<<Former President Trump in an interview broadcast late Sunday argued he had “every right” to interfere with the 2020 election while repeating his claim the criminal election interference cases against him are politically motivated.>>
Then, I guess, President Biden has "every right" to interfere in this election. GO FOR IT, JOE!
I'm sorry, but maybe you should read a FUCKING NEWSPAPER instead of subsisting on twitter as your "information source." This holds true for ANY social media: it is a bubble. Make sure you get info from more than one source.
Yes, and by the end of the week they will have found new outlets and by the end of the month they will barely remember twitter. It's a habit not a necessity.
Jobs attracted thousands of Haitians to Springfield, and employers were ecstatic. But then an immigrant driver was involved in a fatal school bus crash. And JD Vance entered the fray...
In a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in July, he described Springfield as a town that was nearly a carbon copy of Middletown, where he grew up, except that it had now been “overwhelmed” by Haitians who were pushing up housing costs and collecting benefits.
“And you don’t have to believe, of course, that the 20,000, at least most of the 20,000 newcomers, are bad people” to recognize it as a problem, he said.
By most accounts, the Haitians have helped revitalize Springfield.
They are assembling car engines at Honda, running vegetable-packing machines at Dole and loading boxes at distribution centers. They are paying taxes on their wages and spending money at Walmart. On Sundays they gather at churches for boisterous, joyful services in Haitian Creole.
But the speed and volume of arrivals have put pressure on housing, schools and hospitals. The community health clinic saw a 13-fold increase in Haitian patients between 2021 and 2023, from 115 to 1,500, overwhelming its staff and budget.
The bus crash, which killed Aiden Clark, the son of two teachers, touched off resentment that had been building for months or longer, many residents said...
The accident that inflamed tensions happened last Aug. 22, when the school bus, carrying 52 students, lumbered down Route 41 outside of town. A 2010 Honda Odyssey moving in the opposite direction jumped across the center divider and into the bus’s path...
A lawyer for the minivan driver, Hermanio Joseph, 36, said at his trial in April that the sun had blinded him. Mr. Joseph, who has a spouse and four children in Haiti, had been living in Springfield for more than a year, working at a warehouse.
Police officers found no evidence of drug or alcohol consumption. But Mr. Joseph was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and he could spend nine years behind bars.
The tragedy shook Springfield residents, and it emboldened many who crowded the first City Commission meeting after the accident to air long-held suspicions and grievances about the newcomers in their midst.
In the year since the crash, hostility toward the Haitians has only intensified, with speakers at more recent commission meetings talking about an “invasion,” a description that has become a staple of right-wing immigration rhetoric...
Police officers found no evidence of drug or alcohol consumption. But Mr. Joseph was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and he could spend nine years behind bars.
I'm sorry, the what? He didn't do anything to cause the crash but they still nailed him for manslaughter?
Lost my box that had Complete in Box Super Nintendo games. Thousands of dollars worth. I'm sure they are hanging out with my tube of rare CD release posters. Those I actually miss! Those will be found in a tube once I'm dead, because I'm all out of places to look.
I've just gotten angry over a twitter thread about a guy replacing a curved staircase in his house with a straight one.
I value aesthetics as much as the next person but seeing only one person out of a hundred bring up the issue of mobility and accessibility just kills me.
(One of the most horrible things about spiral staircases is the handrail not going all the way to the bottom. Look it might be only two steps but some people need to hold on to something to go down those two steps).
I did not know that. Also assume a straight one will be easier for a lift or other mobility assistant.
Idk how I feel about spirals, having never had one. I'd probably tire of it after a time I imagine, with the going around in a circle thing. They're neat to see, in certain situations, like some old castle library or converted barn or a cool mod loft thing. But I always feel they look weird in a tradition home. Like they're trying too hard to be special XD Still, less floor print, so that might be something to consider in a tight space situation.
For clarification, I'm upset about the people hating straight staircases for purely aesthetic reasons.
Spiral staircases are beautiful but yeah, for people who have trouble with stairs, they can be dangerous. It's not just the circle thing, it's also the fact that the steps are often too wide on one end and too narrow on the other. It's easier to adjust to straight steps.
Wait. They do not think straight staircases are aesthetic, or just not AS aesthetic?
Cause I have seen some gorgeous straight guys also in my time XD I have a special love of the ones that turn with a nice fat landing near a window. Couple that with some finely turned doohickies on the railing and voila, a gorgeous spot.
Though I always think the window ought to be stained glass, but that is just a weird thing I have for stained glass
So I take a few civil cases a year. Two or three, usually some kind of licensing or administrative thing. It's usually a pretty simple matter of getting OSHA or some state regulator to agree to some remedial action.
But occasionally -- thrice, now -- it has involved copyright infringement actions against bars by BMI. BMI(ASCAP, too) does not fuck around. Sure, they'll send 30 or 40 letters before they get serious, but once they're serious enough for you to hire a lawyer, it's too late. You are fucked.
If you want to play music in your bar, just pay them. I don't know how they find people, but they do, even in small towns. Their investigators are top notch, and their lawyers are even better.
So is the ass campaign covered by having a license, according to an article I read about the Foo Fighters? (Who are donating proceeds to Our Team K campaign)
My understanding, FWIW, is that political campaigns can license through a PRO like BMI or ASCAP, but that individual artists can withdraw their consent to use.
They (BMI & ASCAP) have been fighting infringement for decades, so I suspect they have a lot of practice. Even the kid's little video songs/tunes are licensed.
Good morning, early Wonkers! Up at 4:30 today and enjoying a cup of coffee. After our dives today we need to find a scuba repair shop in Cozumel (we have a recommendation from our Dive Master) to get my partner's dive computer to sync up with the transmitter on his regulator. I have the traditional pressure guage so no issues with my gear.
We're doing our Advanced Scuba course so we'll have our deep dive and peak performance bouyancy dives today. Night dive and navigation tomorrow. Oh! and I get impressions done at the dentist in the evening.
People are so fucking stupid. I'm old enough that I contracted ALL of the childhood diseases except diptheria and it was no goddamn picnic. And I brought them all home to my brother who wasn't in school yet. I try to tell people about it but they won't fucking listen. "OOOhhhh vaccines - Booga-booga"
I forgot that I didn't have polio either. They came out with the vaccine on sugar cubes when I was a wee child and remember my parents taking me to a school for the dose after church one Sunday
When CT lege was voting on repealing conscience exemptions for school vaccinations, anti-vaxxers rallied at the Capitol. Many had "My body. My choice" signs and buttons. Except it's not their body; it's their child's.
The next Movie Night selection is 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬. https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-sept-7-the-birds?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Randal: "What, the dead guy? She'll get over fucking a dead guy. Shit, my mom's been fucking a dead guy for thirty years. I call him 'Dad'."
I love that movie.
Pop songs were dark in the 90s. Although this reminds me a lot of the "Heathers" alternative movement for some reason..
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrSdXtFJG20
Oh, this is bullshit. I come out here to take a late night swim, and there's lightning? Hasn't rained since fucking june, and now there's lightning?
Thunderswim are the best swim....
Like, Dune lightning? Cuz that would be bad.
We can do this, we can do ALL THE THINGS. 💙
FOO. 'EVERLONG' . Crank it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq0rZ3IiyWw
This is how David Letterman signed off, because this is how he got through his "sign-off" moment.
The version with Nandi Bushell, then eleven years old, is also pretty great (I've shared that with you before, yes?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDgrKdczAE
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is good, but does not have the weight of lyrics.
Edit: Oh my god, props to girl! And what she's done!
Trump says he had ‘every right’ to interfere in election [The Hill via yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-had-every-interfere-122841695.html]
<<Former President Trump in an interview broadcast late Sunday argued he had “every right” to interfere with the 2020 election while repeating his claim the criminal election interference cases against him are politically motivated.>>
Then, I guess, President Biden has "every right" to interfere in this election. GO FOR IT, JOE!
... But did not hang the VP....
Only because the deep state interfered with a lynch mob in the performance of its duty.
Admission of the crime in public.
Lock the fucker up.
Sure Jan,
The only election fraud committed was done by your asshole patriots.
Keep talking loser.
I'm sorry, but maybe you should read a FUCKING NEWSPAPER instead of subsisting on twitter as your "information source." This holds true for ANY social media: it is a bubble. Make sure you get info from more than one source.
“𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝘉𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘦,” 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺 𝘟 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴.
𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗫, 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱
https://apnews.com/article/x-brazil-musk-1e896a1daedeaed6a09cf27205feb08a
A hive of scum and villainy.
I'm pretty sure you can find something else to do. Aren't there topless beaches in Rio?
Yes, and by the end of the week they will have found new outlets and by the end of the month they will barely remember twitter. It's a habit not a necessity.
They lived fine before it was created. They'll be fine now.
They'll just have to lie to each other in slower, more traditional ways.
I quit Xitter and I don't feel disconnected. Why? Because I have teh Wonkette.
Even better: I never started.
Xhitter is not "The World" it's a fascist owned shithole.
Shocking.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tells Tucker Carlson That Trump Team Has Already Offered Him A Gig
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-f-kennedy-jr-trump-transition-team_n_66cd9c10e4b09c9ffeaf75ba
Plague czar?
Ambassador to Qanon?
Endorsed by measles: 👍
Trump rally food services and street cleanup.
His position will be "Going around still pretending I am a Democrat"
Ambassador to the Democrat Party.
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻 𝗢𝗵𝗶𝗼 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲
Jobs attracted thousands of Haitians to Springfield, and employers were ecstatic. But then an immigrant driver was involved in a fatal school bus crash. And JD Vance entered the fray...
In a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in July, he described Springfield as a town that was nearly a carbon copy of Middletown, where he grew up, except that it had now been “overwhelmed” by Haitians who were pushing up housing costs and collecting benefits.
“And you don’t have to believe, of course, that the 20,000, at least most of the 20,000 newcomers, are bad people” to recognize it as a problem, he said.
By most accounts, the Haitians have helped revitalize Springfield.
They are assembling car engines at Honda, running vegetable-packing machines at Dole and loading boxes at distribution centers. They are paying taxes on their wages and spending money at Walmart. On Sundays they gather at churches for boisterous, joyful services in Haitian Creole.
But the speed and volume of arrivals have put pressure on housing, schools and hospitals. The community health clinic saw a 13-fold increase in Haitian patients between 2021 and 2023, from 115 to 1,500, overwhelming its staff and budget.
The bus crash, which killed Aiden Clark, the son of two teachers, touched off resentment that had been building for months or longer, many residents said...
The accident that inflamed tensions happened last Aug. 22, when the school bus, carrying 52 students, lumbered down Route 41 outside of town. A 2010 Honda Odyssey moving in the opposite direction jumped across the center divider and into the bus’s path...
A lawyer for the minivan driver, Hermanio Joseph, 36, said at his trial in April that the sun had blinded him. Mr. Joseph, who has a spouse and four children in Haiti, had been living in Springfield for more than a year, working at a warehouse.
Police officers found no evidence of drug or alcohol consumption. But Mr. Joseph was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and he could spend nine years behind bars.
The tragedy shook Springfield residents, and it emboldened many who crowded the first City Commission meeting after the accident to air long-held suspicions and grievances about the newcomers in their midst.
In the year since the crash, hostility toward the Haitians has only intensified, with speakers at more recent commission meetings talking about an “invasion,” a description that has become a staple of right-wing immigration rhetoric...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/us/springfield-ohio-school-bus-crash-haiti-immigrants.html
Police officers found no evidence of drug or alcohol consumption. But Mr. Joseph was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and he could spend nine years behind bars.
I'm sorry, the what? He didn't do anything to cause the crash but they still nailed him for manslaughter?
No evidence of drug or alcohol consumption doesn't mean he didn't do anything to cause the crash.
In fact, turns out he crossed the median into oncoming traffic. https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2024/05/01/jury-finds-man-guilty-in-fatal-school-bus-crash
I'd say if you do that, you can't plausibly claim you didn't do anything to cause the crash.
None of this should be taken as a reflection on immigrants, or Haitians, or Haitian immigrants -- but he 100% caused the crash.
According to the article, "he was driving with a foreign license not valid in Ohio".
Maybe the spike in dr visits between 2021 to 2023 can be attributed to covid.
Thanks MAGAs.
If it was caused by some 19-year-old white boy texting while driving, it would be "Oh, that's a shame"
Any small excuse for the bigots to speak out loud. Same as it always was.
Lost my box that had Complete in Box Super Nintendo games. Thousands of dollars worth. I'm sure they are hanging out with my tube of rare CD release posters. Those I actually miss! Those will be found in a tube once I'm dead, because I'm all out of places to look.
I've just gotten angry over a twitter thread about a guy replacing a curved staircase in his house with a straight one.
I value aesthetics as much as the next person but seeing only one person out of a hundred bring up the issue of mobility and accessibility just kills me.
(One of the most horrible things about spiral staircases is the handrail not going all the way to the bottom. Look it might be only two steps but some people need to hold on to something to go down those two steps).
I did not know that. Also assume a straight one will be easier for a lift or other mobility assistant.
Idk how I feel about spirals, having never had one. I'd probably tire of it after a time I imagine, with the going around in a circle thing. They're neat to see, in certain situations, like some old castle library or converted barn or a cool mod loft thing. But I always feel they look weird in a tradition home. Like they're trying too hard to be special XD Still, less floor print, so that might be something to consider in a tight space situation.
For clarification, I'm upset about the people hating straight staircases for purely aesthetic reasons.
Spiral staircases are beautiful but yeah, for people who have trouble with stairs, they can be dangerous. It's not just the circle thing, it's also the fact that the steps are often too wide on one end and too narrow on the other. It's easier to adjust to straight steps.
Wait. They do not think straight staircases are aesthetic, or just not AS aesthetic?
Cause I have seen some gorgeous straight guys also in my time XD I have a special love of the ones that turn with a nice fat landing near a window. Couple that with some finely turned doohickies on the railing and voila, a gorgeous spot.
Though I always think the window ought to be stained glass, but that is just a weird thing I have for stained glass
I guess in this specific example, people thought the straight staircase was not as aesthetic as the curved one.
The guy in the video chose a more modern look but honestly, the new staircase looked fine.
Heard on Cinematic Titanic:
"What's this? Ike Turner Classic Movies?"
So I take a few civil cases a year. Two or three, usually some kind of licensing or administrative thing. It's usually a pretty simple matter of getting OSHA or some state regulator to agree to some remedial action.
But occasionally -- thrice, now -- it has involved copyright infringement actions against bars by BMI. BMI(ASCAP, too) does not fuck around. Sure, they'll send 30 or 40 letters before they get serious, but once they're serious enough for you to hire a lawyer, it's too late. You are fucked.
If you want to play music in your bar, just pay them. I don't know how they find people, but they do, even in small towns. Their investigators are top notch, and their lawyers are even better.
So is the ass campaign covered by having a license, according to an article I read about the Foo Fighters? (Who are donating proceeds to Our Team K campaign)
My understanding, FWIW, is that political campaigns can license through a PRO like BMI or ASCAP, but that individual artists can withdraw their consent to use.
They (BMI & ASCAP) have been fighting infringement for decades, so I suspect they have a lot of practice. Even the kid's little video songs/tunes are licensed.
Artists deserve to get paid. BMI and ASCAP are fucking relentless about making sure they do. Good on them.
I wonder if they are just cruising liquor license lists for non-payers and then dropping by to check it out?
I have no idea, but I know of a bar -- not represented by me -- in a town of 300 people that got in trouble over karaoke.
It is how I would do it, but I am VERY lazy XD Should be an easy thing to compare what places have licenses versus your list of who is paying up.
Then you just go have a drink and see if they are doing music.
The Ghost of James Petrillo!
Good morning, early Wonkers! Up at 4:30 today and enjoying a cup of coffee. After our dives today we need to find a scuba repair shop in Cozumel (we have a recommendation from our Dive Master) to get my partner's dive computer to sync up with the transmitter on his regulator. I have the traditional pressure guage so no issues with my gear.
We're doing our Advanced Scuba course so we'll have our deep dive and peak performance bouyancy dives today. Night dive and navigation tomorrow. Oh! and I get impressions done at the dentist in the evening.
Hope everyone has a most excellent day!
Measles cases are up and childhood vaccinations are down [https://www.npr.org/2024/09/02/1198913177/measles-cases-are-up-and-childhood-vaccinations-are-down]
Probably a coincidence.
and willful ignorance is up, also too. The FELON will be killing citizens long after he's dead.
People are so fucking stupid. I'm old enough that I contracted ALL of the childhood diseases except diptheria and it was no goddamn picnic. And I brought them all home to my brother who wasn't in school yet. I try to tell people about it but they won't fucking listen. "OOOhhhh vaccines - Booga-booga"
Diphtheria killed my Grandma's first husband.
I remember when they came out with the rubella vaccine. They lined us up in elementary school and jet-injectored us.
I forgot that I didn't have polio either. They came out with the vaccine on sugar cubes when I was a wee child and remember my parents taking me to a school for the dose after church one Sunday
Sacrificing your own (and other people's) children on the alter of your ideology. And we're supposed to NOT be condescending to these assholes?
When CT lege was voting on repealing conscience exemptions for school vaccinations, anti-vaxxers rallied at the Capitol. Many had "My body. My choice" signs and buttons. Except it's not their body; it's their child's.
Social regression thanks to the dipshits like Donnie and Alex Jones, etc.
Don't forget noted virologist and conspiracy fantasist Jenny McCarthy assisted by her enabler, Oprah Winfrey.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/how-oprah-helped-spread-anti-vaccine-pseudoscience/
R-E-Dact-ed! R-E-D-Act-TED!
(mutters, darkly and frighteningly)
Old news, but I love ... Poltergeist for the 21st century ...
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀
"I don't know what's making it."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/starliners-speaker-began-emitting-strange-sonar-noises-on-saturday/
Did they NOT see Alien?
Where they're going, they won't need eyes to see.
(Mission Control): "Look, we know you're going to be bored up there, so we're sending you a movie. It's called 'Marooned.' Hope you like it."
It's just warming up.
Next it'll start singing Barry Manilow tunes.
Better than it singing whatever that mess Lara Trump just put out.
LOLOL ... that made my morning!
It's Blofeld, up to his old shenanigans.