re: #1 Unabogie
If he takes it? ingests it?
A tanker truck filled to the brim with gasoline slammed into a tractor-trailer and burst into a fiery inferno Thursday morning on Interstate 95 in Connecticut.The blaze — which shut down both sides of the highway, a major East Coast artery — erupted at about 5 a.m., according to the Hartford Courant.
And if that’s not enough of a travel nightmare for drivers, the portion of the major highway affected by the fire will remain closed for the next two to five days, WTNH reported.
re: #2 PhillyPretzel ✅
If he takes it? ingests it?
Exactly. The guy is wound tighter than a black hole.
re: #1 Unabogie
Haloperidol would help Donald Trump.
Did fail-son #2 show up for his dad’s trial today?
re: #1 Unabogie
Weed would help Donald Trump
I dunno. Assholes who get stoned tend to remain that way.
MAGA supporters are out in full force to support Ill Dunce. All three of them.
UPDATE: Watch as I make my way through the park to the protest area.
The thrill is gone. pic.twitter.com/b5BrDUQes8— Eddie Smith (@eddsmitty) May 2, 2024
One of the richest men who ever lived building a Nazi-minting machine should probably cause more concern than what any college student thinks. But alas.
— L O L G O P (@lolgop.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T18:26:47.671Z
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Americans have been trained to never actually consider how power effects standards of accountability, because the American Dream de facto involves carving out your own little niche of unaccountable power. It’s actually the people with the least power that must be held to the most punitive standard, up to and including a kind of implicit collective guilt, because they have not earned license.
The end result is that you have people with real power behaving in entirely consistent ways that should be alarming, but the cultural norm is to euphemize and grant grace to their anti-social behavior because license, the hierarchical trait, is so ingrained that it trumps simple assessment of cause and effect.
The richest man in the world engages in a long-term trend of entertaining and circulating fascist rhetoric, associates with fascists, and this is not seen as actionable because it’s simply part of the power of capital that you can do this. There’s no utilitarian-shaped calculation of whether his freedom should be abrogated by cops and FBI because of the implicit danger; there’s no state actirs suggesting the law be bent to curtail his activity.
We can keep talking about how we’re a nation founded in rebellion to a king, but our actions speak louder than our words. One of the largest waves of reaction we’ve seen, including supposed “centrists” was to a trend of people contradicting the entitlement of the powerful to speak uninterrupted, even in mediums where friction and confrontation are the norm; another prominent reaction was to the notion “don’t touch, let alone fuck, people because you have power over them.”
Trump has a shot because Americans are convinced that with the right configuration of punishment and indifference they can be little kings. They’ll vote against their current interests wagering that their slice of privilege—race, class, sex, etc—means in the future that they win precisely when others lose.
re: #8 (((Archangel1)))
MAGA supporters are out in full force to support Ill Dunce. All three of them.
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Someone needs to do a “pro-Trump” ad showing Donnie sleeping, his massive crowds of 3 people, Donnie being booked, Donnie spilling ketchup, toilet paper trailing his clothese, etc…
(At least for those of the above which have real photos and videography.)
If the Lincoln Project hasn’t done this already.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has some gratitude for Donald Trump, who commuted his 28-year-sentence for public corruption to time served in January 2021, just before leaving the presidency. Kilpatrick ended up serving nearly eight years.
Criminal scum love fellow criminal scum.
At the mid-afternoon break, Trump asked Judge Merchan to read his big stack of articles from Tom Fitton, Jonathan Turley, Mark Levin & others that the case should be dismissed. The judge refused. Updated story on today … https://t.co/Zo2YsXu6z5
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 2, 2024
Hahahahahahahahaha.
This fucking guy.
re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg
Case Dismissed? Where is that J Jonas Jameson laugh?
re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg
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This fucking guy.
Trump: Judge, I have an article from Gateway Pundit. Please read it.
re: #6 A Cranky One
Did fail-son #2 show up for his dad’s trial today?
Per meidastouch.com
Keith Davidson, who represented porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, resumed his testimony today. Eric Trump was the first family member to attend Trump’s trial on Tuesday, but today there was no family in attendance.
re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg
Thanks. This is what they should play for DT anytime he makes a remark.
re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg
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This fucking guy.
I’d propose this is not Trump eccentricity, this is entirely coherent with how his supporters view the process of argument and interpretation of meaning. Not only do their always argue by affirming their consequents, but ultimately they do not respect the idea that an argument can be evaluated for it’s pertinence and quality if that argument justifies their position.
You can generate a genealogy of people before Trump who hammered this mindset into place.
Tradwife influencers are quietly spreading far-right conspiracy theories
— Radical Reports (@radicalreports.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T15:03:56.191Z
Amidst more possibilities than guesses remaining, I was able to bag the bird this AM.
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Katy Tur(d) is on MSNBC shilling for trump saying Cohen is a problem for the defense.
French President Emmanuel Macron said he has not ruled out sending ground troops to Ukraine if Russia breaks through Ukrainian front lines and the government in Kyiv made such a request.In an interview with The Economist published on Thursday, Macron reaffirmed his previous statements backing Ukraine in the face of Russia’s battlefield advances.
re: #21 EstebanTornado1963
Katy Tur(d) is on MSNBC shilling for trump saying Cohen is a problem for the defense.
Did we expect that GOP Stenographer to say anything else?
re: #21 EstebanTornado1963
All of the witnesses are a problem for the defense. This is indisputably true at this point.
re: #18 The Ghost of a Flea
I’d propose this is not Trump eccentricity, this is entirely coherent with how his supporters view the process of argument and interpretation of meaning. Not only do their always argue by affirming their consequents, but ultimately they do not respect the idea that an argument can be evaluated for it’s pertinence and quality if that argument justifies their position.
You can generate a genealogy of people before Trump who hammered this mindset into place.
Has it ever been any different? IMO conservative word-vomit always has defending the indefensible privileges of the in-group (or king and his cronies, back in the day) as its primary purpose.
YouTube is excited to announce that they’ll soon be showing you a lot more ads! Won’t that be awesome?
mashable.com
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-02T19:34:53.000Z
Every now and then Isaac Chotiner drops one of these totally normal illuminating interviews with a professional who absolutely understands the subject matter and there are no gotcha questions because there’s nothing to hide.
And I swear he lays these out like decoy ducks to lure in hubristic fucks.
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T19:41:18.199Z
re: #24 lawhawk
All of the witnesses are a problem for the defense. This is indisputably true at this point.
By and large, prosecution witnesses are supposed to be a problem for the defense, Katy. They wouldn’t be on the stand, otherwise.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
Not only more but more of the same ads, repeated over and over all so you have the opportunity to change your mind about a product or service after viewing the ad several dozen times over the course of a couple days.
department that bombed a city block thinks university admins are overreaching
— Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T19:56:40.719Z
re: #31 sizzzzlerz
You mean, that’s the point of the witnesses for your side is to help your side and hinder the others?
Weird, I know.
Trump’s witnesses if he ever calls any, are going to get savaged, that’s for sure.
He needs to create reasonable doubt, and I’m not sure any of his cross exams to date have done that. Prosecutors have generated a strong case.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
I want to find the guy (and I am 99.99% sure it was a guy) who decided pause screen ads were a good idea and punch him in the nuts.
Repeatedly.
re: #21 EstebanTornado1963
Katy Tur(d) is on MSNBC shilling for trump saying Cohen is a problem for the defense.
Concern trolls are concerned about what Katy had to say. I suspect Cohen’s testimony scares Trump more than anything else, including all of the documented evidence.
re: #9 The Ghost of a Flea
What goes through my mind every time I hear the phrase ‘American Dream’.
Nite Owl: What happened to us? What happened to The American Dream?
Comedian: What happened to The America Dream? It came true! You’re looking at it.
re: #39 darthstar
Concern trolls are concerned about what Katy had to say. I suspect Cohen’s testimony scares Trump more than anything else, including all of the documented evidence.
re: #40 Romantic Heretic
What goes through my mind every time I hear the phrase ‘American Dream’.
I thought it was about building a better life for your kids than their parents had. That was what my dad the high-school educated unionized steel worker did: we all got through (state) college and made the middle class
From the AP: AZ D Gov signs bill that repeals 1864 abortion ban.
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re: #43 PhillyPretzel ✅
From the AP: AZ D Gov signs bill that repeals 1864 abortion ban.
apnews.com
Hooray, back from the 19th century to the mid-20th entury…
If TikTok fails to deliver on “but I just like how tits look in a vintage dress” as a response to tradwife content it’s actually an abomination made by the Communists to destroy us or our nation deserves to die because we can’t perform basic mildly-fetishistic objectification without starting a loop of radicalization.
27 unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in PolandResearchers discovered 27 original volumes containing the lost works of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the library of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Polish science news outlet Nauka w Polske reported on May 2.
The Brothers Grimm, who collected, committed to paper, and popularized many German folk tales, are considered some of the most famous folklorists in the world.
A number of their works were considered to be permanently lost following World War 2.
re: #45 The Ghost of a Flea
I admit I hadn’t even heard the term “Tradwife” until yesterday.
Now that I know what it’s about, I’m not a fan.
re: #24 lawhawk
All of the witnesses are a problem for the defense. This is indisputably true at this point.
came back to say that
read ahead and noticed i didnt have to
that’s some growth on my part ;-)
One thing I love about Austin is our local media. The public radio station KUT is not letting UT admins get away with lying about the protests.
KUT 90.5 | By Andrew Weber
UT Austin says protesters carried guns and assaulted people. Prosecutors haven’t seen proof.
kut.org
“…People are legally allowed to carry a weapon on the UT Austin campus. However, if they’re committing a crime, like criminal trespassing, they could be arrested for unlawful carrying of a weapon, a misdemeanor.
[Travis County Attorney Delia Garza] said after reading UT Austin’s statement Tuesday, she expected to see some of that reflected in arrest affidavits from the University of Texas Police Department, the arresting agency. She didn’t.
“I don’t know why they are saying that,” she said.
re: #39 darthstar
Concern trolls are concerned about what Katy had to say. I suspect Cohen’s testimony scares Trump more than anything else, including all of the documented evidence.
theres a nauseatingly detailed paper trail
there’s david pecker
cohen is icing
re: #43 PhillyPretzel ✅
From the AP: AZ D Gov signs bill that repeals 1864 abortion ban.
apnews.com
had to be done.
relax. this is not good for the Rs
and it doesnt mean now the D’s wont come out to vote
breathe
re: #51 Dangerman
theres a nauseatingly detailed paper trail
there’s david pecker
cohen is icing
Cohen is icing, but the defense is turning him into Kaiser Sose and by the time he does appear the jury will be begging for his autograph.
re: #47 Eclectic Cyborg
I admit I hadn’t even heard the term “Tradwife” until yesterday.
Now that I know what it’s about, I’m not a fan.
ditto
my idiot governor
Global elites want to control our behavior and push a diet of petri dish meat and bugs on Americans.
Florida is saying no. I was proud to sign SB 1084 to keep lab grown meat out of Florida and prioritize our farmers and ranchers over the agenda of elites and the World Economic… pic.twitter.com/vHdWaJtckU— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) May 1, 2024
re: #55 Dangerman
my idiot governor
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re: #55 Dangerman
Global elites want to control our behavior and push a diet of petri dish meat and bugs on Americans.
Florida is saying no. I was proud to sign SB 1084 to keep lab grown meat out of Florida and prioritize our farmers and ranchers over the agenda of elites and the World Economic Forum.
what ever happened to free trade and free choice?
and since when does the WEF have any say in our agricultural policy?
re: #56 Dangerman
pps
pointed out about Desantis:
• Yale graduate
• Harvard graduate
• Endorsed by the Club for Growth, which was created by the billionaire Koch brothers
• Governor of Florida, a state of over 21 million
• US Senate candidate
• US presidential candidate
Talking about “global elites”
re: #51 Dangerman
theres a nauseatingly detailed paper trail
there’s david pecker
cohen is icing
True: AFAICT, Trump doesn’t really have much of any real “defense” here, outside of two points:
1. “I’m the famous Donald Trump, premiere Privileged Character in the U.S.A., and trying me for ANYTHING is an outrage, and inherently false.”
2. “See Point no. 1”
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
what ever happened to free trade and free choice?
and since when does the WEF have any say in our agricultural policy?
please see bottom half of #55 ^^
Haven’t even read it and I’m already screaming YESSSS!!!!
re: #59 Jay C
Yrue: AFAICT, Trump doesn’t really have much of any real “defense” here, outside of two points:
1. “I’m the famous Donald Trump, premiere Privileged Character in the U.S.A., and trying me for ANYTHING is an outrage, and inherently false.”
2. “See Point no. 1”
I’ve heard that there’s actually a viable defense in this case, mostly revolving around the felony charges stemming from the fact that the fraud was done in furtherance of a crime. Prove that he wasn’t doing it to support a crime, the felonies no longer apply. But of course, he won’t go that route, he has to stick to his preferred defense, which is, “OMG DEEP STATE WITCH HUNT I’M BEING PERSECUTED THIS WHOLE TRIAL IS ILLEGAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG.”
the irs does hire some very nice people
but they really dont know what they’re doing or understand the tax law except for the very straightforward basics
re: #62 Nerdy Fish
But of course, he won’t go that route, he has to stick to his preferred defense, which is, “OMG DEEP STATE WITCH HUNT I’M BEING PERSECUTED THIS WHOLE TRIAL IS ILLEGAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG.”
So basically, the same “defense” - pretty much in its entirety - he uses for every other change he faces….?
re: #55 Dangerman
This stems a company pitching bug eating as sustainability at Davos, managing to get some investment, and then failing to hit all of their marks. Because that’s what actually happens at Davos: hustlers pitch startups to a class of elitists that imagine themselves wise and engaged in shaping the future for the better. It’s just a pretentious jamboree for people that get their jollies from larping as philosopher-kings for a few days while entrepreneurs try and catch their fancy by creating ads that make the viewers feel smart and important.
Davos is sinister, in that it’s a microcosm of how wealth imbalance narrows the window of what is possible to match the expectations of very unserious, sheltered people who never have to hear the word “no.”
But instead it’s been turned into a bowdlerized version of the Elders of Zion, because right wingers cannot, on pain of death, acknowledge that rich people can and are often entirely incompetent and mostly create bad outcomes through ignorance welded to disproportionate purchasing power. If the powerful are stupid then there entire worldview is bunk, so there can only be evil and good rich people.
re: #64 Jay C
So basically, the same “defense” - pretty much in its entirety - he uses for every other change he faces….?
Pretty much. From what I’ve heard, the other cases don’t have even that much of a long-shot defense; he’s basically dead to rights, provided they can get the charges to actually stick, and don’t get slapped down by the Calvinball Court with his “absolute immunity” farce.
re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I thought it was about building a better life for your kids than their parents had. That was what my dad the high-school educated unionized steel worker did: we all got through (state) college and made the middle class
That’s much more difficult than it used to be, which is a root cause of the present-day US political shit show.
re: #62 Nerdy Fish
I’ve heard that there’s actually a viable defense in this case, mostly revolving around the felony charges stemming from the fact that the fraud was done in furtherance of a crime. Prove that he wasn’t doing it to support a crime, the felonies no longer apply. But of course, he won’t go that route, he has to stick to his preferred defense, which is, “OMG DEEP STATE WITCH HUNT I’M BEING PERSECUTED THIS WHOLE TRIAL IS ILLEGAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG.”
if i remember there are at least two felony roads to go down
- one is the election route, not reporting contributions, in kind, way over the limit etc
- the other is straight up tax fraud for deducting the payments to cohen by masking lying that they were legal expenses
i think the second one is easier to explain and understand and a lot of people can relate to. there is zero way - zero - that tfg, weisselberg, et al didnt know that the pmt to Daniels was not a deductible expense. that’s half of why they structured it this way (imo). the other half of course was to hide it.
and let me state, again, that if tfg had stuck a crowbar in his wallet and paid the $130k - essentially pocket change - personally, none of this would be happening
Todd Blanche nodding his head to Trump’s statement that he can’t testify because of the gag order is a very serious ethical violation in the middle of a criminal trial. Merchan must absolutely grill Blanche and get to the bottom of why he lied to his client about his rights.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 2, 2024
re: #74 Eclectic Cyborg
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My next book, VERY FINE PEOPLE, a collection of related essays from 2016-2023, releases on June 25!
— A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T21:20:05.008Z
re: #69 GlutenFreeJesus
Only problem with that is a 50% increase of zero is still zero.
re: #55 Dangerman
my idiot governor
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re: #78 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
So, I won’t be able to order a Bug Mac and an order of flies at a Florida McDonald’s?
*WHACK!*
If DeSantis eats anything, he’s eating bugs.
fda.gov
re: #78 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
No. You have to go to McPitri’s for that.
LGF Site issue:
Does anyone else have an issue where, after clicking on a link and having nothing happen for a couple of seconds, you click the click a second time because you’re not sure if you hit it the first time, the entire windows is grayed out with the spinning cursor of doom? Then, sometimes, the normal page is restored on its own, sometimes, it seems permanently frozen so you reload the page and you go back to the page as it was when you first got there from the front page?
Or is it just me?
re: #78 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
So, I won’t be able to order a Bug Mac and an order of flies at a Florida McDonald’s?
It’s Florida: “You want flies with that?” is probably a common question….
Trump took press questions. Will you testify?
“Well I’m not allowed to testify. I’m under a gag order.” He turns to his lawyer, Todd Blanche. “I guess, right?”
Blanche both shakes his head no and also nods yes in a gymnastic move that should be in the Paris Olympics this summer.
I hope Judge Merchan takes the opportunity to advise Trump that the gag order does allow him to testify.
re: #86 jaunte
I hope Judge Merchan takes the opportunity to advise Trump that the gag order does allow him to testify.
Like, he is aware that the judge is kept apprised of all these things he’s saying in press conferences?
Tomorrow:
Judge Merchin: Mr. Blanche, would you explain to your client what a gag order is and what it means in here? I want to find out if you understand.
re: #88 Nerdy Fish
Sure. As usual, he’s daring anyone to stop him.
re: #75 Nerdy Fish
Well, in a strict sense, Trump is correct. He can’t testify, because every opportunity he got, he would be attacking the witnesses or the prosecutors, and the gag order is preventing him from doing that.
In which case, he isn’t addressing the question asked of him by his lawyer or by the prosecution, on cross. That would surely draw the admonition of the judge with instructions to answer the question directly. Refuting a previous witness does not require insults.
re: #1 Unabogie
Weed would help Donald Trump
I hear a strategically-placed-and-timed cattleprod can do wonders…
re: #91 sizzzzlerz
In which case, he isn’t addressing the question asked of him by his lawyer or by the prosecution, on cross. That would surely draw the admonition of the judge with instructions to answer the question directly. Refuting a previous witness does not require insults.
Yes, but this is Trump we’re talking about. Obviously he doesn’t have to bully the witnesses or the court staff, and he shouldn’t, when answering questions on the witness stand, because it’s irrelevant. But he would do it anyway, because that’s just who he is, a big fat stupid bully.
re: #55 Dangerman
my idiot governor
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re: #55 Dangerman
my idiot governor
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So he invented a crisis, signed a bill to stop fake/woke meat, and then gave 6 million dollars to a bunch of line dancing cowboys?
“This week, the unthinkable occurred on our [REVERENT ADJECTIVE] campus. An [INFLAMMATORY COLLECTIVE NOUN] overtook the historic [CENTRAL CAMPUS LOCATION NAMED AFTER PROBLEMATIC DONOR].”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/uni…— McSweeney’s Publishing (@mcsweeneys.bsky.social) 2024-05-02T14:46:17.121Z
re: #84 Jay C
DeSantis— the same guy all worked up about banning eating bugs more than happy to ban regulatory agencies responsible for eliminating more tasty stuff like rat hair and feces.
re: #97 darthstar
mutters under his breath
Even though he’s completely free to insult anyone in the media. He is confused.
re: #96 goddamnedfrank
I never realized how perfect MadLibs are for mocking statements put out by bureaucrats pretending to be more.
re: #86 jaunte
I hope Judge Merchan takes the opportunity to advise Trump that the gag order does allow him to testify.
I’m under a gag order! I can’t say what I can’t say!
re: #65 The Ghost of a Flea
This stems a company pitching bug eating …
A major hurdle that food companies (in the US) need to get past is cross-reactivity with shellfish antigens. And one that will not be solved soon.