Sadly, These Are Not Serious People

[twocoach]

demonrats don’t have 3ways. bores.

yet another reason.

That might not be the part of the issue that Democrats have a problem with.

[jfish26]

This go here?

College girlfriend says James Comer abused her

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/n ... /26901137/

A woman who dated gubernatorial candidate James Comer while the two were in college said in a letter to The Courier-Journal on Monday that he was physically and mentally abusive to her during what she said was a two-year relationship.

"Did Jamie Comer ever hit me? Yes," wrote Marilyn Thomas, who attended Western Kentucky University with Comer in the early 1990s.

Comer's lawyer, Dick Plymale, of Lexington, said in an interview that Comer "profusely denies" all the allegations in the letter and promised a "devastating lawsuit" against the newspaper if it published the story.

Plymale went on to criticize Thomas, saying "I've heard unpleasant things about her personality and mental state."

The allegations come as Comer, Kentucky's agriculture commissioner, enters the final two weeks of his campaign to be the Republican nominee for governor.

In the four-page letter, Thomas detailed a relationship that she said "was toxic, abusive and caused me a lot of suffering. His controlling and aggressive personality alienated me from most of my family and friends at the time."

Thomas said Comer threatened and belittled her and that she ultimately moved away from Kentucky in an effort to leave that chapter of her life behind. She now lives in New York City.

She has supported Hal Heiner, one of Comer's rivals for the nomination, on social media and has contributed $100 to his campaign, according to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance.

In the letter, Thomas does not offer specific details of the alleged physical abuse other than to say Comer struck her. She told a reporter that she never filed a police complaint against him. In the letter, she said she had been "emotionally weak" at the time.

"Everything I did, everywhere I went, and everyone with whom I interacted had to be approved" by Comer, Thomas wrote. "Consequences were violent and swift otherwise."

She said Comer became "enraged" in 1991 after they visited a Louisville abortion clinic and learned that she had used his real name on a form requiring proof that she had an escort to drive her home.

Plymale told The Courier-Journal late Monday night that the abortion allegation was crazy and "not true."

[…]

Thomas said she still has paperwork from the visit to the clinic. "I kept that piece of paper as a reminder of what desperation and rock bottom feel like. For more than 20 years, that piece of paper has been a source of anxiety and shame. But it was mine. It was only mine."

She said the paper is in a lock box at a Kentucky bank and she didn't have immediate access to it.

In the letter, Thomas said that Comer once called her parents at 2 a.m. to "make violent threats against me."

Mary Rose Thomas, Marilyn Thomas' 83-year-old mother, said in an interview that Comer called her home one morning some 25 years ago. "I couldn't understand everything he was saying, but he said something about your daughter's going to be killed. ... It was something like that."

Plymale did not address those allegations specifically when asked Monday night, but he suggested the newspaper was falling victim to a hoax.

[Shirley]

Totally surprising, because whenever he's on camera, he seems to tell one lie after another with such seamless ease.

[KUTradition]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93km7z/ ... oyd-austin

[japhy]

Kari Lake, trumplethinskin's running mate?

Rack up yet another loss for Kari Lake.

This time, it’s the Arizona Court of Appeals, which on Wednesday declined Lake’s plea that she shouldn’t be held accountable for what comes out of her mouth.

Lake appealed to the court on Friday, asking the three-judge panel to overrule a trial judge’s refusal to throw out Maricopa County Stephen Richer’s defamation lawsuit against her.It took only five days for the Court of Appeals to say no. So, the case will go forward to trial. Isn't a trial good for Kari Lake? I, for one, would think Lake would be happy.

For one thing, she can continue raising money from the MAGA Nation as she rails on about her First Amendment right to accuse Richer of criminal activity.

For another, she now will have the opportunity to prove her oft-repeated claim that he intentionally sabotaged the 2022 election. Isn’t that a good thing if you are Kari Lake?

For more than a year, Lake has lambasted Maricopa County elections workers and officials and Richer in particular, detailing the many ways in which this lifelong Republican plotted to steal the election from her, the Republican nominee for governor.

The only thing she hasn’t offered up is any actual proof. Thus, her lengthy streak of losses in every court she has thus far approached a court with her incendiary claims.

In June, Richer — fed up finally with the harassment and the death threats to him and his family — called her on it, suing Lake for defamation. Rather than demanding a quick trial so that she can “out” this supposedly dirty public official, Lake has asked — twice now — that the lawsuit be dismissed. She claims Richer has no right to try to hold her accountable, no matter how many death threats he and his family must endure.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jay Adleman disagreed. Last month, he rejected her lawyers’ claim that her accusations of intentional sabotage weren’t really claims of intentional sabotage but “mere rhetorical hyperbole.” The judge didn’t buy it, pointing out that her specific claims of criminal activity are either provable — or not.

The judge also rejected her claim that the lawsuit is just a sleazy, illegal attempt by a politician to silence his critics. “The court is satisfied that the disputed statements — if indeed they are ‘provable’ as false or defamatory — would be undeserving of the protections associated with our First Amendment principles,” Adleman wrote.

Kari Lake dug this hole herself. In fact, he found that Richer may also have the goods to prove “actual malice,” which is another way of saying Kari Lake is in deep, deep trouble. Maybe not Rudy Giuliani deep — Giuliani was recently hit with a $148 million jury verdict after a judge found he defamed a pair of Georgia poll workers — but a hole nonetheless. One that she dug with her own mouth.

Of course, Lake doesn’t see it that way. She casts herself as the courageous victim, standing up to the forces of evil that conspire to silence her and rob her of a spot in the U.S. Senate.

“@StephenRicher is suing me for defamation through a Soros-backed group called Project Democracy. It’s an in-kind donation to @RubenGallego. But it’s bigger than that,” she wrote on social media in response to Wednesday’s ruling. “They’re trying to take away our protected political speech so nobody running for office will be able to speak out and criticize elected officials.

So, America won’t be America anymore because Kari Lake is being asked to back up her accusation that Stephen Richer committed crimes in order to fix the 2022 election? Wednesday’s appellate court ruling clears the way for Lake to prove her claim that Richer personally sabotaged the election by adding 300,000 phony ballots to the vote tally. (Never mind that the judge in Lake’s election challenge rejected that claim a year ago.)

I smell more COMPLETE EXONERATION in the air!

[jfish26]

Putting this here because this thinking (which is pervasive on the technocrat-aligned front) is so unserious.

What is this mealy-mouthed nonsense?

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/17461 ... PzNG4aOfKQ

Fox News has apparently canceled all of Mike Lindell‘s My Pillow ads on their network. There is no reason provided by Fox at this time.

As much as I can’t stand Michael Lindell, and think that his words and lies were damaging to our nation regarding our 2020 election, I don’t think that his personal words should impact his companies ability to buy advertising on a network.

I’m against cancel culture whether it’s Republicans or Democrats who are being affected.

[Shirley]

Putting this here because this thinking (which is pervasive on the technocrat-aligned front) is so unserious.

What is this mealy-mouthed nonsense?

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/17461 ... PzNG4aOfKQ

Fox News has apparently canceled all of Mike Lindell‘s My Pillow ads on their network. There is no reason provided by Fox at this time.

As much as I can’t stand Michael Lindell, and think that his words and lies were damaging to our nation regarding our 2020 election, I don’t think that his personal words should impact his companies ability to buy advertising on a network.

I’m against cancel culture whether it’s Republicans or Democrats who are being affected.

I saw that headline about him being cancelled, but found it hard to believe because during the Dominion defamation trial against Fox, one theme that seemed prevalent was that there was a period of time after Fox had been the first network to declare Biden as the winner in 2020 and Trump went to NewsMax when "My Pillow" commercials were the life-blood of the network.

So, I'm leaning toward Lindell's inability to pay as an explanation.

[jfish26]

Putting this here because this thinking (which is pervasive on the technocrat-aligned front) is so unserious.

What is this mealy-mouthed nonsense?

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/17461 ... PzNG4aOfKQ

Fox News has apparently canceled all of Mike Lindell‘s My Pillow ads on their network. There is no reason provided by Fox at this time.

As much as I can’t stand Michael Lindell, and think that his words and lies were damaging to our nation regarding our 2020 election, I don’t think that his personal words should impact his companies ability to buy advertising on a network.

I’m against cancel culture whether it’s Republicans or Democrats who are being affected.

I saw that headline about him being cancelled, but found it hard to believe because during the Dominion defamation trial against Fox, one theme that seemed prevalent was that there was a period of time after Fox had been the first network to declare Biden as the winner in 2020 and Trump went to NewsMax when "My Pillow" commercials were the life-blood of the network.

So, I'm leaning toward Lindell's inability to pay as an explanation.

It’ll really be something when Fox blames cancel culture for this business decision.

[japhy]

Putting this here because this thinking (which is pervasive on the technocrat-aligned front) is so unserious.

What is this mealy-mouthed nonsense?

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/17461 ... PzNG4aOfKQ

Fox News has apparently canceled all of Mike Lindell‘s My Pillow ads on their network. There is no reason provided by Fox at this time.

As much as I can’t stand Michael Lindell, and think that his words and lies were damaging to our nation regarding our 2020 election, I don’t think that his personal words should impact his companies ability to buy advertising on a network.

I’m against cancel culture whether it’s Republicans or Democrats who are being affected.

I saw that headline about him being cancelled, but found it hard to believe because during the Dominion defamation trial against Fox, one theme that seemed prevalent was that there was a period of time after Fox had been the first network to declare Biden as the winner in 2020 and Trump went to NewsMax when "My Pillow" commercials were the life-blood of the network.

So, I'm leaning toward Lindell's inability to pay as an explanation.

If Lindell had the money, FOX would happily air his ads. Not paying your bills will get you "cancelled" every time.

[Sparko]

Boner pillz and life alert necklaces are all that is left to the right. Ad space.

[Shirley]

When you keep in mind that cruelty is the point, and other than cruelty and power, Republicans have little to no clear policy objectives, it begins to make sense:

New York Republican Brandon Williams – a former Wall Street investment banker and Silicon Valley investor who boasts a net worth of up to $8.2 million – declared in an interview this morning that he is “not independently wealthy” and will continue taking pay during the MAGA majority's shutdown.

[Shirley]

Republicans must think their supporters are stupid

[DCHawk1]

Z'is go here?

[defixione]

I may cost more, but I take longer.

[japhy]

Z'is go here?

Jesus, you and Qussie.....why do you hate capitalists making a decent living?

It's not like my three homes are going to pay for themselves.

Maybe if you cut my taxes we could talk about decreasing fees and services.

[Shirley]

In case anyone needs to be reminding, Republicans are incapable of governing, and prove it every day.

[jfish26]

In case anyone needs to be reminding, Republicans are incapable of governing, and prove it every day.

In the “things that should matter but lol jk no they don’t” file, is just how feeble and ineffective Trump was before Covid, when Rs had the trifecta.

[Shirley]

In case anyone needs to be reminding, Republicans are incapable of governing, and prove it every day.

In the “things that should matter but lol jk no they don’t” file, is just how feeble and ineffective Trump was before Covid, when Rs had the trifecta.

To be fair, that's because it was "Infrastructure Weak", Trump was busy fixing immigration forever by making Mexico pay for the wall, and Republicans were busy repealing and replacing Obama Care with a sophisticated and comprehensive health plan that was not only better, but cheaper.

Stop letting perfect be the enemy of the possible...or probable...or aspirational...or delusional...


dammit

[japhy]

Oh no he didn't....well OK he did.

trumpty dumpty approved Rubepublican from Pennsylvania.

As they fly, jets naturally leave behind trails of condensation that are created by the exhaust from their engines. To many conspiracy theorists, though, those so-called “contrails” are actually evidence that “they” are releasing toxic chemicals into the air to do all sorts of illicit things. Depending on who you ask, it could be weather control, mind control or even population control. Not content to sit back and let “them” execute their dastardly plan, Pennsylvania state senator Doug Mastriano has introduced a bill to put a stop to all this.

Mastriano’s bill would “ban the release of substances affecting the state’s temperature, weather, or sunlight into the atmosphere over Pennsylvania.” To do this, he would update a 1967 law that was passed after amateurs conducted several “unauthorized attempts to suppress hail in central Pennsylvania.” As a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture told the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, since the original law was passed, it had yet to receive an application for a cloud seeding license and was unaware of any attempts to illegally cloud seed.

Nevertheless, Mastriano insists that, “Recent developments and new technology have brought forward the need to modernize the 1967 law.”

He also claims that silver iodide, which can be used for cloud seeding, is “known to be toxic” despite the fact that, per the Desert Research Institute, it is “not known to be harmful to humans or wildlife.”

“Spraying unknown, experimental, and potentially dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere without the consent of the people of Pennsylvania is a clear violation of Article 1, Section 27 of the PA Constitution,” Mastriano said.

While the wording of the bill may have a veneer of legitimacy, Mastriano’s past behavior suggests he believes there’s more going on here. In addition to saying his bill “will mirror” a Tennessee bill that claims the government is conducting “geoengineering experiments by intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere,” he also has a history of posting overt nods to the long-debunked chemtrail conspiracy theory.

After losing the governor’s race back in 2022, he posted four photos of contrails along with the caption “Over Franklin County today” before linking to a post about solar geoengineering. And back in November, he posted another photo of contrails with the caption “I have legislation to stop this. I took this at 4:15pm Monday in Chambersburg. Normal contrails dissolve / evaporate within 30-90 seconds.”

According to NASA, most contrails remain visible for between four and six hours, while the National Weather Service has said humidity in the air is an important factor in how long contrails stay visible. Now, contrails are actually harmful for humans, in that about 10 percent of contrails persist past a few hours, trapping heat on the planet and worsening our already dire impending climate change disaster. This, however, is not conspiracy theorists, nor Mastriano’s, concern.

“The most common claim is simply that aircraft contrails look ‘different,’ without any comparative analysis,” David Keith, a professor of applied physics at Harvard. “This as convincing as saying that alien beings walk among in disguise as people because some people act very strangely.”

[Shirley]

Oh no he didn't....well OK he did.

trumpty dumpty approved Rubepublican from Pennsylvania.

As they fly, jets naturally leave behind trails of condensation that are created by the exhaust from their engines. To many conspiracy theorists, though, those so-called “contrails” are actually evidence that “they” are releasing toxic chemicals into the air to do all sorts of illicit things. Depending on who you ask, it could be weather control, mind control or even population control. Not content to sit back and let “them” execute their dastardly plan, Pennsylvania state senator Doug Mastriano has introduced a bill to put a stop to all this.

Mastriano’s bill would “ban the release of substances affecting the state’s temperature, weather, or sunlight into the atmosphere over Pennsylvania.” To do this, he would update a 1967 law that was passed after amateurs conducted several “unauthorized attempts to suppress hail in central Pennsylvania.” As a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture told the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, since the original law was passed, it had yet to receive an application for a cloud seeding license and was unaware of any attempts to illegally cloud seed.

Nevertheless, Mastriano insists that, “Recent developments and new technology have brought forward the need to modernize the 1967 law.”

He also claims that silver iodide, which can be used for cloud seeding, is “known to be toxic” despite the fact that, per the Desert Research Institute, it is “not known to be harmful to humans or wildlife.”

“Spraying unknown, experimental, and potentially dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere without the consent of the people of Pennsylvania is a clear violation of Article 1, Section 27 of the PA Constitution,” Mastriano said.

While the wording of the bill may have a veneer of legitimacy, Mastriano’s past behavior suggests he believes there’s more going on here. In addition to saying his bill “will mirror” a Tennessee bill that claims the government is conducting “geoengineering experiments by intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere,” he also has a history of posting overt nods to the long-debunked chemtrail conspiracy theory.

After losing the governor’s race back in 2022, he posted four photos of contrails along with the caption “Over Franklin County today” before linking to a post about solar geoengineering. And back in November, he posted another photo of contrails with the caption “I have legislation to stop this. I took this at 4:15pm Monday in Chambersburg. Normal contrails dissolve / evaporate within 30-90 seconds.”

According to NASA, most contrails remain visible for between four and six hours, while the National Weather Service has said humidity in the air is an important factor in how long contrails stay visible. Now, contrails are actually harmful for humans, in that about 10 percent of contrails persist past a few hours, trapping heat on the planet and worsening our already dire impending climate change disaster. This, however, is not conspiracy theorists, nor Mastriano’s, concern.

“The most common claim is simply that aircraft contrails look ‘different,’ without any comparative analysis,” David Keith, a professor of applied physics at Harvard. “This as convincing as saying that alien beings walk among in disguise as people because some people act very strangely.”

So, in other words, Mastriano is a Republican.