Oh, dear! I’ll show this to my GIS students, when we get to electoral geographies.
A judge appointed by Bush the Wiser throws some shade at The Orange One’s lawyers:
‘WAIT! We already put a check for $30 billion in the mail!’ ~ NYT
It’s just a reminder that Trump’s lawyers write these things for an audience of one rather than a court of law.
Says the judge:
“As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective − not a protected platform to rage against an adversary,”
“is presumed to know”. Love it!
Awww! We won’t get to hear Dump and his latest bimbo lawyer (Haba, Haba, Haba) regale us with how unfair he’s being treated, the deep state, Hilary, New York state/city persecuting HIM. Of course, we’d never hear him on the stand under oath either.
Unfortunately, we just can’t unheard him otherwise.
“Did you know they don’t have free speech in other countries, like in the US?”
Other countries:
[Moderating]
As part of a board wide effort to make the board less hostile to women, please avoid gendered insults like “bimbo” in the future.
No warning issued.
[/Moderating]
Can we use non-gendered but still targeted insults? Eg, Trump is a crasshole…
Trump & Epstein 4Eva statue put up in the National mall:
A Statue of Trump and Epstein frolicking in friendship while holding hands is placed in National Mall
Huh - ninja’ed! But the weird thing is when I look at the two posts, mine has an earlier time stamp than the one right before mine. Wonder how that happened.
Not seeing that. The one before yours is at 6:21 p.m., yours is at 6:23 p.m.
That is one hilarious statue. Wonder how long it will be left standing?
I’m seeing that now, too, All is right with the world.
‘Shakedowns’: Here’s why CEOs are finally turning on Trump
[Emphasis mine]
President Donald Trump’s so-called American oligarchs—the 1 percent CEO class who voted for him for tax cuts and deregulation—are complaining about getting nothing of the sort and, instead, being on the receiving end of “highly personalized government control,” according to The New Republic.
In off-the-record conversations facilitated by The Yale School of Management’s Jerry Sonnenfeld, chief executive officers say this isn’t what they signed up for when they voted for Trump.
Sonnenfeld calls Trump’s ‘state-driven capitalism’ is more accurately called ‘fascism’.
They forgot that bribing a second-term president is less effective. Either he’s out of office in fours years, in which case he doesn’t need them, or he stages a coup, in which case, he doesn’t need them. So why would he worry about pissing them off by doing what he wants to do, bribes notwithstanding?
If anything, he’s showing that it will take even more bribes to get anything they want done. I wonder how many cycles of bribery and getting screwed they will go through before figuring it out.
Who knew Trump was Danish?
It’s like they have absolutely no awareness of how authoritarianism works. Putin was nobody, a mid-level KGB bureaucrat who got himself into Yeltsin’s administration. He then facilitated the wholesale looting of the country by the oligarchs (great for the oligarchs!) while solidifying his status as a dictator. And now, any oligarch who steps out of line or looks like they might pose the slightest danger to Putin’s personal power mysteriously falls out of a window. The oligarchs are still insanely wealthy, but if they even look like they might be a threat to the Tsar they’re murdered.
I’m sure the Russian oligarchs don’t feel like they signed up for summary execution at the whim of Putin, but in fact they did.
Trump was not coy about how he intended to rule (not govern, rule). The 1% CEO class who donated and worked to have him elected absolutely signed up for despotism, and deserve every bit of Trump’s capriciousness that affects them.
They don’t. They think that money = power is some law of the universe, so they voted into power people who want to make wealth powerless in the name of profit.