Wake me up when September ends!
Yeah no shit
N.Y. judge finds Trump committed fraud and sanctions his attorneys
https://wapo.st/3Zzd6HL
Supreme Court won’t let Alabama use disputed House map for 2024
https://wapo.st/48xq2Cq
OMG I love this woman they interviewed. Give HER a show!
UAW update:
‘The support feels good’: UAW members embrace Biden and shrug off Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/26/uaw-strike-biden-visit-update-trump
Good job finding him tho
Canada parliament speaker resigns after calling Ukrainian Nazi veteran a ‘hero’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/26/anthony-rota-canada-resigns-nazi-parliament
Stonks!
Dow tumbles nearly 400 points, notching biggest one-day drop since March
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/investing/september-26-stocks/index.html
Sprots!
How does one get this job? Because I would like it.
Have a super day!
Watching your kid play (or perform) is awesome and incredibly hard at the same time. My kid is playing soccer and in a game got knocked down, I heard (and he heard) a father of the opposing team tell his kids to “leave him on the ground,” when they went to help him up. I have anger issues and emotion issues already, period, walking around at all times, unfortunately, pretty much ready to pop, and hearing that didn’t help. I did not start a fight or anything but definitely let him and the other parents know cheering or even being cavalier about kids getting hurt is fucked up. People are not great, is what I’ve learned. I used to think most people were basically good, but as I get older, I am starting to doubt that.
That soccer dad sounds like the worst kind of person who is too fucking stupid to figure out nuance. It’s sportsmanship (or sportspersonship, I guess) NOT combat.
I learned playing team sports that you give what you get.
When I played hockey, we would go to tournaments and play various local teams. Full of local pride (a la Letterkenney) we’d proudly represent our town (and sometimes get our asses kicked from one of the arena to the other.) Our most vicious opponents were usually the Native Teams because, well, history. Unlike my white teammates I didn’t do the race baiting and name calling (because I didn’t like being on the receiving end so I didn’t engage) which also means I never got flattened, on the receiving end of an illegal spearing or get tripped up by pissed off native players unlike many of my idiot white teammates.
The only time I got mean was when someone tried to hurt me or my teammates for no reason (not racist slurs), but I was fortunate to have good coaches who told me to cool it.
It happened twice in university intramural ball hockey. I flattened a lawyer with a hard elbow to the jaw after he deliberately speared my housemate. We both ended up suspended for a game.
I became the team “goon” and think I the entire intramural league in penalty minutes that year (the electrical engineering team was made up of short guys who the bigger guys tried to out muscle and I have a chip on my shoulder about big guys who like to push short guys around…)
Some leagues are getting better about cracking down on parents. What’s happening is refs and coaches are getting sick of it, and some leagues have figured out if they don’t institute things like silent parent rules, they won’t be able to function. Refs don’t get paid much in most leagues, and they’ll just watch TV if leagues don’t back them.
This is true. I know a ref who basically does it for fun. He makes way more at his day job than the tiny amount he’s getting for refereeing. Seriously, it’s like .001 percent of his income. The second it stops being fun, he’s got no incentive to continue.
People a born good. That kid is good. Unfortunately his dad is a jerk and is preaching toxic masculinity. It’s not easy to stay good when your parents are programming you to be an asshole.
I have so much rage when it comes to parents continuing the cycle of “boys need to man up”. For what it is worth, I applaud you for losing your shit on that other dad. Staying silent is worse. Plus you’re a (white?) dude. You have more power and sway than you know.
Yeah, any WW2 veteran who is “hero” of the Ukraine for fighting Russians was/is most likely a Nazi.
Fucking morons.
As for the assassination (allegedly perpetrated by India)… our Hindu nationalist contingent at work was screaming that Trudeau was lying and making shit up. I know from reading spy novels, actual news articles and from my days at Nortel learning about “Lawful Intercept” aka NSA portals that Trudeau probably got intercepted comms via “5 Eyes” aka the US/UK/Canada/NZ/Aus sigint group and acted upon it.
Suddenly our Hindu nationalists shut up as this info has come out.
I get why some might get upset because Sikh Terrorists based in BC put bombs on two Air India flights out of Vancouver in 1985. One blew up a whole plane in flight killing 300+ people and the other killed baggage handlers in Tokyo. After that the Canadian government cracked down on Sikh extremism here. Put a lot of people in jail to show, you can come here but don’t bring your wars here as we don’t want to become another battle ground.
If true then Modi and his intelligence guys are fucking idiots.
I see that there’s a 3 judge panel assigned to approving a new election map for Alabama…but will Alabama actually implement it? I’m betting they throw it in the trash and do what they want anyway, because they really want to force a Constitutional crisis.
@loveshaq can give us an update, because I haven’t been in Seattle for 20 years, but I have serious doubts that people are just openly shooting heroin on the sidewalks in broad daylight. The fact that they call Seattle a “progressive hellscape”, and then the knuckle draggers who watch it refuse to see overt propaganda for what it is, further proves that these fucking people are completely irredeemable. They do not deserve to have “their side heard”, and have no place in any decision making. Democrats just need to grow a fucking spine and do what’s necessary and tell the Republicans to go fuck themselves. After all, that’s what the Republicans have been doing for 30 years.
I’ve seen the hellscape of East Hastings in Vancouver which is similar to what is going on in Seattle and it is horrible. 40 years of sending in cops to beat homeless heads hasn’t helped, but neither has the gentle approach.
At least in Vancouver, I think it is good intentions gone horribly wrong and those responsible refused to make the changes to fix some of it. I honestly don’t know what the solution is.
In any big city, if you really want to find open drug use you will find it.
Police have never made a big deal of it unless they’re under pressure for arrest numbers, and the reality is that prosecutors are already dealing with so many more serious violent crimes that they will always deal down to time served in jail for nonviolent drug use.
The Wire is pretty accurate how it works — local law enforcement will let drugs happen in poor areas at the regular dealer and buyer level, with exceptions for things like right around schools and churches. When arrests happen at the small level, it’s almost always because a cop got bothered in some way, because a complaint came in from someone important, or a community group has made a complaint about a specific area like a playground.
Police will basically corral drug use, not control it. What’s been seen in a few areas that the right wing press has been focusing on is that police haven’t done their usual sweep jobs to push users from upper income areas to lower income ones.
Seattle, Tacoma & many bordering areas have a huge homeless problem. Shooting up is so old school, our drug problems now are mostly meth and fentanyl. You can go to certain areas and see guys on meth walking around ranting at people but the fentanyl ones look like mimes and just freeze in place. One of our most popular TV new channels is owned by Sinclair & they do specials all the time about how dangerous Seattle is and push that nationally. We have had upticks in car thefts & shootings but most of those shootings have been gang related and in specific areas that have had those problems as long as I have been here. The car theft uptick is partially due to a rule that police can’t do high speed pursuits unless lives are in danger. That said, I have never felt unsafe anywhere in Seattle. People look out for each other more than most places I have been and are generally very polite. I am about 20 to 30 minutes out of Seattle and my area the police go door to door and knock on my door to show us pics of lost dogs they have found to see if we know the owner. Not typical of Seattle’s suburbs but very Washington.
Yeah, I should have been clearer in my original comment, but I was writing it on my phone and being lazy. What I should have said was, do we really think the Fox reporter and his camera man actually drove through those areas on their way to an obviously crime-free park? Or did they just pick up stock footage from somewhere? You know where else has a massive drug and crime problem? Just about every single rural area which is smothered in meth.
All that has happened is a combination of Fox aiming its cameras and police not chasing drug users and homeless people out of areas where they previously were banned.
Like people have said here, drug use is rampant in rural areas, so is homelessness. And that’s also been true in cities too. It’s just been contained for a few decades away from the eyes of people with influence. Fentanyl is bad, but crack was bad before that, and before that heroin. And what we’re seeing with Fox and for that matter a lot of the establishment press is a drumbeat for crackdowns on users and eliminating treatment and housing options.
That never works.
Darn. Poor guy can’t scam people in New York any more.
Trump could end up with almost ‘nothing’ after judge gives his company ‘death penalty’: reporter
Related: Simpleton doubles down on inflating assets.
Eric Trump mocked for claiming Mar-a-Lago is worth over $1 billion — after judge says he lied
Actual value of Mar-a-Lago: Between $18 million – $24 million.
Is this the face of a man who’s too stupid to fraud?
Yes.
That’s a picture of a man who’s damn lucky humans come equipped with autonomic reflexes. Because if he had to remember to breathe, he’d be dead.
Trump was declared the loser before the trial even began, just like the second E. Jean Carroll case, and he’s starting to get more rulings at preliminary stages where judges are saying his court filings are so wrong as to be deliberately bad faith.
It’s a point which goes beyond the usual winner/loser framework in reporting, and needs to be developed explicitly. He’s not functioning in a normal way in the legal system — he’s deliberately trying to break it.
And this isn’t new, either — his 2020 election scheme suits were also pure PR junk. Coverage of his legal woes need to start stressing why his defenses should be given so little consideration up front, instead of the typical one side says / the other side says framing.
Part of that fraud case against Trump was based on his valuation of Mar a Lago at around $1.5 billion, which is impossible.
Remember that mystery Zillow listing a month ago saying it sold for over $400 million? (It was mentioned in the DOT comments on 25/8/23) Turns out that was wrong and Zillow pulled it.
https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/story/news/trump/2023/08/25/eric-trump-reportedly-denies-mar-a-lago-sold-zillow-noted-422m-sale/70678542007/
But Zillow didn’t explain where the data came from. Normally their database just automatically pulls from other databases — they don’t have legions of data entry people manually looking at records. You wonder if something weird was going on at the database level, and if that’s a sign of someone covering their tracks….
This is an interesting piece about how a few House GOP “moderates” are toying with breaking the Hastert “rule” which says bills never come to the floor unless the GOP is essentially unified behind them.
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/republicans-government-shutdown-previous-question
McCarthy’s spin during his budget breakdown is that he has no choice but accommodate the paranoid caucus, but that’s a lie. He has always had the option of cutting a deal with Democrats.
That would have significant implications for his hold on the speakership, but guess what — so would failing to make a deal on the budget. And what’s more, swing district Republicans have always had the choice of breaking ranks with the safe seat kooks, but their solidarity has been a choice, not some strict requirement.
What’s been happening in reporting on the House GOP going back to day 1 is reporters essentially swallowing McCarthy’s spin that he has had “no choice” but accommodate the paranoid nuts. It’s the same thing, though, as an NFL coach talking about he had “no choice” but to put a probably concussed QB back in the game because “he just couldn’t” let the rookie backup play. Sometimes you just have to choose among bad options, but that’s still a choice.
Fox is really pretending that rural Red America doesn’t have its own drug problems? 🤨
Yes. Happens here in Canada, too. The area I grew up in has become the Meth Capital of Ontario but they scream about the problems in Toronto.
Same in Florida. Deep red counties have HUGE meth problems. Not to mention crime. But oh, noes, that’s Mayberry and everybody bakes apple pies and goes to church every Sunday.
For a prime example of why the House GOP radicals are sticking to their gun, and why McCarthy is enabling them, get a load of this from the AP:
https://nitter.net/joshtpm/status/1707041513320944071
Headline: Congress says it wants to avoid a shutdown. But the House and Senate are moving farther apart.
Which of course is a crock. There is no House position to begin with.
As long as the press bothsides what the radicals are doing, their incentive to dig in only gets stronger. They want a narrative of congressional dysfunction. McCarthy wants to appear like he’s the guy Schumer and Biden need to compromise with, even as he is incapable of working out a deal in his own caucus, and won’t try to deal with House Democrats.
The AP angle is critical, because of their extremely wide distribution and the way their articles are designed to chopped down to little more than their headlines and (possibly) opening paragraphs. It’s typical for news — printed and broadcast — to run nothing more than the truncated version, and when the top line is so bad, it completely distorts public understanding.
I swear Masterclass is bullshit. I just got the GWBush Ad on Youtube for “Leadership” or more like Leadershit.
If I want to stare blankly into space when shit hits the fan, ignore actionable intelligence, be the decider and let Dick Cheney do all the work while I act as a puppet then why the fuck do I have to pay money?
Holy fuck, have you guys been hearing rumblings of this? I slowly am seeing more posts about it. I wish I believed in hell. People who participate in the abduction and/or abuse of children deserve to be tortured forever.
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/1-000-children-reported-missing-in-ohio-this-year-alone-193853509621
…I don’t know if it makes it worse or it’s just a function of what I’m primed to expect like a GPT calculation of what the most likely subsequent text is…but I almost missed the part where it says ohio in the URL & thought it was going to be about ukrainian children winding up in russia
…so…on the one hand I have not been hearing rumblings…but in the other I’m now sitting here feeling an uncomfortable awareness that there’s a non-zero chance I missed them because I wasn’t paying attention & thought they were headlines about something else?