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The Way Too Early 2028 Democratic Presidential Candidate Thread
Satchel replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
Which is indicative of how women just can’t get a fair break. Trump is unmoored to principles or a political philosophy. He just talks out of his ass and is never held accountable for doing so. -
The Way Too Early 2028 Democratic Presidential Candidate Thread
Satchel replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
Good ideas and policies seem to be more palatable when coming from straight white men. Women and non dominants, not so much. -
This ^ How can you sue a network for a TV show not ending like you would prefer?
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Democrats are finally fighting back: https://www.semafor.com/article/05/30/2025/california-opens-inquiry-into-paramount-and-trump The California State Senate has invited two former top CBS figures to testify in a new inquiry into whether the network’s parent company has violated state laws against bribery and unfair competition. Paramount offered President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign $15 million to settle a lawsuit filed against CBS over a lightly edited interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in October, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week. Trump refused the settlement, threatening to file an additional suit against the company, seeking federal approval for its merger with entertainment company Skydance. The settlement talks have infuriated many staff members at CBS as well as many national Democrats who believe that Paramount is caving to pressure from Trump to settle a frivolous lawsuit. In a new letter sent May 30, the chair of the California State Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee, Josh Becker, and the Judiciary Committee chair, Thomas Umberg, invited former 60 Minutes producer Bill Owens and former CBS News president Wendy McMahon to testify in an upcoming hearing on the recent proposed settlement of a lawsuit. The California Democrats, whose party controls the chamber, said the hearing would focus on the incident “and this matter’s potential impact on the competitive marketplace, media sector, and rule of law in California,” adding that it wanted to focus on whether the company breached fiduciary duties owed by Paramount board members to shareholders, misused corporate funds vulnerable to shareholder derivative litigation, or violated federal anti-bribery laws and California’s Unfair Competition Law. “This inquiry is therefore not only about one company or one lawsuit, but about protecting the integrity of California’s communications economy, ensuring that public-facing media enterprises compete based on content and quality, not influence, capitulation, or political appeasement,” the letter said. The letter continues: “Perhaps even more concerning is the potential chilling effect of Paramount’s settlement on investigative and political journalism. Such a settlement would signal that politically motivated lawsuits can succeed when paired with regulatory threats. It would damage public trust in CBS News and other California-based outlets, diminishing the state’s stature as a national leader in ethical journalism. Paramount’s capitulation would also undermine two essential pillars of a liberal democracy: a free press and an impartial, rule-of-law regulatory system.”
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The Way Too Early 2028 Democratic Presidential Candidate Thread
Satchel replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
All true, but that removes the incentive to watch AOC and Jasmine. They’re women and non white. -
The Way Too Early 2028 Democratic Presidential Candidate Thread
Satchel replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
Why wouldn’t the governor of Maryland be a contender or at least one to watch? -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Satchel replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Chuckle. Trump country. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Satchel replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
And completely on brand for Trump. He gets by with all this ridiculous shit because nobody stands up to him. When the tanks are in the streets, it will be too late. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Satchel replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Trump is responsible for the delays connected to producing the two Air Force One replacements: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-air-force-1-debacle_n_683874c6e4b0e2e0f9a1e6ff WASHINGTON — If Donald Trump wants someone to blame for his still having to ride around in a 40-year-old Air Force One, he might consider starting with a long look in the mirror. And if Americans want someone to blame for their future presidents being saddled with a plane lacking a key wartime capability, they should consider taking a long look at the current president -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Satchel replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
This is true and a major reason the butter biscuit class has grown so much. A certain kind of black person has learned how to monetize the inferior Negro meme. Some white folks will pay big bags to have biscuits act as their mouthpieces. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Satchel replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Well, now. Ban woke. Go broke. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/tesla-europe-sales-plunge-49percent-as-elon-musk-brand-fallout-continues.html Tesla sold 7,261 cars in Europe in April, down 49% year on year, while EV sales grew 27.3% according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. Tesla brand equity has been declining since 2024 owing largely to CEO Elon Musk’s incendiary political rhetoric and government work. Musk endorsed Germany’s extreme anti-immigrant party, AfD, and serves as a key advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, working to slash federal agencies. Tesla is also facing heightened competition in Europe. In the US, Tesla's US sales were down 9% year-over-year in Q1 2025, while total EV sales grew significantly. -
Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger on the “heated” situation regarding the SEC I guess we’re going to war,” said one Big 12 athletic director. At the center of this brewing battle is a memorandum of understanding that the 11-member CFP governing board — the 10 FBS conferences and Notre Dame — authorized last spring. The document grants format decision-making powers starting in 2026 to the SEC and Big Ten — a move to keep the two goliaths from separating to form their own playoff. According to most who have viewed the memorandum, the agreement grants the Big Ten and SEC control over the format but directs them to have “meaningful consultation” and collect “input” from the other conferences and TV partner, ESPN. Have they satisfied the agreement’s language to hold “meaningful consultation?” Some do not believe so and have sought legal counsel over the validity of the document. Other things that Dellenger is reporting? The new CFP model is a 5+11 model, which would award 5 auto bids for conference champions and 11 at-large bids, but no one wants this as long as the SEC stays at 8 conference games. The SEC coaches favor the 4-4-2-2-1+3 model (4 auto bids for SEC & Big Ten, 2 auto bids for Big 12 & ACC, 1 bid to the Group of Six and 3 at-large bids). The regulation of NIL by Deloitte sounds like a disaster (or lawsuit) waiting to happen: The officials from the Deloitte-run clearinghouse “NIL Go” — the centerpiece of the new enforcement entity, dubbed the “College Sports Commission” — is sharing data with coaches and athletic directors, including that 70% of past deals from booster collectives would have been denied. Deloitte also shared that about 80% of NIL deals with public companies were valued at less than $10,000 and 99% of those deals were valued at less than $100,000 — figures that suggest the clearinghouse threatens to significantly curtail the millions of dollars that collectives are distributing to athletes. CBS Sports’ John Talty on the frustration with reform regarding the transfer portal and the Power Four want to force the Big Ten and SEC agree to a 65% of the power on rule-making. Currently, the Power Four conferences are pushing for a weighted vote that would give them 65 percent of the power on rule-making committees. Even that amount, which would give the Power Four conferences significantly more power than they have now, still comes with risk. One high-ranking source said there are concerns that all it takes is one conference not voting with the others — or even ceasing to exist altogether if there’s further realignment and consolidation — to prevent approval for solutions. Sankey said Monday that he’d like to see that weighted vote go up to at leas 68 percent to avoid some of those issues. Multiple Big Ten and SEC sources have expressed extreme frustration to CBS Sports about being unable to push through changes because smaller conferences won’t support it. The transfer portal situation has been especially frustrating that the conferences that would seemingly benefit from not having a spring transfer portal window won’t go for it just because the SEC and others want it. The SEC’s representatives on those committees have made those arguments to no avail, according to sources. When you have conferences that didn’t hesitate to fully fund the $20.5 million cap and others that won’t spend a dollar on revenue sharing voting on the same issues, you can see how it can go awry quickly. The SEC’s success, in particular, has seemed to hurt its ability to make rule changes when smaller conferences question its motives. “It’s really hard to be playing in a championship setting and having to deal with it, but when I brought that up as a complaint or problem it was told to me, ‘There’s no crying from the yacht,'” Smart said. “If you’re going to play in these environments you have to be willing to do that. Now it’s we can’t do that.” Smart believes the implementation committee, which includes two athletic directors from each power conference, will ultimately have say over the transfer portal
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The worst part of his letting criminals go free is they will no longer have to abide by agreements that compelled them to pay back the millions they stole from victims. They’re getting off scot free.
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While I think it might be time for a thread that provides critique of American journalism/broadcast media in the current fascist morass I’ll just put this here for now: https://www.yahoo.com/news/maga-erupts-over-60-minutes-095241656.html I hope CBS will protect the honorable legacies of Murrow, Cronkite and now, Scott Pelley.
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We have the hindsight of history, but without a course correction our destruction will happen well short of the 507 years it took The Roman Empire to fall.
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Enemies of expertise should not be running our country. Why couldn’t voters see this last November?
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There’s a pattern here. Crimes which Trump knows he has committed, causes him to go out of his way to pardon them when committed by kindred criminals.
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I can’t make this point enough because it’s still unfathomable to me. Since American religionists don’t like what they see in the mirror, they’ve decided to codify in their pseudo Christian canon, their cruelty and lack of empathy. Problem solved.
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He didn’t know the three branches of government when elected to the US Senate, and he’s had difficulty trying to make sense of it all even now. Even after Kay Ivey, he’ll be Alabama’s new low.
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Breaking. Trump is asking the SC to halt court order forbidding his shipping migrants to Sudan. He wants the court to make it easier for him to do so.
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You can’t “regardless of Trump” this. As he does with everything, Trump is making this about him.
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We have a really screwed up, toxic admixture of politics and religion that has brought us to the brink and both have clearly lost their way:
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Well… Cruz posted/tweeted the next day that the commission is still ongoing and that the report of it being shuttered was nonsense. Campbell welcomed the news (which maybe means the report was true and that the continuation of the commission was news to him) and wrote: “This is very good news. We all need to work together and set aside selfish agendas, tribalism, and politics to preserve the life-changing opportunity that College Sports provide to more than 500,000 young people in this country.”
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Yep. If you don’t do politics, politics will do you.
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It’s kinds why the singing of God bless America has somewhat bothered me. In someways, it comes across as a bit arrogant - that were more deserving of God’s favor than we are his mercy. Whenever I hear the chorus of America the Beautiful, in my mind, I think these words: America, America. God have mercy on thee…
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