The "failure" comment makes sense in context, b/c Graham is saying Hitler should have been stopped sooner. But that underlines the fact that this simpering hypocrite is one of the most shameless and opportunistic apologists for the aspiring American Hitler. Now it's people like Trump and Graham who must be stopped. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C7_8sgegp9M
@stevesilberman I still don’t get it. It was right-wingers like Graham who appeased Hitler, just as Graham and his party are now appeasing Putin. What lesson does he expect us to draw?
TIL that—as of 1954—an original van Gogh painting hanging in the bedroom of a woman working as a telephone operator and sharing a Manhattan apartment with two others would be enough to raise suspicion that she had another source of income but not enough to suggest that she was wealthy.
When deciding what sentence to impose on a convicted #felon in New York State, does the judge take into consideration the defendant’s contrition or lack thereof? Does anyone know?
May 27 — The social-media account of Donald Trump today posted, in place of a Memorial Day message, an angry stream-of-consciousness rant, apparently by the former president himself, directing invective against “Human Scum” and the judges handling his various federal and state trials. He referred to the United States as “our Once Great Country,” to the CNN journalist Anderson Cooper as “Alison Cooper,” and to the judges as “Wacko” and “Trump Hating.” (1/2)
In a string of falsehoods larded with sarcasm and odd capitalization, he expressed rage at civil court findings that he committed rape and fraud and again attacked Judge Juan Merchan over his ongoing criminal case in New York. (2/2)
“The chances of Sam Alito recusing himself from any of these cases is effectively whatever the Kelvin equivalent of 0% is. But that isn’t a reason to let the matter drop. That’s classic policy literalism. There should be an investigation. There should be everything. Because that’s how politics works. Things break through and you actually have an effect when you make noise, when you push on doors. We shouldn’t even be talking about it as a flag controversy. (2/3)
It’s hard to convey how impossible these numbers are for a publicly traded company. Alarm bells should be ringing at the SEC.
Imagine if you were running a lemonade stand, and you sold 77 cents worth of lemonade—and to generate that 77 cents in revenue, you spent $327. https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/112479834471695251
@TMEubanks That ship has sailed (IPO). In this case, they’re openly fleecing investors who are willing to cough up money for the Cult of Trump, and distributing the money as fast as they can to the Trump henchmen who are executives, consultants, and board members.
James Fallows, who should know, explains why presidential debates are WORSE than useless.
There’s one more reason this year. By sharing a stage, Biden will normalize the idea that it’s all right for Trump to be a free man, as opposed to an incarcerated criminal.
@cherold While Trump’s many criminal trials are pending, as you know he has already been found in civil courts to have committed rape and several varieties of fraud. It would be reasonable for him to be shunned and shamed.
A fmr White House aide who worked closely w/ #Trump returned to the stand to testify about a significant meeting between Trump & #MichaelCohen his personal lawyer that is at the center of Trump’s #criminal trial.