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Christ. How many seats have Democrats picked up now? It seems to grow with each day
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# ? May 28, 2024 05:36 |
friendbot2000 posted:Christ. How many seats have Democrats picked up now? It seems to grow with each day NYT shows 228 democrats (+33) with nine races still undecided. 538 projects D +38 total
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Writing absurdly lopsided contract clauses and then watching them actually get adopted is super fun as an attorney
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EwokEntourage posted:Writing absurdly lopsided contract clauses and then watching them actually get adopted is super fun as an attorney It's less fun as an accountant who has to deal with the billing ramifications of insane salespeople. The fact that they signed it instead of telling Amazon to gently caress right off should be surprising, but is not.
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This guy should have been arrested a long time ago, but at least he is off the street now. https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1062483476061020160 Jesus loving christ. https://twitter.com/ApurvaYRawal/status/1062049830262972424
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Rinkles posted:Seems like an exceptional amount of close races that ultimately tip dem this year, or is it not out of the ordinary? Larger (read urban) districts take longer to count and as of recent history tend to lean Democratic. It just happens that there’s a lot more close races than in recent years and a lot more people tuned into the midterms than usual.
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Bugsy posted:This guy should have been arrested a long time ago, but at least he is off the street now. The gently caress kind of person do you have to be to consider an actual mass shooting where a bunch of people actually died a dry run.
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Feinne posted:The gently caress kind of person do you have to be to consider an actual mass shooting where a bunch of people actually died a dry run. Hmm, maybe a... *checks notes*... a monster?
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enraged_camel posted:Hmm, maybe a... *checks notes*... a monster? I mean obviously but I don't know, that just kinda 'got' me as a description for a mass shooting.
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Well if John Kelly is really on the outs, maybe we should get to know the guy everyone says is the best bet to replace him. That article is a few months old but it stuck with me when I read it because this man so clearly does not have a soul to have gotten where he is as young as he is, especially with the people he had to help along the way. Nick Ayers is a fuckhead. (NOTE: Please read the article in full. The clips i have here are juicy, but the full article is a much more thorough takedown of how this man operates. He owns a consulting firm while working in the White House, he works for campaigns and funnels all of the media buying to a firm that he is employed at, he works the dark money and PACs and 501Cs like a magician, and has seemingly ripped off half of the people he's worked with while convincing the other half that he's god's gift to politics. This dude is a federal indictment waiting to happen and it's impressive, in a gross way, to see exactly how his whole thing is set up.) He's smarmy in the most awful gross DC way: quote:In person, Ayers is known to be exhaustingly charming. He has a panache you don’t normally encounter in D.C. Floppy blond hair, wide smile, swift stride, expensive suit. His greatest weapon is a Southern drawl that makes you feel as if everything is happening in slow motion. “If you talk slow, people think you think slow,” said Mark Meadows, the Republican congressman and chair of the House Freedom Caucus. “[Ayers] thinks four times as fast as he talks.” He's sleazy and unethical when it comes to conflicts of interest: quote:Astonishingly, when Ayers entered the White House, he didn’t immediately sell his lucrative business, C5 Creative Consulting, as previous administrations would have required. He also obtained a broad waiver permitting him to talk to former clients. His ownership of C5 turned his White House job into a minefield of possible conflicts of interest. As chief of staff to the vice president, Ayers’ duties can include advising Pence on which candidates to support—decisions that can have a huge influence on fundraising and, hence, political advertising. In addition, in his private work for the Pence PAC, he is in a position to steer donor dollars into races where the company could potentially benefit. “That’s staggering,” one seasoned Republican operative told me. He supports creepy gropers by pulling underhanded moves: quote:But perhaps his most ambitious venture was an effort to create his own political star—a candidate with the potential to one day go all the way to the White House. Eric Greitens, a candidate for governor of Missouri, was a GOP consultant’s dream. The 41-year-old was an intensely ambitious, chisel-jawed former Navy SEAL and Rhodes scholar turned best-selling author. He had also been a lifelong Democrat until shortly before he entered the GOP primary. Greitens championed transparency in campaign finance. “We’ve already seen other candidates set up these secretive super PACs where they don’t take any responsibility for what they’re funding,” he said in a radio interview. “Because that’s how the game has always been played.” In other words, he's perfect for Donald Trump. This dead-eyed shark-fucker is gonna worm his way into the core of the Trump administration and try to get as much money for himself as he can before it blows up. ![]()
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Speaking of monsters: Remember that guy that fired his shotgun at a black teen who was asking for directions? He is going to jail! quote:Jeffrey Craig Zeigler, 53, apologized in court and had "full remorse and regret" over shooting at 14-year-old Brennan Walker, according to CNN affiliate WDIV.
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mistaya posted:Speaking of monsters: Thank God. I'm exhausted from people getting away with probation and poo poo for egregious acts. It warms my heart to see people punished appropriately every once in a while despite our current hellscape political milieu.
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DC Murderverse posted:
Since when? I'm guessing they're using different definitions of "money" and "power"...
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Stickman posted:Since when? I'm guessing they're using different definitions of "money" and "power"... Actually $250,000,000 doesn't go that far when you live in Utah.
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Stickman posted:Since when? I'm guessing they're using different definitions of "money" and "power"... Opportunity cost. It is generally accepted that entering politics as opposed to the private sector is less lucrative, but only by the standards of people who are already wealthy and privileged beyond the ken of us mere mortals. When he says "money or power," what he means is "corpulently wealthy or powerful with only moderate wealth."
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I saw a news article on my feed this morning: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/416571-wisconsin-company-giving-every-employee-a-handgun-for-christmas quote:A Wisconsin company is giving every employee a handgun for Christmas. Turns out, it's my best friend from elementary through high school. Very liberal guy, started a company selling shot glasses with bullets in them. No idea why he would think this is a good thing. Jesus, he's smarter than this. At least there's the gun safety course, but come on, Ben. OneTwentySix fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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If he's still your friend, sever.
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Wow, that is vile. Workplace culture is such that anyone who doesn't take a gun is going to feel derided, and framing it as "team building" only makes that worse. "Why do you have to be such a downer, Carol. Just take the murder-toy and come pop off a few rounds with the rest of us!"
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EwokEntourage posted:Writing absurdly lopsided contract clauses and then watching them actually get adopted is super fun as an attorney I feel like as long as there are strong clawback provisions that termination bit could be okay as it would essentially be "Amazon must give Arlington five days notice to get their bank accounts ready for the piles of money that Amazon will be repaying". The real question I have is if there are absolute guarantees for jobs created and how much they pay. Also there is a question of whether there is the will in Arlington to enforce the guarantees. Here in Austin there wasn't for a long while until suddenly a few years ago the city finally got enough backbone to crack down on downtown construction projects violating the "living wage" terms of the incentive packages. They were either smart or lucky enough to mainly hit the companies after the projects hit the point of no return so it was win-win for the city. Apparently the penalties involved were large enough that one project exited the incentives deal entirely despite the loss of property tax exemptions (iirc repaying and exiting the deal also let them out of their commitment to fund affordable housing). The whole relocation, construction, and incentives industry probably could support its own thread now that I think about it.
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OneTwentySix posted:I saw a news article on my feed this morning: he's arming them so it'll be easier to take him and the rest of management out. how polite
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Christ, the new data from the FBI regarding the spikes in hate crimes is loving terrifying. Hate crimes have increased by 17 percent since last year.quote:37 Percent Spike in anti-Semetic hate crimes Also, these numbers are not even accurate(meaning they are higher) because a lot of police departments don't even upload hate crimes to the federal database or label them as something else.
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friendbot2000 posted:Christ, the new data from the FBI regarding the spikes in hate crimes is loving terrifying. Hate crimes have increased by 17 percent since last year. They also commit them.
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https://twitter.com/APEastRegion/status/1062717004744933376
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lemonadesweetheart posted:They also commit them. Ahem. I think you'll find that's Hate Self-Defense, not Hate Crime.
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friendbot2000 posted:So is this the kind of thing that might make a difference in the runoff? We were joking that only if some pedo stuff came out like Roy Moore would it flip....but...referencing lynching? Thats uh...something. not all white southern republican voters are down with pedophilia, especially pedophiles who target young white girls, but they're all just fine with racism
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niiice
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realistically they're going to lose if the white house challenges the subpoena, but good on them for trying
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![]() A good reminder that it's worth fighting the fight even when the odds seem stacked against you.
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mistaya posted:Speaking of monsters: Thank god that fuckwit was so scared of his neighbors that he had a security camera to film his felony! I doubt the case would have gone very far without that video.
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https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1062722628350341121 So they used Eaton, a century-old case where they had to temporarily appoint someone when an ambassador became deathly ill and you had to spend weeks travelling by boat to get someone else that's Senate-confirmed to Thailand, to justify this. It's a really bad argument.
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OneTwentySix posted:I saw a news article on my feed this morning: Promoting accidental gun deaths in the workplace is a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for them.
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evilweasel posted:not all white southern republican voters are down with pedophilia, especially pedophiles who target young white girls, but they're all just fine with racism Logically I knew this, but a man can dream...I guess racism is just this anathema to my own nature so I think that this stuff HAS to matter. It is naive, but I don't want to give in to cynicism.
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So what stops Trump from just never nominating a successor? Or from intentionally nominating people who are so grossly underqualified that even Senate Republicans wouldn't confirm? (though tbh I literally don't know what that would look like... Trump could nominate Pepe the Frog and the Senate would confirm the fictional cartoon character along party lines). I mean, I guess the question applies in general, what happens if a President just flat-out doesn't appoint anyone to one of the cabinet-level positions? And refuses to? Does Congress or SCOTUS have any power whatsoever (in this hypothetical scenario) to compel a President to do it, short of impeachment proceedings?
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lol it must suck to have to try to pretend you believe this argument https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1062723523645489153 Drone posted:So what stops Trump from just never nominating a successor? Or from intentionally nominating people who are so grossly underqualified that even Senate Republicans wouldn't confirm? (though tbh I literally don't know what that would look like... Trump could nominate Pepe the Frog and the Senate would confirm the fictional cartoon character along party lines). so what stops him from not nominating a successor is that Rod Rosenstein would, by default, act as attorney general. he has to avoid that To your latter point, this is why this practice should be unconstitutional regardless of whether the Vacancies Reform Act technically allows it. The Constitution is pretty black and white about this, and there's lots of poo poo by Hamilton and Madison and co about how the President being able to nominate anyone he wants without Senate involvement is anathema to good governance and how they wrote it this way to avoid that situation.
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Honestly the Mississippi senate election barely matters because even if the Dems somehow pull out a miracle a win they’ll just most likely lose it in 2020 along with Alabama so it won’t contribute to the fight for 50 seats.
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Rinkles posted:Seems like an exceptional amount of close races that ultimately tip dem this year, or is it not out of the ordinary? A lot of these races weren't even close, they just looked close after precincts reported #'s on election night.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Honestly the Mississippi senate election barely matters because even if the Dems somehow pull out a miracle a win they’ll just most likely lose it in 2020 along with Alabama so it won’t contribute to the fight for 50 seats. It would matter because the narrower the Senate majority is, the less room there is to slide someone super crazy through. If Republicans had a 55-45 majority I bet you'd see Attorney General Rudy Guliani. With a smaller majority, that sort of nonsense is somewhat less likely.
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mistaya posted:Speaking of monsters: Get hosed. These turds only show remorse when they're finally called out/punished for their behavior. Like those assholes in GA who were driving around black neighborhoods with giant confederate flags and threatened a birthyday party with a shotgun. Eat poo poo, "This is not me, this is not who I am". Nah, son, it's EXACTLY who you are, and maybe (JUST MAYBE) you should look into yourself and figure out how you and your entire shiteating white-supremacist rear end in a top hat cadre became radicalized against the color of a persons skin, you simpering flesh golem of animus, ignorance, and goddamn disgrace.
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Rinkles posted:Seems like an exceptional amount of close races that ultimately tip dem this year, or is it not out of the ordinary? There's an exceptional amount of seats Republicans barely won as well, they just don't get reported on.
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# ? May 28, 2024 05:36 |
Shimrra Jamaane posted:Honestly the Mississippi senate election barely matters because even if the Dems somehow pull out a miracle a win they’ll just most likely lose it in 2020 along with Alabama so it won’t contribute to the fight for 50 seats. Senate seats matter, even if it’s just for 2 years.
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