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dj l's avatar

the non-profit organization I volunteer w/ is breaking away from nat'l, as are the majority of others across the nation. So we will be 'rebranding' by the start of the fiscal year...

& left out of the statement about Palestinian "Statehood" ...Families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza had asked the UK and others to hold off on the decision until hostages were released, citing concerns that recognition could appear to reward Hamas and affect ceasefire negotiations. And of course, where will this "state" borders be? From the river to the sea??? Plus Hamas issued a congratulatory statement.

Jimmy Kimmel is now going to be a martyr. Instead of dying a natural death due to the fact that in many people's opinion he's not a comedian, not funny & has actually lost viewers & lost $$$$ to the network, Trump doing Trump, attempting to censor, now, like I said, has made Kimmel a martyr. However, there might be hope, maybe, maybe, maybe there might be some spines being developed --- Ted Cruz, ie, said Republicans might like it now, but when it starts happening (again) to conservatives, it won't be funny.

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Trumplethinskin can’t stand the heat in the kitchen he dialed the thermostat up in. What’s so funny is even the right wingers with media outlets realized the tables could be turned in them at some point so started squealing along with everyone else. The First Amendment is for everyone or it’s for no one. Also, ABC/Disney lost over $4B. That probably got their attention as much as anything.

There are probably no hostages left alive in a starving remnant of a country. Israel effectively killed them by committing its genocide on its neighbor. It’s hard to admit that I bought into the US and Israeli propaganda for years but can now say with a clear conscience that our overarching greed led us to this point.

As for Mr Whoreman, he got overconfident, greedy and caught in a sting operation that he wasn’t even a part of at first. And before I hear from anyone about a weaponized Biden DOJ, I only wish it had been because old Tom got caught a little over a year ago when word of it leaking would have been nice. Reminded me of another crooked republican, Spiro Agnew taking envelopes of cash in his office.

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From another source: Kimmel's return will be pre-empted by at least one large TV station group. Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of ABC stations, with 38 across the country, including WJLA, the ABC affiliate that serves the Washington D.C. metro area, has said it will run other programming.

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Darrell's avatar

👎

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This is an interesting column today. I wonder how far down the hierarchy this plays out below the CEO level? Year/year followed by quarter/quarter rules the analysts. Bezos is wrong if he believes people can disagree and commit; commitment just doesn’t work that way. Reality is more like:

want = choice = commitment

should = decide = sacrifice

Can trump and the 2025 group be more brazen? The entire Homan debacle reads like a mob movie script: make your bones, build your cred, and move up in the organization (Bill notice the three?). But…we will take you down if we don’t like you. Every manufactured DOJ investigation takes away from investigating actual crimes. “I hate my opponent,” Mr. Trump told the crowd at the memorial in Arizona, “and I don’t want the best for them.”

So happy Jimmy is back! That’s one in the win column for the first amendment. Funny or not, it is a comedian’s job to mock everything and anything. That’s what makes the White House Correspondents' Dinner so good. Even better, Jimmy just announced his first guest will be Mr. Newsome. How apropos! If Sinclair, who has a broadcast license courtesy of the FCC and not the GOP, wants to censor programming perhaps they should lose their federal license?

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Danny Mat's avatar

Is it really about the first amendment, or is it more the fear of being shot up by a mad leftist, ala Sacramento?...

Regarding Tom Homan, welp, something is rotten in Denmark, and the lefties are all over it. As a right-leaning centrist who loves how the right makes the left's head explode...this boils down to neither side is perfect; it's just that the right is less not perfect than the left is.

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Darrell's avatar

You know what the best part about banging your head against a wall is? Stopping.

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Danny Mat's avatar

In true leftist fashion, one who projects but does not do. So, what is your excuse, O sayer of the last word?!?

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Darrell's avatar

Righty tighty, lefty loosy

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SPW's avatar

Tighty righty in their tighty whities.

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Darrell's avatar

OMG that is hilarious!!!!!!

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SPW's avatar

What are you going on about a mad leftist in Sacramento?

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Darrell's avatar

I know…insane, isn’t it? Isn’t that where all the drugs, immigrants, rapists and human traffickers are coming from?

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SPW's avatar
Sep 23Edited

Darrell, if you don’t read Celia Rivenbark here, give her a look-see. She was particularly good today I thought.

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Darrell's avatar

“Donald Jibuprofen Trump”

Priceless!!!

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Melissa's avatar

I got nothing today. I did work for a company where the yer end as March 31 and they did a big reorganization/ reduction in staff in February. We had people showing up for meetings with people who no longer worked for the company. It was a little surreal.

And nothing about Mr. Kennedy deciding that taking Tylenol while pregnant causes autism? As if pregnant women don’t have enough to worry about. Honestly, Republicans sure hate women.

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dj l's avatar
Sep 24Edited

https://livingroomconversations.org/

https://braverangels.org/

Bill, perhaps you'll include these links in every issue you send out from now on?

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