Sometimes a Onesie Is Just a Onesie Why are we wasting time and energy on this crap when the country has real problems? https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/05/sometimes-a-onesie-is-just-a-onesie/
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Are You Kidding Me? DeSantis Slams Trump at Iowa Presser For ‘Trashing Florida’ and Being ‘Detached From Reality’ What has he been smoking? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held the first rally of his 2024 GOP presidential campaign on Tuesday, and during a post-speech presser slammed Donald Trump as having “moved left” and become “detached from reality” in his fervor to attack the governor. https://www.mediaite.com/tv/are-you-kidding-me-desantis-slams-trump-at-iowa-presser-for-trashing-florida-and-being-detached-from-reality/
Synagogue Shooter’s Lawyers Admit He Killed, But Say It Wasn’t a Hate Crime Go figure. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter posted antisemitic conspiracy theories before the massacre. He’s pleaded not guilty to 63 counts. https://www.thedailybeast.com/pittsburgh-tree-of-life-synagogue-shooter-robert-bowerss-lawyers-admit-he-killed-but-say-it-was-no-hate-crime
Call her Ivanka Kushner Calling Branding Central: Ivanka Trump has been steadily distancing herself from her father's brand since he left office. A former adviser in the Trump White House, Ivanka now says she's done with politics. Despite the rebrand, Ivanka remains in legal trouble for her role in Trump businesses. https://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-kushner-rebranding-distance-from-trump-legal-trouble-persists-2023-5
Now the GOP Wants to Rob Gen Z to Pay the Boomers The budget cuts that House Republicans are demanding in their high-stakes debt-ceiling standoff with President Joe Biden sharpen the overlapping generational and racial conflict moving to the center of U.S. politics. The House GOP’s blueprint would focus its spending cuts on most of the government’s investments in children and young adults, who are the most racially diverse generations in American history. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/why-the-gop-wants-to-rob-gen-z-to-pay-the-boomers/ar-AA1bGVv
How Trump’s Call for Debt Default Could Bite GOP in the Butt Wall Street is preparing for possible US debt default Reuters reports. Less than two weeks remain until June 1, when the Treasury Department has warned that the federal government might not be able to pay all its debts, a deadline U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reaffirmed on Sunday. The markets are going to go berserk until this is resolved. And you can also be sure the GOP will end up taking benefits and food out of the mouths of poor people. Not to mention the worldwide recession/depression this will cause.
Meghan Markle steps out in gold to receive Women of Vision award in New York City Klaatu asks did somebody say vision? Service? Meghan sounded like more of the platitudinous sentiments that has gone down well in certain quarters of American opinion and on the Duchess’s ‘Archetypes’ podcast. Her exhortation that ‘daily acts of service’ will be the means by which people will seize their emancipation is hard to swallow…. The real question is how much did she have to fork over to win this award? More than she paid to win the Kennedy award?
North Hollywood Bar Clears Way for Stripper Unionization With Actors’ Equity Attorneys for the club recently withdrew their challenges, so if the dancers vote in favor of unionization in a National Labor Relations Board ballot count this week, they will become the only unionized strippers in the U.S. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/star-garden-stripper-union-employer-clears-way-election-1235257152/
Russia is floating a plan to build a village for conservative Americans who want to move to a 'Christian country' and are tired of liberal ideology in the US. You'll never have to worry about exposure to "woke-ness" again. https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-build-village-catholic-christian-americans-tired-liberals-claim-lawyer-2023-5
I s ChatGPT going to be another iPhone? Big tech is investing billions of dollars in it. Startups are raising cash and working to formulate new business models using AI. Investors are trying to figure when and how AI’s arrival will upend companies, industries and business practices—and putting their money down accordingly. Which has sent stocks whizzing... https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-is-causing-a-stock-market-ruckus-4b7cc008
Russia is planning to exhaust Ukraine Afraid to fan the flames of dissent in an unpopular war by sending in more troops, Russia has been accused of launching waves of so-called "kamikaze" drones against Ukrainian cities and power stations in recent months. Ukraine's government and Western intelligence agencies say Russia has been using Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones in the conflict since autumn last year. Also called the Geranium-2 by Russia, it has explosives in a warhead on its nose and is designed to loiter over a target until it is instructed to attack. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-62225830
Ukraine and The Trump Elephant in the Room Ukraine’s fate depends on many factors, but you can be sure one looms large: former US President Donald Trump’s 2024 political campaign. The last time the words “Trump” and “Ukraine” were associated the then-president was being impeached for threatening to withhold military aid from Kyiv while seeking a political favor from Russia. Trump has strenuously denied wrongdoing. Five years later, much has changed — and much has not. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/opinions/trump-factor-ukraine-future-good/index.html
Quo Vadis Carlson? Russia state media outlets have offered the outgoing host a job on their networks: RT tweeted that he could “question more” by joining the network, while Russia’s most popular broadcaster said he would “happily offer you a job if you wish to carry on as a presenter and host! You are always welcome in Russia and Moscow, we wish you the best of luck." Is anyone out there surprised?