Biden just popped his head in a meeting the first lady was holding on teachers’ pay and teacher shortages and said: “Whatever she says I agree with.” pic.twitter.com/PjS6GhdJSs
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 31, 2022
"do you agree with your opponents' criticisms of you?" is one of the dumbest fucking possible questions you can ask any politician, ever, under any circumstances. how do these people have jobs and i do not. https://t.co/wGz9KIJ1Sj
— GONELIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) August 31, 2022
New: President Biden pledged federal support to solve Jackson's water crisis in call today with Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, the WH said
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) August 31, 2022
The kids are all right (insofar as we let them be)…
Survey Finds Young People Follow News, But Without Much Joy https://t.co/7bCgu7BeGS
— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) August 31, 2022
… [A] study released Wednesday shows 79% of young Americans say they get news daily. The survey of young people ages 16 to 40 — the older of which are known as millennials and the younger Generation Z — was conducted by Media Insight Project, a collaboration between The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute…
An estimated 71% of this age group gets news daily from social media. The social media diet is becoming more varied; Facebook doesn’t dominate the way it used to. About a third or more get news each day from YouTube and Instagram, and about a quarter or more from TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter. Now, 40% say they get news from Facebook daily, compared with 57% of millennials who said that in a 2015 Media Insight Project survey.
Yet 45% also said they get news each day from traditional sources, like television or radio stations, newspapers and news websites.
The poll found that about a quarter of young people say they regularly pay for at least one news product, like print or digital magazines or newspapers, and a similar percentage have donated to at least one nonprofit news organization.
Only 32% say they enjoy following the news. That’s a marked decrease from seven years ago, when 53% of millennials said that. Fewer young people now say they enjoy talking with family and friends about the news…
About 9 in 10 young people say misinformation about issues and events is a problem, including about 6 in 10 who say it’s a major problem. Most say they’ve been exposed to misinformation themselves.
Asked who they consider most responsible for its spread, young people pointed to social media companies and users, politicians and the media in equal measure…
The percentage of people who say “news stories that seem to mostly create conflict rather than help address it” and “media outlets that pass on conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated rumors” are a major problem exceeded the number of people concerned about journalists putting too much opinion in their stories, the survey found…
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In 1 month, while all other groups mostly stable, @POTUS job approval +19 among #GenZ.
Dem advantage in generic ballot also +19 improvement with Gen Z (+3 overall).
Politics not complicated.
A generation's values/priorities are clear
+
Politicians deliver
=
Numbers move pic.twitter.com/vIkM1aS8Hz— John Della Volpe (@dellavolpe) August 31, 2022
Folks are FED UP with the GOP and more fired up than ever before. Roevember is coming. And we will spend every waking moment working to win the House and Senate.
Gear up today: https://t.co/gRINO6E2kG pic.twitter.com/s26zPTw3Eq
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 31, 2022
https://t.co/Uo7SE91sUe pic.twitter.com/aZgyU1XYgi
— romney lost so now i terrorize my neighbors (@CalmSporting) August 31, 2022
Also, mark your calendar…
Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama will return to the White House on Sept. 7 for their official portrait unveilings https://t.co/0WAHbjvYuu via @Jordanfabian
— Mario Parker (@MarioDParker) August 31, 2022
Baud
We’re doomed.
We’re really doomed.
mrmoshpotato
Oh really, NBC4 Los Angeles?
Give these guys all the awards! All of them, Katie!
Baud
Yes, I am too handsome.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊
Steeplejack
Damn. BBC News: “The chairman of Russia’s Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.”
Steeplejack
@rikyrah:
Good morning! 🙏
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
@Steeplejack:
What is it with the window thing in Russia?
rikyrah
ICYMI…
ALASKA has a DEMOCRATIC Congresswoman.
The first in over 50 years.
The first Native Alaskan.
Congratulations Congresswoman Peltola 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Media is upset Palin lost, they so wanted their freak show
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Who knew defenestration would make a comeback? It’s beyond old-school—it’s . . . almost quaint, somehow.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Hopefully she can hold onto it in November. I don’t know why she wouldn’t. Same lineup of candidates.
JMG
Who of any age follows or ever has followed the news “with joy”? I’m happy when the Phillies or Eagles win, but beyond that, if you want pleasure, try the funny pages.
Spanky
@Baud: Fresh air is good for you.
Until you reach bottom.
OzarkHillbilly
Head? Meet desk.
The fact that somebody had to tell them they should remove this plaque, tells me the officers in charge of West Point aren’t near as smart as their students are supposed to be.
sixthdoctor
@Steeplejack: And Russian sources said he committed suicide, which is technically correct since he spoke against the Ukraine invasion in Putin’s Russia…
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: It’s a reminder to everybody else that they had better not get out of line. Car bombs too. And poisonings.
p.a.
Vertigo pandemic in Russia!
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Steeplejack:
They haven’t quite decided whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack: At this point it just shows a lack of creativity.
OzarkHillbilly
Just ordered my Roevember t-shirt. Hope I don’t get shot.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Hopefully pharma can come up with a vaccine to stop the deadly windows virus
Steeplejack
@rikyrah:
Danielx
@Baud:
It does seem to be a pattern.
OzarkHillbilly
If you feel like being enraged, this will do it: ‘What’s this about?’: bodycam footage shows confusion as Florida man arrested for voter fraud
I wish there was a law against malevolent governance. DeSantis should do 20 years for this.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Did BJ discuss TFG’s response to the DOJ memo on the special master? I was in a meeting last night and then went to bed, so I missed it if you did.
germy shoemangler
Small business owner subjects his employee to horrific abuse because she dated a Black guy.
Geminid
@OzarkHillbilly: Yes, a very blunt message that no one who questions this war is safe, and that wealth is no protection. It could even be a liability if assets can be seized.
Baud
@germy shoemangler:
Are we still doing “economic anxiety”?
OzarkHillbilly
Who can blame him. I’ve read of several policemen who had to be hospitalized after being assaulted with a vape pen. s//
Mimi
@OzarkHillbilly: Everyone at WP has probably walked right past (or under? I’ve seen a pic that looked like it’s over a doorway) without really looking at it. I’m just glad someone finally noticed.
Betty Cracker
I am not a lawyer, but I think the lawyer in this clip just confirmed her client kept classified documents in an unsecured location that was frequented by guests:
My God, why are they letting her talk on TV?
I read yesterday that Trump signed a multimillion dollar agreement to be represented by Christopher Kise, former FL solicitor general. Kise seems sleazy but effective; he led the 2018 pre-election messaging campaign about DeSantis opponent Andrew Gillum, which arguably put DeSantis over the top in that close race.
Maybe Kise’s contract is effective today and his first order of business will be to keep Habba off TV.
The Thin Black Duke
@OzarkHillbilly: I can’t tell you how goddamned tired I am of this shit.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I’d like to see the size of that retainer.
PST
@Steeplejack:
This is pointlessly pedantic and I hate myself for commenting on it, but why would someone say “amount of land mass”? First, why would anyone speak of an amount of mass rather than just mass? You wouldn’t say amount of height or amount of weight. (“That tree certainly has a large amount of height.”) And second, why mass? States and other political divisions are areas on a surface. They have no mass. Okay, I got that off my chest. (The words are not those of Steeplejack, who is blameless.)
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Never mind. I found it.
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker: Like the only issue at stake is the neatness of his fucking office.
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
Who, if anyone, follows the news with joy?
Cameron
@Baud: Peter Pan Syndrome
Baud
Apparently, today is the 83rd anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Someone on Reddit posted a photo of the Chicago Tribune headline. It reprints Hitler’s war order. I found the propaganda interesting.
https://i.imgur.com/3d8obP8.jpg
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
Fans of Joy Reid?
OzarkHillbilly
@The Thin Black Duke: You and me both. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Baud
@PST:
In Michigan, they are the right height.
OzarkHillbilly
@PST: It’s sarcasm. A slap back at all those GOP maps showing how much of the country is “red”.
The Thin Black Duke
@zhena gogolia: That’s the narrative that they’re constructing for the faithful. Those classified documents aren’t “ours”; they belong to “him”. It’s The Divine Right of Kings, except with a brand new paint job.
Frankensteinbeck
@Betty Cracker:
That won’t last long, and should be hilarious. Trump’s lawyers do stupid shit because Trump won’t let them do anything else. What will Kise do the first time Trump tells him to change a filing because the documents belong to Trump, and saying anything else is unacceptable?
EDIT –
@Cameron:
Gleefully murdering your former friends when they get too old to be in your club? Or women finding you sexy because you have all your baby teeth?
Actually, the former seems about right.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Betty Cracker:
He’s facing charges of unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents, but even more significant charges of mishandling classified documents (a felony Dump himself signed into law).
His representative just admitted he did just that by bringing in people without clearances into a room holding top secret material.
RSA
Wow, that number is going up at a high rate of speed. :-)
jonas
@Baud:
It’s often the only visible escape route when two black-clad FSB agents with a silenced pistol enter your room.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: The local dailies down here are reporting that the 18 cases are falling apart due to lack of intent to commit voter fraud. The state failed to flag the voters as ineligible, which is really on the Republican SoS. So, the state is unlikely to get convictions unless people plead guilty because they don’t have the resources to contest the charges.
Unfortunately, that probably won’t matter. The stunt was well planned. DeSantis traveled to the largest Dem stronghold in the state to announce the arrests and intimidate local voters, so mission accomplished there.
Charlie Crist probably isn’t going to champion the cause of the 18 people charged since they are excluded from felon voting rights restoration due to homicide or sexual assault convictions. I imagine he’ll keep criticizing the stunt aspect of the announcement and DeSantis’s push to block ballot access more broadly.
Sanjeevs
@Baud:
I always wonder what goes through the minds of Thiel, Koch, Murdoch etc when they read this.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Dump could be the lone person at a crime scene, holding a pistol with smoke coming out the barrel, and the FTFNYT would say it doesn’t prove he pulled the trigger.
HinTN
Maybe someone’s said it above but dayuum, if you go to that clip of that dumb ass reporter getting schooled you will fund below that a clip of Stacey Abrams lighting up Governor Kemp. WOW, she’s good.
jonas
Just like “his” generals belonged to him, etc. For Trump, the courts, military, etc., were simply extensions of his own delusions of grandeur.
jonas
@Sanjeevs:
“God it must be awesome to be Putin!”
Frankensteinbeck
@Sanjeevs:
None of this reads like Putin feels secure on his throne.
jonas
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
“I’m outraged they scattered all those files on my office floor. I had them neatly stacked on my desk!!”
JWR
Ugh, Nancy Cordes. Maybe sitting so close to Peter Doocy is hazardous to one’s mental health. Either that, or she comes by her stupidity naturally. Another reporter for CBS, Weijia Jiang, once asked Jen Psaki that dumbass “many people are saying” question. Psaki eviscerated her on live TV.
germy shoemangler
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@Betty Cracker:
Given Trump’s record of stiffing contractors. I hope Kise remembered to demand cash up front and no personal checks.
germy shoemangler
@JWR:
Remember Ed O’Keefe from CBS? He asked Biden if he talks to Obama every day. It seems like a harmless question, but Ed was trying to insinuate that Obama was the puppetmaster pulling Biden’s strings.
prostratedragon
@Baud: Contempt.
OzarkHillbilly
SCIFI becomes reality: NASA will be sending an Atmosphere Processing Plant to Mars. OK, not really, but pretty cool stuff just the same.
Frankensteinbeck
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: and @jonas:
Don’t worry, his lawyers already admitted it in his filings when they expressed anger for the DoJ ‘criminalizing’ a president taking home presidential records. Seriously, their response filing to the DoJ nuke was an only slightly legalism-translated “How dare you say that Trump doing all that was illegal! Assign a special master to give Trump his documents back immediately!”
Matt McIrvin
Was the whole purpose of that photo of the documents on the carpet to get people to say incriminating things like “Hey, no fair, the FBI took them out of the cardboard box!”?
I was worried we were getting hung up on the distraction of discussing whether Trump really kept secret documents strewn about his carpet, but now it looks like a masterstroke.
JMG
@Betty Cracker: The very specialized criminal law practice of representing clients charged in relation to the Espionage Act is not likely to be an area a former solicitor general of Florida has much experience with. Also, will this guy be able to do what any Trump lawyer must do as job one — get the client to STFU.
Ken
“Any suicide note?”
“Just the usual quick note leaving all his property to Putin.”
OzarkHillbilly
Kise’s first job as trump’s lead attorney is to get them all to STFU, especially trump. This will not end well.
Matt McIrvin
@germy shoemangler: The angle isn’t that Kamala Harris is the puppetmaster any more?
PST
@OzarkHillbilly: I totally agree with the sarcasm. I was just pointlessly irked by the wording. It is interesting that the majority of Democrats in the House (by area) are now Native Americans.
narya
In completely personal news: the gasket on my two-year-old LG refrigerator has split open, AND the light doesn’t go off reliably (I can see it shining through the floor of the freezer). I actually don’t think these issues are related. Customer service is totally shitty, and I’m contemplating just getting a new fridge. Repairs are likely to cost at least half the cost of a new fridge, even if I do the gasket myself. The gasket itself will be nearly $100. Yes, this IS the fridge I purchased two years ago when I did the kitchen; what a piece of crap.
prostratedragon
@Betty Cracker: That expression that if you’re explaining you’re losing seems exactly correct regarding lawyers out of court.
JWR
@germy shoemangler: Weird thing is that CBS had/has the best coverage of the Jan 6 hearings, mostly because of former Fox guy, Major Garrett.
Ken
@germy shoemangler: Interesting. I once saw a bird’s nest in a tree, built into a cloth face mask. I have no idea if the mask happened to lodge, hammock-like, in the tree and the bird took advantage, or if it found the mask on the ground and moved it to the tree. The latter sounds scarily intelligent.
Argiope
@Baud: In Russia, window opens you
Dorothy A. Winsor
@narya: That’s infuriating. Two years old!
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
OzarkHillbilly
@JMG: From Newsweek:
Don’t sell him short.
OzarkHillbilly
Heh. I did not know that.
Soprano2
@Sanjeevs: That’s so crazy, surely no one in Russia actually believes this crap, they just pretend to believe it. You’d think our billionaires would read this as a cautionary tale that perhaps they don’t want a dictatorship here after all.
germy shoemangler
@OzarkHillbilly:
And he’s getting paid. TFG has been raking in millions in small donations and using that money for legal defense.
MattF
@Betty Cracker: I do wonder how long Kise will last. Media are unanimous that he’s competent. He’s quit the law firm he was in, so one may suspect that his former colleagues disagreed with his choice to represent Trump.
WaterGirl
@germy shoemangler: That should be considered assault. He should be in jail.
OzarkHillbilly
@narya: File a complaint with the BBB and throw that pos out, never by LG again.
Chief Oshkosh
@Baud: And over-prepared.
germy shoemangler
@WaterGirl:
Definitely. He crossed several lines.
Ken
@Matt McIrvin: As Hillary Clinton observed so long ago, this is a man who can be goaded into a three-day rage fest by a tweet. So I would not be at all surprised if the DOJ has been using that bit of psychology, knowing that TFG would dig himself deeper at each step.
Actually, there’s a question — of the list of possible crimes in the original warrant application, which ones has he now confessed to? Stealing the documents, check; storing them improperly, check; not returning them when requested, check; lying when asked if all had been returned, check; …
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@narya:
Suggestion:
Is there a US branded but built by LG counterpart to your refrigerator?
In the past the equivalent Kenmore or Craftsman parts from Sears were both cheaper and easier to get than the Whirlpool or Briggs & Stratton parts needed to fix my fridge and lawn mower engine.
Soprano2
I’m getting pissed at listening to news readers on the radio say TFG is claiming “executive privilege” without saying immediately afterward that former presidents don’t have “executive privilege”. IMHO they should only say “attorney-client privilege”, and then somewhere else in their story say that TFG is claiming “executive privilege” but it’s not something ex-presidents have. It’s a quibble, but the way they say it without contesting the idea makes it sound as if TFG might have a legitimate point, when he doesn’t.
Frankensteinbeck
@OzarkHillbilly:
Can he manage a malignant narcissist? Because that’s the actual job, and every other competent lawyer quit or refused to even try. Trump isn’t going to accept “You don’t own those documents” or for that matter “You’re not president anymore.” It’s exactly like the lawsuits challenging the election. There IS no way to competently fulfill Trump’s demands.
Ben Cisco
Jesus.
JMG
@OzarkHillbilly: There are maybe five-six lawyers who specialize in this sort of case, all in DC. It’s that much of a niche practice. And my main point remains. It doesn’t matter who skillful Trump’s attorney is if he/she cannot get their client to stop incriminating himself on a daily basis. PS: Who’s paying this guy? We know Trump sure isn’t/
Another Scott
I just noticed something… ICYMI:
Click on the image.
There were 3 passports: 1) Expired personal passport. 2) Expired US Government Official passport. 3) Unexpired US Government Official passport (which presumably isn’t valid as he is no longer a US Government Official).
If he wants to enter another country legally (and return to the USA legally) he’ll need yet another passport – one that’s valid.
Cheers,
Scott.
RedDirtGirl
Open thread? Just saw the clip from the Abrams/Kemp debate and have to admit I had no idea this race was happening! I thought the clip was from their last election. How come the race isn’t getting more national coverage? Does Abrams not have a shot?
MattF
@Soprano2: Worse, he’s claiming executive privilege wrt the executive branch of the Federal Govt. Lawyers say it doesn’t work like that.
WaterGirl
@Matt McIrvin:
That’s only on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
sdhays
@Sanjeevs: Speaking of Thiel, I saw this report yesterday and just had to laugh:
Peter Thiel dumped millions into Senate primary campaigns, helping nominate absolute dud candidates, and then walked away from the burning dumpster fire, telling Mitch McConnell that his job was done and getting those candidates actually elected to Congress was McConnell’s problem.
I LOL’d.
Ken
Choose any or all of:
On second thought, #2 is incredibly unlikely.
geg6
@rikyrah:
Lovely news. So happy about this. I hope she can pull it out in November, too.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
WaterGirl
@RedDirtGirl: Isn’t that clip from the previous election?
germy shoemangler
@RedDirtGirl:
Kemp does the “cute” Reagan thing of smiling and shaking his head during her rebuttal.
The clip is from 2018 but it’s a good one.
Matt McIrvin
We’re really going to be probing the limits of partisan judicial hackery here.
Doug R
@PST: Arguably it should be more than 104% considering the tallest mountains in North America are in Alaska.
narya
@OzarkHillbilly: Yeah, that’s my thinking. BBB gives them a very low rating, and I’m prepared to add to it. I hate getting rid of something so new, but I have no confidence that it will be repaired properly, at a reasonable price. A new one (by Frigidaire or Whirlpool) would run me about $800 this weekend–and, as noted, I would expect repairs to the old one to be at least half that.
RedDirtGirl
@WaterGirl: I guess it is. But I’m still surprised that this year’s re-match isn’t getting more attention.
Steeplejack
@Betty Cracker:
Great Twitter chatter on that clip. “I made sure the documents were put away before meeting with the Schaefers’ wedding planner.”
lowtechcyclist
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1565252940134219776
He was suffering from depression! So suicide, obviously.
Ken
@Steeplejack: I saw a response something like, “I made sure the classified documents were all in the carton every night, and specifically told the cleaning service not to look inside it.
(To which I would reply, if I had a twitter account, “And they all said ‘Da, we will not look’.”)
catclub
@Sanjeevs:
… Then was found on the ground under a ninth storey window.
Doug R
@narya: My standard response when someone has a fridge that’s falling apart is buy a new one because of the efficiency gains, but TWO YEARS? Yikes. Might still be under warranty, sounds like the gasket might have been installed improperly.
If you suspect that light is staying on, check your temperature and maybe unscrew it until you get that switch fixed.
catclub
@germy shoemangler:
Which is good if instead those donations would be going to GOP candidates this fall. The GOP is not happy Trump is hoovering up all those donations.
catclub
@narya:
I am shocked the price for a new one is that low. I think we thought ours was a steal 7 or 8 years ago at that price. A lot were already in the $1400 range.
Ken
And somewhere a monkey’s paw, djinn, or perhaps Mephistopheles himself is quietly content with the way they fulfilled the GOP’s wish to win the Presidency in 2016.
catclub
@Matt McIrvin:
yeah, right. next you will tell me we’ve reached peak wingnut.
SiubhanDuinne
@HinTN:
Someone shared that clip on a thread last night. It’s a great clip. It’s from 2018, and believe me, Stacey is even better now! Can’t wait to watch this year’s Abrams-Kemp debates.
Another Scott
@narya: I’m sorry that you are going through that. It’s frustrating. But if it’s just the gasket and the light switch, those are minor things that should be easy to fix for not much money.
My dad bought an LG fridge because it was the quietest he could find (had tinnitus that was aggravated by the old fridge noise). I think that they had to have the ice maker repaired once, but that was it. Worked well for many years (sold the house).
Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
OzarkHillbilly
@JMG:
@Frankensteinbeck: As I said at #68, “Kise’s first job as trump’s lead attorney is to get them all to STFU, especially trump. This will not end well.”
Doug R
@narya: If you get one even slightly more efficient, it’ll feel worthwhile.
different-church-lady
@Betty Cracker: “When he invites the guests look at the top secret documents they are in a perfectly neat row on the table. Should a guest move any of these top secret documents out of alignment while studying their contents he takes great care to put them back in perfect order for the next guest to look at. This photo is completely unfair.”
Scout211
So the hearing before Judge Cannon is at 1:00 et today. CNN has an article up about “what to watch” for the hearing. But it contains no special or new information.
I am just hoping that the hearing will be open to the press and we can get a report right away from them.
A big question is who on Trump’s team will argue his case?
The Moar You Know
@narya: my parents, who still somehow are very much alive and kicking, just finished replacing their final LG household appliance, in this case the dryer.
Neither the washer, dryer, dishwasher or fridge lasted more than five years. Oh, and their LG version of the Powerwall had to be disconnected and taken outside because the internal batteries were swelling up and it was an imminent explosion/fire hazard. Weird to me because their TVs and consumer electronics stuff still seems to be very much topnotch. But the rest of it seems to be crap.
OzarkHillbilly
It occurs to me that a “US Government Official passport” might be a courtesy extended to all ex presidents. Certainly wouldn’t surprise me.
kindness
There is a good reason no one has ever asked me to be their Press Secretary. If Nancy asked me that question I would have asked her if she was really that #@!* stupid.
The Moar You Know
@Soprano2: If our feudal billionaire overlords suddenly started taking swan dives out of windows, I have to admit I would just shrug, say “life’s a bitch” and keep on walking.
Yeltsin and Putin made these bastards – and they are bastards, make no mistake – what they are. I am not surprised that Putin feels like he has a right to insist that they get and stay on board with his program. I’m sure the prevailing view is that supporting his deranged bullshit is the least they can do in return.
Russia’s been a fucked up country for my entire lifetime, and so far as I can tell, it’s been a fucked up country forever. It’s not a nation that you want possessing nuclear weapons. Don’t know how we’re going to fix that problem.
SiubhanDuinne
@RedDirtGirl:
The clip is from the last election cycle (2018). Abrams is challenging Kemp again this year, so there should be fresh clips for everybody’s delectation once the 2022 debates get under way in the next few weeks.
CaseyL
@narya: LG used to make good stuff. They don’t anymore: their consumer products get lousy ratings on Consumer Reports. Maybe you could check out consumer reviews to find a more reliable fridge?
linnen
Ken @67;
That sounds remarkably like what I’ve read about Rome under the later Caesars and the Medici period of the Papacy. Also some periods of the Inquisition, but that could just be propaganda.
Jackie
@RedDirtGirl: It will be soon; Kemp’s running mate for Lt Gov is a fake elector. Stacey should make hay with that!
https://www.thebulwark.com/brian-kemps-running-mate-is-a-fake-elector/
indycat32
My whirlpool is still going strong at 25 years.
Matt McIrvin
@catclub: Trump actually has had some losses–I mean, he thought the Supreme Court was his ace in the hole for making the January 2021 coup happen and simply reinstalling him as President (they did it for Bush, right?), and it didn’t go that way for him. So some limits do exist.
I have this dread that this is all going to amount to nothing because some Trumpist appeals judge will simply rule that he’s effectively above the law. But I’m not taking the maximally cynical position that this WILL happen.
lowtechcyclist
@kindness:
If I could sing without embarrassing myself, I’d have replied with some Dylan:
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
You’re an idiot, babe, it’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe
cain
@Frankensteinbeck: Dude is not going to get paid either. He’s going to lose all his mental health fighting this case with a shit client.
Sleazy lawyers get paid back for all his shit work he’s done over the years.
Kropacetic
@OzarkHillbilly: Where to get Roevember T-shirt?
cain
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: They are still distracted by the Hillary butter her emails scandal which in their mind is a huge issue not this rather small and distracting one.
lowtechcyclist
@indycat32:
Our Amana that we bought in 1994 when we first became homeowners is still working just fine.
My wife would like to replace it anyway, but apparently they’re making refrigerators bigger now. The opening for the fridge in our kitchen is 67 3/4 inches tall, and when we’ve looked at refrigerators in places like Home Depot, it’s hard to find refrigerators shorter than that, except for the really basic models that would be a disappointment compared to the fridge we’ve got.
prostratedragon
@OzarkHillbilly: Some report I saw somewhere said it’s not automatic, and done only for semiofficial travel as to a state funeral or special diplomacy.
Struck me recently that he hasn’t been abroad much or maybe at all, not even to his own properties.
sab
@germy shoemangler: That would make me so carsick if I was one of those birds.
Kropacetic
The article wonders if it can be scaled up to make enough breathable oxygen for Mars. I wonder if it can be used to reduce our CO2 levels here at home.
Another Scott
@prostratedragon: Isn’t his jet still missing an engine? You don’t expect him to fly with the plebes, do you??
Aksually, SimpleFlying.com (from 2021):
It’s 31.5 years old. Ancient for a jetliner. He probably can’t afford to keep it running, so is (I assume) having it cosmetically refurbished to put in some museum so that he can charge $50,000 for tours and suchlike.
Cheers,
Scott.
prostratedragon
@Another Scott: Completely forgotten about the silly jet. Mind boggles at the thought of him even in the first class lounge.
ETA it should be more than adequate for his presidential library. The at some suitable time the whole thing could be remotely flown into a mountain .
Kropacetic
@Ben Cisco: I’m in the age demo from that survey. I’ll tell you right now I get most of my news following links from Balloon Juice. I read the NYT front page every day, as I have for 20 years, but refuse to subscribe any more.
Getting news on Youtube usually amounts to PBS or CNN clips. The opinion stuff I watch I wouldn’t consider news and is usually heavily linked with art criticism.
The fact of the matter is there are no news sources I truly trust right now. All cable news sucks. The newspapers are getting worse by the day and have been for a long time. All I want is primary sourcing; contemporaneous video, interviews with people who were there, the text of official documents. Getting that from official news organizations requires sifting through too much bullshit.
CindyH
@Frankensteinbeck: I worry that he’s competent enough to get this case before the Supreme Court and then all bets are off.
Soprano2
@indycat32: My mother still had the Kenmore dryer that they bought in 1976!!! I was amazed, I thought sure she had bought a new dryer in the past 10 years or so. It still runs just fine.
Another Scott
@Kropacetic: I check 5 news sources every day, mostly quick skimming of headlines and first paragraphs:
aljazeera.com (Middle-Eastern slant on the news, republishes lots of Reuters and Bloomberg stories along with lots of other things)
dw.com (German slant on the news)
kyivindependent.com (Ukraine news)
propublica.com (long-form news about important, but usually hard to find, stories)
news.google.com (Careful what you click and what you Google-search for. While you can exclude sources, you can’t (easily?) exclude topics.)
And read here every day, of course.
It’s never been easier to avoid US infotainment “news”, but you still have to work a little.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kropacetic
@Another Scott: Yeah, goku put me onto propublica. I hadn’t considered those others, thank you.
catclub
@Kropacetic: Guy Fawkes Shirts R US
Seanly
Wait? Are you supposed to have fun watching the news? The actual news in the broadcasts fill me with David Banner levels of rage or drive me to depths of despair.
different-church-lady
@Another Scott:
If the Deep State won’t let him fly on Air Force One, he’s not going to fly at all.
Another Scott
@different-church-lady: There was a story in March that he was on some private jet that had engine trouble over the Gulf of Mexico.
He still has ways of getting from place-to-place.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kropacetic
Bruce?
I knew that wouldn’t be real, but it was enough to get me on the Google machine; so, thanks.
Ruckus
@zhena gogolia:
When that’s all he’s got as a defense for some rather crappy and illegal behavior, that’s all he’s got.
Geez, give him a break, he’s had a few tough years practicing humanity – around 70 I’d reckon, and the fan is looking rather shit stained from his decades of absolutely lame attempts at being human.
Whereaway
After having excellent results with their electronics, we bought new LG washer and dryer about 7 years ago. We’ve already had to replace the washer, and I expect we’ll be replacing the dryer soon.
I’ll still look at their electronics, but I won’t touch their appliances
Bill Arnold
@Another Scott:
While that aircraft (Trump Force One) was parked at Stewart, I’d go check it out with binoculars every couple of months, to confirm that it was still there and missing an engine. Am a little annoyed that I missed the flight it took south to Louisiana.
A recent article:
https://bestofswla.com/2022/08/04/the-trump-n757af/
Ruckus
@Frankensteinbeck:
“None of this reads like Putin feels secure on his throne.”
Why would he feel secure? He’s supposedly the richest man in the world, with a job that pays $140K/yr, in a country who’s average wage is $20K/yr and all of his top business owners/advisors are several times over billionaires. Sure the standard of living is higher than it was 30-40 yrs ago but it still sucks and he’s a major impediment of it getting any better for his citizens, because he’s gotten them in a war that he’s likely going to lose because of all of his posturing is just that, posturing and ripping off the citizens and the country. He started a war that he is likely to lose, against a smaller country that is making him look like the putz he actually is. People dying, his country going down rapidly, his standing in the world being ruined, and it was so good before…, the uber wealthy of his country are very likely thinking of ways to eliminate him because he’s screwing them. He’s a man from another time and place and seemingly has no idea how far out of reality he is.
Geminid
@RedDirtGirl: Most governpr races do not get more than sporadic mention on “national” news outlets. If you look individual candidates up, though you’ll find plenty of coverage by state and local mewspapers. And TV stations typically put out text versions of their on-the-air stories.
It’s the same with Senate and Congressional races.
Geminid
@Geminid: I would add that besides being more plentiful, the state and local media coverage of these races is better than most national media coverage.
Geminid
@Kropacetic: Direct Air Capture technologies that pull CO2 from the air are being developed and a few are online with more to come. Their effects on atmospheric CO2 will be minimal until they are deployed in great numbers.
In the meantime they are being incentivised in this country by the Q45 tax credit which awards companies so much per ton for carbon removed and sequestered underground. The Q45 credit has been laxly monitered, and it’s easy to cheat on it without IRS auditing. The “Inflation Reduction Act” puts a lot of money into the IRS, so now they can audit this growing program effectively.
The Q45 tax credit applies if the CO2 is used to recover oil. When pumped into an oil deposit, the gas dissolves into the oil and makes it flow more easily. There is a rich deposit of CO2 in New Mexico that for decades has supplied CO2 by pipeline to oil fields to the south. Now, Direct Air Capture plants will be set up on top of oil fields. Hopefully they will have their own solar and wind electrical generation.
Oil produced by this method is considered “carbon neutral” and its use for air transport will probably be mandated by Congress before too long, increasing from lower to high levels. Right now these fuels cost ~3 times more than conventional fuel.
This type of “carbon negative” technology is briefly discussed by British climate scientist Myles Allen in his article in the Feb. 1019 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, titled “The Green New Deal: a view from across the Atlantic.” Allen served on the UN’s IPCC panel that called for a carbon neutral world economy by 2050. The challenge, Allen explains, is to reduce current global CO2 emissions from the the ~44 gigaton level at present by 2 gigatons a year, year over year.
Allen expressed the opinion that this might not be achieved without investment by more developed nations in direct air capture technologies. It seems to me that if we achieve a carbon neutral economy by 2050 the plants could keep operating and help trees and other vegetation start reducing CO2 levels to less destructive levels. Maybe there will be a news story in 2100 when the last of these plants goes offline.
dnfree
@narya: The house we bought three years ago had an LG refrigerator now 12 years old. It developed a problem and we couldn’t find anyone who would work on it—specifically LG. The receptionist one place went on a whole rant telling me not to buy an LG because they’re terrible to work on. Yet they’re still highly rated at Consumer Reports. We got a GE and so far so good. Good luck with your refrigerator!