People engaging with this seriously as if he's not just bringing back the old bigotry against Catholics and is stopping just short of calling them "Papists".... please pay attention
I just want to editorialize here and say that choosing this route will backfire on them. They chose terrorism so they could increase the murder charge, but what that does is also bring up the ideology behind the shooting. And if they're going to try to defend healthcare insurance abuses on ideological grounds, they will absolutely create a far worse situation in public opinion than already exists.
If prosecutors are planning to defend the healthcare insurance system on ideological grounds...good luck
Leave aside how difficult it's going to be for them to maintain their credibility while redefining as a "state actor" a corrupt CEO accused of with insider trading and being investigated by the DOJ itself.
Prosecutors for the Manhattan District Attorney's are going to have to dismiss the powers of the DOJ which had identified Thompson as a target of investigation. The justice system is cannibalizing itself with this one.
I'm sorry but I am deeply skeptical that a guy who planned out an audacious killing to the second, wearing imperceptible clothing, was caught at a McDonald's with a manifesto and the same fake ID he used at a hostel. Come onnnn.
It's not that people don't make mistakes, it's that a guy who plans an audacious assassination with almost no evidence is not a guy who's going to carry around a manifesto with him
I'm going to believe that hostel guy was an accomplice and a decoy until there's convincing evidence otherwise
Because it revealed who she really is. Disrespectful, snotty, deeply unserious. It exposed her frivolity and her arrogance completely. A total lightweight, unprepared to deal with serious issues. Zero gravitas. Just ego.
People who are reflexively dismissive about accountability and apologies are deeply dangerous and unworthy of holding a high position. It tells you EVERYTHING about a person.
It was "I'M SPEAKING" that exposed her in an instant. Before that I thought there was a chance she could learn to lead. But after I saw that moment of pure snotty contempt from her towards her own voters, I realized that she is total trash. Even if she disagreed with the protesters there's a way to handle that with gravitas. Being a disrespectful snotty dipshit is a choice, and it was clear that she had made that choice many times before so it was easy for her. Absolutely no understanding of what's at stake.
Watching a video of a man who bought a $15,000 house in France (the cheapest house for sale in France) and he recorded 30 days of renovations, which involve demolishing the entire inside down to the studs. Maybe more than the studs, because he had for remove walls, ceilings, floors, and joists. I am not exaggerating when I say I started this with very low expectations and now I think it's the most compelling thing I've watched in months
Really starting to understand those older Italian men who gather outside construction sites every day just to watch the proceedings
They uncovered this incredible spiral staircase that had been completely walled up
I saw a TikTok from a young woman about how she paid $1000 to go to a yacht event in Monaco and people invited her to parties on some yachts "because I was dressed to impress...you can dress to show you bring value to the yacht."
And I don't know if anyone will tell her that cute dresses are not why young women are invited to yacht parties.
She's getting cooked in the comments -- but only because other young women don't think the dress is cute, not because anyone is pointing out the obvious fact that inviting young women with no money onto yachts is the equivalent of "ladies night" at a bar. The young women -- in any dress -- are there to bring the old men in.
I think this is what happens when young women are told that Old Money is an aesthetic you can buy through clothes, rather than a set of rigid and unspoken social codes that you instinctually understand.
It's also a result of the current nonsense that's been going around for years about "high-value women" or "high-value men" where "high-value" is a euphemism for how much money they have. There's no understanding that people are not their net worth.
My landlord just sent out an email saying he changed the front-door lock an hour ago (?!) and our front-door keys no longer work and we all have to see him personally for a new key.
No warning at all. No preparation. People are coming home from work standing around waiting for someone else to come out. Residents can't even get into the building to see him (because the key no longer works). Masterfully chaotic.
It gets better, I just went to see him and he's out of copies of the new keys 😂😭
I asked if the lock was changed because someone dangerous had it or something like that, but no. There were complaints for months that the old locks were wonky so he just decided, randomly, today, at 3 pm, to change them 😭