President Biden and I are removing obstacles to financial freedom.
We have forgiven $167B in student loan debt for more than 4.7M people, and our Administration is on track to ensure that medical debt will no longer be used in calculating your credit score. pic.twitter.com/GCfvB0f2wA
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 9, 2024
President Biden, Vice-President Harris, chugging away…
“Vice President of the United States of AMERICA. Woooooooooooo!” – Black Stone Bookstore’s clerk Asale Kimada after VP #KamalaHarris and actress Octavia Spencer visited the Ypsilanti, Michigan Black owned store ?? https://t.co/cwnZ9Lisp6 pic.twitter.com/MvvwctNHOD
— Qondi (@QondiNtini) June 9, 2024
Yesterday, I met with survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting who are now graduating from high school.
Emma, Grace, Matt, Ella, Henry, and Lilly: Thanks for your strength, courage, and leadership.
On Gun Violence Awareness Day, we commit to continuing the fight… pic.twitter.com/VXMqgFFUIT
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 7, 2024
Elsewhere…
No wonder he's so cranky. | Trump to undergo probation interview Monday, a required step before his New York sentencing https://t.co/WRtjUXuTtV
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 9, 2024
…doesn't this usually involve a drug test? https://t.co/nU44bqE3BZ
— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 9, 2024
.@aweissmann_ on Trump’s upcoming probation Zoom: “He’ll be asked about whether he is associating with criminals. And it is sort of remarkable… he’s going to have to discuss whether he still coordinates with Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon.” pic.twitter.com/zygWV6ariT
— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) June 9, 2024
Joe Biden is so old he had already been president for three and a half years when Donald Trump had his first meeting with his probation officer. https://t.co/vr7SKJgccJ
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) June 10, 2024
— Thursday (@ennui365) June 9, 2024
Baud
Slander against the pantless.
Baud
Someone put up a map on Reddit, and I don’t know if it’s accurate, but it shows that the far right support in Germany is concentrated in what was the former East Germany. If accurate, I didn’t realize how divided the country still is.
OzarkHillbilly
As I expected.
Also: I hope they release the psychologists report.
WereBear
@Baud: We could say the same of our country.
Applauding immoral behavior, embracing the Lost Cause, and outright planning more sedition.
Our Confederacy is still with us.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
It seems as if the GOP can keep the former Cubans onside by continually calling the Dems Communists. I wonder if something like that works on East Germans.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone 😊 😊 😊
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Hmm. I’d like to hear from an expert. It may be unusual for people to have their lawyers present because they can’t or don’t want to pay for it, but I’m a little surprised it’s not usually allowed. The only place I’m aware of where lawyers may be barred is the grand jury room.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Baud:
https://www.risetopeace.org/2022/05/18/why-right-wing-extremism-has-a-strong-presence-in-eastern-germany/risetopece/
There are also some pieces on this subject dating back to 2018-1019 from Al Jazeera news, etc.
lowtechcyclist
Good morning, y’all! Had a very pleasant bike ride yesterday morning, so today I think I’ll just do some yard work and sit on the deck.
Danielx
Was not ready for that cartoon.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
“What size do you wear, Mr. Probation Man? I’ll tell my people to send you some sneakers.”
//
OzarkHillbilly
Kristi Noem still thinks she has a shot at being trump’s VP.
Jeffg166
@Baud: I have read there is a lot of resentment in what use to be East German. They still lag behind the western part. It will take time for them to be fully integrated into the system.
A fascist will offer them an easy answer, which is what they want to hear. Just like here.
Kay
WSJ has a three part expose of this sleazy Right wing lawyer:
Married with three children, of course. This is why there’s such huge backlash to me too – these powerful people went for decades without being exposed as the sleazy creeps that they are, and they want to retain that privilege.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Apparently in NY it’s at the discretion of the judge.
eta: He is also being allowed to do his interview via zoom. Generally, it is in person.
I’m just pointing out that as an ex president he is given latitude not allowed us mere peons. I expect this to be true of whatever sentence he receives as well.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Governor Gravel Pit living in la-la land.
PAM Dirac
I wonder if they are going to drug the felon up so much that he can only say “What he said” and let his lawyer do all the
talkinglying.Baud
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
@Jeffg166:
Interesting. People don’t seem to turn left anymore out of resentment.
But IMHO, it’s different in the US. The rise of fascism isn’t among people who are hurting the most. It’s led by people who want to keep or expand what they have.
Kay
@lowtechcyclist:
That’s nice. I started biking agan last year – just loved riding a bike as a kid but I hadn’t been on one in years. Partly it was because we spend some time in Copenhagen and everyone there rides, everywhere. My husband has always used a bike for short trips in all but the coldest or wettest weather so he’s usually up for a ride. He has much more endurance than I do, though. I’m up to 5 miles. I don’t care for sports so it’s great to fnd something that’s fun and also exercise.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Thanks. Seems odd to me. Possibly unconstitutional. But I don’t know if the issue has been litigated.
NotMax
@PAM Dirac
Todd “I can’t defend but I’m a champion scowler” Blanche.
//
RevRick
There’s a post over at Digby’s Hullabaloo that President Biden is about to make a “parole in place” executive order for long-term undocumented immigrants who are married to American citizens. This would protect them from deportation and allow them to work legally while they await naturalization.
It would impact an estimated 750,000 people, but the ripple effect would extend through spouses, children, and communities. Given our tight labor market, this would also benefit businesses who employ them.
Kay
I was at a meeting and I texed myself a reminder but got one digit wrong so sent it to someone else. I then texted and apologized. The person sent me back a clip of porn. People can be so horrible.
PAM Dirac
@NotMax: Hell it’s on zoom so they could just put up an AI version of drumpf jerking his head forward to say “I fully agree with my lawyer” and then going back to sleep.
Trivia Man
@lowtechcyclist: I am in training for my bike ride, i am told to expect about 2 hours but they do not release the actual route until day of ride for security. I know there are some short and steep hills but i am not concerned about keeping up – its more celebratory than competitive.
Some forgotten muscles getting some work!
Baud
@Kay:
Ugh. What’s wrong with people?
rikyrah
@Kay:
😳😳😳😳
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: That’s his cross (examiner) face. I wonder how often he practices it in the mirror.
hueyplong
@NotMax: Governor Gravel Pit (love that name) is a stand-in for Trumpers in general when it comes to reality. For someone who has gone all in the way she has, there is no reason to quit this close to the finish line, no matter whether or not she’s blown a hammy and can’t possibly make it the last quarter mile.
Secure in her bubble, there will be no consequences for continuing to insist she’s still in it. The people making fun of her are Untermensch she never encounters.
Kay
@Baud:
They wrote back “Hi…” and the homemade porn. Creepy.
NotMax
@PAM Dirac
“I am not a cat.”
What filter would Melania sneak in overnight to enable?
//
Baud
@RevRick:
👍
Baud
@Kay:
Hopefully the digit you got wrong cause the text to go to someone far away from you.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Preverts are everywhere.
@Baud: They are people?
Anne Laurie
From what I’ve read, it’s not so different from the ‘rural resentment’ here in America: In the old days, *everyone* was broke, sick, paranoid, and miserable. Now *some* people have money, they’re happy, they don’t *understand* that we were the True Upholders of Heartland Values! A pox on these money-grubbing, immigrant-hugging, sexually perverted Westerners!!!
NotMax
@Kay
Thankfully, not clown porn?
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Ugh. They’re the worst.
Anne Laurie
On first read, it seems like great news, but it’s past my bedtime & I need to get some sleep before I try to post anything sensible about it!
rikyrah
Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) posted at 7:30 PM on Sun, Jun 09, 2024:
So the U.S. Women’s Olympic basketball team has multiple white players on it, but somehow not putting Caitlin Clark on the team is bc of “anti-white racism” in the minds of folks who dine on white grievance three meals a day. Y’all are the stupidest people alive. Seriously.
(https://x.com/timjacobwise/status/1799962321101472120?t=u9OCHxlHGI0TrbsJ4r9o0g&s=03)
Mousebumples
Good morning!
Quick postcarding FYI – new campaign at Postcards to Voters for the US House Special Election in Colorado to replace Buck. (CO-03, I think? The one Boebert in running in for November) Trisha Calvarese has a 6/25 election day, though many in Colorado will vote by mail.
https://postcardstovoters.org/
And, now, I’m off to work but I’ll try to check in later this afternoon in case of questions that someone else isn’t able to chime in and answer. 😊
NotMax
@Baud
“People!!“
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Speaking of rich fucks with criminal sexual predilections: Austrian-Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach charged with sexual assault
Baud
@NotMax:
Breaking down the fourth wall!
Ken
You may say that, but I guarantee there are business owners who will be angry they can no longer threaten some workers with deportation.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I find jackals to be far better.
Wapiti
@PAM Dirac: Blanche’s role might be to whisper, “you can’t plead the Fifth here.”
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’ve never received unsolicited jackal porn.
NotMax
Wapiti
The horse’s ass whisperer?
NotMax
@Baud
The solicited files too numerous to deal with?
:)
Kay
@Mousebumples:
I got a postcard Friday! From “Michelle (volunteer)”
Adding volunteer is good, I think.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
If you’re thinking of casting your vote for TFG, imagine a president who can’t attend an international summit because he has a meeting with his parole officer, or because he’s not legally allowed to enter that country.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: They must not have seen any of her games since turning pro. She’s had a rough start, as all rookies do. With time she will adjust but right now she’s got some learning to do.
suzanne
Man, how much did I love Obama/Biden memes. I need the next gen of that.
Baud
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Thanks. You’ve convinced me. :-)
@OzarkHillbilly: Pretty sure they don’t care about facts.
Ken
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: In Trump’s case, I can readily see the G7 deliberately choosing countries he can’t enter.
OzarkHillbilly
My wife’s arm looks particularly ugly this morn. It’s a fair representation of the ring nebula, very colorful. She has a doctor’s appt at 9. Happy I am for that.
Gloria DryGarden
I got a bit worked up over the Heather cox Richardson letter from yesterday, (link in last nights late thread), and had a mash of imagery from all the history talk, slavery, the nation, the different and ongoing potentials for destruction, harm and dismantling, both in the personal and the larger community, so I gathered up my need for comfort into this rough draft poem.
How can we build you up,
beloved?
They tried to erase your story,
and your essence,
to grind you down into pulp,
and pour you into molds for paper
to write their version of history
upon you.
They tore away your land,
or tore into your body
so nothing was ever the same.
How can we build
A wildflower meadow to feed the
Native Bees
in the wake of such,
in the after times of such losses
and harms?
What does your land need, now, to
revegetate in lush abundance?
Sometimes blood poured out, nourishes
the next waves of growth,
So it is said;
Gardeners know this.
Native peoples know it, too.
If rain comes, and we plant fresh healthy seeds
that can stay alive in this climate,
perhaps something will germinate,
and you can grow new roots again,
and rise up
in Beauty
to drink the sun, and the rain.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Or women’s basketball.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Baud: Two impressions, both admittedly dated:
– we were in Leipzig in 2008. The Old City had new construction, tourism, shops, etc. But outside of that small district the city appeared very depressed and rundown
– a German friend of ours used to use “ostberlin” (East Berlin) as a general-purpose adjective for anything shabby.
There were definite economic disparities at least back then, 18 years after unification.
Spanky
@Baud: Is that a request?
TBone
@PAM Dirac: yes. Blanche will be answering all of the questions unless I miss my guess. Can’t have Dotard campaigning and spewing his lies (he’ll be on camera and will treat the Probation Officer like he’s at a rally). Plus the word salad that passes for Dotard’s speech needs a translator. I’m incensed that this “you’re special” treatment is being extended yet again.
WaterGirl
@lowtechcyclist: Enjoying retirement, I see!
TS
@Kay:
I once received a romantic text, obviously meant for someone else, about the wonderful time we had last night. Then a second one – so I texted back that he had the wrong number & received a text laden with obscenities – so I was somewhat pleased that the lady he thought it was sent to – on purpose or accidentally – had given him the wrong number.
Almost Retired
@Anne Laurie: This analogy seems exactly right. Spent a couple weeks in Berlin a few years ago, staying in the former East Berlin. There were museums about the Holocaust and the Stasi, but one particularly well-attended museum was dedicated to ordinary life in East Germany. It seemed almost nostalgic. People scrub, polish and varnish the past, I guess, like the diner patrons fondly recalling the low gas prices during the pandemic.
Another Scott
@PAM Dirac: Blanche did a great job at the trial. People are talking about it more and more, with tears in their eyes…
[ groucho-roll-eyes.gif ]
TCFFG gets all kinds of latitude, but it usually doesn’t seem to help him. His life since 2016 has been like an episode of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.
Here’s hoping that streak continues.
Cheers,
Scott.
TBone
@Gloria DryGarden: that made me tear up a bit, your way with words is lovely. Thank you and I admire the bravery it takes to share something from your heart.
lowtechcyclist
@Ken:
No question! For a lot of these Trumpist business owners, it’s all about power, and I’m sure they’re already pissed from the economy being so good the past few years that their employees can easily find other jobs and aren’t shaking in their boots at the prospect of being fired.
They want serfs, not workers with options, and Biden keeps chipping away at their means of maintaining that sort of hold over their workers.
This is going to be a real BFD for the affected workers and their families, and that this Administration thinks of doing something like this shows how their hearts are in the right place, from Biden on down.
ETA: “The Lord your God…loves the alien who lives among you, giving him food and clothing. You too must love the alien, for you once lived as aliens in Egypt.”
-Deuteronomy 10:18-19
WaterGirl
@Kay: That would be jarring. I assume you have now blocked that number on your phone?
Ohio Mom
@Gloria DryGarden: I like it. Seems in keeping with this spring season.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: It seems like this started maybe 10 days or two weeks ago? Maybe the ugliness is just a stage in the healing process. (She said hopefully.)
Glad she has the appt today!
scribbler
@OzarkHillbilly: It made me feel even worse for your wife having such a horrible spider bite when you mentioned she’s a bit insect-phobic. I know spiders aren’t technically insects, but close enough!
Gloria DryGarden
@Mousebumples: I think we start our early voting real soon. Perhaps tomorrow. I’ll look it up. We most of us do it by drop box or in person at the voting centers ( at libraries and rec centers in the city. I don’t know what places host voting in rural eastern Colorado.) our ballots have already come in the mail. 6/25 is just the last day to do it. Years ago we had to be in the right precinct place, but now we just try to drop our votes off in the right county. (Although we do get ballots to the right place if out of county stuff comes in)
Who are we promoting? Is there someone more reasonable than boebert? How early we vote here depends a lot on how hard the other referenda and propositions are to figure out and research. There are always a few of these, and it can be a tricky mess.
I should do this. I don’t have time, but I care about it. Maybe I will see if they’ll hire a few more election workers. I need a job. I hope it’s still safe, at least in Denver. Shit.
TBone
My fervent hope is that someone hacks Dotard’s Zoom conference today and leaks the entire video before interrupting the end of the call with the full Access Hollywood grab ’em clip.
M31
@TS:
back in the days when I had a landline phone and actually answered it, I heard this, in the most smooth-talking southern Black American accent ever “hello, is Darlene there?” and I was so sad to tell him he had the wrong number
later I realized that most likely Darlene wasn’t buying his smooth talking come on shit and gave him the wrong number, lolol, good on you Darlene
Gloria DryGarden
@OzarkHillbilly: I thought she used up all her bullets…
Jeffro
Happy Probation Day to all who celebrate! (I know I will, later :)
By the time this whole Hindenburg goes down in flames, we might have another 8 or 9 unofficial holidays EVERY YEAR! thanks, Team trumpov!!
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly: Sometimes things look uglier as they heal. But I’m glad you’re seeing a doc.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Gloria DryGarden:
Lemme echo this in terms of ballots arrive and most people drop them off at ballot boxes around the city (here in Denver).
As for Denver being unsafe for election workers, I’m trying to think where I’ve seen election workers.
Gloria DryGarden
@Wapiti: adore! Brilliant.
funny/ not funny.
sometimes I think our incandescent rage might ignite him as he walks by, and he’ll burst into flames, and burn down the ground. Just him, and all his little projection thoughts with him, burnt away like a purification ritual.
that took a lot more characters than a swear word…
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: As usual, he gets special treatment yet he’ll whine to his followers about how persecuted he is. Can’t roll my eyes hard enough.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gloria DryGarden: Heh.
Gloria DryGarden
@TBone: thank you
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Good lord!
A few years ago, a stranger accidentally texted me about a quinceañera dress, and the conversation went strangely off the rails into hostilities. It’s a wrong number! That shouldn’t happen! 😂
Bupalos
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I think the recipe for far right populist authoritarianism is mostly the same everywhere these days, from Moscovia to Germany to The U.S.
Different histories and historical inheritances to be weaponized. But similar forces of inequality and brain-drain creating the grievance culture, and similar social shock.
Gloria DryGarden
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: when I did it, we’re inside until the final push, Friday Saturday Monday Tuesday, then drive through stations, under a canopy, and we run out to your car, get them, check to be sure it’s signed and dated, and run back to the canopy and slip them into the locked steel box. If you’re in Denver proper, it’s the rec centers and libraries. Sometimes I vote earlier, and no one is there to help, just a steady trickle of gleeful relieved citizens, calmly and proudly driving up to the big steel box. You know the ones.
M31
@Jeffro: lol how many Indictment Day holidays are there so far?
Soprano2
@TBone: I don’t know about that, he seems to behave differently when he knows it’s official, like in a deposition. I guess we’ll see.
Gloria DryGarden
@Ken: oh, baby! Good idea. They should plan ahead in case.
smith
The Felon needing to have a comfort lawyer present for his probation hearing reminds me of how Bush the Lesser wouldn’t give a deposition to the 9/11 Commission without Cheney there to hold his hand. These inadequacies who have somehow infested our highest office can sometimes have a glimmer of understanding about just how inadequate they really are.
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2: I wonder if he will stay awake.
Gloria DryGarden
@OzarkHillbilly: as long as nothing’s necrotic, it’ll just be the healing process. It was such a big deal.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gloria DryGarden: I’m not worried (yet) just commenting on it. I’ve had lots of experience with wounds over the years. (I once removed stitches with a framing hammer) I was a union carpenter.
Gloria DryGarden
@Ohio Mom: thanks.
springtime imagery is sometimes as good as it gets, for rebirth
M31
@smith: “Emotional Support Lawyer” is the usual term
lolol, can’t even man up to attend his own Parole hearing without someone to hold his little hand
sad
Tenar Arha
@Gloria DryGarden: Lovely. Thank you!
Gloria DryGarden
@Jeffro: I’m amused that I’m not the only one w flame imagery today.
Betty Cracker
I wonder why the convicted felon is still in Florida? It’s hot as fuck already, and his tribe usually decamps right after Memorial Day.
Maybe he’ll skulk around red states until after he’s sentenced. I don’t think he’ll get jail time, but it’s possible, and I can easily imagine the felon and a showboating red state governor like DeSantis creating a sanctuary for the drama of it all.
Oh well. A summer in Florida for someone who isn’t used to it is as bad as a hitch at Rikers, probably…
Gloria DryGarden
@Tenar Arha: thanks. Did I already say, I love your nym? A favorite book.
O. Felix Culpa
@Betty Cracker:
May it be so. Glad that you, on the other hand, are used to it.
NotMax
@Almost Retired
How do you double the resale price of a Trabant?
Empty the ashtray.
Gloria DryGarden
@NotMax: there might be a lot of ashes coming.
OzarkHillbilly
I have no idea of what to make of this new 21st century world and I will happily depart it when the time comes.
Eolirin
@OzarkHillbilly: I’d just point out, like most reporting on social media trends, this is a tiny tiny number of people, thousands in a pool of tens of millions, and tells you exactly nothing about overall social trends
If you go looking hard enough you can find thousands of people talking about literally anything; willing to bet you will find more flat earthers than whatever momentary trending hashtag some reporter has decided to glom onto for a quick story.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Fixed.
OzarkHillbilly
@Eolirin: I’ll still be happy to leave it.
TBone
eVille Times gives us a thumbnail sketch of Project 2025
PROJECT 2025
Prosecute political rivals
Fire 50,000 federal employees & replace them with MAGA loyalists
Remove America from NATO
Pardon himself and Jan 6 insurrectionists
Slash DOJ budget
Dismantle the FBI and DHS
Eliminate Dept of Commerce
Sharply reduce EPA regulations to favor Fossil Fuels
End the independence of federal agencies such as FCC and FTC
Tax cuts
Tariffs
Abolish the Dept of Education
Cut funding for climate research
Reform NIH along conservative principles
Reject abortion as health care
Eliminate the Affordable Care Act’s coverage of emergency contraception
Infuse the government with elements of Christianity
Criminalize pornography
Remove legal protections against discrimination based on sexual or gender identity
Terminate DEI programs and Affirmative Action
Immediately deploy the military for domestic law enforcement
Direct the DOJ to pursue Donald Trump’s adversaries by invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807
Arrest, detain, and deport undocumented immigrants
Capital punishment and the speedy “finality” of such sentences
Project director, Paul Dans, explained that Project 2025 is “systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army of aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state.”
Dans admitted it was “counterintuitive” to recruit so many to join the government to shrink it, but pointed out the need for a future president to “regain control” of the government. Although the project does not promote a specific presidential candidate, many contributors have close ties to Trump and his 2024 campaign.
https://evilletimes.blogspot.com/2024/06/theres-plan.html?m=1
Language seems a bit too mild for my tastes, but a nutshell is a nutshell.
RaflW
Reading Heather Cox Richardson from her overnight update. If Democrats cant beat the GOP this fall, it won’t be for lack of ammunition.
It seems Dems struggle to talk about Medicaid, but g.d. it they should! Slashing $200 billion per year for ten years means throwing 100s of thousands of grandmas out of nursing homes! 62% of nursing home residents are on Medicaid, and a 200Bn cut is close to 25% of all Medicaid expenditures per year. Just a wild, insane proposal.
Hammer them for it!
Baud
@RaflW:
A lot of times in the past when Dems have talked about GOP extremism, people think we’re exaggerating. Maybe Dobbs has changed that, but historically a lot of people are more wary about being tricked by Dems than they are with whatever threats Republicans pose.
Belafon
@TBone:
Suddenly, the conservatives on the Supreme Court find the president has a lot of authority.
TBone
@Soprano2: have you seen some/any of his depositions?
https://apnews.com/article/trump-deposition-attorney-general-new-york-63f4708b27a52a1e544e3caa6f63fa3b
NotMax
@Ozark Hillbilly
Ashley Madison, anyone? (17:40 – 19:59)
smith
@Eolirin: Time will tell if it’s a momentary blip, but to me it seems like a predictible outcome of the phenomenon that has been noted again and again since the internet became a common mode of communication: A not-insignificant number of men use the shield of internet anonymity to let loose their hostility toward women. Perhaps women are tired of being targets of free form aggression by random men, and have decided to opt out.
Trivia Man
@OzarkHillbilly: I have no doubt it was a sound coaching decision. Setting aside the reverse racism howls, it may have improved viewer numbers a significant amount. More viewers>> more ad $$ and more ad $$$>> more player $$$ in salaries and endorsements. For ALL players.
Since the US team is nearly 100% win rate in international competition, was adding a #50 player instead of the #12 going to affect medal chances?
schrodingers_cat
OT:
Coalition Drama from India. Now that Modi and his cabinet has been sworn. There are 2 hurdles it must cross.
Floor test
Election of the Speaker of the House
One of the alliance partners of the BJP, TDP (Telugu Desam Party) wants the Speaker’s post. The opposition INDIA alliance says that they will back TDP’s candidate for Speaker. I have my samosas and popcorn ready. And gin with bhakt tears to wash it off.
TBone
@Belafon: they’ll be writing opinions while seated cross-legged on the floor of the Oval Office.
TBone
@smith: I’m grateful any time the Internet stands between me and male aggression. I can turn it off that way. IRL I laugh right in their face and consequently might get punched. Good thing my hubby is a large, menacing presence when he wants to be.
NotMax
@schrodingers_cat
Switch the scene.
:)
Eolirin
@smith: I’m not saying that dynamic doesn’t exist, I’m saying making claims like it’s some kind of massive social swing on the basis of thousands of social media posts is… Well it’s bad reporting honestly.
We have no idea from that as to how significant a movement there is in that direction because that’s a rounding error in terms of TikTok posts.
If we had data showing a significant falloff in dating app usage or polling data showing fewer women in relationships, we could draw some actual conclusions.
Thousands of people say on the internet is less than useless as a measure of anything
Edit: and to be clear, the women making these posts are almost certainly genuinely pissed off at the real and endemic shittiness of male behavior and I’m not meaning to dismiss that for them as individuals.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Anybody up for a nice heaping helping of Karma?
davek319
@smith: The Republicans, sure. They’re shithead clowns all the way down. The powers –academics, the press, statesmen, the opposition leadership in general–that could slap them down seem strangely unwilling to do so. I suspect an underlying homogeneous white sympathy is doing the work here.
Gloria DryGarden
@Betty Cracker: esp if his ac goes down in a brown out…
NotMax
@TBone
A humdrum circle.
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NotMax
@OzarkHilbilly
“i know. Let’s give it to Mikey. He hates everything.”
;)
Jackie
@RevRick:
Am I correct in thinking Fetterman’s wife is an undocumented immigrant?
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
What does this mean? As caretaker, or did he produce a majority coalition?
Ruckus
@OzarkHillbilly:
Also: I hope they release the psychologists report.
Highly unlikely. Besides who’d want to read it? I mean why bother….
But then again….. SFB is not normal – in any way, shape or form. So I imagine that it is possible, if for no other reason than he wants to be president – again. But he does seem to be drain spiraling (although he won’t fit through any house drain….damn it) I’d bet that being who he is, while who he wants to be – some mythical character out of a comic book really does screw his mind up. Such a shame…
lowtechcyclist
@WaterGirl:
Yeppers!
@Kay:
@Trivia Man:
One of the great things about cycling is that it’s really easy to get into it, assuming one has access to a suitable bike of course. You can start by just riding around the streets of your neighborhood, and work up from there as the urge strikes you.
One of its charms from my POV is that, compared to walking or running, you cover a lot more ground and so you get to see a lot more in a shorter time. And you don’t always have to be working at it – sometimes you can coast, and other times you can sustain your momentum by just gently pedaling.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud
He has the majority with his coalition NDA on paper. The swearing in happens first, floor test is next and then the Speaker election. There have been governments that lasted less than two weeks because they failed the floor test
Ruckus
@Danielx:
Was not ready for that cartoon.
That would signify that you are at least very close to normal….
I mean who wants to see even a cartoon of that??
3Sice
The former GDR is in long term population decline. The political overlay maps are somewhat misleading, as it represents 19% of the German population and 43% of the land area.
That’s now three or four generations that moved west. How ya gonna keep them down on the farm?
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s probably one reason he wanted to have a lawyer with him.
Shalimar
@rikyrah: I am a big Caitlin Clark admirer and I think the increased attention she has brought to her sport is wonderful. I think she will have a great career and be on all-WNBA teams for most of it. But she absolutely is not one of the 12 best American players already at 22 years old. If she did make the Olympic team this year, it would be based on fame rather than playing merit.
lowtechcyclist
@smith:
Speaking of Bush the Dumber, has anyone asked him yet if he’s voting for Trump?
TBone
@lowtechcyclist: 🎶😆
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4IUvBXCzeCU
Jackie
@Betty Cracker:
I wondered about that, too! Then I thought maybe he’s staying in FL incase he has to do a few days of jail time? DeStupid has vowed to not comply with handing TCFG over… 🤷🏼♀️
Other than that guess, I got nuthin.
geg6
@Jackie:
I believe she was as a child or young adult but is no longer.
Torrey
@Mousebumples:
Thank you for bringing this to the collective attention. I suspect I’m like many others in not keeping close enough watch on postcarding opportunities, so I miss some I could participate in.
Soprano2
@TBone: No, I try to avoid hearing him talk. I’m going on what I’ve read, that he can be more subdued when he’s actually under oath and knows that telling the truth actually matters because he could get in trouble for lying.
Jackie
@lowtechcyclist: I seem to recall Dubya hasn’t ever voted for TCFG. I don’t know if he voted for Hillary; probably just a write in, but I believe he voted for Biden.
Ruckus
@Another Scott:
Here’s hoping that streak continues.
Look whose streak it is, how could it go any other way?
I don’t call him SFB for no reason.
Soprano2
@Trivia Man: No, but what about that #12 player who got bumped for someone who clearly isn’t playing at pro level yet?
Captain C
@OzarkHillbilly:
The report:
“Dear fuckers of the court:
Thank you for making me to this. I am writing you to announce my retirement, in which I will join a Buddhist monestary and spend the rest of my life in vehement prayer.”
Captain C
@Kay: Later text from them: “So what did you think?”
You: “That was both the funniest and yet saddest video clip I’ve ever seen. I’m so sorry about, well, your whole life. LOL. P.S. You owe me for the electron microscope.”
TBone
@Soprano2: whelp dementia has fucked that all up.
Details in addition to the article I already posted:
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/donald-trump-letitia-james-transcript-deposition-lawsuit-rcna102764
andy
You know tr*mp is special because he’s the only ex-president EVER to get his very own Parole Officer.
andy
@OzarkHillbilly: since it’s tr*mp i imagine the decision comes down to cup size, though i imagine he’s charmed by the animal cruelty
Sherparick
@OzarkHillbilly: Well, TFG has a well known dislike for dogs.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Not just politically—economically, too. There was a German buddy-cop show on MHz a while back, Bukow and König, about a woman federal officer from the west who comes to Leipzig (formerly in East Germany) on a case and is paired with a guy who is a Leipzig native and had been a longtime East German police officer. One of the subtexts of the show was how embarrassing details would come up about how things were done “before” (reunification), which caused friction and mistrust with his partner from the west. And there are a lot of right-wingers lurking in the background.
The real eye-opener was that the series was shot on location in Leipzig (2010-14), and an American viewer can’t escape the feeling that “this is not the Germany I know.” Bad architecture, general seediness, definitely not prosperous. It feels like Poland or Hungary or someplace farther east.
JaySinWA
@OzarkHillbilly: I, for one, did not expect Felon to show up for a probation report at all. There were people who claimed to be knowledgeable of New York legal procedures that some people blow it off, that there is no direct enforcement and lack of respect lead people like this felon to skip it, legal advice to the contrary. Of course the judge would take this into consideration in sentencing, but the claim is that there isn’t any specific penalty for not complying with the order.
I suppose the concession to do it remotely made it more likely for him to comply. Here’s hoping that the real Donald Felonious Trump shows up and helps make the case for a strong sentence.
Trivia Man
@Soprano2: Absolutely stellar point, im just adding in a possible reason to include CC that simply centers around $$ snd self interest. Happy to see CC is not feeding any of the “outrage” from people who care exactly zero for the sport.
Uncle Cosmo
Highly unlikely, unless the digit was in the area code, and I conjecture local area codes are the most familiar strings of digits and thus least likely to be misentered. Say one chance in four.
The Red Pen
@OzarkHillbilly:
I sometime watch commentary from a YouTuber named “Vaush.” He has a kind of “dude bro” vibe, but progressive politics. One time the topic was dating apps and how women hate them and he said, “You may not know this but I’m bisexual. That means I’ve had relationships with men. Let me tell you, men on dating apps are exhausting. I’m with the women on this.”
number,
@Uncle Cosmo: Given number portability and cell phone use even area codes don’t mean that much anymore. I have neighbors with cell numbers that are from cross country, where they used to live.
OTOH when I get a new cell phone number, I usually get an area code from my region, but Google Voice and some others offer area code from wherever they are available.
JaySinWA
Repost to fix mangled nym
@Uncle Cosmo: Given number portability and cell phone use even area codes don’t mean that much anymore. I have neighbors with cell numbers that are from cross country, where they used to live.
OTOH when I get a new cell phone number, I usually get an area code from my region, but Google Voice and some others offer area code from wherever they are available.
The Red Pen
Anyone else fretting about the polls? They suck.
Now I’m starting to hear the same lame rationalizations from the left that I’ve heard from the right since 2008: “The polls are skewed.” “They are undercounting Democrats.” etc. etc.
I have yet to see a definitive demonstration that the polls are wrong. For example, a lot of people said that the win on Ohio’s abortion initiative was proof that the conservatives underestimate how much people hate their policies, but the outcome wasn’t a surprise. A Baldwin Wallace University poll found that 58% percent of Ohioans supported Prop 1, and it won with 57%.
So Trump is winning by 2%-5% in key states. I’m low-key freaking out.
Jackie
@The Red Pen: Polls don’t vote. Polls have been unreliable since at least 2012.
Miss Bianca
@The Red Pen: No, I’m not fretting about the polls. I see absolutely no point in borrowing trouble like that when I have a bunch of other things to fret about – stuff I can actually *do* something about.
Maybe spend that energy doing something productive, like postcards to voters?
Ruckus
@lowtechcyclist:
A lot of employers like to keep wages as low as possible and output as high as possible – it makes them more money. It is a shitty way to be an employer. I liked it when my employees enjoyed working, or at least didn’t hate showing up. But my business required rather skilled workers and we paid well because of that. One missed step or not fully understanding the process could ruin weeks/months of work to finish one product. (we made tools for others to use to make products that we all see daily) I grew up with this business and owned/ran it longer than my father. We payed high wages for the business – to get great people to work for us and to pay them for their skills. It worked.
There are many businesses that do not require highly skilled and well experienced labor, but screwing employees for a few pennies/dollars profit is a shitty way to run a business – no matter how big, how old, how profitable. That it works at all is not a positive testament to any kind of business or the owners. And is one reason we have a minimum wage, which of course is often too minimum.
Jackie
@Miss Bianca: Excellent suggestion!😊👍🏻
O. Felix Culpa
@Miss Bianca:
100% agreed. Besides which, current movement of polls is in Biden’s favor. Trends can be informative, even if the polls are overall unreliable.
Kay
@The Red Pen:
I’m concerned about them and I also worry about “unskewing’ on our side. Trump getting to 50% worries me. I’m ok as long as under 50 because still room for growth but that window is closing if he’s at 50.
But “not “fretting”, no. There isn’t a thing we can do about it.
Kay
@The Red Pen:
Hochul’s move on congestion pricing seemed panicky to me, too, like NY numbers for Democrats are not where they want them. That matters for congress.
Ruckus
@The Red Pen:
Most polls do not take a large enough sampling or a wide enough ranging sampling. Because it costs more. A lot more. The concept that 2% of the population can rationally be considered a legitimate polling sample is bullshit. And yet 2% of the US population is almost 7 million people.
The US, the world is getting more difficult to get a reasonable picture of, especially for some questions. A reasonable sample is very difficult/expensive to obtain, even in one country, and yes often even one state or county. Such as Los Angeles County, with over 9 3/4 million people living here. (That still amazes me – that’s a larger population than 40 states!)
Kay
@The Red Pen:
I’m going to a Sherrod fundraiser on 6/28. I’ll see if anyone will tell me THE TROOF there :)
Kayla Rudbek
The Red Pen
@Miss Bianca: Great suggestion.
Some responses to the other comments:
Kay
@Captain C:
My father loved to buy and sell cars – he used classified ads to sell them. Once he got a call on a car that had been sold and he said politely “I’m sorry, it’s been sold” and the young man on the other end said “fuck you!” He was just bewildered – “now, what kind of a thing is that to say?”
Mousebumples
@Kay: glad to hear, thanks!
@Gloria DryGarden: pretty sure it’s for the Democratic candidate.
@Torrey: happy to help! I know I don’t always have time to write for all of them (or only get 4 or 5 done), but sharing an FYI might let others like yourself know about it so maybe you can participate.
E.
@Kay: Tell them you showed it to your mom and she has notified the police and all your teachers.
Ramalama
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I took a day-tour to East Berlin when the Wall was still up. The tour guide was an East Berliner using careful English (better than my nein German), espousing the benefits of the Socialist regime…East Germany had something like 2% unemployment, according to her. “Everyone who wants a job will get a job.” It looked like WW II had ended not that long ago, with bullet holes still in various buildings, crumbling-destroyed infrastructure. There I was in the late 1980s (88 maybe) thinking, Why haven’t youse guys repaired the buildings (like an American asshat)?
Also I took a blurry unremarkable photo at Checkpoint Charlie. A few weeks later, when I was in the netherlands, hanging out, I read in the Herald Tribune that someone had been shot and killed doing the very thing I’d done at CC.
2008, back in the Americas and driving between Boston and Montreal (weekly commute) I had two rideshares from former East Germany join me. Young people. They had had a very good family friend keep in contact with them from West Berlin, friends from before the Wall went up. So when the Wall was falling, this friend advised the families what was due to happen (hello roughshod Capitalism, a mad run on state-held properties.) The two families were able to not lose their apartments, and basically remain upright, but said a ton of people who knew nothing about life outside of the Communist WOL got trampled.
Not sure how you recover from the whiplash like that unless there’s a system in place to inform people, help them.
Ruckus
@number,:
I live in LA county so most area codes are full up and have 2 or 3 codes for the same geographic area. My area code is from the second area to run out of phone numbers and I’ve had it for over 30 yrs. And it isn’t the area code for where I live. With only a cell phone one could have an area code from a different state. I did when I lived in a different state and when I lived about 400 miles from where I do now.
Ruckus
.@aweissmann_
on Trump’s upcoming probation Zoom: “He’ll be asked about whether he is associating with criminals. And it is sort of remarkable… he’s going to have to discuss whether he still coordinates with Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon.”
Such a glorious bunch of people. ShitForBrains, Granite Brain, Paul PlaysWithBlocks, Steve BangsNoOne.
Nora
@Ruckus: You have such a way with words! Love those nicknames — probably my favorite is Steve BangsNoOne.
wjca
There would be more, but they are gradually being replaced by corresponding Conviction Day holidays.
Ramalama
EVEN THOUGH Manafort and Stone have been given pardons, are they still considered to be felons?
Ruckus
@Nora:
I mean really who in their right minds would want to?
Or hell, in even completely deluded minds?
I mean look at that, who wants to be in the same state, let alone room with that?
One would have to be the hardest up human on the planet.
And it still wouldn’t be worth it….
Thanks!
Also, the brain still works!
Bill Arnold
@Ramalama:
If anyone calls on it, one can correct oneself by saying something like
“sorry, correction, they were convicted of felonies by juries, and subsequently pardoned by convicted felon Donald J. Trump.
Sorry, to be accurate, now convicted felon Donald J. Trump, who had committed the felonies but had not yet been convicted for them at the time he pardoned those men.”.
Chris T.
@Kay: But was it good porn or bad porn? If it was bad porn you could reply “you should be ashamed of yourself, here’s something so much better” with some good porn. 😇
Nancy
@Gloria DryGarden: It’s good to make something good out of something bad