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  1. 6 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

    Why didn’t Mueller stand up and call bullshit. I thought he was some stand up guy and yet again it turns out he is just an enabler of traitors.

    Mueller is a bureaucrat's bureaucrat. Going over the head of the AG is a big no no in the rulebook, so therefore he won't do it. He did do the smallest possible thing in sending a letter and putting his objection on paper and on the record, but frankly its surprising he even did that publicly. 

    One of the major weaknesses our system is that the laws are written expecting people to be operating in good faith. Trumpists exploited this to take public processes with the veneer of authenticity and twist them to their benefit in the overall discussion. Barr's move was undoubtedly going to get overruled later, but it would be too late to matter as we can see. The message has been woven into the GQP dogma and is now beyond reproach. No need to waste further brain hurty thinky think time on it

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  2. Pigs are finally going to squeal and come clean

    Reuters: Former Louisville officer to plead guilty to Breonna Taylor cover-up

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    Aug 23 (Reuters) - A former Louisville detective is expected to plead guilty on Tuesday to helping to falsify a search warrant that led to the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose death fueled a wave of protests over police violence against people of color.

    The former officer, Kelly Goodlett, is scheduled to appear at 1 p.m. (1700 GMT) before U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings in a federal court in Louisville, Kentucky. She is expected to be arraigned and to enter her plea.

     

    Goodlett was one of four former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department detectives charged by the U.S. Justice Department on Aug. 4 for their involvement in the 2020 raid that killed Taylor in her home.

    The charges represented the Justice Department's latest attempt to crack down on abuses and racial disparities in policing, following a series of high-profile police killings of Black Americans across the country.

     

    The killing of Taylor, along with other 2020 killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, among others, sparked outrage and galvanized protests that peaked in intensity during that summer.

    Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was asleep with her boyfriend on March 13, 2020 when police conducted a no-knock raid and burst into her apartment. Taylor's boyfriend fired once at what he said he believed were intruders. Three police officers responded with 32 shots, six of which struck Taylor, killing her.

     

    Goodlett and a fellow former officer, Joshua Jaynes, met days after the shooting in a garage where they agreed on a false story to cover for the false evidence they had submitted to justify the botched raid, prosecutors say.

    Goodlett was charged with conspiring with another detective to falsify the warrant that led to the raid and then cover up the falsification.

    Federal prosecutors also charged Jaynes and current Sergeant Kyle Meany with civil rights violations and obstruction of justice for using false information to obtain the search warrant. A fourth officer, former Detective Brett Hankison, was charged with civil rights violations for allegedly using excessive force.

     

    In March, a jury acquitted Hankison on a charge of wanton endangerment. A grand jury earlier cleared the other two white officers who shot Taylor but charged Hankison for endangering neighbors in the adjacent apartment.

    A grand juror on the case later said Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron only presented the wanton endangerment charges against Hankison to the grand jury. read more

    Glad the cops are being made to face justice. They've still got a lot of answering to do for their antics during the 2020 summer of love. 

    I hope the folks who were making excuses for the cops read this and know they were blindly accepting complete fabrications. Pages 7/8/9 of this thread are pretty cringe in hindsight, doing the cops work for them of spreading and repeating their racist lies. 

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  3. 3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    He post insane shit for interaction. More interaction equals more power. By engaging him, he’s winning. 

     

    1 hour ago, 'stache said:

    How is it a troll? Half our country currently wants fascism. How is it a surprise that one of them made it to surly cloak room?

    Fascism thrives on open conflict. Escalation of rhetoric leads to escalation of policy leads to escalation of violence in the streets. Cruz is stirring the pot, and when everyone turns up the heat it cooks just a little faster. 

    Best thing would be for everyone to stop engaging with cruz. He'd lose what gives him power

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  4. 3 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

    Disney continues to beat the men-suck-women-rule drum, but no one should be surprised by that at this point.

    They're being pretty true to the original comic, her having a milder version of the Hulk than Banner IS her origin story. Lol no idea why there's such grievance about this show

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  5. 1 minute ago, Poe It Up said:

    I love my Mexican brothers. Hell, my best friend grew up in Mexico City. He absolutely loves Trump and I don’t, so it has caused some friction here recently. 

    Love them, as long as they know their place and don't come to America? Your post has big "I have a black friend" vibes lol

     

    Also, your insistence on acting like trump is singular instance of fascism that can be dismissed is a problem. He's a symptom. Desantis is too. Just because you disavow one fascist doesn't wash your hands of that shame and hate. You just wish he wouldn't say the quiet part so loudly

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  6. 17 minutes ago, Poe It Up said:

    Prior to the pandemic middle class incomes were growing and and more Americans were working than ever before.

    When gains are transient and fueled by short sighted economic policy that won't last, most people would place blame on the person who put that policy in place. Not the person who inherited the unstable and untenable system.

    But I do appreciate your honesty about liking taking away citizens rights via the supreme court and joy at treating Mexicans like a plague to be feared. 

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  7. 1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    it just sits there for me. but I'm guessing you have an iphone. it's not a big deal either way. 

    On Android (using Google keyboard) I use "paste as plain text" and that normally makes links autoembed

  8. On 8/18/2022 at 10:34 PM, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    Yeah, that pretty much sucked. Sorry to be the contrarian.

     

    On 8/18/2022 at 10:47 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    Yeah I’m not sure who wants this. Tatiana and Jamil have been great on separate and very different shows. I guess this the only way Disney could bring them together. Superhero shit is going to get a better number than a quirky comedy series. 

    Eh my wife, mom, and sister have all really enjoyed She Hulk so far. I've enjoyed it, but not every show is gonna hit every demographic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  9. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    That her "friend" who was comforting her and calming her down then starts to talk shit on her after she's hauled off is fairly amazing.

    I feel like everyone has that one sloppy hot mess friend that you've known forever so you feel obligated to include them in some stuff, but don't really like who they've become. I'd bet her relationship with her friend fits that bill lol

  10. 54 minutes ago, hpslugga said:

    It’s funny that you said “you’re not Christian” because even the most fundamentalist nutbag Christian would know Numbers is an Old Testament book, which means Jews know this shit. And judging by your asinine response, they’d know it a hell of a lot better than you do.

    I always get a kick out of fundies twisting themselves up trying to pick out pieces of the old testament and enshrine them, while completely ignoring and wildly misinterpreting other parts. Like how the south used parts of levitican law to justify slavery, but looooooooved to browbeat you with the new testament gospel that mooted the old testament theologically. 

    Also seedy boi I got both barrels of southern baptist indoctrination growing up. There's a variety of reasons that I don't consider myself a Christian today, but I'd bet ya a failed GoFundMe that I know my Sunday school better than you. 

  11. 1 hour ago, workswithseed said:

    Stick to saying that an induced abortion is the same as an miscarriage. 

    The Bible tells me so! From Numbers 5:11-31

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    11 Then the Lord said to Moses, 12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him 13 so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), 14 and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure— 15 then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[a] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.

    16 “‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord. 17 Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. 18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse. 19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you. 20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[b] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”

    “‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”

    23 “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. 25 The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorialc]" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;">[c] offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water. 27 If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse. 28 If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

    29 “‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband, 30 or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the Lord and is to apply this entire law to her. 31 The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’”

     

    I guess God himself telling Moses how to induce a miscarriage is abortion, but that couldn't be because the Bible says no abortion?

  12. 38 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    You can toss so,e of the blame at Texas football.   I still think the chaos on the board directly ties into how well Texas football is doing.

    That and our slow and steady descent into christofascism. Losing to Kansas twice definitely sped things up though 

  13. 4 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

    California manufacturing their own insulin is one hell of a market disruption and a much better alternative to a copay cap. The $35/mo cap looks good on paper but it's nothing more than a cost shift to the plan sponsor. The PBM is not going to willingly eat that cost even though they get kickbacks on the list price from Sanofi, Eli Lilly, and the other manufacturers. Plan sponsors already pay below acquisition for brand name drugs and it's one of the reasons why we're dropping TRICARE at the end of the year. My patients love the dirt cheap copays but I can't subsidize them at the same time they use a health plan funded by the government that refuses to tell the pharmacy the source of their price tables on the basis that it's proprietary. 

    Here's an example I can use to relate what I'm talking about. Let's say you own a home and you have a major foundation issue. Your home insurance company says they'll cover it but completed repairs can only be authorized at their contractor negotiated price of $2,000. You talk to every contractor in your zip code and the ones around it and they're all telling you that this repair is minimum $15,000. You call the insurance company to ask them where you can find this contractor who will do it for $2,000 and they tell you "Sorry, that's proprietary information. You'll just have to keep searching for that contractor we negotiated with. He's out there somewhere!". Health plans won't even give us the names of wholesalers where they contracted with to get medication prices. They don't have to give us their contract terms but they won't even give us the name of the companies where they derived this price list from. It's one of the reasons why I love the Cost Plus/Blueberry Pharmacy model. The price at the point of sale is the price of the drug. No kickbacks, no negotiated rebates, none of that stuff. If California ends up doing something like that, there will be people begging to get involved whether as a patient or a provider.

    See all of what you're describing just sounds like a reason to NOT treat healthcare as a profit center and some risk to hedge against. An insulin patient buying insurance for a thing they KNOW is going to happen (buying insulin) isn't buying insurance. It's buying a cost subsidy subscription, and making room for nice tidy profit margins on the basic necessities for life for these patients.

    To revisit your metaphor, it's not at all like a foundation issue on a house. This isn't some possibility - it's a reality and recurring cost that isn't negotiable. Charging so much to ensure a healthy return on investment is just pure fucking exploitation for private shareholder benefit

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