Oh, they are. But right now, there are those that view the Satanic Temple as a publicity stunt, so it doesn’t have as much of an impact as it used to. Post the actual Church of Satan principles if you really want to rustle some feathers.
As long as this is posted right up next to it.
Honestly, I could see him using this as the basis for his claim that the 2024 election was “stolen” again.
“Haley got 20% of the votes in the primaries even after she dropped out. Biden beat me in this state by 10%. Now when you factor in the 20% that should have automatically been mine anyway and I’d have beat Biden by 10%. See? Election interference!”
The only thing Congress is needed for is to impeach and remove him. And since we know the chances of that happening are exactly zero, that makes them completely useless.
SC judges aren’t immune to the law. The DOJ absolutely can investigate, arrest, and charge him just like they can any other citizen. Now, I’m not saying they will; I’m just saying they can. And if they had anything resembling balls, they would, and then Congress can then decide if they want a Supreme Court judge making rulings from inside a jail cell.
But this is the Merrick Garland DOJ, which means he’s too afraid to mention Thomas’ name, let alone investigate him. And we all know Congress ain’t doing squat.
I’ll eat your hat if any of these judges ever grow the balls to lock him up for anything.
This will not be the beginning of the GOP “seeing the error of their ways” or anything like that.
We have seen this many times before, in the public and private sector, up and down the political ladder. She is far from the first, and hopefully far from the last person to have finally had enough with Trump, the MAGA movement, all this conservative extremism, etc. But people like her don’t cause her colleagues to reflect on things and reconsider. People like her are simply excommunicated from the tribe and the movement marches on as if they were never a part of it. Or worse, they march on as if she was a part of the problem all along and she becomes public enemy #1.
At her level, the most she can expect is to be expelled from the school board or replaced in the next election with whatever MAGA psycho wants to ban another 800 books because one of the authors once dated someone who’s uncle may have been gay in a previous life, and the other 799 books need to be burnt in public for sharing shelf space with it.
“It’s not an 11th violation of the gag order! It’s the first time he violated the gag order in this way. That automatically restarts the count!” – Trump’s lawyers, probably.
80/20 odds says this judge goes with it so he doesn’t actually have to punish Trump.
This shouldn’t be a big surprise; In a winner-take-all contest, the two bigger players are going to gang up and eliminate the smaller one first before focusing on each other. Neither Biden nor Trump are going to allow RFK to waltz in and get a boost off of those two fighting each other; it would just make it harder for them to eliminate him later.
I used Sirius for a short time right around when Sirius and XM were merging. Never listened to a single talk station. Couldn’t have cared less. I cared about the uncensored, commercial free music with stations tailored to different genres. It was great, and IMO worth the money at the time.
Then came streaming. Once streaming came along, Sirius instantly became obsolete. Streaming offered me everything that Sirius had and then some. Since I didn’t need or care about talk radio, there was literally no need to keep my subscription going. I had thought that most others did the same thing. Apparently, I was wrong.
I’m not sure what his contract is like tho, they may have given him a ridiculous long contract to make the jump back in the day. So still paying him 2000s money even without that audience.
He just renewed it in I think 2020. And he’s still hovering around 100 million annually.
And apparently both of us are vastly underestimating SiriusXM’s popularity; a quick google search shows that they pull in about $9 billion a year with a subscriber base of 34 million people. Apparently the pool of people who are too cool for AM/FM but can’t quite get the hang of Spotify is bigger than we may think.
I don’t even know what demographic subscribes to satellite radio these days, let along how many listen to Stern.
Regarding how many people still listen to Stern, I obviously don’t know the exact numbers, but given that SiriusXM keeps renewing his contract which hovers around 9 figures annually, I’m going to guess that he still has an extremely large following and is probably one of the only reasons the vast majority of SiriusXM subscribers are even subscribed in the first place.
you know, good for her, i guess, but i absolutely fucking hate that they just paint this picture of her like a normal, well adjusted person who happened to get involved in some Weird Shit, because she has to have ignored or dismissed a LOT of red flags to get to where she was.
I have to mildly disagree here. Yes, some (I’ll even go so far as to say the majority) of the blame falls on her for being willfully blind for so long, but there’s also the fact that many of her colleagues simply tried shielding her from the information. Plus, in any case like this, you often don’t know the true reality of the situation until you roll up your sleeves and start digging in yourself.
But I’m willing to give her a lot of credit. She was willing to have her beliefs challenged, she was willing to look at everything objectively, and she didn’t follow her colleagues’ lead in ignoring the evidence for their own political benefit because the facts didn’t jive with their personal worldview (and apparently being willing to state as much, if only to her). That itself is a rarity in society today, where the only answer to extremism is more extremism, doubling down instead of compromising, and treating any attempt at admitting the other side may have a point as being a traitor to the cause. This holds especially true in the GOP, and even more so in places like Texas.
And in an area like that, I’d much rather have someone who at least seems to be willing to be objective and accept reality vs. yet another crackpot who wants a list of books banned because some of the words contain the letters G, A, and Y.
The whole purpose of a Howard Stern interview is random fluff. It’s to make people like Joe Biden seem like he’s “one of us”. It’s not meant to promote a political agenda, or even have serious discussion on any given topic. Howard Stern would have been more likely to ask Biden about details of his and his wife’s sex life back in 1976 or something instead of a question with even mild political relevance. That’s Howard Stern. That’s what he does.
I don’t know why he picked Stern as the venue, but he needs to be doing more of this. Getting out and doing interviews. Just preferably harder hitting questions than: Did you ever save someone’s life when you were a lifeguard?
This is a reasonable expectation for if/when he goes on more serious interviews, but this is par for the course for Howard Stern, and he doesn’t even try to pretend otherwise.
This latest stunt of having a rotating set of bootlicking douche canoes attend court with him then talk shit in the media is pathetic and disgusting.
It’s also essentially a job interview for future cabinet positions should Trump be re-elected.
Not really.
Let’s say Trump decided to attack Stormy Daniels now that she’s done testifying, and she starts getting inundated with threats (or worse, something happens to her). What is the next witness going to think? Why would the next witness testify if they know they’re going to be the subject of one of Trump’s dog whistles right after they’re done?
The gag order needs to stay in place and in full effect until the end of the trial.
I don’t know how true this is, but CNN is reporting that the judge has decided to quietly back off further enforcement of the gag order, even though he denied the motion to quash it.
My guess is that this is his way of not actually having his bluff called the next time Trump crosses the line. It’s also another great example of how there’s a two-tier system of justice in this country. Good to know that when push comes to shove, the judges will continue to do nothing while wondering why Trump continues to run roughshod all over everything.
*“Excuse me your honor, but at this time I need to remind the court that my client is white and, more importantly, extremely rich. He is on the ‘preferred’ tier of our justice system, which means he is allowed to remain free pending all of his appeals, and then he still has the right to ignore several subpoenas before we hold the first hearing on when his prison sentence should begin.”
– Bannon’s lawyers, probably. And there’s a nonzero chance they’d succeed.
They don’t care if the deadbeat dads pay an extra penny. All they care about is that it gives something resembling “rationale” to fetal personhood. Once they can establish fetal personhood, the fact that the deadbeats who weren’t paying anything before still aren’t paying anything will be completely irrelevant to them.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. It feels better knowing that at least one other person around here gets it. I’ve been trying to explain this to people since the start of this whole thing and all I get is downvoted into oblivion for it.
On the other side is a bigger powerful, well-funded pro-Israel lobby (which the Palestinians don’t have) and a traditionally fairly cohesive and influential pro-Israel voting block.
The bolding is my own addition. I think this is the part people seem to refuse to understand. The pro-Israel side is many times larger than the pro-Palestine side. Even if he were to change positions the day that Israel bombed the first hospital, all that would mean is that we’d be seeing even larger pro-Israel protests instead of pro-Palestine ones, and politicians from both parties would be taking Biden to task for essentially abandoning one of our allies.
And I agree with your assessment that at this point, all he’s doing is pissing both sides off. But in reality, there was never a situation where he wasn’t going to piss off somebody. From the point of view of his attempts to get re-elected, he’s probably taking the least shitty option available to him. Whether or not any of us agree on if it’s the morally correct choice, I at least can acknowledge and understand that the other options available to him are all significantly worse and would only significantly increase Trump’s chances of winning, which is just worse for everybody regardless of which side of the issue you’re on.
Fixed that for you.