Gosh, I don’t know. Maybe lowering the standard for hiring police from whatever this is is a bad idea. I know it’s tough to find recruits right now. But maybe, just maybe, there’s a way to hire better people.
Of course, I am referring to one of my bugbears, disarm most police. Think of the pool of people who might want to be a cop but who don’t want to carry. Maybe some of them are security guards now and don’t want to make that leap.
It would also probably make policing better. Fewer deadly interactions. Probably make some civilians less nervous around the police.
Four possibilities for Justice Thomas’ absence without explanation from CJ Roberts.
He’s just going to rule as the Heritage Foundation demands and he’s just tired of pretending he isn’t.
He took out the free luxury RV to see the path of totality and ran into traffic
He’s the oldest on the court and dying.
No one put a pube on his glass and his anger so great he’s currently restrained.
And so begins what is expected to be at least six weeks of wall to wall bad publicity surrounding the Playmate the pornstar, the prostitutes, the mushroom penis, the married partner postpartum, and the prohibited payment.
DJT:US to existing shareholders,
It’s not a DE-Value it’s a RE-Value. By this time next year you won’t believe the value. It’ll be unprecedented the value.
2,
While much of that prejudicial testimony will be excluded from being presented to the jury, many media outlets will recite it for context and background.
I think that perhaps the most potentially harmful testimony may come from the interrogation of witnesses into the purposes of the elaborately deceptive payment scheme.
Voters will of course be reminded that the Republican nominee is a crude and disrespectful man of exceedingly low character.
But quite a few voters will be shown for the very first time the fraudulent and criminal lengths he went to in order to deceive them about the kind of person he really is.
That in turn serves to remind them that most of the public personality that Trump presents as a candidate (and as a television celebrity before) is a complete fabrication. He demands to be treated with dignity and great respect. And he constantly insists on his own authority and wisdom.
But he lives his private life in a very crude, nasty, and entirely undignified way. He mistreats everyone around him and respects nothing about them beyond whatever they can do to provide his immediate gratification or contribute to his appearance of importance. The crude mechanics of how he pursues those ends will be put on display. That will probably be costly.
Raise your hand if your party’s candidate for president is in a courtroom today as an accused felon?
No one expected the dividends to be paid so quickly.
Do tell us more about ‘Sleepy Joe’ come June.
Headlines, we got Headlines people.
Dozing Don the Diddler
Bedtime for Bogus Billionaire
Court Catnap Catches Camera attention
California McDonald’s owner operators are going hog wild running to all manner of media about how the $20 minimum wage is going to force them to raise prices to an unsustainable level.
(Here’s why they want to ban TikTok now that videos of ‘private events’ become public)
At this werk’s McDonald’s Global Convention, a ‘reward’ event for franchisees who meet sales goals live musical entertainment was provided by (all have private one time performance demands of $1m or above.)
Pink
Bruno Mars
Christina Aguilera
Imagine Dragons
And
Dual Lipa
This shit doesn’t fly anymore capitalists. Now that we know we’re no longer going to pay a premium for you to exploit labor so you have enough to throw a $100m party for yourselves every year.
Something about Cake and Guillotines.
Btw,
The T in THC is still not Testosterone. Wasn’t yesterday either.
I heard there was bad traffic in Kennewick and the entire
Testosterone Cities region this morning.
Portland’s Testosterone service is experiencing delays due to a stalled car on the tracks new at Lloyd Center.
My grandparents went to Colonial Williamsburg and all Ingot was this. Minuteman Testoterone cornered hat.
Aaaaand the DUMP:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-djt-stock-tumbles-after-a-filing-for-the-sale-of-a-large-amount-of-shares-92840aa0
Trump announcing to the world yet another fraud scheme.
And our own village idiot is in deep. Once again, he was warned.
Persisted anyway.
The warrant filing with the SEC seems to indicate Trump’s intention to sell his entire stake, 78 million shares plus an additional 36 million earnout shares.
6,
When he wasn’t sleeping he was shitting his diaper and doodling swastikas on his legal pad.
Todd Blanche has been seen in the bathroom putting Vics under his nose. Judge Merchan has a fan blowing directly at the defense table. One prospective juror passed a note begging to be excused for having a weak stomach.
@3 DJT drops 18% in one day. Spectacular! This stock is headed for the penny-stock lists.
TSLA isn’t doing so great today, either, after Elon announced 10% of the workforce has to go.
Outspoken liberal darling Alec Baldwin will serve serious prison time.
Soon.
@6 Coming soon (i.e., before November) to your favorite tabloid: “Trump can’t stay awake while being sentenced to prison”
@ 7
Something about Cake and Guillotines.
Cake and kiosk might each begin with the same guttural sound but the words are, in fact, very different.
@13 The Bloated Orange Fraudster will need a prison fuck buddy. Might as well be him. Or will it be the other way around?
What’s occurring with Thomas Jefferson High School, the formerly best STEM high school in the country, shows what happens when blending chickenshit into a good egg salad to make it more. “inclusive.”
According to our idiot.
How sad.
@16 – Maybe Alec Baldwin on Hunter Biden will be available.
From Carl’s link:
https://publicola.com/2024/04/13/seattle-police-knew-officer-who-struck-and-killed-pedestrian-had-checkered-history-but-hired-him-anyway/
The cost of the settlement to Kandula’s family just went way up.
It seems to me this ruling, if applied to the merits, would greatly increase Trump’s exposure to J6 civil liability. Because what’s good for the black goose is good for the orange gander.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-black-lives-matter-protest-lawsuit_n_661d50b8e4b015646f787687
@1 If he’s in a hospital being diagnosed with a terminal condition, we should wish him a quick and humane departure as opposed to a drawn-out and painful end stage.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clarence-thomas-supreme-court_n_661d5ea6e4b0f8e522db91e8
Vulture capitalist-turned-senator opposes unionizing VW plant.
I see nothing there that tariffs can’t fix, in the event U.S. consumers want to buy junky Chinese cars (we already know they make crappy can openers that break the second or third time you use them).
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/volkswagen-union-tennessee-gop-senator_n_661d4acfe4b0f8e522db7704
Hard to believe this guy graduated from a fine law school and passed a bar exam.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clay-travis-jury-tampering-trump-trial_n_661d5d85e4b015646f788a5f
Anyway, any juror foolish enough to follow his advice is asking for legal troubles of his or her own.
Just a little less than four years ago President Biden won voters under thirty by more than 24 points. The latest NYT poll has voters under 30 supporting Biden by just one point.
This is another example of a outlier in the crosstabs of some of the major polls that implies either tectonic shifts in support for what is essentially a redo of the last election, or something else perhaps having to do with survey design. And it may help to point out that, objectively, modeling “likely” vote among voters under 30 is quite a bit more challenging since this is a group with typically irregular turnout. It’s a very hard group to survey, and a very hard group to model. But it makes up about 20% of the survey response.
@13
That’s really all you got?
An Actor/Director?
That’s what’s covering for the guy you’re supporting for President being on trial? Hoping Alec Baldwin’s lawyers can’t put on an effective defense? A few months from now?
Sad.
More on DJT stock:
From this it’s clear that Trump not only intends to sell all his shares, but also all the “earnout” shares he hasn’t received yet. At least the Orange Moron knows when to run out of a burning building, give him credit for that. One more thing: Lockup period? What lockup period?
@17, 19 There you are! Shame on you for stealing all that money from my purse!
By the way, the police are looking for you