Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another beautiful day and the links!
Eight GOP candidates wrestle for No. 2 slot as Trump rides big lead
Biden bails out more student loan borrowers after Supreme Court rejection
McCarthy says House may launch Biden impeachment inquiry when Congress reconvenes
Mark Meadows asks judge to block his arrest as two of 19 defendants surrender at Fulton County jail
US Officials Were ‘Impressed’ By Prosecutor Joe Biden Got Fired, New Revelations Show
500,000 jobs could disappear in dramatic revision of US government data
Incoming Ga. Commission Could Punish DA Willis
St. Louis Democrat Mayor Announces Plan to Ban AR-15s in City Limits
Oliver Anthony making an estimated $40,000 a day from chart-topping music
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
500,000 jobs could disappear in dramatic revision of US government data
Funny how these errors and revisions only go one way.
I’m still hiring. I interviewed a guy yesterday, and I hope to start him next week or so.
starvation wages I assume
We’re hiring. It’s just not been easy because our prime criteria is basic reasoning capability. A lot of people who apply don’t seem to be able to think their way out of a paper bag.
We just hired someone. She’s a NCG being hired on as a level 2 technician, which is causing (not unjustified) grumbling among the level 1s. From what I can tell, weird HR decisions gave us permission to hire at that level, but not transfer one of our experienced L1s into it and backfill.
Not weird. HR is anti-business.
so the L1s are sexist. got it.
???
It’s not only easier for us to promote into our higher level positions, we’re actually required to interview the promotional candidates before the outside candidates. Promote and backfill is standard operating procedure unless you can exclude all of the promotional candidates as not qualified based upon the criteria set before you get the list of candidates.
It might be the systems in place — since we’re in a hiring freeze, each slot has to be specially exempted. I don’t know how it works at low levels, but promotions at higher levels are very difficult. Even to get where I am, I had to get a VP signing off on it. There are a lot of theoretical engineering ranks that AFAIK don’t actually have anyone in them – the L13 one for example has a requirement of “serve on a Presidential committee creating policy within the semiconductor industry.” Admittedly, that level is the same pay grade as an EVP… which I don’t think we have either.
How many boxes does she check off?
Don’t know. For some reason they’ve removed me from interviewing candidates.
What? They still let me interview candidates.
Despite my being an introverted curmudgeon, I’m fairly good at it. Or is that because…
There’s a reason I don’t zoom. Which is probably related to why I wasn’t invited to the last Butlerville meetup.
To spicy for zoom, that is impressive.
Does “spicy” mean “asshole?”
As much of a jerk as I am on here, that’s after I’ve caught/edited/deleted my most egregious comments.
I have been trying to hire half a dozen instrument techs for about 2 years. Seems they don’t exist in the labor pool anymore. If we didn’t have a pipeline of in house trained apprentices to fill positions, we would have been shut down a long time ago.
We literally have paid apprenticeships (no degree required) to fill our process tech needs now.
“Everything old is new again.”
Remember when this constantly happened during the Obama regime?
Pepperridge Farms remembers.
The Biden regime too. As in, every quarter.
The Joe interesting thing to me is that the Fed is absolutely okay with inflation (when it was transitory) and asset appreciation to stupid levels.
But God forbid people start getting jobs and making more money, that’s where they draw the line.
I think this is a combo of (i) old bad reports (intended to fluff the administration) getting corrected and (ii) another desperate attempt to get Powell to cut interest rates.
Biden bails out more student loan borrowers after Supreme Court rejection – bailouts are a human right.
Too many people think that handouts are a human right.
Wait, you mean I could have been getting something for nothing instead of coming into this office and dealing with People!?
Typically getting a handout does involve interacting with people. People very much like your current coworkers, I imagine.
Crap.
There’s a reason theft and envy are among the ten commandments.
“Make Handouts Shameful Again”
Wait, government cheese has a stigma?
As some form of non-cheese plastic if I recall correctly.
^^^This.^^^
It’s a big part of why our country is broken. There is no longer any work ethic. See also: jobs Americans won’t do.
I don’t think there are jobs Americans won’t do, just jobs Americans won’t do at the rates being offered. Some combination of automation and remuneration adjustment will erase that category.
Now the slobs who simply don’t want to work – cut off their handouts and chastize them endlessly.
And why is that? In a lot of cases, it’s because it’s more financially rewarding to sit on the couch and let the government benefits roll in.
Especially plague dollars. There are millions of unfilled jobs where the pay was good enough before the government decided to shower the people who used to do those jobs with free money instead.
That’s the truth and if you ever find a handyman/auto mechanic/yard guy that’s straight with you AND does a good job make sure to not piss them off-they’re rare these days.
Boy, howdy. I have a good neighbor but when he works he’s gets treated like an employee. Paid well, a little bump on the end as a reminder. Other times we can trade produce and not worry about reciprocity.
Well they are called entitlements.
It stopped being a “student loan system” when you took it over, assholes.
*tap tap tap*
Holy shit, it’s even more broken than I could have imagined.
Will there be liveglibbing of the debate tonight?
Not from me. I have painting to do, and I should print another round of MadCat parts. I mean a two second exposure time does mean a 33% increase in print duration, but I might reduce the failure rate, and there’s only one way to find out.
How have they held up after painting? I have heard of seepage after painting.
I don’t know – I haven’t painted any of the prints yet. My current painting project is plastic.
Define “seepage” in the context you’ve heard it, what exactly is reported to have happened? (Too many possible effects for me to assume one)
who’s debating whom?
The candidates looking to replace Trump once he gets Epstiened.
Potential VPs. Although there are only 2 in that crowd.
Which 2?
Well, Ramaswamy just eliminated himself by saying he would cut way back on handouts for Israel.
If republicans had any self awareness or introspection they would see that the left is howling that a republican dared touch the third rail of Israel while the left continues to undermine Israel
This debate will advance the Left’s causes and talking points as it will be about Trump, Abortion, Israel. Or at least, that is all that will be reported.
If republicans had any self awareness or introspection
I think I see the problem.
Drunkglibbing, I would hope.
Who will drop out first, candidates or livers?
Drink Word List
“America First” – 1 sip
“Israel” – 1 sip
“I was misquoted” – 1 shot
“Trump” – down a 6 pack
You’d die of alcohol poisoning within half an hour.
He’s trying to dispose of the commemorative cans of Bud Light/
Its cheap and can get me through the debate.
‘Trump Employee 4’ retracts testimony after changing lawyers, implicates former president, prosecutors say
I’m sure it’s not a case of “I’ll say anything you want if you cut me loose from this”.
Naw, prosecutors can only make liars change their testimony to truth. Don’t you even SCIENCE!?
Yes, it’s also interesting that their new lawyer is from the government.
It probably is good advice to cooperate with the prosecutor though, because everyone is going to be railroaded in this.
This country could use another G. Gordon Liddy. A guy who could be counted on to shut the fuck up and take any punishment.
‘Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones (D) announced plans Tuesday to ban AR-15s and AK-47s inside city limits.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a bill containing the ban will soon come before the Board of Aldermen and will contain other gun controls as well.
Regulations on gun kits are some of the other controls expected in the bill.
Jones said, “We’re ready to fight like hell at the local level to prevent gun violence, protect our babies, and to keep our communities safe.”’
The FBI’s latest annual figures show there were 10,258 murders committed with guns in 2019(latest numbers I could lazily find), including 364 with rifles…
Homicide Tracker (2022) says at least 366 people were killed in 2022 in the St. Louis area through Dec. 29 of that year. After ten minutes of searching I found just one instance of a murder committed in that metro area in 2022.
But hey, virtue was signaled.
*After ten minutes of searching I found just one instance of a murder committed in that metro area in 2022…er with an AR or AK.
Those mean people chased looters off their property with an (unloaded) AR a few years ago.
Well the one murder I did find happened at a school so that makes worth, what? A hundred young black men killing each other with pistols?
I think that’s the going rate.
Not surprising, more people are beaten to death with hands or feet than are murdered with rifles. They aren’t common murder weapons at all.
It’s unfair to compare rifles to fists. Fists are almost always readily at hand.
‘protect our babies’
So you’re banning planned Parenthood, right?
Utopia incoming.
“AR-15s and AK-47s”
Seeing as actual AR-15s and AK-47s are NFA weapons, I can’t imagine that there are more than a handful, and those are probably already owned illegally.
The AR-15 was Never an NFA weapon. Don’t conflate it with its M-series cousins.
Nope. Original AR-15 was the M-16 prototype and was selective fire
https://www.ar15.com/forums/ar-15/The-Complete-ArmaLite-AR-15-Prototype-Guide/123-743191/
https://i.imgur.io/0YtBUIA_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
Prototypes don’t count.
“Well, they threw together this one thing on a lab bench that one time”
An “Actual” AR-15 is the commercial model they’ve been selling for decades by the millions.
Yep. Not completely unrelated, my M16 in basic training said AR15 on the lower receiver.
Question about the Georgia stuff.
Do I really have a legal duty to transport myself to a state I don’t reside in just to go through a trial? Or is that more a question of optics?
I would try residing in a pro Trump state and let them extradite me, no?
Extradition is a foregone conclusion, so it makes no sense to fight it.
Bob Knight disagrees.
TrotskyBotsky
@TrotBot4
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Aug 22
83 years ago today one of the most despicable murders in history claimed the life of one of the greatest champions of the oppressed to have ever lived. Much to the chagrin of Stalinists and imperialists the world over, killing Trotsky did not kill his ideas.
Punished Lukashenko
@BossLukashenko
Trotskyites deserve the same level of decency that they treated the revolution and children with: none at all.
Yes I will slander you. Yes I will lie about you. Yes I will call you every name under the sun. Why? Because Trotsky and his followers are Hitlerite scum who deserve ⛏️
https://twitter.com/BossLukashenko/status/1694092562108223557
You start out by talking about some tragic murder of a champion of the oppressed – then you pivot to talk about Trotsky. Go back to the first person and finish your thought before moving on to monsters.
Besides the fact that Trotsky was the imperialist, I would like to point out that his philosophies are alive and well in DC, particularly at the State Department.
Now if someone would just take an ice axe to Bill Kristol…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxdXqAkgOVs
closest to an ice pick as you are gonna get.
I met a woman through Swing dancing who was a Trotskyist. She had a redeeming feature though – tits the size of her head (and she was not obese). Unfortunately, those tits didn’t outweigh her being a Trotskyist.
neo-cons are trotskyites, which means they are exactly 0% conservative.
Speaking of wacky Brits, anyone seen Limey lately?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-66544351
Widow cucking?
another beautiful day
It’s far too sunny.
https://imgur.com/gallery/I0oH5Ar
Sunny and humid
Fight! Fight! Fight!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/muslim-group-principals-union-say-school-system-lied-to-stop-parents-from-opting-their-children-out-of-transgender-lessons
Also, why in the absolute fuck is there a Principals’ Union? How are there even enough of them to gather enough dues to send the union leadership to the Bahamas for planning sessions?
Well, you have one or two principals, four to eight vice principals, and a bevy of assistant vice principals per school. And since they’re typically the highest paid people on premesis, they would pay more per capita in dues.
Yet one more indication of NY creating makework jobs to reward their supporters.
None of my schools ever had more than one principal, and only some schools had (at most two) vice principals.
I constantly have to remind myself that there is no L in NYSUT.
The entire “Educational” system in this state has been fucked up since before I ran afoul of it as a child. I learned more by my tendency to pck up and read encyclopedias (or anything else I could get my hands on) than I did in the classroom for most subjects.
I bet the bloat happened everywhere.
My NY schools never had more than a principle and a vice.
“Our principle is self-interest and our vice is sloth”
Don’t forget each principal has a staff of a half dozen that also must pay dues and join the principal’s union. Even if they are not principals.
There’s around 24k public schools in this country. That’s a lot of principlas. Not sure if vice principals are in the union as well.
Why in the absolute fuck are public schools “teaching” transgenderism in the first place?
because bigoted parent refuse to and it is essential
To adequately prepare students to be enlighted productive adults in an increasingly diverse society, of course.
The students have already mastered the lesser subjects, such as anal sex, proper condom use, and self love. They’ll catch up on reading, math, and herstory in college.
*thinks back to intro level classes that were requirements*
It checks out.
LOL
Holy crap this shit is out of control.
Not one bit of it should be acceptable to any parent. It’s amazing it’s gotten this bad.
Sadly it is acceptable to many.
I’m going to assume (without reading the article, because who has time for that) the “difficult and unengaging” quote is the author editorializing and not how the MCPS referred to the book. I mean, nearly all I hear about from HR and corporate flacks is about “engagement”, I find it hard to believe that hasn’t infested the pub sec do nothing job class as well.
Most of it comes from, in the post-Trump presidency, a burning need to show how tolerant the members of the resistance are, no matter the costs. And this is catching many of their “allies” out. The Muslims want nothing to do with this shit. Black people were already pretty anti gay, and Latino’s really didn’t need another reason to flee the plantation.
Sadly, as long as they remain the party of Free Shit, nobody is leaving that plantation.
“Intersection Allies,”
Irony?
TFW when you need the Muslims to save you.
problematic
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1694021068996980736
Frightfully sensible, wot wot?
Eight GOP candidates wrestle for No. 2 slot as Trump rides big lead
“The biggest, most magnificent lead ever. That’s what people say. Truly wonderful. Big-league big lead, they say.”
The Biden regime keeps signaling that they are going to restart Covid restrictions in a month or two. This morning some guy on CNBC in the break room is talking about companies returning to office work. Apparently Goldman wants people there 5 days a week.
The oligarchs who run our country and our lives need to get their story straight.
Most of the bulge bracket banks want folks back.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/goldman-sachs-cancels-summer-fridays-wants-staff-in-office-five-days-a-week/
JP Morgan is the other one that has been screaming about this. I don’t have an issue with this. If you want to play with these firms that is table stakes and you know it.
The shutdowns also blew double barrel holes in the economies of most blue cities. I know Portland lost over a billion in budget tax revenue, and in a city of only 500K, that is no laughing matter. They need to get bodies back in offices toot sweet, and there is going to be push back over this. Whether it is enough to overcome the blue fears, I don’t know.
It is kinda like the pushback we are starting to see about immigration in the sanctimony cities; when they start feeling real pain, it starts to become an issue, and not just one for the red cities.
Did it though? Didn’t they get a fuck ton of Covid relief money?
The COVID spigot got turned off, and the effects of the lockdowns aren’t over yet. Do despite a trillion dollar bailout, many left leaning municipalities are still in trouble.
They need to be able to implement Covid restrictions at will to make it easier to fortify the election in 2024 with unlimited fraud-by-mail. This is just a test run to see if they can make it happen.
I keep seeing this here but nowhere else. Can someone give me a couple links to back this up, or is it just tea leaf reading?
#metoo
One school in Georgia is masking again. That is bad, but what else?
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lionsgate-mask-mandates-covid/2023/08/22/id/1131601/
If they didnt mandate time off with pay until a negative test, they probably would have near as many staff out sick.
Marching orders have been issued.
“experts”
The now-yearly late-summer/autumn media ramp up of fear mongering is a long, long ways from the claim being made.
it’s time to dust off those N95 masks
Figure of speech, but also how most people wear masks anyway which makes them even more ineffective.
First report at InfoWars. InfoWars was the first news outlet I know of that mentioned Covid restrictions coming back.
A more recent InfoWars article on Covid restrictions coming back.
And yes… InfoWars. Grain of salt and all that.
I’ll put their record up against anyone’s.
Right about 9/11, wrong about Sandyhook.
“wrong about Sandyhook”
Not so sure. If he were that wrong, they wouldn’t have gone after him over it.
Thank you DEG.
Citing Lionsgate Films and some liberal colleges requiring masks is eyerollingly pointless. The contracts bit is interesting, but I’d like to see if they are any different than the contract numbers from last fall.
The TSA thing is also interesting, but could just as easily been someone to set up Jones to fail.
To be clear, I am not convinced FedGov won’t do another lockdown. I just think we ought to have some proof to back up our claims around here. We’re supposed to better than “them”, right?
Mask mandates on public transportation are the most worrisome as it’s impossible to ignore them 100%. Anything else has no teeth.
Agreed.
And I’d expect the liberal enclaves on the costs to lead the way. If we see the NY subway system implement masks, or even start seriously discussing it, I’d start worrying that FedGov was about to do the same at TSA, Amtrak, etc.
Air travel was the only place I wasn’t able to ignore it. A couple businesses threw me out, but I just never went back.
Our “green” future continues!
OSHA Investigates Chemical Spill at GM’s Ultium Battery Plant in Ohio
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/osha-investigates-chemical-spill-at-gms-ultium-battery-plant-41a303af?st=etcsw5u9r8oy99o&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Ultium sounds like some sort of fictional material.
Is that a town?
Unobtanium
I mean, a lot of chemicals ARE green…
They always are in movies.
And exposure gives you super powers.
Next you’ll be telling me The Toxic Avenger and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aren’t documentaries.
Please, you really believe that urban youth turtles would name themselves after dead white guys?
They didn’t name themselves, The Japanese guy who turned into a Rat named them.
It was the eighties. Many of the youth were still under the spell of the white man’s tricknology.
Pu-lease NA, Charlemagne the God? Ever heard of him? Takin’ BACK from the whitey!
No love for the classics? Hulk, Spider-Man, and the Flash were earlier.
They were talking chemicals, so Hulk and Spider-Man are out, since they’re radioactivity.
Biden bails out more student loan borrowers after Supreme Court rejection
Biden’s new student loan plan is expected to cost taxpayers $276 billion
Listen, Jack. Those young’uns are starting to stray because they can’t afford things. We need to have the best vote-buying scheme in the history of American politics. That’s Bidenomics in action.
Guess who is going to help bailout Hawaiian Electric?
Credit ratings agencies have downgraded Hawaiian Electric to junk status, with S&P Global Ratings last week saying the wildfires destroyed a significant segment of the company’s customer base and will take many years to restore. On Monday, Fitch Ratings said the utility’s potential liabilities from the Maui fires could be upwards of $3.8 billion, representing an existential threat to the company barring substantial regulatory or legislative support.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hawaiian-electric-hires-financial-adviser-guggenheim-after-wildfires-9833aea9?st=dssm6w4vb9ev7aw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
A glimpse of street fashion in Hong Kong, 1960s.
https://twitter.com/tongbingxue/status/1694215213636264265
I do enjoy a cheongsam on someone pretty.
Oddly different from this Hong Kong
https://theface.com/culture/greg-girard-the-kowloon-walled-city-hong-kong-photography
The British did fairly well as hands-off administrators of Hong Kong.
They should have never given it to the CCP to be butchered.
They really didn’t have much of a choice. China would not renew the 99 year lease on the New Territories. Britain was in no shape to contest China over continuing to occupy Hong Kong, and was also in no shape to rebuild all the infrastructure (power plants and reservoirs) in the New Territories in the parts of Hong Kong that had been ceded in perpetuity.
The lease wasn’t up at the time they gave it all away.
The ‘concessions’ they got were not enforced either.
There would have been some value from making the Chinese use force to get it back, as that could have opened the world’s eyes to reality. Not that I think people cared to see at that time.
Wow! That first skirt is cut up to the booty!
https://twitter.com/NoContextHumans/status/1694292082356064346
That’s a different type of fire crotch.
Warm but dry.
After about the fifth watching, I noticed the dude that is about to decorate his calf in blood.
McCarthy says House may launch Biden impeachment inquiry when Congress reconvenes
*yawn*
may… might… considering…
With each inaction on their part, we inch closer to real civil unrest.
may… might… considering… INQUIRY
It’s even more lame than that.
No, this is the right way to do this. Go too fast, and you look like Nancy Pelosi with nothing to show. You need to slow walk it, let it build by doing it the right way, keep momentum.
The same way they did Nixon.
https://imgur.com/gallery/kpxGc5V
Morning glibs.
heh
I refuse to believe that even our modern woke military would have a switch to blast something as banal as Credence out over the rice paddies.
Wagner or GTFO!
Prosecutor Biden had fired: He was investigating the business interest where Hunter had what was essentially a fifty grand per month no show job. Frankly, that’s all I need to know.
I’ll do the same job for forty grand a month. I don’t even have a drug habit or a tendency to leak secrets.
I doubt you’d be providing the same valuable service that Hunter was.
I’m sure I could find a dementia patient to represent.
Making sure everyone gets blown and has blow is definately worth the extra 10G.
i think there are jobs like that on corporate boards all over the world. if you worked harder you would get one
That’s silly, hard work doesn’t get you a no-show job, it just gets you more work.
It takes a certain moral turpitude which I don’t think anyone here possesses.
If the work involves doing blow and banging high dollar Eastern European hookers I’m game. Does your employer have any openings like that, I promise I’ll work very hard.
my employer is lame
I love how the MSM is finally coming around to printing facts that the rest of us knew about years ago.
If that Dem gerrymander in NY hadn’t been thrown out by a judge before the ’22 election, they’d still have the House and all of this shit would continue to be swept under the rug.
What Dem gerrymander? The Dems don’t gerrymander. Only the GOP does.
‘Trump Employee 4’ retracts testimony after changing lawyers, implicates former president, prosecutors say
“Nice family you have. It’d be a shame if something happened to them.” – US gov’t
More like “You’re looking at thirty years, if only we had some information that’d help us we could really cut that down.”
That’s all it takes for most people.
Makes you start to apprieciate G. Gordon Liddy.
500,000 jobs could disappear in dramatic revision of US government data
I, for one, am shocked.
I would have done a lot better in Geometry if I’d been allowed to “revise” my test answers weeks later. 😒
San Francisco police officers were paid more than $143,000 in overtime during the July 8 Dolores Park hill bomb, an annual skateboarding event that was shut down earlier this year and resulted in the arrests of 117 mostly young people.
The costs, tallied by the San Francisco Police Department in response to a public records request, include only overtime pay. The department said a total of 1,221 overtime hours were used by officers during the enforcement.
https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/overtime-dolores-hill-bomb-sfpd-civil-rights-lawsuit/
So how many cops work during the day versus night / evening and how is the proportion calculated? Is it to most efficiently curtail crime? Is minimizing overtime a consideration?
Their overtime rate is more than $100/hour?
Sigh…
Time-and-a-half plus shift differential BOOYEE!!
(assuming they don’t go to double time after 60 hours or something)
Not sure how they set their rules but years ago a fire department here in Vegas was busted for an overtime scheme. Fireman would rotate ‘sick days’ to match up with certain people that would be next on the list for OT.
https://www.firerescue1.com/fire-department-management/articles/nevada-county-tackles-fire-dept-overtime-sick-leave-abuse-OV5JwbaXUk2NElzR/
I assume the same for police/medical personnel/etc.
If you develop a system where people can make more money, people are going to use it. It is that simple. I don’t blame them at all.
Only our entry level titles are eligable for overtime and standby pay, so we put them on the on-call rotation and leave the salaried guys off.
“We must be prudent with the taxpayer’s money and trust” is so overrated anyway.
I’ve pointed this out to several directors/managers before that if you’re using any call statistics in the employee reviews for call center agents (bright line items instead of general trends and the like), they’ll see a trend that will have the agents just hitting the mark or going a bit over. You get more of what you reward…
Best job I ever had was salary WITH Overtime. And, no, I wasn’t unionized or working for gov’t. Sadly, that fell victim to Obama’s economy.
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones (D) announced plans Tuesday to ban AR-15s and AK-47s inside city limits.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a bill containing the ban will soon come before the Board of Aldermen and will contain other gun controls as well.
This malicious shit needs to be smacked down with prejudice.
Agreed. If they claim that it is some sort of valiant protest, they should be reminded that part of public disobedience is going to jail for your “crime”.
You don’t get to do illegal stuff and skip the jail because your goals are noble. Nope you go to jail.
The aldermen all know that their actions are illegal. They should go to jail for breaking the law.
Yeah, we really need to get rid of that immunitiy shit, pronto.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I thought the Ray O’ Sunshine was going to be catching a fish in Lake O’ the Woods.
Nice people up in Moorhead, until you go across the river.
twink death is a terrifying thing
https://twitter.com/tradcatboy/status/1693524885723816200
Jeez, from a bully in an ‘80s high school movie to a burlap bag filled with cooked oatmeal.
500,000 jobs could disappear in dramatic revision of US government data
I read that as “US government payrolls” at first. I got a little tingly for a second.
#metoo
Typicaly, islands don’t float. However, floating bogs or floating islands do exist less commonly as an artificial phenomenon.
Residents in Wisconsin collectively joined their boats to move a giant floating bog on the Chippewa Flowage.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1694335869086273948
faaake
You’re correct, the island stayed still, we actually moved the shoreline and the bridge.
Not uncommon
Maybe, uncommon, but not rare. whatever. It happens sometimes
I claim that bog as Libertopia. I shall install a shack and a BBQ grill. All are welcome.
“That is a protected wetland habitat!” -EPA
Ema Savahl Sets the Stage Ablaze at Miami Swim Week Fashion Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1cTpAxZR0
Not going to risk clicking at work – I’ll just assume arson.
We are getting a JJ Abrams style reboot of convid.
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a $1.4 billion investment in developing the so-called next generation of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dawn O’Connell made the announcement, saying the funding is part of the $5 billion program they hope will help the country get ahead of any future changes in COVID-19.
It’s a respiratory virus (assuming it exists…). It mutates constantly.
“This is an investment in expanding our country’s ability to respond to the future variants that we might see coming out of COVID,” Becerra said. “It’s an investment in better protecting all of our community, including those who are immunocompromised, and who don’t respond well to the existing vaccines.”
Funny you should mention that. I assume not enough people died from the original fake vaccine.
It the Leviathans newest and most favorite slush fund they get to frolic in.
Now with extra lens flare?
I hear that Lens Flare is getting it’s own movie.
Unfortunately, it’s on Netflix, so the actor has been swapped out for a trans lesbian of color.
“respond to the future variants that we might see coming out of COVID”
Sounds like a euphemistic way to give money to gain of function research.
…to feed off of when they inevitably slide into the Big Pharm positions that will be waiting for them at the end of the Big Guy’s term.”
It’s a respiratory virus (assuming it exists…).
Bro…
For a quick second, I thought maybe Minnesoda was having a Libertarian Moment. Then I read the details about new Social District and shook my head. Amazing how pols just can’t remove restrictions, they have to add more restrictions that slightly modify the earlier restrictions.
Imagine the crazy idea that you could just let people drink in public! Nope, we need a special district. And only for a few days. And only a few certain hours. And you need to buy from special vendors. And the booze will be in a special cup.
And we’ll tax the cup!
…but won’t people see other people drinking? OMG !, It’s getting to be like a German Beer Garden around here…
Hey it works for even a Constitutional right to set up special districts/zones to enjoy, so why not for this?
When I worked in Tokyo, I trained my Japanese coworkers to spend a half hour after work drinking beers that we bought out of a vending machine while standing on the sidewalk in front of the office building. Just a way to blow off steam.
The Japanese coworkers were amused that every time the police foot patrol walked by, I’d stick my beer behind my back. I tried to explain to them the concept of public consumption being against the law back in the USA. Didn’t get very far with them.
Speaking of…Staff still about on the Zooms?
At least once a week, a group of us will go to the back of the parking lot after work here at the mill and drink ice chest beer for an hour or so. Technically against the rules, but nobody gives a shit.
Beers in the parking lot are a men’s hockey league ritual.
Difference between Skeet and Trap, after a shoot
Trap parking lot, losers want to swap guns
Skeet parking lot, everyone is drinking beer and trying to talk smack about the winners
A far more effective team building exercise than anything I’ve ever seen any HR person come up with.
It used to be much more common, I think. I kind of miss the days of blowing off steam with cool co-workers.
Yeah, anecdotally speaking, it seems to be a dying tradition. At my place, we do it far, far less than we used to. It used to be virtually weekly, now it’s quarterly at best. And less people show up even when we do get together. COVID breaking people’s habit of going to bars is a big part of it, but there’s other things going on, too. Seems like the younger generations (30’s and 20’s) just don’t care about hanging with their coworkers once in a while.
Seems like the younger generations (30’s and 20’s) just don’t care about hanging with their coworkers once in a while.
I think this is exactly it. There is a huge difference in attitudes toward work among the youngsters. Not good or bad, but they just don’t appear to look at the same as we did.
We’re just starting to get the DORAs (Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area) in Ohio. The ones I’ve seen proposed for the Cleveland area are for set areas, specified times, and will have plastic cups for the outdoor drinks. Yet we’ve somehow managed to continue to drink in the Muni lot before (during and after) Browns games for decades now without issue.
*sigh* These are the things I would believe my Revolutionary ancestor would look at us and slap us. Its one of those things that if people just did it, judges would invalidate the law as it clogged the court systems.
Yeah, they have those in Sf and Portland now, only they are for heroin and fentanyl.
Are you going to explore them?
Idk where these cuntes get off thinking that they can do this.
There is a roster of globalist commie mayors from around the world, united together in a group called C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. This Marxist dream team has dedicated itself to fulfilling Schwab’s vision of ridding the world of cows and cars, and probably to fulfilling the rest of his Bond villain-like plans, which are even more ghastly. They want you to curtail your air travel. They claim it’s all to save the trees or something like that, but anyone with a few sparking neurons can recognize subjugation when they see it.
What’s worse, 14 American mayors are already on board with this global enslavement.
Here is the list of U.S. Marxist hell-hole mayors who are willing to deny their constituents the taste of meat, dairy for their coffee, and their privately-owned cars by 2030: Seattle, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Chicago, Miami, Boston, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C.
There are few surprises here. Call me a stooge but I’d think the good people of New Orleans, Houston, Phoenix, and Miami, which is 90 nautical miles from tyranny, would enjoy driving their pickup to a steak house and wrapping up dinner with a coffee and cream.
Anyone who complies deserves what they get.
There is no goddamn way a TX city is going to ban BBQ.
Or LA gives up their carne asada tacos/burritos, Miami their Cubanos, Boston their chowda, Chicago their Italian Beef, NOLA their gumbo…
LA can’t give up cars, no matter how much they want to. That place would shut down without personal transport.
They have to start somewhere. Commie rat fuckers…
Austin has gone down a dark path. I think Austin will try. It will go badly.
Torchy’s best taco is “The Democrat.” Surely it won’t be banned.
Verdict first, trial afterward
In his statement before he surrendered for booking Tuesday, Eastman previewed his defense strategy. It’s clear that he intends to go beyond arguing, as Trump’s lawyers have, that the charges are an infringement upon his right to free speech under the First Amendment. He instead claimed in his statement that the charges have a chilling effect on another First Amendment right, the right to petition a government for redress of grievances. “The attempt to criminalize our rights to such redress with this indictment will have — and is already having — profound consequences for our system of justice,” Eastman declared.
Smith already countered that argument in the federal election indictment against Trump. There were numerous legal ways to petition the government after the election, all of which Trump’s lawyers undertook. They just happened to lose every one of those court cases. Also, not a single recount that was conducted changed the results of the election. The indictments charge as crimes the actions Trump’s team took beyond those legal avenues.
And again, those cases were not “lost”. The courts refused to hear them. And if you count all the fraudulent votes a second time, instead of discarding the unverifiable ones, the result won’t change.
But Joe won that election fair and square. Anybody who says different is a Nazi.
Yeah those cases were deemed moot because the election was over and certified. Funnily enough, they didn’t have standing for the same stuff before the election. It absolutely chills the right to petition for redress but they just don’t give a fuck if it interferes with the charade.
Looking at the phone or just self absorbed and dumb?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/15xpyld/oc_guy_misjudged_his_line_cutting/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Oooh hard to tell. Could add “not from there” too. I will go with phone.
The lane was well marked as right turn only for a good distance.
Don’t discount confused drivers doing stupid stuff while given every opportunity to be informed what they are doing is wrong.
Definitely phone. What a fuckhead.
Ben in Barbie Land
FreedomToons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZNMvtmEU5U
So did they do a “Alex P. Keaton” with Ken, and accidentally make him the best and most likable character on the show?
Nice to see that guy has other songs. He’s got a really old school country vibe, I think a lot of that come from him really believing what he’s singing. Comes across as very heartfelt. I give it a week before we start seeing stories about them going after him for tax evasion or some bullshit.
A week? They already are claiming he is antisemitic, fake cause his singing voice is different than his talking voice, obviously a Nazi and a astroturfed “Right Wing” plant. Which people could believe if they didn’t see the 1000s of YT/Rumble videos all basically saying “facts” as they react to his songs.
My favorite form of naivete is thinking that any person’s character no matter how pristine is immune from leftwing/media assassination. They turn milquetoast boring slightly center right politicians with absolutely nothing in their closets into super Hitler overnight. They could destroy Bette White’s legacy if they had it in them. Establishment Republicans have the laughable audacity to tell people to throw their support behind the useless cowardly boring guy because the media can’t attack them then act shocked when their weak, boring coward is turned into Hitler by the media. And spends their entire candidacy on the defensive, apologizing for shit they never said or did.
Yes. Mitt Romney is a great example. He’s about as bland and milquetoast as it gets. And yet they were calling him “literally Hitler” as soon as he became a threat to power.
Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Jim Nabors has a sad
He referenced Richmond which was obviously meant as a callback to the Confederacy. He also attacks fat people, which obviously is an anti-Black dog whistle.
The lane was well marked as right turn only for a good distance.
A local would have known about the jump… errr “traffic island” and jammed herself into the left lane.
“Mississippi cop loses job over arrest, removal and jailing of 10-year-old boy Quantivious Eason who peed in car park while mother visited office nearby”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12434519/Mississippi-cop-senatobia-peed-disciplined-arrested-jailing-10-year-old-child-peed-moms-car-officers-police-chief-says.html
womp womp
So the initial cop was actually the sane one.
Mom, Latonya Eason, said the officer who caught her son interrupted her meeting to tell her what he had found and that he was going to let Quantivious off with a warning.
But she claims he had a change of heart when other cops came on the scene and a furious lieutenant demanded he be taken to the station and issued with a statute for being left unattended.
‘But the child was driven off after senior officers arrived and hit with a child in need of services charge, which will see the city’s Juvenile Court get involved to help Eason deal with him.’
Oh good, the government is here to help. /s
Fuck those cops. Also, nothing wrong with leaving a 10-year old by themselves. Jesus
OMFG I’m ded.
https://twitter.com/emzanotti/status/1694348841804267838
Chicago’s mayor promised kids a pizza party on the first day of school. Kids thought they’d get pizza for lunch. Instead, they handed each kid a frozen pizza…at the *start of the school day.*
WTF??
You know, schools tend to have cafeterias. You could have just served something vaguely pizza-adjacent at lunchtime and even if it was meh school-lunch ‘pizza’, you could reasonably argue that you met expectations.
This is just embarassing.
We talk about this all the time. So far, voting based on property owned wouldn’t help situations like this. How about you can only vote if you have a private sector job?
Any such restrictions will only lead to more fraud.
Only if you paid income tax
What happened to good old fashioned walking around money?
Tweet’s been deleted. But here’s a video report on it. Check out the kids faces as they pick up their pizzas… lol.
Oops, forgot the link: https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1267260
“Covid Infections have DOUBLED in US in past month amid rise of two mutant variants BA.2.86 and ‘Eris’, official data suggests”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12433429/Covid-panic-infections-virus-mild-cold.html
No.
They sure seem to be trying to focus group what scary words will allow them to put 2020 voting rules back in place, don’t they?
“two weeks”. uh huh.
Its awesome that we are trying that same language again.
I would love to see the constant reporting of Flu and common cold numbers. We really need to put the fear in the people this time.
Back to the tried and true method of reporting “cases”.
Heard yesterday – the new variant is actually BS-24.7
LOL
after omicron, I quit paying attention to variant names. How many are we at now? And more importantly, how much more mild than a cold are they now?
It is basically the new common cold at this point. It probably pushed out the previous coronavirus as the leading contender and we should be back to “I have the sniffles”, take some Nyquil and get on with your life.
Hail Eris?
Just asking questions
“Hilarious interview with @CNN last night,” Ramaswamy wrote in his post. “Felt like I was talking to a petulant teenager.”
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In the interview Monday, Collins pressed Ramaswamy about comments he made in an article by The Atlantic released the same day. In the article, Ramaswamy questioned how many police or federal agents were on the planes that hit the twin towers. He told her that the article misquoted him.
“What I said is on Jan. 6, I do believe that there were many federal agents in the field, and we deserve to know who they are,” Ramaswamy said on CNN’s “The Source.” “On 9/11, what I’ve said is that the government lied — and this is incontrovertible evidence, Kaitlan — the government lied about Saudi Arabia’s involvement.”
In response, Collins said she felt Ramaswamy is using his platform to push false claims with under the guise of “just asking questions.”
“I think people look at those comments, they look at what you said in The Atlantic — what you say you were misquoted. They look at comments that you’ve made about the Federal Reserve adding zeros to media companies’ bank accounts, and I mean, it looks like you’re floating conspiracy theories with this defense of, ‘I’m just asking questions,’” she said.
“I’m a serious journalist!”
If you fight back against misquotes you may as well be Alex Jones who is, ironically enough, correct more often than they are.
Next time just add “Im not kidding” or “Its a fact Jack” to the end of the statements and you should be golden.
And the last thing a serious journalist does is ask questions.
I started listening to Bill Maher’s podcast episode with Vivek. Maher completely shits himself when they start talking about dismantling the FBI.
Stop spitting out the red pill Bill.
How will they get rid of Trump without the FBI? /Maher
The Beijing Bikini SFW
What’s the point of getting rich and fat if you can’t flaunt it?
Godzilla is coming
Japan’s government has repeatedly said the discharge of the treated water is safe and the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog has endorsed the move. The International Atomic Energy Agency said in early July that Tokyo’s plans were consistent with international standards and will have a “negligible” impact on people and the environment. The process will take decades to complete.
Neighboring countries are far from happy, however.
Local fishing groups and U.N. human rights experts have voiced their concerns about the potential threat to the marine environment and public health, while campaigners say that not all possible impacts have been studied.
It’s good that we have spent the past half century turning nuclear power into a source of unlimited paranoia.
I watched a movie about a giant octopus last night where they made the octopus radioactive and the fish ran away because they had internal geiger counters. So there. Fish run away from the bad radioactive water.
https://tubitv.com/movies/100007478/it-came-from-beneath-the-sea
Good morning, Banjos!
And good morning to the rest of you lovely malcontents.
This COVID 2.0 bullshit makes me think of this.
Because of shit like this.
For some strange reason I feel like Biden surrogates that are really in charge have it in them to make even more extreme measures if they pull the trigger.
It’s not looking particularly good is it? If they can do lockdowns again where everyone mails in ballots with no checks they can re-elect his senile old ass and ride him for another four years, no questions asked.
I don’t think the economy can survive another lockdown.
It can’t but with a compliant media and corporate structure along with a liberal dissemination of table scraps to people who don’t know any better(meaning people who don’t understand economics aka most people) they can probably get away with it again, at least for a while.
Haven’t read it and not gonna but if that’s not an example of data being manipulated to achieve a desired implication I’ll eat my goddamn hat.
Your hat is safe.
Jesus H….they did the study in a fucking prison. So, the takeaway is if you spend all day, every day in a small room with someone who has COVID, your chance of catching it goes up. Shocking!
Interpreted on narrow grounds for specific application it’s actually not a bad study if a bit of a “well no shit” one. As long as they don’t try to generalize the findings.
They don’t need to. The media (or at least social media) is doing it for them.
You mean something like this headline:
The hidden benefits of routine vaccines in older adults: reducing risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
It’s it because you die before you get Alzheimer’s?
Mornin’
Analysts at environmental campaign group Greenpeace said they were “deeply disappointed and outraged” by Japan’s decision to release treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
“Instead of engaging in an honest debate about this reality, the Japanese government has opted for a false solution – decades of deliberate radioactive pollution of the marine environment – during a time when the world’s oceans are already facing immense stress and pressures,” said Shaun Burnie, a senior nuclear specialist at Greenpeace East Asia.
“This is an outrage that violates the human rights of the people and communities of Fukushima, and other neighboring prefectures and the wider Asia-Pacific region.”
“Give us money.”
𝖘𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖘
@SONICAIDS
Marie is going to get deported from japan for stalking people
Mariè
@p8stie
Deportation from Japan is a traumatizing experience
I am in California right now dealing with the after effects/trying to process everything that has gone on
The anti-smoking laws as well as laws about public photography are extremely restrictive & prohibit personal freedom
https://twitter.com/p8stie/status/1693872475237675142
US supreme court memes are getting weird
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1694032291100549414
They failed to properly articulate their point.
sheikh zubeyr, author of al-easifatan
@revhowardarson
the reconquista was, uh, the opposite of colonial.
Liam
@LegoRacers2
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In 1492, Andalusian Muslims had been in Spain for 700 years. They were not foreigners, they were Spanish. The previous Visigothic ruling class the Muslims evicted had only been in Spain for 200 years. This is ahistoric racist nonsense
Hmmm so if enough time passes you can no longer bitch about conquest?
See also, Crusades bad, original Muslim conquests, meh.
Especially if you’ve been there longer than the people you conquered were. Er…I mean, the people that left before you got there.
The Moors were never Spanish. The Spanish drove them out of Iberia. And the Roman Visigothic kingdom was still largely the same people and culture it had been under the Empire and late Republic. So the Iberian Romans had 800 or so years of residence by the time the Moors came along. The pre-Roman Celts, well, now we’re getting a bit vague. Go back far enough and you’ve got the same story with the Neanderthals, who were in Iberia first.
Iberia for the Neanderthals!
I think that’s what Animal was saying.
Despicable
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass blasted Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott late Monday for transporting migrants to the city as Tropical Storm Hilary bore down on the region.
“It is evil to endanger the lives of vulnerable migrants by sending a bus with families and toddlers on board to a city that at the time was under an unprecedented tropical storm warning,” Bass said in a statement.
Bass said that as she warned Angelenos about the storm, “the Governor of Texas sent families and toddlers straight for us on a path through extreme weather conditions.”
“If anybody understands the danger of hurricanes and thunderstorms, it’s the Governor of Texas — who has to deal with this threat on an annual basis. This is a despicable act beyond politics,” she added.
What are the odds she also thinks he’s evil for trying to stop them from crossing the Rio Grande?
Elon Musk should build one of his hyperloop thingies from Texas to LA to ferry migrants safely
Well, the story here keeps changing…
Newly released video shows police shooting into vehicle at a traffic stop in an encounter that contradicts initial police narrative
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/us/eddie-irizarry-family-philadelphia-police-shooting/index.html
Approximately five seconds elapse between the time that the officer gets out of his patrol car, runs over to the driver’s side of Irizarry’s vehicle, and fires his gun what appears to be six times with at least one shot striking Irizarry’s front windshield. While firing his weapon, the officer is heard shouting what sounds like, “Drop the knife!”
And now we know why they keep delaying the video release.
A man in a car with the door closed, knife wielding or not, is not threat to an armed agent of the state outside the vehicle. period.
To be fair, the initial police statement was issued on camera by a female Corporal. Nothing can be attributed to the police until a Five Star Police Chief issues a statement, which she did and contradicted the lowly corporal.
Kudos to the restraint shown by Philly residents who haven’t started mostly peaceful rioting yet.
He doesn’t look black enough to burn the city over.
SABATOGE!
Gov. Doug Burgum injured during pickup basketball game just before pivotal debate
I think Ramaswamy did it:
Sure you are, Vivek. Sure you are.
Vivek is so tiny he looks like he couldn’t foul a ten year old in a basketball game.
He Gillooly’d him.
SJW: “That’s ‘body shaming.’ Stick to the issues like does he have any transgender friends.”
Pivoting isn’t just for basketball anymore
MA trial court rules against MA concealed carry law
A person’s right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense does not end at state lines, a Massachusetts trial judge has ruled.
Earlier this month, Lowell District Court Justice John F. Coffey dismissed a criminal case against a New Hampshire man charged with carrying a firearm without a license in Massachusetts. He found the state’s requirement that non-residents obtain a temporary license to carry in Massachusetts violates the Second Amendment.
“An individual only loses a constitutional right if he commits an offense or is or has been engaged in certain behavior that is covered by 18 USC section 922,” Judge Coffey wrote on August 3rd in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Dean F. Donnell. “He doesn’t lose that right simply by traveling into an adjoining state whose statute mandates that residents of that state obtain a license prior to exercising their constitutional right. To hold otherwise would inexplicably treat Second Amendment rights differently than other individually held rights. Therefore, the Court finds that GL. 269, sec. (10a) is unconstitutional as applied to this particularly situated defendant and allows the motion to dismiss on that ground.”
Now do New Jersey.
I’m shocked.
People like this are why I could never get into the hysterical racing scene or big time restoration dodge.
I try not to hate people, especially based on youtube videos, but… this stupid fucking obnoxious woman, with her tattoos and annoying voice (the way she says “my dad” makes me want to kick that chair right out from under her) and self obsessed queen bee act? I can make an exception. And, of course, it’s all about the money. Not the beauty, not the machinery, not the function. Just the money. I have no idea who those people are, but without her dad she’d be slinging hash.
I met Walt Medlin, in 1996, I think. It was at the IRL race at Orlando. He was hanging out with us. He was a really cool laid back guy. He told me about the Ferraris he had squirreled away. He collected those cars for what they were, and what they represented. Sure, they were worth a bunch of money, but rare and special things tend to be.
Wow…
The Korean coast guard said in a news release Sunday that an individual on a 1,800-cc red water scooter — carrying more than 200 liters, or more than 50 gallons, of fuel — had beached on Incheon’s wetlands and was detained for crossing the border illegally. It said the person had visited Korea previously but did not disclose the individual’s name and refused to comment further, citing privacy concerns.
The coast guard’s details of how the man was found suggested he had prepared for the trip thoroughly: He was wearing a life jacket and a helmet and carrying binoculars and a compass. He had dumped empty fuel canisters into the sea after refueling along the way.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/23/chinese-man-korea-jet-ski-kwon-pyong/
On January 5th SWAT shot and killed a guy in his home (through his door) in Nashville. Who’s got the best breakdown of the events?
a country music blog of all places
It is becoming a world where bloggers are the only source covering anything worth hearing about.
Gordie Howe meets the kid who’ll break his records …
What a great pic.
alol
Marian Hossa had his “last game” last week. In the 2013 finals these two players captained opposing teams.
https://twitter.com/BN_Blackhawks/status/1692575492094689517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Nice.
The Joker Cycle
This is one of my favorite literary sites. This is an excellent essay about the IC/Hollywood connection.
A man in a car with the door closed, knife wielding or not, is not threat to an armed agent of the state outside the vehicle. period.
The guy might have committed suicide. He had to be stopped.
“PETA ad depicts dead cat on a silver platter, compares to fish consumption: ‘There is no difference’”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/23/peta-ad-depicts-dead-cat-on-a-silver-platter-compares-to-fish-consumption/
CWABOA
They probably got the cat out of a Humane Society dumpster.
I don’t think PETA needs to go to the humane society to get dead pets. IIR, they euthanize more animals than anyone in the business.
I think that’s the HS that holds that distinction.
Very quick search…couldn’t find a definitive answer, but you might be right. They are certainly angling for the #1 spot if they don’t hold it,.
My son brought me a cutthroat for dinner the other day.
Absolute perfection. DIAF, PETA.
You forgot to cook the cat if you were making Chinese food.
On that Trump employee who “recanted” his grand jury testimony – we have seen a huge number of people bankrupted by this new weaponization of the justice system. Even if the charges are ultimately dropped, or if they end in acquittal, because these partisan efforts have unlimited government budgets, they are able to run up the costs to the defendants with ease. Ultimately, the choice is to be bankrupted or cut a deal…. or worse, be bankrupted, then cut a deal because your lawyers eventually cut you off because they can’t work for free for very long.
I would love to see an accounting of how many Jan 6 defendants were bankrupted. We know the guy from the subway with the Michael Jackson impersonator has already blown through millions in legal expenses – all funded by donations.
I is no wonder that some dude working at Mar-a-lago for less than a hundred grand would give up after a year of legal bills. Lawyers ain’t cheap… and if you have to deal with NY prosecutors and DC prosecutors and federal prosecutors in West Palm, it wouldn’t take long at all to bankrupt an ordinary working class dude, or even a modestly well to do executive.