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‘Is He Describing Himself?’ Biden Roasts Trump Calling Him ‘Weak and Pathetic’

President Joe Biden hit back at former President Donald Trump on Thursday after Trump described him as “weak and pathetic.”

During an interview with Biden on ABC World News Tonight, ABC News anchor David Muir said:

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You bring up your opponent, Donald Trump. He has said of your executive action, “He’s pretending to finally do something about the border, but it’s all about show.” He says, “We have a debate coming up. Biden’s executive order is weak and pathetic.”

Biden responded, “Is he describing himself? Weak and pathetic? Come on.”

The president continued, “Look, everybody knows what’s happened. We had a deal. It was much broader than this, much better, much more accepted across the board, and he got on the phone and told the Republicans, ‘Don’t support it, it will hurt me, it will help Biden.'”

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'His Brain Is Cooked': Donald Trump Mocked for Saying He's in Texas Despite Speaking at Rally in Arizona

Does Donald Trump know where he is? Apparently not!

During a rally in Arizona on Thursday, June 6, the ex-president, 77, thought he was in a different state.

"...Here in Texas," he said in the speech.

Of course, people couldn't get over the gaffe. "My guy, you are in Arizona. His brain is cooked," one person replied to the clip, which was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, while another added, "His downfall had better be epic or I’m going to lose faith. In everything."

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Rich kid gets in standoff with cops aboard his yacht after 'terrorizing restaurants and neighbors' in Florida

A rich teenage influencer who menaced his neighbors in the Florida Keys had the tables turned on him when police filmed a damning video of his anti-social behavior.

Luis Barrios, 18, boasts 43,000 followers on Instagram where he documents his glamorous lifestyle of fast cars, fast boats, and international travel.

But he was brought down to earth by Florida cops who seized him on his father's yacht after he terrorized restaurant staff, boasted about his family's wealth and threatened to feed police officers to alligators.

'Nobody cares about your TikTok nobody cares,' one told him. 'You're a child, get off the boat.'

Police were called by staff at Sunset Grille in Marathon when a drunken Barrios and his young pals began swearing loudly and causing a disturbance.

Cops arrived to find the culprits had fled on Barrios's yacht but a manager scratching his head after allegedly being left a threatening message on his phone.

'It's so stupid,' he told officers. 'Why would you call with your actual number?'

Police headed to one of the family homes nearby on the archipelago to find no-one home but the teenager's neighbors unsurprised at his latest antics.

'Daddy took the car away so he stole the boat,' one told police. 'Something's got to be done about that kid.

'The dad's a decent hard-working guy who built what he built through hard work but the kid's a spoiled brat.'

'It sounds like he's doing it for attention,' another neighbor adds. 'Because he's not a very likable guy and it sounds like he's trying to buy their friendship.'

Officers tell them that Barrios has had a series of previous arrests, and that around 20 other neighbors have lodged complaints.

'He's been a thorn in our side over the last two months,' one says.

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They couldn't find a more recent example than Mark Fuhrman?  

JUST IN: Biden Apologizes to Zelensky For Delays In Ukraine Aid and Blames GOP

President Joe Biden met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday while in Paris, France, and as the cameras rolled, Biden apologized for the weeks it took to get aid to Ukraine — and pointed the finger directly at some Republicans.

Biden was the first to speak, and he started off by addressing Zelensky:

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You know, as I said yesterday at the American cemetery, the Ukrainian people have been incredibly brave. Never given up, never staying… never even yielding. And it’s impressive. And you saw the reception you received when everyone’s stood and gave you a standing ovation. And you deserve it. And, you know, you haven’t bowed down. You haven’t yielded at all. You continue to fight in a way that is, is just remarkable. Just remarkable. And, I’m not going to walk away from you. I apologize for those weeks of not knowing was going to pass in terms of funding and because we had trouble getting the bill that we had to pass, had the money in it, some of our very conservative members who were holding it up. But we got it done finally. And, since then, including today, I’ve announced six packages of significant funding.

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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Vladimir Putin repeats warning he could send weapons to adversaries of the West

Russia could send weapons to adversaries of the West, Vladimir Putin has warned for a second time.

The Russian president repeated the warning from earlier this week during the St Petersburg Economic Forum.

He did not say what countries or entities he was referring to, and he stressed that Moscow is not doing it currently.

"If they supply (weapons) to the combat zone and call for using these weapons against our territory, why don't we have the right to do the same?" he told the crowds. 

"But I'm not ready to say that we will be doing it tomorrow, either."

On Wednesday, Putin told international journalists that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory.

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Kremlin trying to 'invoke memory of Cuban missile crisis'

Russian naval vessels that will be making port in Cuba next week is an attempt to invoke the historical memory of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, according to a leading thinktank. 

The Cuban ministry of the revolutionary armed forces announced yesterday that four Russian northern fleet vessels would make an official visit to the port of Havana between 12-17 June. 

The US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said the move was "likely part of a larger effort to invoke the historical memory of the Cuban missile crisis as part of Russia's reflexive control campaign to encourage US self-deterrence". 

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The Price America Pays For Ignorant Americans

Among the reactions to Donald Trump’s conviction in New York last month, I was struck by something Richard Thau said the other day.

Thau conducts focus groups for the public opinion research firm Engagious. He coordinated with NPR to share audio from two very small groups. Just six people per group, and not a sample of the electorate overall, but remarkable in the impression you get from their responses, or at least the impression I got.

As I listened to the group respond to Thau’s questions, I thought, “Do these people follow current events? Do they even understand the issues they’re being asked about?”

You can listen to the report yourself, but two things Thau said about the focus groups stood out. The first came when the host asked if some level of deception played a role in their responses.

“If they’re being deceived,” said Thau, “they don’t seem to realize that they’re being deceived.”

You know the old saying: The first step to solving a problem is to realize you have a problem.

I’m reluctant to say these people are just plain dumb (though I’ve posed that question before). But when the host asked if it was fair to see these people as “low information voters,” Thau said, “I would say that they are generally not paying close attention to what’s going on day-to-day politically.”

That unawareness, either due to incuriousness, obliviousness or laziness, seems a microcosm of who we are today, a society that, as it moved forward, became dumber — OK, less informed.

A scary thought here is that those folks may not even know how unaware they are. Instead of willfully ignorant, a choice, they’re unwittingly ignorant — ignorant of their ignorance. Or, ignorance is bliss. And again, not necessarily because they’re stupid.

Blaring headlines keep them generally aware, but not sufficiently so.

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Trump demands prosecutions for Cheney, Jan. 6 committee members

There’s no longer any question about whether Donald Trump would seek prosecutions against his perceived political enemies. Not only does he keep publicly acknowledging his intentions — including in a new interview aired late yesterday — he’s trailed by a record of already having made such attempts.

The question, rather, is who he’d go after first. There’s reason to believe members of the Jan. 6 committee would be high on the former president’s list.

After U.S. District Court Judge Carl J. Nichols ordered former White House strategist Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1, Trump found it difficult to lash out at the justice system. After all, he’s the one who tapped Nichols for the federal bench.

So the Republican did the next best thing: As NBC News reported, he lashed out at the members whose subpoena Bannon ignored.

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The unAmerican Weaponization of our Law Enforcement has reached levels of Illegality never thought possible before.”

 

Trump concluded, “INDICT THE UNSELECT J6 COMMITTEE FOR ILLEGALLY DELETING AND DESTROYING ALL OF THEIR ‘FINDINGS!’”

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It's amazing how Trump doesn't see the irony and hypocrisy in the above statements.

On 3/7/2024 at 5:46 PM, China said:

More winning for Trump: 

 

Trump is ordered to pay legal fees after failed lawsuit over the Steele dossier

 

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay a six-figure legal bill to a company founded by a former British spy that he unsuccessfully sued for making what his lawyer called “shocking and scandalous” false claims that harmed his reputation.

 

A London judge, who threw out the case against Orbis Business Intelligence last month saying it was “bound to fail,” ordered Trump to pay legal fees of 300,000 pounds ($382,000), according to court documents released Thursday.

 

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Donald Trump 'Faces Enforcement' for Failing to Pay Legal Costs

Donald Trump will be forced to pay over $380,000 in legal fees if he reappears in the United Kingdom, according to Christopher Steele.

Trump unsuccessfully tried to sue Steele for the Steele Dossier investigation into the former president, which was commissioned by the Democratic National Convention and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

The largely discredited dossier consists of opposition research that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign commissioned from former British intelligence officer Steele in 2016. It contained unverified intelligence reports about Trump's relationship with Russia and has been dismissed by some Russian experts.

Trump sued Steele for the report and lost the London case earlier this year. The court ordered that Trump pay an initial £300,000 ($381,000) in legal fees.

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, Steele vowed to recover the money if Trump ever returns to the U.K.

"Earlier this year, when he lost his English High Court case against us, the judge ordered Donald Trump to pay Orbis an initial £300k in costs. Trump, who claims to respect the UK, has now been in breach of this order for two months and faces enforcement if he travels here again," he wrote.

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Besides not being reported in a timely manner as is required, I imagine he may have some tax liabilities that he failed to report.  

4 hours ago, DCSaints_fan said:

I'm wondering why he didn't incorporate to insulate himself from civil damages, maybe he was just that dumb

Or maybe it doesn't always work.

It's not like he wasn't trying to hide his assets.

A couple of recent events:

Starliner Sets Off on 1st Flight With NASA Astronauts Aboard

After two trips to the launchpad that did not end up going to space, two NASA astronauts finally headed to orbit on Wednesday in a vehicle built by Boeing, the aerospace giant. The 15-foot-wide capsule, Starliner, provides NASA with an additional option for flying crews to and from the International Space Station, more than a decade after the space shuttles were retired. The launch is the latest step in NASA’s efforts to rely more heavily on the private sector for its human spaceflight program.

Starliner’s first trip with astronauts on board comes four years and six days after SpaceX, the other company that NASA has hired to provide astronaut rides, launched its first mission with astronauts aboard. A series of costly delays repeatedly kept astronauts from flying on the Boeing vehicle, while SpaceX, once seen as an upstart, has since flown 13 crews to orbit.

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SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Successfully Completes 1st Return From Space

SpaceX’s launch of its mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday accomplished a set of ambitious goals that Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive, had set out before the test flight, the fourth.

Lifting off from SpaceX’s launchpad at 7:50 a.m. in South Texas, near Brownsville, Starship rumbled into the sky.

After it dropped away from the upper stage, the booster was able to gently set down in the Gulf of Mexico while the second-stage spacecraft traveled halfway around the world, survived the searing temperatures of re-entering the atmosphere and also made a controlled splashdown, in the Indian Ocean.

The flight was not flawless, and tough technical hurdles remain. The successes, surpassing what was accomplished during the previous test flight in March, offered optimism that Mr. Musk can pull off his vision of a rocket that is the biggest and most powerful ever and yet entirely reusable.

The outcome also helps validate the company’s break-it-then-fix-it approach to engineering, with steady progress since the first test launch in April last year when the rocket had to be deliberately destroyed when it flew off course.

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Militarized Cybertruck cop cars are coming

A California company is advertising ‘tactical response’ Tesla Cybertruck upgrades for police cruisers, including shotgun racks and sirens.
 

Militarized Cybertrucks driven by cops and private security forces may soon cruise US streets—a scenario repeatedly endorsed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk himself. And while fans of the chunky, soap-phobic, recall-prone EV previously teased similar projects, at least one California-based Tesla alterations company is officially advertising Cybertruck “upfitting” packages to police and other “tactical response” customers.

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Who knew the US even had a cricket team?

Bike Share Toronto urges riders to ‘wipe down seats’ if renting bike for naked ride

There’s no ifs, ands, or butts about it: If you rent a bike for this weekend’s World Naked Bike Ride in Toronto, be a sweetie and wipe the seatie.

That’s the advice Bike Share Toronto is sharing ahead of the event’s 20th anniversary ride on Saturday.

When asked if naked riding was permitted, Bike Share Toronto Director Justin Hanna noted that it’s a “publicly available system,” open to all riders, clothed or otherwise.

“Though we don’t encourage it, we understand that some riders will use the system in this manner on June 8,” Hanna wrote.

“As a matter of common courtesy and hygiene we strongly ask and encourage those riders to wipe down the seats and handlebars after their ride so that they are sanitized for the next rider.”

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2 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

Still waiting on SCOTUS for their presidential immunity ruling so we can start to move forward with the Trump Jan. 6th case.

Agreeing to demands?  I don't think he has much choice.  He owe's a buttload of money that he can't simply dismiss through bankruptcy.  He should be sleeping in a van down by the river while all his assests are auctioned off to pay his debts.

Earth marks 12 straight months of record heat, a bewildering climate change milestone

Another month, another climate record: May 2024 was the twelfth straight month of record-warm temperatures for the planet, European scientists announced Wednesday.

That's the second-longest such streak on record, according to data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

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“It is shocking but not surprising that we have reached this 12-month streak," said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, in a statement. "While this sequence of record-breaking months will eventually be interrupted, the overall signature of climate change remains and there is no sign in sight of a change in such a trend.”

The new milestone is even more worrisome than the one reached in January, which marked 2023 as the hottest year on record. That meant the calendar year was the hottest overall, with many – but not all – months setting records. Now every month for a year straight has been the hottest ever recorded.

Unfortunately, Earth being hot is nothing new: Our planet has seen over 550 consecutive months with temperatures above the 20th-century average. But this uninterrupted run of all-time temperature records starting in June 2023 is unusual, perplexing and worrying.

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Florida woman called 911 on herself during attempted carjacking so she ‘could do it legally’: deputies

A Florida woman was arrested after calling 911 on herself while trying to steal a car from a dealership so she “could do it legally.”

Christy Turman, 37, called the Lee County Sheriff’s Office because she wanted authorities to know, deputies said.

“Because I’m trying to steal a car that’s not legally mine,” Turman said during the 911 call. “So, y’all better come make a report. I’m reporting this.”

Deputies arrived at the dealership a short time later, where they found Turman exiting the driver’s side of the stolen Toyota Corolla.

The 37-year-old told deputies she was being trained in a game of Black Ops to steal a car, but called authorities to make her carjacking legal.

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New Hampshire House and Senate Agree on Marijuana Legalization Bill, Governor Says He’ll Sign it Into Law

In March, the House of Representatives passed House Bill 1633 with a vote of 239 to 136. In May, the Senate amended the measure and passed it by a vote of 14 to 10. The House then rejected these changes, leading to the establishment of a conference committee consisting of members from both chambers.

Today, the committee decided to merge the two versions of the bill. The measure will now undergo one final vote in both the House and Senate before being sent to Governor Chris Sununu, who has expressed his intention to sign it into law.

The proposed legislation, if enacted, would permit individuals 21 and older to possess and use up to two ounces of marijuana (down from the four ounces in the House-passed version of the bill), 10 grams of marijuana concentrates, and marijuana products containing up to 2,000 milligrams of THC. Additionally, it would create a system for licensed and regulated marijuana retail outlets, operated by the state, with a cap of 15 stores statewide and no more than one store per municipality. The bill also includes a marijuana sales tax set at 12.5%.

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On 6/4/2024 at 3:16 PM, ixcuincle said:

I have boxes of them from Costco it's good 

 

that said I have studied recipes on how to make actual mashed potatoes through boiling them. interesting.

On 6/4/2024 at 3:25 PM, China said:

 

Studied?  Boiling water is about the simplest thing to do in cooking.  

@ixcuincle in the kitchen:

How DeSantis’ new voting law is wounding 'an already weakened Democratic Party': report

A law Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed after the 2020 election has caused a significant decrease in the amount of voters who can receive mail-in ballots ahead of the 2024 election, according to Politico.

Per Politico, "The plunge occurred after GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a wide-ranging election law in 2021 that required all standing vote-by-mail requests to be canceled after the 2022 elections. Both parties and election supervisors have tried over the last several months to build up awareness of the change, but it’s not clear if that message is sinking in with voters."

Although both GOP and Democratic voters are both experiencing the impact, the news outlet reports the the law "could prove devastating" especially for the latter, :who have embraced mail-in voting since 2020 as the Republican Party nationally has raced away from it."

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4 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofBruceAllen said:

 

Earth is flat, too.

 

Doesn't surprise me one bit. He'd probably make Eric Secretary of State, Lara as Media Director, and Ivanka as HUD Secretary.

If Trump had his way he'd have Ivanka in Monica Lewinsky's position, giving him hummers under the desk.

Updated: Ukraine's military intelligence destroys Russian tugboat in Crimea

Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) carried out a naval strike in occupied Crimea overnight on June 6, destroying a Project 498 "Saturn" raiding tugboat, the agency said.

The agency's spokesperson, Andrii Yusov, reported on the vessel's destruction earlier the same day on national television.

The boat was destroyed in Panske Lake, which lies on Crimea's western shores, only a few kilometers from the coastal town of Chornomorske. Ukrainian naval drones operated by the military intelligence agency reportedly destroyed two other boats near Chornomorske overnight on May 30.

The agency published a video of the latest attack, which appears to capture several naval drones ramming into the Russian vessel.

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Donald Trump's 'Foamy Saliva' in Campaign Video Raises Questions

In the footage, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, urged his supporters to vote for him in "any way possible"—including by casting absentee and mail-in ballots, forms of voting that he had previously staunchly opposed. "Many Republicans like to vote on Election Day and we must swamp the radical Democrats with massive turnout on Tuesday, November 5," Trump said.

However, it was not Trump's words, but his spitting and the froth around his mouth in the clip that caught the attention of many on social media.

One X user quoted a medical article that says "foaming or frothing at the mouth occurs when excess saliva pools in the mouth or lungs and mixes with air. Causes include drug overdose, seizures, pulmonary edema, and rabies. It is usually a medical emergency."

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So wait, Trump has rabies now too?

Steve Bannon Wants Donald Trump Jr. to Be Next Attorney General

Conservative media personality Steve Bannon says Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the former president, should be the next U.S. attorney general.

November looks set for a rematch between Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, and President Joe Biden. Bannon, a Trump ally who served in his administration as a chief strategist, is banking on a second Trump term, and some have speculated on whom the Republican would choose to lead the Justice Department.

On a recent episode of his War Room podcast, Bannon told his guest, Sergio Gor, Trump Jr.'s business partner in conservative publishing house Winning Team Publishing, that the former president's son would make a good pick for attorney general.

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