TGIF [DOT 27/9/24]

27/9/24 MegMegMcGee 33

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Stay safe Florida Man and peeps!

Hurricane Helene reaches Category 4 as it tracks toward Florida
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/26/hurricane-helene-florida-landfall-outlook-impacts

PSA:

Free Covid-19 tests are available again. Here’s how to get them


https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/26/health/free-covid-tests-government-usps/index.html

Before the cat walked across the keyboard, I was saying at least you aren’t this guy:

‘A true friend of Turkey’: Eric Adams bribery indictment reveals years of flights and favors


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/eric-adams-bribes-turkey

Stonks!

Stock market today: S&P 500 clinches fresh record amid GDP data, chip stock gains
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-sp-500-clinches-fresh-record-amid-gdp-data-chip-stock-gains-200242008.html

Sprots!

WNBA and players condemn racist abuse as Caitlin Clark’s Fever lose in playoffs
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/sep/26/wnba-and-players-condemn-racist-abuse-as-caitlin-clarks-fever-lose-in-playoffs

Bears

Have a great weekend!

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33 Comments

  2. I don’t think Gov. Hochul has the guramba* to do it, but her statement on Adams yesterday was as a clear a “retire bitch or I’ll retire you myself” as I’ve ever seen in a press release. And she really could make it happen: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/26/hochul-new-york-city-mayor-00181349

    * – Star Trek word, I’m not sorry

    • I saw this and I would like to retract my ill-advised comment from yesterday. Kickback does have an awful lot of power. It seems weird because she’s so inept and so shady herself (there’s a gal who knows her way around a cash-stuffed envelope, small unmarked bills only.) Having seen the terror Handsy unleashed during the pandemic I bet if he were still the “luv Guv” [retch] he’d have Adams thrown into a trunk of a state-issued Crown Victoria and driven to a dark alley in Albany.

      • Hey now, be careful what you say, Andy could be your next mayor! And I’d like to follow that with “lol I kid, he couldn’t possibly win” but I’ve seen how you folks vote down there and he has a legitimate chance.

        • “Sure I grab ass, but I’ll make the trains run on time!”

          • The New York Post would go absolutely apeshit if he ran — and honestly that would be pretty fun — but all other media a) adore/demand the center-rightiest Dem they can find and b) would lean right into the “comeback” angle and completely ignore the sex pest stuff as much as possible. He has giant name recognition, he has experience. And NYC voters appear to suffer massive short-term brain damage when they enter their polling place every mayoral election? I dunno how else to explain it.

            Anyway, Cuomomentum!

            • Cuomo basically got to be governor because he worked with Carolyn Ryan at the Times to manufacture a scandal against David Patterson. Ryan then signalled to her reporters that she didn’t want anyone looking into Cuomo, saying she thought he was too much of a “homebody” in the same way that Livia Soprano suggested she didn’t want a hit on Christopher because “he once put up storm windows for her.” And sure enough, despite everyone knowing about Cuomo’s assaults, the Times stayed silent until they were scooped by the Albany Times Union.

              • I know you have an axe to grind and grind with the Times but let’s instead credit the Times Union — based in Albany — which has more reporters and connections in Albany and the state Capitol, in Albany, for breaking that story. The Times basically has one person here full-time and another one or two when the legislature is cooking. They are not Sauron.

                • Carolyn Ryan made sure they had the resources when she wanted to go after Patterson over, though. This isn’t a case of a strapped little paper trying to decide whether to send its one city hall reporter to cover the police chief or the fire chief’s press conference. They have a history of reprogramming when they want to.

                  Another key element is that this wasn’t about enterprise reporting trying to sift through reams of old documents like Jack Burden in All The King’s Men. This was Ryan deciding that something that was well known didn’t deserve followup, and not even something that wouldn’t sell like a misuse of tax credits for an accellerated real estate depreciation schedule. This was Cuomo assaulting women.

                  Carolyn Ryan has a history of this kind of asymetrical use of resources. She put a lot of reporter time on the nonsensical Uranium One smear of Clinton, tilted coverage immensely toward her email, and somehow had just one reporter splitting her time between the Trump rape suit and multiple other cases in NYC.

          • After he spends $10 billion per mile and takes 24 years to build a new subway line extension.

            One of the crazy things about US infrastructure is that everywhere in the US we spend so much more and take so much longer than comparable European projects, despite the fact that they have similar if not stronger issues with unions, environmental protections, and archaelogical preservation laws.

            Our engineering capacity just stinks.

            • By total coincidence this good explainer for some of what’s going on was published this morning.

              https://www.curbed.com/article/subway-elevators-usd100-million-costs-mta-budget-capital-plan.html

              The MTA’s proposed budget calls for roughly $6 billion for ADA improvements at subway stations, for a rough cost of $110 million per elevator.

              A huge problem is that the MTA slashed its in-house staff of design experts who can evaluate projects and provide the kinds of technical input which stops outsourced project costs from ballooning. They once had a staff that was 1/6th the size of the London system and 1/20th the size of what Paris has. Now that entire unit for the MTA has been reorganized out of existence entirely!

              ADA compliance projects are a big deal, and they’re going to be costly no matter what. But essentially abdicating all of the design and planning to contractors is a recipe for exploding costs. It’s not even that the contractors need to charge for work they don’t do, or engage in sweetheart double dealing, although some of that may happen on occasion.

              It’s that contractors have no incentive to spend less or go faster. If they can get paid to tear apart an entrance, rebuild it, then tear it apart and rebuild it again because nobody is offering integrated oversight for a project, they’ll just do it.

              And to be clear, this is a problem which gets driven by the fact that NYC sends huge amounts to Albany and then has to have Albany send money back to them for the MTA. The ongoing need to beg for money when most funding is already committed to capital projects means that the only place left for cuts in the annual budget is things like planning staff. And when you have a dope like Hochul blow up the congestion pricing agreement at the last minute, the scrambling gets worse.

          • I mean many of us get body parts casually grabbed and don’t have public transportation available, so you know, if it’s more of the same AND trains on time, that’s a deal!

        • Who knows if he even lives in the city? For all anyone really knows, he’s like Adams and has a t shirt in someone’s dresser and otherwise stays in the suburbs.

          You’d think the press might take this annoying legality into consideration. RFK Jr. got kicked off the ballot because he lied about where he lived and tried to pass off an unused suitcase in a spare room as a residence, but they’re too busy just recycling what Cuomo tells them to remember any of that. The thing is that opposition researchers will definitely dig into it, and Cuomo is arrogant enough to try to cheat like Adams and RFK Jr.

          And here's the New York Times, local newspaper of New York City, running a whole piece about Cuomo's desire to be mayor without examining whether he lives here or not http://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/n...

          — Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) 2024-09-27T11:40:01.652Z

  3. He’s pissy and he’s greedy,

    corrupt and sneaky,

    He’s all together seedy,

    The Adams Conspiracy

    The consulate is a fire trap,

    He thinks rules are just claptrap

    He really loves bribery

    The Adams Conspiracy!

  6. NY Times “reporter” Shawn McCreesh, who was Maureen Dowd’s flunky for years, has written another right wing whitewash.

    He has a long, gushy story out now claiming that J.D. Vance loves his mother so, so much, and his mother loves her little teddy bear so much too! And they have so much character and love! So, so much!

    McCreesh has been held up as the number one example of sanewashing with his ridiculous article claiming Trump was secretly incredibly coherent at weaving together multiple narrative strands to make effective policy statements.

    He also wrote an nutjob article about Moms for Liberty describing them as a bunch of wine mommies who loved Trump but just wanted him to tone things down a little, only to have editors forced to issue a correction that he had completely misrepresented their adoring view on Hitler. Oopsie!

    One of those is a mistake. The repetition makes it clear that’s what editors call objective and want pushed to the top of their agenda.

  9. You ready to celebrate?

    • Yep. We had a budget surplus, so DeSantis gave it all away to corporations. No point in wasting perfectly good money on things like education or the thousands of disabled children that have been on the waitlist for assistance from the Agency for Persons with Disabilities for years, many of whom died waiting for help, amirite?

      • Or emergency planning and preparation. I’m sure he thought things were good enough when the weather was fine.

  10. Listen, I’m all for the Feds helping out, but this year I think I’m gonna have to ask that y’all shit-can Rick Scott as payment for the aid. We got a deal here or what?

    • Make him pay for disaster relief from all of the money he stole from Medicare.

    • Your offer intrigues me. Let me make a few calls.

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