What's in the News? 2.0

[Iniquitous]

The implication is that passengers were flown to destinations in order to have sex with minors by Epstein's private jet. Epstein had other properties around the world. Cook it any way you want, the accusation is there.

You are adding your assumption. That is how misinformation gets spread.

"None of the high-profile passengers mentioned in Visoski's testimony Tuesday are alleged to have committed any wrongdoing in relation to the ongoing trial. Clinton's spokesman previously admitted to Clinton being aboard Epstein's plane four times but said the former president knew nothing about Epstein's "terrible crimes."
"In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation," Clinton spokesman Angel Urena said in 2019."

Bold part mine. Source: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/30/us/ghislaine-maxwell-pilot/index.html

Do better.

OT: Second case of Omicron found in Montana. https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/omicron-covid-19-variant-12-02-21/h_9fbb215af0ba79917723a8207a2f75ce

Suspect I will be getting a second booster before too much longer.

[Iniquitous]

Eep - Minnesota ^

[Oniya]

I don't know why , I can't imagine Andrew. No monarchy fan, just...

Andrew's had a reputation going way back - even before he married Fergie.

As a younger man, he was quite dashing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s47fsZBpaJg

For a while, he was seen out and about with Koo Stark, until the Royal Family found out about her soft-core films.

[Azy]

I wouldn't assume every person Epstien knew or let fly on his planes means those people are guilty of something.  If the guy wasn't famous, if he was a guy that was well known in a certain neighborhood, you wouldn't assume that every person that had been to his house for dinner participated or even knew what was going on.  People like that are often 'pillars of the community' and someone a lot of people trust, and when the news breaks people are shocked. 

I have heard that Prince Andrew has a few accusers coming out though.  Not just those connected to Epstein, but he has a reputation like the video Oniya linked talks about. 

[Beorning]

On a definitely more lighter (and weirder) note:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bomb-squad-called-gloucestershire-royal-6298076

"The bomb squad was called to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on Thursday (December 2), after a patient was admitted with a mortar shell stuck in his rectum."

... I have so many questions.

[ShadowFox89]

A case of explosive diarrhea

[Haibane]

You are adding your assumption.

No I am not. I am reporting what was discussed in a court case as it was reported by the BBC.

Do better.

Don't tell me what to do. Don't you see how rude and patronising you are? I'm reporting what is said by the media in court and you are attacking me as though I'm some kind of troublemaker who doesn't meet your lofty standards. Please stop it. I've had enough.

[Lustful Bride]

Ex KKK Leader running for Republican office in Georgia.....no one should be surprised.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ex-kkk-leader-running-as-republican-for-office-in-georgia/ar-AARrMBv?ocid=msedgntp

[Iniquitous]

The Crumbly's in Michigan have been found and arrested after going on the run.  Their lawyer says they were going to turn themselves in but I highly doubt it since they withdrew 4,000 from an ATM and were found hiding in an industrial building in Detroit.  Not too mention their phones were off.

Gotta wonder how the kid feels knowing mom & dad were going just ditch him.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/12/04/us/michigan-oxford-high-school-shooting-saturday/index.html

[Lustful Bride]

Bigoted demonstration in DC gets no cheers, but instead is booed and jeered.    It warms my heart to see racists and otehr far right assholes be laughed at and reminded that they aren't welcome.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bystanders-booed-as-the-far-right-patriot-front-staged-a-rally-in-washington-dc-to-reclaim-america/ar-AARumCS?ocid=msedgntp


Ugh I hate that they have appropriated 5.11 pants into a uniform. I love the comfort of those pants (and especially all the extra pockets for all of the random junk I always carry with me...which seems to increase with each year ).

[Hades]

Retired GOP Senator and one-time presidential candidate Bob Dole has died at the age of 98.   

[Lustful Bride]

A great loss for us all :(

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/edward-shames-the-last-member-of-the-band-of-brothers-dies-at-99/ar-AARt4Tz?ocid=msedgntp

[Lustful Bride]

The comedy writes itself.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-inadvertently-said-people-who-believe-his-election-fraud-theories-are-stupid/ar-AARw0Wl?ocid=msedgntp

[Azy]

I'm guessing Freudian slip. 

[TheGlyphstone]

The comedy writes itself.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-inadvertently-said-people-who-believe-his-election-fraud-theories-are-stupid/ar-AARw0Wl?ocid=msedgntp

Tucker Carlson Defense 2.0?

[Thufir Hawat]

The comedy writes itself.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-inadvertently-said-people-who-believe-his-election-fraud-theories-are-stupid/ar-AARw0Wl?ocid=msedgntp

Maybe he wanted his political opponents to agree with him just once

[TheGlyphstone]

IIRC, when he told his supporters to get vaccinated people rationalized it as an elaborate reverse-psychology attacking the Libs, who would do the opposite of anything he said. So that tracks.

[Oniya]

IIRC, when he told his supporters to get vaccinated people rationalized it as an elaborate reverse-psychology attacking the Libs, who would do the opposite of anything he said. So that tracks.

He actually got booed for that, and it was one of the conservative outlets that said that the push for vaccinations by - y'know - scientists (who are obviously liberals) was an attempt to get conservatives to refuse the vaccine, therefore killing them off. 

(I know I read that one around here somewhere, but it'll take me a bit to track it down.)

[Oniya]

Okay - 'a bit' was actually less than a minute, but I got lucky on the random 'which page was it again?'

https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=328536.msg15985200#msg15985200

[TheGlyphstone]

He actually got booed for that, and it was one of the conservative outlets that said that the push for vaccinations by - y'know - scientists (who are obviously liberals) was an attempt to get conservatives to refuse the vaccine, therefore killing them off. 

(I know I read that one around here somewhere, but it'll take me a bit to track it down.)

Yeah, I remember that. I'd have to go hunting for the source, but I seem to remember that another theory had sprouted where Trump told people to get vaccinated because he knew his supporters were smart enough to not fall for it, while he was secretly tricking liberals into not getting vaccinated for their own good because hes benevolent like that and wants to protect people even if they hate him, or something like that. It was a real rabbit hole of stupid.

[Mechelle]

To my surprise, a story about something which happened 12 months ago has become a very big story in Britain.

12 months ago, just before Christmas, we were under severe restrictions, and people were not able,or supposed to be able, to meet family members  except on Christmas Day itself. However, the Daily Mirror broke a story a few days ago that there was a party in 10 Downing Street then which ignored the social restrictions which the Boris Johnson government imposed on the rest of us.  There were some odd statements from Johnson and his colleagues who said that no restrictions were broken although they did not say that any party had taken place. Some of the context, bizarrely, seems to be that it contained a "Secret Santa" which proved that it must have been planned.

Although Johnson, equally bizarrely, dressed up as an overweight policeman to promote his war on drugs yesterday to distract attention, it has now emerged, through ITV, that his staff have been filmed, a few days later last December joking about this party when no social distancing took place.

I really hadn't seen this coming, as it was a year ago, but it is becoming a very big problem for Johnson and his government.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/no-10-staff-filmed-joking-25641194

[Lustful Bride]

Its astonishing how many grand achievements are done accidentally.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/researchers-accidentally-create-a-warp-bubble-the-first-step-in-faster-than-light-travel/vi-AARyXYg?ocid=msedgntp

[TheGlyphstone]

Its not really worth celebrating until you can do it deliberately...

[Oniya]

Devin Nunes, best known for his famous cow, is retiring from Congress to run Trump's media company.

(Okay, I added the bit about the cow.  But that is the best thing about Nunes.)

[Thufir Hawat]

Its not really worth celebrating until you can do it deliberately...

True, but at least that should be proof that warp is a possibility.