TurtleJoe

But of course, police are given 3 months of training tops, so they just fire them wherever.

I don’t think they fire them wherever. I think they aim at people’s faces because they think it’s funny.

Bleed the Beast.

Waste money on bullshit like this, then cut useful social services to “balance the budget.”

No, they need to actually report on him. That includes the court cases, but also the constant stream of crazy shit that he says at his “rallies,” as well as what his plans are for a second presidency.

It’s not the last 40 years, it’s been since Civil Rights legislation and the Brown vs Board decision.

That sounds like more of an assault than a disorderly conduct.

This is one of those situations where I like to imagine what would have happened if the guy did that to a cop. Likely a litany of charges, including assaulting an officer, and would have had the shit beaten out of him.

The Trump Org and various campaign entities have, of course, denied that any wrongdoing took place, and denied that Trump had knowledge or direct involvement in compensation issues.

“We didn’t do anything wrong, and even if we did, Trump himself didn’t do it.”

This is undermined by the multiple witnesses in the trial which just ended, who repeatedly testified that Trump insists on hand signing every single check that is for more than a certain amount of money. It has varied over time, but usually something relatively low, like $10k. He is characterized as a relentless micromanager when it comes to money, and is famous for (and constantly brags about) fighting every financial charge, and never paying a penny more than he has to.

It would not be reasonable to assume that large payouts or appointments to high up positions within any Trump org could happen without Trump’s knowledge and approval.

This brings us back to:

The Trump Org and various campaign entities have, of course, denied that any wrongdoing took place, and denied that Trump had knowledge or direct involvement in compensation issues.

This was essentially his exact defense in that NY criminal trial, and the jury didn’t buy it.

I use the term legacy media all the time. It refers to well-known, corporate owned media outlets, both TV and paper. The kinds of outlets that usually publish unvarnished lies from right-wingers, lest they be accused of being “liberal” and are therefore both-sidesing the US right into fascism.

I don’t know what the person you’re responding to is on about, but “legacy media” is definitely a real term.

You can’t forget that any true nut jobs were weeded out during jury selection.

He’s actually not that old. He just looks like shit.

The dream of the right since public schools became integrated.

It’s very frustrating. Here in Ohio, there was a maybe bribery scandal on a bailout for two energy companies. The former house speaker and one or two other legislators got prison sentences.

The bailout stayed in place, however, and all Ohioans are stuck paying an extra $50 a month, just for having a fossil gas line active. If you have a gas stove, water heater, or furnace, it’s fifty bucks a month just to be able to use them, plus whatever you actually use on top of that.

The ironic thing is that the show Seinfeld was more like IASIP than Friends, in that the characters were mostly shitty people, and the joke was usually on them (even though they similarly often destroyed the lives of people around them.)

Tyson announced several months ago that they were cutting back supply, just so that they could charge more. They’re one of, if not the largest chicken supplier (and they are fully vertically integrated) in NA, so them raising prices affects prices across the board.

Prepare for more pain as bird flu seems to be spreading in US cattle populations.

Because the unite the right march was explicitly about white supremacism? You think there were some “very fine people” marching around and chanting, “Jews will not replace us”?

Spoiler: there weren’t.

I’ve never seen footage of a group of Nazis marching around and thought, “I bet some of those dudes are actually pretty alright.” That’s also not something I want my presidents thinking.

It seems that this is more about killing a popular program that Dems are responsible for, and could point to during election season as a reason to vote for them again.

Under the Ayoka moniker, Johnson issued a torrent of antisemitic screeds, conspiracy theories and alarmist warnings on Thursday and Friday. These included a repost of a debunked apocryphal speech attributed to Ben Franklin about how Jewish people “depreciated” societies wherever they settled, a video about Jews promoting pedophilia in the entertainment industry, and unproven theories about the origin of COVID-19.

This is qanon shit. Don’t know why OP didn’t include it in their excerpts of the article.

She also offered a $6.99 per month home purifying cleanse that stripped people’s residences of “stagnant energy,” citing better sleep and an increased “vibration” as some of the benefits. Activating the service was simple: purchase the cleanse, get a piece of paper and title it “home purifying cleanse” and write your address on it. Then tuck it away in a safe place, she wrote.

Definitely a grifter.

I’m sure you’d be shocked to learn that the taser corporation helped find those studies!

No, crypto is never the solution for anything. Its use cases are limited to drugs and scams, which are sometimes the same things.

Iirc, one of the most famous pictures of a book burning was right outside that hospital, and the books came from inside it.

Non gender conforming people were the first group they came after.