla’s main competitive advantage is its outsized profit margin, which enables it to keep ahead of the competition by cutting prices more than they can. This is great for market share, but crap for the bottom line, and it’s the latter that drives stock price.
There’s a real opportunity here for Doctor Dumbfuck, though, if he shorts the stock. Because this overvalued monster whose greatest competitive advantage is its ability to keep cutting prices and shrinking its profit margin is more likely to trend down than up.
This might explain Doctor Dumbfuck’s frequent mental lapses if he was hit in the head by fastballs while leaning into the strike zone or played football without a helmet.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/05/sport/cte-rugby-early-onset-dementia-intl-spt/index.html
@ 23
Second, as more EVs enter the market, Tesla’s main competitive advantage is its outsized profit margin, which enables it to keep ahead of the competition by cutting prices more than they can.
And then there’s that part about Tesla not losing $36,000 on each and every electric vehicle it manufactures, but as long as there’s free money paid to other companies to reimburse their losses by burdening Queen YLB’s fucked kids with higher taxes and deficits, losses aren’t even a real thing.
Except, of course, to Queen YLB’s fucked kids.
@2 Because of shit like this.
@3 If the St. Louis Police Department was a stock, it would be tanking, too.
@9
Here’s where dumbfuck says he placed positions on Ford at $11.75 and he’s going to make a killing.
@5 What this country needs is educated people who aren’t on drugs or brainwashed by Fox Noise, and they’re getting harder to find, especially in red state polling booths.
@9 I don’t own any auto stocks, but I do own several military supplier stocks, because you stupid humans will never stop fighting each other. There will be peace when you’re all gone and rabbits are running this planet, which should’ve been the arrangement in the first place.
@16 As a representative example of the Boomer generation, I can’t dispute that. I was once a productive worker, but over time I morphed into a useless capitalist leech, and now instead of living hand-to-mouth, I’m very comfortable on the backs of younger people’s labor. From my point of view, being it ain’t a bad racket if you can get away with it.
@25
When you have to quote without citing a year old Motley Fool analysis to cheer Tesla.
In the last six months Tesla has lost 28% of it’s market capitalization as price cuts have taken a toll on profitability, reliability is becoming a huge issue for them for customer retention AND the face of the company is rapidly becoming unmasked as an unhinged fascist.
But do tell, what did Motley fool think of the company in February of 23?
You probably don’t want to read any internet forums by cybertruck early adopters.
..
If you were wondering if the Tesla Cybertruck’s wheel covers would cause problems, well, that’s apparently the case. According to a video on the T Sportline – Tesla Upgrades & Accessories YouTube channel, the aero cover that extends beyond the wheel is digging into the sidewall of the Cybertruck’s tire.
Any damage to a tire’s sidewall is not ideal. The sidewall is the most fragile part of the tire, and any puncture in a passenger car’s sidewall is effectively a death sentence for that tire. This video suggests the chafing from this wheel cover may not directly puncture the sidewall, and it could take tens of thousands of miles to do any serious damage. Still, any sidewall damage should be inspected by a professional.
…
I got 208 miles of average range with full charge in the first three weeks. (eds note, TESLA marketed 340miles)
Monday Roger pointed to shit polling for Boebert and shit polling for House Republicans on their Republican Border Crisis.
Wednesday Roger pointed out how Trump The Rapist’s poll obsession led him to fire another lawyer. The fuckup profoundly stupid trust fund troll went crazy in response bitching about how polls mean nothing, and of course missed the point. I reminded everyone how many times we’ve dismissed the troll’s (and Trump’s) “favorability” poll obsession. So next the snowflake troll time traveled to October to find a polling safe space, before doubling down on generic swing state polling and doing another naked national “favorability” polling endzone dance. I followed up remiding the fuckup troll that national polls are bullshit in a Presidential contest decided in six states. And Roger closed out Thursday with a poll showing a very high percentage of committed Republican voters who declare their refusal to vote for a nominee who has been convicted.
Friday Daryll posted another shit poll for Congresswoman Theater Handjob.
And that wraps the week.
Once again the fucking pathetic profoundly stupid trust fund troll is arguing with the perseverative voices in his head.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🔥
Yes. Along with a great many Americans in 2016 I was woefully ignorant about the depravity of Republican voters.
I’ve said so many times.
I’ve spend most of my time here over four years calling attention to that depravity.
I stand by that record.
I believe the results speak volumes.
For example, in 2024 nobody seriously engages this fuckup profoundly stupid troll in any kind of direct one-on-one debate anymore. We’ve all here finally realized not only what a shrinking coward pansy the troll is, but we’ve also realized that he’s insane. We just come to point and laugh now. For all practical purposes engaging the troll in any kind of direct debate is as pointless as trying to engage the soiled, shrieking, subway lunatic stuffing his own shit into his mouth while proclaiming himself God Almighty. The profoundly stupid trust fund troll has not offered one single good faith argument in favor of any Republican in years now. Subconsciously he surely realizes that he can’t.
Shining a light on Republican and Republican voter nihilism and depravity has been my mission on HA. And for whatever success I’ve enjoyed I certainly owe some gratitude to the profoundly stupid trust fund troll. I could not have done this work without his ever present example constantly making himself available to drive home the point.
We’re not getting Arizona back and it’s because of assholes like State Sen. Anthony Kern who just introduced a bill allowing the state legislature to throw out election results if the majority of voters picked the other side.
And Kari Lake because that bitch was taping us. The nerve. We even ran that one for governor. Ingrate.
Blissful ignorance is how HA libbies roll.
If laughing at noun, verb, antifa or noun, verb, Chicago or noun, verb, chicks with dicks is “blissful ignorance” we’ll take that all the way to kreepshit’s IRS audit.
heh..
Call it the YLBization of society.
Were the “FB friends in CO” Mary Kay’s idea?
heh. don’t think so.. height of “seriousness” lol..
@16 (From the linked article): “A big slice of white boomers are now living on hate. They hate nearly everything and everybody — even Disney and Taylor Swift! — because Trump and MAGA and Fox News have told them to. They hate books, vaccines, colleges, unions, corporations, cities, Hollywood, Broadway, the NBA and the NFL, Black people, brown people, and of course immigrants.”
Somewhat true, but their generation was always a mixed lot. After Nixon instituted the draft lottery and they realized they wouldn’t be drafted, they turned away from antiwar protests to selfish pursuits. In the ’80s and ’90s, many of the so-called Woodstock generation became yuppies. Ex-hippies, who’d always been on the lookout for free rides (and free sex), were among the most materialistic and self-centered. If you look closely look at the Capitol riot photos and videos, there are very few people in their 60s and 70s in that mob; most were in their 30s and 40s. Looking at voting data, there’s not a terribly strong age-group correlation; race and income are stronger determinants of voting behavior. It’s really the evangelicals, gun-waving young white males, and always-Republican white male boomers who form the core of Trump’s voting base.
“In 2008, 51 percent of Americans over 60, a group that included the oldest boomers, voted for McCain”
That means 49% didn’t. Really, it’s unfair to paint all boomers as ugly Trump-loving racists, when only half of them are. Let me tell you something, the Silent Generation was a hell of a lot more racist than the boomers are; they fought integration, freely used the “n” word, and segregated the military and workplaces.
@20 It wasn’t me or my party who violently refused to accept the electoral vote results. That’s your tribe.
@25 Tesla, founded in 2003, lost money for 17 years until earning its first profit — and then only a measly 21 cents per share — in 2020. That’s right, Tesla has been profitable for only 3 years of its 20-year existence. And Tesla has been, and still is, the biggest beneficiary among all the automakers of the generous tax subsidies handed out to EV buyers.
Liz Cheney agrees with me (previous thread) that J. D. Vance is unfit to continue serving in the senate.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4448977-liz-cheney-vance-jan-6-trump-2024/
Some people don’t know when to leave, though, so we (and Ohio) are stuck with him.
There were supposed to be 700,000 of them.
“It wound up being maybe a couple hundred vehicles parked at a rural ranch in Quemado, Texas”
They came. They saw. They bought aquarium cleaner and shoved flashlights up their butts.
Beginning in the second week of November he’ll whine about it for four years of Trump II followed by eight years of DeSantis.
There he goes again, telling us to “Get ready for The Pain.” The pain of the end of democracy and the beginning of fascist rule, that is.
But because he’s such a weak fucking coward, the dumbfuck Nazi coward can’t come right out and say it.
Such a weak and worthless POS the dumbfuck Nazi coward has become.
FINISH HIM!!
@44 Don’t you know he has a working crystal ball that unerringly predicts the future? That’s how he infallibly picks stocks … oops …
Ann Coulter says the best thing Trump could do for America is “die.” I dunno, this seems like playing God, so I think that should be up to God. I’d be okay with a divine intervention, though, because if that’s God’s will, who am I to question it.
She also called people who plan to vote for Trump “morons.” I agree with that without any reservations.
https://www.rawstory.com/ann-coulter-2667173296/
four years of Trump II followed by eight years of DeSantis.
kon-klown is unlikeable now, unlikeable forever..
See that tongue thing it does? like a snake..
https://twitter.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1722455942522904717
the freak’s reptilian.. To think it makes a combed over, orange-tinted, serial sex assaulter look good by comparison
Anything that reduces coerced confessions and wrongful confessions is a good thing. At worst this bill will make lazy cops do their job of collecting evidence and building a case.
the pos that personifies “pwn teh libs” is pwned:
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1754654941933691215
Eat shit asshole…
Hey remember a couple years ago when Police in Aurora Colorado accused a black woman of steaming a car so they pulled her and her children, one six years old, out of the car at gunpoint and placed them all face down on the pavement and handcuffed and eventually took the mom, Brittany Gilliam to jail?
Remember how it was determined the two officers committed no crimes but were suspended for a few months and both still work for the Aurora polie department?
Yeah well today the City of Aurora agreed to settle the lawsuit admitting, “profound and systemic” racism for $1.9M.
Imagine how many mental health beds of drug treatment programs the city could fund with $1.9M?
It will surprise no one that Republicans are two-faced hypocrites motivated solely by naked partisanship. Which, of course, makes them easy sport for Democrats.
https://www.rawstory.com/biden-impeachment-republican-embarrassed/
Piece of shit rightwing “provocateur James O’Keefe and his former organization Project Veritas have settled a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania postmaster after the group spread a Postal Service worker’s false claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election,” NBC News says. More details here.
Jack Smith can’t respond in public to accusations by Trump’s lawyers that his prosecution team hasn’t handed over discovery, but in a court filing today, Smith said his team has “bent over backwards” to get the stuff to them but it’s been difficult because they don’t have laptops or computers, only iPads.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-funded-lawyer-lacks-basic-computer/
If I were him, I’d print it out, box it up, and have U-Hauls deliver it to their offices. As some (or a good deal) of the evidence is videos, I’d find someone who can convert it to VHS tapes so they can watch it with their technology.
Poor Tesla: The Cybertruck was just outdone by a Subaru Crosstrek
The Tesla Cybertruck lacks basic off-roading features
https://www.themanual.com/auto/tesla-cybertruck-vs-subaru-crosstrek/
The Cybertruck has been overshadowed by a vehicle that costs around half its price.
Over the past few months, social media has been awash with images of Cybertrucks stranded in snowbanks with no hope of rescue. Other areas where the Cybertruck has failed to live up to the hype include range, with no 500-mile version currently available, price, and payload. The original Cybertruck was supposed to be cheap, as in closer to a Subaru Crosstrek than a fully specced-out Dodge RAM. That price steadily climbed while the payload dwindled to 2,500 pounds from the originally quoted 3,500 pounds. The towing capacity also dropped by around 3,000 pounds between the truck’s announcement and launch.
@54 It shouldn’t be that hard to build an EV truck. After all electric motors have been pulling trains since the 1920s, so this century-old technology isn’t exactly new ground. The only difference is Teslas use batteries instead of diesel generators for the power source, but it’s the same damn electricity. Elon must be getting motors from hobby shops.
Professional burglar tip #1: Don’t leave behind tools with your name engraved on them.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/tacoma-bellevue-rare-coins-suspect-arrested/281-46700dd2-0b25-4b43-b2f2-76fe068852c3
Well at least they aren’t talking about me stealing $20K to go on vacation with my besties and faking an invoice for a lectern.
But when I appointed Jomol Jones and said, “His prior law enforcement experience makes him a clear choice to take on this important role, and I look forward to working together as we empower Arkansans with a safer, stronger state” I had no idea that he had been fired from that law enforcement job for lying about getting a blowjob in a parking lot from a seventeen year old girl.
He was 30 at the time and really who hasn’t blown a handsome older man when we were seniors in high school.
Nevertheless, I accepted Jomol’s resignation this afternoon. And I expect ALL y’all to put this behind us and let me get back to protecting the children of Arkansas from the Trans and the books and the generally gay. They need to be in the Church youth groups. Those pastors are fantastic.
@57 In other Arkansas news, “a federal jury in Little Rock reached a verdict against the City of Benton and former Benton Police Chief Kirk Lane, awarding $32 million in damages to the family of a suicidal teenager killed by Benton police in 2016.”
https://katv.com/newsletter-daily/jury-awards-33m-in-damages-to-family-of-suicidal-teen-killed-by-benton-police-in-2016-mark-geragos-little-rock-keagan-schweikle-shot-city-of-benton-police-department-kirk-lane-arkansas-municipal-league-wrongful-death-lawsuit-piper-partridge#
The facts of the case are squirrely, but “[t]here was no bodycam footage to determine what happened,” and the jury evidently didn’t believe the cops. Maybe Arkansas juries never believe cops. After all, it’s Arkansas.
Joe Biden allegedly called Netanyahu “a bad fucking guy,” although the White House denies it. I believe the story, but I think Biden is exaggerating, as I seriously doubt Bibi gets laid anymore.
A U.S. civil war would have far-reaching global effects. With the U.S. military tied up putting down a Trumpist revolt, and using up its ammunition stockpiles on MAGA dumbfucks, China would be tempted to invade Taiwan. The B-1 bombers based in Guam and the Philippines couldn’t support the Taiwanese forces if they’re preoccupied with flying bombing missions over Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. With our NATO troops recalled for domestic duties, we’d only have nuclear options in Europe if Putin tried to exploit our absence from that theater. So I think a civil war on our soil is a bad idea, but that’s not really saying anything, because all Republican ideas are bad.
The God’s Army convoy was destined to be a flea market.
https://www.rawstory.com/gods-army-convoy/
In 2020, America’s Worst Police Department (TM; pat. pend.) pulled guns on a black driver, two teens, and a 12- and 6-year-old, all females, because their license plate number matched a stolen motorcycle from another state. Wrong state, wrong vehicle type.
Today their attorney derided racial profiling and warned, “A robo-cop mentality will lead to huge liability,” in this case $1.9 million, and said his clients hope “law enforcement officers learn how to use common sense, especially when dealing with children,” but good fucking luck with that where black people are concerned.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/05/us/colorado-aurora-settlement-stolen-vehicle-mixup/index.html
Literate cops would help. So would non-racist cops.
“Russia is keeping its cards close to its chest over … speculation that … Tucker Carlson could interview Russian President Vladimir Putin while on his trip to Moscow.
“The possibility was raised over the weekend when Carlson was spotted at multiple spots in Russia’s capital city, including at the Bolshoi Theatre ….
” … Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stopped short of denying a possible interview and instead pointed to the ‘many’ foreign journalists who visit Russia.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4449904-russia-quiet-on-tucker-carlsons-visit-to-moscow/
Except Tucker isn’t a journalist, he’s a Kremlin-friendly propagandist, so he may be there to get his marching orders. He should be investigated for un-American activities.
61,
I look forward to the not-too-distant future day when we will all laughingly trade trashy Trump The Rapist trinkets and merch similar to the way Catalans jokingly trade caganer.
Get yours while supplies last!
63,
The AMERICA FIRST guy traveling overseas to make mash notes to our nation’s enemies.
BREAKING: Appeals Court Rules Trump Does NOT Have Immunity
The Federal Appeals Court just ruled that Trump does not have Presidential immunity in January 6th case.
Toady as with every day, it sucks to be Doctor Dumbfuck, a known Nazi coward and a traitor to his country.
It’s a beautiful ruling, really.
There’s never been a ruling so beautiful. Many people are coming up to me, big, strong people with tears in their eyes and they say, “Mr. President sir, it’s the most beautiful ruling”.
Fuckface VonClownstick has until Monday. Then Chutkan may otherwise proceed with the schedule unless the Supremes intervene and issue a further stay.
50/50 they refuse grant of cert and make no comment.
The order reads more like it is being written to the SCOTUS than to the appellant.
And it takes a fairly strident tone and goes into considerable detail in arguing why the original motion claims to blanket immunity are without merit. That puts a fuck ton of pressure on corrupt dipshits like Thomas or Date Rape to justify taking the appeal.
If the corrupt majority choose to grant cert my guess is they do so without comment. But that can’t stop the others from publishing an opinion.
Yet another opportunity for Roberts to adorn himself in shame and weakness.
52,
Recall that almost every Republican, including our own profoundly stupid trust fund troll, depend for their ongoing support of Trump’s candidacy on their assertion that there exists a vast DERP STATE conspiracy to deprive Trump The Rapist of a fair election. And included in that conspiracy has always been a host of unfounded claims about worker misconduct. Each of these false claims have given rise to crippling damage awards for defamation. This postal supervisor now becomes the latest newly minted millionaire at the expense of Republican’s own corruption and dishonesty.
And still to this date no court, anywhere in the US, has ever blocked any effort by anyone to present actual evidence of fraud in the 2020 election.
There just isn’t any.
It’s all made up.
Just like this bullshit from Admiral Dildo
I wrote a haiku for my reelection opponent.
Please enjoy it with my compliments.
HA HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA fucker.
@ 68
50/50 they refuse grant of cert and make no comment.
90/10.
@ 62
Literate cops would help. So would non-racist cops.
Having not read the piece, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit does not realize that the officers acted on misinformation provided by a police dispatcher, and with that incorrect information acted the way they were supposed to. It’s why the DA reached the conclusion listed in the piece.
What race is the dispatcher?
@ 59
… I seriously doubt Bibi gets laid anymore.
Neither does POS Hunter Biden, not since January, 2021. It’s too hard for Jill to put out knowing how many Secret Service agents are always around. The coat closet BJs stopped, too, after the White House cocaine thing.
…specifically identifying a stolen motorcycle.
The vehicle stopped and then emptied as a “high risk felony” WAS A MINIVAN.
Fake doctor having another one, as usual.
“A robocall that used an AI voice resembling President Joe Biden’s to advise New Hampshire voters against voting in the state’s presidential primary has been linked to a pair of Texas-based telecommunications companies, the state’s attorney general announced on Tuesday.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/tech/nh-ag-robocall-update/index.html
Roger Rabbit Comment: Fraudulent robocalls are hard to stop because they originate in places outside effective U.S. law enforcement jurisdiction like Nigeria, Russia, North Korea, and Texas.
75,
The very intentional decision made by the racist Aurora cops to ignore the very obvious discrepancy in the hot sheet information, a decision that these fucking geniuses were kind enough to record and document for posterity and for purposes of liability, is what led to the city’s motion for dismissal being laughed at by the court and is what precisely deprived them of otherwise normal immunity from such claims.
Cops make plenty of honest mistakes. Too many considering how much money we piss away on them. But you still can’t sue police for making honest mistakes in carrying out their nominal official duties. You don’t get your day in court. Not at all.
It’s only when they go rogue, as these cops did, and intentionally ignore their duty, their training, and the information clearly available to them, and instead go on an authority-fueled wilding spree beating up citizens in order to “teach them respect” that you can sue their asses off. And it’s just about the only time you can.
As soon as the state court rejected the city’s motion for dismissal and the case was finally scheduled for trial the team representing the city’s liability insurer got down to business to sincerely negotiate a settlement.
Their willing agreement, without trial, to pay $2 million for lying on hot pavement tells us everything we need to know about how badly these racist asshole cops went off on this Black family.
And thanks once again to our profoundly stupid trust fund troll for giving me yet another great opportunity to show what assholes Republicans like him are, AND how truly useless cops are.
@69 I believe SCOTUS will unanimously upheld this ruling, except of course for the corrupt justices on rightwing billionaires’ payrolls.
@73 Where in that article, or any other article, does it say the dispatcher provided misinformation to the officers?
This article says the cops even tried to handcuff the 6-year-old, but couldn’t because the cuffs were too big for her small wrists. Was the dispatcher responsible for that?
Virtually all the articles mention racial profiling. Who was responsible for that, the dispatcher or the cops?
Maybe you should read the piece(s) before popping off, mmm?
This article says the police chief offered “to cover the cost of providing age-appropriate therapy to the children.” Well, $1.9 million pays for a lot of therapy.
78,
I sincerely hope they don’t.
Because in order to do so they would have to grant cert, set a calendar for briefing, set a calendar for oral, set a calendar for deliberations, and then publish a ruling. And all of that would probably push the trial into June.
And there’s no real compelling judicial interest in that.
The circuit court ruling binds in the only circuit of relevance to this specific case and to all similarly situated cases. Let that ruling stand as the precedent and let Trump littigate his claims to criminal immunity in the other circuits. If at some future point one of those other criminal immunity claims results in an appeal then let the SCOTUS set binding precedent where it is most ripe and appropriate.
US Con Fraud cases involving a former President would all come before the DC District lying within the DC circuit. So there is no need for the SCOTUS to further delay justice in this case. There is no wider claim to immunity in front of the court in this case. If they agree with the circuit they should let the circuit court ruling stand and do it’s work as intended.
@77 I wouldn’t call cops useless, but I’d call these cops worse than useless. Aurora has long had a reputation of having the nation’s worst urban police department. Efforts are being made to clean it up, but it takes time to replace neo-Nazis and Klansmen with professional cops.
A House resolution declaring that Trump “did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States” has zero legal effect and will not immunize him from prosecution.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-donald-trump-insurrection_n_65c27213e4b069b665dd084e
It’s merely a big “Kick me, I’m a traitor” sign they wear around town.
Ted Crud wants McConnell’s job.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4451239-cruz-says-its-time-for-mcconnell-to-step-down-as-gop-leader/
@82
It’s totally useful and shows the astute political skills of a child rapist like Gaetz.
“Hey all you independents that were thinking maybe Sleepy Joe has fucked it up so bad that you’d be willing to vote for a Republican. Guess what, our lord and savior Trump is incapable of doing anything illegal and we, as a party, want you to know that. I don’t give a fuck if he DID finger a woman in a changing room. THAT’S NOT A CRIME!”
@83
He’s right. It is well past time Mitch spent the remaining years of his life sipping umbrella drinks in Cancun.
We’ve got sun, fun and Tequilla, Mayan Artifacts and very inexpensive Hospice Care.
Trump is already monetizing the immunity ruling against him.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-presidential-immunity-2667181931/
Trump’s entire mission in life is separating his brain-dead cult followers from their cash. He’s so good at it that overseas online romance scammers are jealous.
81,
Vallejo CA is much worse.
So shitty it’s almost entertaining.
Since the 1960s a considerable portion of the taxdollars we give away to police agencies have been squandered on outreach to motion picture, television, and other media producers in a not-so-secret effort to control the narrative about who police are and what kind of work they do. Consequently very few law abiding adults have any realistic idea about just how terrible US policing really is.
And sadly, even on the rare occaisions that their incompetence and misconduct rises to such an egregious level that it is worthy of documentary production, it can only be commercially viable if the victims of that incompetence are attractive, white, and blonde. It’s likely that Denise Huskins was raped at least a dozen times while Vallejo detectives willfully ignored the evidence they already had simply in order to continue targeting her boyfriend.
Cops don’t make us safe
More cops don’t make us more safe.
83,
Cruz is just an opportunistic sleaze taking advantage of the moment to elevate himself in whatever way he can.
But if we were to weigh Mitch the Glitch’s political instincts against Ted Cancun’s I’d go with Mitch every time.
If Mitch is quietly urging his fellow Senate Republicans to get ready to pass the immigration bill, and thus infuriating Markwayne Mullin or some other weird beard fascist, it’s because Mitch rightly fears that bottling up the most anti-immigration border bill Republicans will ever see is likely to cost him any hope of a future majority.
Republicans are doing this shit to themselves, by themselves.
It’s their border crisis now. They made it. They are keeping it going. They get to own it.
…the most anti-immigration border bill Republicans will ever see…
Hey, I’ll still be here in another year or two if Senate Republicans can summon the courage to stand up to that loser for once. And I promise to work with them to craft another good bill that’s good for America and good for the border states.
But I can’t really promise that I’ll be as ready to compromise as I have been when I’ve won reelection, and when Republicans have lost more seats. That’s just the way this works. They should really think hard about this one. They could be living with this decision for a long, long time to come. Long after that sick fuck has surrendered to begin his prison term.
Wow.
That was me twelve years ago:
https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/11/hannity-ive-evolved-on-immigration-and-support-a-pathway-to-citizenship-149078
I guess I’ve “evolved” again.
But don’t assume that means I believe in evolution.
Bluesky, the social media microblogging site that was invite only as a BETA version has become available to the world today. They had 3 million registered users as an invite only platform which is pretty decent.
Why it’s interesting.
The CEO is a woman so you figure they might take the rapey gross toxic men threats more seriously than Elon.
Jack Dorsey is on the board
Raised $8m in VC money to get rolling
HQ is Seattle.
Don’t know that it will hold any more or less interest to me than Twitter ever did but I’ll give it a look.
@87 “just how terrible US policing really is”
In defense of our cops, it’s not as bad as Stalin’s policing. Er, um … wait while I try to find some other example …
And for what it’s worth, the city of Vallejo and its incompetent police department and/or their insurers paid $2.5 million to the victims of their investigation screwup, and the real perpetrator got 40 years.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-5-million-settlement-for-couple-in-bizarre-kidnapping-police-called-gone-girl-hoax/
It’s a slippery slope. If we don’t allow parents who are given multiple warnings from the school that their kid has violent ideation and is making threats to staff and students to buy their kid a firearm, store it where they can access it at any time then we are one step away from them taking away ALL our guns.
This ruling is a travesty of justice. The radical left doesn’t care about keeping kids safe or they would applaud a mom giving their underaged kid a firearm for protection.
Give us money. We’re almost bankrupt and fighting for a rootin’ tootin. gun shootin’ America.
Dave Calhoun should be removed.
That guy is a liar and an idiot.
@94 He’s also slated to retire next year. Maybe the board should usher him out sooner, like now. Maybe the shareholders, if any are left, should elect a new board. Meanwhile, this is who probably will take over from Calhoun:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/boeing-has-a-frontrunner-to-be-its-next-ceo/ar-AA1liGjX
92,
Compare and contrast.
$83 million for being called a liar by your rapist.
$2.5 million for being held in a dirty basement storage room and being repeatedly raped while police ignore the clear information they have that would lead them to your kidnappers but instead embark on a bizarre campaign to label you and your boyfriend “insane”.
Consider the media source you link continued to refer to the case using the word “hoax”, even after the verdict.
Huskins’ direct, compensatory defamation damages are worth at least as much as E. Jean Carrolls. And her punitive damages should be ten times greater. That insurance pool should be bankrupted. Their insured spent those two days while she was being raped calling her a lying, attention seeking “Gone Girl” to every local and national media outlet they could reach. They put more effort into defaming Huskins and her boyfriend than they ever put into finding her. That intentional effort to falsely destroy the reputation and credibility Huskins and Quinn far surpassed any of Trump The Rapists false statements about E. Jean Carroll.
93,
You seem to have left out that we can find no historical precedent rooted in 16th century oral history from small villages in Wales supporting holding parents criminally culpable for the gun slaughters committed by their minor children with the guns they supplied them with.
CONVICTION OVERTURNED! SO ORDERED! POW! POW! PEW! PEW! BANG! /s
There’s a certain poetic Jusitce that angry anti-muslim jagwagon Toby Keith’s final album in 2021 hit #25 on the Coutnry charts and he’s no longer alive and The (no longer Dixie) Chicks last album in 2020 hit #1 on the Country charts and #3 on Billboard’s top 100.
Eventually talent will always win out.
Jesus has a boot for your ass for spreading the hate.
#1) We’re going to stall and kill a border protection bill that gives us everything we’ve ever previously demanded.
#2) And then we’re going to do some weird impeachments for FEELS, in which Democrats and their witnesses will get to bring up #1 with every single question in front of a bunch of television cameras that we hope are being watched by lots of swing voters.
#3) And then we WIN!
#4) We are geniuses.
A couple days ago Doctor Dumbfuck blamed the 737 MAX door plug blowout on union workers at Boeing’s Renton plant.
Today ABC News reported that “Boeing records reviewed by the NTSB showed that damaged rivets on the edge frame forward of the plug were replaced by Spirit AeroSystems employees at Boeing’s factory in Renton, Washington.”
NTSB’s report also says the bolts were missing, i.e. not replaced. NPR says, “The report does not say who was responsible for the failure to ensure the bolts were reinstalled.” But it’s at least 50-50 that the Boeing workers Doctor Dumbfuck accused of negligence are innocent, like a lot of other people he accuses.
Boeing’s CEO has said Boeing “takes responsibility,” which sounds like blaming union workers even if they had nothing to do with this. In which case he and Doctor Dumbfuck are two peas from the same pod.
So we DON’T KNOW whether Boeing or Spirit employees failed to reinstall the bolts. Neither does Doctor Dumbfuck. He just ASS U MEs it was Boeing union workers so he can hate on unions. Dumbfucks like doc ASS U ME a lot of things, because they’re too stupid to separate fact and fancy.
@100
Though Boeing would be at fault then. In the never ending quest to maximize profit instead of hiring and paying skilled workers farming out simple maintennance led to a near disaster.
This is what you expect from a podunk Texas school district out in the Trump country sticks.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4451632-federal-complaint-alleges-texas-school-district-discriminated-against-students-due-to-race-disability/
“A man who served as a State Department security officer was arrested Tuesday by the FBI on four charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4451364-state-department-security-officer-arrested-on-jan-6-charges/
There’s your proof of “deep state” involvement in Jan. 6!
Trumper warns, “There will be civil unrest for sure if he loses.”
https://www.rawstory.com/autoworkers-for-trump/
Probably nothing that National Guards, the U.S. Army, and federal prisons can’t handle, though.
@101,
rather than generalizations about precisely which company left out the safety bolts, a better question is how.
How the fuck are bolts like these left out?
Under normal circumstances, the presence and assembly of critical safety fasteners like these are rigorously accounted for with engineering systems designed to eliminate the potential for “accidental” oversight.
At this point the analysis has to move beyond where the bolts got left off and focus on how. Once the SpirtAero hole drilling fuckup was identified that necessitated the subsequent removal of the plug panel, precisely what procedures were developed and implemented to fix that fuckup, by whom were those procedures developed and implemented, and finally how was it possible to adhere to those procedures without catching the mistake?
There’s actually a pretty well developed engineering science behind how these kinds of critical safety elements of manufacturing are developed. It should surprise no one that this science comes into play in many realms of product failure littigation. Even in unexpected areas. Like deadly Jack in the Box hamburgers, for example (h/t Bill Marler, Marler Clark). Was that science and that methodology followed? If not, why not? If a decision was made to bypass those methods who made that decision?
These fucking four lousy bolts should have been counted, inventoried, and checked off as they were removed, stored,and re-installed. And the procedure for each of those steps whould have required proof of completion with a record to accompany it. By this point NTSB investigators should have been able to pull records and see where at least one certified person entered a record that they had carried out the required step, and at least one other certified person had verified the completion of that step. And those steps would have included ascertaining the chain of custody for those goddam bolts right up to the moment that they are returned to where they belong securing the fucking panel.
Somebody is lying. Bigly.
And I for one would not resume normal confidence in Boeing until those lies are discovered and exposed.
Dean Phillips: “Look, if Joe Biden gets 95% of the primary vote in South Carolina I’ll respect the voters choice and bow out of the race.”
Marianne Williams: “He got 96. Even I beat you. And I’m just in this thing to sell crystals”
Dean Phillips: “Look, if Joe Biden gets 95% of the primary vote in Nevada I’ll respect the voters choice and bow out of the race.”
@105 I can’t imagine someone doesn’t have to sign off on the reinstallation. Assuming that’s the case, that “someone” either is, or should be, in serious hot water.
If a fuckup like this happens in the U.S. Navy the seaman gets fired, the crew chief gets fired, the junior officer gets fired, the senior officer in charge gets fired, the ship captain gets fired, and more than likely an admiral either gets fired or rerouted to a desk job.
Some organizations are less tolerant than others. Imagine if a canopy blew off during a dogfight or carrier landing.
You can’t do anything about the fact delusional people get to vote, too.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/politics/south-carolina-trump-haley-voters/index.html
The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus kills people too, but nobody cars.
I car.
I truck too.
The GOP-led House failed to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Are you sure?
It’s actually about “virality”.
And now I’ve got another topic that will bring me onto OAN, Newsmax, and some podcasts to talk shit about “RINOs”.
I win.
Everyone else loses.
@110.
Okay.
But do you fuck?
Cuz you might wanna check out these pics on muh phone.
@112, 113 “Vitality” with a drooping “t”.
“Colossal embarassment for GOP leaders,” CNN calls it.
I’d be drooping my head, too, if I were MAGA Mike.
“The vote was incredibly dramatic. It was tied 215 to 215 for several minutes, with every Democrat voting no along with three Republicans: Reps. Ken Buck (Colo.), Tom McClintock (Calif.) and Mike Gallagher (Wis.). A tied vote meant the effort would fail, so Democrats began shouting ‘Order!’ at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to drop the gavel and end it.
“Republicans were furiously prodding Gallagher to change his vote, but he wouldn’t. At the last minute, Rep. Blake Moore (R-Utah) voted no, not because he opposed the measure but because it would allow the House to bring it back up again another day. That bumped the final tally to 214-216.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-homeland-security-secretary-mayorkas-impeachment_n_65c278a0e4b0dbc806ae62c2
I don’t know why they expect better luck next time, if there is one, given the rate the GOP is shedding House seats.
Oh, and here’s the frosting on the cake:
“Miss me yet?” — George Santos
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4452219-santos-taunts-house-gop-mayorkas-bill-fails/
The GOP’s standalone Israel aid bill failed in the House, too.
“Because of resistance among members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, House Speaker Mike Johnson had been forced to bring up the bill under a procedure that requires two-thirds majority of the House to approve it. That means he needed the support of a sizable number of Democrats ….”
Which he didn’t get. Poor MAGA Mike needs to learn how to negotiate.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/politics/house-vote-israel-aid-package/index.html
Abortion Pill Studies Used By Texas Judge Blow Up In His Face
“Two studies cited by plaintiffs and a federal judge in Texas that purported to show the harms of the common abortion pill mifepristone have been retracted by the publisher of the scientific journal they first appeared in.
“Sage Publications said it retracted three studies about mifepristone, two of which were cited heavily by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk last year when he sided with a group of anti-abortion physicians and revoked the Food and Drug Administration’s two decade-old approval of the pill. … Sage said the authors of the articles had undeclared conflicts of interest and used unreliable methodologies to misrepresent their conclusions.
“‘Following Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines, we made this decision with the journal’s editor because of undeclared conflicts of interest and after expert reviewers found that the studies demonstrate a lack of scientific rigor that invalidates or renders unreliable the authors’ conclusions,’ Sage said in the statement.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4452034-journal-publisher-retracts-abortion-pill-studies-cited-by-texas-judge/
For laypersons, it’s called scientific dishonesty.
I trust it didn’t fly over any HA heads (except the dumbfuck’s) that the D.C. Court of Appeals gave Trump what his lawyers asked for:
“Trump’s lawyers had argued during his last impeachment that his actions related to the 2020 election were not impeachable and that the appropriate venue for judging them would be a courtroom. Gotcha, said the court:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/trump-immunity-federal-appeals-court-2024-election-january-6/
Ronna Romney is out.
She changed her name and even got the RNC to try and cancel the GOP primaries for Trump The Rapist.
And still it was not enough.
Cool.
Republicans having a normal one I see.
“House Speaker ‘MAGA’ Mike Johnson reportedly just ‘bolted’ away without speaking to reporters after losing two major votes.”
https://www.rawstory.com/johnson-bolts-embarrassing-loss/
I’d run and hide, too, after twin fiascos like these. But perhaps we should take pity on him. As a three-term congressman, he’s a relative novice in the ways of the House. For example, he hasn’t learned how to count votes yet, or rally his caucus. Most Speakers of the past were seasoned veterans who had mastered these skills. This was like some guy who watches boxing matches from barstools climbing into a ring with Mike Tyson, or a guy with a “12th Man” flag on his pickup running out onto the Superbowl field without a helmet. But instead of mocking him, we should hope Mike has a cocker spaniel to lick his wounds.
Don’t you love it when rightwing freaks eat each other?
https://www.rawstory.com/sebastian-gorka-2667185058/
“I remember when Americans didn’t do PR for the KGB.” Yum! Delicious!
-Trump The Rapist
In more than 200 years 45 other presidents managed just fine and got the job done without it. Lincoln won the War Against Slavery and reunited the Union without it. FDR recovered the economy from The Great Depression and secured victory in WW2 without it.
But for “some reason” Republicans can’t get by without it.
@124 “But for ‘some reason’ Republicans can’t get by without it.”
A burglar needs his burglar tools, a robber needs a gun, and Trump needs immunity. What Republicans don’t need or want is democracy; they keep trying to suppress voters.
This was a big day for Republicans, but not the way they intended.