Good morning one and all to another wonderous day! The day in upon on and the links are fresh and ready for consumption!
Obama Reportedly Has ‘Grave Concern’ Biden Will Lose To Trump, Feels Need To Intervene
White House, Dems Abandon Promoting ‘Bidenomics’
Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman dead at 82
Top Centrist House Democrat Joins Congressional Exodus
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Surge Again
Ronna McDaniel Might End Up Making $600K+ From Her Single NBC Interview
Securities Fraud Charges Against Texas AG Paxton Will Be Dropped
Solar farm the size of 2,500 football fields destroyed in Texas amid growing solar e-waste problem
Disney Drops Lawsuits Against DeSantis-Backed Tourism District
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Obama Reportedly Has ‘Grave Concern’ Biden Will Lose To Trump, Feels Need To Intervene – challenge Trump to a duel to the death!
This feels like battlespace prep to me. Get the dems worried so they show up at the polls/crank up the fortifications, get the Republicans (even more) overconfident and lazy.
Yeah, let’s just ignore when Democrats do point out problems with their party and how out of touch it is. Must just be a false flag to fool us.
White House, Dems Abandon Promoting ‘Bidenomics’
Don’t just give up, you just need better messaging
“Think how bad things *would* have been, if it hadn’t been for Biden’s economic policies!”
He created or saved every job in America.
Joe says – hey, let’s hire that RoaT, he’s got great speech lines for me!
A vote for Biden is a vote for high speed rail to Hawaii!
I thought Biden has already taken that train.
Solar farm the size of 2,500 football fields destroyed in Texas amid growing solar e-waste problem
Can’t make an omelette without breaking some panels. I assume hail is a very rare thing in Texas and such could not have been predicted, but I do not know details of local weather.
Subtle humor or blatant sarcasm? Difficult to say.
you need to fine tune your humor/sarcasm ML model
I blame your accent.
What I can’t help but think when I see the helicopter shots (or drive by the farms springing up where orchards where along I-5 these days) is the difference in energy density for solar versus nuclear.
Yeah, rooftop solar makes some sense if the panel prices stay low enough — the building is already there, might as well use it (well, outside of hail areas and all)… but why turn ungodly amounts of land into poor generators instead of having a nice, dense power production facility with contained waste? (I know… I know why… scares over the decades and regulation choking things) It just doesn’t make sense from an “environment” perspective to me… solar farms sure as hell aren’t good for habitats or anything.
Oh well.
Solar also makes a lot of sense (more sense than lying it in the grass) as a canopy over parking lots. Are we trying to save this planet from burning to a crisp or not?
You might be able to charge one car while blinding anyone in buildings nearby
I’m not trying to charge cars, I’m sending the power into the Wal-Mart.
*reduces CPA’s ESG score 88%*
Will fully power one walk in freezer case for approximately 1.2 hours every other day!
Payback without subsidies works out to approximately 42.6 years.
Expected life of equipment 16.2 years.
That’s Bidenomics!
My term for those is “subsidy farms”.
Exactly. And that’s also how you know “climate change” is mostly a scam. If they really believed the dire predictions, we’d be building nuke plants all over the place.
Jon Stewart benefited by 829% ‘overvalue’ of his NYC home even as he labels Trump’s civil case ‘not victimless’
WHATABOUTISM !!!!!!
Did Jon sell his home at eight times the fair price?
I think it was 8x the value he was paying taxes on, then the next person sold it for a 13% loss.
You can’t be self-righteous unless you’re righteous. Why do evil people want to persecute the righteous?
C’mon, self-righteous hypocrisy is the best kind.
I’m sure that check to Leticia is in the mail.
In the form of a Ticket to the Governor’s Office, no doubt.
Works for churchgoing low tippers.
Back in the ’80s, I worked in the hotel restaurant at the hotel owned by Oral Roberts. Patrons would leave bible verses in lieu of tips.
African royalty OTOH threw Benjamins like they were dusting lint of their robes.
How very uncharitable. Those people are bad Christians.
The waitress isn’t Caesar?
OMG. We’d have a buffet, and conferents would open up the clamshell container and hold it flat so they could fill both the container and the lid. When they put a “container must close” rule, they’d cut a hole in the top so they could pile the food beyond the closed height.
You didn’t bill by weight? Every takeout buffet I’ve been to did.
Or was the food itself part of their overall stay?
We weren’t a buffet place, it was just for special occasions when we needed to feed a bunch of people quickly and they weren’t getting catering for their event. There was no scale at the register. Or in the kitchen now that I think about it.
I remember finding the old Jack Chick tracts (but never my favorite, which I even requested from the people handing them out!), and having people try to hand them over as tips. As this is when you could still smoke in restaurants, they would usually wind up burning in an ashtray.
It’s whatabout all the way down.
Shameless whore is shameless.
I can probably bet that hush money and pussy grabbing was had by him.
Top Centrist House Democrat Joins Congressional Exodus
After 12 years a vacation is in order.
Also where is everyone?
Working.
Ayup
“Road Trip!”
“Sounds good. Where are we going?”
“The Red Sea!”
“That in flyover country?”
So, they built a solar farm in hail country and didn’t do anything to try to armor the panels? Of course the layered plexi would have made it even more expensive… oh yeah they’re probably just going to pocket the insurance payout and bail on the boondoggle.
They initially covered the panels with cheap, durable aluminum but found they weren’t getting the necessary output from them.
I would have gone with stone. Put the panels underground.
Excavating through TX clay is expensive too.
But those panels would be intact right now had they ponied up!
I vaguely recall Obama stumping for Ole Gropey in 2020 in deep blue Delaware County with an abysmal turn out. No one cares about him anymore.
So the old new hotness and the old old-and-busted ain’t thrillin’ the Dems anymore?
whaddup doh’
sup’ Banjos…..how YOU doin’
Well, about to see how strong imposter syndrome can get. Earlier this week I got notice that I’m getting a bonus (higher than I expected by quite a bit) and I’m having my first annual review today. I fell like I spend more time fighting against our internal tools trying to actually see what’s going on under the hood than I do troubleshooting issues.
Yeah, I’m confused when I get positive performance reviews too.
I know how poorly I do.
Its not just you getting a bonus, the government gets part (nearly 40% in my case) of your bonus, too!
Yep, I work at a publicly owned utility, which is just another name for government bureaucracy. I haven’t taken a sick day in over 10 years and I require no supervision in doing my job. I just churn the slop out on time like clockwork. My bosses love me because I require zero effort on their part. In my mind that’s the bare minimum a job should require, being present and doing your work. In this world I’m a damn unicorn. I always feel uncomfortable when they tell me how much they appreciate me. I can’t help but think, “Dude, this is kindergarten crap. If I was actually incentivised do you know how much shit I could actually accomplish for you?” It’s fucking weird.
‘”I take care of my kids.” You’re supposed to, you dumb motherfucker! What kind of ignorant shit is that? “I ain’t never been to jail!” What do you want, a cookie?! You’re not supposed to go to jail, you low-expectation-having motherfucker!’
Millennial Worker: “I’m not working harder until I get paid for it!”
Grumbletarian: “I accept your terms.”
Millennial Worker: “So I’m getting a raise?”
Grumbletarian: “No.”
@ GT:
This show? I confess I hadn’t heard of it. Although I saw Sorvino by himself at a museum once; he was very regal.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072581
Yeah, I vaguely remember the show, but I DEFINITELY remember the theme song! Dug into the IMDB listing and found that one of the two guys credited with the theme was the lyricist (?) for Fiddler on the Roof and other did a bunch of music for Sesame Street, including THAT theme song. Probably why I found the theme song more memorable than the show.
This beast is set for final flight. Right now 70% chance launch violation criteria.
Phrasing!
So the WSJ ran both an obit editorial and this gem from when Lieberman replaced RINO Weicker. It’s an interesting read.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-may-spurn-devil-it-knows-for-one-it-doesnt-f7b19c28?st=slcgf36atqvcuej&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Just got approved to work Handgun Nationals in Talladega in September. I am going to be spending a LOT of vacation time working matches this year. I’ll try and have plaenty of spare cash to visit the gun shop at CMP while I’m there.
Fuckety fuckety fuckety fuck. CMP now has additional requirements for NY residents. Guess I need to get my permit reprinted so it shows semiautomatic rifle approval.
Does that cover fully semiautomatics too?
As long as they don’t have a threaded barrel, pistol grip, or thing that goes up.
Akshually, since it has an internal magazine, a Garand can have all the scary murderkill features, even a bayonet lug!
😒
my permit
Fuck NY. That is all.
NJ says hold my beer.
The good thing about the permit is that the CMP only sells to members of CMP-affiliated clubs or people actively pursuing a marksmanship programs. A CCW permit counts as proof of marksmanship.
The contents of my safe here in Idaho would put me in jail in NY.
I assume there are events where you attempt to blow the lungs out the back of a ballistics dummy?
“If a composer is queer, is their music queer too?”
£177,422
https://twitter.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1773027463255195755
What an odd question.
Also begs the question: Is there any such thing as queer music? My in depth analysis verified by a background of research conducted over the past five minutes postulates the answer is “no.”
My experience with fellow metalhead high schoolers in the late 80’s suggested there was all sorts of gay music.
Oddly enough, they had no problem with Judas Priest.
I have a theory that every great (mostly rock) musician is
a) ugly
b) gay
c) dead
Change my mind.
I wouldn’t know, I don’t pay attention to what they look like or who they do, just what they sound like.
That’s easy-there’s…um…well Mick Jagger was good looking when he was younger wasn’t he?
For about five minutes in ’65.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_pQa0TGYCw
Yeah, but Mick had a well-publicized fling with David Bowie back in the day (while he was married to Bianca, no less…) Certainly not exclusively gay, but he clearly didn’t mind a dick or two when the blow started blowing…
I read that the affair was a misinterpretation/brit-tabloid journalismist interpretation of what actually happened,
I prefer to believe the more salacious interpretation. Rock stars, ya know?
Maybe Bowie seduced him.
https://www.amazon.com/Me-Mr-Jones-David-Spiders/dp/1639366563
Chris Isaak? (Who was it here who left a cryptic comment about him the other day?)
You’re using a very loose definition of “great”.
Gavin Rossdale.
See above.
Macca, obviously.
Rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated?
Warren Cann
Bill Bruford
Tony Banks
Ian McNabb
Ultravox doesnt count as rock. Nor does Icicle works.
And Ill argue that since you cited Brits, they are by default gay.
How do ya get more Brits, then?
You don’t, apparently. That’s why they import so many – initially from Eastern Europe, now from MENA.
Naw, looks like they still spawn early in order to get child benefit, especially in deprived areas.
Those aren’t Brits, they are Chavs.
Do female fronted bands count?
I know there are quite a few with some eye candy that I appreciate.
Since “queer” is now a political term expressing “leftist activism”, the answer is Yes.
It’s genre fluid.
LOL
$600,000? I’d let MSNBC hire and immediately fire me for half of that.
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Some dumbass took apart his snowblower to fix it. Some dumbass procrastinated. Some dumbass never put it back together. After the last snow storm, some dumbass shoveled 15″ of snow out of his fairly long drive way. That dumbass is really sore today.
The dumbass is me.
I am the dumbass.
Don’t be a dumbass – be a smartass.
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3r6sor
After only doing half the brakes on POS Envoy™ in the driveway the other day, I’m feelin it.
The weather gods called your bluff.
The name is Dumass.
I remember when that commercial was new and was actually surprised they had aired it.
I still quote that at least once a week 🙂
Don’t worry, the longer you procrastinate, the more likely you lose parts and forget how it goes back together. *eyes Quadrajet parts in box in garage*
look sometimes a job is simply to be left to future pistoffnick. If future pistoffnick is upset that’s his problem.
Oh, ouch
It is pronounced DUMAS.
NPR had a grotesque hit piece on RFK Jr.’s running mate this morning. They had a one sentence “though she has not personally endorsed such views,” and spent the next several minutes saying that she’s an antivaxxer conspiracy theorist who blames her kid’s autism on vaccines and it otherwise a MAGA populist SCICENCE! denier.
It’s all guilt by association now. If you don’t disavow someone outside of the mainstream Invasion of the Bodysnatchers style it means you endorse literally everything they’ve said and done and even things they haven’t said and done.
Right on time. You could set your watch by it.
I heard last night, this election Republicans will talk about issues and Democrats will talk about January 6. I will extend that to RFK Jr. He’s got some good videos out there talking about issues. And all the Dems are doing is hit pieces. Because they can’t win on a single issue.
all praise holy Science
How old is that Lieberman article? I didn’t realize he had been alive.
That’s from when he was first elected to the senate. From the late 80s.
He always reminded me of the nazi dude from Blues Brothers.
I think Henry Gibson’s best roll was the commercial for the “United Appeal for the Dead” from Kentucky Fried Movie.
I can never remember his name. For some reason I always default to Artie Johnson, which I know is incorrect.
Have you ever seen an eagle catch a fish and then swallow it in mid air ?
https://twitter.com/IndiaTales7/status/1773296271635153388
that fish looks undersized, should have not been kept.
Sushi is meant to be eaten in one bite.
Now I want sushi
I saw an eagle tear apart a Great Blue Heron once. That was quite a battle.
did the Heron’ sons get revenge?
Water birds are the original sovereign citizens, it is known.
For those of you who doubt that dogs are people:
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2024/03/25/dogs-understand-words-objects/3821711370880/
Duh doi.
Marta the GSD is very smart. Its surprising how many words she knows and will respond to.
Liesl the boxer on the other hand is a bit more remedial.
The jury is still out on the Rott, but he seems bright.
You have your paws full!
Every single one of those mutts Jugsy dragged home, shortly after I knew what she was up to and I said “Look, do NOT bring another fuckin’ puppy into this house.”
I have a relative like that. So open-hearted her blood spills out.
My first Keeshond quickly learned the word ‘ride’ — to the point I couldn’t use it in conversation. Had to spell it.
Lily understands a lot of what I’m saying, but she treats all of my requests as suggestions, not commands.
Are you quite sure she’s not a cat?
🐱🐶🐕🐈?
Yeah, she cues off of me way too much and actually follows my lead when she doesn’t know what to do.
My dog forgets the rules for fetch on a regular basis. Not buying it.
For the Dean Beasts, their understanding of English kind of comes and goes.
I think they learned that from the landscaping guys.
https://media3.giphy.com/media/jNYuF8gqafM1q/giphy.gif
“Abby Hensel is married! Conjoined twin who rose to fame in reality show Abby & Brittany secretly tied the knot with an army veteran in 2021
The pair share a single body, and from the waist down, all their organs, including the intestine, bladder and reproductive organs, are shared.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13247899/Conjoined-twin-Abby-Hensel-ties-knot.html
So Brittany is still single?
More power to them I suppose.
So every roll in the hay is a threesome?
Well, two and a halfsome.
All the headache of two women, but none of the fun.
oof!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022913/mediaviewer/rm1832840961
What would be weird is if they had different sex drives.
How are the nerves wires? One might not have any connection.
I’d think the nerves proper would be the same since they share a spinal cord. But is the psychological difference in interpretation of those signals important enough? Or differences in the specific brains? Dunno.
Or if one was a lesbian.
“So Brittany is still single?”
Also, technically still a virgin?
They each need to marry dudes with cuckhold fetishes so that everyone’s happy.
Ok, but maybe don’t.
“Shocked doctor discovers 30-YEAR build-up of smegma under the foreskin of married man who was suffering agonising pain in his penis”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13248105/Shocked-doctor-discovers-30-YEAR-build-smegma-foreskin-married-man-suffering-agonising-pain-penis.html
No. Not looking.
^^ yeah
“Smegma,” the only English word more inherently disturbing than “moist.”
Also, not clicking.
The small text – the aforementioned organ had not been ‘active’ in 30 years.
I don’t think the smegma was the real problem here…
Sounds like his shower hasn’t been active for 30 years either.
Smegdobe?
Cracky?
From the comments. “Bro opted out of the insurance.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1bplod1/uhaul_vs_my_office_garage_oc/
Wait I thought Lieberman was already dead? And way older than 82.
Of course I think Biden is already dead too, but I’m probably right on that one.
You were thinking of Senator Palpatine
Nobelist Daniel Kahneman, a pioneer of behavioral economics, is dead at 90
Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his insights into how ingrained neurological biases influence decision making, has died
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nobelist-daniel-kahneman-pioneer-behavioral-economics-dead-90-108576186
Now, that sucks.
I saw him speak at Dr. GF’s hooding ceremony.
90 is a good run
Thank God the Austrian school never got into Freud.
Found this gem after following the Rona link.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/03/28/scotlands-cops-are-giving-up-on-crime-shifting-almost-all-focus-to-hate-speech/
If you are being assaulted or raped in Scotland, start shouting racial slurs?
Why, so you can get raped in prison afterwards?
Don’t be silly – you accuse the rapist of making racial jokes, or saying that men can’t be women.
Maybe if you didn’t want to get raped, you shouldn’t have worn that kilt.
That’s what sheep said.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324059
Coming soon to a continent near you.
I hate that they keep giving us ideas.
The main cable of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge up close
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1773339804224086221
This is what happens when a plane is landing and the runway disappears
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1773333442639417849
Yeah, that’s a go-around for sure
“‘100%’ Emoji Now Racist According to ADL
When everything is racist, nothing is, even emojis.
For instance, the emoji depicting a red underlined “100” is now somehow racist by proxy, because white supremacist groups also use the term “100%” to mean how white they are, according to the Anti-Defamation League.”
https://pjmedia.com/graysonbakich/2024/03/27/100-emoji-now-racist-according-to-adl-n4927710
OK
That’s 100% stupid
88 means Heil Hitler. Dukakis ran for president in ’88. Therefore Dukakis means Hitler.
Gotta find some way to run with that one.
He drove a tank, ‘member?
Just photoshop that image to have his arm extending forward in salute, and you have it.
Dukaisis… David Duke… it all fits!
💯
The ADL completely cedes all power to the bigots when it comes to racial/antisemetic tropes but only when it benefits them to do so. They’re a dangerously cynical collection of censorious shitbags.
The last time I used a 100% emoji, I was agreeing with a friend’s suggestion that another friend should insist on prehab before surgery to correct his randomly dislocating shoulder.
I can just feel the racial hatred flowing through me.
Bet you even used the OK sign.
to mean how white they
arewish they wereHasn’t DNA analysis crushed how pure they really are?
All hands on deck
The fundraiser is the first major joint appearance of Obama and Clinton on behalf of Biden this campaign cycle. But it will also raise questions over whether the two past presidents have quite the political heft that they once enjoyed. While both remain Democratic rock stars and possess more charisma and talent as campaign trail rhetoricians than Biden, it’s been 16 years since Obama was first elected in a euphoric mood of hope and change. And Clinton has been out of the White House for nearly a quarter of a century. The two former presidents both retain strong support among African American voters who are vital to the Democratic coalition. And Obama is expected to be dispatched to college campuses in the fall to try to work some political alchemy on young voters – a tough crowd to get to the polls. But both the Clinton and Obama presidencies now appear ideologically somewhat conservative to many progressive and younger voters whom Biden has his own challenges in reaching.
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“I think they have to be careful about where they use the former president,” Panetta said on “CNN News Central” on Thursday. “I would probably wait until we get closer to the convention and to the election and the fall. But I think he can be a tremendous asset in terms of reaching not just the average American but obviously, the Latinos, the young people, the minorities that are going to be critical to Joe Biden if he is going to win this election.”
Obama is too conservative for the hard core “base”. That tells you everything you need to know.
Maybe he still carries a little weight with the coloreds. It’s worth a try.
Part of me thinks this is going to be a big failure as far as optics. The MSM and a few insiders are pissing their pants with excitement about those three, meanwhile Trump is going to a wake for a cop. Just like that Ronna situation exposed how completely partisan and out of touch they are at MSNBC, but they just don’t see it.
Why do they need to see it? The ballot harvest crop will be one for the record books this year.
I’ve seen a couple of lawsuits based on the fact that voter rolls have gotten even more bloated and rotten over the last few years. The fields are being planted and fertilized for that bumper crop.
And if the GOP isn’t stupid they will run will run ads non-stop about the Defense of Marriage Act, Obama’s views on the gays, and such.
The GOP is not only stupid but bankrupt as well. Hence, they are running 0 ads.
I salute your viewpoint. Nothing short of a miracle would make those losers competent again.
Obama and Bill Clinton also had a tumultuous relationship before the former president came to Obama’s aid in 2012. Clinton was one of the first political heavyweights to understand the threat that the charismatic Obama posed to his wife’s 2008 campaign. Relations between the Clinton and Obama campaigns were, at times, deeply antagonistic as the young senator challenged and then beat the Clintons, breaking their hold on a party they dominated for nearly two decades. Bill Clinton, who had prided himself on his relationship with Black voters, became especially exercised as the African American Democratic establishment split from his wife and gathered around Obama.
Obama stole those voters, fair and square.
Clinton was one of the first political heavyweights to understand the threat that the charismatic Obama posed to his wife’s 2008 campaign
I think Bill was one of the first Dems to understand that Trump was also a real threat to win, and tried to help her out with that campaign, too, but she wasn’t having it.
“Hon, maybe you should campaign in Wisconsin, and not call half the country a bunch of racist trash.”
“Shut up, skirt chaser. What the Hell do you know?”
Abrupt unscheduled disassembly
The eventual decision to cut McDaniel earned him public praise from MSNBC hosts, but not before the 80-hour saga severely tarnished the reputations of Conde’s top executives and touched off an all-out civil war inside the news group which has sent the organization into a tailspin.
Those details are starting to leak flood out of 30 Rock and into public view. On Wednesday evening, Puck’s Dylan Byers offered an inside look into the chaos that has broken out — and it’s quite an ugly sight to behold.
Byers reported that Carrie Budoff Brown, NBC News’ senior vice president of politics, had recruited Republican Richard Walters to “advance conservative pushback on social media against Todd.” Brown denied that characterization but told Byers that she “had a conversation with Richard Walters and asked if [McDaniel] had supporters who could speak on behalf of her being an NBC News contributor,” but insisted that she “never discussed what to say, how to say it, or who to focus on.” Regardless, staffers inside NBC News are enraged at the fact an executive would have engaged in such behavior.
Inside Conde’s inner circle, Stephen Labaton, executive vice president of communications, is also facing an accusation of professional misconduct. Amid the crisis, Labaton bashed his colleagues over at MSNBC, rebuking the hosts in a profane manner, Byers reported, citing a source. Labaton denied making the remark and suggested a disgruntled McDaniel had alleged it after being fired.
Over at MSNBC, Rashida Jones, the network chief, did not escape unscathed. Byers reported that not only did Jones initially not object to McDaniel’s hiring, but that she expressed interest in having the election denier on the progressive cable network.
With any luck, there will be nothing left of NBC News but a smoking crater filled with twisted rubble.
Whoa, hold on there, what wypipo is gonna say she made a mistake? They need to just shut up and check their privilege.
Privilege Still nonexistant.
Was she a diversity hire? What was her CV before this appointment?
Big Bang is an installation in which 850 iron bars shake and collide to create sound. The work of Swiss sculptor Etienne Krähenbühl is on display at the Château de Vieland near Lausanne.
https://twitter.com/ThebestFigen/status/1773127988412104950
What could go wrong? There have been zero issues in SF.
Mayor Adams Releases Requirements, Opens Permit Applications for Responsible Autonomous Vehicle Testing in New York City
https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/231-24/mayor-adams-releases-requirements-opens-permit-applications-responsible-autonomous-vehicle
No i$$ues in NYC either.
I have no idea if this is true, but I have the impression that NYC cabbies might be a bit more feisty than SF ones.
Meanwhile, as the top executives at NBCU News Group are ensnared in their own controversies, the company is under tremendous attack from right-wing figures, which are aiming to mar the reputation of NBC News.
“NBC just hired & immediately fired Ronna McDaniel, because the team refused to let even one Republican join them – that’s how biased they are!” Elon Musk posted on his social platform X Wednesday.
Of course, the reality is that the journalists rejected McDaniel because she participated in Donald Trump’s attempt to throw out votes in 2020 and in the years since publicly stated she did not believe Biden legitimately won the election. Nevertheless, the dishonest narrative is what outlets like Fox News are feeding their audiences — and that coverage has significant consequences for NBC News. Ironically, NBC News’ attempt to make inroads with Republicans through the hiring of McDaniel has had the opposite effect.
It’s dishonest narratives, all the way down.
People cannot be allowed to think for themselves. That’s what’s wrong with this country.
Only the Jacobins inside the corporate media could make McDaniel sympathetic to right wingers.
It is known that no NBC squawker even questioned whether Trump had actually beaten Clinton in 2016.
Nor did they attempt to persuade the EC to overturn the actual results.
Mayor Adams Releases Requirements, Opens Permit Applications for Responsible Autonomous Vehicle Testing in New York City
I assume they will be exempt from congestion fees.
For those unfamiliar with SF’s geography, this is why the Board of Supervisors’ decision to downzone the northern waterfront was so offensive to so many YIMBYs
In short, the Board of Supervisors NIMBY’d new mixed income housing right next to downtown to protect a small number of politically-connected homeowners’ bay views.
https://twitter.com/maxdubler/status/1773027223718531442
Downzoning at the waterfront is a ubiquitous planning practice. But thanks for playing.
I should add now it is, especially after observing many years of the opposite practice that played out in other cities, e.g. Toronto.
In short, some cohort will bitch and moan no matter what.
Matt Bracken actually worked on the construction crew of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and shares some memories.
https://gab.com/Matt_Bracken/posts/112173380000987936
I haven’t heard a peep from Buttigieg on this. Is he on maternity leave again?
If it was a solar powered ship this wouldn’t have happened!
He issued a statement yesterday.
And nobody challenged him why FedGov was going to be paying for the rebuild, nor if it was going to be named after a slaveowner again.
I was thinking more “still” instead of “again”…
You don’t really want to hear what he had to say.
https://babylonbee.com/news/buttigieg-praises-cargo-ship-for-helping-dismantle-racism-in-american-roads
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Holds Emergency Press Conference To Announce He Is Taking 3 More Months Maternity Leave
https://babylonbee.com/news/pete-buttigieg-holds-emergency-press-conference-to-announce-he-is-taking-3-more-months-maternity-leave
A once proud name brought low
For decades, the Kennedy name was synonymous with a mainstream strain of civic optimism that preached public service and a beneficent government. It enthralled aspiring Democratic politicians like California Governor and avowed Kennedy admirer Gavin Newsom. But that was a different era, when a different kind of Kennedy could be seen running for the highest office in the land — and when more Americans had faith in their government. Today, RFK Jr.’s supporters tend to place a corrupt government at the root of America’s ills. They ask not what their government can do for them but what it has done to them.
I believe you’re thinking of Ted. John was a racist fascist tax slasher.
They ask not what their government can do for them but what it has done to them.
That’s actually not a bad turn of phrase.
Once again Ford’s quality engineering insuring that I’ll likely never by another one despite being a Ford guy for years.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/ford-transit-trail-off-road-van-recalled-30-inch-tires-dont-fit
“Ford discovered that when the Transit Trail’s front axle is loaded to near its gross weight rating, there are scenarios that can cause the tires to rub. The example offered was under braking with 60 percent or more steering lock applied, which a driver might encounter while parking or driving on a narrow trail.”
😕
I’m mostly happy with my new Ford truck*. The Chevy truck is a piece of shit from top to bottom. I’m amazed that anyone buys their crap.
*a couple of WTF were they thinking and the local dealer is crap on both the sales and service side.
I wandered around the showroom while waiting for the manitenance on my C-Max and the only thing I saw that I might have been tempted by was a little two-door Bronco.
Though I didn’t have anywhere to park it.
The Heritage edition starts at a very reasonable $50k.
On the way in, Delane Dale, a quality assurance director from San Jose, fretted about Kennedy aiding Trump “by taking votes from Biden” and wondered about the family’s transformation. She was driven there by a form of morbid curiosity. “I love the Kennedys,” she says. “What happened to this guy?”
She and her partner had shown up to heckle Kennedy. But after the rally, Dale says they’ve had something of a change of heart: They were impressed by both by RFK Jr. and what his surrogates have to say.
The threat of a second Trump term “still scares me,” Dale says. But she listened when Kennedy and Shanahan talked about contaminated food and soil. Pandemic shutdowns had exacted a toll on her family and a college-aged son.
Maybe she was open to voting Kennedy after all.
“I’m thinking about it,” Dale says. “Trump’s terrifying. But at the same time, I learned a lot.”
Things are going so well, why would anybody want to upset the apple cart?
The Democratic party could’ve avoided this by simply having a primary in which Kennedy would’ve lost.
Feigning party unity up front was a bad choice.
Christ, late too often lately.
A. It seems clear sans some historic levels of cheating the dems are going to lose.
B. ‘Bidenomics’ was a made up on the spot term from Jean-Pierre after being asked repeatedly what Biden’s economic plan is.
Of course his plan is bog-standard stuff for totalitarians: inflation, shortages, property confiscation etc. They invented ‘Bidenomics’ out of thin air to keep from having to say that. “The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” – I wonder who said that.
C. He fell off of the fence finally?
D. Are we looking at some kind of increasing polarization?
E. I dont really know much about the media thing, but I do know that now and then I am surprised at the support for the 1A that seems to pop up at the last minute. Is that what this is?
F. I haven’t kept up much with the McDaniel situation either. If she is drawing money out of the NBC coffer then however much it is, it aint enough.
G. Huh. Charges against the Texas AG? The problem with banana republic bullshit is that you can never know what are legitimate accusations of criminality or politically convenient ones. Rule of law, shmule of law.
H. Greenie scam exposed yet again. It will change nothing. the grifters that pulled off the solar farm the first time are no doubt lining up to make another go of it.
I. First he is kicked out of the Republican Party for accomplishing too much, now this?
J. Dont worry Jon, Hochul assured everyone that the law only applies to Trump.
Unfortunately A does not seem clear to me at all. The Republican party is largely bankrupt and lead by its own profound idiot. I would not be surprised at all if polls start to slip back. This week they moved a bit in that direction.
Then again, I don’t really know the effect of political advertising. No one does.
I have read that a lot of the big Repub money was sitting on the sidelines as long as Romney Jrette was in charge. We’ll see, of course. And, yeah, who knows how much the big spending on ads moves the needle. At least the new leadership is going after vote fraud.
But, again, the agencies do whatever they want, without consequence. The FBI steals millions – nobody fired. The DOJ suppresses one scandal (the laptop) while manufacturing another (Russian collusion), and a couple of low level types get transferred. The CIA colludes with foreign governments to surveil Americans – crickets. The EPA manufactures new jurisdiction and powers out of thin air – nobody fired. Etc. ad infinitum.
So I wonder how much difference elections actually make.
Just in case
A bipartisan group of legal experts is sounding an alarm about presidential power this election season.
They’re pushing Congress to update a cluster of laws known as the Insurrection Act and limit how the White House can deploy troops on American soil, in case a future president takes advantage of that sweeping power.
Bad Orange Jumpsuit Man will declare martial law and round up everybody who loves Democrat-ocracy, on Day One.
Off to the forced labor camps with all disloyal quibblers.
Summer 2020 already showed how limited Presidential desires and power are when the bureaucracy isn’t on board. Jan 6 showed the opposite.
Would the restraint on deployment be (D)ifferent depending on whom is in the White House?
If they rush that through now, then Biden won’t be able to stop the next Jan. 6th protest against certification of Trump’s election! See, that’s the good kind of insurrection and we wouldn’t want the President to stop that, now would we?
Look, I was already thinking about voting for him. You don’t have to sell me on it.
The old law is hovering over the current presidential campaign. The Washington Post has reported Trump might use the Insurrection Act to suppress protests or address crime in big cities if he’s reelected.
Just as he used it during his first term; indiscriminately and often.
Does the law allow him to tweet “Law and Order”?
If so, he will use it liberally.
In our imaginations, Trump won’t do what he did last time, he’ll do everything we would like to do.
That’s what’s funny. Trump is somehow incredibly bad ass in the heads of both Republicans and Democrats.
Yet he has done nothing much.
America may be too caught up in media.
“address crime in big cities”
OH.
MY.
GOD!
Is the Address on MLK Boulevarde?
‘Sexism is the risk factor’: football’s race to learn more about ACL injuries
“We’re not discounting biology.”
Suppose menstruation is an issue? What could be done about it? Women on their periods sit out?
That is what Barcelona is studying. The harpies are suggesting it’s not that women are different, it’s because boys hog the playground equipment.
What could be done about it?
Hysterectomies, I suppose. They’re all the rage now, I hear.
I guess men never get ACL injuries since they never menstruate.
I did not see that coming! Germany to ban the production of genetic defectives:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/sausage-dogs-banned-germany/
Uh-huh. Now who does she sound like?
“Anna Webb, a dog behaviourist and host of the ‘A Dogs Life Podcast’, told LBC’s Andrew Marr: “It’s a landmark statement for Germany to be banning them. We have seen so many breeds suffer from what is known as exaggeration of features.”
If ze hund can’t crush un untermench skull in its jaws, ze hund ist problematic.
I’d just like to add, as example, Freddie Mercury.
Ugly, gay, AND dead.
Is bisexual gay?
I seriously have no idea if it counts as gay
As ToG pointed out between Bowie and Mick, keep in mind that Iggy Pop (v. ugly) went to stay with them in Berlin to kick heroin.
Hows that for a 3-way ?
“G/O Media, the struggling company that recently sold Deadspin, is shopping popular humor site The Onion and continued its fire sale by dumping two other sites Tuesday, The Post has learned.
Jim Spanfeller, G/O Media’s CEO, told stunned staffers at entertainment site The A.V. Club and food-centric site The Takeout, that the publications were sold, according to a memo obtained by The Post.
The A.V. Club was scooped up by Paste Magazine, which recently bought shuttered G/O) site Jezebel, and The Takeout has been bought by Static Media, Spanfeller said…
G/O owns a handful of other sites including Quartz, Kotaku and The Root…
The media industry has been rocked by layoffs amid shrinking ad revenue linked to declines in web traffic related to changes in search algorithms from Google and Facebook.
This year alone, Buzzfeed, Vice Media, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, NBC News, MSNBC, Sports Illustrated and CBS News have all cut jobs.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/media/former-deadspin-owner-g-o-media-puts-the-onion-up-for-sale-source/
You forgot the Ray of Sunshine tag.
I used to love The Onion.
It so bad now. Fire the writers.