In the lighter side of things, here's the total breakdown of Alex Jones getting screwed, play-by-play and his lawyer just sits there.
In the lighter side of things, here's the total breakdown of Alex Jones getting screwed, play-by-play and his lawyer just sits there.
Last edited by BeastieRunner; 08-09-2022 at 10:38 PM.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
After all the talk by very serious pundits yesterday how the raid on Trump would "energize the GOP base" - Democrats seem to have massively overperformed in the MN primaries last night.
Why do people worship Trump? It's like I've said in this thread numerous times and believe with all my heart to be true: Trump gave like minded lunatics free rein to hate minorities, women, gays, immigrants, the "deep state" and anyone else their dear leader despises. That warm and glorious feeling of hatred is a heady drug that's irresistible to Trump's lemmings, and they refuse to give it up. As for Moscow Mitch and the rest of the GQP buttmunchers, they desperately need the unwavering support of Trump's deranged followers, well aware the party would never win another election without those crazies, even with all the gerrymandering, so they keep on slurping Caramel Caligula. Nothing more complicated than that.
Avatar: Here's to the late, great Steve Dillon. Best. Punisher. Artist. EVER!
Failing French Nuclear Plants Drive Up Electricity Costs as Heat Waves Cut Production
Nuclear power is not the solution to the climate crisis.Half of the country’s reactors are closed down because of recently discovered corrosion problems or delayed routine maintenance caused by the COVID-19 epidemic.
An already serious problem is compounded by the ongoing drought and heat wave that is increasing demand for power for air conditioners and reducing the flow of the Rhone and Garonne rivers that are used to cool nuclear power plants. Water temperatures in the rivers are reaching temperatures that threaten fish life and breach licence conditions.
Anti-Trump GOP Collective Launches $1 Million Ad Campaign Against Herschel Walker
The Republican Accountability PAC (RAPAC), a self-identified anti-Trump GOP group, has launched a $1 million ad campaign against the Georgia Republican Senate candidate, The Hill reports. The effort is part of a $10 million initiative to “defeat anti-democracy Republicans in key battleground states.”
The treasurer of RAPAC, Sarah Longwell, said in a statement, “Herschel Walker might have been a great football player, but he doesn’t deserve to be a senator.” As HuffPost notes, a new ad by the RAPAC uses footage from Walker’s ex-wife Cindy DeAngelis Grossman speaking about his alleged abuse.
They support him because they're just as vile and repulsive as he is.
Destroying the documents is one worry but depending on what exactly they were...the orange stain selling them or just showing them off because he thinks it makes him look better to do it to people who definitely shouldn't be looking at them is probably a concern as well.That would be a dumb idea. Trump could probably destroy some documents in the mean time. After all, some of the stuff that he did turn in was taped back together by staff members to preserve it. He also would flush things down the toilet.
Truthfully, I don't know why they don't scan this stuff in and store them on a secure server somewhere, if they don't already.
I can understand parents wanting more choices for their children. I can understand looking at the public school system as it is today and the performance of students going through them and wanting more for their children.
But I also see and understand when a Party is taking those concerns and weaponizing them as a way to break public sector unions, privatize everything they can, funnel tax money to religious institutions, and widen the gap between the haves and the have-nots (and the fact that many of the have-nots are minorities and/or Democratic-leaning isn't just a pleasant side effect for them).
Improving public education should definitely be a priority. Even when it's doing well it should be. And yes, throwing money at the problem doesn't solve it as shown by studies and statistics out the wazoo. But can anyone with a straight face who honestly wants improvement for that system say that it will help things to remove funds from them?
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
Felt this from blogger Duncan Black was pertinent to discussion here.
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2022/08...#disqus_thread
Inflation
The threat of "inflation" was used to derail all the nice things in BBB, because serious people have decided that "giving not rich people nice things" is the only inflationary fiscal policy (hint: if you think fiscal policy is inflationary, you can offset the "nice things" policies with "increasing rich people taxes" policies).
Larry Summer made 3 predictions, and after running them through his economist supercomputer (lol I mean 'vibing like Nate Silver'), gave each a 1/3 chance of happening. Amazingly the thing that did happen was not one of his predictions, but somehow Larry was proved fucking right anyway.
"Team transitory" said inflation was transitory, not spiraling out of control, and was the result of the post-Covid return to normal, supply chain problems everyone is aware of, and abuse of market power. "Team inflation" said it was going to last forever and we'd be Weimar Germany if we didn't try to start a recession. After a few months of increasing CPI, team inflation declared they were correct, and the Fed started hiking rates.
The real freakout was that there would be actual decent social policy and rising worker wages for the first time in decades. It was necessary to kill that.
They won, of course, killing the policy and getting the Fed rate hikes. Inflation numbers come out tomorrow. They'll likely show improvement, and we'll see what the next step is. But they've established that not only can we never let people get raises (consensus for decades), but giving people a few bucks a month for child care, or whatever, will destroy the economy.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!