It Looks Like Donald Trump Will Finally Be Indicted Later Today
Plus: Debating whether GPT-4 actually understands language, U.S. immigration law stops a college basketball star from scoring, and more...
Former President Donald Trump arrived in New York City on Monday evening ahead of an expected criminal indictment on Tuesday, marking the first time in American history that a former president will be arraigned in a court of law.
The important part of Tuesday's drama will unfold inside the Manhattan Criminal Courts Building, where Trump will stand before state Judge Juan Merchan to hear the charges against him read aloud for the first time—and, presumably, to enter a "not guilty" plea.
The grand jury's indictment against Trump remains sealed for now, though the charges are expected to be connected to Trump's payment of $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement signed in 2016. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is bringing the charges against Trump, does not have the authority to tag the former president with a campaign finance violation, but instead seems to be targeting Trump for falsifying business records. CNN reported last week that Trump faces more than 30 criminal counts, and Yahoo! News reported on Monday night that the former president is facing 34 counts of falsifying business records. (Both reports were based on information provided by unidentified sources, who may have also committed crimes by leaking the confidential results of a grand jury proceeding.)
There won't be any cameras allowed in the courtroom on Tuesday, but that won't stop the day from being a media circus. The madness got underway on Monday, as cable news outlets provided live coverage of Trump's motorcade as it traveled from LaGuardia Airport to Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan.
"I know that media critics are taking issue with the way that that a lot of news networks are covering this, but I have to say you know, as we watch Donald Trump's limo drive on the fdr this is unprecedented." pic.twitter.com/zVIRpBdZSh
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 3, 2023
Outside the courthouse, the New York City Police Department is reportedly preparing for protests, and steel barricades have been erected around the courthouse. After the news broke last month that charges against Trump were likely, the former president used his Truth Social account to call for protests against his arrest. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R–Ga.) is one of the Trump diehards who may be in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Despite the historic spectacle that Tuesday's indictment will certainly be, it's just the first step in what could be a lengthy legal process. One of Trump's top attorneys told CNN last weekend that the first real action will likely be a motion from Trump's defense team to have the charges dismissed. If the prosecution survives that, it'll still have an uphill battle to prove what looks like a shaky case against Trump, as Reason's Jacob Sullum explained last week:
There was nothing inherently criminal about paying off Daniels or McDougal. Those payments become criminal only by construing them as illegal campaign contributions. Although that is how federal prosecutors interpreted the law in Cohen's case, they conspicuously declined to charge Trump under the same theory. Manhattan prosecutors under Bragg's predecessor for years mulled the possibility of building a state case based on the same conduct and ultimately decided it would not fly.
Bragg's reconsideration of that conclusion reeks of desperation to punish a reviled political opponent, which is exactly how Trump and his supporters are portraying it. When you decide to make history by prosecuting a former president, especially when that former president is seeking that office again by running against an incumbent who is a member of your own party, you had better have a solid case involving serious crimes. Bragg, who is relying on debatable facts, untested legal theories, and allegations that are tawdry but far from earthshaking, does not seem to have such a case.
But, of course, the ultimate upshot to Trump's indictment is that it provides an opportunity to make a buck. Politicians and would-be elected officials on all sides of the situation will surely use Tuesday's events as the basis for outraged/elated fundraising requests. Trump's campaign is already considering selling T-shirts, hats, and other merchandise featuring the former president's forthcoming mug shot, according to a report in Rolling Stone.
Maybe the biggest winner in all of this—maybe the only winner—is Ronald Solomon, who runs a pop-up store in West Palm Beach, Florida, selling Trump-related paraphilia. On Monday, The Washington Post caught up with Solomon in a strip mall parking lot as he was selling flags and hats to Trump supporters who lined the route of Trump's airport-bound motorcade as it departed from Mar-a-Lago.
"I haven't even finished setting up, and I've already made $300," Solomon told the Post. "Business is booming ever since they came up with that boneheaded indictment. The merchandise has been flying out of here."
Honestly, good for him.
FREE MINDS
Does the artificial intelligence behind the GPT-4 program actually understand language? Yes, but also no, say the co-authors of a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. One of the authors talked to the science magazine Nautilus about what the findings mean:
There's a kind of understanding which is just coordination. For example, I could say, "Can you pass me the spoon?" And you'd say, "Here it is." And I say, "Well, you understood me!" Because we coordinated. That's not the same as generative or constructive understanding, where I say to you, "I'm going to teach you some calculus, and you get to use that knowledge on a problem that I haven't yet told you about." That goes beyond coordination. It's like: Here's the math—now apply it in your life. …
I'd make a big distinction between super-functional and intelligent. Let me use the following analogy: No one would say that a car runs faster than a human. They would say that a car can move faster on an even surface than a human. So it can complete a function more effectively, but it's not running faster than a human. One of the questions here is whether we're using "intelligence" in a consistent fashion. I don't think we are.
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Adama Sanogo was named Most Outstanding Player as his University of Connecticut Huskies defeated the San Diego State Aztecs on Monday night to win the men's NCAA championship, but Sanogo will miss out on potentially lucrative endorsement deals because he's from Mali and U.S. immigration law is full of dumb wrinkles. Reason's Fiona Harrigan explains:
The NCAA used to bar all college athletes from making money off their names, images, and likenesses. But since a 2021 rule change, they have been eligible to earn money through endorsement deals, social media activity, and paid appearances. The NCAA had long viewed college athletes as amateurs, but the policy change—quite sensibly—recognized that students deserved to be paid as professionals. In the first year of name, image, and likeness arrangements, Opendorse, a technological platform for these deals, estimated that college athletes made $917 million. Three-quarters of all NCAA athletes had engaged in the market from July 2021 to July 2022.
But international students largely operate in "a gray zone" in American immigration law when it comes to endorsements, says James Hollis, an immigration attorney at Siskind Susser, PC who has previously advised professional sports organizations on visa matters. "Students, schools, and their lawyers are all operating within the standard student visa framework," Hollis tells Reason. College athletes are largely in the U.S. on F-1 visas, which place tough restrictions on work. "The student visa rules say that student athletes can work part time on campus, can work if authorized as part of the curriculum…and can work after one academic year if they can demonstrate they're experiencing economic hardship," says Hollis.
Sanogo's American-born teammates will be able to cash in on UConn's national championship, but the most important player on the team will have to continue begging the federal government for his chance to do the same. It's March Madness, alright, but not in a fun way.
QUICK HITS
• Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen have been named as the crew for the Artemis 2 mission, which aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972.
• A hotly contested Supreme Court election in Wisconsin could flip the ideological majority on the seven-member bench, potentially affecting future rulings on abortion, redistricting, and election rules in the political bellwether state.
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed a bill allowing Floridians to carry a gun without a permit.
• Former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman, a Democrat, is back and pushing a plan for a "common-sense, moderate, independent platform" third-party presidential bid in 2024—but don't believe it until you see it.
• Happy 50th anniversary to the first cellphone call, made from a Sixth Avenue sidewalk in New York City.
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Former President Donald Trump arrived in New York City on Monday evening ahead of an expected criminal indictment on Tuesday…
The beginning of the end of the walls closing in.
IS THIS A TIPPING POINT?
This is absolutely insane. They published Trump’s itinerary…
https://twitter.com/DolioJ/status/1643240810953990144?t=w7jhdlgQv4EPtRDhu34jTg&s=19
This is media trying to prompt an attack.
They give the most likely motorcade route and mention the crazy crowd at the side entrance.
They’re hoping someone acts on this.
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I’ve been saying for years that the media is in no way a legitimate press. They don’t practice journalism, and exist solely to act as the propaganda arm of the DNC. So they should be destroyed as an existential threat to our lives and freedoms. They’re certainly a threat to Trump’s life today.
Is Ray Epps in the crowd? How about FBI?
but you repeat yourself
One word for this is arepas
ORANGE JUMP SUIT!
Where does the jumpsuit end and the man begin!?!?!
And is the jump suit bad too?
Mine’s a bit short in the body and therefore is kinda binding against the boys, so yeah, I’d say it’s not great.
BOMBSHELL!
Will Trump’s Arraignment Be Broadcast Live? No—the judge overseeing the case ruled Monday that no news cameras or electronics like cell phones and laptops will be allowed in the courtroom during Trump’s arraignment, though news outlets will be allowed to take photos for a few minutes before the arraignment begins. moving furniture
Finally!!!?
Would a Chinese spy balloon be able to help?
Maybe the biggest winner in all of this—maybe the only winner—is Ronald Solomon, who runs a pop-up store in West Palm Beach, Florida, selling Trump-related paraphilia..
“Paraphilia”? Isn’t that some freaky sex fetish? What is this man selling? Well-done, hand-tenderized vagina-shaped steaks with ketchup? Tiny mushroom butt-plugs? Rubber-sheeted mattresses?
🙂 😉
I think ENB was engaged in what’s called a
typotypicalgraphical error. Obviously too much into her sex worker beat.🙂
Boehm did the Roundup this morning, so make of that what you will. 😉
Oh, I see. I didn’t notice the by-line. Maybe he’s wanting ENB’s sex worker beat.
😉
ENB too hung over from celebrating.
I’m sure beta cuck husband’s balls are drained from watching her get drunkenly triple penetrated by pre op trannies.
Pre Op Trannies would be a good band name.
For a punk band, ‘pre op tranny triple penetration’ would be best. They could tour with ‘the airtight girls’.
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What would Brian Boitano do if he were here today?
A backflip?
It is West Palm Beach…
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…Trump will stand before state Judge Juan Merchan to hear the charges against him read aloud for the first time—and, presumably, to enter a “not guilty” plea.
I JUST CAME.
Clean up on aisle 3!
Judges daughter had an internship with kamala Harris.
What skills did she learn?
Word salads or activities on your knees. Not sure.
Tossed word salads, of course!
🙂
I just sniffed a woman’s hair in the checkout line at Walmart. Just to calm my nerves, mind you.
Was it near the Jello Pudding in the Baking section or the Boost in Pharmacy?
🙂
…the charges are expected to be connected to Trump’s payment of $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement signed in 2016.
Hush money is illegal now??? I’m sorry, I thought this was America.
Don’t be silly, the Federal Government pays hush money on behalf of elected officials all the time.
No, real criminality is when the NY Prosecutor disagrees about which column your accountant decided to record the check under.
Avoiding paying Medicare taxes on book income and speaking fees by routing $13.3 million through “S corporations” totally isn’t criminality though.
It’s not.
It technically is of they don’t pay out enough as income to the share holders. It can’t be used to solely change tax structure.
Right, but realistically if he wasn’t the owner what would his salary be? That’s the test.
If I had an employee that generated 13M in revenue I don’t know how I could argue I’d pay them less than 1.3M in salary, and realistically it would be something between 10-20% of revenue generated after bonus if I wanted to keep them. Not sure how the IRS comes up with their argument; I’ve never seen them audit that even if that’s constantly mentioned as the biggest risk to S-Corp owner-operators.
I believe in Joe’s case the salary is considered far out of norm based on estimated time he was employed as the CEO. Has to be the relevant pay for the position and his “salary” was US average if I remember.
Congress even has a fund for hush money.
It’s only legal when it’s members of congress using taxpayer money
“…I’m sorry, I thought this was America.”
It was until the swamp-critters were scared out of their wits.
I know you are better informed about this case than to repeat that erroneous talking point. Even the blog post above explains that the charges around about falsification of business records (… yawn …).
Unfortunately for you, the prosecution is gonna have a hard time proving your claim. You know better than that.
To be fair, Liarson doesn’t actually know shit. He just pukes up the pablum fed to him by his democrat masters.
My claim? As I have said before, I think this prosecution is a bad idea. The case is very weak.
And, as I indicated in the very comment you are replying to, I think the charges are not only weak, but boring.
Mike. What is the 2nd part of the statute. Is it to defraud? Who was he defrauding? Is there anything you wont simp the left for?
He isn’t a wimp for the left, he’s a gimp for the left.
I’ve seen a bunch of people bringing up the $850 grand that Bubba Clinton paid Paula Jones, but that’s not really hush money, since her story was already widely known. I’d call that “I don’t want to risk a jury awarding her every red cent I’ll ever have in my life” money.
-jcr
The payment included an NDA.
But preparing and getting somebody’s signature on an NDA totally wasn’t a legal matter, thus the ‘fraud’.
If the prosecution survives that, it’ll still have an uphill battle to prove what looks like a shaky case against Trump…
If Bragg thinks the process will be the punishment here, I have a feeling he has another think coming.
I would have thought the change of venue might upset Bragg more. No way the trial can possibly be held in Manhattan.
Not with this judge. It’s speculated that the DA’s office timed the indictment specifically to catch this judge because he’s the worst possible option for Trump. He’s a former prosecutor, and he already overhead the case against the Trump Organization last year. He held the company in contempt of court basically throughout that trial because the prosecution claimed they were hiding evidence.
I doubt this guy is letting this case escape his courtroom, he wants to preside over Trump.
Will essentially guarantee a loss in an appeals court. Zero possibility of a fair trial.
He would also go through the appeals system in New York, though. Don’t underestimate the amount of TDS in the New York court system.
Honestly, good for him.
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If the prosecution survives that, it’ll still have an uphill battle to prove what looks like a shaky case against Trump
It doesn’t have to. Trump has to prove his innocence.
The constitution doesn’t apply to Orange Man,
He’s obviously guilty of being Donald Trump! All else is commentary.
One more example of extreme cuntitude on Pelosi’s part.
-jcr
That’s fine, every democrat has to individually prove they have a right to exist, or face summery execution.
“selling Trump-related paraphilia”
Funny typo?
Wondering that too. I think you can get paraphilia for free! Or maybe it’s a counterpart to TDS.
SPB reference.
I was gonna say…
paraphernalia for paraphilia 🙂
Gee, weren’t you going to go away and stay away? Please do; you’re an obnoxiously arrogant and stupid pile of shit.
Probably a Freudian slip. Understandable, as it’s likely Boehm had to type this roundup one handed, if you know what I mean.
Well, Boehm did seem a bit giddy in the Roundup text about Trump’s arraignment.
He did that strategically but ENTHUSIASTICALLY!
See my entry above. And save the page before ENB catches it.
🙂
Or rather Boehm. I’m so used to ENB doing the sexy stuff, I automatically assumed it was her. And we know happens when you ASSUME:
Benny Hill Assume
https://youtu.be/bPsg42EKJic
And from Under Siege 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rr88Szc5q0
ChatGPT will even falsely accuse people of sexual assault.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/04/03/chatgpt-misinformation-bias-flaws-ai-chatbot/11571830002/
And will make up false citations to back up its claims.
So it is a journalist?
Believe all AI!
Only if your PC is female.
It wouldn’t be PC if it weren’t female.
But how do you know? I mean, if you’re not a biologist.
Wow, it’s become America’s Newspaper of Record too. No need for that expensive New York Times subscription anymore.
https://graboyes.substack.com/p/the-talented-doctor-ripley-gpt
is one example of this
Sounds like it’s a troll bot. You know, the idiots who post links to bolster credibility in whatever they’re saying, assuming nobody will actually go and read the references.
Whether right or wrong in the conclusion, false support for its claims is disturbing.
Believe all robots
Fembots?
Not the fembots.
Can’t believe them.
Violent fembots.
But, of course, the ultimate upshot to Trump’s indictment is that it provides an opportunity to make a buck
Okay, wait, hard stop. I was with you on everything up until that statement, Boehm. The ultimate upshot here is something far more sinister-the weaponization (or, if you’re more skeptical, the potential weaponization) of the criminal justice to target a political opponent and a leading presidential candidate for an upcoming election. This is a marker of banana republics and authoritarian regimes all over the globe and it’s now infested the heart of supposed liberalism.
The upshot is huge-it may open the door for more political prosecutions as retribution, it may undermine the legitimacy of several upcoming elections, it denigrates the rule of law in our country. Saying that people will “make a buck” out of this historic occasion almost sounds like cynical anti-capitalist rhetoric somehow shoved into what has the potential to be a fiasco for American legitimacy.
Remember when the previous president was impeached for even suggesting that his potential political rival be investigated for corruption?
The hilarious part of that impeachment is that Trump didn’t actually suggest and Biden really was involved in selling access.
A banana republic, if you can keep it.
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And a few thousand leftists in every landfill!
(Too far?)
How many landfills are we talking about?
Thousands, if needed. To be clear, if the democrats are willing to offer their complete and unconditional surrender, including the abandonment of all public office, both elected and appointed, then no harm should come to them. That would be the preferred solution.
At the end of the day, I don’t care if they leave town on their horde, or slung over the back of it. So long as they give up and go away, forever.
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That was not what he was impeached for. In case you’ve forgotten – or didn’t care – he was impeached for withholding funds already apportioned by Congress for military aid to Ukraine for personal political gain, and then for obstructing the inquiry into his actions.
Which their own evidence clearly exonerated him of. What a joke the last six years have been.
Had Biden even announced his intention to run in August/September? If not, he couldn’t have even politically gained from it.
British shrike, pushing the leftist narratives so reason doesn’t have to.
Nothing leftist about posting an accurate correction. I did not make any statement about the validity or otherwise of the charges, only what he was impeached for. Perhaps reality is too much for you, so you confuse reality with being a leftist.
Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath. Didn’t stop people like you gov’na claiming he was impeached for sex.
“People like me”? There is no-one like me, nor have I ever said that, so stop with your bullshit.
But do you agree that Minadin was wrong about what Trump was impeached for?
And that’s why he was exonerated, since he hadn’t done that. Biden, on the other hand, is on video bragging about doing exactly that.
-jcr
If you are referring to Trump, he was impeached for trying to extort Ukraine. And then for inciting a riot at the Capitol.
So impeached for things that didn’t happen in both cases.
“…This is a marker of banana republics and authoritarian regimes all over the globe and it’s now infested the heart of supposed liberalism…”
Most banana republics aren’t as blatant as this; a very sad day.
The ultimate upshot here is something far more sinister-the weaponization (or, if you’re more skeptical, the potential weaponization) of the criminal justice to target a political opponent and a leading presidential candidate for an upcoming election.
Bingo. And the fact that they’re so open and blatant about it just means that they believe they’ll never be held accountable for it, and unfortunately they’re probably right about that.
The dude actually ran his campaign on the promise of finding a crime to prosecute Trump for. And he’s not the only one.
I swear someone needs to hang a Gerard David painting up in the NYC City hall.
Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen have been named as the crew for the Artemis 2 mission…
Which one is the trans person of color?
I don’t know, but iirc NASA announced that the next Moon landing would involve a woman and a POC.
The sad part for those two astronauts is that forever after people are going to think they earned their place by filling the checkboxes on a NASA DEI statement.
Token astronauts! What an honor…
Because that’s what they did
“Welcome to your first day of Moon Landing 2028 orientation. May I present your two diversity hires who will be running the critical safety operations of your mission…”
Whenever NASA does these PR stunts it never ends well for the astronauts.
So if they have a black transwoman they can tick those boxes and still have room for three good astronauts, *and* not need to worry about plumbing variants.
We’ll have to wait and see… One or more of them may “make the change” when they enter into the TRANS-Lunar-Orbital INJECTION burn!!!
The three Americans have each spent more than five months on the station in one stint (Koch spent almost 11 months, a record for a woman). This flight should be a bit shorter.
The total Artemis mission journey is expected to last about 10 days.
Was an abortionist available, just in case?
Whichever one can’t do math. Probably the biologist.
A better DEI first: actual transition in space!
Well they’re all past puberty so it wouldn’t impress Shackford.
Trannies…….. in………spaaaasccccceeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Koch/Glover mission is going to sell so many T-shirts. I guess NASA couldn’t find a Hugh/Jass team or a Harry/Butz team.
Gov. RON DESANTIS on Monday signed into law a bill that lets people carry guns without a permit and without any training.
Now Florida will be even *more* of a bloodbath!
Not just a bloodbath, a permitless, untrained bloodbath!
You left out MAGA, or whatever the DeathSantis version is called this week.
An anti-trans bloodbath, second only to Nashville.
Looks like the trannys are ready for this. At least according to Auntie Fae.
Fire the transphobic torpedoes!
So it this, then, finally, the eagerly awaited “Drag Queen Stormy Daniels Hour” that I’ve heard SOOO much about?
I do have to hang my head in shame these days, and ‘fess up to being old, over the hill, and out of touch!
Butt… Now what IS this deal about “Drag Queen Stormy Daniels Hour” who-haaa thingee anyway?!?!? Is or was she the Queen of Dragging men (against their will and utmost efforts at self-control) into her lady-parts bear-trap “Snatch, I gotcha” device? What can one DO to resist her contriving and cuntriving mind control?
Does GREAT world-ass-class POETRY fend off her mind cuntrol? Doesn’t hurt to try, right?
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Never mind, us all, He’ll disgrace!
Conservatards, above all, MUST save face!
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed a bill allowing Floridians to carry a gun without a permit.
Fascist.
That’s fascist meatball to you.
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Former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman, a Democrat, is back and pushing a plan for a “common-sense, moderate, independent platform” third-party presidential bid in 2024—but don’t believe it until you see it.
Independent of the elites? LOL
Happy 50th anniversary to the first cell phone call, made from a Sixth Avenue sidewalk in New York City.
“Watson — send a selfie — I want to see you.”
It was a dick pic.
Figures a Biden was involved. I am sure Joe remembers that day.
I am sure Joe remembers that day.
Can’t remember much else but everyone remembers sending their first dick pic.
It Looks Like Donald Trump Will Finally Be Indicted Later Today
Donnie not El Presidente’ for Life?
No, only Obama is.
Demotion from the Messiah?
That title was reserved for FDR.
You were banned for posting links to child pornography. Eat shit and die
Morning Shrike, yesterday you thought the charges were erroneously related to tax evasion.
Have you since learned what they were about?
turd learned about little boys’ bottoms once, and that is the extent of turd’s ‘learning’.
No, I HOPE they are (or tax fraud). I said that yesterday.
We should know today.
I will celebrate only if the charges are much more substantial than “hush money”.
Remember that turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
“I will celebrate only if the charges are much more substantial than “hush money”.
They’re not for hush money either. Congress has a whole slush fund for paying hush money. It’s completely legal.
Try again.
I’ll celebrate when you get SWATted for being a child molester.
Turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, a TDS-addled shit-pile and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
As seen out of the corner of my eye: a video clip of Biden saying that the purpose of prosecuting Trump is to prevent him from ever taking power.
Did anyone who was actually paying attention see this clip? Is it a fake (it sounds too on-the-nose to be real).
Only SleepyJoe can get away with stuff like that.
Too on the nose… like when Joe Biden bragged about his vote fraud team? Like when he touted the Inflation Reduction Act as the most massive environmentalist law ever? Like when he held up trannies as the soul of the nation immediately after a tranny shot up a school? Like when he read non-speaking cues off the teleprompter?
Or like when Pelosi said Trump would win on election day but then they’d “find the votes” needed to give Biden victory? Or like when Pelosi’s daughter said RBG’s last words were that a new president must be “installed”? Or when Time magazine wrote an article about an oligarchic cabal ensuring the “correct” outcome of the election?
And there are a lot of examples I’ve left out here.
Think we’re long past anything being too on the nose.
They tell us their goals are to make our lives worse pretty directly.
Perhaps Joe’s senility has entered the autistically honest phase, at least between creative memory anecdotes.
Why do we allow the left to exist? Seriously, how much is it going to take before we band together and get rid of them?
Honestly, it would take a lot because most people are just trying to survive and hoping things will get better. Same as it always is, until it’s too late and the governments droning you or rounding you and your family up.
Yes, is this it?
Biden: “We just have to demonstrate he’ll not take power. But if he does run we’ll make sure under legitimate efforts of constitution doesn’t not become next president again.”
Saying the quiet part out loud
Biden all but confirmed that his team is coordinating these Trump indictments to “stop Trump from taking power again”.
What are they so afraid of?
Losing power; having their whole operation exposed?
Same thing that frightened them so badly that they invented “Russian Collusion”, impeached him twice on evidence that actually completely exonerated him, and forced them to fraud an election…
Withdrawal from NATO and the globalist projects, and cutting off the money hose to the military-industrial complex.
Didn’t he propose spending increases for the MIC?
That he might (again) not start any new wars? That he might not help Ukraine and they’ll lose that particular money laundering opportunity? That we might once again have an economy as strong as it was in 2019? Take your pick, any one of those would be horrible outcomes for certain people.
No it was not fake.
You can tell by the syntax. Or lack thereof.
Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen have been named as the crew for the Artemis 2 mission, which aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972.
I believe space exploration is extremely valuable. There’s all manners of research we can do on space stations we can’t do on earth, it’s worth every bit of progress we can make toward establishing a Martian colony, and anything that helps humanity be prepared to avert large-object collisions are worthwhile endeavors.
I can’t see any value at all in another manned mission to the moon, much less a government funded one. If there was some kind of value in it, I suspect private companies would be working on it. If anyone sees anything of use we can gain from this, please explain to me what the heck it is.
There isn’t any. Nothing NASA does any more has much value – at least when it comes to the crewed missions.
Remotely operated telescopes are doing more ‘science’ that the ISS. Nobody even knows what they’re doing up there.
I think at a minimum, having manned missions continues providing evidence and information we can use for more long-range space exploration. At some point we absolutely should send a manned mission to Mars, so continued practice in sending manned spacecraft out and keeping people alive beyond earth’s atmosphere is at least tangentially preparing us to do that some day. I can’t say exactly what tangible information we’ve gained, but I think we’ve learned a great deal from the folly of the space shuttles.
I just don’t see any value in actually putting more bootprints on the moon. There’s nothing more to be learned from it.
The moon would be a useful launching pad for deep space missions.
Explain how, though. It has no resources of its own we can exploit to send us deeper.
In order to land on the moon, you have to accelerate toward it, but then start decelerating, expending extra energy, in order to land on it-it doesn’t have an atmosphere like Earth that will naturally slow down a spacecraft approaching to land on it. Then you have to have sufficient force to launch and escape back from lunar gravity. There’s no fuel there, so you have to take the fuel with you in order to land, and more fuel to take back off.
Instead of doing that, you could just save the resources this pit-stop costs you and launch directly from Earth, because you’ll have to leave Earth’s atmosphere regardless whether you stop or not, and the same acceleration you use to escape Earth’s gravity can point you in the direction of your final destination-assuming it’s Mars.
We didn’t need to use the moon as a starting point for the Mars Pathfinder, nor any of the subsequent Mars rovers we have sent out. That is, we’re already to reach Mars without detouring to the moon.
Just saying it’s a useful launchpad without explaining WHY we need a launchpad or what value it has as a launchpad that compensates for the enormous resource cost of using it as a launchpad is not helpful.
There are resources both known and unknown that could be fuel sources.
Very helpful indeed.
It would require moving a whole mining and manufacturing base to the moon.
Nope.
Half the dv to get anywhere is simply getting into orbit.
Once in orbit there is, literally, no reason to go back down into a gravity well if any type.
At some point we absolutely should send a manned mission to Mars, so continued practice in sending manned spacecraft out and keeping people alive beyond earth’s atmosphere is at least tangentially preparing us to do that some day.
In the exact same vein as bootprints on the Moon, IMO; more adversity within Earth’s atmosphere that we aren’t anywhere near as successful at dealing with with much lower cost:
Longest stay on the ISS: 340 days.
Longest submarine patrol: 140 days.
Longest total cumulative stay of visitor to Antarctica: 14 yrs.
NASA has not learned anything from the folly of the space shuttle.
They don’t have to make money, they just have to know how to manipulate politicians
And if that means another shuttle, they’ll build another shuttle – who cares if it works!
Nobody even knows what they’re doing up there.
Hiding from COVID.
We are running out of green cheese and need to mine some from the moon
A broken fridge on a hot Summer day could provide that.
it’s worth every bit of progress we can make toward establishing a Martian colony
If for no other reason than it gives some of us a potential escape hatch. I know I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
I can’t see any value at all in another manned mission to the moon
At one time there was talk about the possible benefits of building a huge interferometer telescope array on the lunar surface on the far side of the moon, or perhaps even turning a crater into a radio telescope? There could be some potential benefits there, although land based telescope arrays are getting better and better, so it’s likely that by the time an interferometer telescope array could be built on the moon there will be Earth based ones that are just as good even with the atmospheric effects, so who know?
Also, it’s debatable how much human presence on the moon would be required to build something like that. I suppose there could be some need to send humans out to effect repairs on it, but building and operating could probably mostly be done robotically and remotely from here.
Maybe resource exploitation but right now there’s no resourced on the moon that aren’t still abundantly available from Earth. There’s possible water in some of the permanently shaded craters on the moon’s south pole that could be mined and turned into rocket fuel for trips to Mars (the benefit being that you would only need enough fuel to get from the Earth to the moon and then top off the fuel at the moon before heading to Mars – much easier to get the fuel out of the moon’s gravity well than Earth’s). But again, how much human effort would really be required for that or could that be done by robots as well?
So… yeah probably nothing.
The moon is a harsh mistress. RAH.
Just put them in orbit.
Around the sun. Baseline of multiple AU.
The Moon does share Elements in common with Earth. If any of those Elements include Uranium, Radium, Cobalt, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Titanium, Nickel, Lithium, etc. it would be like a grocery store for other outer space missions.
By the time NASA gets back to the moon, SpaceX will have hotels there.
The moon would make a good staging ground for a Mars or Belt mission.
99.9%…
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/04/no-keir-starmer-women-still-dont-have-penises/
In an interview with The Times at the weekend, Starmer stated categorically that ‘trans rights can’t override women’s rights’. So does this mean that Starmer is finally seeing sense on ‘the woman question’? Has he finally recognised the importance of biological sex and of upholding sex-based rights?
Not quite. Immediately after this, Starmer said: ‘For 99.9 per cent of women… of course, they haven’t got a penis.’ In other words, according to the man who could become the UK’s next prime minister, potentially one in 1,000 women could have a penis.
About the same ratio in porno movies.
Or so I’m told.
The penises in question are inside their vaginas.
A penis should never be in question.
Didn’t Lorena Bobbitt have a penis for a little while?
Yes, but it was detachable.
Obligatory.
A dick in the hand is worth 2 in the bush?
good flick.
Well if a woman can have a penis, a politician can have no balls.
To be honest, most politicians have no balls; even the men.
Aiding & abetting self-harm.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/04/schools-are-colluding-in-childrens-self-harm/
Nowadays, to merely fart in the vicinity of a school usually earns you a suspicious side-eye. Most educational institutions are now surrounded by reams of safeguarding policies and eight-foot fences. Yet despite this, a new report from the Policy Exchange think-tank shows that children are being repeatedly let down by safeguarding failures. Disturbingly, this threat to youngsters comes not from sinister groomers outside the school gates, but from ideologically blinkered staff, and from specialist trainers who have been invited inside.
“Renfield, turn on the Laudanum for we shall begin the removal of vital organs from the children”
*lightning flash and thunder boom, followed by pipe organ music*
Stunning and brave.
Renfield: So we’re going to use Laudanum?
Stunning and Brave scientist: We’re not animals, Renfield!
“It’s not like they’re a bunch of fuckin’ fags hoppin’ around in rented formal wear and seducing everybody in sight with cheesy Euro-trash accents, all right? Forget whatever you’ve seen in the movies: they don’t turn into bats, crosses don’t work. Garlic? You wanna try garlic? You could stand there with garlic around your neck and one of these buggers will bend you fucking over and take a walk up your strada-chocolata while he’s suckin’ the blood outta your neck, all right? And they don’t sleep in coffins lined in taffeta. You wanna kill one? You drive a wooden stake right through his fucking heart. Sunlight turns them into crispy critters. Got it?” – Jack Crow
Parody is obsolete, Exhibit #356
Trump could win the next election by doing nothing but showing Conservatives his mug shot every day, assuming there is one. Democrats haven’t yet figured out how dangerous this game is.
That’s Dilbert admitting he doesn’t understand the concept of Independents and swing voters.
#MugShotProbablyWontWinBackGeorgia
From the reporting I have seen, so far this breaks hard toward Trump among independents.
The key to that will be the final perception of the charges. Initially, even hard core progressives do not seem to actually believe the charges will be accurate or worthy of pursuit.
That could all change with some smoking gun evidence and an actual crime type crime at the end of the process. I doubt they have that though. And I doubt many Trump detractors will magically become unblinded to the corruption in the system, regardless.
It also ruins the other avenues of prosecution as people see these for what they are. Apparently the classified documents scandal is now focused solely on obstruction. And he didnt even destroy phones with a hammer.
Really?
At this point Trump is so toxic, the only factors I see helping him in 2024 are an environment so unfriendly for Democrats (economy gets worse, Biden’s health gets worse and / or Harris replaces him and has higher disapproval than Clinton) that any generic Republican might have a decent chance.
(And I leave “Ukraine gets worse” off the list because the Biden Admin. must realize sending Americans to die for that country would be disastrously unpopular.)
Really?
You’ve been told, consistently, that your view is slanted. Continuing to feign surprise continues to make you seem less genuinely surprised and more disingenuous.
And I leave “Ukraine gets worse” off the list because the Biden Admin. must realize sending Americans to die for that country would be disastrously unpopular.
And Joe Biden or the Biden administration would never do anything that’s disastrously unpopular? You sound like sarc or Tony.
Lick by balls you fucking liar. I’ve never defended the current administration, or any administration for that matter. Try telling the truth for once you piece of shit.
Yes you have. I even provided you the citations. Then you remuted me lol.
Even below you keep clapping along to j6 political trials like a good lefty.
All you ever do is attack anyone who criticizes the democrats you fucking pussy. No go run and hide, as usual.
Fucking little punk ass bitch.
Are you trying to compete with the Master Baiter and the Canadian Cunt for Liar of the Year?
You have never provided a single citation of your assertions.
“And Joe Biden or the Biden administration would never do anything that’s disastrously unpopular?”
There are policies that might have less than 50% support among all registered voters and that are still rational for Democrats to embrace: racial preferences, transwomen in women’s sports, elective 3rd trimester abortion. Because they fire up the Dem base.
Sending American soldiers to die for Ukraine isn’t in that category. Biden’s handlers have to realize voters will tolerate spending billions of dollars on Ukraine, but that sacrificing American lives there would be a gift to his 2024 opponent.
Sending American soldiers to die for Ukraine isn’t in that category.
Says who? You? Or the military experts in the administration who said there would be no issue postponing the withdrawal from Afghanistan until 9/1?
Biden’s handlers have to realize voters will tolerate spending billions of dollars on Ukraine, but that sacrificing American lives there would be a gift to his 2024 opponent.
OK, because the administration is aware enough to avoid the one stupid thing you think is too stupid for them to do, they aren’t stupid enough to do any one of a dozen other stupid things?
Are we working in reality, where shit, like leaked laptops and rogue AGs that even many democrats feel shouldn’t be taking action, happens and the administration has to respond even if they do so terribly or are we just assuming the administration controls it all already and would never get caught in such awkward situations?
“…You’ve been told, consistently, that your view is slanted…”
You’re too kind; she’s a TDS-addled pile of shit.
That could all change with some smoking gun evidence and an actual crime type crime at the end of the process.
Show me Trump, and I’ll find you the crime.
Independents surged towards Bill Clinton for a perceived political prosecution over sex.
^
History would seem to suggest that independents, generally speaking, aren’t big fans of politically motivated prosecutions and witch hunts, even if they don’t particularly like the target of said witch hunt. The Clinton prosecution wasn’t even as obvious a political prosecution as this is because the initial investigation was over him lying under oath at the Paula Jones civil trial, not just getting a hummer from a portly intern (insert “oval orifice” joke here). It was arguably the media’s constant focus on the sex scandal that turned into a political prosecution in most people’s eyes
Any self proclaimed independent voter who’s fine with this even more obvious politically motivated prosecution is not really an independent voter.
Finland joins NATO in major blow to Russia over Ukraine war
The Nordic country’s membership doubles Russia’s border with the world’s biggest security alliance.
Next, Kazakhstan?
Glorious Kazakhstan!
Great success!
Forget peak oil, what about peak green?
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/04/have-we-reached-peak-green/
While the West might have a monopoly on climate activists, it does not have a monopoly on the sources of greenhouse-gas emissions. Seventy-two per cent of all planned coal-fired power plants worldwide are in China. India, Turkey and Indonesia are next on the list of nations with the highest planned coal capacity. None of these countries is willing to jeopardise economic development for the 1.5-degree goal. Especially not when that goal is, as climate-studies professor Roger Pielke Jr has shown, a political rather than scientific threshold.
Eminent Oxford Scientist Says Wind Power “Fails on Every Count”
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Ready for more $5 or $6 gasoline?
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_4b11a800-d248-11ed-9f76-af35ad39907f.html
International oil producers are planning to cut oil production, meaning gas prices will likely begin rising immediately as Democrats block Republican efforts to increase domestic oil and gas energy production.
“Only a few short years ago foreign governments were unable to use energy as a weapon against the United States,” Daniel Turner, executive director of the energy workers advocacy group Power the Future, told The Center Square. “Then Joe Biden came along and made OPEC great again. Just last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill to put America back on the road to energy independence and it’s clear OPEC was paying attention. The Senate should pass H.R. 1 immediately and President Biden finally needs to put politics aside and unleash the power of American energy. Otherwise the high prices of food, utilities, and food will continue to punish the American people.”
America is more energy independent than ever
“Total gross crude and other liquid exports hit a record of 11.128 million barrels per day, more than the total output of either Russia or Saudi Arabia,” Citi energy analysts wrote on March 1. “U.S. net crude imports fell to lows not seen since the 1950s.”
Many Americans think U.S. “energy independence” is a thing of the past, overtaken by President Biden’s focus on green energy. But Citi is highlighting data showing that American dependence on foreign energy has continued to decline under President Biden, even besting levels reached under President Trump, who championed fossil fuels.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-is-more-energy-independent-than-ever-160020814.html
Funny how reality is different than your wingnut news source.
Well, they are CUTTING production.
OPEC and its ugly sisters are – to boost sagging crude prices.
Crude was only $75/bbl on Friday. Well below its $147 2008 high.
Fuck OPEC.
I’ve a feeling OPEC is going to fuck you.
If OPEC doesn’t like liars, turd’s in trouble.
As President Biden prepares a final decision on the huge Willow oil project in Alaska, his administration announced he will prevent oil drilling in 16 million acres in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean.
Biden Administration Halts New Drilling in Legal Fight Over Climate Costs
Biden indefinitely blocks oil drilling on millions of acres of federal land
Biden proposes 20-year ban on new oil drilling in New Mexico
Biden Promises ‘No More Drilling’ Just Days After Demanding More Drilling
Biden administration freezes new oil and gas drilling leases
Biden’s orders direct the secretary of the Interior Department to halt new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters, and begin a thorough review of existing permits for fossil fuel development.
Shrike keeps bragging about energy production on private and state lands then crediting Joe. Same thing he did with Obama.
“Shrike keeps bragging about energy production on private and state lands then crediting Joe. Same thing he did with Obama.”
turd lies; it’s what turd does.
That *checks neocon/democrat narratives* gas station masquerading as a country will have far more impact on global oil prices than your fever dreams can ever understand.
Rig count up!
Yes, it is. Way up in fact. Like triple.
How did you know?
Turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Triple from the shutdown of 2020, but way under 2017. Poor Pluggo.
Hey, if turd isn’t lying, turd isn’t posting. turd lies; it’s what turd does.
Triple from the shutdown of 2020
At least you finally admitted that.
And Sevo, shut up and go mop some splooge up for your Tenderloin day job.
At least you finally admitted that.
No one denied it, pedo. We just pointed out your cherry-picking, as if the collapse happened for no reason at all.
turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
“At least you finally admitted that.”
You mean up from zero? When everyone was locked up at home? Including drillers?
I never denied that. Any point in the last 100 years is up from the shutdown in 2020. Who do you think you were tricking by making that your benchmark?
Pick the lowest point on the graph, use that as your baseline.
He’s tricking himself.
Yes, he is that fucking retarded.
“Earlier this year, the Ad Fontes chart – the most-shared media bias report on the internet – placed The Center Square at the same level of fairness and balance as NPR, The New York Times, and USA Today. We also ranked higher than The Washington Post for accuracy.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/site/about/impact_statement.html
If anything, The Center Square is about as neutral a news source as there is out there, simply telling it as it is. NPR, NYT, USA Today and the WaPo have a far more noticeable bias.
What I learned about Twitter, Volume 3.
So, I joined Twitter a little while after the Musk takeover out of curiosity and to show support for the libertarian value of telling everyone where you had lunch in under 140 characters and without government supression of speech.
After a couple of months… meh. It is not nearly as interactive as reddit (or the commentariate formerly known as HnR). If you do not have a following, your comments are never seen by anyone, regardless of how hot the topic or how early your post.
It has been remarkable to see just how much time people you have heard of spend posting on Twitter. It is all the time.
And when you post that much, you reveal far too much. Many of these folks are vacuous and worse, seemingly motivated by not just mal-intentions, but often deeply personal animus for people they will never meet. In short, it either brings out the worst, or reveals the worst in people.
I can definitely see the positive changes Musk is making. But it is still a slog.
I find myself less and less motivated to participate. It is like having a debate where there are dozens of good, thoughtful writers present, but there are a thousand hack trolls in the way… and you can only post 2 or 3 sentences. Not terribly useful for that purpose.
It depends.
I have 160 or so followers on my 3rd or 4th account (others martyred in the pre Musk era were up to 500+).
I don’t originate many tweets, and the ones I do are basically invisible, but I do reply and a decent amount of those replies get significant interaction.
If you reply to tweets from larger accounts you’ll get a lot more visibility.
Three Stories About GOP Oversight Chair James Comer That Aren’t Even About Hunter Biden’s Penis
…..
James Comer and Marjorie Taylor Greene gonna go visit the January 6 terrorists in jail.
Anyway, Comer told Politico that he and Greene are working together to get a delegation together to go visit the terrorists. She will be the leader of the trip, and they are going to invite other members this week.
We have no indication that they will try to bring any contraband to the prisoners, but if they walk in with any weird lasagnas we would of course imagine DC jail employees will exercise their best judgment.
https://www.wonkette.com/james-comer-hunter-bidens-penis
Donnie soaking up all the room for the other news stories…..
BTW, trd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Ha ha ha ha, you read fucking Wonkette! Oh wow, Shrike.
Never bitch about Nardz links again.
I didn’t know Wonkette was still a thing. I guess that’s where he gets the “hunter biden’s penis” talking point.
Gee, I wonder what having a progressive governor and a Soros-backed prosecutor will do to a place?
https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_309eabe6-d255-11ed-bc7a-db0b3fa4bcd7.html
Violent crime in Washington state has increased by 55% since 2015, according to data from the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, or WASPC. It’s a trend that some legislators have attributed to recent police reform legislation that they believe isn’t getting fixed this session.
Another change in public policy was 2021’s HB 1054, which restricted the ability of police to pursue suspects on foot or vehicle by requiring there be “reasonable suspicion” rather than “probable cause.” The law was amended in 2022 to roll back the restriction on foot pursuit but maintained the new stipulations for vehicle pursuits. According to WASPC, the number of drivers fleeing Washington State Patrol officers increased from 2021 to 2022 by more than 100%. Washington state is now ranked third in the nation for total car thefts and second among the states for car thefts per capita. Meanwhile, data from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission reveals that between 2015-2021 there were 28 traffic fatalities from a police vehicle pursuit, 19 of which were the drivers fleeing police.
Is that Washington as a whole, or mainly Seattle and the other shitlib havens?
I don’t give a shit if those people suffer. If it’s affecting non-shitlib towns, then it’s a problem.
Washington state is now ranked third in the nation for total car thefts and second among the states for car thefts per capita.
Only 3rd? Pikers. CO’s number one in car thefts.
We’re also apparently #1 in violent crime, although that includes “unreported” violent crime (I.E., people claiming on a survey to have been a victim of violent crime who didn’t report it to the police, so take with a grain of salt).
Finally?
I noticed that as well. Boehm seems a little giddy this morning.
They have to find trump guilty to find out what the indictment says
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Dangerous stunts and Soros-backed DAs.
https://www.thefp.com/p/alvin-braggs-dangerous-stunt
For seven years, the progressive resistance has fantasized about Donald Trump’s indictment, conviction, and incarceration.
Today, the resistance will get what it’s been craving. Today, the 45th president will appear in a Manhattan courtroom for his arraignment, and the borough’s progressive district attorney, Alvin Bragg, will unseal his criminal indictment.
If that indictment is what has been widely reported, then it will be hard to persuade anyone outside of the progressive bubble that it was worth upending 230 years of American norms and customs to charge—for the first time—a former president with a felony.
All of this raises a question—not just for Bragg, but for the Democratic Party, the online resistance, and the media ecosystem that seems to exist simply to stoke outrage about Donald Trump for its overstimulated, progressive base: Is it worth it? Is the catharsis of seeing Trump indicted worth the damage a politicized prosecution of the former president will do? Because indicting Trump in this way, at this time, is an in-kind donation to his own presidential primary campaign. If the latest polling is correct, then Trump’s approval ratings have ticked up since the announcement of his indictment.
Soros
code for “Filthy Jew!”
You do realize that most criticisms of Soros have absolutely nothing to do with his religion.
I cannot think of a single criticism that has had anything to do with his religion.
He is a non practicing person. He has no religion but himself.
The Troubling Truth About The Obsession With George Soros ….. The emergence of QAnon has also added fuel to the anti-Soros fire, with unfounded claims that Soros, as a “globalist,” is behind an international network of pedophiles and others who seek to defeat President Trump. The viral nature of QAnon and its conspiracy-minded followers is increasing the spread of misinformation, and fear, about Soros at an exponential rate. . So, if it isn’t facts that are driving the animosity towards Soros, what is it? . Anti-Semitism, plain and simple. ….. Soros’s critics barely hide their anti-Semitism anymore, frequently posting images of him with grossly distorted anti-Semitic features. The attacks also frequently reference, directly and indirectly, longstanding anti-Semitic theories from texts such as the Elders of Zion that claim Jews are running an international cabal. The most perverse attacks on Soros relate to fraudulent claims that he was a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer. In fact, Soros’s family escaped persecution from the Nazis, who killed over 500,000 Hungarian Jews during World War II.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethcohen/2020/09/12/the-troubling-truth-about-the-obsession-with-george-soros/?sh=26c9e7794e2e
Forbes – the Capitalist Bible.
The only reason there’s an “obsession” with George Soros, Turd, is that he funds all of these progressive groups either directly or indirectly.
Soros believes:
Cops are overzealous dick-heads.
Borders kill liberty.
Drugs should be legal.
And drug prosecutions are racist and liberty-killing.
Capitalism is the greatest economic system in the world.
Currencies are corrupted by beauracrats.
Governments should be open with no secrets.
SOUNDS LIKE A LIBERTARIAN!
Man, you Soros simps are even more deflective about Jewishness to excuse shitty behavior than Weinstein was.
So you are pro-cop, pro drug war, pro-borders, pro racist drug prosecutions, anti-capitalist, pro-currency printing, pro government secrecy?
Why are you here?
Man, you Soros simps are even more deflective about Jewishness to excuse shitty behavior than Weinstein was.
Convincing a conservative that Soros doesn’t wake up and say “Muahahahaha!” is like convincing a progressive that the Koch’s don’t shoot lasers out of their eyes.
Sarc, you do realize that Soros and Charles Koch are now working together. Even Reason had an article on it.
https://reason.com/2019/07/01/charles-koch-george-soros-help-fund-think-tank-opposed-to-endless-war/
The Boston Globe reports the “astonishing turn” that organizations created by libertarian billionaire Charles Koch and progressive billionaire George Soros are helping to fund a new think tank, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The new group is committed to promoting “ideas that move U.S. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace.”
Remember that turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
True libertarians are Republicans.
Borders should be defended with machineguns.
Drugs are bad and anyone who sells them should be killed.
Drug prosecutions mean more freedom.
Capitalism requires protectionist policies to save us from foreigners.
The dollar is sacred, don’t talk about it.
If other governments are not open then ours needs to be secret too.
No, Soros is a leftist.
Soros is a Nazi and you’re Buttplug’s simp.
Not shocked to see sarc defending the other lefties here with bullshit.
“Soros
code for “Filthy Jew!”
When other kids his age were fighting in the resistance, Soros was an actual, card-carrying member of the Nazi party, raiding Jewish homes and confiscating (stealing) their property. He’s one of the last living Nazis.
So don’t you fucking fascists DARE use phony allegations of antisemitism to defend that evil fuck!
You’re such a dishonest SOB.
You can’t criticize the classic liberal Soros of today so you malign the 13-yr old Jewish boy hiding from Nazi killers.
Speak for yourself on dishonesty, dipshit. You got banned here for posting CP.
urd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, a TDS-addled asshole and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Jewish boy hiding from Nazi killers.
Other teens his age joined the resistance and fought the Nazis. Soros didn’t even hide, he joined the Nazis and raided Jewish homes.
He had alternatives, but he deliberately picked evil. To accuse Soros opponents of phony antisemitism charges is evil too.
“…To accuse Soros opponents of phony antisemitism charges is evil too.”
It’s turd; dishonest, stupid and evil besides. If you saw turd crawl out from under a rock, you’d stomp on it without a thought.
don’t forget that turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Man, you Soros simps are even more deflective about Jewishness to excuse shitty behavior than Weinstein was.
Okay, Soros hated Bush/Cheney and vowed to defeat them with a Democrat if necessary.
We know.
Was he wrong?
I once nominated Dick Cheney’s hunting party for Howie Carr’s death pool. Got on the air too.
Man, you Soros simps are even more deflective about Jewishness to excuse shitty behavior than Weinstein was.
Forbes is a glorified blog at this point.
And I note the lack of any citation of anti-Semitism. Easy to accuse but demonstration is a tad lacking.
OK, so some people make reprehensible anti-semitic representations of Soros. And that somehow means all criticism of him is motivated by antisemitism? That’s some weak-ass shit.
Soros is literally a nazi that made money by finding hiding jews and stealing their stuff after ratting on them to the gestapo.
Idiot.
When other kids his age were fighting in the resistance, Soros was an actual, card-carrying member of the Nazi party, raiding Jewish homes and confiscating (stealing) their property. He’s one of the world’s last living Nazis.
So don’t you fucking fascists DARE use phony allegations of antisemitism to defend that evil fuck!
Well, he did work with Nazis as a youngster.
You’re going to love when conservative DA’s decide to follow suit.
Only in your mind.
Can’t have it both ways, moron.
Your previous username linked to Soros.org. You wouldn’t do that unless you admitted (bragged) he was a huge source of Democrat / progressive funding.
2022 Top Donors to Outside Spending Groups
OMG! It’s an “anti-Semitic trope” to read the top name! :eyeroll:
turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Remember, turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Code for Nazi, you fucking Nazi simping fuck.
If the indictment was really about Madoff-type fraud, then it would have been one of the most successful fraids in history, as the victims of such a fraud are not even aware of it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11928393/QAnon-Shaman-Jacob-Chansley-seen-time-released-prison-early.html
EXCLUSIVE: QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley is seen for the first time since he was released 14 months early from prison – with January 6 rioter swapping his infamous horned headdress for a FREEDOM t-shirt
Lies! According to the comments every J6 political prisoner is being held indefinitely without trial!! Fake news!!!
SOROS LET HIM OUT!
It’s got to be a deep fake. Every J6 political prisoner was sentenced to life. I heard it here. They’re in the Gulag. This story cannot possibly be true.
Poor sarc.
Cite?
I have the one of you supporting them facing 20 years. Want to trade?
I didn’t know that ReEducation camps had early release. After all, these political prosecutions would make Mao blush, so I’ve been told. So there’s no way the guy is free. That or everyone was wrong. Since they’re never wrong, the story must be a lie.
Look at the pretend libertarian rationalizing his support of years long sentences for non violent acts, political abuse, prosecution abuse, etc.
Sarcasmic, you stupid fuck.
The fact that they released him only after the video exonerating him was released, even though they had it prior, doesn’t seem to factor into your rhetoric.
A less retarded man might have noticed that it didn’t exactly prove his point.
They do when a real journalist fucks over the Democratic narrative and shows exculpatory evidence withheld during trial.
Now maybe you understand why America’s #1 legal minds were screeching about Tucker Carlson showing the Jan 6 surveillance video was *suppresses a laugh* a violation of the First Amendment? They fucking KNEW this would result in a major upset of the J6 narrative and get people released from jail.
There is exactly 1% percent or less chance Tucker Carlson’s video got Chansley released. The Feds release people early onto parole all the time. If he violates parole, he will go back and finish the rest of the sentence.
Don’t forget that urd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
God damn you are a broken piece of shit.
Also bookmarked.
Um, he was released because of Tucker Carlson’s videos.
Umm, you don’t know that.
How can you say that? Did you even watch the video?
The new narrative is that Tucker’s videos, being so undeniably exculpatory, led to his being released to a halfway house.
Alternative possibility that is discounted by fan’s of the above narrative: This was in the cards before Tucker aired his videos.
LOL: I wrote that before I read Diane/Paul’s comment above, where she/he repeats the unsupported narrative.
Oh please, if it wasn’t the video, what was it? In any case, your preferred narrative is falling apart.
Lieberman/Weld – the dream ticket.
Opening Pandora’s Box.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/03/alvin-braggs-indictment-of-donald-trump-might-open-a-pandoras-box-for-democrats/
Democrats are jumping for joy at the prospect of Donald Trump finally getting hooked, like Al Capone, on some kind of — any kind of — criminal charge.
But their own political idols — namely, the Clintons or Bidens — could one day be gored by a hyperpartisan district attorney in search of a crime, no matter how picayune.
Democratic Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump is so convoluted that even the Washington Post thinks it’s a stretch — and one that sets an ominous precedent. It threatens to open a Pandora’s box of political indictments against former presidents and other elected officials, as well as their family members, by local prosecutors seeking to settle political scores.
Bragg has been gunning for Trump from the get-go. In 2021, he even campaigned on targeting Trump. Before recently locking her account, wife Jamila Ponton Bragg even bragged on Twitter that her husband was going to nail Trump on some unspecified felonies. Why? Because she felt Trump was “racist.”
Once he got into office, Bragg ignored statutes of limitations and resurrected a seven-year-old misdemeanor case against Trump that other prosecutors had shunned. Then he trod on shaky grounds of jurisdictional authority to turn it into a felony based on federal campaign finance laws.
In short, he cooked up a crime. But his legal alchemy is sure to backfire on Democrats in the future, with prosecutorial retaliation after retaliation.
Retaliation, revenge, retribution, and getting even can not happen soon enough!
So does that mean that maybe we’ll see Obama charged with conspiracy to murder U.S. citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki in 2011?
A man can dream ..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11937347/Kid-Rock-SHOOTS-cases-Bud-Light-chose-trans-activist-Dylan-Mulvaney-poster-girl.html
‘F*** Bud Light’: Kid Rock SHOOTS up cases of Bud Light after it chose trans activist Dylan Mulvaney as poster girl – as firm stands by her but says cans with her face on them are NOT for sale
lol
It’s not a “her.” It’s an “it.”
Ideas!
But enough about Kid Rock.
He should have done what Will Smith did. (No, not bitch-slap Chris Rock) Nobody thinks of him as the Fresh Prince anymore. Kid Rock should have reverted to his name before he got old.
He should have done what Will Smith did.
No, he shouldn’t have.
Like this was any better.
I think you’re confusing personal taste with revealed preferences. Kid Rock still performs that while Will Smith has thoroughly dropped the whole “cigar-smoking, globe-trotting playboy” rap star routine.
I still hear All Summer Long, Picture, Bawitdaba, Only God Knows Why, and Cowboy on Classic Rock stations. You know what I hear on Classic Hip Hop? Cringe worthy stuff from Backstreet, BoysIIMen, and Nelly. You know what I don’t hear? Will Smith.
Whether he’s too cringe for Classic Hip Hop or too protective of his music to allow it to be played or it’s all owned by film studios is a moot point. He/they don’t want anybody to hear it and even people who want to listen to cringe aren’t willing to pay what’s being asked.
Eminem may have put it best for this:
Will Smith don’t gotta cuss in his raps to sell records (Nope)
Well, I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!
Smith might be too cringe for hip-hop airplay nowadays.
The best Will Smith quote comes from Neil Patrick Harris in the absolutely hilarious Undercover Brother (back when race relations reached such a high point that stereotypes became little more than the basis of mainstream comedy):
“I like Will Smith. He raps happy.”
Seriously, go watch movies like Undercover Brother, How High, The Hot Chick, Chappelle’s Show- stuff could never be made today.
No, “it’s” a he. End of debate.
Bud Light is to beer what Mulvaney is to womanhood.
Watered down?
Mulvaney is to womanhood as sarc is to libertarianism.
The Babylon Bee’s way ahead of you.
We’re truly beyond parody.
Pretending, in a manner that is offensive to many.
Gay with makeup.
To be fair, that’s a general slogan to live by when it comes to beer.
Imagine your product, your poser man, your whole business being so inferior in your intended market that the closest actual market you compete in is clay pigeons or AR500 plate steel… and you’re *still* vastly inferior.
A case of pigeons can be had for $10 and I’ll actually enjoy blasting them. They probably taste better, too.
“You have failed to produce even minimally-viable cannon fodder.”
Clowns in the Oval Office.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/03/opec-move-again-shows-why-bidens-war-on-us-energy-means-disaster/
President Joe Biden’s war on domestic energy and his foreign-policy fumbling are getting set to slam everyday Americans yet again with renewed inflation.
Vowing to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah,” he blew up relations with the Kingdom on his way to the White House, leaving zero leverage over their calls on energy.
Meanwhile, our Green New Dealer in Chief from Day One waged a war on fossil fuels under the guise of a pie-in-the-sky “transition” to green energy.
Somehow, I don’t think that will flush.
https://cwbchicago.com/2023/04/chicago-man-sentenced-flushing-gun-police-station-toilet.html
A Chicago man has been sentenced to four years for illegal gun possession and another four years for trying to flush a second gun that cops didn’t know about down the toilet of his Chicago Police Department holding cell.
And how the hell did he have the gun in a holding cell!?!
Prosecutors said the video showed Walker removing a second gun that cops didn’t know about from his waistband and putting it into the toilet. Walker tried to flush the firearm down the toilet, but it didn’t go anywhere. So, he covered the submerged gun with toilet paper and left it there, officials said.
Reality seems fake all the time now.
And how the hell did he have the gun in a holding cell!?!
I would have assumed the old prison wallet but damn, he didn’t even have to do that.
When you lose the WaPo and the Germans smell something fishy…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dont-talk-about-nord-stream-details-wapo-report-upend-official-narrative
German investigators are now expressing severe doubts about the official Nord Stream sabotage narrative that was pushed hard in the aftermath the bombshell Seymour Hersh report which pointed the finger at a joint CIA-US Navy covert operation, with help from Norway. Last month, Hersh published an article on Substack that said the CIA planted a cover story for the Nord Stream bombings that was fed to The New York Times and the German newspaper Die Zeit. Likely this was in direct reaction to Hersh’s findings. A source within the US intelligence community told the famed Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, “It was a total fabrication by American intelligence that was passed along to the Germans, and aimed at discrediting your story.”
But now a fresh, lengthy investigative Washington Post story published Monday is actually confirming many of Hersh’s conclusions. Indeed the ‘cover story’ is already fast unraveling. What’s more is that the WaPo article bluntly states Western officials are not at all eager to talk about the Nord Stream sabotage, suggesting a continued cover-up in progress, or in effect a limited hangout. Also very telling is that Western accusations directed at Russia have long ago quieted down.
Anyone with common sense would know that the US bombed the pipeline, because it was the only way to get Europe off of Russia’s energy client list. “Ooopsie, the pipeline’s broken, guess we can’t buy gas from you anymore!”
All Hersh did was fill in the details, and anyone buying the media spin on it is a moron.
Yeah, there was like 24 hours where there was a quasi-legitimate question about whether the pipe was mishandled and blew up or whether it was sabotage.
After that, truth and narrative began to flow like a teenager calling their parents for help because someone else ran the car out of gas and left them stranded by themselves.
Conspiracy theory!!
WaPo article bluntly states Western officials are not at all eager to talk about the Nord Stream sabotage, suggesting a continued cover-up in progress, or in effect a limited hangout.
I’m not sure that’s true. Didn’t Victoria Nuland essentially brag about it?
The dementia addled twat even said it out loud.
What do they say? A grand jury can indict a ham sandwich, but not a pig? Too bad for Trump he was never a cop.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed a bill allowing Floridians to carry a gun without a permit.
So Florida Man has the same privileges as a University of Miami football player now?
Miami is a basketball school now
With the same, well-earned, “If you call what they did [insert sport here].” rider.
The Troubling Truth About The Obsession With George Soros ….. The emergence of QAnon has also added fuel to the anti-Soros fire, with unfounded claims that Soros, as a “globalist,” is behind an international network of pedophiles and others who seek to defeat President Trump. The viral nature of QAnon and its conspiracy-minded followers is increasing the spread of misinformation, and fear, about Soros at an exponential rate. . So, if it isn’t facts that are driving the animosity towards Soros, what is it? . Anti-Semitism, plain and simple. ….. Soros’s critics barely hide their anti-Semitism anymore, frequently posting images of him with grossly distorted anti-Semitic features. The attacks also frequently reference, directly and indirectly, longstanding anti-Semitic theories from texts such as the Elders of Zion that claim Jews are running an international cabal. The most perverse attacks on Soros relate to fraudulent claims that he was a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer. In fact, Soros’s family escaped persecution from the Nazis, who killed over 500,000 Hungarian Jews during World War II.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethcohen/2020/09/12/the-troubling-truth-about-the-obsession-with-george-soros/?sh=26c9e7794e2e
Forbes – the Capitalist Bible.
Soros is one of the great all time capitalists.
But he is a ………. Jew.
“People are pointing out this asshole with a god complex and a history of currency manipulation is subverting national borders and funding criminal-friendly DAs? It must be because they hate Jews!”
Man, you Soros simps are even more deflective about Jewishness to excuse shitty behavior than Weinstein was.
Which is particularly ironic because Soros is one of the world’s last living actual Nazi party members, with a card and everything.
When other Hungarian teenagers were fighting and dying in the anti-Nazi resistance, Soros was raiding Jewish homes and stealing their property.
Dude, when I used to listen to Glenn Beck he assured us that Creepy Dude was a guard at Auschwitz. Conservative talk show hosts never lie. That means the story is a lie.
Peel the red neck off any conservative and all you have left is a Bible-beating Fundie-nut authoritarian shir-for-brains.
The Beckerhead is a perfect example. It is all about his shitty religion 24/7.
I still remember the day I stopped listening to talk radio. It was the day the gameshow host won the nomination. An hour before they were somewhat critical and realistic about his policies and ideas. I minute afterwards he could do no wrong. Without missing a beat they started defending the very same things they were criticizing minutes before. We have always been at war with Eastasia. At that moment the curtain dropped, and I haven’t believed a word since.
So you lied about not listening post election or you lied about them changing their stances. Which is it?
Trump was always criticized you retarded fuck.
turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
No he wasn’t a guard at Auschwitz. He did identify Jews for the Nazis. He stated that in his biography.
Did I mention that turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies? It’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
You’ve been really fixated on the Jews lately, pedo.
What’s the object of a Jewish football game?
To get the quarter back!
Fuck off and die, steaming pile of lefty shit.
Sevo is a joo?
Ideas!
The only reason there’s an “obsession” with George Soros, Turd, is that he funds all of these progressive groups either directly or indirectly.
Like he doesn’t bag on rich Christians financially backing conservative groups.
Contrasting sides of the Donkey Party, or how Chicago is screwed one way or the other.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/chicago-mayoral-race-features-contrasting-sides-democratic-party/story?id=98321188
Election day in Chicago will not only decide the next mayor of the city, but it also promises to end a campaign season that has polarized Chicagoans about which segment of the Democratic Party will ultimately lead the city.
In the six-week run-up to Tuesday, Vallas and Johnson have sparred in numerous televised debates about issues like crime and education. However, underscoring the conversations is the obvious contrast between the progressive left of the Democratic Party, represented by Johnson, and the moderate wing of the party, represented by Vallas.
In St. Louis today, we’re having our aldermanic board elections, after finally cutting the size of the board down from 28 to 14, which means that half of them are automatically out of a job. Couple of interesting things to note:
After a fall season of ‘Jungle Primaries’ every single candidate on the ballot is a Democrat. No Republicans or Libertarians or Greens.
With just 1 exception, none of the progressive left candidates are running as progressive left in their platforms or campaign material. They are all trying to look more like their more moderate opponents. The slogans are no longer things like ‘Defund the Police’, now it’s ‘Public Safety is our #1 Issue’.
In St. Louis today, we’re having our aldermanic board elections, after finally cutting the size of the board down from 28 to 14
Cynical take: Now it takes even fewer votes to push through retarded ideas.
Cynical take: Now it takes even fewer votes to push through retarded ideas.
That sounds like the reasonable take to me.
A case of “fucked around; found out”.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tennessee-lawmakers-lose-committee-assignments-after-storming-state-capitol
Three Tennessee state lawmakers, all Democrats, were pulled from their committee assignments and could face expulsion from the legislature after they participated in storming the state Capitol during a protest against guns following last week’s school shooting.
Tennessee House Republicans voted Monday to strip committee assignments from state Reps. Justin Jones, Justin J. Pearson and Gloria Johnson, according to WPLN.
A potential expulsion for the three lawmakers could come later this week.
The lawmakers joined anti-gun protestors in storming the Capitol last week after a 28-year-old transgender person opened fire inside the Covenant School in Nashville, which killed six people, including three children.
Well, they were only attempting to overturn the constitution, so no big thing.
Jones and Pearson should probably worry more about disarming the violent criminals in their own communities before trying to disarm the entire state. The fat white Karen needs to stop enabling them.
Insurrectionist gotta insurrection, I guess.
Can’t believe those prick Republicans would vote against real democracy.
Shouldn’t they be up on insurrection charges?
Droolin’ Joe seeks some relevance by lying about the economy:
“Biden pushes econ policy as Trump indictment gets attention”
[…]
“President Joe Biden ventured to suburban Minneapolis on Monday to talk about factory jobs and contrast his agenda with “the last guy” who had his job…”
https://www.stltoday.com/partners/ap/business/biden-pushes-econ-policy-as-trump-indictment-gets-attention/article_0546a19d-6d30-5ab4-934a-7cdc392cae5d.html
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed a bill allowing Floridians to carry a gun without a permit.
What a boss, he just keeps on winning.
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1643252259361288198?t=MocPpDxdH_PQvAGcdPWGMw&s=19
Someone sent me this “2SLGBTQ+” coloring book for children. It’s distributed by LGBT YouthLine, a project in Ontario, Canada, that it claims is funded by the Canadian government under the Canada Service Corps program. It’s a groomer book. It’s also uncharacteristically hideous.
A is for Anishinaabe.
B is for Bisexual.
C is for Coming out (egads, look at it!).
D is for Drag.
These are generative themes. The goal is to get the kids interested in and asking questions about these topics so “right answers” can be given by groomer teachers.
E is for Experimentation.
Like chemistry, obviously. In a book about LGBTQ themes. Not sex, sexuality, drugs, etc. Chemistry, obviously.
F is for Femme-tastic.
G is for Gay.
What’s the “Femme-tastic” “Affirmative Couch,” you might ask? It’s gender and sexuality affirming psychotherapy. The Canadian government is so destructive.
H is for Healing.
“Affirmation: Queerness is struggle [sic] but it is also healing. My queerness is healing.”
I is for Intersectionality.
J is for Journey.
K is for Kindness.
This is remarkably indulgent propaganda.
L is for Lesbian love.
That seems perfectly appropriate for kids. They’re in bed.
M is for Métis.
N is for Nature.
Very generative.
O is for Open minded [sic].
Cults need to convince their targets to be open-minded to the cult doctrine.
P is for Positive affirmation
This is super messed up.
Q is for Queerplatonic.
See, relationships should be completely undefined and open-ended in order to be satisfying and healthy, according to these destructive groomers funded by the Canadian government.
R is for Resilient.
Oh.
S is for Sex-positive.
Super age-appropriate themes all over this page in this little-kids’ coloring book funded by the Canadian government.
T is for Transgender.
Woof. Ugly.
U is for Umbrella terms.
V is for Validation.
W is for Worthy.
X is for eXceptional.
This is indulgent and a way to induce vulnerable narcissism in children.
Y is for YouthLine, Youth-led, and Yourh-centered.
So Y is for Red Guard.
Z is for Ze/zer pronouns.
Obviously, you have to get the kids doing the pronouns thing because it’s a first step into cult induction.
Now make up your own words. Just like Freire.
But they have lots more words for the kids to ask about. Have a look through this list. “B is for Binding,” for example.
[Illustrations from book]
D is for Despicable. E is for Evil. I is for Insane.
Maybe I should create another coloring book.
“M is for Métis.”
As a card carrying Métis why are we being included in a book about sexual perverts? We’re an ethnicity, not a paraphilia.
I think it’s LGBTQ+ and POCs. There’s also:
“A is for Anishinaabe”
It’s pretty terrible, IMHO. They could’ve made an all-Canada one that would’ve been more interesting and fun.
A is for Anishinaabe
B is for Beaver
C is for Canada
D is for Dene
E is for English
F is for French Canadian
G is for Great Lakes
H is for Hudson Bay
I is for Iqaluit
J is for Jasper National Park
K is for Kamloops
L is for Loon
M is for Metis
N is for Nova Scotia
O is for Ontario
P is for Poutine
Q is for Quebec
R is for Rocky Mountains
S is for Saskatchewan
T is for Toronto
U is for Union
V is for Vancouver Island
W is for Winnipeg
X is for Halifa”x” (couldn’t come up with anything else)
Y is for Yukon
Z is for Zellers
No it’s canada
A is for eh
Missouri Highway Patrol gave me a paraphilia ticket once.
They shouldn’t have put a cemetery next to the highway if they didn’t want you types fooling around then
A is for Anishinaabe.
What’s going to happen if I google that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anishinaabe
Ok, so what does this have to do with LGBTQIMAP+ stuff?
The POC part, along with “Metis”.
Depends on how badly you mangle the spelling.
Look, the only people who want to keep Trump in the spotlight and in the 2024 election more than the MAGA tribe are DNC leaders and minions. And, of course, every media whore on the planet.
Will Trump’s Arraignment Be Broadcast Live? No—the judge overseeing the case ruled Monday that no news cameras or electronics like cell phones and laptops will be allowed in the courtroom during Trump’s arraignment, though news outlets will be allowed to take photos for a few minutes before the arraignment begins.
Trump’s arrest is 1,000 times worse than anything listed in the declaration of independence that led to war. 100 times worse than Jim Crow that led to riots. We can only hope it spurs action e.g. recall the movie ‘Wall Street’ and Gordon Gekko’s infamous line, ‘….surprise me, it’s my birthday..’
>>Happy 50th anniversary to the first cellphone call
nothing said progress like ordering an eightball from the sidewalk.
Rampant open corruption and malfeasance by Democrats and leftists like Boehm and the rest of Teasob can find no wrong beyond Republicans pounce, but a tortured interpretation of law for a political prosecution and they are all giddy. Fuck you marxist cunts, at least the terrorists of antifa are honest of their hatred of American ideals.
>>but the most important player on the team will have to continue begging the federal government for his chance to do the same
he can hold his rookie contract over his teammates’ heads when they’re working at Home Depot
>>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R–Ga.) is one of the Trump diehards who may be in Manhattan on Tuesday.
fresh off dismantling Leslie Stahl.
>>and, presumably, to enter a “not guilty” plea.
fucking jacked to watch T get to prove his innocence.
Indicted over Stormy Daniels.
It sure is weird how many leftie dudes are obsessed with Donald Trump’s penis.
I assume that it’s largely jealousy because most of them are a motley assortment of faggots, pedophiles, and twinkies that are naturally repellent to all the normal adukt women who are looking for a suitable mate.
Well, if Pluggo is any indication…
Plus: Debating whether GPT-4 actually understands language
There is no debate, it does not.
I’m not even sure what it means to say that I understand language.
“…but Sanogo will miss out on potentially lucrative endorsement deals because he’s from Mali and U.S. immigration law is full of dumb wrinkles…”
And?
“Yawn.” , and I say that with as much disdain as possible.
As much as I don’t like Trump, this whole thing is mere theater.
“the first time in American history that a former president will be arraigned in a court of law”
Thanks to Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon.
I think Ford made the right call. It really did help heal the country at the time.
Red Forman disagreed lol
Far be from me to disagree with Red Forman!
On the other hand, Alex P. Keaton probably agrees with me, and I would never want to disagree with him, either — so damned if I do, damned if I don’t.
So they replaced grid girls like me for a drag act… What an absolute piss take.
I had some of the most fun times, and they took them away as it was “exploitation”. WTF is this
DOJ Finally Finds a Church Attack It Doesn’t Like
Does the artificial intelligence behind the GPT-4 program actually understand language? Yes, but also no, say the co-authors of a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. One of the authors talked to the science magazine Nautilus about what the findings mean:
Whichever co-author said “yes” is wrong.
By the way, apropos of Reason’s repeated bleating about “this being a gift to trump” and “only reinforcing his delusions that he’s the target of a witch hunt” (the most unintentionally funny statement in the history of journalism), it’s not Trump that’s benefitting from this boost, it’s you kids in journolisming land who need this boost. Your ratings have taken a dive and you literally can’t exist without Trump. I would be surprised if the New York Times and every major media organization didn’t pump money into Alvin Bragg’s campaign fund.
It is only possible for one party to benefit?
Yes, but you know that the Mother’s Lament post isn’t one such situation.
If Joe Lieberman is announcing his candidacy, can Al Gore be far behind? And once Gore announces, get ready for the return of Harold Stassen. It will finally be his time to shine! As a plus, all these guys are spring chickens compared to Puddinhead Joe.
How about Ross Perot? I know he’s dead but we can dust off his corpse and stand him up next to a pie chart or two.
I’d vote for the dead guy if he would actually serve the full term.
Got him this time! No, really… this time for sure
It’s bizarre to me that there will be no camera’s in the courtroom. I mean, not every trial should have them but given the fact this is a historic prosecution of an ex-President it seems there should be at least some interest in an open trial from both sides of the aisle.
Democrats might want to do even a token gesture to show they hear Republican fears and want this to be a transparent and open trial.
Republicans would probably like at least some gesture to feel like they are being heard in the political process. Plus it would be nice to, you know, see for yourself what’s going on instead of relying on sources that most conservatives have soured on I.E. legacy media.
That said, since apparently it’s reported that Trump’s defense team are the one’s that don’t want them there perhaps it’s not the end of the world since that should probably be the defense’s bailiwick.
Most likely scenario? The Trump team think’s there’s some personally or politically damaging charges involved. They might even be right, I guess we’ll have to see assuming the whole case doesn’t end up under seal somehow.
Suppose that Trump is actually guilty of the charges he is being indicted for. Should he nonetheless not be charged?
And is there a de minimis argument here? If so, it would have to be based on the idea that relative to his political and economic status, the charges are too minor, but if he had been some small businessman, then the charges would not have been so minor. (This would, of course, run counter to 14A.)
On the assumption that he is guilty, you can blame the AG all you like, but an indictment could have been avoided if Trump hadn’t broken the law in the first place. This species of argument is commonly advanced by right-wingers when Trump is not the defendant.
Whether such a prosecution is advisable is of course a political question – and it is invidious to decline to prosecute someone on the grounds that they’re politicians, whether they’re Hillary, Trump, or Gym Jordan.
Are you inder the impression the indictment is about sone Madoff-type fraud?
No. Why would I be?
Because you are a moron.
You have made a reasoned, cogent argument as to why Biden should be indicted for global financial crimes.
If the evidence warrants an indictment, have at it. I imagine that the House GOP are already investigating it.
If the evidence warrants an indictment, have at it.
You literally just got done casting aspersions at the other side for doing exactly this.
Whom do you think you’re fooling? Do you think everyone just believes that Hillary Clinton, Bradley Manning, and Ed Snowden all got the same treatment for leaking classified documents? Do you think everyone just believes that Joe and Trump have been treated equally regarding quid pro quo specifically or Ukraine generally?
You know you’re lying. The people you’re talking to know you’re lying. You know that they know you’re lying, and you do it anyway. I’d say you’re scum but subhuman scum looks down on you.
Try to be a little more coherent, there’s a good chap.
My point is that if there is evidence enough to impeach Biden (while he’s president) or indict (afterwards), then go ahead.
Reality is that all pols get away with crap that the rest of us can’t. Most presidents are guilty of war crimes, for example.
“Try to be a little more coherent, there’s a good chap…”
Try to avoid being an obnoxiously arrogant stupid shit.
“Suppose that Trump is actually guilty of the charges he is being indicted for.”
Assume there’s a new planet somewhere in the Crab Nebula. I haven’t the slightest idea. Though it seems fishy enough.
Difference is, there is an actual case involving Trump, with an actual question about whether he should be indicted for what may well be minor crimes. But continue to be a fuckwit by all means.
“…But continue to be a fuckwit by all means.”
Frightened someone will take your place, asshole?
Why would he be? Shrike’s got more socks than he has fingers.
“but if he had been some small businessman, then the charges would not have been so minor.”
I doubt even the smallest of small businessmen would have been charged. That’s how we know that this is political lawfare.
“You recorded this cheque in the wrong column.”
“But the accountant did that and consulted with the IRS first”
“Yeah? Well it’s still the wrong column. You pay more tax the way your accountant did it. Switch it over.”
“Okay.”
“Great, now apply for an overpayment refund”
“It Looks Like Donald Trump Will Finally Be Indicted Later Today”
The way I heard it, the indictment already issued will be unsealed.
Anyway, any prosecutor can file charges if they can find a grand jury which is ham-sandwich-y enough. So all this stuff about “OMG the first president to be indicted” just means “Richard Nixon got away with actual crimes, Trump may or may not be guilty of certain offenses.”
What is the difference between a crime and an offence here?
All crimes are offenses, but not all offenses are crimes.
Hence my specifying “here”. Is anyone saying that the charges facing Trump are merely offences, not crimes?
Me.
Do you honestly think that this was a crime?
I have not heard the evidence yet.
Certainly, what he is charged with are crimes, but that, of course, is not the same thing. It may well be the case that Trump lacked the requisite knowledge or intent for his conduct to be found criminal. There are many actions that are only criminal if the defendant knows that it is – where the law specifies “knowingly”, obviously.
Do you think he is necessarily innocent of everything he has been charged with? Or do you think that falsifying business records is – or at any rate, should be – an offence but not a crime? Or do you merely think that Trump did not knowingly falsify records. which, if true, would mean that he should be acquitted.
Do you think he does his own bookkeeping?
Not generally. But we’re not talking about generally, we’re talking about specific instances. Do you think he has never entered or modified a bookkeeping record? That, contrary to the indictment, he has never made an entry in the General Ledger?
Also, some of the charges involve a false description on a cheque or cheque stub. Do you believe that Trump has never written a business cheque?
No. We use checks in America.
I am accustomed to spelling it “cheques” and see no reason not to continue to do so.
Way to fit in.
…or “with intent”, which also implies knowledge.
“…Is anyone saying that the charges facing Trump are merely offences, not crimes?”
Is any rational person claiming otherwise?
The indictment charges are unsealed. No surprises, other than that the charges also concern falsifying records in regards to “hush money” payments to a second woman, Karen McDougal, in addition to Stormy Daniels.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/04/-donald-trump-unsealed-indictment-ny-arraingment.html
No walls closing in?
So Bragg picks these to prosecute rather than all of the murders, assaults, robberies, and burglaries going on in his county (borough) daily? Tell me this isn’t political?
https://nypost.com/2022/11/26/convictions-plummet-downgraded-charges-surge-under-manhattan-da-bragg/
Soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has downgraded more than half his felony cases to misdemeanors — while also managing to lose half of the felony cases that do reach court.
Since taking office on Jan. 1, Bragg has downgraded 52% of felony cases to misdemeanors — compared to 39% in all of 2019.
Bragg issued a controversial “Day One” memo after taking office saying he would no longer seek prison sentences in many crimes, would downgrade felony charges in cases including armed robberies and drug dealing, and drop some misdemeanors.
Bragg did come down hard on bodega worker Jose Alba, who killed a crazed customer attacking him in his Harlem store. After a public outcry, Bragg dropped the murder charge against him.
Do you think Trump is innocent of some or all of the charges? Or do you think he’s guilty but that charges should not have been brought?
Are you a poll worker?
You tell me. All I see in the entire indictment is “falsifying business records” to cover up another crime. Yet, never in the indictment is that other crime or crimes stated. Not once. If there’s no other crime, then what in the hell is being falsified?
I don’t think that they have to specify those other crimes in the indictment.
Actually, they do. Otherwise no documents are being falsified, because there isn’t a law that’s being supposedly broken as a result of the supposed falsification.
I think if it were anyone else besides Trump, Bragg wouldn’t be bringing charges and that’s specifically against both The Constitution at several points (due process, the punishment as the result of conviction would literally be unusual, equal protection, etc.) as well as jurisprudence. As indicated above, we clearly don’t bother charging people like Hillary Clinton with the same crime we charge Bradley Manning.
Do you think if it were anyone else besides Trump, Bragg would be charging them equally even after committing to it as a campaign promise?
I don’t know.
This suggests that it’s not just Trump, however:
https://www.justsecurity.org/85605/survey-of-past-new-york-felony-prosecutions-for-falsifying-business-records/
And yet you failed to mention that Hillary Clinton hasn’t been charged. Your link doesn’t support your narrative.
The Trump Deranged Leftists are forcing me to defend a former mediocre president that I have never voted for, will never vote for and generally despise.
Trump has been targeted ever since he was elected and is being targeted with the indictment in the leftist cesspool of New York City politics.
There is no denying that Donald Trump was not suited to be president, but neither is Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton. While Trump was mediocre, Biden is much worse.
I really don’t like defending Trump and really which that the Trump Deranged Leftists would shut their pie-holes and let Trump fade into history. These Trump Deranged Leftists keep Trump relevant and in news.
So much so one starts to believe that they actually need Trump as either a distraction or believe that he is a easy mark. I firmly believe that the corporate media promoted Donald Trump so he would be the candidate in 2016 because they though that he would be easier for the Hillary Clinton to defeat.
History show us that Hillary Clinton was such totally and completely flawed candidate that Donald Trump was able to defeat her. The Trump Deranged Leftists didn’t account for this to occur and this is why they have gone scorched earth ever since.
You have to be pretty bad to lose to a narcissistic and bombastic person as Trump, but Hillary was such a completely worthless waste of a candidate.
Biden is probably the last candidate of those running that I would have ever entertained supporting this last go around. Add Kamala Harris to the ticket and the tendencies of authoritarianism become raging rivers worthy of alarm. It would have been difficult to come up with a poorer choice.
Not that Trump was a good choice, he was a terrible choice. That being said, I would prefer Trump as president with the Democrats and corporate media hampering his every move than Biden. With Biden as president we get a sycophantic corporate media.
The differences are stunning and disturbing in just how different the corporate media vilifies Republicans and glorifies Democrats. If you don’t have a D next to your name then you are a second class citizen.
People talk about the potential of a coming civil war, without realizing that we are all like frogs in a pot of water on the stove. The Leftist Democrats have been turning up the heat for years.
Some Moderate Democrats may believe that they are safe, but your only tolerated for the time being and will be next in line to be attacked by the Leftists. You are already seeing Moderate Democrats leave the party because there is nothing left that they can support.
Don’t mistake this as an endorsement for the Republican party, just a realization that the Democrat party is not even remotely moderate or even liberal, but rather a radical leftist authoritarians bent of forcing their views on others.
next in line to be attacked by the Leftists.
After every authoritarian takeover, the Useful Idiots are the first against the wall.
“forcing me”
Yeah, the Democrats’ behavior towards Trump made him take that action. Objections?
I’ll just note that New York City is Trump’s home town and New York state is where his family corporation is chartered.
Yet Trump’s official residence is in Florida. Why not prosecute them there? Because Democrats know they wouldn’t even make the first step to arrest, unlike in New York. And even then the case in New York is shaky at best and malicious at worst.
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I have a very bad feeling that may be on their agenda. If that happens, then I fear what next may come.
All they need now is a good patsy. There’s likely no shortage of options there.
Use of the But Trump! legal exeception will be legion.
I hear the trans community may be able to help out.
Nah, the patsy is always a clean cut cis-hetero white guy. It’ll fit their narrative that only cis-hetero white male shitlords are violent. Besides, if anyone from one of their cherished protective classes were to take him out that might just be the trigger to finally make Civil War 2.0 go hot instead of the information warfare/ psyop they’ve been running the last few years.
Although it occurs to me as I type that this might actually be the plan. So who knows, could go either way I guess. But if I were a betting man I’d still put money on clean cut cis-hetero white guy. Perhaps an obvious soy-boy. That would have the upshot of being both a cis-hetero white male shitlord and still potentially make the Civil War go hot.
The most recent fall guy was Allen Weisselberg, a Jew.
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Democrats hate Jews. That’s why you and your fellow travelers are working round the clock to see the Israelis exterminated.
He still loves all the neocons. He wouldn’t shut up about his George Will book on tape.
Reluctantly and strategically. The strategy is to keep those Koch paychecks rolling in.
Well, you can’t expect him to only reply in threads with people he hasn’t muted. He wouldn’t be able to talk to anyone but like, 5 people.
Mike is as big of a pussy as Sarc.
Mike is as big of a pussy as Sarc.
Bigger. Sarc at least stays and fights. He’s wrong, foolish, and not particularly bright to do so, but he stays. Liarson just mutes, comments, poops, and runs.
Damn right! (Aside from your misspelling of “guv’nor” 🙂 )
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And yet your behavior says otherwise.