Hope you guys had a great week. Nothing too exciting going on here; I’m going to the Smithsonian National Zoo today so that should be somewhat entertaining.
Shocker
FBI misused surveillance tool on Jan. 6 suspects, BLM arrestees and others
https://wapo.st/3MFq5TF [gift link]
Shocker
Debt Ceiling
Debt limit talks in standstill as Republicans, White House face ‘real differences’
https://apnews.com/article/debt-limit-mccarthy-biden-default-negotiations-1b97de28d26b85da268cfd1c1e4a986a
Yeah that’s it sure.
COVID emergency orders are among `greatest intrusions on civil liberties,′ Justice Gorsuch says
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-justice-covid-emergency-restrictions-85401feb29bea6db2f2ea4ac61cdeff2
Sprots!
Jim Brown, legendary NFL running back, has died at age 87
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/sport/jim-brown-nfl-legend-actor-activist-dead-spt-intl/index.html
Stonks!
Elon Musk and Twitter face San Francisco city probe over headquarters
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/19/elon-musk-and-twitter-face-san-francisco-city-probe-over-headquarters-.html
OMG. The mountains are feuding.
Have a great weekend!
The problem when you negotiate with terrorists is that they always want more.
Yep. Or to look at it from another perspective, when you’re dealing with unruly children you don’t attempt to bribe and cajole them. You administer swift and uncompromising consequences for their actions, and you stand firm. Otherwise you’re confronted with the exact same behavior 10 minutes later.
Oh, Lauren. And Marjorie Taylor Green has gone public with her relationship with Brian Glenn of Right Side News Broadcasting. There was some speculation about a possible affair before she announced her divorced. Which she and the married Glenn reacted to with righteous indignation. 😂
I sometimes wish I could be as bold as these MAGAs are, doing and taking whatever I wanted all while claiming God is on my side. But sadly I’m afflicted with a conscience.
I prefer those with your affliction.
NY Republicans made a big press push to exploit a story of veterans being kicked out of their housing to make room for migrants.
Except it turned out the group wasn’t veterans at all. It was a group of homeless men who were recruited to pose as veterans.
https://midhudsonnews.com/2023/05/19/homeless-men-recruited-for-veteran-hotel-scam/
Now the GOP is claiming they had no idea, they are the victims, and are trying to pin it all on the nonprofit that recruited the homeless men. It’s just a coincidence that a little-known upstate NY veterans organization suddenly caused GOP politicians to push the story in no time flat to the front page of the NY Post and Fox News.
I’m so happy for Lauren Boebert’s husband.
I mean he might also be a complete shitstain of a human being, but on the offchance that he’s not as bad as her, he’s probably like please go screw someone else.
Let’s face it, they’re both terrible. And from what I read, so are their kids.
Please hope either does no more breeding. We don’t need more assholes on this planet.
The only thing I am sympathetic about is the poor dumbass was just drinking and cleaning his guns when he got hit with a Dear Flasher letter from Bobo. That’s gotta hurt.
He did expose himself to a group of teenage girls at a bowling alley. He’s every bit as bad as her.
Last night, for the third straight night CNN’s primetime ratings fell to fourth despite the Trump town hall.
They not only failed to gain conservative viewers, they’ve turned off other viewers as well. It’s entirely possible they may get a temporary bump at some point from an oil spill, earthquake, or kidnapping of a teen beauty pageant contestant by a ne’er do well with a hook for a hand. But CNN chief Chris Licht clearly shot himself in the foot.
He’s banking on Kaitlan Collins to rescue the network when she starts hosting a 9 PM slot next month. But there are obvious questions whether she has the ability on her own to dig CNN out of the hole, and whether his incompetence will continue to dig the hole deeper.
https://deadline.com/2023/05/cnn-kaitlan-collins-chris-licht-upfront-1235369840/
And that article includes the obvious signs of a doomed rebranding effort:
When rebranding makes an appeal to fonts, it’s not a boast, it’s a confession: they’re at the stunt stage of dressing the CEO up in a mascot costume to hand out ballpoint pens on the street corner.
That, my friend, is a magnificent turn of phrase.
Typical bible thumper behavior. Someone who wraps herself up in the bible and is judgey McJudgey about everyone else is going to FAFO via “Judge not, lest ye be judged.”
Ms Bobo doesn’t realize that her people are the worst for forgiveness. They always blame the woman, not the scuzzy looking racist hippie with the guitar (whose hair went out with the end of big hair metal bands in the 1990s.)
I suspect Bobo realizes that her 15 minutes are very nearly up. She barely scraped by for re-election and that’s not going to happen again. So she’ll need another meal ticket. And, taking a cue from Tammy Faye Bakker, she’s decided that fleecing the “faithful” is going to be her new gig.
I’ve seen her sermonize. She has no charisma or dynamic speaking ability (she struts on stage like she thinks she does though which is fucking hilarious.)
No one ever told her she’s boring.
As much as I hate fundie preachers, I can seen why even the most horrible have a flock (decent public speaking and some charisma.) Despite her being attractive for a dimwit, she has neither so her notoriety can attract them but she won’t keep them.