Midweek Meh-Ness [DOT 28/8/24]

28/8/24 MegMegMcGee 30

Happy Wednesday folks!

Ummmm

RFK Jr faces call for investigation into claim he chainsawed whale’s head off

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/27/rfk-jr-dead-whale

I think they should keep hitting him with indictments til he gets an aneurysm.
Special counsel files new indictment against Trump in election subversion case – live

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/27/trump-harris-campaign-election-latest-updates

Stonks!

Nvidia has become world’s ‘most important stock,’ adding pressure to upcoming earnings report
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/27/nvidia-is-worlds-most-important-stock-adds-pressure-to-q2-earnings.html

Sprots!

Kelce Brothers Sign Deal With Amazon’s Wondery for ‘New Heights’ Podcast Worth More Than $100 Million
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/kelce-brothers-podcast-wondery-new-heights-1236118594

WAIT WHAT

And on that note, have a great day!

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30 Comments

  2. Every RFKjr story reads like a Mad Libs of sociopathy. And, what is with all of these billionaires obsessed with inflicting the planet with so many of their children? I know they’re narcissists and buy into their own bullshit but JFC.

      • It’s totally fits the worldview of these nuts that they have such messed up, unscientific ideas about genetics.

        The J.D. Vance nuttiness about women as breeding stock combines with paranoia about America’s nordic stock being overwhelmed, chants of “Jews will not replace us” and RFK Jr.’s conspiracy theory that Covid was supposedly engineered to target Blacks and avoid Jews.

        The actual science of genetics does not following the hypersimplistic if-then model of writing a Perl script to sort a list of numbers. But they’re just too dumb to grasp any of the hows and whys.

        • This is all of a piece with abortion in America. If you really wanted to get to a world with 0 abortions, you wouldn’t ban them and call it a day. You’d start — the very first thing! — by nationalizing contraception access and making it free. You’d have free and easily available health care for pregnant women. You’d plow research money into prenatal health issues for both mother and child. You’d create a federal child care system, give parents more money and time off before and after birth, and then, broadly, you’d make adoption easier and cheaper, and maybe fix the entire foster care system while you’re at it.

          But all of that stuff would empower women (and families) and that’s the absolute last thing they want so instead it’s just “hey, please be breeding stock.”

    • I can’t find the exact quote right now, but Brain Worm has pretty much admitted there’s a lot more disturbing stuff about him to be uncovered. Gotta figure the WTFs have only gotten started.

  6. This is the kind of thing the Trump campaign does which is so awful that the political press does a collective shrug and moves on, rather than deal with it.

    https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5091154/trump-arlington-cemetery

    Two members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official at Arlington National Cemetery, where the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony, NPR has learned.

    A source with knowledge of the incident said the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried. The source said Arlington officials had made clear that only cemetery staff members would be authorized to take photographs or film in the area, known as Section 60.

    When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.

    You simply do not do that at Arlington Cemetery. The DC press corps for decades has claimed to hold the highest standards as far as keeping Arlington above politics, but now that Trump has blatantly violated the norm they are going to drop this rather than upset their precious self-perception of neutrality.

    • Again, this is the moment when the Democrats desperately need a Fox News because if Harris’s staff did something like this it would be in 96-sized font on the front page of the website for the next week, with “Breaking” and alarm bells for a month on TV, there would be scores of new Facebook groups springing up entirely to astroturf letters and emails to the media, every racist uncle in America would be bringing it up as a “BUHWHATABOUT” to literally everything until 2031.

      But, alas, they rely on the gatekeepers to point out how insane it is and they’re somewhere between “unwilling” and “openly want Trump to win.”

      • If MSNBC or the NY Times ever actually became the Fox News of the left like conventional wisdom claims, it would be pretty scary to have some cranky billionaire enforcing message discipline 24×7 across a network and entire party.

        But we get worst of both worlds where Fox gets to exert extreme gravitational force on the news and the rest of the press pretends it doesn’t even exist.

  9. Ok so that CNN article about what’s his face telegram fuckboi wanker? It’s a love letter to him. It’s all about how great he is.

    The article needs to be about the mentality of someone who is actively engaging in eugenics as well as risking the health of so many children. The risk of accidental incest if he’s doing this in areas with limited populations, etc.

    • I once read something really interesting about Iceland. Because the country is so tiny and its population so small and homogenous, those contemplating childbirth, and maybe all couples who’d like to get married, must consult with some kind of national hereditary office. The intent is not to discover whether you are related, that’s a given, but exactly how closely. Why an Icelander wouldn’t know who their siblings and first cousins are, I don’t know, but I guess “blended families” can throw up all sorts of surprises. Like, for example, Mom gets fed up and leaves her family behind in Reykjavik and moves to the hinterlands. She meets a guy and has a couple of kids. The breakup was acrimonious so everyone has lost contact. Lo and behold, you’re at the Diskø Diskø 20 years later and you meet someone who doesn’t share your last name but…

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