riley

GottaLaff , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

🔥 #BREAKING #Trump 1/...

#WOMPWOMP #WOMPAGE

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Breaking news, first
@thedailybeast

Donald Trump has been hit with a massive one-two punch in his bank fraud case.

He owes $372 million for lying—and he can't borrow money from any New York bank, frustrating his ability to appeal the judgment.

riley , 4 months ago

@GottaLaff He's letting them off so lightly!

GottaLaff , 4 months ago to random

Not from The Onion. For realsies…

Via Acyn:

“So Donald #Trump sent out a fundraising pitch that reads, Dear Melania I love you. Even after every single indictment, arrest, and witch hunt, you never left my side”

riley , 4 months ago

@GottaLaff If I didn't know that Melania can hold her own while renegotiating the prenuptial, I'd feel bad for her.

riley , 4 months ago

@GottaLaff

She couldn't have foreseen all the presidential bullshit that he's capable of when she first agreed to marry him.

wdlindsy , 4 months ago to random

"One day after Putin told Tucker Carlson he invaded Ukraine not because of NATO, but because of his commitment to pursue Greater Russia, Trump promised he'd help Putin pursue Greater Russia. …

At a time when winning the election is an existential necessity for Trump, one day after Putin made clear he is seeking not just Ukraine, but Greater Russia, Trump overtly promised to allow Russia to carve up NATO."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #Putin #Russia #NATO

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/12/call-and-response-putin-is-demanding-greater-russia/

riley , 4 months ago

@wdlindsy Just the other day, Beau made an intriguing argument that this takes Trump awfully close to the "adhere to its enemies and give them aid and comfort" criteria of the US constitution.

GottaLaff , 5 months ago to random

🤔
Via Lisa Rubin:

George #Santos was in New Hampshire last night at Trump’s party. But his conditions of release prohibit travel outside New York and DC without advanced notice to the prosecution and pretrial services. Did he tell them he was going to NH?

riley , 5 months ago

@GottaLaff What are the odds of Pumpkin picking Santos as his running mate?

riley , 5 months ago

@GottaLaff Stalin had a distinct pattern of picking people with flaws that could be easily converted into social stigmas — such as felony convictions — but that wouldn't directly endanger his power as his closest coworkers. Seeing the pattern of combined sycophancy and incompetence in both Trump's cabinet and his legal teams, I think he's trying to follow the same pattern, only he's worse at recognising ability than Stalin was. So, Santos seems to be kind of the best fit: he can do sycophancy; he has a felony indictment hanging on his head; and he's not a threat to Trump's power the way that he'd probably perceive DeSantis, who has actual governing skills, as.

futurebird , 5 months ago to random

Suppose you have a satellite phone and excellent GPS— is it reasonable to avoid large bad storms and big ships in a sailboat? Let’s say you are pretty good at sailing. Would you need something bigger than 20’ to confidently avoid danger beyond your keel dappling around on the open ocean. (and you can provision and stay out of port for a month no problem.) No time tables but several places you want to get to eventually.

(it seems possible to me but ima harbor and sound baby)

riley , 5 months ago

@futurebird It depends to some degree on the architecture of the boat, the geography of the part of the world where you plan to hang out, and the set of countries whose ports you can safely use as harbours, but 20 feet is probably not enough if where you're trying to hide from storms is the ocean at large and you plan to do it on a long, multi-year, basis.

There's a now confirmed to happen but poorly undersood mechanism that can cause occasional extreme waves, which could probably sink a 20-feet sailboat, and since the mechanism is not yet properly understood, there's currently no reliable way to avoid them.

If the body of water where you're hiding from storms is sufficiently small, as in, a lake (and preferrably, a smaller large than the Great Lakes) or a river or a canal system or a bay, that could protect you from extreme waves, but it could also complicate navigating to a place away from reliably prognosticated extreme wind events, when those happen, if your part of the world has them.