Look on the bright side! All this money is going to be contracted out to companies that these new oligarchs control, and by the time they funnel most of the money to their wallet only a handful of new prisons will actually get built. We will have to hope the grift can get in the way of the the new Holocaust that Stephen Miller is planning,

It’s because that was his day job. Somehow. It’s what provided the means for his hobby of diddling kids.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

He never finished his college degree, and after dropping out ended up teaching math at a private high school. He got fired for performance issues (and perhaps getting a bit too close to his students), but had made friends with one of the parents of a kid at the school, who happened to be an executive at Bear Stearns. He got a job trading options, and eventually spun that out into his own consultency, where he made more money than he (or anyone) really deserved to. He seems to be a chronic failure, but knew enough key people so that he could always fail upwards.

There are a lot of really weird coincidences from his early career, though: that High School was run by Bill Barr’s dad, Donald. (yes, that Bill Barr, who was Trump’s AG at the time Jeffrey Epstein “killed himself” in jail.) And Donald Barr actually wrote a trashy sci-fi novel in the early 70s in which sex trafficking of teenagers is a key plot point. Enough coincidences to keep conspiracy theorists going for decades.

I don’t think Clinton’s on the actual client list, either, even though we know he flew in his plane. But he is definitely on the list that they asked Maxwell to rubber-stamp.

“Bill Clinton”
“William Jefferson Clinton”
“Will Clinton”
“Billy Jeff”
“Bubba C”

They may have gotten really creative to get 100 different ways to say his name

Democrats ended up passing impeachment articles against Trump for the second time with a week left in Trump’s term. The Senate took them up after he was officially out of office.

You can bet that Republicans will use that as precedent to say they can impeachment Obama years after the fact, for made-up shit. In fact, I think we will see more abuses of these powers that look judicial but are really political. Impeach Biden for being senile? Impeachment Obama over Russiagate? Heck, they can even go back and posthumously impeach Carter over his sweater. They don’t have to convict, but just the impeachment alone will go on Democrat’s “permanent record”. Anything is possible when you just can make shit up!

… for Obama? Yeah, I think Republicans would go there.

A møøse once bit my airplane…

So this guy faced 8 counts, with a maximum sentence of 10 years each. He pled guilty to 2 counts in exchange for getting the other six dropped. he’s gonna go for some psych evaluation, maybe spend some time in jail, maybe not. He left his cushy gig, but I’m sure in a few months he will go on a public speaking tour about how repentant he is, the board will talk about how God always gives second chances, and he’ll get back pretty much everything.

Meanwhile, there are immigrants who are being tossed out of the country by this administration for much more minor offenses committed 10 or 20 years ago (which they already paid the price for). They have been following all the rules since then, and now we decide we don’t want them here anymore, and they lose everything they built here.

I think our values are all out of whack here.

13.2% fewer international travelers visited Las Vegas in June compared to last year.

I’m surprised it only declined that much…

One of the most well-known Rochestarians. I should get some Genny Cream Ale to pour out in his honor.

No, Gawker got shut down because they were awful people with no ethics, and eventually went too far. Peter Thiel funded the lawsuit to shut them down because they said he was gay. No side is the good side here.

They didn’t publish all of it, Wikipedia said they only published 10 seconds. But that’s enough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker

Haha, “investigative journalism that discomfits the powerful” doesn’t include publishing a sex tape that was taken without a person’s knowledge. Gawker got what was coming to it.

Here’s a thought experiment: if it was Chyna who was secretly recorded having sex and had that published in 2012, would you be so dismissive of it?

He did get Gawker Media shut down, which should be a plus. But he used Peter Thiel’s money to do it, which muddies the waters a bit…

Sound like someone needs to buy some $TRUMP to make this all go away…

There should be an exception when the article itself is a single sentence

Plot twist: he was named in the documents, but isn’t anymore, thanks to the assistance of her assistant Mr. Sharpie…

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They explicitly made an exception for super broad class action lawsuits, though.

It’s a tale as old as time. Dude gets his girlfriend knocked up, but is insisting she keeps the baby, while she doesn’t want to.

The biology of the situation kind of gives the woman veto power over this whole thing, at least with modern medical knowledge. And that’s what this is all about, isn’t it? Men are historically used to a certain level of privilege, and some men object whenever they are told “no”, whether it’s in the workplace or at home. But now, they can’t trap a woman anymore by knocking them up – at least as long as contraception, birth control, and abortion access are available. This lawsuit seems to reassert that control over women on behalf of “all current and future fathers”.