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Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
1:54 AM
The only complete (?) video of this session on YouTube is from a Fox channel.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
That stupid video is actually worth listening to for its over-the-top batshit craziness.
Nothing of the slightest substance. It's half an hour of lying tells, narcissistic turns of phrase, and desperate lashing out.
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
2:12 AM
@TimStone hopefully the next person will reintroduce Net Neutrality?
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
11 seconds in he starts with, "they are finding..."
Every time he says that I want to jump up and scream "WHO IS THEY?"
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@Jolenealaska Top Men
*plays Indian Jones scene but crate has "Rudy's Hair Juice" written on the site*
> "I worked hard with a singular focus - to save lives and help Americans through this pandemic," the resignation letter reads.
*slow claps* well done there
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
2:29 AM
So uhh I see the NSC is acting normal and cool online
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
 
Private Pansy
Private Pansy
@TimStone I'm so confused. Aside from how unprofessional this is, unless the White House has bought every single bottle of Australian wine a tariff doesn't actually stop anyone from importing things
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
The tariffs are apparently up to 212%, so I guess that is fairly prohibitive
It does seem uhh
 
Private Pansy
Private Pansy
Fair. Although it also kinda sounds like the Chinese just can't import wine, period
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
A little confusing, though?
Like, can your wine not just…sit there…and age? lol
 
Private Pansy
Private Pansy
2:34 AM
I guess it's more of a playground gloat at what the Chinese can't have
But again, I don't think anyone think of Australian wine as so precious that it can't be substituted with wine from other regions
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
> playground gloat
precisely
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Yeah, I was just talking from the perspective of the article with the tariff numbers, it implies that they're scrambling to find new markets for their product
Which like, you gotta make money at some point, so I get that, but it doesn't seem as dire as like, the soy issue was
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
I caught a bit of that a few hours ago. It's a very big deal to some vintners.
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@PrivatePansy well the reason China claims it's put the tariffs on it is because they think we're dumping cheap wine to them and hurting their local business
so they got local wine producers. the Chinese Government just wants to hurt Australia for wanting an investigation into the origin of COVID
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
2:49 AM
@TimStone Golly gee. I wonder why he wanted to be president?
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
@TimStone WaPo rocks with headlines like that.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
(TMZ, which is a terrible site, but whew, amazing)
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
Yet, somehow not at all amazing.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
4:01 AM
The President is retweeting @catturd2 again
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
4:32 AM
Jesus
I would be nearly innocent of his damn tweets were it not for this room.
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
5:32 AM
This isn't going to have any shocks for anyone here, but, holy shit.
Washington Post
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
5:56 AM
It seems to me that all of this can only help with the all-important Georgia run-offs.
It really drives home that Trump is seriously and dangerously deranged.
Like, 25th Amendment deranged.
 
 
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Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
12:37 PM
>
But the president and his allies have continued to paint the result of the election as illegitimate, seeking to create more upheaval in the run-up to the electoral college’s formal vote on Dec. 14.
> “It’s one of the really terrible features of the electoral college,” said Paul M. Smith, vice president for litigation and strategy with the Campaign Legal Center. “… It’s this long, multi-state process in which lots of different players can try to play. It’s full of potential for unfortunate interference.”
50 days
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
t minus 50
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
Unbelievable
> Joe diGenova, one of Trump’s lawyers seeking to reverse the election results, said Monday that Christopher Krebs, the government’s former top election security official who rebutted Trump’s baseless claims about massive election fraud, should be “taken out at dawn and shot.”
DiGenova made his comments about Krebs, whom Trump fired on Nov. 17 as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, during an interview with conservative radio host Howie Carr.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
Getting "shot at dawn" is a military execution
Trump prefers the Valentine's Day massacres style.
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
lynching
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
12:52 PM
All in the noble name of making America great again
 
Nzall
Nzall
Great like the Third Reich, apparently
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
I hope I live to see the other side of this. And that there is another side. I guess I hope for that most of all.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
In other news:
:D
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
Did you do that here? Post a fun Meta question?
I keep watching that.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
Nope, the meta of metas.
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
1:06 PM
Like compulsively. Over and over. While laughing maniacally. 11 seconds of pretty boss cat action.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
where the angry lynching mob mentality lives on...
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
There has got to be a connection.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
Cyber lynching
or perhaps, a burning at the stack; to get that smell of victory
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
Jesus. That whole 'shot at dawn' article is just ... wow
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
yup, smells like victory
Napalm: invented and developed at Harvard.
 
Nzall
Nzall
1:55 PM
> The State Bar is almost never the right vehicle to address lawyers acting badly in media, but I submit this is an exception — calling for the death of someone who could plausibly be a witness in the litigation you’re helping to run.
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
@Nzall Good - That. Is. Not. OK.
 
 
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Tim Stone
Tim Stone
3:38 PM
 
MBraedley
MBraedley
3:55 PM
:(
 
Napoleon Wilson
Napoleon Wilson
@Jolenealaska It's especially great considering who can hear that.
 
MBraedley
MBraedley
There was hope the instrument platform could still saved, or at least that the equipment could be removed before collapse, but that's obviously no longer an option.
 
Napoleon Wilson
Napoleon Wilson
It's not only bad form to say that, in a country where people get assault rifles for teir 8th birthday it's downright irresponsible.
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
4:19 PM
@MBraedley Well that's upsetting.
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
@NapoleonWilson I'm feeling the need to consult a thesaurus. 'Irresponsible' just doesn't do it justice.
 
 
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Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
5:25 PM
We're up to 170 million raised by Trump since the election according to the NYT.
> The president’s campaign has ratcheted up its appeals for cash, but the first 75 percent of every contribution is going to a new political action committee that could fund his next political move.
 
Napoleon Wilson
Napoleon Wilson
5:46 PM
Awesome.
Hopefully it'll actually get sunk into one of his bankrupt real estates.
 
Nzall
Nzall
@MBraedley twitter.com/DeborahTiempo/status/1333806230125604867 Pictures of the aftermath
 
Napoleon Wilson
Napoleon Wilson
That would also give more strength to the "buahahaha!" I'd tell the guy suing to get his election fraud donations back.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
dang, the arecibo SETI dish did actually collapse
guess decommissioning and roping off the area was a good call, no injuries reported
900 ton platform fell through it
@MBraedley Ah, inb4'd
 
Nzall
Nzall
6:32 PM
@GnomeSlice On a Reddit thread about pictures of the aftermath, they said the cables were failing when they were carrying 60% of their maximum strength. Most structural engineers really don't like going above 33-45%
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
yeah, they decided to decommission because any repair work would have been very dangerous for workers
seems like they were right
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
@GnomeSlice I saw that :(
 
 
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Tim Stone
Tim Stone
7:50 PM
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
well!
 
BradC
BradC
8:43 PM
And yet also:
> Attorney General William Barr has given extra protection to the prosecutor he appointed to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, giving him the authority of a special counsel to complete his work without being easily fired.
 
MBraedley
MBraedley
@BradC Weren't the origins the Obama DOJ? And then pressure from the House after the 2018 elections? Am I missing something here?
 
Mad Scientist
Mad Scientist
@MBraedley I don't think this is required to make sense
 
BradC
BradC
yeah, its all part of the same "Dems were (and still are) out to get Trump" narrative
 
 
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Unionhawk
Unionhawk
10:12 PM
Ok Nestle v Doe appears to be a mess so far but we'll see what happens...
(Katyal was Obama's solicitor general for a time and is considered to be a possible scotus candidate but we'll see given a small history of arguing for executive oversight, but he does these sorts of cases all the time, also counsel on Epic Systems)
(Epic Systems was of course not quite as evil as the present consolidated Nestle and Cargill cases but)
actually being on this nestle case might seal it as a "... you know what I'll go with someone else"
like one of the most facially evil things that has come before the court recently
 
Jolenealaska
Jolenealaska
Yes. Please stop.
> “It has to stop,” said Mr. Sterling, a Republican. “Mr. President, you have not condemned this language or these actions. This has to stop. We need you to step up, and if you’re going to take a position of leadership, show some.”
and
> What you don’t have is the ability to — and you need to step up and say this — is stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence. Someone’s going to get hurt. Someone’s going to get shot. Someone’s going to get killed.”
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
10:28 PM
@Jolenealaska so long as it's an illegal voter or a Never Trumper he wouldn't care
plus he can hand wave responsibility by pointing it to Biden because he's president-elect
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
11:19 PM
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
@TimStone I suspect that Trump will just pardon them for the bribery charges as well.
THE SYSTEM WORKS!
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
11:51 PM
The submissions were handled expeditiously and the president is a big whiny baby who should shut the hell up 🙄
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@TimStone he really thinks the entire world circles around what he does
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
This is, incidentally, marginally personally offensive and he can kiss my ass
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
the vaccines aren't for us to beat COVID and return to normality, it's to help him rally support in his attempts to overturns an election because he can't accept a loss
 

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