Hiya gang! It’s Tuesday, again, let’s see what’s going on…
Worth the read…
Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mob-failure/2021/01/11/36a46e2e-542e-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html
I can’t help but notice everyone is growing a spine [checks notes] 8 days before he leaves office.
Sprots!
Stonks!
$150 billion wiped off cryptocurrency market in 24 hours as bitcoin pulls back
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/bitcoin-btc-price-nearly-170-billion-wiped-off-entire-cryptocurrency-market.html
“You cannot just go on the Internet and Google, ‘What to do with a hippopotamus?’”
Invasion of the hippos: Colombia is running out of time to tackle Pablo Escobar’s wildest legacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/11/invasive-hippos-escobar-colombia-castrate/
I say whomst?
‘Who doesn’t love a turtle?’ The teenage boys on a mission – to rewild Britain with reptiles
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/10/who-doesnt-love-a-turtle-the-teenage-boys-on-a-mission-to-rewild-britain-with-reptiles
Have a great Tuesday!
Somebody educate me on what the Patriots have done to advance racial justice this year. And is it just a coincidence that it happened to be this year and not last year, or the years before?
Didn’t he kneel during the National Anthem to call attention to the disproportionate use of violence by LE against people of color? After which he lost his job and was blacklisted by the NFL? Oh, wait… that was someone else.
At the risk of getting too pedantic, Kaep wasn’t actually cut from the 49ers. He opted out of the remainder of his contract because he figured he could get a better deal elsewhere.
Thanks, as a non sprots person I wasn’t aware of that.
Most sprots people aren’t aware of it either, so you’re in good company:)
That’s not true. Collin didn’t opt out because he thought he could make more money – he opted out because the 49ers were going to cut him if he didn’t. He didn’t realize his detractors would later use the opt out as part of their “see how greedy and ungrateful” narrative.
CBS Sports: The 49ers would’ve cut Colin Kaepernick if he hadn’t opted out of his contract
The answer is surely “not much,” but he has the self-awareness to realize he should say no to his buddy on this one. Which at this point, is sort of a shock.
It’s also important to pay attention to the operative phrase: “the decision has been made…” Not “I have decided”, but “the decision has been made.” Bill didn’t come to this point all by his lonesome. My guess is that the team threatened to go into full revolt if he took the award.
Or his bosses said “oh, fuck no.” At this point we’re seeing massive firings of people who participated in the insurrection (which is the least that should happen). No business wants to be associated with this fuckery.
I’ve said it before but rich people HATE chaos. It’s very bad for their businesses and very dangerous for them personally. None of these companies that are “abandoning” Trump are doing it out of patriotism. They’re doing it because martial law is bad for business. They’re doing it because mobs don’t form in my subdivision — they head for the mansions on the beaches down south. In short, they’re doing it because they have the most to lose.
Related commentary from another source:
https://www.axios.com/ceos-fourth-branch-government-trump-7eee851f-0027-4bfa-a2c0-58ec254e2dbe.html
I don’t think it was his boss, he is also a Trump humper that doesn’t believe the law applies to him…
https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/12/02/florida-women-plead-guilty-sex-sting-patriots-owner-robert-kraft/
Maybe but I think even the Trump humpers are getting scared this is going to hit them in their wallets. It’s certain that’s what’s motivating Big Tech.
Maybe? As an editor I see the passive voice used a lot so I don’t always read deeply into that!
It strikes me as the same approach as politicians who fuck up in spectacular fashion and then say “mistakes were made”, rather than “I made a mistake.” Bill doesn’t want to own this, yet sound like he’s taking a principled stand out of his own conscience. I say this as a Patriot fan.
So, the Deutsche Bank thing surely strikes fear into Trump’s small, black heart more than anything else. However, let us not be surprised when–in a few months when the insurrection is no longer front page news–they quietly start doing business with him again. Same goes for all the corporations who shut off their campaign contributions to Congress.
See my response to your other post. But yes, businesses fear chaos, but once things are stable again, yes, they’ll take Trump’s phone calls. They might not let him move into their neighborhoods, but they’ll take his calls.
DB’s legal issues are bad enough that they will be worried who is monitoring their calls.
They never did business with him because his specific account was very profitable — they did it because they wanted to encourage all of their account managers to deal with sleazy dirtbags, and cracking down on his team would send the wrong message to the other oligarch managers at DB.
DB is scared now, and what will happen is others will make a deal.
This needs to be a priority for this administration…
https://www.dailyposter.com/p/end-dark-money-now
Needs to be–but won’t happen. Not one solitary Republican will vote for it and there are enough Democrats opposed to either kill it outright or to water it down so much as to make it useless. At this point I think the only way to make it happen would be via Constitutional Amendment through the states.
What Meg said, 4 years of douchery and now enough is enough? Side-eying that shit, we shall see.
Sorry, not sorry. Good riddance.
Sheldon Adelson, casino magnate and major Trump donor, dies aged 87
Not a tear shed.
I rarely say this about people who have died, but me either. A miserable, hateful man.
To quote noted sage M. Trump:
I don’t care do u?
I hope the long illness was Covid 19.
This year is getting brighter!
Bitcoin? More like Bitcon.
It seems to me a direct relationship between the value of Bitcon and amount of stupidity, fear and greed within the markets. A jackass index, if you will. There’s nothing backing this con currency up except fantastic libertardian bullshit.
I know folks who tried to get involved in Bitcon at work. They are part of what I call stupid money. They don’t care what it meant/the nature of the market/understand why it went up that only it goes up and fast. You know, suckers (I was one, too but I learned from painful experience.)
You can make a lot of money, but only if you ride the wave as it starts and jump off before it crashes. Seems so easy?
The problem is that greed gets you (I’ve been guilty of this myself) and you hang on way too long so you end up falling face first into a crash. Just end just breaking even or worse. Bitcon is worse as you can’t cash out the fucking thing unless there is someone even dumber/richer to sell it to.
…as recently as today I heard someone arguing that it was not impossible for bitcoin to one day be a “reserve currency” which strikes me as somewhat insane?
…cumulatively it’s used enough power to give it a carbon footprint the size of some countries & it relies on a seriously complex & significant infrastructure that’s fairly advanced to an extent that it ceases to be meaningfully functional as a means of exchange if you don’t have, say, a reliable power grid & an internet connection so in the aftermath of something like hurricane katrina I don’t see how you could really hold it up as an alternative to cash money…the fact that there’s technically an upper limit to the amount of “coins” that can be mined by the algorithm & therefore it can ultimately work mathematically in many of the same ways as other fiat currency doesn’t seem as persuasive to me as it apparently does to a lot of cryptocurrency advocates, though…so maybe I’m biased?
all your ham sandwich are belong to us!
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/border-guards-sandwiches-confiscated-brexit-b845171.html
uhh..i mean welcome to brexit…sir
The ham sandwich leaves the bar, and a mushroom walks in. Bartender says “We dont serve your kind either!”
Mushroom says “C’mon, I’m a fungi”
“If you can eat it in the next 3 minutes, you can have it.”
I read today that the trumpist viking guy is on a hunger strike because jail doesn’t serve organic food. Wait what snowflake!? Self awareness, where you at?
The first thing those guys kill is the ability to look at themselves critically….
It’s all fun and games until they take away the avocado toast. [apologies to sane people everywhere who like avocado toast]
His mom is all, he’s a gentle boy. He is 33!