The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by Exo

Everybody squeals when faced with the slamma.

Nope. Sometimes its safer to do the time.

[Frownland]

PG&E likely started the Camp Fire and expects a $10.5B impact to its bottom line, it tells regulators

No ****ing justice. The board of directors need to be on death row right now.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

PG&E likely started the Camp Fire and expects a $10.5B impact to its bottom line, it tells regulators

No ****ing justice. The board of directors need to be on death row right now.

Can you explain why you feel this way?

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Can you explain why you feel this way?

Death row is a little less barbaric than a public execution.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Death row is a little less barbaric than a public execution.

Was it negligence, cover-up, arson — I don’t anything about other than there was a big fire. This is the first I heard about a power company.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Was it negligence, cover-up, arson.

Yes. Well the first two basically point to arson since the negligence was informed by profit, it's not like anyone's running around with a gas can and a match but they might as well have been.

Not to mention that the billions that the company is "losing" will not be directly paid for by them and is far less than what they would "lose" had they not filed for bankruptcy.

[OccultHawk]

Luke Perry had what they’re calling a massive stroke.

90210 <3

[The Batlord]

Are we sure it isn't Bryan Cranston? I mean this can not be Luke Perry now.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by Exo

I'm just saying that the dude has some pretty damning evidence and that a spade should be called a spade.

^ Yep, this is the significant take-away from Cohen's public hearing: a lot of circumstantial detail suggesting that Trump was filing false financial information, that he knew about the wikileaks dump and the Don-plus-Russians meeting in advance. Also Cohen presented signed checks that are tantamount to proof that Trump is guilty of campaign finance violations.
Previously, Cohen lied to Congress to protect his boss but the circs are different now and for Cohen to be lying again would be a huge risk for himself with no obvious benefit, so I personally found his testimony pretty convincing.

In true MB style, which means zooming in on an insignificant detail, did anyone else hear Chairman Cummings say, "I recognise myself" ? I liked that so much that I might start using it to give my posts a bit more authority.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Previously, Cohen lied to Congress to protect his boss but the circs are different now and for Cohen to be lying again would be a huge risk for himself with no obvious benefit, so I personally found his testimony pretty convincing.

That's some avant-garde reasoning. I don't really consider the validity of his statements tbh but he 1000% has the air of someone who would do anything to cover their ass as well as someone who's dumb enough to lie about things that they don't have to lie about.