Saturday, August 31, 2024

Fatman Scoop Passed Away!

Fatman Scoop passed away from an apparent heart attack.

Brooklyn rapper and deejay Fatman Scoop had passed away. He was performing in Connecticut at a local show and immediately after he hyped up the crowd he collapsed.

The medics tried to revive him but to no avail.

Be warned the videos are graphic.

Eerily similar to Big Pokey and BeatKing.

His family confirmed his death in an Instagram post on Saturday. He was 53.

"It is with profound sadness and very heavy hearts that we share news of the passing of the legendary and iconic FatMan Scoop," a post on his Instagram page read. "Last night, the world lost a radiant soul, a beacon of light on the stage and in life."

The rapper and hype man, whose real name is Isaac Freeman III, was performing at the Green and Gold Party summer concert in Hamden, about six miles from New Haven, when he suffered a medical emergency on stage.

The town's mayor said he was taken by ambulance to the hospital.

Video posted on social media showed a shirtless Fatman Scoop hyping up the crowd at the Town Center Park shortly before collapsing. The event was scheduled to happen last month but because of weather, it was postponed to Friday night.

Fatman Scoop has worked with some of the biggest musicians, including on Missy Elliott’s "Lose Control" and Mariah Carey’s "It's Like That."

"FatMan Scoop was not just a world class performer, he was a father, brother, uncle and friend. He was the laughter in our lives, a constant source of support, unwavering strength, and courage," his family wrote. "FatMan Scoop was known to the world as the undisputed voice of the club. His music made us dance and embrace life with positivity. His joy was infectious and the generosity he extended to all will be deeply missed but never forgotten."

Fatman Scoop was an American rapper, hype man, and radio personality. Noted for his booming, raw vocal presence on various hip hop songs, he was best known for his guest performances on the 2005 singles "Lose Control" by Missy Elliott and "It's Like That" by Mariah Carey. The songs peaked at numbers three and 16 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100, while the former won the Grammy Award for Best Music Video and received a nomination for Best Rap Song. Prior, his 1999 sleeper hit single, "Be Faithful" (featuring the Crooklyn Clan) entered the Hot Rap Songs and Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs charts, and peaked the UK Singles Chart in 2003.

He had celebrated his 53rd birthday on Aug. 6 and passed away on Aug. 31.

Fatman Scoop first came to prominence with the release of single "Be Faithful", which topped the charts in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in October 2003, and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Denmark and Australia. The song had been a favorite in clubs around the world for years but it took two years to clear the samples from Jay-Z, Black Sheep, Queen Pen, The Beatnuts and Faith Evans.[citation needed] He collaborated with numerous artists, such as Lil Jon, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Pitbull and Skrillex, among others.[citation needed]

In 2004, he featured in the UK TV series Chancers, broadcast on Channel 4, mentoring six British musicians trying to achieve success in the United States.

In July 2006, a club promoter in New Bern, North Carolina sued the Sheriff of Craven County, North Carolina after a 2003 concert held there was shut down by the sheriff due to a noise complaint. The suit asked for more than $10,000 (US$) in lost wages and punitive damages.

Fatman Scoop owned an ice cream parlor and hosted a relationship show/podcast. He also appeared as himself on the TV series The Boondocks (season 2, episode 5, "The Story of Thugnificent" and episode 15, "The Story of Gangstalicious Part 2", from the same season); however since the show premiered, the relationship between Fatman Scoop and his wife soured and they subsequently divorced.

On August 27, 2015, he entered the Celebrity Big Brother 16: UK vs. USA house in the United Kingdom as a contestant. On September 14, he was the third housemate to be evicted, on day 20 where he finished in 11th place.[citation needed] In July 2018, Scoop featured on the remix to Ciara's single "Level Up", which also featured Missy Elliott; the single remix was the first song to feature all three artists since 2005's "Lose Control".

In July 2024, Fatman Scoop collaborated with Tech N9ne on the single "No Popcorn". On August 30, 2024, Scoop released two singles: "Let It Go", with Dyce Payso, and "Our House", alongside Dutch electronic music act Bingo Players & American DJ team Disco Fries.

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MAGA Turns To Jeff Walz!

MAGA resorts to gutter politics.

Kamala Harris has a 52% chance of winning against Donald J. Trump.

Does Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has a brother who is a staunch Trump supporter? 

MAGA is so desperate. They believe that a series of social media posts claiming that Walz's brother gets the call to appear on stage with former president Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance. This is the reason why they are called weird.

Instead of talking about issues, defending his first and only term as president, Trump has resorted to the John McCain and Mitt Romney style of presidential campaigns.

Trump is listening to Sean "Softball" Hannity, Elon Musk, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Stephen Miller, Jason Miller, Corey Lewandowski, Roger Stone, Laura Loomer, Bill O'Reilly, Mark Levin and Mike Lindell.

He is getting advice from people who are fucking idiots.

Trump was shell shocked by Vice President Kamala Harris. He doesn't know how to handle this. He was effective in tarnishing his rivals but now, Harris who was "invisible" is now a challenge to him.

He is calling Harris "Comrade Kamala" in his latest attempt to frame her.

Minnesota teacher Craig Walz passed away in 2016.

Again, ignore the polls. The race is extremely tight. The junk food media thought Hillary Clinton was a sure thing until the internal polls and electoral college. Clinton won the popular vote but ended up losing the electoral college.

Trump could pull it off again. Mind you he has a record. Harris is tied to President Joe Biden's record. Republicans will seize on that plus use her race and gender as a factor.

Trump's constant grievances and name calling is turning people off. I mean if he can't stay focused on issues the junk food media claims he is good at, he will be defeated.

The junk food media claims Trump is good on the economy and immigration. The very same Trump who nearly crashed the economy with the trade war with China, the mishandling of a deadly pandemic, the promises of Mexico paying for a border wall, the very same president and Republican Party that allows firearms to be in the hands of the drug cartels is good on those issues. Give me a break.

Israel's greatest ally. Yeah, Trump allowing Isrsel to continue building settlements, not allowing a two solution, parroting the same AIPAC talking points as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming Jews must be supportive of Israel or they have lost their damn minds supporting Democrats. Trump purely was incompetent.

Walz is the regular guy who happens to be a governor. Harris saw the governor give school children free breakfast and lunches. That was a bold move.

Jeff Walz and wife.

Walz could appeal to Midwesterners.

So a notorious conspiracy theorist and white nationalist named Laura Loomer claims to have found Walz's brother in Florida through a series of social media postings. The brother is considering appearing with Trump in Wisconsin, Minnesota or Pennsylvania.

Loomer is a disgusting Garagmel looking woman. Loomer wanted to be a lawmaker like Marjorie Taylor Greene but lost twice. She was banned on X from 2019 until 2022.

Since her return, Loomer has pushed more insane conspiracies trying to bait Trump into using them for his struggling campaign. Loomer is so repulsive, men literally avoid her on dating apps. She should be the poster child of childless MAGA ladies. Thank you J.D. Vance.

Social media isn't facts or truth. 

MAGA is willing to run with this bullshit.

The ugly childless ladies of MAGA. Introducing Laura Loomer.

Timothy James Walz was born on April 6, 1964, in West Point, Nebraska at Memorial Hospital. His mother, Darlene Rose Reiman, was a homemaker and was raised on a farm. His father, James Frederick Walz, was a teacher, school superintendent, and U.S. Army veteran who served in the Korean War and, as a child, helped with the family butcher store. Walz is of German, Swedish, Luxembourgish, and Irish descent; in 1867 his great-great-grandfather Sebastian Walz emigrated to the United States from Kuppenheim in the Grand Duchy of Baden. One of his grandmothers was Swedish American, and one of his great-grandmothers was Irish American. He was raised Catholic.

Walz and his three siblings grew up in Valentine, Nebraska, a rural community in the northwestern part of state, in an area of farms and ranchland. In school, he played football and basketball and ran track. After school, he would go hunting with his friends. While Walz was in high school, his father, who was a chain smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer. After his father's diagnosis, his family moved to the rural village of Butte, Nebraska, to be closer to his mother's relatives. During the summers, he worked on the farm. Walz graduated from Butte High School in 1982 in a class of 25 students.

Walz's father died in January 1984, which left his mother and younger brother dependent on social security survivor benefits for support. Tim Walz moved to Texas and took courses at the University of Houston in East Asian studies while being enlisted in the Texas Army National Guard. Afterward, he went to Arkansas, where he built tanning beds in a factory and was an instructor in the Arkansas Army National Guard. In 1987, Walz returned to Nebraska and continued his education at Chadron State College, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in social science education in 1989.

So here's how to debunk conspiracy theories. You look up the family tree.

James Frederick Walz died in 1984. His brother was Craig and he passed away in 2016 from a boating accident.

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Friday, August 30, 2024

X (antigo Twitter) bloqueado no Brasil! 🇧🇷 𝕏

There will be more X bans. Brazil is the largest country to ban the controversial social media app.

X (Formerly Twitter) Blocked In Brazil! 🇧🇷 𝕏

Elon Musk is a sexual predator, grifter, scammer and hopefully an indicted criminal once the U.S. Justice Department start investigating his actions toward women and underage girls.

Musk is a liability on Tesla, X, SpaceX and The Boring Company.

San Francisco leaders will stiff Musk a six figure bill after he announced he will move X from its original home to Austin. The San Francisco leaders will get the last laugh once the social media vacates the city in September.

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk’s social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country, according to a copy of his decision.

The move further escalates the monthslong feud between the two men over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes had warned Musk on Wednesday night that X could be blocked in Brazil if he failed to comply with his order to name a representative, and established a 24-hour deadline. The company hasn’t had a representative in the country since earlier this month.

“Elon Musk showed his total disrespect for Brazilian sovereignty and, in particular, for the judiciary, setting himself up as a true supranational entity and immune to the laws of each country,” de Moraes wrote in his decision.

The justice said the platform will stay suspended until it complies with his orders, and also set a daily fine of 50,000 reais ($8,900) for people or companies using VPNs to access it.

In a later ruling, he backtracked on his initial decision to establish a 5-day deadline for internet service providers themselves — and not just the telecommunications regulator — to block access to X, as well as his directive for app stores to remove virtual private networks, or VPNs.

Brazil’s telecommunications regulator Anatel has 24 hours to comply. The regulator’s chairman Carlos Baigorri told GloboNews channel that the country’s biggest service providers will respond quickly, but added smaller ones might need more time to suspend X from their services.

The full bench of Brazil’s Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case, but no date for deliberations was set.

Brazil is an important market for X, which has struggled with the loss of advertisers since Musk purchased the former Twitter in 2022. Market research group Emarketer says some 40 million Brazilians, roughly one-fifth of the population, access X at least once per month.

X had posted on its official Global Government Affairs page late Thursday that it expected X to be shut down by de Moraes, “simply because we would not comply with his illegal orders to censor his political opponents.”

“When we attempted to defend ourselves in court, Judge de Moraes threatened our Brazilian legal representative with imprisonment. Even after she resigned, he froze all of her bank accounts,” the company wrote. “Our challenges against his manifestly illegal actions were either dismissed or ignored. Judge de Moraes’ colleagues on the Supreme Court are either unwilling or unable to stand up to him.”

X has clashed with de Moraes over its reluctance to comply with orders to block users.

Accounts that the platform previously has shut down on Brazilian orders include lawmakers affiliated with former President Jair Bolsonaro’s right-wing party and activists accused of undermining Brazilian democracy. X’s lawyers in April sent a document to the Supreme Court in April, saying that since 2019 it had suspended or blocked 226 users.

In his decision Friday, de Moraes’ cited Musk’s statements as evidence that X’s conduct “clearly intends to continue to encourage posts with extremism, hate speech and anti-democratic discourse, and to try to withdraw them from jurisdictional control.”

Musk, a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist,” has repeatedly claimed the justice’s actions amount to censorship, and his argument has been echoed by Brazil’s political right. He has often insulted de Moraes on his platform, characterizing him as a dictator and tyrant.

De Moraes’ defenders have said his actions aimed at X have been lawful, supported by most of the court’s full bench and have served to protect democracy at a time it is imperiled. He wrote Friday that his ruling is based on Brazilian law requiring internet services companies to have representation in the country so they can be notified when there are relevant court decisions and take requisite action — specifying the takedown of illicit content posted by users, and an anticipated churn of misinformation during October municipal elections.

The looming shutdown is not unprecedented in Brazil.

Lone Brazilian judges shut down Meta’s WhatsApp, the nation’s most widely used messaging app, several times in 2015 and 2016 due to the company’s refusal to comply with police requests for user data. In 2022, de Moraes threatened the messaging app Telegram with a nationwide shutdown, arguing it had repeatedly ignored Brazilian authorities’ requests to block profiles and provide information. He ordered Telegram to appoint a local representative; the company ultimately complied and stayed online.

X and its former incarnation, Twitter, have been banned in several countries — mostly authoritarian regimes such as Russia, China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela and Turkmenistan. Other countries, such as Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt, have also temporarily suspended X before, usually to quell dissent and unrest. Twitter was banned in Egypt after the Arab Spring uprisings, which some dubbed the “Twitter revolution,” but it has since been restored.

Earlier on Friday, a search on X showed hundreds of Brazilian users inquiring about VPNs that could potentially enable them to continue using the platform by making it appear they were logging on from outside the country. It was not immediately clear how Brazilian authorities would police this practice and impose fines cited by de Moraes.

“This is an unusual measure, but its main objective is to ensure that the court order to suspend the platform’s operation is, in fact, effective,” Filipe Medon, a specialist in digital law and professor at the law school of Getulio Vargas Foundation, a university in Rio de Janeiro, told The Associated Press. “As a general rule, there are no provisions in Brazilian law that prevent users from using VPNs, since they are not the subjects of the blocking and suspension orders, but rather the companies.”

Even so, Mariana de Souza Alves Lima, known by her handle MariMoon, showed her 1.4 million followers on X where she intends to go, posting a screenshot of rival social network BlueSky.

X said that it plans to publish what it has called de Moraes’ “illegal demands” and related court filings “in the interest of transparency.”

Also on Thursday evening, Starlink, Musk’s satellite internet service provider, said on X that de Moraes this week froze its finances, preventing it from doing any transactions in the country where it has more than 250,000 customers.

“This order is based on an unfounded determination that Starlink should be responsible for the fines levied—unconstitutionally—against X. It was issued in secret and without affording Starlink any of the due process of law guaranteed by the Constitution of Brazil. We intend to address the matter legally,” Starlink said in its statement. The law firm representing Starlink told the AP that the company appealed, but wouldn’t make further comment.

Another Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, Cristiano Zanin, rejected an appeal by Starlink to unfreeze the company’s bank accounts.

“This order is based on an unfounded determination that Starlink should be responsible for the fines levied—unconstitutionally—against X. It was issued in secret and without affording Starlink any of the due process of law guaranteed by the Constitution of Brazil. We intend to address the matter legally,” Starlink said in its statement. The law firm representing Starlink told the AP that the company appealed, but wouldn’t make further comment.

Musk replied to people sharing the reports of the freeze, adding insults directed at de Moraes. “This guy @Alexandre is an outright criminal of the worst kind, masquerading as a judge,” he wrote.

Musk later posted on X that SpaceX, which runs Starlink, will provide free internet service in Brazil “until the matter is resolved” since “we cannot receive payment, but don’t want to cut anyone off.”

In his decision, de Moraes said he ordered the freezing of Starlink’s assets, as X didn’t have enough money in its accounts to cover mounting fines, and reasoning that the two companies are part of the same economic group.

While ordering X’s suspension followed warnings and fines and so was appropriate, taking action against Starlink seems “highly questionable,” said Luca Belli, coordinator of the Getulio Vargas Foundation’s Technology and Society Center.

“Yes, of course, they have the same owner, Elon Musk, but it is discretionary to consider Starlink as part of the same economic group as Twitter (X). They have no connection, they have no integration,” Belli said.

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Why Ain't The Media Questioning Trump's Cognitive Decline?

Trump clarified his stance. 

Former president Donald J. Trump got the far right upset. The former president is losing his support from the most asinine figures in the far right social media. 

The Amendment 4 measure is to codify Roe v. Wade is going to be a pivotal victory if the Democrats manage to win this. In a state that voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 and Trump in 2016 and 2020, it appears that the former president is slipping even in his home state. 

Trump formally moved to Florida in 2018. 

He won Ohio and Florida but lost the 2020 election.

Ohio and Florida appear to be out of reach for Vice President Kamala Harris. The campaign is still trying to make a play for North Carolina. 

Trump is opposing Amendment 4, that would be in direct conflict with the positions of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the entire Republican establishment in the state, who are spending considerable resources to try to defeat the amendment, which requires 60% of the vote to become law.

Some recent polls have shown the measure coming in below that 60%. A Florida Atlantic University survey of more than 1,000 likely voters in Florida released earlier this month showed the measure getting 56% support, with 29% opposing and 23% saying that they’re not sure how they’ll vote. Other surveys have shown enough support for the measure to pass.

Trump said Thursday that Florida’s law banning most abortions after six weeks is “too short,” but was cagy about whether that means he will vote for Amendment 4 this fall, which would enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the state’s Constitution.

“I think the six weeks is too short; it has to be more time, and I’ve told them I want more weeks,” Trump told NBC News’ Dasha Burns.

That’s not the first time that the former president has spoken critically about Florida’s abortion law, voted in by the state’s Republican-led Legislature and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis last year. Because of a lawsuit, the six-week ban did not go into effect until May 1 of this year.

Burns then asked Trump, a Florida resident, if that meant he would support the proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot in November that would restore the right to an abortion up until viability (considered to be around 24 weeks).

“I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks,” he replied, not directly answering the question.

He went on to praise himself for appointing the three U.S. Supreme Court Justices during his first term as president who all voted to strike down the Roe v. Wade decision in 2022. “I got it down. They wanted it to go back to the states,” he added.

In addition to Florida, nine states have abortion rights measures on their ballots in November. In the seven states that have voted on abortion since the 2022 Dobbs decision, all have restored abortion rights.

Trump has tried to have it both ways. He has boasted that he is the man most responsible for overturning Roe by appointing the conservative justices (Brett Kavanaugh, Neal Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett) who voted to do that. But he has disappointed anti-abortion activists by saying earlier this year that he wants the issue to be decided by the individual states, and not by the federal government.

Despite that claim, Democrats such as Kamala Harris have maintained that he will ban abortion nationally if re-elected in the fall.

Trump had to clarify his remarks. He signaled Thursday that he plans to vote for Florida‘s abortion referendum this fall, which would reverse his home state’s six-week abortion ban that went into effect following the Supreme Court’s 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade.

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So Let's Pick It Apart!

Harris gives the junk food media the interview they longed asked for.

The Democratic nominee was in Savannah, Georgia for a rally and a sitdown with CNN.

We're not going back.

Sounds like more status quo politics. 

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz did their first taped sitdown with CNN and its host Dana Bash. It will reair this weekend. The Democratic presidential nominee had an opportunity to address the many controversies that she is facing as the replacement to her boss President Joe Biden.

Of course, I caught wind of her thoughts on that fucking maniacal country Israel.

Still a fucking Zionist like Bash. 

Still parroting that bullshit about the Israelis being raped. Ignoring the World Health Organization, Human Rights Watch and UN's actual reports of Israelis conducting torture, rape, sodomy, maming and starvation of Palestinians. They are literally conducting massive attacks on the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Israel is literally are selling stolen land and crying victimhood. 

She also hewed closely to Biden's strong support of Israel and rejected calls from some in the Democratic Party that Washington should rethink sending weapons to Israel because of the heavy Palestinian death toll in Gaza.

She said she supports a strong Israel but "we must get a deal done" to get a ceasefire in the Gaza conflict.

"No, we have to get a (ceasefire and hostage) deal done," Harris said when asked if she would withhold weapons to Israel. She has been Biden's vice president since the start of his administration.

Abbas Alawieh, a co-founder of the Uncommitted National Movement that has protested against Biden's policy, expressed frustration over Harris’ response on Gaza.

"If the vice president is interested in a ceasefire, she must support an immediate stop to sending the fire," Alawieh said.

Harris is committed to the defense of Israel. It makes me very concern that she will need former Trump supporters to carry her because some progressives, Arab, Muslim and some Black voters are not with her. Mind you, I will not vote for Donald J. Trump.

Also I am not voting for Jill Stein or Cornel West. 

When October comes and the year of this conflict continues, I will early vote and I will make a decision on whether I will vote for Harris.

Harris sought to show she is in command of the issues and give Americans a sense of her policy positions with little more than two months until Election Day on Nov. 5.

Basically I heard pandering. With the far right obsession with the U.S.-Mexican border where their white supremacist talking points about border walls, illegal immigrants and drug cartels are the scary Brown and Black them, Harris had to say the "secure the border" nonsense.

Harris said she would renew a push for comprehensive border legislation that would tighten migration into the United States, and vowed to "enforce our laws" against border crossings.

"We have laws that have to be followed and enforced, that address and deal with people who cross our border illegally, and there should be consequence," Harris said.

Trump had his opportunity to "fix the border." He said he will make Mexico pay for the border wall. That never happened and it wasn't going to. Texans will not allow the U.S. government seize their property for a border wall. There are reservations near the border and they have full sovereignty. That means Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California can't build on sacred ground. 

The far right always scares up the migrant caravans every election. Presidential or Midterm election requires Fox or Republicans screaming about the so-called invasion.

Harris has toughened her position on migration along the southern U.S. border with Mexico. She also no longer wants a ban on fracking, an energy production method that employs many people in Pennsylvania, one of a handful of swing states that could decide the election.

When asked about her policy shifts, Harris said: "My values have not changed."

She also said she would like to have a Republican serve in a Harris Administration.

Cindy McCain and Jeff Flake had accepted nominations from Biden. I wouldn't be surprised that she could appoint Adam Kinzinger or John Kasich.

Harris has moved more toward the center on some issues from the time she ran for president in 2020 until she took over from Biden last month as the Democrats' choice to face Trump in the election.

Harris dismissed a comment from Trump in which he questioned whether she was a Black American. "Same old tired playbook," she said. "Next question, please."

Overall, Harris is trying to distance herself from the allegations of being a radical. 

Trump and his moron brigade have been attacking Harris on policies and her race. They are about to pick apart the interview and make up stuff.

The Republican nominee offers the same status quo nonsense. Trump wants to Save America by taking away freedoms, punishing protesting, call for jailing political opponents and censor speech if it doesn't favor him or Republicans. The Republicans claim Trump is for peace but ignore his clear role in Jan. 6.

I can't wait til this election is over.

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Thursday, August 29, 2024

Tiger Shark Unscrews Scuba Diver!

Hello.

The unfortunate circumstances of being around wild animals.

As I said many, many, many times, you can't fix stupid.

A Jamaican teen was killed by a tiger shark while scuba diving. It decapitated him.

Now authorities are trying to find the shark so they can retrieve what little of his body inside the large fish.

The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is a species of ground shark, and the only extant member of the genus Galeocerdo and family Galeocerdonidae. It is a large macropredator, with females capable of attaining a length of over 5 m (16 ft 5 in). Populations are found in many tropical and temperate waters, especially around central Pacific islands. Its name derives from the dark stripes down its body, which resemble a tiger's pattern, but fade as the shark matures.

The tiger shark is a solitary, mostly nocturnal hunter. It is notable for having the widest food spectrum of all sharks, with a range of prey that includes crustaceans, fish, seals, birds, squid, turtles, sea snakes, dolphins, and even other, smaller sharks. It also has a reputation as a "garbage eater", consuming a variety of inedible, man-made objects that linger in its stomach. Tiger sharks have only one recorded natural predator, the orca. It is considered a near threatened species because of finning and fishing by humans.

The tiger shark is second only to the great white in recorded fatal attacks on humans, but these events are still exceedingly rare.

Jamaican teen loses his life to a shark attack.

Police said secondary school pupil Jahmari Reid, from the Trelawny area in northwest Jamaica, vanished on Monday while at sea alone.

He was spearfishing in waters just north of the island, near the popular tourist town of Montego Bay.

Fishermen found his body the following day with injuries consistent with a shark attack, police said.

Local media reported he had been decapitated with one of his arms bitten off, and that efforts to kill the shark and recover the severed head are ongoing.

Jahmari's father Michael Reid told the Jamaica Observer: "I can't believe that he went to sea by himself and that was the outcome. Sad to know. I feel so bad."

Shark attacks are rare, with a total of 69 confirmed unprovoked attacks worldwide and 14 fatalities reported last year, according to the Florida-based International Shark Attack File.

Can we do a Darwin Award for the most stupidest people on the planet?

You can't fix stupid!

You can't change minds!

You are completely trapped in stupid.

You are wrapped and emboldened in stupid.

Again, why do white people always treat wild animals like they're domesticated? 

I would never touch a wild animal. 

Alas, some people think that animals are timid when you're petting them. Nope.

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J.D. Vance: Kamala Can Go To 👹🔥🔥🔥!

Trump makes a serious gaffe and J.D. Vance tells Harris to go to hell.

Former president Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance are heading down the road John McCain and Sarah Palin traveled. 

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will do their first national interview with CNN. The Republicans and far right agitators were complaining about her not doing interviews.

Trump is making major blunders and it appears that the campaign can't capture the magic of 2015 and 2016. Trump has a record. 

He served one chaotic term in which he lead our country through multiple mass shootings, three controversial Supreme Court appointed justices, the constant gaslighting, the "Very fine people" / "Stand back and stand by", the intimidation of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the firing of James Comey, the numerous administration officials resigning, the hiring and quick firing of Michael Flynn, the invite of Kanye West, the coronavirus pandemic, the inject bleach, the obsession with jailing Hillary Clinton, the obsession with Hunter Biden and his hard drive/laptop, the Jan. 6 insurrection, the two impeachments from his acts, the refusal to transfer power and the covfefe.

Former vice president Mike Pence refuses to endorse him and plans on voting for someone else.

For those who still believe he deserves a second term where he promises to be a dictator on day one is very concerning.

Trump declared his presidential run in November 2022. He has been in federal and state court. He has a mugshot. He was found guilty in a criminal trial in New York. He was found liable for sexual assault. He was found liable for fraud. He is being sued by former clients, cities and contractors. Trump was nearly assassinated. He picked a running mate who once called him a living incarnation of Hitler. 

I mean his rallies are starting to become something of a joke. I mean the Blacks for Trump guy is about to head to the iron college. All the usual insufferable followers aren't at the rallies. Terrence K. Williams still rants and raves but they ain't viral anymore. Silk is without Diamond and she is pretty much a nobody. The Brick Suit Guy isn't in the background much anymore. 

Trump continues to name call and offer grievances instead of solutions. He barely defends his only term in office. Trump only goes back to everything was great under him.

He just leaves out the pandemic, the lackluster growth and the government shutdowns. 

Trump's latest controversy involves him doing a photo op at Arlington National Cemetery where his campaign staff got into a physical altercation with an army official overseeing the facility. His campaign was told to not do a political campaign. Trump claims he wanted to lay a wrath at the graves of the 13 servicemembers who died in the Afghanistan pull out. Two families invited Trump and did a thumbs up photo.

Veterans are upset over Trump comparing the Medal of Honor to the Medal of Freedom when he did his pro Israel rant in front of mega donor Miriam Adelson. He gave her and late husband Sheldon.

Who would do a thumbs up at a cemetery?

Trump and Vance are doing damage control.

Vance was asked about the brewing controversy surrounding the Trump campaign being involved in an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery over using campaign staff during a photo-op, which would potentially be a violation of federal law.

The cemetery put out a statement about the alleged altercation between Trump’s team and the cemetery official. “Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign,” according to the statement. “Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants.”

Vance was campaigning in Erie, Pennsylvania, and took questions after his remarks. He was asked about the controversy and dismissed it as a media creation. Vance went on to say, “The thing our veterans care a lot more about, is that three years ago, 13 brave, innocent Americans died and they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her job.”

“And there hasn’t been a single investigation or a single firing. I don’t know. I don’t, look, sometimes mistakes happen. That’s just the nature of government, the nature of military service. But to have those 13 Americans lose their lives and not fire a single person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is disgraceful. We’re going to talk about a story out of those 13 brave, innocent Americans who lost their lives. It’s that Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won’t even do an investigation into what happened. And she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up. She can. She can go to hell!”



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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

You Don't Know Jack!

Jack is back.

U.S. Special Counsel Prosecutor Jack Smith has issued a new fresh set of indictments against former president Donald J. Trump. He has now reissued four criminal indictments against him thanks to his association with non White House members who encouraged him to intimidate, meddle and deliberately sabotage the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

The Supreme Court gave Trump and current president Joe Biden immunity to protect them from criminal indictments while in office. Note: Biden's complicity to aid Israel is an international criminal act and the U.S. refuses to abide by international law.

The U.S. does not comply with the International Criminal Court. It only abides when it is a country they have an issue with (i.e. Russia and Iran). 

The 36-page indictment, secured Tuesday by Smith, is an attempt by prosecutors to streamline the case against Trump to address the Supreme Court’s ruling last month that concluded presidents enjoy sweeping immunity from prosecution for their official conduct.

The new indictment removes a section of the indictment that had accused Trump of trying to use the law enforcement powers of the Justice Department to overturn his election loss, an area of conduct for which the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 opinion last month, said that Trump was absolutely immune from prosecution.

Trump is going to fight the indictments again.

The stripped-down criminal case represents a first effort by prosecutors to comply with a Supreme Court opinion that made all but certain the Republican presidential nominee won’t face trial before the November election in the case alleging he tried to thwart the peaceful transfer of power.

It comes days before prosecutors and defense lawyers are expected to tell the judge overseeing the case how they want to proceed in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling, which said presidents are presumptively immune from prosecution for official White House acts. The high court sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who now must analyze which allegations in the indictment were unofficial actions — or those taken in Trump’s private capacity — that can proceed to trial.

Prosecutors and Trump’s legal team will be back in court next week for the first hearing in front of Chutkan in months, given that the case had been effectively frozen since last December as Trump’s immunity appeal worked its way through the justice system.

In a statement on his Truth Social platform, Trump called the new indictment “an act of desperation” and an “effort to resurrect a ‘dead’ Witch Hunt.’” He said the new case has “all the problems of the old Indictment, and should be dismissed IMMEDIATELY. ”

The special counsel’s office said the updated indictment, filed in federal court in Washington, was issued by a grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in the case. It said in a statement that the indictment “reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions.”

The new indictment does away with references to allegations that could be deemed as official acts for which Trump is entitled to immunity in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling. That includes allegations that Trump tried to enlist the Justice Department in his failed effort to undo his election loss, including by conducting sham investigations and telling states — incorrectly — that significant fraud had been detected.

In its opinion, the Supreme Court held that a president’s interactions with the Justice Department constitute official acts for which he is entitled to immunity.

The original indictment detailed how Jeffrey Clark, a top official in the Trump Justice Department, wanted to send a letter to elected officials in certain states falsely claiming that the department had “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election,” but top department officials refused.

Clark’s support for Trump’s election fraud claims led Trump to openly contemplate naming him as acting attorney general in place of Jeffrey Rosen, who led the department in the final weeks of the Trump administration. Trump ultimately relented in that idea “when he was told it would result in mass resignations at the Justice Department,” according to the original indictment. Rosen remained on as acting attorney general through the end of Trump’s tenure.

The new case no longer references Clark as a co-conspirator. Trump’s alleged co-conspirators were not named in either indictment, but the details make clear their identities. The new indictment stresses that none of the other co-conspirators “were government officials during the conspiracies and all of whom were acting in a private capacity.”

The new indictment also removes references to Trump’s communications with federal government officials — like senior White House attorneys — who told him there was no evidence of fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 election. It also removes references to certain Trump statements, including a claim he made during a White House press conference two days after the election about a suspicious dump of votes in Detroit.

The new indictment still includes one of the more stunning allegations brought by Smith — that Trump participated in a scheme orchestrated by allies to enlist slates of fraudulent electors in battleground states won by Democrat Joe Biden who would falsely attest that Trump had won in those states.

It also retains allegations that Trump sought to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to reject legitimate electoral votes, and that Trump and his allies exploited the chaos at the Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to further delay the certification of Biden’s victory.

Chief Justice Roberts wrote in his majority opinion that the interactions between Trump and Pence amounted to official conduct for which “Trump is at least presumptively immune from prosecution.”

The question, Roberts wrote, is whether the government can rebut “that presumption of immunity.”

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the ruling. In an excerpt from an interview with CBS News’ “Sunday Morning” that aired Tuesday, she said: “I was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances. When we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone the same.”

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You Can't Do A Campaign Rally At Arlington Cemetery!

Who would do a thumbs up at a cemetery?

More controversy for the Republican nominee Donald J. Trump. 

The former president is facing a string of bad luck and it is having an impact on his presidential campaign. We barely hear about Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH). I mean, we do but it's more negative. Vance was dissing teachers who have no children.

Trump was indicted by Jack Smith on his conduct from the 2020 election.

I got that feeling.

Trump and Vance could be the new John McCain and Sarah Palin.

The pullout of Afghanistan was an incident that involved the Islamic State and it was conducted among civilians who were trying to flee the country after the Taliban regain control. Trump finalized a formal agreement to leave and President Joe Biden was obligated to that. 

Republicans and some Democrats hammered Biden for this. Mind you we had been in that country for over 20 years and wasted so much time villainizing Arab, Muslim and Asians throughout the whole ordeal. 

Thank Israel for the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Trump has tried to exploit the tragic deaths of the 13 American soliders who died in that incident. But at the Arlington National Cemetery, the sacred land is not a political tool.

Area 60 is restricted from political filming and photography. Trump and his campaign minions refused to abide by the conduct. Trump is not the president. He is a civilian running for office. The former president does not have absolute power.

Trump campaign team members reportedly dealt with an "incident" during a visit to Arlington National Cemetery Monday.

The former president was visiting the burial site to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony honoring the 13 U.S. service members killed in an attack as forces withdrew from Afghanistan three years ago.

"We can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed," a cemetery spokesperson told The National Desk.

Citing an unnamed source, NPR reported a cemetery official tried to prevent Trump's team from filming and photographing in Section 60 resulting in Trump staff verbally abusing and pushing the official aside.

Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign's spokesman, explained on X that the team was granted access to have a photographer there.

Cheung also disputed the report of a physical altercation and told NPR the team is prepared to release footage to prove it.

"There was no physical altercation as described and we are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made," he said. "The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump's team during a very solemn ceremony."

On Truth Social, Trump posted a statement from the family members of the fallen soldiers expressing their approval of photography.

"We had given our approval for President Trump’s official videographer and photographer to attend the event, ensuring these sacred moments of remembrance were respectfully captured and so we can cherish these memories forever," the families said.

Arlington National Cemetery added that "federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries" including photographers and content creators.

"Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate's campaign. Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants."

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Hulk Hogan Wanted To Drop An Elbow On Kamala Harris!

Oh brother.

Republicans are so fucking weird. Vice President Kamala Harris seems to be on the minds of Donald J. Trump and his moron-inspired allies.

Ann Coulter calls Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's son Guz weird because he was crying happily for his father. 

Jesse Watters said that military officials will have their way with her.

Trump releasing a memoir with the image of him showing defiance in the wake of the assassination attempt. Of course, he and his minion of supporters used that image instead of caring about the supporters who died or were injured.

A Stark County, Ohio construction company had made a misogynistic and racist comment about the vice president. Hund Construction in North Canton made that offensive remark.

It reads: "Kamala has been on more wieners than Heinz Ketchup."

Now a washed up entertainer and wrestler named Terry Bollea known as Hulk Hogan is once again proving to the Hulkamaniacs, he is a racist son of a bitch. That's why his wives left him, his daughter disowned him and his son is a hot mess. He married another woman who is going to find put that the Hulkster is a steroid crazed drunk mutant who isn't going to stay loyal.

He will have an affair the moment a white drunk girl asks him to.

Hogan had promoted his toilet water beer in Ohio when he made some racially offensive remarks.

Hogan is a piece of work.

I used to look up to this guy. Now I don't support the bullshit.

A week ago, Hogan apparently drunk had made some offensive remarks about the U.S. Vice President and he just wouldn't stop.

Hundreds of Hulkamania fans thronged Giant Eagle Market District in Grandview Heights for a meet and greet with retired WWE champion Hulk Hogan Wednesday morning.

Hogan, who is currently on tour to promote his new Real American Beer brand, took pictures with attendees decked out in WWE and Hulkamania gear and signed their cases of beer. 

Hogan, an outspoken Trump supporter and speaker at the 2024 Republican National Convention, visited Columbus just hours after he made international headlines Tuesday night for asking a crowd at an event in Medina, Ohio if he should body slam Vice President Kamala Harris.

"Do you want me to body slam Kamala Harris? Do you want me to drop the leg on Kamala?” he shouted to the crowd, according to a video uploaded to X by TMZ.

He then went on to question Harris’ racial identity. He mispronounced her name.

Hogan asked the crowd, “Is Kamala a chameleon? Is she Indian,” as he made a hand gesture mocking Native Americans and stated, “I’m gonna get heat for that one, brother.” Harris isn’t Native American though; her mother is from India and her father is from Jamaica.

The 71-year-old quipped, “That wasn’t me; that was the beers talking,” before chugging a beer as the crowd chanted, “USA! USA!”

Harris identifies as a Black woman.

A member of Hogan's team agreed to a short interview with The Dispatch at his Columbus event, with a stipulation that questions about Kamala Harris were off limits.

"I think the people of Columbus should know that as crazy as this world is right now and as crazy as the times are, we're a lot more alike than we are different," Hogan told The Dispatch. "I think if people would just sit down and talk, they would realize that we all care about a lot of the same things; love, peace, health, safety."

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It Could Be Over For Jesse Watters!

This smug asshole should be pulled from Fox.

There is a campaign to get Fox host Jesse Watters off the air after he made a series of racist and misogynistic remarks on The Five and his own primetime show.

The most recent remarks were aimed at Vice President Kamala Harris was so bad, it had Jeanine Pirro uncomfortable.

Media Matters for America, a progressive group that monitors misinformation and controversial far right agitators has it on file.

Watters has pushed the limits way too much.

The Five panel was discussing the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Monday was the third anniversary of the Kabul airport suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members.

Harris has described herself as being the last person in the room before Biden made the decision to proceed with the plans for the withdrawal, which began during Donald Trump’s administration. Trump, Watters and other conservatives have highlighted Harris’ claim to attack her.

“What is her foreign policy?” Watters asked. “This is where the president has his most impact. You have a lot of room to maneuver there as commander in chief.”

“We don’t know who she is. We don’t know what she believes. She’s gonna get paralyzed in the Situation Room while the generals have their way with her,” he added.

“Jesse Watters,” co-host Dana Perino interrupted.

“Whoa, Jesse, I don’t like that,” added Jeanine Pirro, as several panelists chuckled. “Take it back.”

Watters insisted he meant it “figuratively.”

“Have their way with her, control her! Not in a sexual way,” he said.

Reached for comment on the inappropriate attack on Harris, a Fox News spokesperson pointed to that follow-up comment.

Watters has a history of making sexist, misogynistic or otherwise offensive remarks and passing them off as jokes.

Commenters on social media were disgusted by his Harris comment.

“This is just straight-up misogyny. There’s no basis for these attacks other than she’s a woman & thus not cut out for this,” one critic wrote.

“Your ‘rape joke’ about Kamala Harris was absolutely intentional and sexual in nature. And you are truly one of the most vile and disgusting people on television. Any other network would fire you for this shit,” said another.

Kerstin Emhoff, the ex-wife of second gentleman Doug Emhoff, chimed in on social media to defend Harris.

She shared another clip from the show in which Watters joked that his mom, a liberal, would probably call his “joke about Kamala Harris being manhandled by generals in the Situation Room” disgusting.

“There are many things to worry about, but Kamala being manhandled in the situation room is not one of them,” Emhoff wrote.

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Federal Judge Tells Martin Shkreli To Hand Over Rare Wu-Tang Album!

Pharma Bro must forfeit any illegally copied Wu-Tang album.

Robert "RZA" Diggs was condemned for releasing a Wu-Tang album that must be played in 88 years. The surviving members thought it was flat out stupid. The album is considered one of the most rarest and most expensive masterpieces in modern history.

The album was recorded in secret over six years from 2007 to 2013. A single two-CD copy was pressed in 2014 and stored in a secured vault at the Royal Mansour Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then auctioned through auction house Paddle8 in 2015. A legal agreement with the purchaser stipulated that the album cannot be commercially exploited until 2103, although it can be played at listening parties.

The winning bidder was Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who paid a reported $2 million. In March 2018, following Shkreli's conviction for securities fraud, a federal court seized assets belonging to him, including Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. In July 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice sold it to the non-fungible token collectors PleasrDAO for $4 million to cover Shkreli's debts; PleasrDAO said they hoped to make it more widely accessible.

The first public exhibition of the album began in June 2024 at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania. That month, Shkreli livestreamed the album on X, triggering a lawsuit from PleasrDAO. PleasrDAO also began selling partial ownership of the album as an NFT, with each purchase accelerating the release by 88 seconds.

Anyone wanting to hear this album will be dead by the time its played.

Ghostface Killah, Method Man, U-God, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, Cappadonna, GZA and RZA make up the supergroup. Ol' Dirty Bastard passed away 20 years ago.

Ol' Dirty Bastard died on November 13, 2004, two days before his 36th birthday.

The album Once Upon a Time in Shalon was released in 2015. There is only one known album in the world. 

Judge Pamela K. Chen in Brooklyn wrote that Shkreli must produce all copies of what is sometimes referred to as the world’s rarest album and report the names of anyone he distributed the music to by Sept. 30, along with any revenues he received from it.

In June, Shkreli was sued by a cryptocurrency collective that bought the only known copy of the album for $4.75 million.

The collective, PleasrDAO, accused Shkreli of retaining digital copies of the album in violation of their deal and disseminating them widely among his social media followers.

RZA holds the Wu-Tang album with gloves. It is estimated to be worth $5 million.

PleasrDAO attorney Steven Cooper said in a statement that Chen’s ruling was “an important victory for our client.”

He added: “We are pleased that Judge Chen recognized that immediate relief was necessary to thwart the continuing bad acts of Mr. Shkreli.”

Edward Paltzik, a lawyer for Shkreli, said in an email that the judge’s order maintained “the perceived status quo” of the lawsuit’s progression and has “no bearing whatsoever on the final outcome of the case.”

He also noted that the judge did not make a finding that PleasrDAO was likely to succeed on the merits or that its allegations were true.

This is allegedly the album cover.

The Wu-Tang Clan spent six years creating “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” before putting a single copy of the 31-track double album up for auction in 2015 on the condition that it not be released publicly. The multiplatinum hip-hop group wanted it viewed as a piece of contemporary art.

Shkreli bought the album for $2 million before he was convicted of lying to investors and cheating them out of millions of dollars in two failed hedge funds he operated.

In 2021, “Once Upon a Time is Shaolin” was sold to satisfy some of Shkreli’s court debts.

Shkreli was released from prison in 2022 after serving much of a seven-year sentence.

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