So meta has announced they are just dumping all fact checkers, and on the same day the Washington Post laid off a bunch of staff AS Jeff Bezo and company at Amazon were sinking 40 million into a Melania documentary. Meanwhile, the North Carolina Supreme Court is trying to steal an election for Republicans and Trump’s favorite judge blocked the release of the investigation into the stolen documents case. What a time to be alive. This is the only appropriate response to the events of the day:
Before they strip all the copper wire out of the government they should bring back Quaaludes
— Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) January 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In other news, I had to pick up my friend’s kid at the airport, and I don’t know if you know anything about Sky Harbor airport, but it is an absolute train wreck trying to pick up someone there as there is no place for you to park and they yell at you for slowing down to let someone get in. And they always have these aggressive meathead rent a cops yelling at everyone.
I timed it so the kid had his baggage picked up and we knew exactly which door to meet, and as I saw him coming out with his luggage the rentacop started yelling at me to move. They always try to be loud and intimidating which really doesn’t work on people who don’t fucking care, and our interaction went like this:
Guard: YOU NEED TO KEEP MOVING
Me: Pretends he is talking to someone else
Guard: I SAID YOU NEED TO MOVE!
Me: Are you talking to me? Why are you using your big boy voice at me?
Guard: YOU NEED TO MOVE- DON’T MAKE ME SAY IT A THIRD TIME
Me: Actually that was the third time.
Guard: MOVE.
Me: That’s four now. Gonna shoot for five?
At this point the kid was getting in the car so I just rolled up my window and ignored him and drove off.
Oh, another interesting fact- I couldn’t move because I was blocked in by the car in front of me and the car behind me and the traffic whizzing by at 35 to my left. That apparently didn’t matter to mr. big mouth with the yellow vest.
Was it inappropriate on my part? Probably. Did I do it with a smile the whole time? Yeah. Do I care? No. I spend all the time I am out of the house trying to be friendly and not a problem and smile and I am kind to staff and I just don’t need some aggressive dickhead yelling at me. Whatever.
It’s chilly here and looks like it is going to rain, and neither of us cared to do anything about dinner so we’re just doing leftovers and probably going to watch some tv while the rest of the world collapses around us.
I once again would like to ask you all to be kind to each other in the comments.
Scout211
Wow. Give a guy a yellow vest and things happen.
You did very well the keep your composure and keep the smile on your face, Cole. I’m impressed.
Old School
Has anyone figured out where Meta was using fact checkers?
TBone
I just rubbed a nose in a dirty diaper – a friend who did not vote Dem had her hot water heater take a dump yesterday. She couldn’t get credit to pay the plumber because of medical debt on her credit report. I let her bitch about it for a while, then I sent her an article on the new Rule announcement TODAY by VP Harris on behalf of President Biden and the CFPB.
time.com/7205200/biden-admin-unpaid-medical-bills-credit-reports/
I paid her mortgage off for her years back and will not lift a financial finger to help ever again after she bit me. Thankfully President Biden did, but that won’t go into effect for another 60 days. Sucks to be her (it’s a long story I told here in the past).
wenchacha
Okay still to say Fuck Zuck, I hope.
Urza
No one here but 2 days into work and i’m very over with people being stupid and clueless and this is so not the year to stress over such things.
ArchTeryx
@TBone: That won’t live past Inauguration Day, I’d lay heavy odds. She’ll get just what she voted for, good and hard. And probably no hot water.
TBone
@ArchTeryx: chickens, roost
I told her Donold will prolly fuck this up out of sheer spite by executive order hahahaha
Scout211
Because I apparently can’t with all the big stuff, I am very intrigued about Melania’s documentary. I posted a bit about it a few days ago. I am just curious what the purpose of it is. There are so many possibilities and none of those possibilities have to do with documenting a life well-lived, worthy of a wide release documentary in theaters.
Almost Retired
Sky Harbor is a nightmare, and my home airport is LAX, so I know badly designed airports. The whole drop off/pick up structure at PHX is designed to discourage you from driving to the airport but instead use public transportation. BUT THERE IS PRACTICALLY NO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN PHOENIX. Sorry to shout. I love Phoenix but I loathe that airport. Also it was built for a city about one thirtieth the size of the current population.
eemom
To paraphrase my son when he was in high school and I asked him to be careful about something, Kind is my middle name. 😁
A Ghost to Most
Being kind to people who don’t deserve it is how we got in this mess. Fuck that.
MagdaInBlack
@Scout211: The purpose is that Bezos pays her $40 mil.
Miki
Yelling,/yelling back can feel very therapeutic, except to the yellies, which is why I try to avoid succumbing and becoming a yeller.
But damn – sometimes yelling/yelling back is still recalled as epic Great Refusals (hat tip to Herbert Marcuse).
TBone
@MagdaInBlack: exactly
Suzanne
Best headline of the day: Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World’s First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
Scout211
Sure, but what do you think Bezos is getting out of it? What is Trump getting out of it?
Suzanne
@Almost Retired:
No, it’s designed to get you to pay to park!
ETA: Use public transportation?! Commie.
Old School
@Old School: Mrs. School reports seeing the occasional fact check on Facebook, so I guess they did exist.
TBone
@Scout211: whitewashing
ArchTeryx
@A Ghost to Most: Be kind to people smart enough not to vote for the fascist prick but who get to suffer all the consequences anyway. A lot of people would be helped by that medical debt rule that Trump guaranteed will strip away.
Jackie
@Scout211: Aren’t documentaries supposed to be based on facts? Anything TCFG and Melania approve of will be pure fiction. I hope Bezos takes a financial dump with this charade of truthiness.
Suzanne
Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World’s First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
Headline of the day.
Matt McIrvin
I will say one thing for Phoenix Sky Harbor: I recall they’ve got a fairly nice-looking shopping-mall-like environment behind security, with lots of places to eat and such.
I’ve never had to pick anyone up there.
At Boston Logan they usually have a bunch of actual cops just parked near the beginning of the pickup area with their lights on, and they don’t seem to do anything but wave people past them while their cars funnel traffic into the lane where they want through traffic to be. I don’t know. It’s still a mess near the curb but I don’t recall getting shouted at.
ArchTeryx
@TBone: I don’t care, do u?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@TBone:
Did she say anything in reply?
MagdaInBlack
@Scout211: Both Trumps get their ego’s stroked. Pocket change for Jeff and he ingratiates himself even more
Eta: recall how offended they were she never made the cover of Vogue? Well, now she gets a movie!
Scout211
@Jackie: Melania is the executive producer so she will likely be fact-checking the “facts.”
Matt McIrvin
@Scout211: Bezos gets free removal of whatever shreds of dignity he had left.
WaterGirl
@A Ghost to Most:
Do you think the people who are commenting on Balloon Juice are the ones that voted for Trump and supported the republican party?
TBone
@TBone: P.S. I love that they put VP Harris out front and center so it reminds people who they should have voted for. The TIME article has her picture on top!
WaterGirl
@Jackie: Audience of one? Or possibly two.
TBone
@ArchTeryx:
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
NOPE hahahahaha
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Orange, male polydactyl from an apartment complex in Aurora that the Orange Fart Cloud called out when he was here during the campaign (immigrants bad). Grass roots group now in there trying to trap the colony, not helped by a Russian woman who keeps feeding them, thus making it harder to TNR the mob.
This guy’s not feral by any stretch but my wife’s been part of the socialization crew. As you can see, he’s progressing nicely. And given he’s an orange male, he basically has one shared brain cell, thus, a big loveable doofus.
Still not quite ready for a forever home or go to a foster but he’s getting there:
flic.kr/p/2qDMsJZ
MagdaInBlack
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Oh my! He’s gorgeous !
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
What exactly is the point of a Melania documentary, anyway? She’s a non-entity who isn’t a pleasant person and is a plagiarist. She’s no Michelle Obama. Like, what has she done in her life that didn’t involve marrying into money? Modeling? Nothing wrong with that as a career, but again, why does that warrant a $40 million dollar Amazon doc? What’s so interesting about her life?
Nancy
I just deleted my facebook accounts. At least I spend an hour trying to get through the verbiage of how to delete. I hope I succeeded. And I’m working toward no longer using Amazon. Hard to do that when they are so damn convenient, but needs must.
MagdaInBlack
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Please see comments 12 and 24. YMMV.
SpaceUnit
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
That’s my reaction is well. She’s got to be the most uninteresting person on the planet.
Bupalos
@Scout211: I don’t get why it wouldn’t just be the obvious, boring thing. It’s a good way to politically launder a payoff.
Bokonon
It’s a gigantic bribe to Trump, packaged as a “fee” to his wife for her services and involvement in producing this movie. About her.
The irony is that when Joe Biden handled some of Hunter Biden’s car payments for him, the GOP screamed about the fungibility of money, and about this being undercover corruption and funds transfers inside the Biden Crime Family. Now you have actual massive multi-million dollar bribes flowing through the Trump family members in plain view, and it is met with shrugs and indifference and silence.
MagdaInBlack
@Bupalos: Yup
Scout211
Seth Abramson on X
Yup. And legal, too.
Those zillionaires are so smart.
MazeDancer
Looked, but could only find 1 comment on this: Pacific Palisades in LA is burning. 35K evacuated .Getty Villa threatned.
Supposed to get worse overnight. Huge winds expected.
Not clear if it will head to Santa Monica. But the flames have lept Chautauqua, which is the road up into Pacific Palisades.
Pictures all over Twitter and bsky.
Too scary to link.
Mr. Biden is overnight in LA, coincidently.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Bokonon:
IOKIYAR.
A modern, universal truism like Cleek’s Law and the Crazification Factor.
Jackie
@WaterGirl: MAGAts will lap it up and contrive a way for her to win some made up award… which could be entertaining, as TCFG still whines about never winning an Emmy for his fake reality show.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@SpaceUnit:
Right? Like, it’d be one thing if she came here as an immigrant, maybe still a model, and became a famous actress. Or founded a major fashion brand. Rags to riches combined with an immigrant story. But that’s not who she is, she’s a vapid, largely talentless hack who married into money
Scout211
@MazeDancer: James Woods is live-tweeting his neighborhood. Here’s a summary of his tweets on The Wrap
Suzanne
@SpaceUnit: I wonder what next year’s holiday decorations will look like. I can imagine themes such as, “Christmas at the Brothel”, “Throwing Elves at the Wall”, or “IN THIS HOUSE WE SAY MERRY FUCKIN CHRISTMAS”.
HeleninEire
I don’t know about your airport but my airports take the cake with this type of bullshit. Especially JFK right now. They are doing major renovations so they tell you to NOT DRIVE…take the Airtrain. Now, I LOVE the airtrain. It is a 15 minute subway ride from my house. But even getting off the Airtrain there is sooo much construction to walk around.
That being said…much of NY is under construction. And that’s grand. The subways are all being renovated…all because of President Joe’s infrastructure bill. We are building back!
SpaceUnit
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
And she’s got all the personality of week-old gruel.
Baud
I wonder how much the Academy will charge to give it an Oscar.
Geminid
Virginia special election results, from Sam Shirazi:
The Loudon County State Senate election was to replace Senate Senator Suhas Subramanyam. He was elected to Congress from the 10th CD last November. Subramanyam replaces Rep. Jennifer Wexton who retired for health reasons.
A special election in Virginia SD-10 was won by Republican Luther H. Cifers. He will succeed John McGuire who won the 5th CD and replaced Rep. Bob “No” Good.
TONYG
@Jackie: I guess that the Melania documentary will be pretty short — maybe about 15 minutes. Slovenian hooker becomes the third trophy wife of failed businessman and “reality TV” star but, tragically, he fails to promptly die and leave her some money. The end.
Baud
@Geminid:
Nice. Much needed good news.
SpaceUnit
@Suzanne:
Plastic flamingos on the WH lawn wrapped in tinsel.
MazeDancer
@Scout211:
Rumor abounds that Woods evacuated while Steve Guttenberg stayed to help firefighters.
Jennifer Lopez movie premiere cancelled.
People abandoned their cars on the road, but took their keys. Guttenberg was interviewed railing against that.
LAPD is bull dozing all the Mercedes out of the way.
It is actually terrifying. The losses will be astronomical.
So far, no people lost, thank heavens.
NotMax
Ooh, is that the light patter of rain I hear?
Hope so. The vog wafting in from the Big Island has been playing hob with the sinuses this week.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@MagdaInBlack:
That’s very plausible. Still, again, she’s not a very interesting person in and of herself, which makes this look like an obvious bribe of some kind. It’s disgusting. This wouldn’t have happened a decade ago
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Geminid:
Good for Virginia 👍
Stacy
Good news from Loudoun County, VA. Kannan Srinivasan and J.J. Singh won their special election races for Senate and House. Happy to be represented by two impressive candidates! Now onto the Gubernatorial election this fall.
MagdaInBlack
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): OK.
lowtechcyclist
@Geminid:
Yay!! Youngkin’s gonna have a record of next to no accomplishments to run on in 2028.
Of course, by then SCOTUS will have decided that Donald “Weekend at Bernie’s” Trump deserves an extra term, so it may be moot anyway.
Geminid
@Baud: Rep. Suhas Subramanyam has a lot of potential. He was an Obama White House staffer and is only 37 years old.
Subramanyam’s parents immigrated from Bangalore, India and stopped at Dulles Airport in Loudon County on their way to Houston where they both practiced medicine. Subramanyam earned a B.A degree at Tulane and a J.D. at Northwestern before coming to Virginia
MazeDancer
100 mile an hour wind alert tonight in LA. City declares state of emergency. Newsom has out all of SoCal on alert.
This is all pretty terrible.
Oh, and Karen Bass is n Ghana. Hope she is on her way back.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@MagdaInBlack:
I was agreeing with you, sorry if that wasn’t clear
jayne
@Scout211:
Bezos gets in with Trump’s large cult of gullible idiots who love to spend money on Trump stuff, many of whom were still holding a grudge over the whole WaPo was slightly negative about The Childish Emperor thing.
The Donald probably only has a vague idea of which middle-aged woman in his immediate line of sight is actually Melania, but he does love having his name on things. And who knows? Maybe he thinks it’ll stick it to Stormy Daniels if it turns out he’s slept with two ‘actors’.
As for Melyawnia herself, current theory is she’s only still around because she had to sign an airtight prenup that says he’s the one who ends it or else she’s cut off. If she makes enough money off stuff like this, she can leave and have enough to tide her over between coloring book deals.
Geminid
@Stacy: I’m really looking forward to this Governor’s race. I find Abigail Spanberger to be an impressive politician, and she seems to have a ruthless quality that I like.
MagdaInBlack
@jayne: Melyawnia (i like that) has money stashed somewhere, of this I have no doubt.
I call her Melamine….cheap and plastic.
eemom
@Geminid:
Thank God, and thank you for the info. My district wasn’t at issue so I didn’t pay close attention.
Gretchen
@HeleninEire: My daughter was just here with her 2 year old twins, flying out of JFK. There was so much stop and go traffic going there that both kids got carsick and threw up on themselves, had to be changed in the airport and barf clothes packed. She lives near Newark but JFK had a nonstop. She says never again JFK.
eemom
Anyone remember the “free Melania” meme during trump I, when there was a
stupidreality challenged perception among certainstupidreality challenged people on the left that she was a victim of some kind?#kindnessismymiddlename
NotMax
@MagdaInBlack
RingsKa-chings of Power.//
Geminid
@eemom: Sam Shirazi seems like a very good source on Virginia elections. He’s Twitter but not BlueSky and publishes long-form pieces on Substack.
MagdaInBlack
@eemom: I remember that silliness. She’s not trapped, she a willing partner in crime
( i seem to be extra cynical tonight)
Stacy
@Geminid: Agreed. Already planning a fundraiser for her here in my neck of Loudoun.
HeleninEire
@Gretchen: Oh bless them. JFK is great without construction for drivers. (Ish – NY is never great for drivers) but it’s NUTS now.
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax: Just follow the bouncing $$ signs.
HeleninEire
@eemom: Some one…I think a never-trumper said “She hates him…but she hates you more.”
kissel
Sorry about your experience. I can tell you that Sky Harbor is 100 times better for pickup than Newark. That place is a total disaster and the real cops yell at you to keep moving all while you’re pinned in. My biggest gripe about Sky Harbor is it’s a bit confusing to get out of and I’ve messed that up more than once.
zhena gogolia
@eemom: I remember that. It was always BS.
mrmoshpotato
You tell that rent-a-cop to suck a horse’s ass!
jayne
@eemom: Nah, she knew what the job entailed when she signed up for it. I wouldn’t be surprised if she initially thought it would be a shorter gig than it turned out to be, but lots of people stay in jobs they don’t like because the pay’s too good to leave. That said, if she won the Powerball jackpot tomorrow, I doubt she’d be showing up to work on Friday.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@MagdaInBlack:
I’m sorry about my comment at #56. I was agreeing with you
MazeDancer
Palisades Fire has jumped the Pacific Coast Highway. Video.
The High School has burnt. The Getty Villa Museum which houses their antiquities collection is reportedly on fire.
The winds are relentless.
NotMax
@HeleninEire
Yup. LGA was an epic traffic disaster during its recent renovation. Once that was completed, a quantum leap better.
Ten minute watch of what’s going on with JFK.
Gretchen
@kissel: I’ve had pretty good experiences getting picked up at Newark. They have doors with numbers and letters, so you can tell your ride I’m at door B5, and by the time they stop and get yelled at, you’re in the car.
zhena gogolia
@MazeDancer: This is horrible.
MagdaInBlack
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): There’s nothing to apologize for, you did nothing wrong. I just wasn’t going to repeat what several other people also said.
Yer fine =-)
Poe Larity.
Last uber from PHX I had a big guy in a 15 year old Corolla running on a spare tire. Trump sticker. Let’s Go Brandon t-shirt. Somehow had Sirius for some evangelical channel and said this was a side job doing narration for christian audio books. But he had diabetes so had been laid up for awhile.
I was going to ask how all that was working out for him but decide to be nice.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@MazeDancer:
Oh no
pluky
@MagdaInBlack: There are criticisms to be made of Anna Wintour, but her absolute disdain for cheap trash is not in doubt. Melania was, and is, NEVER going on the cover of Vogue while Ms. Wintour is in charge.
NotMax
@Gretchen
And thus begins today’s installment of B-J After Dark.
:)
Elizabelle
@eemom: The Free Melania crap? Remember that. Was that the horseshoe left?
I remember the timeless photo of the Trump family with a disapproving-looking Pope Francis. Trump beaming. Melania dressed in full widow’s weeds.
Dress for the job you want. Guardian link. It is a timeless photo, LOL.
HeleninEire
@jayne: In less than 3 weeks they will be married 20 years. I am DYING to know what pre-nup requirements expire.
MagdaInBlack
@pluky: Yes! Ms Wintour has her “issues” but she as dead on in that.
Elizabelle
@MazeDancer: Yes. I have been wondering about the Getty’s fire protection systems. If any of the art is able to be relocated to a subterranean vault.
Strange days.
Scout211
@MazeDancer:
No, not yet at least. NBC live updates
8 minutes ago:
Another Scott
@Geminid: 👍
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Scott.
different-church-lady
Goddamn, man, you should give institutional Democrats lessons.
HeleninEire
@Gretchen: I just answered your question in the last thread.
different-church-lady
@Jackie:
They’re supposed to have that appearance, but there’s s ton of wiggle room.
Scout211
@different-church-lady:
So a docudrama? Or maybe a documentasy?
Gretchen
@HeleninEire: Thanks. Here’s hoping we won’t have a long wait, but his successor may be worse.
MazeDancer
@Scout211: Hope it stays okay. Needless to say pics of flames at the walls are scary.
Ironically, we are on day 2 of 4 of incessant howling winds in Upstate NY. Cannot imagine having twice the howl and knowing it is spreading fire.
At least they have the ocean and 20,000 swimming pools for water.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@MagdaInBlack:
Thanks, I just saw the “OK” and thought I’d said something wrong or dumb lol
Starfish (she/her)
@eemom:
@A Ghost to Most:
If you two do not stop hissing, you are going to get squirted with this water bottle.
Am I doing the (pretend) cat parent thing correctly?
MagdaInBlack
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): We all say wrong or dumb stuff. I myself seem to have quite the knack for it ;-)
Starfish (she/her)
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Ooh. That kitty is beautiful.
Sure Lurkalot
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: That cat is one handsome dude.
frosty
@kissel: Last Thanksgiving I think my son’s flight made it back to Pittsburgh before we found our way out of Newark Airport.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, a $100,000 Sony-Honda??!
NotebookCheck.net:
Um… Good luck with that! :-/
Best wishes,
Scott.
—
(Who remembers several of Sony’s over-priced PCs…)
Starfish (she/her)
@eemom: I remember that and hated it so much. I don’t know why people want to write victim narratives for villains.
Starfish (she/her)
@HeleninEire: She might not even hate him. That may just be too much botox in her face, and she can’t smile.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Would anyone actually pay to watch a documentary about Melania Trump?
WaterGirl
@Stacy: As I understand it, those are Democratic districts and in any normal year Ds would be expected to win, but there were worries. I imagine because of November results.
It will be interesting to see whether they won by the normally expected margins or if it was closer, or less close, than expected
Still, a relief that we kept those critical VA seats.
WaterGirl
@MazeDancer: Thank god there is still a president who doesn’t hate CA.
gene108
@Scout211:
I don’t know what Bezos expects from Trump.
At a minimum, Trump will get a few million upfront for the right to use Melania’s image and get details about her past. Beyond that, I don’t know what Bezos plans to offer.
As a country, it seems our institutions – federal law enforcement, judges, media, etc. – are going to turn a blind eye towards corruption and bribery, and many Americans will cheer this development in our politics.
Republicans have been hammering away at all changes that happened, since Brown v. Board of Education for the last 50 years, which include court cases and laws that make things fairer for everyone and attempts to curb the corrupting influence of money in politics.
I think 2024 will be a big shift both culturally and politically to a revanchist world view on American culture and a political system enthrall to billionaires.
Parfigliano
@MagdaInBlack: I call her Slovenian Slut
MazeDancer
@WaterGirl:
Newsom is happy Mr. Biden is in town.
“No politics, no hand-wringing, kissing of the feet. … Emergency proclamation is being drafted as we speak”
Sister Golden Bear
@MazeDancer: Sadly I’m not surprised. When the Santa Anas are blowing the only thing that stops wildfires in the Santa Monica mountains is the Pacific Ocean.
Lily
Zuck cartoon insult, by Pat Bagley, (Salt Lake Tribune). “Longest continuously employed full-time editorial cartoonist in America.”
different-church-lady
@Another Scott: But have you seen what Biden did to the price of eggs??2?
different-church-lady
@Lily: …for now.
WaterGirl
@MazeDancer: I just burst into tears thinking that we don’t have many days left where we at least have that on our side.
WaterGirl
There is a new open thread up after the Ukraine thread. Thought we could use one.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@kissel: they do this in Seattle. So, since departures is just one easily reached level right above arrivals, and since drop-offs absolutely do not wait around at the end of the terminal where the international airlines depart (because everyone flying to Asia is being driven to the airport by a professional driver) that’s become the secret pickup place in SeaTac. We found it out when my brother dropped me off to fly to China back in 2013; he was like, this has got to be the only place in SeaTac without any cars. So now whenever I fly into Seattle he picks me up there.
This past Christmas, though, that corner of SeaTac was haunted with people standing around with suitcases, suggesting that the secret pickup place is becoming not so secret.
also SeaTac can now be reached on the light rail, although at the other end of the airport from the secret pickup location. Public transport to the airport, yeah!
Another Scott
@WaterGirl:
BlueVirginia.US:
Seems like a good result. (Harris won Loudoun County 129k (56%) to 92k (40%) in November.)
Forward!!
Best wishes,
Scott.
TS
@Scout211: So many women worthy of a film of their lives – none of them associated with the name trump. What hold does he have on these people that they fall & worship him? This is what I will never understand
BlueGuitarist
@WaterGirl:
Democrats won the D districts by about the same margin as Harris in November (about 22 points).
The Republican won the R district by 17, R+27 in November.
Eta: as Another Scott already said. i type slow
Lily
BlueGuitarist
@Geminid:
Always appreciate your posts.
Fyi
@samshirazi.bsky.social
WaterGirl
@Lily: wow. And not in a good way.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: I guess my question at this point is whether Harris performed as as well as expected in those areas on November 5. Or if she won by a good margin, but not as good as they would’ve expected.
kissel
@Gretchen: that part is good, and I’ve gotten better at timing my pickups, since my daughter flies into Newark a couple times a year.
sentient ai from the future
re: bezos, please recall how MBS phished him and blew up his marriage, and the orange turd was involved somehow there iirc.
my guess is theres plenty of blackmail going on. the US has a pretty extensive and competent spy network and the oligarchs are obviously targets in some way, as they should be.
recall how putin got his own oligarchs in array.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl:
I can’t answer your question about Harris’s expectations. But I did find this:
So Harris did about 4-5% worse than Tim Kaine (our very popular Senator) in November. It looks like 3-4% or so of that deficit was recovered tonight.
At least that’s my quick interpretation. Corrections welcome.
HTH!
Best wishes,
Scott.
mrmoshpotato
@sentient ai from the future:
What?
Another Scott
@mrmoshpotato: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos_phone_hacking_incident
MBS indeed had/has his fingers in lots of pies.
Grr…
HTH!
Best wishes,
Scott.
NotMax
@Another Scott
Definitely those of the mincemeat variety.
//
kindness
My NY family says it’s an open secret there that Melania originally came to the US as an escort girl. Somehow, that makes way more sense than her being a model. I wonder if Bezos’s movie will cover that?
NotMax
@kindness
“Between lucrative modeling gigs she carved a niche for herself in the hospitality industry.”
//
BillD
@Almost Retired: I recall that Sky Harbor had a pretty large cellphone waiting lot with a big display showing flight arrivals. I’ve only done one pickup there, when I lived in Prescott, but it went smoothly.