Did someone say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?

I don’t know how it’s possible, but they’re somehow even uglier in person. It’s wild.

Do you want to get chlamydia.exe?? Because that’s how you get chlamydia.exe

Flat? Meaning all corps pay the same regardless of revenue?

I see what you did there

skee-dop, bah-dop

Dude looks like an AI-generated “hide the pain Harold”

Good fucking luck…

CNN is “left-center”?

Fucking LOL

No, no, you’re wrong! The media bias fact checker bot gave it a credibility rating of “high”, so the headline must be right!

/s

Live by the fascism, die by the fascism!

Excuse you, he was amongst the bushes.

There are different kinds of bankruptcy, but generally it’s meant for people who are making a good faith effort to pay down their debts but are so underwater that it’s become impossible. Bankruptcy can restructure their debt in a way that makes it possible to pay off a portion of it, and often times they’ll be allowed to keep some assets (like a home or a car) since it’s generally understood that losing those things will basically guarantee that the debtor will no longer be able to earn an income. The creditors want to recover as much of the debt as they can, and understand that once they’ve made someone homeless they won’t be getting any more money.

Of course, bankruptcy courts aren’t likely to look at a guy who has multiple multi-million dollar residences and decide he’s making a ‘good faith effort’ to pay his debts.

What will probably happen is Rudy will be forced to liquidate his properties but be allowed to keep just enough money to afford a sad little apartment above a bowling alley or whatever. Then, after most of the money from those liquidations has been spent of lawyers fees (his own lawyers and his creditors lawyers) he’ll attempt to go through bankruptcy again and actually be successful.

IANAL, but as an outside observer the bankruptcy stuff always seemed to me like a bit of a hail Mary/stall tactic, not a legitimate legal remedy that would actual pan out for old Rudy.

This new agreement seems to suggest that the legal system also views it this way.

The full amout Rudy is on the hook for is ~150 million. He’ll be lucky to get even 5% of that from selling his property.

According to the article, he has some multi-million dollar properties in FL and NY that he’s supposed to liquidate in order to raise the funds.

I didn’t know, I think the fact she’s doing this in PA might mean that Shapiro got the nod.

he’s probably going to quell some of the enthusiasm young voters are showing for Harris.

There are a lot of younger voters who fondly remember all of the amazing science outreach that Scott Kelly (Mark’s twin brother who is also an astronaut) did during his year long mission on the ISS. If anything, I’d wager that younger voters are more aware of the Kelly’s than older voters — and are more likely to get excited about a NASA astronaut than some Midwestern governor they’ve only vaguely heard of.

A special election in Arizona with an unproven candidate is a legit concern.

Under Arizona law, the person appointed to Kelly’s vacant seat would serve out the remainder of his term. That means they’d have two years to ‘prove’ themselves to voters before having to run for the seat in 2026. I think that’s a reasonable amount of time, especially if governor chooses a strong replacement.

Fun fact:

Arizona law actually stipulates that special appointments like a vacant Senate seat must go to someone from the same party as the person who vacated the seat. So even if AZ had a Republican gov, the seat would still have to be appointed to a Democrat.