‘Losingest loser’: Award-winning journalist John Harwood, who has covered congressional & presidential politics for more than 3 decades, said, "we're in early stages of massive analytic shift from 'Biden's in big trouble' to 'Trump's in big trouble.'"
https://www.rawstory.com/losingest-loser-journalists-say-trumps-in-big-trouble/

New Alzheimer's Test for Modern Seniors-- 
How fast can you guess these words? 
(answers are below)
YOU'VE GOT 5 SECONDS. GO!


1. F_ _K
2. PU_S_
3. S_X
4. P_N_S
5. BOO_S
6. _ _NDOM
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Answers:
1. FORK
2. PULSE
3. SIX
4. PANTS
5. BOOKS
6. RANDOM
You got all 6 wrong....didn't you?

I love the smell of GOP fratricide in the morning. It smells like... victory.

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Shameless self promo here--one of my lesser-known but favorite stories.

Mike was fated to die to keep his progenitor alive.

But he survived.

Available directly from me in ebook through my Ko-fi Shop for a reduced price--compatible versions for all e-readers.

https://ko-fi.com/s/19b67bcde6

#pissed #dumbass #cheetotoddler

As a Desert Storm / Desert Shield veteran, I find this fuck-up to be extremely offensive in the worst way possible. Remember, this is the same asshole who called John McCain a coward and loser because he was captured in war ... while Cadet Bone Spurs never served so much as 5 minutes!

https://boingboing.net/2024/01/22/trump-confuses-vietnam-war-with-desert-storm-in-bizarre-peech-video.html?fk_bb

#OTD

I loved his characters...RIP sir

Bix Tip:
#LetThemFight

So this is where we’re at: #COVID is surging but folks are sick of hearing about it so we’re just gonna ignore it and hope it’s gonna leave them alone?

My husband just lost a good friend to COVID. People may be “done” with the pandemic /epidemic, but COVID is NOT done with us.

https://ncnewsline.com/2024/01/23/wastewater-tests-show-covid-infections-surging-but-pandemic-fatigue-limits-precautions/

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What's the opposite of irony?

Wrinkly??

ok.. I'm leaving!

And now the Horseshoe has united to deride "wokeness".

Politicians and media pundits have questioned why Fujitsu continues to win billions of pounds in work after some of the victims had convictions quashed in 2019.

but here we are 2023/24 and they still get contracts paid for by taxpayers

How governments become addicted to suppliers like Fujitsu

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/11/fujitsu_public_procurement/

ICYMI

4 days ago

Fujitsu has written to UK Government to confirm it will no longer tender for business in the public sector amid the ongoing inquiry into the Post Office scandal – weeks after winning a £485 million ($614 million) contract.

Nine hundred people have had their lives blighted, even destroyed.

At the heart of it all is a brutal corporate cover-up of a broken IT system.

The mainstream media is trying to make up for lost time by asking the usual questions: who inside Fujitsu knew what when, who decided the strategy, how culpable is the company for compensation, did its people lie, and so on. All good questions. None is the big one.

A princely paradox

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/22/opinion_column/

Fujitsu Bugs That Sent Innocent People to Prison Were Known ‘From the Start’

Software flaws were allegedly hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers.

https://www.wired.com/story/uk-post-office-scandal-fujitsu-bugs-known

Post Office scandal: Hundreds could have convictions overturned this year

Ahead of the public inquiry into the affair resuming on Thursday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the House of Commons on Wednesday that those previously convicted in England and Wales would be cleared of wrongdoing and compensated under a new law.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67932595

The Scottish government also announced similar plans for those convicted in Scotland, which has a separate legal system.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67937805

Britain's deranged Post Office scandal, wherein hundreds of postal workers were falsely accused of stealing money because of a faulty computer accounting system and in many cases imprisoned, is finally exploding in the wake of "new revelations": even though there's no question they are innocent, only a handful have been exonerated and many are still on the hook.