[hrothgar]

Quite good writeup wrt the arrest of Judge Duggan

https://www.emptywhe...e-hannah-dugan/

[kenberg]

hrothgar, on 2025-April-27, 07:43, said:

Quite good writeup wrt the arrest of Judge Duggan

https://www.emptywhe...e-hannah-dugan/

Lenghty but yes, quite good.


Once lawyers get into a case, I have trouble following all the logical (?) points. But the article presents them about as clearly as they can be presented.

We are in deep stuff and it is getting deeper. However the legal case goes, we have a very vindicive president using and often abusig his power. Very hard to predict how this will go, right now it is a combination of disgusting and terrifying.

[WasWinM]

 hrothgar, on 2025-April-16, 11:01, said:

Judge Boasberg just upped the ante

He gave the government an opportunity to purge the contempt.
Barring this, he is bringing in a prosecutor

https://cdn.bsky.app...sm5rckcwv4@jpeg

I BELIEVE that he has the opportunity to chose a prosecutor if the government does not do so

The problem as I understand it is that a special prosecutor is still under the control of the DOJ.

[benellis58]

How did it EVER get to the point that the USA has such a contemptible piece of garbage as its president?

[pilowsky]

benellis58, on 2025-April-27, 20:13, said:

How did it EVER get to the point that the USA has such a contemptible piece of garbage as its president?

Twice

[hrothgar]

We have a badly divided country and out elections tend to get swung by a group of uneducated idiots living in a few swing states.

Listen to some of the focus groups that get conducted with these folks

they're morons

[WasWinM]

 hrothgar, on 2025-April-28, 03:02, said:

We have a badly divided country and out elections tend to get swung by a group of uneducated idiots living in a few swing states.

Listen to some of the focus groups that get conducted with these folks

they're morons

Worse, they’re Christianists who want a Big Daddy to forgive all their transgressions- hence Trump.

[WasWinM]

Was watching Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC and spotted the trouble with Dem messaging. Lawerence kept pounding the high poll numbers who disagree with Trump but ignored the 40% who still approve. What he should have done is gone through each action Trump has taken and explain how that has hurt most Americans and then asked if that is why they still support him.
It’s critical to whittle away at that 40% and to do that it has to be made personal to them. Abstracts don’t matter.

[shyams]

WasWinM, on 2025-April-28, 20:34, said:

Was watching Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC and spotted the trouble with Dem messaging. Lawerence kept pounding the high poll numbers who disagree with Trump but ignored the 40% who still approve. What he should have done is gone through each action Trump has taken and explain how that has hurt most Americans and then asked if that is why they still support him.
It’s critical to whittle away at that 40% and to do that it has to be made personal to them. Abstracts don’t matter.

If that is the gameplan (and I agree it should be), MSNBC is not the platform that can do any whittling.

These are matters best communicated by your political leaders and carried onward by the neutral-ish social media influencers + podcast platforms.

Sorry to say but leaders like Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer et al are doing a worse job than the AOC + Bernie combo. The duo seems to be far more effective at communicating concerns with the Trump policies + rallying the crowd to their (Dem) point of view.

[WasWinM]

 shyams, on 2025-April-28, 20:43, said:

If that is the gameplan (and I agree it should be), MSNBC is not the platform that can do any whittling.

These are matters best communicated by your political leaders and carried onward by the neutral-ish social media influencers + podcast platforms.

Sorry to say but leaders like Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer et al are doing a worse job than the AOC + Bernie combo. The duo seems to be far more effective at communicating concerns with the Trump policies + rallying the crowd to their (Dem) point of view.

I rarely watch MSNBC. It’s a cinch that Trump bashing accomplishes nothing, and that’s all they do.

[WasWinM]

Amazon will post the cost increase caused by tariffs on each affected product. Good for them.

[mycroft]

mycroft, on 2025-March-30, 11:37, said:

the party that's been running Republican tactics and Republican talking points [0],
that was expected to sleepwalk into a Majority Government in the next election[1],
may not even win[2],
and the leader's own seat isn't a lock.[3]

Thanks, Trump!

[0] Just a (parentheticals omitted), but also noting their slogan/policy platform title: "Canada first. For a Change." Take of that what you will.
[1] CBC polling average, Jan 20, 2025 (from this page, although you have to do some game playing to get it):

Region	LIB	CON	NDP	BQ	GRN	PPC	OTH
Canada	21.9%	44.8%	17.6%	8.2%	3.8%	2.6%	1.1%

[2] Liberal near-majority expected: BBC (probably re-link to Wikipaedia once everything finalizes)
[3] I will survive! (but the spirit of the "1922 committee" is very much in the CCRAP[4] DNA. Historically, losers get eaten.)
[4] See quoted post for derivation.
[*] And yes, it was an ABC ("Anybody But Conservative) election. The actual left-wing party, that frequently vote-splits several Cs into Parliament (and frequently becomes the vote-swing of a minority government. Even when it's a Conservative minority. That's always fun to watch, for particular values of "fun") is expected to lose official party status (it's happened before. The parties that it's happened to frequently survive), because people couldn't afford to have it happen this time. Unfortunately (for me), the righter-wing party also lost 80% of its vote share, as conservatives rallied round the blue flag.

[WasWinM]

 WasWinM, on 2025-April-29, 10:06, said:

Amazon will post the cost increase caused by tariffs on each affected product. Good for them.

Unfortunately Bezos already cratered to Trump hissy fit. Too bad, the idea is the kind of thing we sorely need to penetrate the smoke screen of lies.

[thepossum]

It's' a bit of a mysetery what has happened to the USA
One of my earliest memories was how all retailers went to great pains to indicate all the additional taxes on their goods
Marked price is what it would have cost but wee have to add all this other annoying stuff

Most things seemed to have bounced back from liberation day here, hasn't showed in my investments yet sadly
That was a scary few weeks. Thought I would be in the poorhouse later in the year

And I know its not about me but most people are able to generalise

[hrothgar]

WasWinM, on 2025-April-29, 13:36, said:

Unfortunately Bezos already cratered to Trump hissy fit. Too bad, the idea is the kind of thing we sorely need to penetrate the smoke screen of lies.

I've seen some discussion about creating a browser plug in

[thepossum]

hrothgar, on 2025-April-29, 17:04, said:

I've seen some discussion about creating a browser plug in

Given how Amazon operates worldwide will it be smart enough to adjust prices for where the goods are delivered from and to. Use current location etc

Do they apply to used goods - like Ebay etc Excuse ignorance Amazon allows used goods too?

Sorry the way my brain works - like Google Maps - include tariffs or find a route without them

[a_user]

Does this mean Chinese BBO users will have to pay 145% more for the pleasure of playing against GIB.