OT: One thing I haven't seen mentioned around here is that Roger Corman died last, um, Thursday, I think it was.
He was an extremely pleasant guy in person. One time my eldest daughter and I met him at a book signing. It wasn't too well attended, and they chatted at length while I monitored from a distance. They suddenly seemed to be negotiating a movie deal involving a castle somewhere in the Balkans, till she told him that she was fourteen. He grinned and told her that they could talk about it again in a few years, but it wouldn't be for the same movie. He used those up at high speed. He gave her his card at the end of their chat, and it all looked like they got on famously. When she did turn 18, though, she was working hard at being a sculptor, instead....
We had to fill out paperwork for our son’s disability, and one of the requirements was the value of the room and board we provide.
We used Zillow, which said the current rental price was about $800 a month more than what something like this actually rents for (until the landlords all raise the rent to match that number, I guess).
Private equity firms are buying them and changing the entire landscape. Jarhead is doing the same. Show me anything the rich fucks don't fuck up and steal from the poor. Their entire premise is to get rid of the poor and middle class. We are too low brow for the assholes.
They're now getting a criminal probe from the DoJ for their troubles, apparently. Turns out "having a machine do something that is illegal does not make it suddenly more legal than if it was a human being doing it."
The landlords who use the service are almost universally told a higher value, never a lower one, and coached to blame "current market rates" when they raise their rent every year. They are also checked upon by spies who tattle on them if they go lower than the recommended "market rate" and will be dropped as a client if they don't use the recommended rates.
Was reading something similar but from voters. One when asked what he thought about all the new construction going on in his state that provided him a job with long term security. He said it's great he can't believe how much is going on. He was asked who is responsible for giving him all this and he said Biden.
Then asked who he is voting for....wait for it....the orange fucking moron. He likes how it talks to people, putting them down, acting all tough.
They are too far up the cults ass to understand how fucking stupid they are.
Not this suburban mom whose hobbies include ceramics using a special color only available from Gazan manufacturers.
“I mean abortion is an important issue but I can only get that color of blue from one place and Joe Biden doesn’t care” lamented Stacy Maidupawitz, mother of 3
Wait, is that a real name? That sounds like a joke name we would have made up in high school, as "dupa" in Slavic languages means "butt", so the name "My Butt-owitz" would have been hilarious where I grew up, if the name wasn't "made up owitz"
Yeah. The deal was to save him that one time. Maybe he missed the whole thing where Qevin made a deal, then slagged Biden, and they let him hang himself.
"𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 on the behalf of Mr. 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 provide cover for the stinky ass of Mr. Trump while trying in vain to attack the real 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡..." I can do this all morning!
I'm so tired of hearing this same slanted lie, over and fucking over again. Both sides my ass, where's anyone saying the Justice system is getting it right, that this fuck is facing the evidence and will be judged by a jury of his peers? Like a common jackass?
I'll never believe any poll coming from rwnjs and that includes NYT who is owned by rwnjs. There is no other way to work this out especially with the fucking moron is constantly spewing he overturned Roe and Rs are doing worse at the state level. They keep polling the GQP cult and those who are lying about their party affiliation.
I think that supposes an actual strategy beyond 1. Deny everything. B. Attack every witness.
Which I don't think exists. If it did then Stormy wouldn't have been allowed as a witness because the defense wouldn't have even mentioned her in their opening.
Cohen. The defense is going to cross the shit out of Cohen, playing on the fact that he perjured himself in the past, etc...they will get all the mileage they can off of Cohen.
"Yeah, I was an unscrupulous asshole, which is why your client hired me. I fully admitted to all of my crimes I did ON HIS BEHALF and I'm trying to turn over a new leaf here, because I'm sick of being his patsy."
I just saw the 'comment deleted' and then your popcorn quip.
My brain is left to wonderfully fantasize about what that previous comment was. Love the smell of an pile of human refuse by choice is cornered. Still dangerous AF in many ways but still cornered nonetheless. jejejeje
{{{Smoke pours out of Hamilton's brain pan as he struggles through the vape haze to remember...}}} Fuck. I can't remember now. But it's true that I am running low on popcorn.
waiting for my sugars to go down so I can haze up a bit. I attract mosquitoes from a wide AF radius and that effect is greater when my sugars are elevated. Waiting for my insulin to kick in soonish.
Love/hate combustion works best for eyes over any other method. I tend to have to go outside & use incense to help relax and allow the medication to be so effective. Even though my least favourite method of consumption, to get some of my vision working? Fork yeah, I'd go to the gates (maybe not all the way in) of hell for that shite.
I may also have already taken some edibles to it may indicate why I'm so verbose at the moment. May any person partaking find it works & eases all worries for a moment so bodies & minds can heal.
I just read that my town is getting close to $1M in funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to get our new library (a repurposed building) and community center, which finally passed the town vote this March with the 60% needed. The building currently in use was built in 1972 when the town had 1800 people and of course has grown to 5 times that population.
Thank you Joe Biden and Chris Sununu, shitbird that you can be, recommended this to the Fiscal Committee and so, because mama raised me right, thank you.
I might joke that the “party of fertilization” means that teams of GOP saboteurs will spray women on the streets with hoses attached to tanks of semen, but the party is damn well capable of doing forced fertilization for real.
Ta, Evan.
OT: One thing I haven't seen mentioned around here is that Roger Corman died last, um, Thursday, I think it was.
He was an extremely pleasant guy in person. One time my eldest daughter and I met him at a book signing. It wasn't too well attended, and they chatted at length while I monitored from a distance. They suddenly seemed to be negotiating a movie deal involving a castle somewhere in the Balkans, till she told him that she was fourteen. He grinned and told her that they could talk about it again in a few years, but it wouldn't be for the same movie. He used those up at high speed. He gave her his card at the end of their chat, and it all looked like they got on famously. When she did turn 18, though, she was working hard at being a sculptor, instead....
RIP, Roger Corman. Sorry to see you go.
When the WaPo is arguably a better read than NYT. You go, OHJB! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/14/biden-nearly-died-an-aneurysm-risky-surgery-changed-his-life/
Why the rent is too damn high - Landlords are all using the same price recommendation software, effectively turning the real estate market into an illegal cartel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwlwrZst7d0&t=0s&ab_channel=OllyRichards
We had to fill out paperwork for our son’s disability, and one of the requirements was the value of the room and board we provide.
We used Zillow, which said the current rental price was about $800 a month more than what something like this actually rents for (until the landlords all raise the rent to match that number, I guess).
Private equity firms are buying them and changing the entire landscape. Jarhead is doing the same. Show me anything the rich fucks don't fuck up and steal from the poor. Their entire premise is to get rid of the poor and middle class. We are too low brow for the assholes.
There's nothing tech bros won't fuck up for us to make a buck.
They're now getting a criminal probe from the DoJ for their troubles, apparently. Turns out "having a machine do something that is illegal does not make it suddenly more legal than if it was a human being doing it."
The landlords who use the service are almost universally told a higher value, never a lower one, and coached to blame "current market rates" when they raise their rent every year. They are also checked upon by spies who tattle on them if they go lower than the recommended "market rate" and will be dropped as a client if they don't use the recommended rates.
https://www.marketplace.org/2024/04/16/realpage-lawsuit-algorithms-rent/
I sure hope someone's looking into it.
There are lawsuits in progress by 2 states and DC right now, and another 25+ state AGs are starting to build out a case.
How soon before a Republican steps in front of a camera and takes credit for the infrastructure project he voted against?
3, 2, 1.....
Was reading something similar but from voters. One when asked what he thought about all the new construction going on in his state that provided him a job with long term security. He said it's great he can't believe how much is going on. He was asked who is responsible for giving him all this and he said Biden.
Then asked who he is voting for....wait for it....the orange fucking moron. He likes how it talks to people, putting them down, acting all tough.
They are too far up the cults ass to understand how fucking stupid they are.
NYT
Are Michigan Democrats still on the Biden train?
Not this suburban mom whose hobbies include ceramics using a special color only available from Gazan manufacturers.
“I mean abortion is an important issue but I can only get that color of blue from one place and Joe Biden doesn’t care” lamented Stacy Maidupawitz, mother of 3
Wait, is that a real name? That sounds like a joke name we would have made up in high school, as "dupa" in Slavic languages means "butt", so the name "My Butt-owitz" would have been hilarious where I grew up, if the name wasn't "made up owitz"
Wait until Biggus Dickus hears of this
Hey NYT! She’s not a registered Democrat (or voter at all) in Michigan!
https://voterrecords.com/voters/mi/stacy+maidupawitz/1
It’s not like they couldn’t check that out in 10 seconds.
Donald Trump throws himself on the mercy of the court . . . ;-)
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𝑵𝒐 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆
𝑻𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒏, 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒏
𝑩𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔
𝑵𝒐 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆
𝑻𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅
𝑻𝒐 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔
Who libelz!!!!!
The Menendez brothers have nothing on the PAB.
Mike Johnson's little speech in Manhattan this morning:
"𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟," 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡
Hakeem Jeffries needs to take Little Johnson to the woodshed.
Yeah. The deal was to save him that one time. Maybe he missed the whole thing where Qevin made a deal, then slagged Biden, and they let him hang himself.
Time to flush that turd. Let Marge have him.
Bet he will need a long nap after that effort
"𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 on the behalf of Mr. 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 provide cover for the stinky ass of Mr. Trump while trying in vain to attack the real 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡..." I can do this all morning!
Speaker Jesusbot really going in with bearing false witness!
So corrupt, insurrectionist-curious Mike Johnson is spinning the TrumpShit, eh?
Pab's crime is of the white collar variety, and I'd love to see the American Justice System(tm) more weaponized against exactly this.
Insurrection wasn’t white collar.
That's a whole different trial, and one that's on hold indefinitely because the Repunks have weaponized the Supreme Court.
I'm so tired of hearing this same slanted lie, over and fucking over again. Both sides my ass, where's anyone saying the Justice system is getting it right, that this fuck is facing the evidence and will be judged by a jury of his peers? Like a common jackass?
When will they get that T isn't president? He's citizen T, and piss-poor one at that.
I wouldn't be asking Mr Jeffries for any help, Mikey. Might want to polish your resume.
Martha Stewart: say what?
Nearly 20% of voters blame President Joe Biden for the Supreme Court’s decision to repeal Roe v. Wade in 2022.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/voters-blame-biden-roe-v-wade_n_6642825ce4b09724138d3646
These people do not seem to understand anything.
Zoombitches. They have no minds (fried by living on their devices 24/7) and no education.
I'll never believe any poll coming from rwnjs and that includes NYT who is owned by rwnjs. There is no other way to work this out especially with the fucking moron is constantly spewing he overturned Roe and Rs are doing worse at the state level. They keep polling the GQP cult and those who are lying about their party affiliation.
The thoroughly galling ignorance that prevails amongst a fairly consistent 30% of the American population is just damned difficult to comprehend.
That so much of it is entirely willful and deliberate drives a person to contemplate some felonious methods of vindication.
10% of the people in this country believed Biden was President and Loser was vice president shortly after Biden was sworn in.
There's a lot of stupid out there.
I'm sorry, are you not familiar with the Green Lantern theory of governance?
It's the same 20% over and over.
I imagine you will see a lot of crossover with those who blame Biden for Israel/Palestine war
And Katrina
no, no, no, Katrina was BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA's FAULT!!!
Why didn’t President Biden prevent 9/11?
Coming to a Jordan Klepper video soon.
OT: Well, this is ... awkward ...
Johnson, on his House website, is promoting a Congressional App Challenge for school kids interested in programing.
Is Matt Gaetz one of the judges in the competition?
https://mikejohnson.house.gov/services/congressional-app-challenge.htm
And thusly, Skynet was born.
Well, with Matt Gaetz, it will be Spynet(tm) used to spy on minors from their smartphones.
Reduce carbon emissions by not using as much old technology Chinese metals means Republicans will oppose it. They love carbon dioxide.
When it comes to feeling no pain CO2 is right up there
CO is even better!
So do potted plants. But I repeat myself.
Potted plants are kind and give us something back.
Even more with pot plants.
True: Oxygen. Republicans just suck all the oxygen out of the air.
Apparently Cohen is the last witness for the prosecution.
Ha ha haaaa!
Dunt! Dunt!
I wonder who, besides Trump himself, the defense could call to the witness stand.
I think that supposes an actual strategy beyond 1. Deny everything. B. Attack every witness.
Which I don't think exists. If it did then Stormy wouldn't have been allowed as a witness because the defense wouldn't have even mentioned her in their opening.
It's the defense strategy the client wants and so surely deserves.
He truly is the biglyist legal brain of a generation.
Cohen. The defense is going to cross the shit out of Cohen, playing on the fact that he perjured himself in the past, etc...they will get all the mileage they can off of Cohen.
"Yeah, I was an unscrupulous asshole, which is why your client hired me. I fully admitted to all of my crimes I did ON HIS BEHALF and I'm trying to turn over a new leaf here, because I'm sick of being his patsy."
Receipts and tapes don't lie.
Good luck with that, defense team.
Seriously. Like Cohen is unprepared for a vicious cross. Just like Stormy was unprepared, and won the battle.
That wasn't vicious, that was just bitchy, cheap, and stupid.
Like its perpetratress.
Cue Yakety Sax.
The concept of the indefensible springs immediately to mind...
Concepts only work in the world of the rational however.
Trump's many "character" witnesses . . . ;-)
Rudy Giuliani? Bannon? My Pillow Guy?
Franky Graham Cracker will take the stand defending Goldfarter!
Goldfarter
He's the man
The man with the stinky farts
A diaper full
Beckons you to kiss his ass
But don't go there
Smelly farts will attack your nose
Holy shit you know this really blows
Maggie Haberman knows when she smells them
She's become the slave
To Mr. Goldfarter
Presstitue beware the stench of sin
That gas is bad
It makes you feel sad
Only sad
He loves Farts!
Franklin Graham would whore himself to anyone or anything where he smelled money, much like his father.
He's even worse than Billyboy, which really says a LOT.
Those trials held after the election? PAB will be able to get his character witnesses into court by pardoning them.
Would *love* to see that – but the batch of Trump lawyers on this case are not Alina Habba types . . . alas.
No, they're competent, but their client is not. And the client makes the final call, no matter how self-destructive it is.
Disagree. They tried to discredit every bit of evidence and every witness. Had they just tried that with COHEN they might have had a chance.
Melania?
"I do not care. Do you?"
Hahahahahhhaaaa ha ha ha haaaa
(breathe)
Haaaaaaaa
I don't have enough popcorn.
I just saw the 'comment deleted' and then your popcorn quip.
My brain is left to wonderfully fantasize about what that previous comment was. Love the smell of an pile of human refuse by choice is cornered. Still dangerous AF in many ways but still cornered nonetheless. jejejeje
{{{Smoke pours out of Hamilton's brain pan as he struggles through the vape haze to remember...}}} Fuck. I can't remember now. But it's true that I am running low on popcorn.
waiting for my sugars to go down so I can haze up a bit. I attract mosquitoes from a wide AF radius and that effect is greater when my sugars are elevated. Waiting for my insulin to kick in soonish.
Love/hate combustion works best for eyes over any other method. I tend to have to go outside & use incense to help relax and allow the medication to be so effective. Even though my least favourite method of consumption, to get some of my vision working? Fork yeah, I'd go to the gates (maybe not all the way in) of hell for that shite.
I may also have already taken some edibles to it may indicate why I'm so verbose at the moment. May any person partaking find it works & eases all worries for a moment so bodies & minds can heal.
I just read that my town is getting close to $1M in funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to get our new library (a repurposed building) and community center, which finally passed the town vote this March with the 60% needed. The building currently in use was built in 1972 when the town had 1800 people and of course has grown to 5 times that population.
Thank you Joe Biden and Chris Sununu, shitbird that you can be, recommended this to the Fiscal Committee and so, because mama raised me right, thank you.
Thank you, President Biden!
OT - RIP, Alice Munro
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alice-munro-author-dead-obit-1.7203737
I might joke that the “party of fertilization” means that teams of GOP saboteurs will spray women on the streets with hoses attached to tanks of semen, but the party is damn well capable of doing forced fertilization for real.
Meanwhile in Manhattan, passing notes in class.
𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝐻𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑎, 𝑎 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑦𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡, 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑆𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛 𝑁𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒. 𝑁𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑎’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐸𝑚𝑖𝑙 𝐵𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑇𝑜𝑑𝑑 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒.
Habba should definitely get involved. She would likely get the charges reduced to Murder.
Does everyone like celery?
Murder with intent to kill.
"Vinaigrette, blue cheese or thousand island?"
Do you like me? Check one:
Yes
No
Everybody on TFG's legal team must needed a laugh.
I dunno, I think I've seen Paul Drake run into the courtroom and pass a note to Perry Mason.. so it must be legit..
/s
Perry Mason is not walking through that door.