@GodEmperorDune Nah, Takeda bought Shire after a failed AbbVie bid

there is a plant in my hometown so the only reason i know these things is as the signage on the buildings changes

Oh wait Bayer did finish its Monsanto acquisition

Megacorps, man

lol Omarosa

tfw when your conspiracy is too intense for r/the_d

I still can't believe even Flynn Jr was like "woah that's just absurd"

> Infowars founder Alex Jones once promoted the theory, but then told his followers that it had been compromised.

@TimStone wow that's a large number of accounts

Eat shit proudboysohio

Well here's some somewhat positive immigration news for a change: Deported Asylum-Seekers Brought Back On Angry Judge's Orders

> The mother, known in court documents by the pseudonym Carmen to protect her identity, and her daughter were challenging Trump administration rules that largely bar the use of domestic and gang violence as the basis for asylum applications. District Judge Emmet Sullivan had been assured the pair would not be deported to El Salvador before midnight Thursday.

> A transcript of a hearing on Thursday shows Sullivan being informed that even while a government attorney was making that assurance, the asylum-seekers were on a plane out of the country, having been deported.

> Angered, Sullivan ordered the government to "return 'Carmen' and her daughter to the United States FORTHWITH." He also threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen in contempt of court if they didn't obey the order.

Hopefully this will help to prevent this stuff from happening again

@GodEmperorDune weren't able to weren't willing? I could have sworn he promised to shut them down, but obviously it never happened. Were their legitimate reasons that prevented him doing so? Legit question, since I'm not really informed at all on it.

Ughhhhhh

It's super complicated and it's easiest to just say it's everyone's fault

Willing and able are connected here I think

Could he have gotten it done with more push? Maybe. Who knows.

Did he probably want to get it done if it didn't cost too much political capital? Probably

Yeah, if he just went in and did it immediately it probably would have been the end, but that carried political risk he wasn't willing to take and then the Pentagon was like "But we like throwing people in unaccountable prison!" and it snowballed into do-nothing from there

More like the hexagon (?)

Sounds like a terrible time all around

Oh my gooooood /cc @GodEmperorDune

@TimStone the VEINS

Todd Graves represented Eric O'Keefe and did the "IRS targretting Tea Party" lawsuit for context

Also is the current Missouri GOP chair 🤷🏼‍♂️

F-15s scrambled

Another tweet says a pilot claims a Verizon (oddly specific?) employee hijacked a plane

jfc dude is unhinged, I hope this ends well :/

Ground stop lifted for the moment

ATC tone of voice sounds like the crash is confirmed, damn, out in an island in the bay

Dude ("Rich"?) sounded unwell on the ATC feed, wildly chimed in saying he "thought that'd be the end of it" when he attempted a barrel roll

:/

Reportedly an airline mechanic, per police

Holy shit. I used to live like 10 minutes from where the plane crashed.

Yeah, this is all just wild

@TimStone (In retrospect this was probably Horizon and the person misheard/typed)

So they don't really have like, car keys, the security is all in the airport itself

Since the dude was a mechanic he was probably working on the plane or in proximity to it when he just snapped

plus planes have the anti theft device of "not many people know how to pilot them"

Yeah, it's kind of crazy but unfortunately like the internet it Just Works on the principle the people who can make bad things happen won't

@TimStone hue

lol Chris Collins has suspended his reelection bid after all on account of probably going to jail 🤷🏼‍♂️

Is that it or is there a mechanism to not have a ballot line go empty because of crimes

I would think it would be except the wording of his letter suggests otherwise

lmao it is actually much more stupid

Even if he's convicted NY election law will keep him on the ballot

Doesn't matter that he suspended, only if he takes the line for another office will he be removed

Here’s the official statement

Oh wait the Real House Wives boyfriend Dennis Sheilds, who ODed the other day, was the dude Cohen called about the Trump Tower fire?

JFC this is convoluted levels of stupid

Ahahahaha yessss

🤷🏼‍♂️

It would seem so huh?

Yeah this is a mess, dems

@TimStone I still don’t get how this group is still going

@Ash yeah

Pretty much

Look it only took him a year

I'm skeptical of "all types of racism" in 2018

From these kinds of people

@Ash yeah, same

@Ash I think the 'catch' is (at the risk of over-analyzing something Donald, or one of his staffers, tweeted); it is still frustratingly neutral. And some of the wording plays well with his base.

> [Florida] House Candidate Melissa Howard Faked Her Diploma, University Alleges

loool

@Unionhawk It's 100% "there are good people on both sides"

> Miami University in Ohio

wut

wow this story is full of wat

how can you be so bad at faking a degree

Right?

like google who the president of the university is at the time

And how would you be confused about when you got your degree? lol

seriously

chef's kiss

or pull the "attended X university for undergraduate" which is technically correct

Right

@TimStone tfw you're definitely not a racist

It wouldn't surprise me if Omarosa was lying about some of the stuff but like you're all huge grifters what the hell did you expect

That story about her time at the White House though, lmao

Also for the love of god, there are already QAnon conspiracy theories about the stolen plane

I hate everything

i mean the loop was in the shape of a Q so...

@GodEmperorDune And the plane was a Dash 8 Q400!

@Ash It's just sooooo gross :(

@TimStone qalamity anon works in mysterious ways

@TimStone love to be fiscally responsible

It's whack they have a "release fee" and that so many people aren't in a position to afford $55

yep

capitalism, man

lmao, why do they keep letting Megan McArdle write?

> Show me the victims of insider trading. I’ll wait.

That's just an impressively stupid take

@TimStone uhhhh, points to every shareholder of the stock

Oh no, she gets there

She just thinks all those people are in fact dumb for not also having insider information

Or something

dammit i have contributed to the shitposting clickbait cycle by opening this article to read

It is a masterclass in broken brain syndrome, I'm sorry

so it's some freshly painted economic darwinism then, great

why punish white collar crime at all?

She legitimately suggests that people buying the stock would have been worse off because they might have paid more if Collins hadn't done insider trading and unloaded a a lot of stock, ignoring of course that the whole reason we're here is due to the trading volume being 1400% more than usual

> Harley-Davidson owners plan boycott after manufacturing moved overseas

@TimStone hell yeah

> Harley-Davidson owners

🤔

@TimStone but if you already have the motorcycle, what is there to boycott?

They'll just apparently maybe not buy another Harley at some point in the future which they might also just never have done anyway!

I'd be quaking in my boots thinking about how I might not get a sale 10 years from now either way

Now we know what jeb’s plan was

lmao, that's fantastic

lol it was sql injection

:/