It’s unbelievable that someone says this AND it is found to far exceed the speech and debate clause AND is held to account.
But then, most authoritarian leaders are initially I stalled under cheers of their own population. And mostly people know what they are voting for. The MAGA crowd seems to just be more open about it.
Just recently Indonesia voted for a guy who literally murdered his fellow countrymen as head of a special forces unit. But the youth think his TikTok dance is Soo cute, so they vote for the sweet grandpa with the cute dance. I hope they will be alright.
This week, Republican governors across the country escalated their conflict with the Biden administration over the southern border by invoking the same legal theory that slave states wielded to justify secession before the Civil War....
When taking on a company like Boeing, a company that had no qualms building and delivering defective planes, lying to regulatory bodies, concealing the truth all for shareholder gains. Everyone understands that suiciding a whistleblower is just another cost of doing business.
But if you are legally not even old enough to agree to a contract for your mobile phone, how can you be old and wise enough to join a terrorist organisation at the same time?
Look what this person did is stupid beyond any comprehension, but I cannot get over the fact that they where 15 years old.
Lured by some bullshit story and promises of eternal Bliss in the caliphate, only to end up in a hellscape of rape, torture, mysogeny, slavery and war.
I cannot feel that this is too harsh of a punishment for a stupid teenager that fucked up tremendously.
And in Florida he will get his venue for sure. The judge is a trump appointee who apparently wants to give him his platform.
I’m very interested in the underlaying legal arguments they will make, but the … it’s all connected, and what about Joe… this is about not complying with a a repeated legal request/order to return document and then lying about it. Again it will be the cover up that will land someone in hot water, not the crime itself.
He best not hope that SCOTUS rules a president has absolute immunity from prosecution before he is president, else POTUS only has one option given how much vengeance trump preaches.
Judge Anil Singh’s ruling in Manhattan Supreme Court allows Trump and his two adult sons to stay in control of their companies while the former president seeks to appeal the massive fine....
He was just found to be lying though his teeth about his financial situation and the value of the things he uses as colatteral.
Even if some bank where to decide to loan him money, the shareholders of the bank might sue the bank. I can only imagine trump is radioactive for loans.
So his only chance would be from personal loans. And how do we feel about a president with massive personal loans to unnamed billionaires.
Tesla has seen its profits more than halve this year, and says it will bring forward the launch of new models after announcing thousands of job cuts to try to reverse its fortunes....
Lower sales > Lower profits > cuts across the board (except c level) > lower quality > lower sales … aka the death spiral… hope they can halt the decline but their unique position as the only real electric car brand ended 5 years ago… with their prices they compete with Audi, Mercedes, BMW, and the other premium brands.
Edit: my point was indeed that their competition has better quality so the competition does not really work.
What is clear, however, is that Trump — who ostensibly spent four years as president of the United States — has little clue about what NATO is or what NATO does. And when he spoke on the subject at a rally in South Carolina over the weekend, what he said was less a cogent discussion of foreign policy than it was gibberish...
Also EA has to understand more and more people have experienced their garbage launches and will skip their gold plated launch prices because of the risk you end up buying a lemon that is subsequently abandoned.
Making sure the gameplay loop is interesting and the game performs properly is important. Focussing on all the latest engine features that requires people to have top tier hardware is only good for marketing. Marketing then eats up a tremendous amount of budget without adding anything to the offer they make.
Jup, even new iterations of their older IP seem to be devolving instead of taking that which was fun and expanding on it.
Maybe they should use all these behaviour experts to investigate why people keep playing games instead of figuring out how to maximally predate on your customer base.
Ubi does the same. I found the last farcy so Uninteresting that I stopped playing somewhere mid game. And the first signals from their pirate game are also not encouraging, while I know many people that looked forward to it.
You see, that’s the fun thing about a Political Action Committee.
They are not directly working with the candidate, they are wholly independent. Meaning the candidate is not taking any money, regardless of the source.
And since companies are people, and money is speech, the PAC can get money from where they please, and do with it what they want.
They only need to make sure no evidence of direct cooperation between the PAC and the candidate can be found.
Although direct cooperation is not really needed, running ads for a candidate and trashing the other can be done perfectly fine completely independent. Plus it gives a candidate deniability.
Ik vrees dat een implosie nog erger is voor Nederland.
En wat ik wel hoop is dat, omdat er echt wel veel kaders al liggen er een hoop gepolderd moet worden met echte oplossingen. Iets roepen voor de bühne is een ding… maar nu moeten ze het laten zien.
Obviously the east of Germany is never going to prosper, there is no incentive for companies to go and open their doors in east Germany as they can then just move east a few more kilometer and get workers for 1/3 of the cost.
No, AM radio is part of the infrastructure governments can reliably use to inform citizens of danger etc. so it should not easily be removed. And if it’s so cheap it can easily be included.
MAGA Republican Pledges “End of Democracy” to Rabid Cheers at CPAC | Republicans at CPAC 2024 are openly vowing to take down democracy. (newrepublic.com)
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GOP Governors Invoke the Confederate Theory of Secession to Justify Border Violations (slate.com)
This week, Republican governors across the country escalated their conflict with the Biden administration over the southern border by invoking the same legal theory that slave states wielded to justify secession before the Civil War....
Trump, Giuliani, Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in Michigan fake elector case, hearing reveals (abcnews.go.com)
Trump will pull US out of NATO if he wins election, ex-adviser warns (www.cnn.com)
Boeing whistle-blower found dead by suicide (www.bbc.com)
Coincidentally, it was only 1 day before he was scheduled to make his deposition against Boeing.
Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix (www.pcworld.com)
Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself (youtu.be)
The Shamima Begum ruling proves it: some UK citizens are less equal than others (www.theguardian.com)
Any British person who has a foreign-born parent will feel their status is more precarious after the court of appeal decision...
Trump Signals Plans to Go After Intelligence Community in Document Case (www.nytimes.com)
Court papers filed by his lawyers, formally a request for discovery evidence, sounded at times more like political talking points....
Trump ordered to pay full $454 million fraud judgment, but can apply for loans during appeal (www.cnbc.com)
Judge Anil Singh’s ruling in Manhattan Supreme Court allows Trump and his two adult sons to stay in control of their companies while the former president seeks to appeal the massive fine....
Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced (www.bbc.com)
Tesla has seen its profits more than halve this year, and says it will bring forward the launch of new models after announcing thousands of job cuts to try to reverse its fortunes....
Trump Is Losing It: It is unclear whether Donald Trump has forgotten the precise nature of NATO or whether he ever fully grasped it in the first place. (www.nytimes.com)
What is clear, however, is that Trump — who ostensibly spent four years as president of the United States — has little clue about what NATO is or what NATO does. And when he spoke on the subject at a rally in South Carolina over the weekend, what he said was less a cogent discussion of foreign policy than it was gibberish...
EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" (www.gamesradar.com)
Personally I would not call Immortals of Aveum an AAA game. 😅...
Polls Show Trump Could Be Doomed If He’s Convicted. Will a Trial Happen in Time? (www.politico.com)
Trump’s valet ‘thought he was hoarding hairspray’ in boxes (www.independent.co.uk)
OpenAI’s new safety team is led by board members, including CEO Sam Altman (www.engadget.com)
Former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis’ law license suspended after guilty plea in Georgia election interference case | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
What QAnon supporters, butthole sunners and New Age spiritualists have in common (theconversation.com)
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'It's Officially Begun': AIPAC's Dark Money Super PAC Targets Cori Bush (www.commondreams.org)
Dick Schoof wil 'premier van alle Nederlanders' zijn (nos.nl) Dutch
Nou, voormalig NCTV en AIVD. Kan me voorstellen dat we een hoop veiligheid krijgen in ruil voor onze privacy....
Why the tables turned, leaving conservatives as loser in spending fight (thehill.com)
The tables have turned for House conservatives....
Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End (www.bloomberg.com)
Automakers Want AM Radios Out of Cars. Congress Is About to Require Them (www.wired.com)