He could suddenly tack to the left of the late great RBG and it would have any impact on his being crooked as pretzel. And what I find amusing is that anyone thinks he will be held to account for his corruption.
It. Will. Never. Happen.
Not saying that’s wrong, but I’d be curious to hear why you think it would do that.
The parallels with Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who spied for the USSR/Russia for over 20 years, causing a vast security mess, and Jack Teixeira are limited. Good Catholic Hanssen was all about the money. Good “orthodox” Catholic Teixeira was all about the prestige, even if you might think a young person might be interested in money sometimes. The other famous leak cases in recent decades, Edward Snowden and Reality Winner, were not motivated by greed or insecurity, but duty even if it was clear to them that they faced unavoidable consequences. Perhaps the best parallel in Teixeira’s case isn’t even a leak case, but the mother of insider trading cases, was the Rajaratnam, Gupta & Gupta litigation. Money was involved, lots of money, but the motivation seems to have been prestige.
For example, in the case of Anil Kumar, Judge Denny Chin stated that “greed wasn’t the motive in [Kumar’s] case” and that “this was aberrational conduct … Mr. Kumar has led a law-abiding and productive life.”[4] Federal prosecutors called Kumar “one of the best and most important cooperating witnesses” they had ever worked with.[5]. Similarly, tipster Rajat Gupta did not profit, just passed along helpful information about Warren Buffet’s activities. Of course, the damage was immense, including the collapse of the Sri Lankan stock market.
As a side note, Preet Bharara was involved in these cases, so it will be interesting to read his comments once the DoJ’s case against Teixeira gets going. Also, I still wonder if any of his superiors were grossly negligent with respect to national security. It makes no sense to me that low level personnel can just take top secret documents home, especially when they lack a secure pool maintenance room to store them in.
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Shocking. But now he can spend what’s left of his campaign fund on snacks.
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How can having to treat sick women be damages to physicians since that is literally (take that Tim Scott) their job?
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He’s probably been told in so many words that he will be destroyed if he does, especially with his former boss at the helm of the GQP party. I’m certain there’s enough dirt on Pomp that could easily be used against him.
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You mean the shelves are empty [/s]?
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money
I mentioned yesterday I have a friend who owns a liquor store who said there’s been no change in sales at his store, these people are idiots.
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What I don’t know, on this Busch beer nonsense, is do they have an international market? And yes, I’m even looking at Canada and Mexico. I don’t know a thing about the beer market and where one can and cannot ship stuff.
But if I WERE at the head of the Busch organization, I’d be referring to this relationship:
Busch keeps changing it up with NASCAR activation (sportsbusinessjournal.com)
Budweiser out, Busch beer returning to NASCAR as sponsor | (beerleague.com)
And indicate very clearly that if they expect my organization to continue support them, the team should be getting out on social media NOW and put a stop to this nonsense.
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In a few weeks this’ll blow over and the rednecks will be back to chugging their swill because old habits are hard to break.
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And good beer is more expensive.
Blue states subsidize a lot of things for red states, can’t afford to subsidize them buying better beer.
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I put posters I don’t appreciate on “Mute,” or “Ignore.” It makes this site so much better.
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If only the ‘Ignore’ function didn’t magically ‘Unignore’ when another poster replies to the ‘Ignored’-- requiring a refresh to ‘Reignore’.
F5 is my fave key on the keyboard here.
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“Ignore” does seem abit erratic. I wondered why it doesn’t always work.
Reminds me of the Barney Miller episode when the widower was upset that his wife’s “Eternal Flame” burned out and he was told he needed to upgrade to the “Perpetual Eternal Flame.”
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People are very brand-loyal to beer. They will switch to ”Free Beer,” but when that’s gone, it’s back to mother’s milk.
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Because lots of do-gooders like to file lawsuits against bad actors when they don’t have any actual injury. Conservatives like bad actors because that’s where the money is. Conservatives hate do-gooders because they interfere with the process of money-grubbing. Kacsmaryk and the Fifth Circuit are trying to adopt a do-gooder standard of standing that would give actual do-gooders standing to fuck up carbon emitters and water polluters and big finance.
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All I am saying is that if you see him do that, you will know that for once in his despicable career he may realize that he’s in trouble. He’s already telegraphed that by altering decades of disclosures. I didn’t say it was going to change anything. I’m also not going to start moaning that nothing is ever going to change. That’s defeatist claptrap.
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Supreme Court issues stay
'Nuff said.