TaMara and I were apparently composing our posts about Cannon at the same time this morning. Mine was already composed when hers went up, so I held mine back. If you already talked about all of this in TaMara’s post, just consider this a totally open thread.
On the bright side, that opens up the trial calendar for the DC case, unless the Corrupt Supreme Court screws the pooch.
This is good for Jack Smith. This trial was never going to happen before the election. Now that it’s off the calendar, the DC election interference case can proceed as soon as (or IF) the Supreme Court gives the green light. https://t.co/pjCe5BfOMr
— Dave Aronberg (@aronberg) May 7, 2024
This may have been covered in the morning thread. But wow, just wow.
This explains many things https://t.co/6NhdNLF7K1
— Jared Moskowitz (@JaredEMoskowitz) May 8, 2024
Maybe all the corruption we are seeing is related to an ethics-eating parasite? I can’t wait until the identify that parasite and find the cure. For now, the cure is Democrats, Independents, and all other sane people voting for the sane party.
Open thread.
TBone
😎😆
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1788000499737702832
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1788011689276850276
rikyrah
Whew!
The complete accuracy of this post title.
Sad, but accurate.
Dangerman
Come on, Aileen.
sdhays
Am I the only one who thought, “I just can’t do the sums” when Cannon announced she just couldn’t keep up with the handful of pretty basic pre-trial motions? IF you take her reasons at face value, she’s basically saying she’s completely in over her head.
I think she may very well be in over her head, but that’s not what is going on here.
Ishiyama
We are not governed by angels.
TBone
Six months before the high-stakes general election, former President Donald Trump is spending his Saturday at the Jersey Shore by way of a sure-to-be boisterous campaign rally.
🌊 Why Wildwood? For one, it’s a red enclave in a blue state, and not too far from purple Pennsylvania.
🌊 Mayor Ernie Troiano is also a fan, and suggested the beach venue that can hold 30,000 people to the Trump campaign. Plus, there’s the economic boost it’s expected to bring.
🌊 “Take the politics out of it and people would bend over backward for this number of people to come to their town,” Troiano, who is a Republican, told The Inquirer.
Politics reporter Julia Terruso explains how this weekend’s big event — a sequel to a packed 2020 rally held at the Wildwood Convention Center — came to be, and why two Wildwood mayors are under indictment at the same time as the former president.
zhena gogolia
@TBone: I can’t see the second one, but lol to the first.
TBone
@zhena gogolia: it’s a screenshot of GoodReads also shutting down book reviews after encountering truthful commentary.
JPL
@zhena gogolia: Goodreads blocked reviews also. Barnes and Noble is open ..
Kristi Noem’s “No Going Back” is a surprisingly solid work of fiction for the second time author. Her first book, “Not My First Rodeo” focused on her politics and personal life in a lighthearted way. For her second book she leaves the non-fiction world and writes with a darker tone. The subject is serious: How is a psychopath/serial killer formed, and how far can she rise. Apparently pretty darn far – the robotic, plastic faced, right wing Barbie character sells herself successfully to the public and finds herself elected governor of a state while having no trace of humanity. It’s written effectively. We learn in the book several instances of how far the subject is willing prostrate herself to be considered for a potential VP slot. All the while hiding her darker urges. In private the subject kills a puppy for acting like a puppy. Then she kills a goat for being a goat. The body count rises as she also adds a few horses for good measure. The setting for these murders is as dark and empty as the subject matter itself – a gravel pit. T
Steve in the ATL
How did this not make JC’s post last night?
Scout211
Maybe it was the other way around. DougJ was reading JC’s post last night and was inspired.
Highway Rob
Are there any MDs in the commentariat? How does one go about “removing” a dead worm from your brain, and how do you “fully recover” from a worm eating your brain? I was under the impression that brain tissue is one of the types that doesn’t tend to grow back.
TBone
Next candidate up for an award at my flaming clown theme party. This bastard really pulled out all the stops.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/scott-perry-closed-door-comments
“Replacement Theory is real” and “the KKK is the military wing of the Dems” at a “closed door” briefing session.
TBone
@Highway Rob: horse paste.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: The first one is Amazon. The second is GoodReads.
edit: I see that others had already answered.
DaBunny
@Highway Rob: The catch-22 here is that you’re relying on a description of a brain disease from a guy who…had a brain disease.
I’ve read commentary from a number of MDs saying it was probably a tapeworm, which didn’t actually “eat his brain.” It just drained resources from the blood flowing to his brain. And then died, leaving the equivalent of a (benign) tumor in his brain.
Of course none of this was from docs who actually treated him, since it would be an ethical and legal violation for those folks to dish on his condition.
Gloria DryGarden
Incandescent anger.
helpless rage
impatient frustration.
ever been in traffic, with endless red lights, or gridlock on the highway, and some place to be, that matters?
if only I could funnel this spinning energy into a solar battery or something, and get clear back to internal neutral, that’d be useful. (And for anyone else with this flavor of excess, too)
Re: these mob guys who employed cannons husband, and trumpet thanking a mobster who “couldn’t get to him” ( referencing that hard to open article on crooks and liars that was linked in the other thread)
there was a tidbit about someone ordering a hit. I don’t want anything to do with that sort of thing, but in my fantasy life, it would be great to understand a gentle soft violence-porn version of why hits get ordered, by whom and against whom. (I suppose it wouldn’t help.) just saying. I mean, I mean, asking for a friend…IRL, I dislike assassination attempts of current world leaders. I just want really bad dictator types to quit harming people.
I’m still not allowed to Ill-wish, I need a diplomatic way to say it, but all the antiabortion people, all the trial delay people, all the anti mifepristone people they all need a nice dose of turnabout. Someone they know, someone close, to be caught in the harmful situations they are causing to many others (and causing to the American public, whose right to speedy trial has not been honored.) All their sisters and wives and daughters get pregnancy complications, or they know someone who faces domestic violence, crushed dreams, poverty, trouble supporting the kids they already have, shared custody with their rapist for their forced birth baby. A big dose of empathy seems needed. WWIT?
please excuse my crankiness; it’s all bothering me.
I’ll go do yard work in the wind.
JCJ
@Highway Rob: as for removing something from the brain – it is like real estate: location, location, location. At least for tumors, both benign and malignant, the extent of surgery is dependent on where the lesion is located. Someplace deep in the thalamus? Probably not very extensive resection. Something at the temporal pole? Probably amenable to surgery. Think temporal lobe surgery for seizures.
Perhaps rfk Jr’s worm had eaten away at the rational thinking portion of his brain. All day I have had the Pink Floyd song “Hey You” playing in my thoughts
But it was only fantasy
The wall was too high, as you can see
No matter how he tried he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain
Roberto el oso
@Gloria DryGarden: as my dad used to say “I keep hearing that violence isn’t the answer but there sure are a lot of people who could use a good thrashing”
rikyrah
@Gloria DryGarden:
They only seem to learn EMPATHY when something DIRECTLY happens to someone in THEIR circle.
Uh huh
Uh huh
Bill Arnold
Since this is an open thread, was it ever determined what happened with the permanent datacenter outage in May 2022, e.g. was it ransomware (probably Russian if so), and if so can you disclose it?
FastEdD
I think the worm ate his vocal chords.
Sure Lurkalot
Reposted from the previous post.
I’m probably not the only one who dreams that some ProPublica reporter has evidence of her actions being expressly and incontrovertibly dictated by a Federalist Society hack and just has one more source to check before hitting “publish”. Her thin resume seems to indicate that she’s too green to come up with all these delay tactics on her own.
TBone
@JPL: yours is a work of art.
Balconesfault
@sdhays:
If the Federalist Society wanted those issues rapidly resolved she’d produce decisions … with copious pages detailing “her” thought processes, the next day.
Baud
@JPL:
Holy crap that’s good. Except it makes me want to buy the book.
H.E.Wolf
I try to remember to Google “rage farming” every now and then.
If we fall for the media tactic of “outrage du jour” reporting, and expend our energy on rage, we will get a lot less done in the run-up to November.
Some folks can be both rage-ful and productive. I’m not one of them.
(Vengeful and productive, yes. :) The Republicans are gonna rue the day.)
Kent
RFJ Jr. is 70 and would be 71 upon inauguration which would make him the 2nd oldest president in history after Biden. Trump was 70 on inauguration day.
Cornell West is 70, same age as RFJ Jr.
Marianne Williams is 71 so a year older then both.
Honest to God, I’m so fucking done with this idiot boomer generation and ready for them to move off stage. They are all toxic. How is it that European nations manage to elect young vibrant candidates? like we used to?
TBone
@Gloria DryGarden: good things come to those who wait. Aarrggh the waiting tho! I am hopeful that once justice has been fully meted out, these fucks will crawl back under the detritus from whence they came. It is already happening in dribs and drabs. People are too embarrassed to wave their
freakRump flags in large numbers this year, at least where I live (a huge improvement in scenery has occurred). Take heart!JaySinWA
Why is anyone treating RFKjr as a reliable narrator about anything medical? I suppose it is theoretically against his political interests, sort of a political version of hearsay rules, but still, this guy?
TBone
@H.E.Wolf: forevermore
NotMax
Phew. Power restored after an approximately eight hour outage.
/exhalation of relief
TBone
@JaySinWA: that is why I don’t waste many words on the subject.
Balconesfault
@Kent:
WTF? Biden is toxic?
SiubhanDuinne
Seems to me that word “unless” is staggering under a very heavy lift.
Baud
@Kent:
Hillary was deeemed too old. Then her main competitors in 2016 were older and people stopped caring about age. Then Trump won, which led to Biden winning the nomination and then the presidency, and people started caring about age again. Our nominee in 2028 will almost certainly be within the normal age range again.
ETA: I don’t know why all the nutty anti-Biden’s are old.
SiubhanDuinne
So, the “outage du jour” then?
NotMax
@Kent
Much as I despise generational piegonholing and broadbrushing, feel obligated to point out that Biden predates Boomers.
Kent
Biden isn’t a boomer. He’s a war baby from BEFORE the Baby Boom generation.
SiubhanDuinne
What does it say about a man, that his brain is so diseased and toxic that it kills random worms?
SiubhanDuinne
@Kent:
Like me :-)
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Heh. Simply ecstatic over being able to brew coffee again.
;)
TBone
Who’s writing the script, Dorothy Parker?
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-candidate-indiana-house-seat-died-march-1898335
narya
@rikyrah: And then ONLY for the specific person in their circle, because that person is “deserving” or an “exception.”
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
I love boomers. 🍄🟫
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Cuts many corners but overall a cute effort.
Every Birth Generation Explained in 9 Minutes.
JPL
@TBone: Not mine, but I wish I could claim it. It was a copy and paste example. It was perfect though.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
An excellent vintage.
RaflW
Democrats need to make the Cannon case a campaign issue. If they don’t want to single her out too much, then can focus on the broader themes of:
TBone
@NotMax: welcome back! Coleman makes purty good camping stoves that run on little gas cylinders and store easily packed away in case of such emergencies. Or a campfire in the yard. Nobody stands between my hubby and his coffee!
Balconesfault
@Baud:
Our 2028 nominee will be too old/too inexperienced/too centrist/too radical /too corporate/(maybe all three))/too militarist/too weak/too woke/too traditional/too gay/too cis/too female/too male/etc.
Just ask any half of the Democratic Party voters.
scav
@SiubhanDuinne: Poor brain worm might have died of starvation.
TBone
@JPL: 👍 wish I could claim it too!
TBone
@scav: you win.
TBone
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: 😆
FastEdD
@SiubhanDuinne: And me
JPL
@TBone: This is the author and the rest of the comment
JohnFictionlover
Perhaps the only humanity in this bleak character study is the subject’s daughter returning home and asking about her puppy: “Where’s Cricket?”, exposing the main character for what she had become. Additionally, the book also exposes the make-believe world and lying nature of the psychopath by relating instances of the killer having fantasy visits with world leaders. When called on this obvious BS, she doubles down and won’t admit to the fantasies.
WaterGirl
@Bill Arnold: It was ransomware, not for our site, but our site got caught up in it.
TBone
Scary Lawyer Guy xit (in response to Rump’s discomfort in court):
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot:
Could not agree more. She goes right up to the line of what would be actionable by Jack Smith. And delays at every turn. It’s obvious she is being coached. If only they can prove it
TBone
@JPL: perfection
NotMax
Speaking of people of vintage, whatever became of Sarah Proud & Tall?
WaterGirl
@Kent: So you think Biden is toxic? I beg to differ.
TBone
@NotMax: lol
Was watching Walter Brennan playing Judge Roy Bean earlier today and thought of you.
UncleEbeneezer
@Steve in the ATL: Biden records amazing diss tracks about Trump almost every day. He hates Trump the way Kendrick hates Drake. And I love it.
Old School
@NotMax:
No one seems to know. She just disappeared.
NotMax
@TBone
For the Lillie Langtry role? :)
If pressed for a thespianic comparison, I’d lean more Hoot Gibson the Walter Brennan.
Bill Arnold
@WaterGirl:
That you. Wanted to know whether blaming Russia is appropriate. Ransomware is mostly Russian origin. Also,
U.S. Charges Russian National with Developing and Operating LockBit Ransomware (justice.gov, May 7, 2024)
NotMax
#67:
the = than
danielx
@Kent:
Agreed. And I say that as a boomer who started liberal and got more so. Boomers were and are responsible for just about every foreign and domestic political fuckup of the late 20th and 21st centuries.
Although to be fair, it wasn’t boomers who got us into Vietnam. My generational cohorts just had to fight in that particular debacle.
...now I try to be amused
@Baud: FWIW, Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Trump were all born in 1946, at the beginning of the Baby Boom. To think that Trump is trying to get elected president 32 years after Clinton.
smith
@WaterGirl: I’m sure she’s getting guidance in how to game the system from Federalist hacks, but is there any rule or norm that says a judge can’t consult with “experts” she trusts about legal matters?
danielx
@TBone:
Our Indiana Republican voters are a carefree lot.
sab
@SiubhanDuinne: Our local classical radio station includes “watermain break du jour” as part of its traffic reports.
Ruviana
@NotMax: And what about Amir Khalid?
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Kent:
I must confess you have an astonish-
ingly good idea there.
President Swift! Think of the ratings.
Baud
@smith:
Judges can consult with other judges but not with outsiders, because there’s no way to vet outsiders for bias.
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: For me, the occasional venting allows me to blow off steam so I can settle down and get back to work.
I suspect that if I wanted to scour Balloon Juice history, I would find that a venting post often precedes an organizing or fundraising post.
But I am too busy and too lazy to spend the time looking back to see if I am correct!
smith
@Baud: Thanks for the info. I’m sure she has her pick of Federalist hacks who are also judges, though.
WaterGirl
@JaySinWA:
You wasted a word! You might have needed one later. :-)
Scout211
Poor, poor, pitiful Kristi appears to have ended (suspended?) her book tour. Link
Interviewers are just so mean to her! They ask her too many questions and don’t let her just talk about how great she is!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Even in my venting, a bit of optimism snuck in there, I guess!
Geminid
@H.E.Wolf: I am reminded of an Emmylou Harris song:
Anoniminous
US has the best legal system money can buy.
danielx
@TBone:
Projection, as always.
WaterGirl
@Kent: Hmm.
I see that I’m not the only person to have had that reaction to your comment.
It seems to go without saying that if you think the boomers have overstayed their welcome, then surely you think that the generation before has more than overstayed theirs.
Bill Arnold
@Anoniminous:
Also, the best capitalism money can buy.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Baud:
I don’t keep score, Judge.
How do you measure yourself
with other golfers?
By height.
Jeffro
As tempting as that is…no. please, no.
I’m not prepared for candidate Swift vs candidate (Dwayne “The Rock”) Johnson, nor any other celebrity face-off.
My ideals, my hopes and dreams for an informed and meritocratic, vibrant democracy, would just crumble to dust.
smith
In my opinion, the worst political/economic disaster of that time was/is Reaganomics. Reagan was nowhere near a boomer, born 1911, and most of his advisors also predated the boomer generation.
WaterGirl
@smith:
edit: Baud’s answer is more correct than mine!
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Jeffro:
Maybe President Nikki Glasser, instead of Taylor
Jeffro
@Scout211: poor Kristi! apparently there are some things you can’t say (unless you’re trump)
Why Conservative Media Is Suddenly Shunning Noem
WaterGirl
@Ruviana: We do not know about Amir, but it’s been nearly a year.
I still miss Amir, but I am no longer on pins and needles, worried about whether he will return.
I have concluded that Amir is most probably no longer with us. A disturbance in the force, indeed.
Another Scott
@smith: +1
Beating on Boomers is lazy.
Obama is a Boomer (as am I).
Cheers,
Scott.
Jeffro
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: you’re trying to get me to stroke out, aren’t you? =)
At least with Swift we’d have talent, smarts, looks, and a strong connection to (swoon) the Kansas City Chiefs!
With Glaser – ie, the blonde Triumph the Insult Comic Dog – it’s just exceptionally well done meanness, all the way down.
Captain C
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Don’t sell yourself short, Judge, you’re a tremendous slouch.
Gloria DryGarden
@Anoniminous: apt!
Jinchi
I knew his ideas were toxic, but I thought that was only figuratively.
Gloria DryGarden
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Beating on any particular age cohort is lazy.
JaySinWA
@Jeffro: I re-up my quote from the New Tricks pilot.
“You shoot one dog in this, country …”
Different country but similar results.
Trollhattan
Who remembers the Ronny Roundworm and His Friends teevee ads for some commercial pet dewormer? Because I’m sure recalling it today.
JPL
MOTION TO VACATE ha
make him bring up the border bill
Jeffro
breaking via Froette: MTG is bringing the motion to vacate Speaker Johnson(!
ETA: JPL beat me to it while I was asking for verification…NOT FAIR…I should have just run with unsubstantiated hearsay. ;)
Baud
@JPL:
@Jeffro:
“I will not be ignored!”
Geminid
@WaterGirl: I fear Triassic Sands has also passed on. He said he hoped to see President Biden reelected, but doubted he would because of a long chronic illness.
JPL
@Jeffro: I was streaming CNN and they were carrying her speech, but just cut away. She was unhinged as usual.
WaterGirl
@JPL: @Jeffro: @Baud:
How does this help her? It’s going to get voted down.
Okay, I guess it helps her because people are mocking her for being all talk and not pulling the trigger on the motion to vacate.
Gloria DryGarden
@NotMax: cold brew’s not bad. A jar, coffee, water, a few hours, even an hour, in a pinch. Pour through a filter. I do it in summer, and camping. Gets me the coffee.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
She could also fundraise off the crazy. Last I heard, she is one of their biggest fundraisers.
Nelle
@WaterGirl: Yep, but as a boomer myself, a phrase runs through my mind. “Get off the stage.” I embrace the power of invisibility and low expectations.
Jeffro
@WaterGirl: “I TOLD YOU I WOULD DO IT BUT YOU WOULDN’T LISTEN NOTHING SEEMS TO QUIET THE VOICES IN MY BRAIN ALWAYS THE VOICES AAAAAAAA HERE’S YOUR MOTION TO VACTE. YOU MOTHERF”
tell me I’m way off base ;)
WaterGirl
@Geminid: Oh, I hope that’s not the case. I just dropped him an email message. I hope to get a reply.
JPL
@WaterGirl: It helps Mike Collins, because he will no longer be the lead local news. He made a sick tweet
“You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain or live long enough to become a Kennedy with a hole in the brain,” Collins wrote.
Anoniminous
@Bill Arnold:
We live in a time of ‘late capitalism’. But what does that mean? And what’s so late about it?
The US legal system is just One More commodity to be bought and sold.
Even Capital* itself becomes a product for exchange – a commodity – as we see in the various future and spot currency markets. Which is hysterically funny, if your funny bone breaks that way.
* that which is used not for immediate consumption but retain for future use
WaterGirl
@JPL: Wow. He seems nice.
Scout211
MTG filed a “privileged motion” so this time a vote needs to occur within two days.
Most of the news today was all about “egg on her face” and other members calling her out for crying wolf. I guess she showed them!
What she showed them, I cannot fathom.
Geminid
@WaterGirl: I hope so too. Thanks for checking up.
Brachiator
@Anoniminous:
I must confess that I never quite understood what “late stage capitalism” meant, either.
What comes next?
TBone
@Gloria DryGarden: I just had to turn off Deadline Whitehouse (after watching the full Ruth Ben-Ghiat segment) because they kept going on and on about how we’re stymied, like somehow Jack Smith has been has stopped for good and has no recourse now all of a sudden. Defeatist bullshit spewing. Trying to squash any hope for justice. I’m here to say fuck all that! It’s been ONE day! For crying out loud, I’m not giving up on Jack Smith after one fucking day! Aileen Cannon is not a super genius legal mind that he will never vanquish! Grrrrrr….
Gloria DryGarden
MTG
Marjorie Trumper Girl
she is more foul mouthed than a string of f bombs. Is there a worm in her brain? Is there anything? Self righteous cockiness on behalf of what? What morals or principles is she going on? How can she twist up reality worst than someone’s knickers?
I follow north Georgia a little, and there are women there who like that she speaks out, stands up to people. I don’t understand them, because it matters what you speak out for, who you stand up to. Are these folks so powerless that any display of mouthiness is a relief? Do they not have school, and learn critical thinking, and how to distinguish fact from opinion, or subjective vs objective?
Just venting, and ranting. We need a decent candidate or two to come forth for that district.
JPL
@WaterGirl: That’s Raven’s rep. Last week he was highlighted because he supported the racist Mississippi students.
In good GA news, Jimmy Carter has voted in the May primary
hueyplong
@Baud: “I will not be ignored”
Kind of hoping MTG boils a bunny next to a gravel pit. I hear all the Trump pageant runners up are doing something like it, in a sort of Old Testament sacrificing vibe.
JPL
@Gloria DryGarden: The district is so red, that a republican would have to primary her. It’s been tried and failed.
Geminid
@JPL: Keep your eye on state Senator Colton Moore. Greene had better watch out for him. He’ll make his move in 2026 or 2028. An ambitious 30 year old who likes challenging incumbents and winning..
Steve in the ATL
@Brachiator: Nach Kapitalism kommen Wir!
Jeffro
sooooo much inside baseball here on BJ! (for which we are all grateful)
Apparently the House vote is over and done – KILLED
(just like a boiling bunny in a gravel pit)
thalarctosMaritimus
@WaterGirl: I tried looking for Malaysian vital statistics online, but hit a wall trying to get anywhere.
I wrote a Singaporean friend of mine to see if he had any ideas–although the two countries are very different, I thought there was a possibility that they had enough bureaucratic similarity that he might have some insights on how to get information.
He put feelers out, and was approached by a guy who said he could help get that information. But he wanted a lot of money, and the whole vibe was so suspicious and scammy that my friend and I agreed it was too hinky to go through with, so I didn’t.
So all my attempts to see if I could find out anything hit a dead end. I wish I had any information, even bad news for closure, but I didn’t succeed at it.
Anoniminous
@Brachiator:
To a doctrine Marxist the revolt of the proletariat and the establishment of a Worker’s State. To anyone outside the cult the only rational answer is: “Damned if I know”
My guess is Industrial Feudalism where the post-industrial society is stratified into relatively closed social classes with membership established by birth with each class defined in relation to their property and profession. Thus losing the economic and social dynamism of Early and Middle Stage Capitalism.
TBone
They are all trying so hard, but only one will win my flaming clown award.
JPL
@Gloria DryGarden: Before she was elected the first time, it was known that she was having two affairs while married. The family value folk didn’t care.
The district was redrawn which weakens her hold but not enough.
smith
Even if all this is about is trying to grab attention, Empty Greene’s MTV will be a one-day blip, and most likely will be overshadowed by the continuation of Stormy Daniels’ testimony. Can’t see how that makes her seem at all important.
Baud
@Anoniminous:
Sounds like the caste system.
Steve in the ATL
@thalarctosMaritimus: I was going to suggest checking area guitar and cat food purchases, but you put real effort into it!
Gin & Tonic
@thalarctosMaritimus:
Thing is, we don’t even know if Amir Khalid is/was his real name.
Gloria DryGarden
CRAZY
Im sure we can concoct some words to fit this. Please out do my first lame attempt. I’m just being mean, because mtg is such a fucking bitch, and useless time waster, too.
Crass
ranting
asshat
zealous
yelling
= crazy
ok, ok, love and light, and requests to my Case Managers, for the highest good.
I’ll reset to neutral via muscle testing.
because
they say chaos and hopelessness-building is one step toward authoritarian takeover. Read it recently, somewhere, and it makes sense.
I’ll look up rage farming, too. Yikes.
your comments and replies mean a lot, thank you.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Baud: Roger Rabbit is in hiding
smith
@Jeffro: Wow, that was fast. The only time in this Congress an item of business has been dispatched efficiently.
Gloria DryGarden
@JPL: would You have an affair w her?
thalarctosMaritimus
@Gin & Tonic:
True. In a regime like that, pseudonyms can be a very wise move. And there are no shortage of other Amir Khalids, whether real names or not. I had “German-speaking” and “worked as a journalist” to try to help narrow down any possibilties, but got nowhere.
TBone
Late stage capitalism includes the financialization of the economy. Finance does not produce, it is merely a service, eating an ever-larger chunk of our GDP in return for … not much!
hueyplong
@Gloria DryGarden: “would You have an affair w her?”
If there is a substantive response to this, I ask suspension of the kink shaming rule.
Anoniminous
@Baud:
Caste societies are fixed: born into a caste, stay in that caste. Feudal societies do allow some upward and downward mobility.
thalarctosMaritimus
@Steve in the ATL: I see you are a data scientist manqué :) ,
I know he had a niece, so I hope and trust his cat ended up safe in a happy home.
Baud
Sounds like late stage capitalism is just describing elements of the current economy and appending “late stage” to it.
Kay
Protest against US policy in Gaza and the state will take away your right to travel. A threat to shut the protestors up and shut down any discussion of the massive slaughter the US is backing.
Just a reminder that none of the people who have been scolding us the last 5 years over “cancel culture” never, ever cared at all about free speech or the 1st Amendment.
Absolute blatant censorship of a political view by state actors and not a peep out of any of the ninnies who signed the “Harpers Letter” or any of the rest of that bullshit.
It was always about shutting down Left wing speech and political opinions. Always.
Kay
Terrorist supporters = anyone who objects in any way to US policy and actions in Gaza.
Democrats should defend the 1st Amendment. Defeating Trump isn’t going to mean much if dissenting opinions are now banned. It’s hard to argue you’re the “democracy party” when you refuse to defend the Bill of Rights. I think we’ve lost sight of the objective here. It isn’t just to “beat Trump”. It’s to keep the Constitution.
Ruviana
Thanks to everyone who tried to find Amir. I think of him often and always liked his comments.
sab
@Kay: Yes. Ohio AG Yost has announced that protesters wearing masks may be prosecuted under a 1950s law aimed at the KKK, which can increase their public disruption crime from misdemeanor to felony.
Current protesters often wear surgical masks because of Covid.
Kent
Well, I do think the war generation were the polar opposite of the Baby Boom generation. They were all about service and sacrifice, not naval gazing. The “greatest generation” gave us FDR and Truman. The boomers gave us Reagan, Bush, and Trump.
Biden kind of falls into the transition years. But he is definitely not a boomer. He wouldn’t have been at Woodstock, for example, or all the iconic boomer things.
Steve in the ATL
@Ruviana: I posted something in German and mentioned guitars and cats. If that doesn’t lure him out, then all hope is lost.
Gloria DryGarden
@hueyplong: yes you’re right. Shocked at her having 2 affairs while married, and folks didn’t care. She seems unattractive as soon as she begins to speak, so it’s hard to imagine …
she could have more affairs, use her energy up in private. That would be an improvement.
And also great for those that have a kink for her, I guess
im still being a bitch about her.
hueyplong
@Gloria DryGarden: Just saying I’d feel obligated to shame anyone whose kink is MTG.
Anoniminous
@Baud:
It’s “Late Stage” because it has different properties and attributes of Early and Middle Stages and it’s unsustainable. As @TBone points out Finance is slowly eroding the ability of corporations to make a profit. For workers roughly 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. 41% of Americans have medical bills they cannot pay.
We all know the litany so I’ll leave it at that.
Anoniminous
@TBone:
Yep. And as long as people put up with it the situation will get worse.
Baud
@Anoniminous:
At some level everything is unsustainable. That’s why the economy is always changing. My ignorance of the subject matter is pretty broad, but I’ve just not seen anything compelling about the theory except for it’s usefulness as a meme.
brantl
@Highway Rob: It doesn’t, gone brain stays gone. Although it would explain a lot.
brantl
@DaBunny: I thought tapeworms lived in the GI tract?
Gloria DryGarden
@hueyplong: understood. Makes sense.
Brachiator
@Steve in the ATL:
@Anoniminous:
The only Marx I respect is Harpo.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Baud:
Roger Rabbit is in hiding
Gloria DryGarden
@Ruviana: not Khalid Amiri, journalist from Afghanistan, currently in Melbourne, and on Facebook?
WaterGirl
@thalarctosMaritimus: I think Amir had a very common name, which would make it nearly impossible to track the real Amir Khalid down.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: He left various breadcrumbs over the years:
were a few I remembered or quickly found in a search with the Search tool here. I’m sure there are other clues, but digging them out and assembling them would be very time consuming. After that, yes, the ‘nym is very common, so connecting the breadcrumbs to a person may be nearly impossible.
Dunno.
Wherever he is, I hope he’s at peace with his kitties.
Cheers,
Scott.
Uncle Cosmo
@thalarctosMaritimus: Just spitballing here, but we do know Amir collected vintage guitars, do we not? One might conjecture that only a small number of Malaysian shops would deal in such things & after using the BJ archives to piece together a list of the instruments he’d acquired and when, it might be a place to start…but that would require someone on the ground who speaks Malay…
2liberal
i’m a boomer and did not give you reagan bush or trump. that was the republicans. GFY and welcome to the pie filter along with eversole and a few others.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Baud: @TBone: @Anoniminous:
Kevin Phillips [yes, he of Nixon’s Southern Strategy] wrote a book on the topic, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich.
I happened to meet him on a book tour. He had become disgusted with the GOP. The book looks at historical examples of financialization and the consequent collapse of empires.