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It appears that Maccocia is not the saviour he imagined himself to be. The team is talent-poor, starting with their QB.

I have little doubt that a lot of overtime was accrued that would not have been if this had not occurred.

GOOD NEWS!!!!

So they should get those machine the fog out of there?

Inevitable, really.

Trump Is Fundraising Off Of Ivana Trump’s Death Donald Trump is sending out fundraising emails to his supporters over Ivana Trump’s death. Donald Trump sent out his Truth Social post about his ex-wife’s death to his email list and he included a fundraising link so that people could express their condolences by giving him more of their money. None of this is a surprise. Trump only cares about raising money from the cult that follows him. Trump showed more emotion when he reportedly tried to get the Secret Service to take him to the Capitol to overthrow the government than he did when the woman died who gave birth to three of his children. Donald Trump is a terrible human being, and the fact that he was willing to use the death of his ex-wife to raise money for his super PAC is entirely consistent with the kind of person he has shown himself to be. https://www.politicususa.com/2022/07/14/trump-fundraising-ivana-trump.html

Should be able to bill them for that.

The rapid tests still are only 50% accurate- better to use your symptoms as guides. But our beloved leader has assured us that it is over.

Ivana Trump, ex-wife of Donald Trump, dead at 73 "She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman," Trump said in remembrance of his first wife Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother to Donald Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump, has died at the age of 73. According to ABC, Ivana died Thursday afternoon in her apartment in Manhattan. Police arrived at the scene after receiving a call regarding a person in cardiac arrest. The New York City Medical Examiner's Office has not yet released an official cause of death but all signs point to it being natural causes unless evidence presents itself to the contrary.

The sharks are circling Trump. He was stupid enough to make a personal phone call to a former staffer who was set to corroborate the previous staffer's accounts of Trump's behaviours. Trump hoped to dissuade the second staffer to shut up but instead the call was reported to a lawyer and the 1/6 committee. Can't get more stoopid than that.

Trump Team Formalizes Strategy To Blame Everything On Mark Meadows Trump and his attorneys realize by now that he has very little room to maneuver, and he needs a defense, fast. A lot of witnesses are coming forward, corroborating each other’s stories, and the story they’re telling is a seamless, internally consistent, compelling, terrifying, and extremely felonious one. According to Rolling Stone, Team Trump is desperate enough to have chosen a risky strategy, putting it all on Mark Meadows. Rolling Stone writes: Trump’s inner circle increasingly views Meadows as a likely fall guy for the former president’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Members of Trump’s legal team are actively planning certain strategies around Meadows’ downfall — including possible criminal charges. Trump has himself begun the process of distancing himself from some of his onetime senior aide’s alleged actions around Jan. 6. That is almost laughably desperate. The central tenet of any such plan is that the average person would believe that Meadows concocted this elaborate scheme which required the entirety of Trump’s inner circle. Meanwhile, Trump just mindlessly went along, unable to stop the diabolical Meadows. Meadows forced Trump to yell at the crowd to go to the Capitol and fight like hell. The theory is not only “unbelievable,” it is unbelievably risky.

House Republican asks if women give birth to turtles or tacos Republican members of the United States House of Representatives are seldom reluctant to fire off bizarre claims about reproductive health. On Wednesday, Georgia Congressman Jody Hice took the GOP's rhetoric to a new level. During a hearing on "abortion access and the law," Hice, one of several outspoken characters in the Peach State's right-wing caucus, asked if pregnant people ever deliver "something" that is not a homosapien. "Is there any instance of a woman giving birth to something that is not a human being, a baby, like, a turtle, or as our First Lady suggested, a breakfast taco," Hice asked. "I mean, is there any instance where other than a human being has been born?" https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/house-republican-women-birth-turtles/

Ross is still intriguing, though. A heckuva athlete with lotsa upside.

Just Tories being Tories.

More than one coup: Jan. 6 committee draws a direct line to Donald Trump Earlier this week, the New York Times published an op-ed by former Justice Department (DOJ) prosecutor and primary member of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation team Andrew Weissman in which he shared his concern about what the DOJ is doing about Donald Trump's attempted coup. Weissman suggested that they may have approached the case as one might approach an organized crime investigation starting with the January 6th insurrectionist prosecutions and working their way up. Looking at the case as it's been presented by the January 6th Committee so far, he came to believe it would have been better organized as a "hub and spoke" conspiracy "in which the Ellipse speech by President Trump and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol were just one 'spoke' of a grander scheme." In other words, as a conspiracy with Donald Trump at the center of a number of different plots aimed at accomplishing the same goal. After hearing all the testimony and evidence so far, it seems clear that's exactly what happened. As crazy as the committee's presentation of the White House event was, it was actually much, much crazier. Donald Trump concocted the Big Lie even before the election as a scheme to stay in office if Joe Biden won. He was told over and over again by almost everyone around him that his lies had no basis in fact or law. Yet he and a few accomplices cooked up various maneuvers anyway, from filing specious lawsuits to pressuring state officials to trying to corrupt the Justice Department in an effort to somehow overturn the results. One obscure lawyer came up with a spurious strategy to get partisan players to file fake electoral votes in order to have the vice president claim there was a dispute and refuse to count the votes. All of these plans overlapped in some ways but stood as distinct "spokes" in the president's relentless drive to stay in office no matter what it took. The public hearing on Tuesday highlighted a couple of other spokes, one which was thankfully never acted upon while the other tragically was. The committee discussed a notorious meeting that took place on December 18th, 2020, four days after the states had all filed their electoral votes. I wrote about it in some detail a while back, based upon the vivid report by Jonathan Swan of Axios, and I have to say that as crazy as the committee's presentation of the event was, it was actually much, much crazier. On the evening of the 18th, Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and the former CEO of Overstock.com Patrick Byrne were waved into the oval office by a member of Trump loyalist Peter Navarro's staff without anyone knowing about it. A major confrontation ensued between the three of them and lawyers from the White House counsel's office as the outsiders tried to persuade the president to declare a national security emergency under an executive order from 2018 (regarding cyber threats) enabling the president to order the military to seize the voting machines to do an audit. The group wanted the president to name Powell as special counsel to "investigate" voter fraud. They had even already drafted the order giving Powell the assignment and ordering the seizure. Trump listened carefully to the presentation and repeatedly pointed out to the White House lawyers and others who were vociferously arguing against this inane plot that at least Powell and the others were "out there fighting." Trump patched in Rudy Giuliani on the phone and even he was against Powell's plot believing they had a better chance of overturning the election through the state legislatures and he ended up coming over to the White House and joining in person. Powell thought Trump had agreed with the plan to name her special counsel and no one is quite sure if he actually did. In any case, no national security emergency was declared so that "spoke" was abandoned that night. Donald Trump was at the center of a number of different plots aimed at accomplishing the same goal. The committee didn't mention it in the hearing but it's worth noting how Powell and Flynn came up with this looney idea. Sarah D. Wire of the Los Angeles Times did a deep dive on the Patrick Byrne connection and apparently, right around the election, Byrne financed and organized a "crowdsourcing" operation to find the alleged voter fraud. He hired cyber security experts and analysts and first put them up at the Trump Hotel in Washington and then moved the whole group down to a plantation in Georgia owned by another kooky Trump attorney named Lin Wood, supposedly for security purposes. Michael Flynn was intimately involved in all this as was Powell. This group was the source of most of the allegations that Giuliani and Powell used in their many unsuccessful lawsuits and it was also where Powell and Flynn, as well as a number of fringe players, came up with the stories that the election had been stolen by foreign countries hacking the voting machines, giving them the supposed authority to declare a national security emergency and call out the military. (Flynn had already been agitating for Trump to declare martial law and have the military re-run the election in the swing states.) This is why Byrne was with them at the White House meeting on December 18th where nobody knew who he was. He had financed the whole operation. https://www.salon.com/2022/07/13/more-than-one-coup-jan-6-committee-draws-a-direct-line-to-donald/

The problem is that the more time offenders do in prison, the more likely they are to re-offend.

'That does not happen': Witnesses refute House Republican's 'outrageous' claims of 'infanticide' During a House of Representatives hearing on "abortion access and the law" on Wednesday, United States Congressman Ralph Norman (R-South Carolina) attempted to coax witnesses to validate the false right-wing claim that infants are often killed after they are delivered. It was a total disaster for the Republican lawmaker and the second time in as many days that the GOP has had its dubious arguments solidly refuted. "Do you agree with infanticide?" Norman asked Georgia State Representative Renitta Shannon (D-84th District). "Well, I think you're using inflammatory language to basically describe a situation that does not happen. We don't have infanticide happening. Doctors would not do that, and neither would folks who have carried pregnancies," Shannon shot back. "Okay, would a healthy child – do you agree that if a healthy child is born that it's that woman's right to decide if it lives or dies?" Norman posited. "What I think is based on your question you have a very low opinion of pregnant people," Shannon replied. Norman then tried to interrupt Shannon but she tore right through it. "Excuse me, do you want an answer or do you want to keep talking over witnesses? What I am telling you is that nobody would carry a pregnancy and then decide on a Monday because they are bored that they want to have an abortion," she said. "That's ridiculous. And it's inflammatory. What you're saying – you're talking about families who are in tough situations where folks have been excited about carrying a pregnancy. Most of the abortions that happen later in pregnancy are really tragedies where it's really a disappointment for everyone involved." Norman was completely unmoved and then redirected his initial question at National Women's Law Center President Fatima Goss Graves, who was seated next to Shannon at the witness table. "Would you agree – I take it with all those words – that you agree with, basically, murdering a child after they're born. Yes or no?" he asked Graves. She was not having it. "I have to say, Congressman, how you just characterized the representative's statement is extremely inflammatory and the type of thing that is dangerous," Graves said. Norman tried to cut Graves off, but she nevertheless persisted. "You guys have been talking today about the threats against crisis pregnancy centers, which I assume are serious and are terrible," she continued, "the threats on people who work on abortion access every single day, and part of it is because of this sort of inflammatory, outrageous language and it is not okay." https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/witnesses-dismember-house-republican-infanticide/

The Riders live or die by their public image as a community-owned team. O'Day has to be brain-dead if he ignores all this crap around Marino, not to mention all the other crap that has been happening starting with Chris Jones tenure there.

Perhaps we are too stupid to survive- human Dodo birds. Well, we had a good run.

The planned insurrection revelations just keep getting wider and deeper and now stand revealed as what the worst fears were. Trump and his lackeys planned and attempted to overthrow the results of the Biden election even though, or maybe because, they absolutely knew that Trump had lost. These miscreants were prepared to use violence, illegal mobilization of US military and para-military and as many of government departments as they could suborne to do their bidding. And yet, despite this growing mountain of evidence, most Americans are blissfully ignorant of how close they came to living in a dictatorship. Nothing short of a vigorous prosecution of all involved parties and an excising of all supporters within the civil service will prevent this from happening again.

House Republican Asked for Safety Plan for GOP Members On 1/5 Because Trump Supporters Would Go Nuts There have been previous reports on this site in which it was noted that the bits of previously available evidence painted a picture in which it seemed as though some members of Congress, especially Republicans, knew that the Capitol would at least be vulnerable to MAGA supporters in a rage over the election certification on January 6th. For example, when Rep. Jim Jordan heard the chaos descending on the House, he said something about helping and protecting “the ladies” and reached for Liz Cheney, who said ‘Get away from me. You f*cking did this,’ and many of us have long believed that to be a very personal message to Jordan, that Cheney knew that “this” was part of a plan in which Jordan was personally involved. Today, the Committee presented evidence that even the MAGA Republicans that were planning to “Object” on January 6th knew that it could be violent and explosive around the Capitol. The Committee played the haunting voice of Rep. Debbie Lesko of Arizona, a woman who objected to Biden’s clear victory, talking on a conference call on January 5th about her concerns for a plan for “members’ safety” for the next day. Like every good MAGA, Lesko noted that “Antifa will be there” (except they were not), but then went on to admit that Trump had pushed his supporters to the point that they expect Congress to reverse the election and when that didn’t happen, “they will go nuts.” “We also have, quite honestly, Trump supporters who actually believe that we are going to overturn the election, and when that doesn’t happen — most likely, will not happen — they’re going to go nuts” It is stunning to hear from Republicans who knew beforehand that they’d put themselves and the nation at risk in their zeal to please Trump. They know that Trump was on Twitter on December 19th, 2020 saying it would be “wild.” And yet they went ahead with the objections, according to his plan. To the extent that Trump’s followers believed that they would overturn the evidence, it was because members promised to object! And yet we hear her voice, talking about a plan for members’ safety, knowing that Trump’s followers are “going to go nuts,” and she must have sensed that these are some of the country’s most violent people. It is very telling. Lesko referenced “antifa,” but that must have been by instinct alone. Because it was only after describing these many Trump followers and their anger when the election isn’t overturned that she said things might go nuts. Lesko knew which side presented a violent threat. https://www.politicususa.com/2022/07/12/gop-rep-member-security.html .

Trump Tried To Contact A Jan. 6 Committee Witness, Liz Cheney Says Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said former President Donald Trump attempted to contact a Jan. 6 committee witness. During a hearing Tuesday, Cheney said the witness, who has not yet appeared publicly, did not answer a call from Trump and informed their attorney about the attempted contact. The committee turned over information about the attempted contact to the Department of Justice, Cheney said. Cheney said Trump called the witness after the last hearing, during which Cassidy Hutchinson, a former assistant to Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, made a series of bombshell claims about the former president’s actions on Jan. 6. Cheney did not name the witness. “Let me say one more time: We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously,” Cheney said. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-jan-6-witness_n_62cdd1cfe4b0aa392d45562c

Another General Killed as Russian Leak Admits ‘Big Shot ******* Command post’ Was Obliterated As Ukraine reports a devastating blow to Russia’s military, one of Putin’s troops is caught telling a friend of “12 dead” among the senior commanders.

In skimming through the comments on riderfans, I was pleasantly surprised at the number of posters who have condemned Marino and some even called for him to be thrown out of the league. Marino's defenders are spitting vitriol at anyone who dares be critical of Marino.