Hi Deadsplinterati! I hope everyone had a really great weekend. We celebrated my Dad’s 81st birthday yesterday and it was awesome. One of his friends smoked the best ribs I’ve ever had. It was a super long day though. I definitely am not prepared for back to work today. I’ve been kinda out and about so let’s see what else is going on…
Updates here.
Israel-Hamas war live: al-Shifa hospital ‘no longer functioning’, says WHO, as aid groups urge attacks on healthcare centres to stop
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/12/israel-hamas-war-live-netanyahu-vows-to-press-on-with-full-force-as-fighting-rages-around-main-gaza-hospital
This is so sad; it seemed like everyone in town liked him a lot and a few horrible bullies pushed him to the brink.
Alabama town grieves mayor who killed himself after far-right blog outed him
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/12/alabama-mayor-suicide-outed
Once you realize what a POS it is, you’re stuck with it. (Though buying it at all was your first big mistake)
Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sue-cybertruck-buyers-they-resell-in-first-year-2023-11
Stonks! I kept reading this as they were buying 777 jets, not triple sevens
Boeing close to Emirates deal for more 777 jets, reports say
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/12/boeing-close-to-emirates-deal-for-more-777x-jets-reports-say.html
IDK about sprots, but everyone was very impressed with this around here. Also isn’t their QB under some serious SA allegations but apparently no one in Cleveland cares.
This is too sweet to make shitty jokes
Have a great day!
…it’s not clear when the dust will settle but rishi kicked his week off by kicking braverman to the curb…oh, & by sticking david cameron (who he pretty much dissed heavily in his conference statement as being part of the problem his “new direction” was the solution to) in as a foreign secretary seated in the lords & not the commons?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-67370421
…so…when the music stops some people are going to be out of seats in the cabinet & some will have just swapped…but she’s definitely on the outside pissing in from here on out
Pope Francis forced out Texas-based Bishop Joseph Strickland, but reporting is really weak on the background.
Strickland is not just a “conservative” and “critic” with concerns about the Pope’s position on LGBTQ people and the position of lay people in the church, as this Reuters article describes him, typical of coverage of the firing.
https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-francis-dismisses-conservative-us-bishop-strickland-2023-11-11/
Strickland is a full on conspiracy theory backer, promoting Q*n*n backers, an anti-semitic racist priest, 2020 election denial, and anti-vax delusions. And that’s just what a two year old article documented:
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/10/qanon-catholic-bishop-joseph-strickland.html
He has a long, well-documented record, and trying to turn this into a simple liberal-conservative dispute is just bad journalism.
It’s even worse than that, in terms of the reporting. There was an audit conducted of the diocesan finances and that’s when Francis fired him. I can’t recall where I first read that, but it was literally the only piece that mentioned it.
Wow even the Guardian is framing the ongoing genocidal land grab as “Israel-Hamas war”.
…I heard a lady described as head of israeli intelligence on the radio today who would. not. answer. the. question. …they were asking her to say what they base the claim that the hamas HQ is under the largest hospital in gaza…all she wanted to do was say “they’re worse than ISIS & we’re saving the palestinians from them”…while claiming hamas wouldn’t let the hospital take the desultory & wildly insufficient amount of fuel they dropped off outside…& the degree to which she managed to sound offended that the BBC in general & the lady politely pointing out the network has covered in some detail elsewhere all the stuff she was derailing the interview to crowbar in & that the whole point of getting someone in who could plausibly speak to the actual question put to her was that she could, if she wanted to, answer with at least a trace of candour instead of trying to obfuscate with a bunch of whatabouts
…she didn’t actually say “is that you won’t answer or that you can’t – & if you can’t is it because you don’t know or you “can’t” say what your basis for this claim is
…& my overriding impression is that if they know as much as they claim about where the underground stuff is that they say they want to hit then they wouldn’t need to be dropping bombs on the stuff on top of it that kills the people they say they aren’t attacking
…so I’m finding it harder day by day to retain the sympathy induced by the horrific shit that went down on oct 7th…even if it seems like there really are tunnels all over which hamas is using I don’t see where the existence of things the bombs won’t reach is any kind of justification for dropping them in places they directed civilians to…it comes across as gaslighting…& jas done since about…oct 9th?
Saving Palestinians from Hamas by killing them? 🤨
…seems like that’s what it boils down to but the claim seemed to be that they were dying because hamas made israel kill them…which…is sorta true if you squint right…& it pretty much is true that hamas has spent as much time putting palestinians in harm’s way as israel has
…six of one & half a dozen of the other is about how the post hoc justifications go on both sides…depending on where you pick “what started it”…though…one of the old clips they ran of david cameron after he got parachuted into a knighthood & a seat in the lords to be foreign secretary was him in the early 2000s saying gaza must not be allowed to remain a prison camp…so…it all just makes me want to scream…& cry…& generally throw a tantrum…but I don’t get any nearer knowing what would do any actual good to the people on the ground who don’t deserve what they’re trying to live through?
This is creepy AF.
Trump’s plans if he wins include mass deportation, mass firings, ‘freedom cities’
…if…god forbid…he makes it back to the oval office…the fucking bonanza that project 2025 bunch would go on filling all those blockaded military appointments with coup-positive assholes is a hypothetical that’s been freaking me out a good bit even from the decidedly abstract remove it sits at?
A gay black man finally figured out he was NOT going to win?
https://apnews.com/article/tim-scott-drops-out-2024-race-b9cc8fbeba57a123789d8d0484164e38
Not knowing anything about him, he also could just be in a situation where conservative white women are too racist to date him and black women are just like are you fucking kidding me and refuse to date him. 🤣🤣🤣
I’m sorry, who?
Tim Scott suspends presidential campaign
The Alabama story is very sad, especially because it sounds like he was a kind person and decent pastor.