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Politicians behaving badly

Jay Mysteri0 said:


Gee, what was different last year that didn't have people as worked up as they are now? 🤔

I've said this woman was untrustworthy trash for years, and she never fails to disappoint
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The story you linked seems to have been taken down, so I searched for Nancy Mace. She has not one, but two recent outbursts. One where a guy in a store asked her when her next Town Hall will be, she ended up dropping F-bombs on him. The other one was her yelling slurs for transgender people.

It takes a special kind of 💩-iness to have two such incidents in one day.
 
SouprMatt said:
The story you linked seems to have been taken down, so I searched for Nancy Mace. She has not one, but two recent outbursts. One where a guy in a store asked her when her next Town Hall will be, she ended up dropping F-bombs on him. The other one was her yelling slurs for transgender people.

It takes a special kind of 💩-iness to have two such incidents in one day.
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The store one is the link, where the encounter was recorded.

 
This guy must be feeling pretty omnipotent.

A woman who said she had been in a relationship with Rep. Cory Mills has accused the Republican member of Congress from Florida of threatening to release nude videos of her after she broke off their relationship, according to a police report.
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Lindsey Langston, a Florida Republican state committee member and 2024 winner of the Miss United States beauty pageant, told authorities on July 14 that Mills also threatened to harm any of her future romantic partners, according to a report she made to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Department that was obtained Tuesday by POLITICO.
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apple.news

GOP Rep. Mills accused of threatening to release nude videos of ex-girlfriend — POLITICO

Lindsey Langston, winner of the 2024 Miss United States contest, filed a police report in Florida. Mills denied wrongdoing.
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Where are these FBI agents when you need them?

Luna says lawmakers have evidence of ‘interdimensional beings’​

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Luna says lawmakers have evidence of ‘interdimensional beings’

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said during a Wednesday podcast episode with Joe Rogan that lawmakers have seen evidence of “interdimensional beings.” “I think that they can actually operate through the time spaces that we currently have,” Luna said during the podcast. “And that’s not something...
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The meme coin branch of crypto bros and their fans, wow. Talk about worship of the Golden Calf.

"Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home (gift link NYT)

They should park this thing in front of Mar a Lago dining room and wait for reaction from any one of the many One True God who forbade making and worship of graven images of an idol. Hope all the dinner guests on that night like their steak well done.

Seriously, a two-story-tall gold leaf coated statue of Trump? Among other things I'd think it would be a magnet for vandalism, if not terrorism more compelling than the original World Trade Center.
 
lizkat said:
The meme coin branch of crypto bros and their fans, wow. Talk about worship of the Golden Calf.

"Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home (gift link NYT)

They should park this thing in front of Mar a Lago dining room and wait for reaction from any one of the many One True God who forbade making and worship of graven images of an idol. Hope all the dinner guests on that night like their steak well done.

Seriously, a two-story-tall gold leaf coated statue of Trump? Among other things I'd think it would be a magnet for vandalism, if not terrorism more compelling than the original World Trade Center.
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From crypto boys, I would have expected a non-fungible token of their appreciation
 
P___X said:
From crypto boys, I would have expected a non-fungible token of their appreciation
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Yeah. The "grownup" crypto outfits don't seem to care much for stunts like this meme-bro combo of Trump adulation and a meme-coin offering (with a side hustle of small "Don Colossus" replicas) aimed at MAGA. Anyway the coin side has practically tanked already. All that's left is the gilded Big Donnie and the little Big Donnies at souvenir tables of MAGA events.

The crypto currency enterprises trying to horn in on actual banking may or may not be into grifting but for now they probably stick to greasing palms in the more traditional way of interest groups trying to angle for favorable regulatory treatment, i.e, just donate millions, and plain ol' fungible greenbacks are fine. They're not hiding [all of?] their angling now for legislative favors; later on comes helping customers use crypto for whatever they might want to buy more discreetly.
 
The thread is about pols behaving badly. Not sure whether to credit or chide Jamie Dimon here, but all CEOs are necessarily pols in the era of Donnie Two Dolls.

So, no sane person would suggest that these two reports have nothing to do with each other:

First Trump sued JP Morgan for 5 billion dollars for closing his accounts after the 1/6 insurrection.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2e11m2w2meo

The bank moved to close the accounts after the 6 January, 2021 riot when Trump supporters descended on the US Capitol to disrupt formal ratification of the election results.
A JPMorgan Chase spokesperson said "the suit has no merit"." "JPMC does not close accounts for political or religious reasons."

"We do close accounts because they create legal or regulatory risk for the company," the bank added in a statement.
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Now though, per a report first published in the FT, Reuters has run a piece noting that JP Morgan is allegedly in talks about providing "some banking services" to Trump's Board of Peace scam, er. . enterprise regarding the redevelopment of Gaza. Reuters said neither the FT nor JP Morgan has responded to requests for comment.


So what sort of banking services? Stuff like maybe facilitating payments to contractors or contributions to the board, presumably from states that are members. Those are risk-laden services that ordinarily no regulated bank that ever did biz with Trump would necessarily choose to engage in after previous experience with his business dealings and bankruptcies. And the risk of accidentally facilitating money laundering is not zero, let's be real here, despite all the assurances in the original public statements about the Board of Peace structure and controls. Trump may potentially chair the board for life after leaving the White House.

abcnews.com

Trump could potentially chair Board of Peace for life; $1 billion contributions are voluntary: US official

Many questions are swirling around the Trump-led Board of Peace, which was originally billed as a committee that would oversee the rebuilding and reconstruction of Gaza.
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But "regulatory or legal" risk to a US bank that does something Trump actually wants done these days is evidently minimal. Especially if otherwise an unrelated lawsuit without likely merit is going to cost a particular US bank some big bucks to have to defend regardless of merit.

May the best con man win. Ya think the prediction markets have odds on Trump or Dimon making out better here?
 
lizkat said:
The thread is about pols behaving badly. Not sure whether to credit or chide Jamie Dimon here, but all CEOs are necessarily pols in the era of Donnie Two Dolls.

So, no sane person would suggest that these two reports have nothing to do with each other:

First Trump sued JP Morgan for 5 billion dollars for closing his accounts after the 1/6 insurrection.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2e11m2w2meo



Now though, per a report first published in the FT, Reuters has run a piece noting that JP Morgan is allegedly in talks about providing "some banking services" to Trump's Board of Peace scam, er. . enterprise regarding the redevelopment of Gaza. Reuters said neither the FT nor JP Morgan has responded to requests for comment.


So what sort of banking services? Stuff like maybe facilitating payments to contractors or contributions to the board, presumably from states that are members. Those are risk-laden services that ordinarily no regulated bank that ever did biz with Trump would necessarily choose to engage in after previous experience with his business dealings and bankruptcies. And the risk of accidentally facilitating money laundering is not zero, let's be real here, despite all the assurances in the original public statements about the Board of Peace structure and controls. Trump may potentially chair the board for life after leaving the White House.

abcnews.com

Trump could potentially chair Board of Peace for life; $1 billion contributions are voluntary: US official

Many questions are swirling around the Trump-led Board of Peace, which was originally billed as a committee that would oversee the rebuilding and reconstruction of Gaza.
abcnews.com abcnews.com

But "regulatory or legal" risk to a US bank that does something Trump actually wants done these days is evidently minimal. Especially if otherwise an unrelated lawsuit without likely merit is going to cost a particular US bank some big bucks to have to defend regardless of merit.

May the best con man win. Ya think the prediction markets have odds on Trump or Dimon making out better here?
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"Trump's bored of peace"
 
lizkat said:
The thread is about pols behaving badly. Not sure whether to credit or chide Jamie Dimon here, but all CEOs are necessarily pols in the era of Donnie Two Dolls.

So, no sane person would suggest that these two reports have nothing to do with each other:

First Trump sued JP Morgan for 5 billion dollars for closing his accounts after the 1/6 insurrection.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2e11m2w2meo



Now though, per a report first published in the FT, Reuters has run a piece noting that JP Morgan is allegedly in talks about providing "some banking services" to Trump's Board of Peace scam, er. . enterprise regarding the redevelopment of Gaza. Reuters said neither the FT nor JP Morgan has responded to requests for comment.


So what sort of banking services? Stuff like maybe facilitating payments to contractors or contributions to the board, presumably from states that are members. Those are risk-laden services that ordinarily no regulated bank that ever did biz with Trump would necessarily choose to engage in after previous experience with his business dealings and bankruptcies. And the risk of accidentally facilitating money laundering is not zero, let's be real here, despite all the assurances in the original public statements about the Board of Peace structure and controls. Trump may potentially chair the board for life after leaving the White House.

abcnews.com

Trump could potentially chair Board of Peace for life; $1 billion contributions are voluntary: US official

Many questions are swirling around the Trump-led Board of Peace, which was originally billed as a committee that would oversee the rebuilding and reconstruction of Gaza.
abcnews.com abcnews.com

But "regulatory or legal" risk to a US bank that does something Trump actually wants done these days is evidently minimal. Especially if otherwise an unrelated lawsuit without likely merit is going to cost a particular US bank some big bucks to have to defend regardless of merit.

May the best con man win. Ya think the prediction markets have odds on Trump or Dimon making out better here?
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I wasn’t aware of this… fascinating, and I appreciate the explanation and commentary! 👍
 
This is ridiculous. ICE wants to deport a 55-year-old woman who was born in Iran, adopted from an orphanage at age 2 by Americans then working in pre-revolutionary Iran, was raised as a Christian in the USA, has never been to Iran and does not know the language or culture.

apnews.com

She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States.
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And, since her adoptive Dad was an American government contractor in Iran while the Shah was still that country's ruler, she'd clearly be in danger in today's Iran regardless of current heat between the ayatollahs and Trump.

The woman’s father was a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II, captured in 1943 and held until the end of the war. When he retired from the Air Force, he worked as a government contractor in Iran, where he and his wife found her in an orphanage in 1972 and adopted her. She was 2 years old.
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This woman's parents, who are now deceased, apparently did not quite complete the then separately required naturalization process for the adoptee although there are some papers noting work had been undertaken with a lawyer and her parents on that matter. The US law change in 2000 that made citizenship automatic for foreign adoptions by US citizens was not made retroactive and didn't even include anyone born before 1983.

When the law has been an ass, Congress is supposed to fix it but in the meantime justice is not served by low-lifes in ICE who don't mind abusing it. In this case Congress even blew the fix.

And why does ICE have its head so far up its own ass?

This woman was recently served a notice that she had overstayed her visa at age 4 back in March of 1974. At least the judge ruled that the woman does not have to appear in person for a hearing. At least ICE can't plan on snatching her from the hearing site before she even sits down.

So much for Trump 2.0 focus on deporting "violent criminals" lacking documentation.

What, they ran out of that category already?

This woman can only recall issues with the police once, 20 years ago, getting pulled over for using a cellphone while driving. So her "violent crime" was apparently just the bad luck of having adoptive American parents who didn't finalize the paperwork for her naturalization some fifty-three years ago, when she was 2 years old.

It's not the law that's an ass here. It's the idiots at ICE. In normal times, you know, back in the era of f'g common sense, this case would involve the woman sitting down at her virtual hearing while the immigration judge fills out the papers to facilitate the woman's immediate path to citizenship.
 
A toxic anti-Islam anti-immigrant UK thug visits the State Dept, supposedly to talk about free speech. He was denied a US visa in 2018 when there were plans by a group of GOP congressmen to have him at "a conference about Islam." British authorities back then had asked for the visa to be denied out of concerns the guy would fund-raise for his vile organization. He is not "a free speech warrior" in any sane world. But that was then and this is now, and so he's here.

Far Right UK Activist Tommy Robinson Visits US State Department
That's a Bloomberg gift link. Piece has interesting details about this guy. At least it was an "unofficial" visit if one wants to sanewash an account of the incident.

Here are excerpts of a Reuters account


State Department official Joe Rittenhouse, who is a senior adviser for the department's Consular Affairs bureau, met with Robinson, calling him a "free speech warrior."

"Honored to have free speech warrior @TRobinsonNewEra at Department of State today. The World and the West is a better place when we fight for freedom of speech and no one has been on the front lines more than Tommy. Good to see you my friend!" Rittenhouse said in an X post.
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Robinson is the founder of the English Defence League, or EDL, which in the past has staged violent demonstrations against Islam.

He was jailed by British authorities in 2013 for using a passport in someone else's name to travel to the United States from Britain.
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lizkat said:
A toxic anti-Islam anti-immigrant UK thug visits the State Dept, supposedly to talk about free speech. He was denied a US visa in 2018 when there were plans by a group of GOP congressmen to have him at "a conference about Islam." British authorities back then had asked for the visa to be denied out of concerns the guy would fund-raise for his vile organization. He is not "a free speech warrior" in any sane world. But that was then and this is now, and so he's here.

Far Right UK Activist Tommy Robinson Visits US State Department
That's a Bloomberg gift link. Piece has interesting details about this guy. At least it was an "unofficial" visit if one wants to sanewash an account of the incident.

Here are excerpts of a Reuters account

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free speech warrior = always a nazi who fights for his own free speech he'd deny everyone else if he were in power.
 
Republicans want to override the will of DC voters and get rid of speed and red light cameras in Washington, DC.

51st.news

House Republicans move to kill D.C. traffic cameras—despite using them back home

The GOP's latest attempt to interfere with local affairs would also stop the city from banning right turns on red.
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I’ll give you 3 guesses why, and the first two don’t count…

The bill is the brainchild of Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pennsylvania), who admitted to a Washingtonian reporter earlier this month that he’s been hit with traffic camera tickets while driving in the city. Speaking on Wednesday, Perry said his proposal would benefit residents and visitors alike.

“My goal is to bring driving autonomy back to the District. Not only for the people that live there, but for people that visit,” he said “These cameras are a shameless money grab that continuously deter tourists, aggravate commuters, and attack and defraud local residents with hundreds of dollars in fines.”
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