Thanks for providing the link

I agree that Politico is a rag, but this sounds made up.

Yep. Lavender makes me feel physically sick.

He’ll be convicted of at least some of the counts, but will immediately begin appealing the decision and won’t face any consequences before the election.

Maybe the fact that he’s now a “convicted felon” will sway some people, but my guess is that most will simply move their own internal goalposts “since it’s still being decided on appeal”

Corporate needs you to find the difference between this woman and TurboTax.

No, charging other people so that you can take advantage of a loophole is called Tax Preparation

At this point we’ve reached a complete and utter death of euphemism around anything regarding Trump.

All attempts to “bring to light” any horrible thing Trump has factually committed will be met by his followers with, “Well that’s actually a good thing.” And any politician trying to ride his wake will have to go along with it.

How soon until we start hearing “Look, we have to view Hitler with some nuance” from the Senate podium.

There’s podcasts like Sleep With Me that occupy the same place as white noise.

Who is this message even for? Not the workers obviously. Does it instill the investors with confidence? “Production is so poorly managed and staffed that we have to rely on people working overtime.” Does it increase demand? “Come buy these vehicles assembled by overworked, sleep-deprived line workers, hope it works out if you get in an wreck!” It’s entirely for his own ego.

Station 11 on Max is a thoughtful, heartfelt, and artistic post apocalypse show. Very different from the standard fair.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10574236/

It’s really too bad Kroger discontinued “The Fizzicist”.

Just before the vote was about to begin, Rep. Max Miller of Ohio, one of Santos’ Republican colleagues, sent an email to the full Republican conference, writing that he and his mother were victims of credit card fraud tied to Santos’ campaign and that he would be voting to remove Santos.

“Neither my Mother nor I approved these charges or were aware of them,” Miller wrote in the email obtained by NPR. “We have spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees in the resulting follow up.”

It’s literally because it was starting to affect them personally.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/01/1215899764/george-santos-expulsion-house

This stopgap bill would absolutely have enough votes to pass in the House and the only reason McCarthy won’t bring it to a vote is because the hard liners would motion to vacate the speakership. So the US will be plunged into chaos all because one guy doesn’t want to lose his title. Cool democracy.

I would collect taxes if I held the power of physical violence over a community. All taxation is theft, amiright?

But seriously, stealing is a crime because prevailing thought within the community is that taking something that someone else has a claim on is wrong. If the prevailing thought was that it was not wrong, it wouldn’t be against the law, but we also would call it something else… Like taxation.