A jury convicted five Minnesota residents but acquitted two others on Friday for their roles in a scheme to steal more than $40 million that was supposed to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic. The case received widespread attention after someone tried to bribe a juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash....
The seven defendants are the first of 70 to stand trial in what federal prosecutors have called one of the nation’s largest COVID-19-related frauds, exploiting rules that were kept lax so that the economy wouldn’t crash during the pandemic.
No, the money was provided from the federal government to keep the economy from crashing.
The lax rules were there to enable the robber barons to transfer more taxes into their pockets.
Or maybe the range sucks because some dipshit insisted it use heavy fucking stainless steel instead of lightweight aluminum or because some dipshit wanted it being “bulletproof” as a selling point.
Sounds like some dipshit shouldn’t be making important decisions.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 to begin a four-month prison sentence for defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 Committee after a higher court rejected his appeal....
Yep. Which obviously means either God isn’t omnipotent, or God doesn’t want to help Trump, or God is just a construct made by simpletons to explain complex concepts of the universe.
As I understand it, civil judgements are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. Even if Alex sells everything he owns, that won’t be enough to pay off his share of the judgement and so any income he makes post-Infowars will be subject to garnishment.
So yeah. He’ll continue making the right-wing circles, and he’ll be hawking his dad’s boner pills, but at least the Sandy Hook families will start getting what he owes them.
If you listen to his show, dude really likes movies, especially sci-fi . In another life, he could have been someone with a sci-fi movie themed podcast that I would have listened to religiously. But instead he chose to profit off spreading lies about elections, the climate, COVID, school shootings, etc. Unfortunately, he was born into the John Birch Society and so the poor kid had no chance of growing up decent.
I look at Alex Jones the same way I look at Trump. Both are terrible people who had shit parents and obviously that doesn’t excuse their behavior now, it’s just… sad.
Yes, but the families can keep going after him for failing to pay.
Which is probably his goal, since his entire legal strategy so far has been to delay: hope the families and/or their lawyers stop going after him due to the massive amount of time and money it would cost to keep taking him to court.
And yet, she got more votes than Trump. She did appeal to more people, it’s that the system is broken that getting more votes doesn’t make you the winner.
It’s almost like Trump appealed to the fucking shitheads whose votes count for more than the rest of us.
They are both running against “the couch”, in that whoever can convince enough of their voters that the election is worth showing up for, will win.
Yep, which is why we see a massive number of people around here who are actively trying to depress Democratic turnout by complaining about Biden and the Dems. A whole bunch of alleged leftists really don’t seem like they mind another Trump presidency since they aren’t, after all, trying to convince voters to vote against that.
Bidens camp is in a fever dream with this strategy.
Oh. Huh. Imagine that.
Also, if you were a Republican, why wouldn’t you vote for Trump? He delivered, in one way or another, on all the major policy goals of the base.
You fucking what? He got three SCOTUS justices and tax breaks for billionaires and…?
He tanked the economy and killed over a million with his handling of COVID, the wall didn’t get built, Mexico didn’t pay for any of the repairs that did, Hillary has -34 felonies to her name, his trade war with China didn’t bring back manufacturing, Russia was emboldened by his term, American global superiority was damaged by his garbage foreign policy, fossil fuel usage is continuing to decline in favor of renewables…
So other than showing bigoted racists that it’s okay to be a loudmouth bigoted racist in public (which I will admit is a Republican goal) what “major policy goals” did he actually achieve?
For the Republican agenda, he’s been the most effective president since Reagan
Yeah, I would argue that he’s the least effective GOP president since Regan.
Penn and Teller did a fantastic demonstration on Bullsh!t (I wanna say 15 years ago?). The only real flaw in the demo was when Penn pulled the “autistic” pin out at the start, because that child would still be vaccinated and thus safer than the unvaxxed group.
US manufacturers are building high-margin EVs instead of low-margin high-volume ones.
Also Americans are stupid - they want to buy EVs for the one or two 300+ mile trips they take in a year, instead of one for the 40-ish mile daily commutes.
The nuance is, as exquisitely demonstrated in your post, that people (particularly us in the western world) are mostly unwilling to give up creature comforts and change our behaviors to help slow down global warming. (And I’m including myself in that statement as well.) Most of the issue you describe could be solved by more and better mass transit, so you don’t have hundreds of cars trying to share charging infrastructure, but… see my first sentence.
He wasn’t embarrassed. He was afraid it would make him look bad enough to American voters that he would lose the election, and narcissists can’t handle being losers.
Bag of cash doesn’t stop jurors from convicting 5 of 7 defendants in $40 million food fraud scheme (apnews.com)
A jury convicted five Minnesota residents but acquitted two others on Friday for their roles in a scheme to steal more than $40 million that was supposed to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic. The case received widespread attention after someone tried to bribe a juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash....
Biden apologizes to Zelenskyy for monthslong congressional holdup to weapons that let Russia advance (apnews.com)
Tesla chair says Elon Musk needs $46 billion pay plan to stay motivated (arstechnica.com)
EV sales slowdown is mostly a Tesla problem, according to sales data (arstechnica.com)
Judge orders Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 for contempt of Congress sentence (www.nbcnews.com)
A federal judge on Thursday ordered former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 to begin a four-month prison sentence for defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 Committee after a higher court rejected his appeal....
MAGA 'Prophets': God Thinks Trump's Conviction Was Rigged (www.rollingstone.com)
Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars (www.cnn.com)
this is real lol (fedia.io)
Convicted Felon Trump Tells Putin to Keep Wall Street Journal Reporter Hostage Through Election (nymag.com)
Trump ally Bannon ordered to report to prison for defying Jan. 6 probe (www.yahoo.com)
The Biden Campaign is Courting an Unexpected Group of Voters: Republicans (www.npr.org)
Vaccines don’t cause autism, but the lie won’t die. In fact, it’s getting worse. (arstechnica.com)
Trans man wins $4.7 million from school district that didn't let him use the restroom (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI (www.cnbc.com)
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'Cheaters don't like getting caught': VP Harris speaks about Trump conviction on Jimmy Kimmel (apnews.com)
‘Head Up Their Ass!’ Marjorie Taylor Greene Melts Down Over ‘Feckless, Useless Republican Party’ (www.mediaite.com)