The shootings and attacks by ICE today...someone justify Jefferies as leader after vote to fund ice murders

The nine who voted to fund Ice murder squads and leader Jefferies are must be held accountable for not taking a stand against this.

The 18-25 crowd saw bipartisan support for this gestapo because of those 9 votes and the failure of leadership to whip them into the correct side of history.

I would throw 'peace in our time' leader shumer as well.

The only way this can be salvaged is of they get discharge petition tomorrow

If all the Epstein material is made public and the entire Republican party infrastructure and donor pool is tarnished quickly, then that would be the only marginal justification for caving on the shutdown to get nothing.

But, somehow I think the redactions will be every right wing donor and politician and only leaving democrats names in tact.

Bondi will protect mango Mussolini and the megadonors

Random thought about Kirk's killer

It hit me in the shower that he told his father that he did it because he had eliminated a fake MAGA anticipating that his father would praise him and be impressed.

MAGA family... kids drifted to Fuentes style MAGAworld and the son thinks this will gain the approval and respect of his father. But father is appalled because he is only Nazi-light...all the hatred and racism but doesn't want to admit he's a Nazi. So dad turns him in.

I've known a lot of Mormon kids who did crazy shit to try to win the respect and love of their cold fathers.

Curious if anyone else has drifted there.

Shut them up at the car repair...

Idiot manager of my father in law's preferred car repair brought up the asshat and what a tragedy it was.

I just said. "Well the shooter was apparently a fan of Fuentes, the neoNazi. You should probably be angry with Fuentes rolling people up about Kirk.'

That shut the Nazi sympathizer up.

Trey Hendrickson contract dispute...so simple solution

Signing bonus today: $55 million
This year salary: 5 million
Next year salary: 5 million Guaranteed as roster
$5 million as salary
bonus on March 1st to split the salary cap hit
Third year not guaranteed: 37.5 million

That's 3 years with essentially 70 million Guaranteed in the first two years

Total contract value 107.5 million. Averages 36.5 million a year.
Cap hit first year is essentially 21 million. Leaves the Bengals money to get a guard and handle injuries. You could make it more cap friendly by making bonus $53 million and $2 million this year.

Pretty simple.

No one got guaranteed money beyond age 31. Not even Watt.

Pixel 6a class action lawsuit question

Wondering if anyone here on DU knows if a class action lawsuit has started over the Pixel 6a battery problem and bait and switch solution?

Short version. Google Pixel 6a had a software update that basically made battery life so short and risk overheating to make it useless.

They offered money as a check or a slightly larger amount of you bought through the Google store. People that I know all seem to have been rejected for the cash and approved if the bought through the Google store.

I had three 6a in the family. Bought new phones through the carrier because they were cheaper than Google store and had all three claim rejected.

Seems this happened to other people on the web as well.

"Maxwell answered all questions asked" per ABC... let's predict what they were

1. Will you be willing to say that tRump did not rape little girls?
2. Will you say that under oath?
3. Will you immediately fly to a non extradition country and disappear after your pardon?
4. Do you understand that if you ever talk about what really happened, release any videos, etc that you will drink a polonium cocktail and all the money in your family will be taken and given to tRump?

Pretty much covers all they were going to ask.

Please add what you think the assistant AG asked her.

Epstein -- forget the recent stuff. I want to see the buried stuff from the plea bargain

The materials from before he got caught the first time will be ALL the pedophile rapists.

The more recent stuff is just the really stupid ones.

I have always thought that the hedge fund was a money laundering way to blackmail the rich and famous. Early use of the hedge fund managed by a guy with no real competency for that work screams blackmail to me.

I want the videos, financial records including the percentage cut Epstein got for the hedge fund, etc from the 'way back coverup.'

Oh the recent stuff...there had to be blackmail videos and photos. Financial receipts, etc.

But the really large dark list will be the one that got the prosecutor who gave a sweet plea deal to move up instead of down in power to a filthy rapist and sex trafficker.

Bitching about hotels

Why is it that corporate bookers ALWAYS put me in 'fancy' big name hotels with no refrigerator or microwave?

I would rather have a 'lesser' hotel with a way to keep a soda cold and reheat by leftovers from the restaurant.

Seriously, this hotel is literally more than double what I paid for a hotel one mile away that had breakfast included with a fridge for my caffeine fix and a microwave.

Not fiscally responsible with the department budget and not what I want. I wish they would always let me book for myself. I would get what I want and save the company hundreds of dollars on a 3 day stay.

Saw a basson post and thought..two fun songs by rocky bassoon