Just fyi, I posted this to Public Notice this morning, in response to their piece about Brendan Carr's BS attack on Disney / ABC:
If you have a way to contact ABC's attorney, Paul Clement, please point out to him that he and the entire ABC legal crew seem to be missing a very key point: a simple syllogism can easily prove that no violation of the equal-time rule could POSSIBLY have occurred, regardless of whether or not the rule actually applies to the program The View.
As a refresher, the so-called equal-time rule DOES NOT require that competing candidates must also be hosted on a show. What it requires is that, if any opposing candidate REQUESTS equal time WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED 7-DAY WINDOW, they must be given it.
So here's the syllogism -- let's break it down into all of the logically possible cases:
(a) Either an opposing candidate (Jasmine Crockett for the Dem primary, or even as a stretch, Paxton & Cornyn) requested equal time from ABC, or they did not. If none of them did, then it's game over -- no violation is possible, full stop.
Or (b), one of them DID request equal time. There are two sub-cases here:
(b1) ABC agreed, or
(b2) ABC refused.
If ABC refused (case b2) a bona-fide request for equal time (leaving aside the Q of whether the Equal Time Rule even applies to The View), that would have been huge news and the "losing" candidate would have trumpeted the unfairness from the rooftops. Since that never happened, we can assume that (b2) never happened. If Carr wants to dispute this, let him bring the receipts from the complainer.
As to sub-case (b1), if ABC agreed to an equal-time request, that would ipso facto prove that no violation had occurred, regardless of whether or not the opposing candidate ever took them up on the offer. Again, the rule doesn't require ACTUAL equal time, just the opportunity.
So, to sum up:
(a) No violation is possible, by definition;
(b1) No violation is possible, by definition;
(b2) Could not possibly have occurred.
Put that argument in front of a (logical) judge, and it's summary judgment time.
Okay, I just spent $62 to fill up my wife’s Camry. (Kinda felt like filling up a full size pickup truck.) $20 of that goes to the big oil sector which, per some article I saw a couple weeks ago, can only really make bank when there’s a war or other such price jump. Congrats, Trumpians, on your boy’s war of choice.
A special shoutout to Dalton (not not his real name), in the northern Atlanta suburbs who, now that I give it some thought, has almost certainly voted for Trump THREE TIMES. Dalton basically told me, the first time I met him, “My wallet hurts.” He drives all over the southeast US, selling or servicing his sales contracts.
Here, I’ll be as nice as I can: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. Aaaaand …. LMFAO.
When this gets bad enough, my wife will drive my plug-in hybrid to go take care of her grandbabies (and average 80 mpge). Dalton … has no options. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. (Yes, I am very sorry that Dalton … and at least four of his close family members … have purposefully dragged us all to hell.)
It cost me $96 for 3/4 of a tank in my F150 last week. Almost as bad as 2008 when I drove a Dodge diesel. I had a couple of $200 a tank fill-ups back then.
I’m sorry for your situation. Yeah, my old Ford Freestar minivan had a 26(!) gallon gas tank, about the size of your *optional* pickup gas tank today. It’s mpg, I’ll admit now, was about 15, at best. Ford rest its sole.
Lucky for me, I’m retired and don’t drive more than 30 miles most weeks. I’m quite rural though, and a truck is not exactly mandatory, but close enough. I came up in the trades and I always figured if I needed to rent or borrow a tool more than once, I needed to own that tool. A truck is a tool in that respect. I can only afford one vehicle now, and it’s gotta be a truck. Mine gets 22mpg, respectable for such a capable vehicle. I was waiting for Ford to build a Lightning I could afford and want to own, but they went the other direction and canceled the whole thing.
If Evan gets to say stuff like “little white bitch boy” on here then can I? I just feel like it would add a lot of panache to some of my comments where it’s truly needed.
When I was in elementary school we were assigned desks with flip up tops that we kept our things in. There was always one kid whose desk looked like it was a dumpster that had been visited by a tornado. Old test papers stuck to a half-eaten tootsie roll pop. Eraser shavings on everything. A wadded up page torn out a textbook. Pieces of a broken toy truck. Shards of a plastic ruler that had been snapped in half. Feathers from a dead bird that had been found during recess. You know, just on and on.
I swear to god, that's the fucking guy who designed Outlook.
What I find truly hilarious about the Markwayne Mullin piece is the chyron on the preview shot. "Mullin: Trump wrote the book on the art of the deal". There are so many layers of myth and ignorance in that one statement someone could write the book on that.
First of all, Trump wrote a book called The Art of The Deal. But there is not art to anything he says or does in the book.
The title of the book is a hacky callback to The Art of War trying to place Trump's musing on the same level of Sun Tsu. Yeah, No. Not even close.
The fact that anyone thinks he actually wrote this book is absurd. He may have uttered many of the inane platitudes to the ghost writer, but a man who needs a briefing of a briefing because he doesn't like to read have never wrote a book. He has written poetry–horrible poetry about sharing the joy of raping women and underaged girls, which pretty much confirms he could never write anything.
Anyone says Trump wrote the book on the art of the deal has most likely never read anything except the title of book. I would very much love to see any member of the media follow-up the statement with "Which of the book's strategy do you think covers this "fill in the blank". They will all come up with the same answer as they do when asked about which passage of Bible they think fits what they are doing, "Well, there's so many things. Really, the whole book. You know, everything."
Speaking of tennis, the NCAA division 1 team championships are this weekend in beautiful Athens, GA, our dense liberal blueberry in the pale strawberry muffin of hell that is Georgia. Tickets are dirt cheap - $85 for all four days at the Dan Magill tennis complex, or $22 for a single day. $85 for FOUR DAYS OF SPORTS is less than half the cost of a single football ticket in the fall!
Come support our city even if you don't like Georgia. Help us fight the good fight and show what a city that gives a shit about its people can look like.
So I get all the content on Brave but not DuckDuckGo. I generally don’t use the app because I try to keep app downloads to a minimum. Thanks for the assist, it definitely helped to switch things up.
"The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, will this weekend headline a faith rally on the National Mall in Washington DC hosted by a private foundation operating in partnership with the White House, which includes some speakers that experts have characterized as Christian nationalist or extremist."
The Original Sin was not fucking -- it was fear. It's in the Bible. You can look it up. Book of Romans. Read the whole damn thing. It'll be good for you. Keep you out of trouble for a while. Then go get in some good trouble.
The Original Sin was Eve (and subsequently Adam) stole from God. The one universal truth of all religions is that if you steal from the Gods, they will fuck you up.
Trump, in a rather abrupt 180, has now said that The Dep't. Of Interior was responsible for handing out the contract for the refurbishing and painting of the reflecting pool on the Mall, and that he doesn't know the contractor at all.
The grass being greener on the other side of the fence, dontchaknow. Your hed gif source info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/stretching-towards-greener-pastures
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/96393c35-a00b-483c-b5be-d25d2582bf4b
Sticking their neck out for the forbidden fruit.
My friend did a post about how to grow the best alpacas:
https://imgur.com/gallery/DlPff
Haha, just stumbled over that, too!
2 Llama Crew: "Face Down..."
It's another sign of the alpaca lips!
Get out!
The Llama is wooly
so he can keep warm
because high in the mountains
a blizzard will form
Yum, yum, YUMMY!
I can *so* have good things!
🎶 Break on through to the other side 🎶
Tina, you fat lard, come get some dinner!
- N. Dynamite
GOSH!
LOL! I understood that reference!
"Why no, he's always like this. Why do you ask?"
The Other Alpaca:
"Alice. Alice. ALICE, GET THE FUCK UP. You're embarrassing meeee!"
¡CUIDADO! ¡LLAMAS!
Girl try to remember when we didn't have no shoes
We stuck together just me and you
It took a long time to get what we got today
Now you wanna give it all up for another guy
Baby, I'm tellin' you don't let
The green grass fool you
Don't let it change your mind
It's gonna be hard for me baby
Feel my life all over
'Cause baby you got the love that I really need
'Cause if you leave, leave me this way, baby
You know what, I may not live to see a brand new day
Oh baby, don't let, the green grass fool you
Don't let it change your mind
You know why, it may be greener on the other side, baby
But right in my arms is where you belong
Oh baby
Don't let the green grass fool you
Don't let it change your mind, oh baby
It may be greener on the other side, baby
But right in my arms is where you belong, baby
Don't let the green grass fool you
Don't let it change your mind
It may be greener on the other side, baby
Alpaca myself under that fence.
Alpaca hug farm
The grass is always tastier on the other side of the fence.
Last item reminded me that decades ago, my housemates and I discovered that cats indeed do like catfish.
Just fyi, I posted this to Public Notice this morning, in response to their piece about Brendan Carr's BS attack on Disney / ABC:
If you have a way to contact ABC's attorney, Paul Clement, please point out to him that he and the entire ABC legal crew seem to be missing a very key point: a simple syllogism can easily prove that no violation of the equal-time rule could POSSIBLY have occurred, regardless of whether or not the rule actually applies to the program The View.
As a refresher, the so-called equal-time rule DOES NOT require that competing candidates must also be hosted on a show. What it requires is that, if any opposing candidate REQUESTS equal time WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED 7-DAY WINDOW, they must be given it.
So here's the syllogism -- let's break it down into all of the logically possible cases:
(a) Either an opposing candidate (Jasmine Crockett for the Dem primary, or even as a stretch, Paxton & Cornyn) requested equal time from ABC, or they did not. If none of them did, then it's game over -- no violation is possible, full stop.
Or (b), one of them DID request equal time. There are two sub-cases here:
(b1) ABC agreed, or
(b2) ABC refused.
If ABC refused (case b2) a bona-fide request for equal time (leaving aside the Q of whether the Equal Time Rule even applies to The View), that would have been huge news and the "losing" candidate would have trumpeted the unfairness from the rooftops. Since that never happened, we can assume that (b2) never happened. If Carr wants to dispute this, let him bring the receipts from the complainer.
As to sub-case (b1), if ABC agreed to an equal-time request, that would ipso facto prove that no violation had occurred, regardless of whether or not the opposing candidate ever took them up on the offer. Again, the rule doesn't require ACTUAL equal time, just the opportunity.
So, to sum up:
(a) No violation is possible, by definition;
(b1) No violation is possible, by definition;
(b2) Could not possibly have occurred.
Put that argument in front of a (logical) judge, and it's summary judgment time.
Be sure to pack some nutty granola bars for the wait at Passport Control...
Okay, I just spent $62 to fill up my wife’s Camry. (Kinda felt like filling up a full size pickup truck.) $20 of that goes to the big oil sector which, per some article I saw a couple weeks ago, can only really make bank when there’s a war or other such price jump. Congrats, Trumpians, on your boy’s war of choice.
A special shoutout to Dalton (not not his real name), in the northern Atlanta suburbs who, now that I give it some thought, has almost certainly voted for Trump THREE TIMES. Dalton basically told me, the first time I met him, “My wallet hurts.” He drives all over the southeast US, selling or servicing his sales contracts.
Here, I’ll be as nice as I can: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. Aaaaand …. LMFAO.
When this gets bad enough, my wife will drive my plug-in hybrid to go take care of her grandbabies (and average 80 mpge). Dalton … has no options. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. (Yes, I am very sorry that Dalton … and at least four of his close family members … have purposefully dragged us all to hell.)
It cost me $96 for 3/4 of a tank in my F150 last week. Almost as bad as 2008 when I drove a Dodge diesel. I had a couple of $200 a tank fill-ups back then.
I’m sorry for your situation. Yeah, my old Ford Freestar minivan had a 26(!) gallon gas tank, about the size of your *optional* pickup gas tank today. It’s mpg, I’ll admit now, was about 15, at best. Ford rest its sole.
Lucky for me, I’m retired and don’t drive more than 30 miles most weeks. I’m quite rural though, and a truck is not exactly mandatory, but close enough. I came up in the trades and I always figured if I needed to rent or borrow a tool more than once, I needed to own that tool. A truck is a tool in that respect. I can only afford one vehicle now, and it’s gotta be a truck. Mine gets 22mpg, respectable for such a capable vehicle. I was waiting for Ford to build a Lightning I could afford and want to own, but they went the other direction and canceled the whole thing.
If Evan gets to say stuff like “little white bitch boy” on here then can I? I just feel like it would add a lot of panache to some of my comments where it’s truly needed.
Unshrimp yourself! The nice ladies at the finance group are telling women to take up space. So cool.
When I was in elementary school we were assigned desks with flip up tops that we kept our things in. There was always one kid whose desk looked like it was a dumpster that had been visited by a tornado. Old test papers stuck to a half-eaten tootsie roll pop. Eraser shavings on everything. A wadded up page torn out a textbook. Pieces of a broken toy truck. Shards of a plastic ruler that had been snapped in half. Feathers from a dead bird that had been found during recess. You know, just on and on.
I swear to god, that's the fucking guy who designed Outlook.
That is all.
No truer words were spoken.
What I find truly hilarious about the Markwayne Mullin piece is the chyron on the preview shot. "Mullin: Trump wrote the book on the art of the deal". There are so many layers of myth and ignorance in that one statement someone could write the book on that.
First of all, Trump wrote a book called The Art of The Deal. But there is not art to anything he says or does in the book.
The title of the book is a hacky callback to The Art of War trying to place Trump's musing on the same level of Sun Tsu. Yeah, No. Not even close.
The fact that anyone thinks he actually wrote this book is absurd. He may have uttered many of the inane platitudes to the ghost writer, but a man who needs a briefing of a briefing because he doesn't like to read have never wrote a book. He has written poetry–horrible poetry about sharing the joy of raping women and underaged girls, which pretty much confirms he could never write anything.
Anyone says Trump wrote the book on the art of the deal has most likely never read anything except the title of book. I would very much love to see any member of the media follow-up the statement with "Which of the book's strategy do you think covers this "fill in the blank". They will all come up with the same answer as they do when asked about which passage of Bible they think fits what they are doing, "Well, there's so many things. Really, the whole book. You know, everything."
I'm just going to end this because it has the danger of becoming my hacky callback to Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences https://ia801605.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/33/items/GutenbergENzip/10.zip&file=Fenimore%20Cooper%27s%20Literary%20Offences%20-%20Mark%20Twain%2C%202004%20%2810p%29.pdf. Read it. it's glorious in the way only Mark Twain can be glorious.
I read it in high school only *after* being forced to read the source material. I laughed for half an hour.
Twain has no problem with unreliable narrators, just unreliable authors.
DAY-um!
This why people still read Twain, and not JFC.
And here we are, with men still being unable to say "women" when referring to humans.
Mullin told us he'd never be the smartest guy in any room he entered. Believe him.
Wow. That was rough. Twain did not like The Deerslayer at all.
Have these people not seen Death to Smoochy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHbGQw5uTWM
It's not like somebody turns on the lights and surprise! nazis!
Speaking of tennis, the NCAA division 1 team championships are this weekend in beautiful Athens, GA, our dense liberal blueberry in the pale strawberry muffin of hell that is Georgia. Tickets are dirt cheap - $85 for all four days at the Dan Magill tennis complex, or $22 for a single day. $85 for FOUR DAYS OF SPORTS is less than half the cost of a single football ticket in the fall!
Come support our city even if you don't like Georgia. Help us fight the good fight and show what a city that gives a shit about its people can look like.
Alcaraz looks *good* dirty, doesn't he? 😈😈😈😈😈
Hm.
A bunch of white space where links should be.
The only ones I can see are the Kash ones to blsky.
Same.
I had the same problem. Make sure your apps are updated and reload the page. That should clear it up.
So I get all the content on Brave but not DuckDuckGo. I generally don’t use the app because I try to keep app downloads to a minimum. Thanks for the assist, it definitely helped to switch things up.
Thanks, I’ll give that a go
"The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, will this weekend headline a faith rally on the National Mall in Washington DC hosted by a private foundation operating in partnership with the White House, which includes some speakers that experts have characterized as Christian nationalist or extremist."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/pete-hegseth-faith-rally-dc
You'd think he'd be too busy dealing with his war of choice in Iran that he's losing to put on a Christian tent revival.
Apparently he's also tagging along on Trump's trip to China.
This is my shocked face. :-|
The Original Sin was not fucking -- it was fear. It's in the Bible. You can look it up. Book of Romans. Read the whole damn thing. It'll be good for you. Keep you out of trouble for a while. Then go get in some good trouble.
The Original Sin was Eve (and subsequently Adam) stole from God. The one universal truth of all religions is that if you steal from the Gods, they will fuck you up.
Trump, in a rather abrupt 180, has now said that The Dep't. Of Interior was responsible for handing out the contract for the refurbishing and painting of the reflecting pool on the Mall, and that he doesn't know the contractor at all.
Never met the guy.
https://substack.com/profile/155631115-menotsure/note/c-258377291?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knpqj