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by N.E. Brigand
Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:29 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Replies: 228
Views: 34759

Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney

Actual Fox News caption: "Witness: Trump Dated Beautiful Women."
by N.E. Brigand
Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:26 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Replies: 228
Views: 34759

Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney

Sometimes it seems as if there's a symbiotic relationship between Donald Trump and reporter Maggie Haberman of the New York Times . She's printed lots of unflattering stories about him, but he keeps giving her interviews, and he's clearly been an anonymous source for some of her reporting, in what s...
by N.E. Brigand
Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:04 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 1078
Views: 122010

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

I was just polled, mostly about the Ohio Senate race, via a call to my cell phone. I think it was by a Republican-leaning firm. I wasn't sure at first. There were lots of questions about supposed bad things that both Sen. Sherrod Brown and Bernie Moreno have done, but while there were questions abou...
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:55 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
Replies: 1316
Views: 402418

Re: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?

Speaking in Tampa today, President Biden urged Floridians to vote for the abortion rights issue that will be on the ballot in November. It requires 60% to pass. After making a joke about the Bible that Trump is selling ("I almost wanted to buy one just to see what the hell is in it"), Bide...
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:28 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Replies: 228
Views: 34759

Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney

Actual National Enquirer headline from that period: "It's Over for Pervy Ted".
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:45 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Replies: 1026
Views: 121526

Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

CNN's Ranu Maju reports : "Mitch McConnell, a staunch backer of Ukraine aid, says the anti-Ukraine movement began with Tucker Carlson, 'who, in my opinion, ended up where he should have been all along, which is interviewing Vladimir Putin.'" Apparently the final vote will happen later today.
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:33 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Replies: 1026
Views: 121526

Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

The Senate foreign aid package will combine the four House bills into one, so there is likely to be some opposition from both the left and right, but an attempt to filibuster the bill just was blocked by an 80-19 vote. And Republican Senate leadership has been sharing this document countering far-ri...
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:16 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Replies: 228
Views: 34759

Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney

National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified today that he did indeed have an informal agreement with Donald Trump in 2015 to publish derogatory stories about Trump's opponents and to purchase and suppress derogatory stories about Trump. The heart of this trial lies with the latter effort -- ...
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:57 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
Replies: 2010
Views: 296237

Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)

The Federal Trade Commission just voted (3-2) to ban non-compete agreements. That's an arrangement reached between a company and an employee that prohibits the employee from working for the company's competition for some period of time after the employee leaves the company. The FTC's ruling applies ...
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:35 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Replies: 228
Views: 34759

Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney

To be fair, I haven't been particularly keeping up with the trial other than what I've been reading here and I'd heard about Trump's sleepiness and odor issues and I had no idea/was wondering what was being referred to although it is a little TMI. The fact that he apparently fell asleep in court la...
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:27 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 1078
Views: 122010

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

Republicans seem to have convinced themselves that Donald Trump never suggested in 2020 that injecting disinfectant into people's bodies might be a way to stop Covid, but he really did: "And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can ...
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:43 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Replies: 228
Views: 34759

Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney

To be fair, I haven't been particularly keeping up with the trial other than what I've been reading here and I'd heard about Trump's sleepiness and odor issues and I had no idea/was wondering what was being referred to although it is a little TMI. The fact that he apparently fell asleep in court la...
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:39 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 1078
Views: 122010

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

Okay, had to google that: Blockchain technology is an advanced database mechanism that allows transparent information sharing within a business network. A blockchain database stores data in blocks that are linked together in a chain. It's also the technology that makes cryptocurrency possible. In t...
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:47 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
Replies: 1316
Views: 402418

Re: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?

" Texan Suing Ex’s BFFs Over Abortion Allegedly Promised to Drop Lawsuit for Sex . According to a new court filing, he also allegedly threatened to release intimate videos of his ex-wife unless she did his laundry." That's a new article in Rolling Stone about the law Texas enacted in 2021 ...
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 1078
Views: 122010

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

RFK Jr. today: "I'm gonna put the entire U.S. budget on blockchain."
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:52 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
Replies: 4051
Views: 556638

Re: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions

One possible answer to Karen Piper's question is that Rep. Barry Laudermilk is attempting to assist future attacks on the Capitol. https://twitter.com/PiperK/status/1782558435650761171B Remember, it was Laudermilk who led a suspicious tour of the Capitol shortly before Jan. 6th. But there also may b...
by N.E. Brigand
Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:38 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump Charged With 37 counts of Espionage, Obstruction and related crimes
Replies: 1089
Views: 123544

Re: Trump Charged With 37 counts of Espionage, Obstruction and related crimes

A witness in this case testified in a deposition that Walt Nauta was told that Donald Trump would pardon him once he's again president.
by N.E. Brigand
Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:25 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Replies: 228
Views: 34759

Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney

I hear you. That said, Anthony Kreis later said of his concern with Michael Cohen's post: "It’s not about decorum. It’s about giving unnecessary new impeachment material." So it would seem that Kreis was considering the possibility of Donald Trump's lawyers asking Cohen about this tweet. I...
by N.E. Brigand
Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:09 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 1078
Views: 122010

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

Celebrity endorsements don't mean much, but the actor Michael Douglas (who once played the U.S. president and currently portrays Benjamin Franklin in a TV miniseries) makes a good point on CNN : it appears that every member of President Biden's cabinet supports him while very few members of Donald T...
by N.E. Brigand
Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:00 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
Replies: 2010
Views: 296237

Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)

The only non-union Volkswagen plant in the world was located in Tennessee. Until the day before yesterday, when workers there voted -- over the warnings of several Republican governors -- to join the UAW. Apparently it's been decades since this happened in a U.S. auto plant. President Biden has iss...