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Neither. He'd just learned there was nothing on Hunter Biden's laptop.

Irony meter broken.

How else do you think I got a Double First and my Christopher Columbus hat?

Emmett Till was 14. Nothing Till did was illegal. His killers, however, got away with murder. Totally inappropriate to blame the victim. Who here as a teenager didn't show poor judgment at times? Probably frequently. It's a feature of the teenage years. No one posting here was beaten to death for it.

Ok that needs to be illegal. Like not just libel illegal but really specifically illegal with strong penalties.

This quote sums up the republican reality-distortion process pretty well. It came from an interview with a GWB staffer: The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' . . . 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'. Of course Kellyanne Conway put it far more succintly when explaining some lies Sean Spicer had told: "Sean Spicer gave alternative facts to that . . . "

Rudy and Trump should pay these poor ladies millions of dollars for ruining their lives.

If he recovers, then I would suspect a transient ischemic attack. If he does not recover, then an ordinary stroke.

Hi folks, This should get more sales going: Big carmakers unite to build a charging network and reassure reluctant EV buyers : NPR Jerry Baumchen

Hi Phil, At some point in time, this country is going to have a Come to Jesus Moment & realize that the gov't [ at any level ] cannot fix everything. It is not financially feasible. Jerry Baumchen

Those points are only relevant when you are trying to discuss prevention and just shrug your shoulders at cause. The cause for Till's murder is racism, racism that led to unrelenting hatred for a human being of a different colour. The cause for Logan's rape is men not being able to control themselves. If 50 years after Till's murder your comment is well if only the kid hadn't looked at the white girl and listened to his mother....at minimum you have a problem understanding the issue. The key giveaway in all of this is, and I paraphrase: "meh I don't understand rapists and racists murderers, so I can't really say anything about them, but the victim really could have done better."

There's a difference when your death is caused by a human, vs an accident (no matter how high the accident rate is). Being killed by a racist human, vs being killed by a rock face in BASE jumping implies that the racist human can't control their actions and is therefore not at fault.

I have a teenage daughter and I frequently have conversations with her about how she presents herself has an impact on how others might behave towards her. That doesn't mean that if a girl is raped and somebody says: well she shouldn't have worn that skirt, that person isn't a fucking idiot.

I believe the term he used was suicide. If someone commits suicide is it not their fault?

DeSantis will be along shortly to put this in a whole new light. To clear the minds of evangelicals and let the outright racists know that the jury got it right. As whites in the south always do. "DeSantis’ education department released a statement late last week highlighting 16 examples of “some slaves” who “developed highly specialized trades from which they benefitted.” But as the Tampa Bay Times and others noted, “Nearly half the figures highlighted by the state were never enslaved” and several of those who were “did not gain their skills from their servitude.” Teachers in Florida's dept of racism and re-education. Grooming themselves for future employment at FOX.

From what I've read, the success of SpaceX is attributable to Gwynne Shotwell, not Musk.

Given his pretty obvious intelligence it is hard to believe he did not understand the level of victim blaming he was engaging in. What motivates Winsor and what are his core beliefs? None of us can really say but all of us can read his words. He is not a misunderstood child.

Once again I find it difficult to reconcile his success at SpaceX, Tesla with his baffling bungling at Twitter.

Elmo plans to take his case to SCOTUS that he should be allowed to lie to investors: Musk plans Supreme Court appeal after losing bid to terminate SEC settlement

Lying about your political opponent has a (successful) 200+ year history in the USA. It's just more sophisticated now.

Right, you make one little post saying a lynching victim was responsible for his own death, claim that it’s simplistic to view Till’s death as just a racist murder, and say that the response to the brutal murder of a black man by white men for being black should have been for the black community to forswear racist violence… and all of a sudden people think you said something bad! I sympathise with your frustration.

There is one commercial and one commercial only that matters during the super bowl......and its the puppy bowl.

GOP attack ads are now using AI created attack ads. trump never really said what is represented in this GOP ad. This is going to get very confusing for anyone who can't think for themselves. Like say FOX viewers. This ad comes from a pro DeSantis group, naturally. No word yet when Jesus, Attila the Hun, President Putin and other favorites of the right are going to endorse DeSantis.

So you don't understand the difference between predictions and observations (i.e. data.) C'est la vie.

And now he is acting all insulted and claiming that what he says does not reflect what he feels. Also what he does.

I had all the skydiving magazines printed. I gave them to another skydiver who had sort of his own little collection of skydiving stuff. I kept the very first issue that Mike Truffer was handing out at one of the Skydiving Nationals.

Too many foreigners, move back, it might reduce the stink.

Hi kleggo, Yup, it was the best skydiving magazine ever; and I go back a ways. It was always current and the editorials were even better. Jerry Baumchen