One company I worked at had more full-time collections people than sales people. Our products were a lot cheaper than our competitors, and it attracted a lot of customers with no money.
Another company I worked at ignored all "first notice" bills they ran up. CFO told me that if a company wanted paid, they needed to send a second notice.
Let's give this a more reasonable title: "Stephen Miller Launches Advertising Campaign / Fundraiser Using Meritless Lawsuit"
The congresspukes who bitch the loudest about the military are cowards who never set foot in a MEPS station themselves.
I'm not saying that you have to have served to have a valid opinion, but I am saying that this guy is talking out his ass.
GOP is a party of principles, and the first principle is that GOP candidates can't have more than 2 pending criminal cases against them.
Anything else is just communism.
The real question is, why is a supposed billionaire begging for donations?
The man lies about everything, everywhere, all at once.
Now I'm off to the supermarket to get celebratory ice cream for the latest round of indictments that dropped today.
GOP uses governance the same way WWE uses athleticism - it's just a gimmick for quick money.
After watching a parade of January 6 tools catch nontrivial sentences, including for insurrection, the pampered heads of the GOP have decided that they don't want to wear a jumpsuit, too.
If it comes down to testifying or doing time, it's not really a choice is it? Testifying is only a liability if Trump gets re-elected, and if the man can't win the presidency from inside the White House, it's a good bet he can't win it from inside the jailhouse.
"successful" debaters win a second term.
"Deadlock" is the excuse that your party makes when they only pass laws for billionaires.
After the Citizens United ruling deciding that money is speech, it's clear that bribery is the most compelling legal argument.
First, Leo is right to be scared. Anyone who subverts democracy so flagrantly is going to anger people. Angry people can get violent.
Second, why they hell haven't democracy-loving Americans stomped Leo into exile?
Speaking as a resident in her district, Cathy is a sock puppet for her donors. She's been well paid and will spout the script that her owners/lobbyists have provided for her. I'd be surprised if Cathy has personally filled up a gas tank in the last 10 years. She's a reliable tool for the billionaires.
Fuck her, in the neck, with a spork.
Maybe she has no other achievements in her life?
Trying to keep it PG...
Sarcasm aside, it's unprecedented (and/or unpresidential) for one clown to be charged in criminal proceedings in four different venues and not be held in jail.
The man has multiple passports and owns a private jet. It's fair to say he's a flight risk.
I honestly don't think the man has a grand plan. I think he "officially" ran for president partly to step up donations, partly to throw a wrench in the inevitable prosecutions he was facing last fall, and partly just to do something random to stay in the press.
Choking on a hamburder would solve a lot of problems, but I expect one of his creditors will buy off his kids to smother him with a pillow. Trump has done dirt with some shady people, and if Trump was facing jail time, God only knows what sort of embarrassing stories he might tell. I've been expecting Putin to send Trump a pallet of novichok Diet Coke for two years now.
We've tried training, we've tried internal affairs, we've tried civilian oversight boards - nothing works.
If you want to fix broken policing, the answer is civil tort law:
Let victims sue, and make insurance pay huge settlements.
Implications:
This is how society turned barbers into surgeons; it's not rocket science.
He got his ass kicked in the jail where he was being held. So now the wanna be assassin is in isolation. Yum - nutraloaf.
Only a crap president loses their re-election. Nixon won his re-election in a landslide. Even W won his re-election. Trump, well, he grabs failure by the pussy.
Oh. Trump had someone photoshop something.
I thought Trump was referring the ketchup stains that he leaves everywhere from throwing plates when he's cranky.
I wish the mouthpieces of rich assholes, like these tools from NNU, would support teaching factual history. It's nice that a Scotsman from the 1770s thinks parents need to pay for school or else they won't care about educating their kids. I don't find Smith's opinions binding, or particularly actionable in 2023.
When I went through Idaho public schools, our history class never mentioned the fighting and midnight flight of the Idaho state capital from Lewiston to Boise in the 1860s. No mention was made of the Army called out to illegally imprison hundreds of miners in the 1890s to help break the many strikes. No mention was made of the mining union, or the IWW, organizing thousands of Idahoans for fair wages and treatment. No mention was made of former governor Stuenenberg being blown up with a bomb in his mailbox in 1905.
The monied interests have been corrupting politics, exploiting workers, rewriting history, and lining their pockets in Idaho as long as there have been monied interests. They continue to do so today, as witnessed by these 3rd tier Chicago-school pudknockers from Nampa.
The monied interests are still here, fucking over the Idaho political and education systems. It's no wonder that 2/3 of the U of Idaho students leave the state after graduation.
Putin is distracted. Much cheaper, should it come to that, to pay one of the Trump fail-children to smother daddy with a pillow.
Good news: here in Newport, WA, our hospital has re-opened the birthing center, and a second clinic is under construction. I assume a lot of the patients that we'll get will be from Idaho's Boundary and Bonner counties.
Next up, Trump will challenge that Willis cheated on a junior high math test and therefore the grand jury report is invalid.
It's an epic rap beef between two no talent no-names for attention.
The Dems and GOP have similar business models: trade policy and legislation for campaign donations, and deliver tribalism to voters.
That's not to say the two parties are the same - they differ significantly. One party is funded by the truly psychopathic billionaires, and the other party is funded by the usual greedy bastard billionaires. Chalk and cheese, as the British say.
Y'all should read the article. The issue is that a professor who studies digital media can't search TikTok, and can't have her grad students search videos on TikTok. This ends her research because TikTok is where people post videos.
Ron can't pull off "night of the long knives"; instead, he presents "midmorning of a short dick".