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Feds Executed Search Warrant On WWE Boss Vince McMahon, Company Says Vince McMahon, the boss of World Wrestling Entertainment who recently re-joined the company’s board following sexual misconduct allegations, had his home searched by federal authorities. McMahon was also served with a federal grand jury subpoena last month, the WWE disclosed Wednesday. The company noted that no charges have been filed yet. McMahon returned to the board of the WWE several months after he was ousted for allegations of sexual misconduct.

I think you underestimate the amount of diseased minds in the American right wing and their willingness to invoke violence and threats of violence when they do not get their way. There is no middle ground for many of these. In sociology, we were told that once about 15% of a given group has reached a consensus of dissent, that group is de facto no longer a coherent entity and inevitably fractures. I suspect that the individuals given to violence to gain their ends in the USA has reached and even exceeded that number.

The Cons will revel in this and try to make hat from it. And as an observant Catholic, he cannot really divorce- just separate.

Capitol Police issue shelter in place order for US Senate buildings over possible active shooter U.S. Capitol Police are asking anyone inside a U.S. Senate building to shelter in place over an unconfirmed report of a possible active shooter. “If you are inside the Senate Buildings, everyone inside should be sheltering in place as the report was for a possible active shooter. It should be noted that we do not have any confirmed reports of gunshots,” the Capitol Police said via social media. Our officers are searching in and around the Senate Office Buildings in response to a concerning 911 call. Please stay away from the area as we are still investigating. We will continue to communicate with the public here.” MSNBC’s Garrett Haake on-air stressed also there were no reports of shots fired, and says some staffers were escorted out of the building by Capitol Police, who had “guns drawn.”

Given the deep divisions within American society at present and how hard many public figures are working to exacerbate this, I am not optimistic that Trump and his co-conspirators will receive much beyond a token slap on the wrists. I fear we are seeing the end of a functional democracy in America.

Just Oscar Meyer.

Top Trump DOJ Official Was Prepared To Use Insurrection Act To Stay In Power Jeffrey Clark signaled he was ready to overthrow the government amid “riots in every major city,” according to the latest indictment against the former president. Jeffrey Clark, a former top Justice Department official under Donald Trump, was prepared to use the Insurrection Act to stay in power despite Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election, according to Tuesday’s federal indictment of the former president. The indictment reveals a stunning Jan. 3, 2021, exchange between Clark, who is referred to as Co-Conspirator 4, and deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin. Philbin had previously warned Clark in December that “there is no world, there is no option in which you do not leave the White House [o]n January 20th.” He made the point again on Jan. 3 in an effort to dissuade Clark from assuming the role of acting attorney general under a fraudulent Trump presidency. Philbin warned Clark that if Trump tried to stay in office despite no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, there would be “riots in every major city in the United States.” Clark replied, “Well, [Phibin], that’s why there’s an Insurrection Act.” The Insurrection Act, originally enacted in 1792, empowers the president of the United States to deploy the military domestically in certain cases, like suppressing civil disorder or rebellion. Tuesday’s indictment accuses Clark of having “worked on civil matters and who, with the Defendant, attempted to use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud.”

Silk purse, sow's ear and all that.

Who needs to give a hoot about which gender someone says they are? Apart from sports, it a waste of breath. We have so many other pressing issues facing us- climate change, crumbling infrastructure, healthcare, rising extremism, whether Poilievre wears glasses or not and so forth.

Trump has promised that, when re-elected, he will pardon everyone associated with the 1/6 attemppted coup as well as anyone convicted in the unfair prosecution of himself. He has even mused that he could pardon himself. The MAGAts are having wet dreams imagining this.

Cheap, renewable, non-poluting energy has a potential dark side. Whenever automotive fuels become cheaper, the size of new vehicles sold go up. When heating costs go down, the sales of insulation go down. We humans are incredibly self-serving short-sighted creatures.

Should the Bombers hang a couple of sacks or INTs on Evans in the first quarter, preferrably close together, he will fall apart. He hasn't had a real test against a good defence yet and if our walking wounded are good to go, I am confident in our chances.

This has staggering implications for almost every facet of techology. There is an interesting sidenote: the bodies generate Meissner fields so long as the bodies are alive- the fields collapse upon death. Oh, and a Dutch teenager has come up with a way to charge electric automobile batteries in 4 minutes.

Bichette's parents were obviously Star Wars big fans.

The word out of the US is that the employers in the current strike against movie and TV producers are adamant in holding out and have said that they will do so until spring 2024 if necessary.

Klein would claim to be a lesbian if it would get him re-elected.

GOP claims Hunter Biden’s calls with his father as brother was dying of cancer are proof of criminal activity U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), the only member of Congress to sit through Monday’s entire closed-door testimony from House Republicans’ witness in their investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, says President Biden and his son had frequent phone calls to support each other when Beau Biden was dying of cancer. Republicans have baselessly grabbed onto the claim, made by Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer, as supposed proof of criminal activity by President Joe Biden. Congressman Jackson was the White House Physician during the time then-Vice President Biden’s son was dying and would have known about the family tragedy. Beau Biden, President Biden’s oldest son and the former Attorney General of Delaware, died of cancer in 2015. His death, is believed to be the result of the “burn pits” the U.S. Military used during the Iraq War.

DEVON ARCHER BOMBSHELL BACKFIRES ON REPUBLICANS AND BLOWS UP BIDEN BRIBERY CLAIM The big witness in the House Republican Biden bribery investigation backfired on Republicans and confirmed that there was no Biden bribery. CNN reported: Republicans really teed up this testimony today and promoted Archer, the former business associate of Hunter Biden, as a potential bombshell witness, as somebody who might be able to deliver that kind of smoking-gun evidence linking the president to his son, Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings. "I’m hearing from sources who were in the room after hours of testimony, we just saw Archer leaving, sources saying he did not deliver that smoking gun that Republicans had hoped for. A source familiar with the matter tells me that, you know, Archer told the committee that Hunter Biden was selling the illusion, in quotes, of access to his father, you know, his father not directly implicating President Joe Biden in any of the foreign dealings but saying Hunter Biden was trying to essentially trick business partners into thinking he could provide direct access to his father."

Poll: Pro-Trump Republicans who believe he committed crimes outnumber all DeSantis voters A new New York Times/Siena College poll finds that even after two criminal indictments and ahead of possibly two more, Donald Trump is “dominating” the entire GOP presidential primary field, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis “by a landslide 37 percentage points.” Trump, the poll shows, currently has the majority of likely Republican primary voters. Some experts point to “racial anxiety” and “GOP hostility to changing gender roles,” some to “the loss of white straight male privilege,” and some are calling it a “cult.” “Mr. Trump held decisive advantages across almost every demographic group and region and in every ideological wing of the party, the survey found, as Republican voters waved away concerns about his escalating legal jeopardy,” The Times’ Shane Goldmacher reports. “He led by wide margins among men and women, younger and older voters, moderates and conservatives, those who went to college and those who didn’t, and in cities, suburbs and rural areas.” Calling the results “ominous” for the Florida governor, the Times reports the “poll shows that some of Mr. DeSantis’s central campaign arguments — that he is more electable than Mr. Trump, and that he would govern more effectively — have so far failed to break through. Even Republicans motivated by the type of issues that have fueled Mr. DeSantis’s rise, such as fighting ‘radical woke ideology,’ favored the former president.” https://www.alternet.org/poll-pro-trump-republicans-desantis/

A pox on both their houses. RFKjr is as big a loon as DiSantis, MTG, Boebert etc etc etc.

Somehow Reubens was still acceptable to the entertainment industry after his arrest at a childrens' movie theatre incident.

Chris Jones is an example of the "Peter Principle" where someone does well at something and is promoted until s/he reaches a level of incompetence and is left there.