heywood on 16/4/2024 at 10:24
I would say that's expected considering the activities of Saturday night.
With active wars in Europe and the Middle East and a massive military buildup in China going on, I imagine life at the Pentagon will be busy for a while.
Starker on 18/4/2024 at 11:34
Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again:
[video=youtube;5aFQY6-Mxcw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aFQY6-Mxcw[/video]
Cipheron on 20/4/2024 at 22:13
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/black-undercover-officer-beaten-st-louis-b2531716.html)
Quote:
Luther Hall, a St Louis police officer, was present at a street protest in 2017 where he was working undercover. His disguise was apparently so good that his fellow officers failed to recognise him when they mercilessly beat him on the street.
On Monday, Mr Hall was awarded $23.5m for the attack, according to the St Louis American.
Notably they arrest Hall, who is black, and also another undercover officer who is white. They only beat up the black one.
Quote:
In an exchange on 15 September, 2017, just two days before the incident, Myers wrote "let's kick some a**," to which Boone replied "it's gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these s***heads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!"
Judge Joseph Whyte noted during Monday's hearing that after Mr Hall was assaulted, Hays sent a text message to another officer, saying that if they had beaten a protester rather than a police officer, “it wouldn't be a problem at all.”
Starker on 27/4/2024 at 11:38
In the latest instalment of some more news, the origins of GOP Jesus are revealed
[video=youtube;wHdjjXQHxzs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHdjjXQHxzs[/video]
Cipheron on 8/5/2024 at 14:24
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https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-brain-worm/)
Quote:
Third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a startling medical secret, according to The New York Times: Parts of his brain were apparently eaten by a parasitic worm.
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According to the report, Kennedy suffers from a number of other impairments, including atrial fibrillation and mercury poisoning related to the consumption of fish.
Part of his brain got eaten AND he got mercury poisoning.
This might ... explain many things.
demagogue on 8/5/2024 at 15:13
Attacking him just makes his followers circle the wagons & double-down on supporting the guy, as with Trump. They actually get a boost from acting irresponsibly. Well, I don't know if RFK Jr.'s ailments come from irresponsible behavior, but his statements and opportunism riding the populist tide under their shadow (boost?) do.
Trump's legal woe's certainly come from irresponsible behavior. He's on the eve of getting locked up for contempt of court for violating his gag order, and I imagine he'd jump at the chance to get the optics of being unfairly locked up if the sentence is short enough. The guy will probably think he's getting his My Struggle moment.
What a messed up local Nash equilibrium fate has brought us to.
The worse behaved he is, the more they support him.
You can't organize a society around that incentive structure.
Cipheron on 8/5/2024 at 16:57
BTW, The context is apparently from RFK's divorce proceedings, he was arguing diminished earning capacity, to pay less alimony. So we can't know how accurate it is, or if he was lying or exaggerating at the time, but it's from court documents his own lawyers would have filed.
Anyway he has zero chance of doing anything in the election, so it's really a side-story. Trump supporters boosted him because they thought he'd siphon votes from the Democrats purely because of the Kennedy name, but that is some pretty magical thinking there, since the whole "JFK Jr cult" is actually a Republican thing.
So I don't think discussing or not discussing this story makes much difference at this point, but if he is actually still running in November, then some amount of QAnon types would probably switch their vote to him. Which would be pretty silly, but can't be ruled out if you've looked at the alternate reality stuff that is QAnon discussion.