GottaLaff

GottaLaff, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to legal

WOMP WOMP! 🥳

A judge has ruled that #Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House.

Judge Engoron, ruling Tuesday in a civil lawsuit brought by #NewYork’s attorney general, found that the former president and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing financing. #legal 1/...

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-letitia-james-fraud-lawsuit-1569245a9284427117b8d3ba5da74249?taid=65133e935c9b8c000140df4d&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

GottaLaff, 5 months ago to tesla

“#Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective

Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic ‘flaws’ and ‘failures’ for years.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/

GottaLaff, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Sometimes you gotta come out and just say it. Now is that time. 1/...

Via Biden-HarrisHQ account:

This is not a coincidence.

GottaLaff, 5 months ago to Florida

🤦🏻‍♀️Insanity. #ProLifeMyAss

“#Florida’s top health official called for a halt to using mRNA coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday, contending that the shots could contaminate patients’ DNA — a claim that has been roundly debunked by public health experts, federal officials and the #vaccine companies” #COVID 💉😷

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/01/03/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-covid-vaccine/

GottaLaff, 5 months ago to kentucky

#WompWomp

“Former county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses in #Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling.

That’s in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan County clerk should pay the couple who sued.” #LGBTQ #legal
https://apnews.com/article/b99cdf7b93a1e144fdff2c3b24d96c2c

GottaLaff, 4 months ago to Ohio

Good riddance

Via Kyle Griffin:

Aimeen Penny, a member of the pro-#Nazi group White Lives Matter, has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for firebombing an #Ohio church that had been planning to host two drag events.

GottaLaff, 7 months ago to random

Better late than never. More like this.

MSNBC: Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) calls his opposition to an #AssaultWeaponsBan a mistake after deadly mass shooting in his district.

Golden: I have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war like the assault rifle he used to carry out this crime. The time has now come for me to take responsibility for this failure. Which is why I now call on the US congress to ban assault rifles..for those who have been harmed, I ask for forgiveness" #GunViolence

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to Arizona

👀

Via Dave Ryder: 🧵 1/...

Here's William Jones who authored the 1864 #Arizona #abortion bill.

Some fun facts:

He abandoned his first wife and their children in Missouri.

His second wife was a 12 year old Mexican girl. He abducted her and after a complaint submitted his resignation to President Buchanan before he was fired.

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to random

Via Laurie Garrett: 1/...

ICYMI the House #Republicans finally released a U.S. budget, countering the #BidenAdministration proposal. The GOP budget:

• cuts $1.5 trillion from Social Security
• raises Medicare costs & cuts caps on pharma fees
• cuts Medicaid, ACA/Obamacare & the Children’s Health Insurance Prog by $4.5 trillion over 10 years
• creates $5.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich and corporations
• eliminates all clean energy tax incentives
• raises Social Security Retirement age to 69

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to random

Via Ben Wikler:

Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s #Trump’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.

Rutger Bregman:

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

GottaLaff, 5 months ago to random

Via Bill Pascrell:

Three years ago today the US Capitol was attacked by rioters incited by Donald #Trump to overthrow the government. Hours later 68% of House republicans voted to finish the job and make trump a dictator. Here are their names.

#Traitors #Jan6

GottaLaff, 7 months ago to random

Trump tells us what he’s going to do. Pay attention.

Via New Yorker: A signal from #Trump that did not get much attention: “If I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say, ‘Go down and indict them.' They’d be out of business. They’d be out of the election.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/the-warnings-about-trump-in-2024-are-getting-louder

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to random

I'm scrolling through @atrupar's and Acyn's video clips of #Trump's vile spew at CPAC, now in its 2nd hour..

Sorry to be redundant, but if Biden said even ONE thing in any of those clips, it would be over for him.

Yet Trump has duped The News & all too many voters into accepting him "as is."

I don't. At all. And I am not laughing at him. He's lethal. He's toxic. He's malignant.

And the GOP Fascist Party is right there with him.

We MUST do everything we can to end this nightmare.

GottaLaff, 4 months ago to legal

#WompWomp

Via MaddowBlog:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24359048-trump-fee-decision. #Trump #legal

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to random

#ProLifeMyAss 😳”1 woman miscarried in lobby restroom of TX emerg rm as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another learned her fetus had no heartbeat at Fla hospital, day after security guard turned her away from the facility. No Carolina, woman gave birth in car after emerg room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.

Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade”
https://apnews.com/article/9ce6c87c8fc653c840654de1ae5f7a1c

GottaLaff, 4 months ago to climate

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show

Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak #ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/fossil-fuel-industry-air-pollution-fund-research-caltech-climate-change-denial?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

GottaLaff, 4 months ago to random

You may disagree fervently with Pres. Biden's Israel policies, and that's fine. But if you come into my feed calling him "Genocide Joe" or any variation on that theme, you're blocked.

I've already had to block a few accounts for this.

Pres. Biden is not "for genocide." I will not argue with you on this topic, nor do I discuss the Israel/Hamas war here.

But I will not tolerate accusations of "genocide" by Pres. Biden. He's not "pro genocide."

If that's a prob, it's on you.

GottaLaff, 4 months ago to random

Via LOLGOP:

Unemployment claims this week are 187,000, one of the lowest numbers ever recorded and nearly a record low per capita.

Maybe you're not impressed with going from record high claims under #Trump to record lows under #Biden.

But it is remarkable that the number is lower now than BEFORE the pandemic. #Bidenomics

GottaLaff, 4 months ago to random

Aww... #RIP Carl Weathers, who starred as Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films and appeared in Predator, The Mandalorian, Happy Gilmore, Action Jackson and dozens of other films and TV shows, died Tuesday, his family announced. He was 76. https://deadline.com/2024/02/carl-weathers-dead-1235812684/

GottaLaff, 4 months ago to TeslaMotors

#WompWomp

“Judge says Elon #Musk must give up a compensation package awarded by Tesla’s board of directors that is potentially worth more than $55 billion.

The ruling in a Delaware court comes five years after a shareholder lawsuit targeted Tesla CEO Musk and the directors. They were accused of breaching their duties to the electric vehicle and solar panel manufacturer, resulting in a waste of corporate assets and unjust enrichment for Musk”
https://apnews.com/article/e75687178d1175fba36ca55bd9c4c805

GottaLaff, 4 months ago to legal

In case you ever had an inkling of a germ of a doubt...🤬

Via Joyce Vance:

In the Mar-a-Lago case, Judge #Cannon has just refused to enforce a routine deadline & it's entirely clear she has no intention of letting this case go to trial before the election or possibly ever. #TrumpIndictment #Documents #legal

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to random

Via Dan Rather, a thread: 1/…

If I may, there’s something I need to get off my chest.

As democracy remains under siege, it has been frustrating to watch how the press covers politics these days.

I am reminded by lessons that came to me during the Nixon years as a CBS News corresp:

1. Enough with Both-sides-ism

When 1 side lies intentionally & repeatedly, they are no longer entitled to benefit of doubt. They should be held to account, right away. Do not simply repeat the narratives they spew

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to random

"#Trump is even or ahead in the polls because millions of swing voters have no idea just how authoritarian a 2nd term would be

Blame the media's massive failure to pound the drums about 1/6 pardons, 'retribution' and looming dictatorship."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/trump-47-second-term-dangers-authoritarianism-20240314.html#loaded

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to random

"This is not subjective. We all saw it. Plenty of leaders today try to convince the masses we did not see what we saw, but our eyes don’t deceive. (If leaders began a yearslong campaign today to convince us that the Baltimore bridge did not collapse Tuesday morning, would you ever believe them?) Trust your eyes. Trump on Jan. 6 launched the most serious threat to our system of government since the Civil War. You know that. You saw it." #Trump #Biden https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to comics

#Doonesbury outdid itself.

#Trump: “I’m being persecuted the same way Jesus was in terms of horrible things being done to a big star.” #comics

Entire strip here:

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/04/07