Happy penultimate day of the work-week, y’all. I’m kinda worn out here. The Tiny One (who is actually not tiny, just skinny now) is doing his thing where he wakes up at 5:00am. And then not only does he wake up, but apparently getting his own Kindle and being quiet until six has become a challenge. I’m tired and ready for someone else to do the getting up and working. I want to sleep until about 8:00, wake up naturally, work out, eat breakfast, get to work at 10:00 and work until, I dunno, 3ish, then fuck off for interesting times. Can I get a life like that without living in a van down by the river?
Trump’s superpower strikes again. “I’m not undignified! He’s undignified!” Some famous dead white guy said something about the optics of arguing with an idiot, I know this isn’t woke, but Nan might want to look it up.
A local connection to obscenity and art. The first cartoonist to be jailed for obscenity was… Florida Man!
“Dirty cops, leakers, and liars” is almost as good as “hoarders, wreckers, and Kulaks”
I hope I’m not outing Rufus here. Dude claims to burn $1M (Canadollars) in cash rather than give it over to his wife for alimony and child support.
Childish music for childish times. This is what is currently big with the kids. Or my kids, at least.
Can I get a life like that without living in a van down by the river?
Yes, but it will require doing something very lucrative, so your odds are better with the van.
Don Brett can make a lot of money in a single….transaction, my friend.
So what I hear you saying is that an unmarked van comes in handy no matter which path in life one may choose.
Two words:
PubSec union.
Yang is laying off staffers after Iowa. The big red X is coming for you, Andrew.
I just pray Almighty God that “Loading” over Herself doesn’t keep … finishing.
She hovers over the campaign, like vultures over a battlefield.
I think the main thing to look for is if Bernie gets close to the nomination or Biden drops out. She can already play “experience” against Mayor Pete and “moderate” against Warren, who has had to tack hard left to keep up with Bernie.
And she can play “Otherwordly entity” against anyone or anything that stands in her way.
Come on, SMOD!
Is Tulsi still in it and why? How about Steyer? I heard somewhere his advertising spending came to about $40,000 per vote that he received. Just think how much better he could have fared if he simply went around Iowa offering $1,000 to every Democrat who said they would vote for him.
Hootch and cash-money. Vote early and vote often!
We Iowans only accept payment in straw hats and bib overalls, it is known.
$1,000 to every Democrat who said they would vote for him.
Didn’t work for Yang.
“I tore up a manifesto of mistruths,” Pelosi said at her weekly Capitol Hill news conference Thursday. “It was necessary to get the attention of the American people to say, ‘This is not true. And this is how it affects you.’ And I don’t need any lessons from anyone, especially the President of the United States, about dignity.”
That might not sound quite so absurd if she and her cohorts could produce any evidence of being tethered to reality.
I still want to hear which parts are lies/untrue.
If it’s flattering to Trump, that’s a lie
/Party Line.
Didn’t someone around here note that a tweet went out during the State of the Union from Pelosi’s account about ripping it up? Which highly indicates that it was pre-planned?
The images of her pre-tearing it during the speech also indicate that.
She is on tape pre-tearing the pages from the very beginning of the speech. There’s no doubt it was pre-planned.
I’m with Swiss: what were the “mistruths”? Which, somewhat to my surprise, is an actual word.
The speech was loaded with stats that could be contested. But Drumpf is a liar. There, we said it. And saying it is what counts.
If it was pre-planned, from an optics point it was poorly thought out. It made her look childish not strong.
She was expecting so many accolades and attagirls for standing up to the evil orange man.
It’s just sad.
She probably got them from her twitter followers.
She got praised for her sarcastic clapping last year, so I’m sure that within her bubble this seemed like a good idea.
“At his 1994 trial, Lirot brought in experts from San Francisco and New York to attest to the artistic value of Diana’s drawings. Prosecutors told the jury that Pinellas County “doesn’t have to accept what is acceptable in the bathhouses in San Francisco, and it doesn’t have to accept what is acceptable in the crack alleys of New York.”
The jury took just 90 minutes to find him guilty of three counts of obscenity. When Judge Walter Fullerton sent him to the slammer for the weekend, other inmates asked what he was in for.
“For drawing cartoons,” Diana said.
“Damn, they’ll throw you in here for anything!” one inmate replied.”
That inmate was right.
I hope I’m not outing Rufus here. Dude claims to burn $1M (Canadollars) in cash rather than give it over to his wife for alimony and child support.
The courts will just order him to giver her a $1M IOU, which is just as good as the loonies they use up there.
Not true. We can fill a hockey-sock with loonies and go all “Paul Kersey” on your soory ass.
No you can’t. Hockey socks are open at both ends, eh.
She added that the President’s remarks about politics and the economy were “so inappropriate at a prayer breakfast.”
“He’s talking about things that he knows little about: faith and prayer,” Pelosi said.
“I know you are, but what am I?”
“He’s talking about things that he knows little about: faith and prayer,” Pelosi said.
So basically it’s like when Pelosi talks about the constitution and rule of law. They are made for each other!
Presbyterians are the classiest protestants, the classiest, so much class, you wouldn’t believe it.
I thought the complaint was that right-wingers are nutball religious zealots who want to impose a theocracy on everyone… Now they’re complaining that a Republican president is not devout enough?
Of course, because now they can’t make use of the argument that he’s a religious zealot against him. That’s just unfair.
…and then Nancy went off to a Planned Parenthood “Save Abortion Rights” fundraiser, just before Mass.
[golf clap while wearing bloody gloves]
It’s just a clump of cells.
https://babylonbee.com/news/pelosi-defends-ripping-up-trumps-speech-saying-it-was-just-a-clump-of-cells
Dem bitchez be ripping us off, again. Or maybe just riffing off us.
They definitely have a plant here.
*Looks around*
Certainly a very real possibility. But I suspect it’s better for all parties that the connection go unidentified both here and there.
“This is what is currently big with the kids. Or my kids, at least.”
From their album, Music for Germ Spreading
I’ve posted it before, but this is relevant.
Can I get a life like that without living in a van down by the river?
Delivering crack to investment bankers during business hours?
Don Brett has long since graduated from mere delivery.
Retail is for chumps.
Somebody mentioned this case the other day, looks like it’s heating up again:
After 23 Years, FBI Have New Information On Missing Woman Kristin Smart
In California: A flurry of activity in Kristin Smart’s ’96 disappearance
Sounds like they think Flores did it. Why would he keep evidence lying around for 23 years?
I recall reading about a disappearance of a girl that was solved twenty years later when a relative of the killer was cleaning junk out of the barn on the killer’s father’s farm and found bloodstained women’s clothes stashed in a box in a disused corner. They turned it over to the police and thanks to DNA testing, they were able to get the killer to not only confess but take them to where he buried the body.
It’s rare, but occasionally things do come to light.
Usually, though, the killer shares a confidence with someone who tells the cops. I heartily encourage this phenomenon.
I recall reading about a disappearance of a girl that was solved . . . by an aging dog.
I would think that if you leave bloody clothes around for 20 years, deep down you want to get caught.
It wasn’t like that.
Killer kept the clothes as a trophy and as a way of removing forensic evidence. He stashed the box in his father’s barn knowing that he would become a suspect and that his property was going to be searched at some point.
What he didn’t count on was the police following him and watching him for months (it was a small town and the cops were *very* motivated). He didn’t dare go back and retrieve the box. So he left town and moved to another state.
It’s kind of funny; all he needed to do was bury her in her clothes. He had done such a good job of burying her that without his help they’d never have found any trace of her ever (unless someone tried to build a building on the grave site).
Though the family didn’t come out and say it, it was clear that they suspected their relative was guilty. It was just that nobody had noticed the box appearing in the barn, and it went unremarked until finally someone got around to cleaning up. It had literally got buried in broken down equipment and assorted junk when the killer’s nephew was given the character-building task of clearing it out.
Imagine if it got discovered during and episode of American Pickers.
Well, let’s see what’s in this box. Holy Shit, Frank get the van NOW!!!!
LOOPHOLES!
For the first time in three years, Amazon, long the subject of criticism from lawmakers across the political aisle, owed federal income taxes.
In its annual regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jeff Bezos’ sprawling e-commerce empire said it paid $162 million in federal income taxes on $13.3 billion of U.S. pre-tax income, an effective tax rate of 1.2 percent. It deferred more than $914 million in taxes.
“We follow all applicable federal and state tax laws, and our U.S. taxes are a reflection of our continued investments, compensation of our employees, and the current tax rules,” Amazon wrote in a blog post on Jan. 31. The company highlighted its “federal income tax expense” of more than $1 billion, including the $162 million it paid in 2019, and the $914 million deferred to future years.
Why can’t we just look into the soul of the CEO and bill accordingly?
~ef~
Cool link closure.
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Here, okay.
Uh… how do I go about deferring my taxes to future years?
Depreciation
On second thought, if Bernie wins, I think I’d like to pre-pay the next few years.
Not to worry. All of your assets will be redistributed
Appreciation?
If Bernie wins you will immediately give up all of your wealth and march yourself to your designated camp.
Doesn’t depreciation of a new asset increase one’s taxes this year, vs. what would have been paid if the asset purchase was fully deductible?
If you depreciate, say, the portion of your home that you use for business, it lowers your taxes. However, the depreciation lowers the cost basis of the house, so you end up paying more in capital gains taxes when you sell it.
Sell an asset on installments. It isn’t as exciting as the articles makes it sound since generally you can’t defer the tax unless you are also deferring the actual cash. In other words due to accounting rules a lot of “income’ is actually just some one somewhere owing you money.
Deferred taxes are bullshit. They exist solely as a PR move by large companies because people freak out when large company only pays 1 percent in taxes.
The amount of estimates that go into the calculation make it a joke.
“…aired his profanity-laced grievances…”
Ooh! It must be Eastern Orthodox Festivus!
Oh, goddammit.
Brooksie is just punking us now. That could be in response to anything above and still be appropriate.
One day he’s going to accidentally reply in thread.
He did, but it wasn’t a reply.
aka a Reverse Gilmore
That could be in response to anything above and still be appropriate.
Or maybe…all of them?
Can I get a life like that without living in a van down by the river?
Now you know what the attraction of that lifestyle is for people who live in vans down by rivers. (I actually met a guy like that when I was living in the Lower Rainland™ — d00d was a male model who otherwise just screwed around for a living, and managed to take a remarkable amount of nekkid photos of female models . . . )
The story about the Canuck businessman who burned his cash rather than pay child support etc.? Again, I had a buddy in a similar situation. What was most aggravating about it was that he was being sued for paternity and actually had a DNA test from a reputable lab that proved he wasn’t the father, to which the judge replied “I don’t care.” And then TPTB in Canada wonder why the administration of justice is constantly being brought into disrepute.
It’s not the first time I hear judges forcing men who aren’t the fathers to pay up.
As far as I’m concerned that’s an assault on civil society by activist (and asshole) judges.
The court system isn’t about justice. Its purpose is a process whose outcome produces less injustice than if it didn’t exist. The reason why it works at all is that it is so awful to the participants, that sane people will decide that negotiating an agreement between them is a better alternative than staying in its clutches.
Of course, divorcing couples consisting of entirely sane people don’t often land in its clutches. It’s generally couples where one or both members are nasty people who would rather burn the world down than not get their way.
My brother in law’s brother’s ex-wife made their divorce about as nasty and ugly as she could. She even tried to paint her saintly in-laws who treated her spectacular as devils. There was nothing she would not stoop to. It was ugly and disgusting. The system in Quebec is different from the rest in the continent – while far from friendly to men it’s not as evil and punitive evil. There’s some sanity built into it. The woman doesn’t automatically get free reign. Not sure if it’s because we still use the Roman/Napoleonic code- and even the judge could but comment about how she mentioned the Mercedes more than her own kids.
None of this surprised me because I knew her from high school. Let’s just say a leopard doesn’t change its spots.
The funny part is my BIL’s mother (a tough as nails Neapolitan) said she was ready to work with the wife because of her grand children but when the wife did what she did embarrassing her in court she told her in the same court in Neapolitan, ‘I’ll burn everything down before you ever get a single thing you putana. I will take care of the grandchildren you can go straight to hell and fuck off’.
Let’s just say it was just like in the movies according to witnesses.
Ha! My ex was similar. No lie was beneath her: claims of me threatening her and intimidating her; that I’d cut her off from child support; framed her for a larceny I had committed. Every time she made an accusation, she’d back off at the last minute before the evidence of her claim was going to be examined. Oddly though she never got around to accusing me of physical or sexual abuse.
Of course, I made sure once the festivities started that I avoided being alone with her.
The crazy thing is that people still cut her slack after she slaps them in the face with utterly blatant lies. I still end up paying when she makes shit up out of whole cloth.
OTOH, we’ve gone from her being almost guaranteed to get full custody of the kids with me paying child support for children I wouldn’t be allowed to see to the kids living 80% of the time with me.
So the system has ‘worked’. Approximately
Glad to hear it.
Great news! Too often the father is just written off for custodialship, particularly if the children are young.
I was able to get full custody but my situation may have been different. My ex was schizophrenic and rarely saw the kids after the divorce.
Good news.
and managed to take a remarkable amount of nekkid photos of female models
“Oh, it’s cool, I’m totes gay. Spread those cheeks wider, perfect!”
I knew that would happen.
Thanks (for making me look crazy(er)), Edit Fairy!
It’s hard not to think there are enemies within the United States political system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZhDlf7sOaE
Brennan and Comey are commies.
Do you have a précis? I’m not sitting through a 54-minute video.
Yeh….wait let me look for it…..sticks hand in ass…..ta-dah!
Not the post route I was expecting.
Also come on Mahomes! You lead the receiver right into it!
Update from @Stephania_ESPN
: “Although there was no flag on the play, the parking meter was later suspended for one game and fined $500,000 for the hit on a defenseless receiver. The receiver is out 4-6 weeks with a bruised ego. And also a hangover.”
I’ve always been partial to this.
Stolen from a couple of tweets:
That was a form-perfect tackle from the Money Badger!
Speaking of Nutty Nancy
Pelosi was answering a softball question from a reporter about whether the president wanted “payback” for impeachment. After attacking Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday as an “insult,” Pelosi said Trump was “giving encouragement to people to do things” — things such as Charlottesville:
Just as, remember, Charlottesville. People were coming down that hill, with tiki torches, saying, “The Jews will not replace us, The Jews will not replace us,” and what was the president’s statement? “There are good people on both sides.” Really? “The Jews will not replace us’ and ‘good people on both sides”?
Still lying about that, huh?
She’s a vile cunt.
Ugh that thing has been so thoroughly debunked and it’s still trotted out a proof of Trumps racist bonafides.
The gender pay gap would like a word…
You mean the one that doesn’t really exist when you control for life choices and hours worked?
So thoroughly implanted into the minds of low information people that even if you dare point them to the actual full quote in context they react with rage at the audacity daring to inform them of the truth.
Trump is a racist. HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT?!?!
“For drawing cartoons,” Diana said.
“Damn, they’ll throw you in here for anything!” one inmate replied.
Yes. Yes they will. BFYTW.
Romney cited his faith in announcing his conviction vote and dedication to his oath to do impartial justice.
Nothing to do with the fact that Trump beat him right?
“I don’t believe you. I don’t trust you. I don’t think you’re honest,” the judge told him. “I find what you have done to be morally reprehensible because what you claim to have done willfully and directly undermines the interests of your children.”
I suspect the child support will line the pockets of his ex-wife and do nothing to support his children.
“I hope I’m not outing Rufus here.”
I bet you you think I know Gordie too.
Ain’t Nothin’ to Do https://youtu.be/t3n4wVajpn0
I Hate Children https://youtu.be/guIHLxI3EMw
They Sent Me To Hell C.O.D.
https://youtu.be/5DVfHYqM4uA
Through My Fingers https://youtu.be/7cuAQDchGDA
Thus concludes punk rock lunch break. Back to work everyone. Take care of your business. https://youtu.be/zXKjLZumm5s
Young Till I Die.
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
Bastards of Young
Kids Don’t Follow
Bonus trivia – the guy yelling “Fuck you, man!” to the cop is Dave Pirner.
You used to be cool.
I hope I’m not outing Rufus here. Dude claims to burn $1M (Canadollars) in cash rather than give it over to his wife for alimony and child support.
FTA:
So, who’s up for some treasure hunting?
Loonies and toonies and plastic bills?
Wait, does soviet canukistan use plastic bills? I don’t recall.
Commiefornia and New Yorkistan are probably more socialist than Canada.
We don’t have Marxist DA’s (that I know of) like they do in SF or hard core socialists like the Mayor in Seattle.
Yet. I think.
Look, Comrade muppet, as long as people like Trudy are in power, you’re not shedding the soviet label.
/looks down dejected.
Oh. Trudeau.
Piece of shit commie.
Chip off the old block, from what I hear.
My father distrusted and disliked his father. Being from the old country he could sniff out a commie and a commie he was.
They had behind all kinds of bull shit terms and titles but in the end they’re lousy commies.
We don’t have Marxist DA’s (that I know of) like they do in SF or hard core socialists like the Mayor in Seattle.
Mayor Moonbeam (Gregor Robertson) in Vancouver (now out of office after two or three terms, IIRC) was well on the “commie” side of the spectrum, although he was much more of a watermelon.
British Columbia is on the left coast.
Lotsa crazy shit goes down there.
But they get all their stupid ideas from Oregon and California. Their farts flow up stream.
Always remember. Our socialists learned from asshole American socialists. Americans came here to fuck shit up in a country that prior to Tommy Douglas was really a throw back to 19th century American individualism.
Then the American progressive movement kicked into high gear and Canada was ensnared.
Canada uses polymer banknotes.
I bet poop doesn’t stick very well then. How are you supposed to wipe yer butt?
That is more of a Venezuelan problem than Canucki.
Give them time.
Damn polymerists.
Yes.
I would love to know more about the details that drove to allegedly do this. Is it because he’s a terrible husband and father who doesn’t want to take care of his kid or is his wife a whack job looking to milk him?
Imagine being in a position where you calculate ‘Going to jail for 30 days is worth it if it means I can save my money’.
Thirty days in jail, save a million dollars from a fraudulent claim?
Even if it’s canadian dollars, it looks like an ok trade.
Unless it’s Epstein’s cell.
If I was the victim of a fraudulent claim and in such a position, I can’t help but think spending 30 days in jail for what I thought was right is liberating.
There’s something cathartic about civil disobedience I reckon.
If you’re in Epstein’s cell and you’re not Epstein, it could probably be pretty profitable.
No. Witnesses.
3 squares, a roof over your head, time to read and work out, and all the sex you can handle.
What’s not to like?
fell in the lake during a boating tripburned in a fire, damndest thing.Really, if he was smart he would have used some of that cash to buy some prop cash (or paper) and a cheap (i.e. poor quality) camera and filmed himself burning a pile of “cash” as evidence. Maybe even do a close-up of a real bundle that you toss onto the out of focus burn pile to really sell it.
Nuh-uh!
Contrary to Trump’s crowing at the State of the Union, the country’s growth performance is not unusual or extraordinary. It is good. Solid. A, B, maybe a B–, not an A+. The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently reported that the economy is expanding at a 2.1 percent annual rate—not bad for a developed economy this late in the business cycle, yet roughly half of the 4 percent rate the administration promised. The low unemployment rate, decent wage growth, solid corporate earnings, and a booming stock market: Those are all artifacts of a long, long expansion, not signs that a very stable genius in the White House has unleashed American enterprise.
Indeed, the economy remains on pretty much the exact same growth path it has taken for the past decade: There is no inflection point around the time of the 2016 election or the late-2017 passage of the TCJA, or any inflection point at all. Growth has plodded along at 2.5 percent a year, give or take. The unemployment rate has been falling consistently. Not much has changed.
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Trump inherited a decent economy that continues to be decent, and has managed to avoid tipping it into a recession. The state of the union, in economic terms, is okay. But the really good news for Trump is that voters seem to credit him with today’s growth, and are likely to reward him for it in November.
It’s good, so it’s still Obama’s Economy. Trump is just riding on the Great Man’s coattails.
Nobody really believes this, but it’s all they got.
The state of the union, in economic terms, is okay. But the really good news for Trump is that voters seem to credit him with today’s growth, and are likely to reward him for it in November.
The unemployment rate is the highest it’s been in most people’s lifetime and, given the socialists waiting in the wings to strangle the economy the first chance they get, has a high probability of being the highest anyone will see in their life. Of course voters are going to look favorably on that. And Trump gets a little bit of credit, at least as much as any politician in his position deserves, for the simple fact that he’s been a bit more willing to give the economy room to breathe than most of his competitors (low bar that it is).
*lowest, not highest
LOL, I type gud.
“Nobody has jobs! Yay!… wait… Everybody has jobs! Yay!”
I feel like it should be Friday already.
Maybe it’s a toomah.
It’s naht a toomah.
More than that, a high number of jobs are still being added, even though unemployment numbers are super low. Which means people who had given up are going back into the work force.
When did they ‘fix’ the unemployment numbers? As I recall ithey were all bullshit under Obama but now the numbers are unimpeachable* under Donny?
*yes**
** I meant to do that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/10/19-times-trump-called-the-jobs-numbers-fake-before-they-made-him-look-good/
TRIGGER WARNING: WaPo
They didn’t, but labor participation did go up a skosh recently.
I’m literally dying.
At this point, whatever spews from these ignorant cuntes just elicits a pitying sigh.
I can’t help myself…
He’s too short to grab his own boot straps.
?????????
Reich is one of the most reprehensible hacks I’ve ever seen. Worse than Krugman.
He’s making a quarter mil a year as a “professor” at Berkeley, where all he does is have his students read internet articles in his class. 3 hours a week. No instruction. Quarter million a year of taxpayer money.
+1 Toni Morrison at Princeton who didn’t even bother to show up.
The students would like a word with you:
https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1123540
I don’t believe a word of that.
Hope you’re right because those comments make me wonder if these kids even possess a brain.
I believe these:
“The single biggest problem with this class is that most of the readings are strictly lefty views and we never consider the other side. At times, authors chastise republicans without any facts to back up their statements. Obviously, Professor Reich doesn’t care about the constant feedback regarding this issue, since year after year nothing changes.”
“Class verges on indoctrination. He requires that you use heavy textual support (NOT outside sources) when writing your papers, then assigns only texts that espouse liberal or extremely liberal positions. This makes writing papers with moderate or conservative arguments impossible to support with the resources provided, and doomed to get bad grades.”
“Reich is an engaging professor and a decent guy. However, he moralizes constantly without providing a basis for his positions. He’s very much part of the establishment he criticizes so often. There is hardly an issue he contends that can’t be solved by the state.”
“Really Simple Class. My favorite part was that there were no tests. Only Two papers. If you take it be sure to write the papers not only well but with a very left wing view. Otherwise it is REALLY hard to get an A. I learned that lesson the hard way.”
Nice. I didn’t make it past the first few slurping reviews.
“You didn’t build that.”
I always thought the saying was related to working folks having to pull on or off their own boots, while rich layabouts had servants to put on and remove boots.
The only time I’ve heard it in any other context is in a Baron Munhausen story where he pulls himself out of the mud by his own bootstraps.
It’s an opportune moment to link that Bee article about Occasional-Cortex and shoelaces.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/06/shockwaves-in-berlin-as-far-right-afd-lends-support-to-mainstream.html
Apparently, the new government in Thuringia lasted about one day.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/german-nativists-drive-wedge-in-merkels-conservative-party-11581005919
The previous government was headed by the Left Party leader. That somehow wasn’t too controversial.
Thot Thursday will be jailed for obscenity.
http://archive.is/1rYFC
15.
I’m sitting in an Executive Council of the Business Law Section of the Florida Bar meeting and people are clutching their pearls over how we might DARE to start a committee even to study cannabis law. HOW DARE WE.
I’m the youngest person in here by at least 5 years. Maybe that’s it.
You should light up.
And start playing Free Bird on phone.
If this was a couple of weeks from now and I had my card and product I would.
What other laws does this law trade organization want to prevent its members from studying?
“Change cannabis laws…how DARE you?”
Give him a big hand folks, he’s here all week.
Oh, and it looks like MJ legalization is dead in Virginia (fuck you, Team Blue), and we might get some kind of decriminalization. But only because of racial disparity, not because it’s not the state’s business.
Do they really want to carry that premise to its logical conclusion?
“This bracelet doubles as a reusable straw and helps keep our oceans clean”
https://twitter.com/Seeker/status/1225192380308967424
OFFS!
If you put it up your nose, does it help you smell your own farts.
No, but it helps you snort your coke.
Save the turtles!
sksksks and i oop
Pshaw! Everyone knows wypipo lives don’t matter!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/05/business/cosmopolitan-bachelor-victoria-fuller-cover-trnd
“the campaign was for a Marlin Lives Matter organization, focused on preventing the overfishing of white and blue marlins. As a result, the phrases “White Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter” were used in its promotional products[…]That doesn’t matter, Pels wrote. ‘In my view, the nature of the organization is neither here nor there — both phrases and the belief systems they represent are rooted in racism and therefore problematic'”
I…errr…uhhhhh *smdh*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM
Shun her forever!
If you are innocent you have nothing to hide.
Isn’t it odd that a president who clamors for exoneration, who claimed loud and long that he committed no crime and did no wrong, who insisted that his request to the Ukrainian president to seek dirt on Biden in return for American financial assistance was “perfect,” would command the members of his own party to block testimony adverse to him — rather than hear it, cross-examine it, challenge it and thereby obtain the exoneration on the merits that he seeks?
Do innocent people behave this way?
If Trump really believes he did not commit any crimes and any impeachable offenses, why would he orchestrate blocking evidence? And who — having taken an oath to do “impartial justice” — would close their eyes to the truth? How could such a marathon of speeches possibly be considered a trial?
Trump will luxuriate in his victory. But the personal victory for him is a legal assault on the Constitution. The president has taken an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. Instead, he has trashed it. How? By manipulating Senate Republicans to bar firsthand evidence and keep it from senatorial and public scrutiny, Trump and his Senate collaborators have insulated him and future presidents from the moral and constitutional truism that no president is above the law.
I have the feeling the next President regardless of party who tries to do something blatantly criminal based on this assumption will be in for a rude awakening.
The Dems are setting it up so they can do more shady stuff when they win the presidency. They will use this as their precedent.
Do innocent people behave this way?
If they don’t respect the court, they do.
Then why are they trying to hide the name Eric Ciaramella?
MOVE ON
So, Andrew Napolitano has reduced himself to saying “you have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide”. I’d laugh, But, really, I’m more sad about it.
I felt the same way, what happened to the Judge?
Terminal TDS. Well, browser TDS.
Yeah that is really sad Napolitano knows enough to not be saying “Do innocent people behave this way?”
Do innocent people behave this way?
You bet they do, if they have good lawyers.
I absolutely prohibit anyone working for my organization from communicating with any lawyer or organization who is adverse to us without a subpoena. Which is exactly what Trump did.
Every competent business lawyer would tell you the same thing.
“Enough is enough. In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass.”
https://twitter.com/TomPerez/status/1225468833458245632
I’m guessing this means Sanders won.
” Well would you look at that? Turns out Hilary got the most votes! The people have spoken.” – Tom Perez in 3 days
Perez’s handwritten will, you mean.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7975469/Demi-Rose-sizzles-slinky-black-dress-posts-throwback-snap-Jordan-break.html
Looks like she shit in her diaper.
“throwback”, “snap”, “break”? I can only assume from the URL that the aforementioned garment exploded from exceeded structural tolerances.
Yeah like bridge cables.
Reminds me of some live footage that was captured after she crossed this bridge.
“Galloping Gerty!”
Statespersonlike
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused President Trump of appearing “a little bit sedated” during his State of the Union address earlier this week when she extended her hand to shake.
“It was also an act of kindness, because he looked to me like he was a little bit sedated,” Pelosi said at her weekly press conference Thursday morning. “He looked that way last year, too. But that was that. He didn’t want to shake hands? That meant nothing to me.”
The image of Trump appearing to decline to shake Pelosi’s hand before his speech Tuesday quickly went viral online. After his speech, Pelosi immediately tore up her copy of his prepared remarks, which she called a “manifesto of mistruths” during the press conference.
She’s about a hundred years old, and she’s coming across like a whiny teenager.
Wasn’t she the “adult in the room” last fall?
“Why must you treat my office as a Den of Lies?”, she shrieked.
Trump and Pelosi had several icy moments during Tuesday night, starting with Trump apparently ignoring an offered handshake from Pelosi and ending with Pelosi immediately tearing up a paper copy of Trump’s remarks after he concluded speaking.
Hey, uh, CNN? Didn’t it actually start with Pelosi intentionally skipping a traditional part of the introduction of the President?
It was a bit petulant on Trump’s part but I can understand not wanting to shake hands with the Speaker who green lit the impeachment against you. And yes Pelosi also didn’t introduce the President in the traditional manner.
It looked to me like he had turned back around so quickly that he didn’t notice her hand going out?
Back and to the left, no less.
+1 magic bullet
+1 second spitter on the gravely road
“EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden’s brother Frank owes dead man’s family $1 MILLION for 80mph car crash – but has never paid a cent in 20 years and the Democratic candidate did NOTHING to help
Joe Biden’s youngest brother Frank, 66, is revealed by DailyMail.com investigation to owe a grieving family almost $1 million
He has never paid a penny in the 20 years since Michael Albano, a single father, was run over in a fatal car crash near San Diego California in August 1999
Frank Biden had rented the high-powered Jaguar and was in the passenger seat when he put the car into manual, and said ‘punch it’ to the driver
Albano was hit at up to 80mph by the car and Biden was allegedly heard saying ‘keep driving’ as the 38-year-old father of two teenagers lay dying on the road
The Albano family sued Biden and he was ordered to pay both the dead man’s daughters compensation in 2002 – but has never paid a cent
The dead man’s family pleaded in 2008 with Joe Biden – then Barack Obama’s running mate – to get his brother to pay up but were told he was penniless
Since then he has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in string of ventures, including for-profit charter schools and Costa Rican property development
Biden’s license was suspended when Albano was killed and has a long history of driving on a suspended license – including this month in DailyMail.com pictures”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7908559/Joe-Bidens-brother-Frank-owes-1-million-dead-mans-family-2020-Democrat-did-help.html
“Meet Frank Biden, Joe’s ‘penniless’ brother who has snubbed mourning family he owes $1m – but who dined at the White House, boasts of his links to the former VP and vacations at $1,000-a-night ranch
Frank Biden, 66, is 11 years the former vice president’s junior and the youngest of his three siblings
Now he is revealed by DailyMail.com to owe the family of a man killed in a 1999 car crash almost $1 million and never to have paid a cent
Younger Biden has an opaque resume and appears to have offered markedly different accounts of his career over the years
Now lives in Atlantis, Florida, with his partner Mindy Ward, a Hooters waitress-turned American Airlines flight attendant, at a house owned by her parents
They were at a White House state dinner during his brother’s time in office and he calls himself a senior adviser to a pro-Biden political action committee
Has described himself as being educated at University of Delaware, San Francisco State University, Cornell University and Pepperdine Law
Worked for the Government Printing Office as congressional public affairs officer between 1993 and 1997
His marriage to journalist Janine Jaquet, with whom he has daughter Alana, 30, ended in the mid-1990s, and he has daughter, Megan, from another relationship”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7961825/Meet-Frank-Biden-Joes-brother-place-inner-circle-resume-raises-questions.html
Scum.
Isn’t the Daily Mail a UK publication? How dare a foreign entity investigate the brother of a U.S. political candidate and try to corrupt the 2020 election.
We should have the EU kick them out.
So, Frank Biden was not the driver that day, right? Did he put the car “into manual” from the passenger seat? If he wasn’t behind the steering wheel, why was his driver’s license suspended?
To be fair, why should Joe get involved with his deadbeat brother?
Update: We approved the motion to create a cannabis law committee by a close 22-20 vote. A lot of people are pissed off.
Update update: They changed the rules and since abstentions+oppositions beat approvals, the motion was not carried.
I’m coming to the next one of these high off my balls.
VT wants to tax it at 20%.
I expect this was a well poisoning.
More likely it’s genuine stupidity. California taxes weed at three different steps in the process. I think the total tax comes to something like 70%. My governor and his minions remain shocked tax revenue is way below estimates and the black market is still thriving.
Not voting suddenly counts as a vote against? The fucks who changed the rule can all burn in hell and please tell them that for me.
Nope, that’s totally standard. Its a universal rule (at least, I have never seen anything different) that a motion carries only with a majority (or supermajority) affirmative vote. “Present” or “Abstain” has exactly the same effect on the outcome as “Nay”.
Technicality: “Present” or “Abstain” actually are votes. Gutless votes by cowards, but votes nonetheless.
It made her look childish not strong.
Agreed. If Pelosi were some nobody, maybe this might be playable as an act of defiance. But she’s got a history. A good amount of it recent. Just a year ago, her supporters and the media were touting her credentials as a “strong, savvy, powerful woman who was more than a match for Donald Trump”. You don’t go from that to tearing up a speech without people arriving at the logical conclusion that you’ve been defeated.
Kane from the top rope.
Even better is the GIF in one of those replies: Alderaan shot first. Never seen that one before, it gave me a chuckle.
Smackdown!
NPR is trying very hard to claim Biden did nothing in Ukraine.
It’s amazing. They say he got the person fired, but that was something ok, because it actually is part of his job. I’m confused.
I think the argument is that the prosecutor was corrupt and shaking down Burisma and others so the US had to interfere and get rid of the prosecutor for the sake of combating corruption.
Yeah the guy on NPR was claiming it was the exact opposite of what the Republicans theory is.
That he *wasn’t* investigating.
None of that matters. Biden was irredeemably conflicted because of Hunter’s job. Even if he did it for good reasons, he’s still conflicted. At a minimum, the Obama administration should have told him “Hunter can have the job, or you can have Ukraine in your portfolio. Pick one.”
The fact that they didn’t tells you everything you need to know about the ethics and morality of the Obama administration.
That’s about what I was telling my radio on the way home
It’s entirely possible that he did nothing illegal, but it appears unethical as hell. Sometimes the scandal is what’s legal.
Quick look at the federal bribery statute: It looks terribly drafted, in that it appears to apply only to bribes given directly to a public official, and makes no mention of their family. Unless “directly or indirectly” is read to include family members. Should absolutely be explicit, though. Can’t imagine how it was overlooked by Congress.
Can’t imagine how it was overlooked by Congress.
The same people who would benefit from such arrangements? Nope, can’t think of a reason that wasn’t cited.
I’m not sure how you could draft a good law for this. You could probably argue that all politicians’ kids get their jobs because of who their parents are and because the employer is looking for favorable treatment, but you can’t really write a law that prevents them all from working.
I’m not sure how you could draft a good law for this.
I would start by including family members as potential recipients of a bribe. The rest is probably fine, because it is pretty intent-based:
The other flaw in the statute is that it doesn’t really cover “doing someone a favor” when you have a pre-existing relationship with them.
Honestly, the drafting wouldn’t be terribly difficult. It all comes down to intent, which is hard to prove but not that hard to prove inferentially. The idea that you have to have the guilty party announce their intent is bullshit propagated by public officials trying to get away with shit.
If (a) my son has a million dollar a year job with X, (b) X is the subject of a criminal corruption investigation, and (c) I engage in an “official act” to get that investigation closed down, a jury is perfectly entitled to infer corrupt intent. Astonishgly, that is probably not a crime under our current bribery statute (unless “indirectly” is read to mean “paying off family members and not the public official”).
to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intent—
(A)to influence any official act; or
Looks like it covers gifts to family to me.
I think Biden was hurt worse by the impeachment proceedings than Trump was..
+83000/month.
He was if the Iowa results are close to being real.
I said that Biden was finished on the day the Democrats announced the impeachment.
“Trump blurts out expletive during 1st formal remarks after impeachment acquittal.”
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/trump-blurts-expletive-during-1st-172752917.html
Fake news. President Donald J. Trump used an eight letter word for a US undergraduate degree. As he self-identifies as a Christian, then “in vain” twice counts. And the name of an afterlife from said Christianity nine times not in reference to that alleged place. That would be twelve expletives (plural) not expletive (singular).
So it’s just a video and not the text of what he supposedly said?
Here you go: https://www.vox.com/2020/2/6/21126544/trump-speech-today-transcript-impeachment
DNT is alright when he leaves off from his personal pettifog. Otherwise, much like Winston and “Classical Liberals” he needs some shunning.
Thanks.
You’re Welcome!
Vermin Supreme thanked me on Twitter today for my vow to vote for him this year and my hope that he’ll be the LP nominee.
Sadly this is one of the greatest things that’s happened in my life.
Remember us peons when your sitting in the WH with him.
Cuddled in his lap and purring? I can’t cover those odds.
Oh, no!
Women of color bolt Warren’s Nevada campaign in frustration
Perfect.
Even her fellow, er lady, Native Americans?
“ewww, no, we’d never hire them.”
minorities felt tokenized
Well, they were tokens. Should be no surprise.
They were probably asked to dress and act more ethnic.
Replacing them with some trans POC should do the trick.
UCS – I posted on the dead thread, but just wanted to say how much I enjoyed Banker of Stirnberg. Great writing.
Thank you for contributing that here.
Seconded. Also, on the subject of sapient books, I have seen that done in a couple of YA fantasy stories, so I don’t think it would be odd at all.
Naggers?
A half-dozen women of color have departed Elizabeth Warren’s Nevada campaign in the run-up to the state’s caucuses with complaints of a toxic work environment in which minorities felt tokenized and senior leadership was at loggerheads.
The six staffers have left the roughly 70-person Nevada team since November, during a critical stretch of the race. Three of them said they felt marginalized by the campaign, a situation they said didn’t change or worsened after they took their concerns to their superiors or to human resources staff.
“During the time I was employed with Nevada for Warren, there was definitely something wrong with the culture,” said Megan Lewis, a field organizer who joined the campaign in May and departed in December. “I filed a complaint with HR, but the follow-up I received left me feeling as though I needed to make myself smaller or change who I was to fit into the office culture.”
Another recently departed staffer, also a field organizer, granted anonymity because she feared reprisal, echoed that sentiment. “I felt like a problem — like I was there to literally bring color into the space but not the knowledge and voice that comes with it,” she said in an interview.
She added: “We all were routinely silenced and not given a meaningful chance on the campaign. Complaints, comments, advice, and grievances were met with an earnest shake of the head and progressive buzzwords but not much else.” A third former field organizer who was also granted anonymity said those descriptions matched her own experience.
It’s almost as if they were employees of the campaign, and not the candidate.
Or is that a crazy way to look at it?
Or is that a crazy way to look at it?
In a sane world, no. And when has Elizabeth Warren ever been campaigning on establishing or maintaining a sane world? Sorry, but this is the sort of nonsense that Warren would be salivating to impose on employers en masse. Except she expects to be able to operate by different rules.
With Elizabeth Warren? 😀
Seriously she’s a tone deaf deceitful fascist who hates humanity.
Her organization has to be full of people three standard-deviations more toxic than the average human being.
She’s done. I wouldn’t poke her with SF’s fork.
Missed it by *that much*. :-p
Drugs. Ass. Fallen.
Tough. Fucking. Crowd. You guys.
Hey, at least you didn’t get:
Testicles. Shot.
Sure he died from the Coronavirus.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/doctor-sounded-alarm-coronavirus-dies
If there was no coronavirus, he wouldn’t have died.
Radioactive coronavirus or is that just the Russian version. Yes I’m being cynical but with the Chinese communists party running things these conspiracy theories are not so far fetched.
worse than radioactive, coronavirus saturated with carbon dioxide.
Aw, that was nice of them. ?
He did die from the coronavirus, the forced labor probably didn’t help either.
“feed a cold, slave the flu”, right?
Well, he died, then came back to life, then died again: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795
I’m really not sure why I posted that link without reading your link. I blame Trump.
Maybe he died from testing a vaccine. One or more bullets applied by injection. ‘Possible side effects include death.’
Will his organs wind up in the transplant supply?
Warren’s campaign did not dispute the women’s accounts but suggested they do not reflect a broader problem within her large, 31-state organization.
“We strive for an inclusive environment and work hard to learn and improve,” Warren campaign spokesperson Kristen Orthman said in a statement. “We have an organization of more than a thousand people, and whenever we hear concerns, we take them seriously. It’s important that everyone who is part of our team has a voice and can be heard. That’s why we are proud that we have a unionized staff and clear processes for issues to be addressed.”
We have a plan for that.
I was on the fence before, but now I know Warren’s staff are represented by a union. and they have a clear process for litigating workplace issues…
Who wouldn’t want a unionized White House?
SOTU, in 8 minutes, Nancy is a witch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0YcxtSvDsc
Yusef, I’m worried enough about you that I dreamed about you.
Thank you?
It’s nice, and creepy all at once…
Would you be T?
Would I be the whut now?
I met you all too briefly* in a dark bar in the tri-state area. Then I had to fly off on other official dream business. Drinks were on me though.
*platonically
Tall Cans!
Funny. I think about the people here much more than I should. It’s usually giggle-fits at work. The founders mined a vein of pure gold.
the MAIN vein ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFLw26BjDZs
And you too. Don’t get me started.
That is, Festus, pacifically.
I guess it would be more efficient to list the glibs I don’t worry about.
1. ______
I don’t mean to sound creepy. I just haven’t slept soundly in weeks.
“The Dragon stirred in its slumber, one eye opening and nictating whilst the commentariat froze on the instant! The heavy lid closed with a clap and shits and giggles commenced once again…”
A type of black fungi that eats radiation was discovered inside the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
IN CONCERT, Juvember 16th
Black Fungi
I know a black fungi. We have a good time hanging out together.
Life… finds a way.
Bill Weld is running on the carbon tax to combat climate change.
I think I found a reason to vote in the GOP primary next month.
And how is it every Mass. GOP governor is a piece of shit?
LOL
Oh fuck him and the Hillary-powered broomstick he rode in on.
Because they have to be Democrats to win in Mass.
And, it’s Mass. So wicked-duh!
Those “Dinosaur Milfs” are alllriiight!
I think only one of my Grandkids is still age-appropriate to watch that show.
“@AOC on America’s rags-to-riches ideal: “It’s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces? It’s physically impossible. The whole thing is a joke.””
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1225506336781357057
She’s the gift that keeps on giving.
I picture her father changing his name and moving to Bolivia.
I picture her father changing his name and moving to Bolivia.
That would be impressive. He’s dead.
He faked his own death so he couldn’t be tracked as he moved to Bolivia.
Congresswoman doesn’t understand the concept of a metaphor.
I think she understands it perfectly but is trying to “cleverly” push her commie agenda.
The gist of your comment is probably accurate, but AOC has never understood anything perfectly in her life.
Half-witted anime character come to life.
Congresswoman is accustomed to the media treating her every utterance as Buckleyesque.
“Right?”
For Thomas Friedman, and all those of his ilk who believe authoritarians can be trusted, take a look at what this doctor (the poor bastard) wrote privately:
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/06/chinese-doctor-who-warned-about-coronavirus-outbreak-dead/
What? These drugs keep falling out my ass?
Just looked upthread. *signals to the scoring table to flag self for the foul*
Just joshin’ Chafed.
Self flagellation is very Opus Dei.
Update: Aurora, CO police officer who was passed out drunk in car in the middle of the road will not be charged:
https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/da-investigation-into-aurora-officer-found-drunk-in-patrol-car/73-0d87509d-6122-44d9-afc3-adff7d9dcc18
Turns out the police who responded did not properly collect enough evidence. The guy was so passed out the responding officers had to carry him.
“According to a police report, Meier’s Ford Taurus’ engine was running, the car was in gear and his foot was on the brake. Responding officers said he was wearing his uniform and had his service weapon on him.”
……
““There was no attempt ever to seek Meier’s blood,” [DA] Brauchler said. “His blood alcohol would have calculated out to .430. That is significantly intoxicated.””
Jesus. Google tells me:
“0.40% is the accepted lethal dose for about 50% of adult humans. However, in rare cases a very heavy long time drinker may be able to more than double that number.”
Once, after doing a face-plant in my kitchen after the local ‘restaurant week’ (Buckeye Vodka was just opening, and was freely pouring samples), I presented at my VA emergency room with a reported 0.42 BAC. Aside from the blood pouring from my nose, I was quite ambulatory.
Pics available upon request.
*addendum- I was driven to the ER, and didnt have a loaded firearm in the car, nor was I a uniformed cop
You’ve got me beat. I busted my leg and blew 0.35. I bow to my more drunken overlord.
Oh , mine was blood tested, not breath. And no need to bow- Im not (very) proud of it.
After all, it was only the 3rd time my nose has been broken
3rd? Piker…
My ne’er-do-well Step-son just got booked for impaired. Fell asleep behind the wheel while parked at the convenience store. He has a history of narcolepsy and has been hearing impaired since birth. Fucking dummy was going to fail all the balance tests (he doesn’t drink) but he never thought to call home. He probably shouldn’t be behind the wheel but WHY did he not demand a blood test? It was only for 24 hours but his car still was impounded. Poor kid sounds kinda drunk or stoned at the best of times. Everything’s coming up Walter! Still a virginal being so far as I know. Guess who’ll be paying for this.
Do you…have to do something about it? I mean, if he’s well past the years of misspent early adulthood and still making you throw bad money after good, helping him might not necessarily be helping him.
So those officers in charge of the investigation will get fired and banned from further work in law enforcement, right?
Protected and served.
Ah, that’s better.