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timo21

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Imagine Viktor Orbรกn with the world's largest military. That's Trump if he wins.

๐Ÿ˜ท. #neurodivergent; #NFL Cardinals fan since 1970. Geologist, Cartographer, IT PM retired in #NewMexico. 40+ Yr denizen of the North American inter-mountain west: Received snail mail in Tucson, Springerville, Victorville, Boulder City, Carlin, Elko, Fallon, Belle Fourche, Hettinger, Billings, Gardner, Mammoth Hot Springs, Cooke City, Deer Lodge, Twin Falls, Salmon, SandPoint, Naturita, Denver, Fort Collins.

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StillIRise1963, to random
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It is NOT โ€œbalanceโ€ to add FASCIST PROPAGANDA to the news, MSNBC. It is complicity.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 What did I miss on MSNBC this time?

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 Thanks for the article, which reads like something from the National Review: Non-conservative media is to be scorned. The article also cherry picked the facts and ignored the plethora of republican 'never-trumpers' on MSNBC. The primary takeaway is the affirmation that the 21st Century version of the NYT is not representative of the country, but is, at a minimum, leaning to the corporate libertarian right (i.e. fascists).

shekinahcancook, to Economics
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Markets - Where did all the stocks go?
Public Companies In Decline

The number of public companies has fallen fast by Matt Phillips, David Crowther 4/28/24

"...After analyzing the effects of mergers, private-equity investment, and regulatory costs, the paper suggests that M&A is the main culprit. (Though they do theorize that higher costs associated with regulation could be a less important contributing factor.)

โ€œMergers seem to be the biggest driver of this trend,โ€ Ali Sanati told Sherwood. Sanati is a finance professor at the American University in Washington, DC, and a coauthor of the 2023 paper.

The authors categorized mergers according to various financial metrics, noting that mergers motivated around financing and innovation โ€œare the ones that effectively reduce the number of U.S. listings.โ€

So, they got eaten.

https://sherwood.news/markets/the-number-of-public-companies-has-fallen-fast/

timo21,
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@shekinahcancook that's an interesting article. Thanks for posting. The lack of consumer choice resulting from our current drift towards monopolism reminds me of how economies were under monarchies, before market economics: a monarch would give a license for a particular activity to one company or group of investors. And consumers had to accept that. We're losing 600 years of economic progress so the world's billionaires can pretend to be royalty.

timo21,
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@shekinahcancook r
Extremists don't seem to like market economies and religious extremists the world over have accumulated billions in petro dollars. One action is to quit using oil, cut the extremists off from their income. And don't allow new possibilities: We don't need lithium billionaires, for instance.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Putin and these fascist fuckwads are going to start WWIII.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 It could be WW3 has already started. Putin has the MAGA 'fifth column ' already.

br00t4c, (edited ) to random
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Orcas Just Sank Another Yacht

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/orcas-just-sank-another-yacht/

timo21,
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@br00t4c I'm concerned some of the boaters are shooting at the Orcas. That's how people are.

ernie, to random
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Got my crates

timo21,
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@ernie Is there a preference to have the open side of the crate at the top or the side?

StillIRise1963, to random
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Mike Johnson followed Trumpโ€™s shitcrumbs to the courthouse.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 Rep. Johnson's religion believes in the 'Pearly Gates'. Following spanky around will be a black mark in St. Peter's book at the Pearly Gates.

emarktaylor, to Hockey
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๐Ÿ’ @hnom @hockey

After the final whistle ...

timo21,
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@emarktaylor @hnom @hockey I've heard Vancouver called the 'Miami of Canada'. I didn't know that carried over to hockey goons also!!

StillIRise1963, to random
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The people who SUCCEED are the people who DONโ€™T GIVE UP and DONโ€™T LISTEN TO NAYSAYERS.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 My worst naysayer is in my own brain. ๐Ÿง 

GottaLaff, to random
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FYI, is still trending on Xitter.

timo21,
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@GottaLaff Well Barron needs to appreciate his mother for saving him from the MAGA Apparatchiks

GottaLaff, to comics
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Justโ€ฆ. Go.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/05/12

timo21,
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@GottaLaff ๐Ÿ˜… ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿ˜ธ ๐Ÿ™€

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Ahmed Baba:

Important reminder that Trump was publicly musing about prosecuting his political targets in his 1st term. In a 2nd term, there would be fewer guardrails to stop him

Trump plans to replace civil servants with loyalist yes-men

His authoritarian ravings will become reality

Rupar:

"Obamagate" (whatever it is) was at peak 4 yrs ago tday. It's been lgely forgotten, but Trump was talking on a daily basis about prosecuting Obama. He now insists presidents should have total immunity

timo21,
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@GottaLaff Wouldn't Obama have immunity then?

StillIRise1963, to random
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Campus presidents called the Thought Police on students.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 It turns out the actual 'outside agitators' were the police. As usual.

GottaLaff, to random
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Huh. Imagine that.

๐Ÿ‘€
IRS Audit of Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million

The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes

timo21,
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@GottaLaff Why conservatives prefer an underfunded IRS: from the article: "That the IRS did not initiate an audit of the 2008 worthlessness deduction puzzled the experts in partnership taxation. Many assumed the understaffed IRS simply had not realized what Trump had done until the deadline to investigate it had passed. โ€œI think the government recognized that they screwed up,โ€ and then audited the merger transaction to make up for it, Jackel said."

GottaLaff, to random
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'A step back in time': America's Catholic Church sees immense shift twd the old ways

โ€œGenerations of Catholics who embraced modernizing tide sparked in 1960s by Vatican II are increasingly giving way to religious conservatives who believe church has been twisted by changeโ€ฆ

..molded by plummeting church attendanceโ€ฆreshaped parishes across the country, leaving them at odds w Pope Francis and much of the Catholic world.โ€
https://apnews.com/article/7638fa2013a593f8cb07483ffc8ed487

timo21,
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@GottaLaff I witnessed the change of the Catholic church. In the 1980's I had a job where I moved a lot & went to mass in different towns. Every church was different, localized. But as the human rights orientated clergy that were present for the abuse scandals left, & the new bishops appointed by John Paul II were all arch-conservatives, & that led to the stories in this article. Then the Steve Bannon type conservatives purposely made the church unwelcoming for Human Rights supporters.

StillIRise1963, to random
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My dog had a seizure last night. Could it be connected to the aurora. Idk.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 I hope your puppy is better. Seizures in dogs just alarm the hell out of me. It's tough to find the cause of seizures in dogs sometimes. We were up with our 13 year old dog last night, who's in our home equivalent of hospice care right now. Luckily not seizures.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Pagliery:

We wrapped up the day with some news.

The hush money trial now features... yet another hush money deal.

Prosecutors say Allen Weisselberg is getting $750k this year to keep quiet about his former boss.

timo21,
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@GottaLaff There are a lot of people that I'd like to pay to just STFU! ๐Ÿ˜…

GottaLaff, to random
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Word-slaw.

#Trump: The case is not about all of the other stuff youโ€™ve been seeing because weโ€™re using that to attempt, itโ€™s had no impact because itโ€™s so old, attempt to do something to me politically

timo21,
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@GottaLaff who needs AI when we have Trump to write nonsense.

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Come July 1, school districts in Florida could authorize volunteer chaplains โ€” those who are religious or not and with no training โ€” to provide support and services for students in public schools, though GOP-controlled legislatures across the country are rejecting similar proposals.โ€

https://www.rawstory.com/chaplain-schools-in-florida/

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 Imagine Mike Johnson creeping around a school?

Nonilex, to Law
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Friday 10 May 2024 ๐Ÿงต:

Madeleine testimony resumes

A fmr White House aide who worked closely w/ returned to the stand to testify about a significant meeting between Trump & his personal lawyer that is at the center of Trumpโ€™s trial.

Cohen is expected to testify Monday.

timo21,
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@Nonilex Is that a legal document for Weisselbergโ€™s severance agreement that he gets an extra $2M if he does not cooperate with prosecutions of Trump? That sounds like mobster stuff.

GottaLaff, to legal
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๐Ÿงต starts HERE.

Please remember I donโ€™t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

1/

Pagliery:

Today's session starts with prosecutors asking for a sidebar with the judge. Lawyers on both sides are now discussing something in hushed tones.

timo21,
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@GottaLaff NFL so Trump has the equivalent of a coloring book given to a kid in a doctors office.

timo21, to USpolitics
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#USPolitics traitors walk among us. From the article: [Virginia] School Board votes to restore the Confederate Names of schools

https://www.whsv.com/2024/05/10/shenandoah-county-school-board-votes-restore-confederate-names-schools/

emarktaylor, to Hockey
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๐Ÿ’ @hnom @hockey

Big Benn rings Toews' bell.

No penalty

timo21,
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@emarktaylor @hnom @hockey Hit to the head should be automatic suspension.

ben, to random
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The rhetoric expressed by Palantir's CEO during its earnings call is incredibly regressive - it's really surprising to see these words expressed during a public company meeting. https://werd.io/2024/palantirs-earnings-call-rhetoric-is-terrifying

timo21,
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@ben oh crap. Now 'they' are otherizing pagans again. The christians of the last century considered everyone but monotheists to be a pagan.

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