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GOP men being terrified of strong, intelligent women- she is absolutely their worst nightmare.
Not sure were Melania gets off saying anything about Stormy. M's nude pictures are all over everywhere.
Melania is no match for Stormy. Melly never grew a thick skin and whines as much as her husband. Stormy was born to be snarky.
Stormy Daniels refuses to praise Trump's golf prowess at his lawyer's prompting
MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — Donald Trump's attorney appeared to be following his instructions Thursday morning when she demanded detail on two of the former president's favorite topics: golf and his celebrity status.
Necheles questioned Daniels about the 2006 Lake Tahoe celebrity golf tournament where she first met Trump during his ongoing Manhattan criminal court trial on charges that he falsified business records to bury hush money payments.
"He did very well at that golf tournament, right?" Susan Necheles asked Daniels.
"I don't remember," Daniels replied.
"President Trump was the biggest celebrity at that golf tournament, right?" asked Necheles.
"It depends on what you're a fan of," Daniels snapped back.
"A lot of people recognized him," asked Necheles, "followed him around?"
"Yeah, a lot of them were paid to follow him around," Daniels said. "I don't know."
This line of questioning spurred a theory from MSNBC contributor Adam Klasfeld, who posited they "presumably please Trump."
Daniels declined to bolster Trump's ego by sharing his golf scores or opining on his celebrity status, but she was willing to address another element of his public persona.
When Necheles asked Daniels a question about Trump's indictment, Daniels replied wryly, "There are a lot of indictments."
Daniels says she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, but the former president denies the affair and has pleaded not guilty to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s charges against him.
Daniels returned to court two days after she faced questioning from the prosecution and defense. Trump was heard cursing out loud as she addressed the courtroom.
https://www.rawstory.com/stormy-daniels-testimony-2668211844/
LOLOLOL!! She really can't shut up, can she? It's amazing.
I doubt Melly will say much more to her. And I love that the judge won't rejig the gag order so Trumpty can respond to her. This has really got to be totally infuriating him. Hopefully every day brings him closer to a stroke.
And this is what Stormy said to Melania after Melly called her a hooker.
That’s funny! Stormy’s reply to Melania calling her a hooker! 😂 pic.twitter.com/sEXcBBD29o
— Annie (@AnnieForTruth) May 9, 2024
Dunno- might have lulled Trump's team into a false sense of security, though.
She did a good job on the stand today.
Stormy's lawyer looks kind of like Trumpty. I wonder if Trumpty noticed that.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stormy-daniels-salacious-affair-story-keeps-changing-because-encounter-never-happened-trump-team-claims
@KlasfeldReports
Merchan says he can't just take Blanche's word that Trump's response will be low-key and not an attack.
"That's just not the track record."
He adds later: "Your client's track record speaks for itself."
Request to amend the gag order DENIED.
and also
Judge:
Your motion for a mistrial is DENIED.
Another Mfer nailed
Sen. Rick Scott: "When Trump left office, the border was secure, the economy was great, and we weren't at war." (In reality the unemployment rate was over 6 percent, 80k Americans were dying each month from covid, and we were still at war in Afghanistan.) pic.twitter.com/60wbq1ztnR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 9, 2024
There you go
This is how Stormy Daniels recalled her sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2023, speaking to me for @NYMag: pic.twitter.com/HjZe9UNFkP
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) May 7, 2024
Let's see, what wine pairs best with cerebellum?
Noem heading deeper and deeper in the hole
What did she do, plan to eat the dog?
Does Kristi Noem understand that just shutting the fuck up is still a thing? pic.twitter.com/hMNqRs88QM
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) May 9, 2024
Drugmakers in Medicare negotiations spent more on shareholder payments and marketing than R&D last year: Report
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4651959-drugmakers-in-medicare-negotiations-spent-more-on-shareholder-payments-and-marketing-than-rd-last-year-report/
BY JOSEPH CHOI - 05/08/24 4:51 PM ET
A new report from the center-left watchdog group Accountable US found that most major drugmakers spent more on marketing costs and shareholder payments than on research and development (R&D).
The report looked at eight companies — Johnson & Johnson, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Merck, Novartis and Novo Nordisk — that manufacture the 10 drugs whose prices are currently being negotiated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Among these eight companies, four — J&J, Bristol Myers Squibb, Novartis and Novo Nordisk — spent more on combined shareholder payments than on research and development.
Five of the companies — J&J, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Novartis and Novo Nordisk — spent more on administrative and marketing costs than developing drugs.
Merck was the sole company in the report that spent more on research and development than it did on executive compensation, marketing, administration and shareholder payments.
Most of the companies in the report, J&J, Bristol Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, Novartis and Merck, sued to block the government’s Medicare negotiation program. Several federal judges having ruled in favor of upholding the program.
“Big Pharma CEOs often cite investments in R&D to excuse charging U.S. seniors the highest prices in the world for life-saving medicines – but they never put that spending in proper perspective,” Accountable US Executive Director Tony Carrk said in a statement.
“The fact is, pharma industry R&D investment is vastly outpaced by billions upon billions in industry profits, rewards to wealthy investors, and on lobbying and political spending sprees,” Carrk added. “Despite what Big Pharma’s lawyers and lobbyists claim, executives could have passed record profits onto patients with more reasonable prices.”...............................................................
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Nothing but criminals;
Rick Scott compares the prosecution of Trump to his own company, which was found to have engaged in the biggest Medicare fraud in history at the time and pleaded guilty to 14 felonies. https://t.co/HqYisr4UhU
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 9, 2024
Looks like Moscow Marge even lost Matt Gaetz
He is so good!
Geesh, the poor kid;
"take off that burkha now. I told you last night I was going to wear my black one today. Now, I'm going to beat your ass." pic.twitter.com/kLt2kJpWe6
— Shep (@ShepRules) May 9, 2024
The flooding is horrible!
The man getting his dogs is wonderful!
Speaker Johnson's friends and backers;
ATTN attorneys with cases against SBC: @NAMB_SBC told Fifth Circuit, "Southern Baptist governance is a hierarchy, with the SBC at the top & all churches, associations, conventions & Baptist ministers falling under the governance of the SBC.” #ThisistheSBC https://t.co/EmXL7DIxFC
— Christa Brown (@ChristaBrown777) May 8, 2024
Historically, the SBC was known for evangelism & missions, but lately it's best known for "allegations of a culture of coverup of clergy sexual abuse."
— Christa Brown (@ChristaBrown777) May 7, 2024
SBC presidential candidate stirs the storm by saying sexual abuse cases a "distraction." #ThisistheSBC https://t.co/AgSy7NFZy8
Holy hell. Police raided the business he owns, "Lizzy B's" and -- drum roll please -- Lizzy B's is a children's used clothing store.
— Politics Trumps All (@TrumpsPolitics) May 9, 2024
Hope they looked for hidden cameras in the dressing rooms/bathroom. pic.twitter.com/tEOBETAOsl
“The Southern Baptist sexual abuse crisis is as much about the countless complicit enablers as it is about the abusers. So long as there are little to no consequences for the enablers & cover-uppers, the predators will persist.”#ThisistheSBC #STILLtheSBC https://t.co/xaAj9Td0Vq
— Christa Brown (@ChristaBrown777) May 2, 2024
Elon Musk's piggy bank
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Tesla, as a publicly traded company, does not exist to serve the interests of Elon Musk, its CEO. Rather, it must act in the interests of all its shareholders.
The electric car company ran into some trouble in this regard when it agreed to a massive compensation package for Musk in 2018. The deal resulted in Musk being awarded more than $50 billion in stock options, which, combined with his existing shares of Tesla and other assets, made him the richest person in the world.
Musk's pay was approved by the board of directors and a vote of shareholders. It also required Musk to meet ambitious growth and profitability targets. But in January, Delaware Chancery Court Chief Judge Kathaleen McCormick invalidated the whole thing. In a 201-page decision, McCormick sided with Tesla shareholders challenging Musk's pay. She found that the company's board of directors breached their fiduciary duty by granting Musk excessive compensation and failing to be transparent with shareholders.
McCormick noted that the scope of Musk's pay package was unprecedented — "250 times larger than the contemporaneous median peer compensation plan and over 33 times larger than the plan’s closest comparison, which was Musk’s prior compensation plan." Further, Musk enjoyed "thick ties with the directors tasked with negotiating on behalf of Tesla, and dominated the process that led to board approval of his compensation plan."
Ira Ehrenpreis, who chaired the compensation committee, is a longtime friend of Musk who has invested tens of millions in Musk's companies and bought the first Tesla Model 3. Another committee member was Antonio Gracias, a friend and business associate who regularly vacations with Musk. The shareholders who sued to void Musk's pay package noted that these board members were described to shareholders as "independent" prior to the vote on Musk's pay. (Another Tesla board member is Musk's brother, Kimball.)
Tesla General Counsel Todd Maron, "Musk’s former divorce attorney… whose admiration for Musk moved him to tears during his deposition," also played a key role in the process. But the reality was that there wasn't much of a process at all. Musk proposed the amount and structure of his pay, and the board approved it. During the legal proceedings, Gracias admitted there was no "positional negotiation."
How has Tesla's "independent" board responded to a mortifying legal defeat? Has it proposed changing its governance structure to create genuine independence from Musk? Has it proposed a more reasonable level of compensation for its CEO? Nope. Instead, the board voted to award Musk the exact same pay package a court just decided was unfair, retroactively. And now, they are asking Tesla's shareholders to approve the plan on June 13 — or early by proxy vote.
The Tesla board has created a dedicated website, SupportTeslaValue.com, to encourage shareholders to give Musk $50 billion. Originally, the pay package was supposed to incentivize Musk to work hard for the company. This never made much sense since Musk, at the time, already owned more than 20% of the company and was incentivized for Tesla to succeed. Before the 2018 compensation package, every time Tesla's value increased by $50 billion, Musk earned $10 billion.
Now, this argument makes even less sense because the company is compensating him for work that has already been done. So, the board chair Robyn Denholm asks shareholders to approve Musk's pay package reactively as "a matter of fundamental fairness and respect to our CEO."
Denholm, who became board chair in 2018, is incentivized not to rock the boat. In 2021 and 2022, Denholm cashed out over $280 million in Tesla stock options. She described the wealth she has achieved at Tesla as "life-changing." Meanwhile, the "average total compensation for board members in the largest 200 U.S. companies was $329,351 in 2023."
It's a team effort. On X, Musk is rallying his supporters to approve his massive pay package.
2024 is not 2021
In the company's proxy statement, Tesla urges current shareholders to retroactively award Musk $50 billion to recognize the "stockholder value" that Musk delivered as CEO. But not all current Tesla shareholders have benefited from Musk's leadership. On November 5, 2021, the price of one share of Tesla stock was $407.36. Current shareholders who bought their stock that day have lost nearly 60% of their investment. Since the beginning of the year, Tesla stock has lost almost 30% of its value. Musk himself has unloaded about $39 billion in shares.
Musk would not be entitled to his full compensation package based on the company's current valuation. He was awarded about 1% of Tesla's outstanding stock each time the company's value increased by $50 billion, up to $650 billion. Tesla's current market value is less than $550 billion. The Tesla board voted to compensate Musk as if the company was still worth $650 billion.
Tesla's future prospects are also much less rosy than three years ago. Global demand for electric vehicles is slowing, and Tesla faces increased competition from nearly every global automaker. Tesla's core vehicle lineup is dated. And its one new entrant, the CyberTruck, has been a bust. Plans to build a less expensive model, seen as a key to future growth, were scraped. In the first quarter of 2024, Tesla reported "its first year-over-year decline in quarterly deliveries since 2020."
Musk's embrace of far-right politics and bigoted conspiracy theories appears to have damaged Tesla's brand. Today, just 31% of people in the United States would consider buying a Tesla, down from 70% in November 2021.
Increasingly, Musk is staking the company's future on his plan to make Tesla's fully autonomous. The "Full Self Driving" product currently "requires drivers to pay attention at all times and doesn’t make cars autonomous." Musk first claimed that Teslas would be fully self-driving in 2016. Since then, he's repeatedly announced that his vision was just around the corner but failed to deliver. In 2019, for example, he said that Tesla robotaxis would begin operating in 2020.
Tesla "forecasted the robo-taxis would last 11 years, drive 1 million miles and make $30,000 gross profit per car annually." At the time, Musk said it was "financially insane to buy anything other than a Tesla."
Now, Musk is promising a robo-taxi by August 8.
But robo-taxis already exist — they just aren't operated by Tesla.
Musk is also hyping Tesla's Optimus robot, claiming it "will be able to perform useful tasks in the factory by the end of the year and could reach the market by the end of 2025." Musk says the Optimus is "more valuable than everything else [at Tesla] combined." One analyst called Musk's claims about Optimus "utter nonsense and borderline investor fraud."
$50 billion is not enough
Denholm says Tesla stockholders should give Musk $50 billion so Musk "will continue to be driven to innovate and drive growth at Tesla." Today, running Tesla is not Musk's full-time job. He is also CEO at SpaceX (his privately held aerospace company) and CTO at X. Musk also helps run xAI (his artificial intelligence company), Neurolink (which recently implanted a microchip into someone's brain), and the Boring Company (which makes tunnels for transportation).
And Musk has already made clear that restoring his $50 billion pay package isn't enough to keep him interested in Tesla. Musk said he is "uncomfortable growing Tesla to be a leader in AI & robotics without having ~25% voting control."
To achieve that, the Tesla board and shareholders, after giving Musk $50 billion, would need to provide Musk with another massive stock grant. And, unlike in 2018 when the compensation package was tied to future growth targets, Musk appears to be demanding an immediate increase in his ownership without conditions. Musk would own more stock currently but sold a significant portion of his holdings to finance his acquisition of Twitter.
Almost all shareholder resolutions proposed by the company are approved. But whether or not Delaware courts will allow the reinstatement of Musk's 2018 package — or an even larger future compensation package — is far from certain. So, in addition to a $50 billion payment to Musk, the Tesla board is also proposing to move Tesla's state of incorporation to Texas. In her message to shareholders, Denholm says "the board and I are increasingly troubled by the growing uncertainty of Delaware corporate law." But "we believe that the Texas legal system is strong and fair."
Denholm does not mention that she and other board members were sued in Delaware for awarding themselves excessive compensation and agreed to a settlement where they "collectively agreed to return more than $735 million to the electric car maker's coffers in combined options, cash and stocks." Denholm and the other board members did not admit to any wrongdoing.
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How members of the House voted on failed effort to oust Speaker Johnson
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/house-vote-speaker-johnson-vote-taylor-greene-dg
Definitely not puppy assassin, Kristi Noem 😓
Flood victim in Brazil is overcome with emotion when he is reunited with his dogs. The rescuers that helped save the animals were moved by the scene and consoled the appreciative man who thought he’d lost his family.pic.twitter.com/RFQMTsmHBH
— GoodNewsCorrespondent (@GoodNewsCorres1) May 8, 2024
The scale of the flooding in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil is unfathomable!!!! pic.twitter.com/pmLpJpTz9C
— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) May 8, 2024
Has anyone ever seen that kid smile? Also, he crashed his golf cart. He sounds adorable.
https://www.rawstory.com/barron-trump-fender-bender/
Barron is clearly fair game now.
@ArtCandee
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Barron Trump no longer has the protection of being “just a kid who isn’t involved in politics.”
Game on.
Agree?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNHEjY5XEAAmIXo?format=jpg&name=large
I keep forgetting how much I hate Merrick Garland until I see him trending on twitter and then my head explodes all over again.
There is a reason why Donald John Trump never criticizes Merrick Garland. Not one time.......ever. We the American taxpayers have lost faith in the weak ass, in a coma, derelict of duty current Attorney General. pic.twitter.com/r2ClWu4mzv
— Danielle Candela (@DanielleCandela) May 4, 2024
Merrick Garland needed to restore faith in the AG's office that Bill Barr destroyed.
— LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊💔 (@namwella1961) May 8, 2024
Instead he's further eroded faith in a system where no one is supposed to be above the law.
I still have hope Jack Smith will prove it's still true.#ProudBlue #TrumpTrial #TrumpForPrison2024 pic.twitter.com/Vt5jFwUMyq
@TheJusticeDept
— CeCeIsSickOfTheGOP (@gumboqueen3030) May 5, 2024
Get Merrick Garland off if his deadbeat butt and actually investigate these common criminal , treasonous jerks pic.twitter.com/V2T5IlWx1M
Merrick Garland, the most important position in the Biden administration and the very worst choice after January 6th. Two years of doing nothing, here we are where the 'Rule of Law' is on the abyss of Democracy's destruction.
— EastTraveler™ (@EastTraveler) May 8, 2024
Shameful, pathetic and truly unconscionable. 😠 pic.twitter.com/6etjIyEvHG
Now that Aileen Cannon has given Trump a “get out of jail free card”, (if Trump wins), it really looks like Merrick Garland may have cost America the freedom and democracy we cherish.
— Jason Bourne (@TheOriginalWTH) May 8, 2024
Donald, Melania Ivanka Don Jr. Eric Trump Stormy spanked your daddy. pic.twitter.com/6gRdDGRfRs
Jared Moskowitz trolls MTG
How it started, how it’s going pic.twitter.com/vSo5FSbQ4q
— Jared Moskowitz (@JaredEMoskowitz) May 8, 2024
That was great! No one can compete with Raskin.....he's absolutely brilliant! I wish they had also focused on Grotham's face while Jamie was giving him a well-deserved spanking.
Ok then, class dismissed.
Grothman attempts to lecture Raskin on the use of the word ‘Republic’ in the pledge of allegiance. Raskin provides Grothman with a history lesson pic.twitter.com/aSGsQw1wy1
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 8, 2024
Something to know about Jim Stewartson;
https://twitter.com/jimstewartson
As a result of my work, I’ve attracted a large, coordinated operation to discredit, defame, silence, and psychologically harm me.
Their goal is to, as Mike Flynn says, “isolate and divide the target.” Every single person who has been publicly supportive of me has been lied to. ALL of them.
I want to get a few facts on the record.
NOTE: None of this matters. Feel free to skip it if uninterested. I don’t blame you. But no one else is going to define me, for me.
I was born James Glassman in Brooklyn, NY.
My father was an Ashkenazi Jew. Both his parents fled the pogroms in Russia a century ago as kids.
My parents got divorced when I was 3 and my mom legally changed my name back to her maiden name. She was Scottish-Irish.
I grew up outside of DC in suburban Maryland with a single mom who worked as a computer programmer for the government.
I was an extremely shy, anxious kid, and I was bullied brutally all the way through junior high.
When I went to a new high school I made some friends. I was in punk bands, went to Grateful Dead shows and did lots of drugs.
I barely got out of high school. I failed 2nd semester senior English and had to take Summer School.
After high school I went to U of MD for a semester, dropped out and bartended for a few years until moving to CA at 21.
I met my wife in 1993 in San Francisco. We got married in 1998. We now have three adult sons who are all working their way through college.
In the 90s I was in lots of bands. None of them were commercially successful, but I had a shitload of fun.
In 1992, I got a job in the warehouse of a women’s clothing company. I ended up computerizing the whole place and discovered graphics in the process.
In 1994, I quit and started a small graphics and web design company.
In 1995, I got a job as a consultant for Virtuality, the largest virtual reality operator in the world who wanted to move their technology online. I had no idea what I was doing so I taught myself how to program 3D and Java. VR was cool at that point but it made you very ill, because the technology was not ready yet.
In 1996, I saw an ad for a Star Trek project, to create a 3D game for the web. No one had done this before but, as a devoted Trekkie, I felt I could pull it off. I did, and built the first 3D game on the web. You could run around the Borg cube with phasers and do battle. It was pretty cool for 28 years ago. 6 million people played it.
Based on this work I started a new company, Shout Interactive, we built content and technology for VR on the web. We did work for many major technology companies, major TV networks, and events like the Olympics.
We created a 3D toolkit to allow you to build VR worlds on the internet. We sold that company in 2000 to join a company with computer vision software. We created 3D engines, content and technology for mobile, web, and consoles—with a focus on using AI for facial animation. I was Chief Technology Officer.
In 2001, I met the people who were creating what later became known as “alternate reality games” (ARGs) while they were running “The Beast” at Microsoft for Steven Spielberg’s movie AI. I was read in on the entire experience. It ended up changing my life.
In 2004, I co-founded 42 Entertainment as CTO to create alternate reality games like The Beast. Our first big project was for Halo 2. It was called “I Love Bees.” It got a lot of attention. A LOT.
This ARG won the Innovation Award at the Game Developers Conference the next year.
We ran numerous ARGs for high profile companies after I Love Bees & for properties like Batman & Nine Inch Nails.
We won many awards, including two Grand Prix Cyberlions at the Cannes Festival of Creativity.
In 2007, several of the founders quit to start a new company. I was one of them. The company was called “Fourth Wall Studios.”
We built replayable, contained ARGs that used your entire electronic sphere to tell stories—and we built a technology platform called Rides.
I was CEO of Fourth Wall Studios for 5 years and we did a lot of cool projects, but the one that sticks out was our first major production on our technology platform, RIDES TV. It was comedy called “Dirty Work” about people who clean up crime scenes. The characters would call and email and otherwise bring you INTO the story. We won the first Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement, Interactive Show in 2012 for Dirty Work and Rides.
I was proud that we cast a brilliant trans actress in her first role, who went on to be a star on several TV shows.
I learned a very hard lesson after we won the Emmy, about billionaires and sociopaths who don’t care about people. They care about money, power and control. The investor who funded us thought that the Emmy meant we had built something he could steal. So he did. But without the people it meant nothing. It was just his loss.
I had to let my whole company go, 75 of my best friends. It was the worst day of my life.
In 2014, I got a job at Google/Niantic working on a multi-platform ARG. We created an entire world based on a series of books, ran live events, and gained millions of followers. Working at the behemoth of Google was also an eye-opener. Getting anything done was a nightmare. When Niantic spun out of Google, I went my own way and started another VR company as CEO.
That company, called Awesome Rocketship, built physical VR rigs and content that solved the problem I ran into decades before with VR causing nausea. I had an idea that if you build a motion platform to counteract the problem of your eyes seeing something your body doesn’t feel, that it would solve it.
So I built a physical motion rig connected to a VR set up in my living room. It worked. It eliminated nausea and made the experience much more intense. We had some success selling the product, but COVID destroyed any chance of a physical VR solution being a large market.
I went on to work at several other companies in the VR space and did a bunch of consulting work to build solutions for people.
In Summer 2020, I was following the George Floyd protests very closely. And I was seeing crossover between QAnon and the right wing agitators causing violence.
On August 2nd, 2020, a friend wrote an article about QAnon being a large alternate reality game (ARG). So I went to QAnon Twitter to check it out. The next several days was a horrifying revelation. QAnon WAS an ARG, in part, but it was using those techniques to do something much darker than entertain people. It was brainwashing them. This was a cult. It was getting angry. And it was being influenced by a retired general with ties to the Russians.
I resolved to do something about it.
That was 1375 days ago. I have never stopped. Not for a single day. And I won’t. Not until the people who abused my work to psychologically trap people into a death cult are brought to justice. Not until they stop actively trying to overthrow the country my grandkids are supposed to grow up in.
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Interesting take. If trump was in jail or prison, nobody will see the increasing deterioration of his health, mind, and body, which is surely going to be happening where they won't be able to continue to hide it. It's not linear. Better to use him as some martyr, or an imaginary saviour for the cult.
Traitor flynn still busy at trying to take over the world, but first on his agenda is the US. From using all the usual suspects, QAnon to the extreme christian nationalist. In cahoots with Bannon, trump, the pillow guy, orban, all the criminals you know and hate. Made a propaganda movie about himself. On his podcast talking about a vp position (they all know that whoever is vp if trump wins, they will quickly become the president when trump becomes incapacitated), assassination for a little bit, and to let people know that he was sending out a thousand untraceable phones. Next time they will work to be less identifiable.
Disgraced general flynn supposedly received 8 supenea's recently, and then his son stated he did also. No word on from who, what, where, or when, so It's probably some ruse or strategic ploy, so don't hold your breath. But he did lose his lawfare suit against Jim Stewartson. Jim continues to be a big thorn in his butt. Good for him.
It’s not a coincidence that Alina Habba part of the same 1000-year old Catholic cult that Mike Flynn’s mom and Erik Prince are part of—and seems to be doing everything she can to put Trump in prison. https://t.co/9xMCtDVxZK
— Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈 (@jimstewartson) May 8, 2024
File this under: GOOD STUFF
EU agreed 'in principle' to use profits from Russia's frozen assets to aid and buy weapons for Ukraine.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 8, 2024
More than €200 billion of Russian central bank assets were frozen in the EU after the start of Ukraine war in February 2022. pic.twitter.com/4VIkxheOST
We Are Very Sorry To Hear About RFK Jr.'s Brain Worm And Mercury Poisoning
Holy god, this poor bastard has a medical history that makes him sound like one of Magellan's sailors.
By Charles P. Pierce PUBLISHED: MAY 08, 2024 11:44 AM EDT
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60732296/rfk-jr-parasite-worm-brain/
candidate rfk jr holds cesar chavez day event as he pushes latino outreach in his presidential bid
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The New York Times took a deep dive on Tuesday into the medical history of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whose raison d'etre as a presidential candidate is primarily based on crazy-assed Do Your Own Research vaccine denialism and the fact that the two major candidates are older than he is and, therefore, not up to the job, cognitively. Judging from the Times story, RFKJ needs to find himself some new raisons d'etre tout suite.
Several doctors noticed a dark spot on the younger Mr. Kennedy’s brain scans and concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 deposition reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Kennedy was immediately scheduled for a procedure at Duke University Medical Center by the same surgeon who had operated on his uncle, he said.
While packing for the trip, he said, he received a call from a doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital who had a different opinion: Mr. Kennedy, he believed, had a dead parasite in his head. The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Mr. Kennedy said in the deposition.
Well, that sounds awful.
For decades, Mr. Kennedy suffered from atrial fibrillation, a common heartbeat abnormality that increases the risk of stroke or heart failure. He has been hospitalized at least four times for episodes, although in an interview with The Times this winter, he said he had not had an incident in more than a decade and believed the condition had disappeared.
About the same time he learned of the parasite, he said, he was also diagnosed with mercury poisoning, most likely from ingesting too much fish containing the dangerous heavy metal, which can cause serious neurological issues. “I have cognitive problems, clearly,” he said in the 2012 deposition. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.”
Mr. Kennedy said he was then subsisting on a diet heavy on predatory fish, notably tuna and perch, both known to have elevated mercury levels. In the interview with The Times, he said that he had experienced “severe brain fog” and had trouble retrieving words. Mr. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who has railed against the dangers of mercury contamination in fish from coal-fired power plants, had his blood tested. He said the tests showed his mercury levels were 10 times what the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe.
Brainworms? Poisoned fish? Holy Lord, this poor bastard has a medical history that makes him sound like one of Magellan's sailors. How did he avoid scurvy?
It's easy to assume that the latter condition has played a serious role in his entire public life. His effort to clean up the country's rivers concentrated heavily on the threat posed by mercury byproducts from coal-fired power plants. And, of course, his vaccine denialism began as a crusade against the mercury-based vaccine preservative Thiomersal, which was in fact removed from use by the Food and Drug Administration. Kennedy attached himself to the phantom threat of the preservative as a causal agent for autism, which discredited his warnings about mercury in vaccines generally.
His medical history is now a legitimate topic for political discussion because he chose to engage in long-distance diagnoses of the president. Every one of his verbal stumbles and every moment of public forgetfulness is going to be counted against his fitness for office because that's the field on which he's chosen to compete. Personally now, I think he should stop with the YouTube calisthenics and the TikTok iron-pumping and accept the fact that he's not that much younger than the president is.
Oopsie!
Trump's paid legal spokesperson Alina Habba just repeatedly attacked witness Stormy Daniels on Fox. We strongly believe that Habba's statements tonight violate the gag order in place against Donald Trump. We walk through our reasoning here. https://t.co/JDqydRSZ5z
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 8, 2024
Sounds like a plan!
Serves her right. Send MTG on Tiger Safari with no weapons. Toss her out of car.
Darwin Award:
Woman gets out of the car to argue with her husband while inside a Tiger Safari pic.twitter.com/MpI2UJoSNm
— CCTV IDIOTS (@cctvidiots) May 7, 2024
Again, that never mattered. Even when there's a Friday session, it ends at 3:00. He has a plane, and could likely have made it back to Palm Beach by 6, in time for the 7 o'clock ceremony.
And he knew that, because he'd already scheduled the event in Minnesota for late afternoon that day.
He didn't have a judge running his calendar in those days.
We may be overthinking this. He didn't need excuses not to attend the high school graduations of Junior, Ivanka, Eric, and Tiffany.
Not sure they could actually ban him since he is Barron's father, but they could probably make him understand that he was unwelcome
Besides- he'd much prefer to be the guest speaker where he can have all of the attention.
This is probably true.
Actually, I’d have no trouble believing that Trump has been banned from Barron’s graduation— by Melania, by school administrators, by the families of the other students, by his grown children, by the groundskeepers, by the National Association of Septic Tank Technicians, by— pic.twitter.com/AVB1DSdnno
— Dr. David A. Lustig (@drdave1999) May 3, 2024
I'll be so curious where he decides to go to school.
The education he got (or didn't get) there may make his entire college experience a surprise.
Not sure yet. There's some pretty powerful forces against it going mainstream. Hard to say.
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That looks so good. Thank you. Is it going to be on Prime?
New documentary going to be coming out, Long Knife. Takes off from Killers of The Flowers Moon. Leonardo DiCaprio's father is an executive producer of it. One of the most, if not the most influence of our politics and our environment today.
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