$2 billion lottery jackpot won by one person in Altadena, California… and after taxes, they took home $628.5 million.
Imagine winning the lottery and suddenly becoming the only billionaire who actually gets properly taxed.
“Platner will survive this — not because voters are thrilled he was sexting other women, but because they already assume half of Congress is doing the same, or worse.
“And it’s not as if I’m some Platner booster. He’s always struck me as an impulsive dumbass (not unlike me I suppose, except I would never run for Congress). But I'll take a dumbass over Susan Collins, a three-decade incumbent who has rubber-stamped every war she's ever met and just about every major Washington disaster since I was in elementary school.
“Consider how she answered Platner's remark that she'd voted to send him to Iraq. She said ‘that was Platner’s decision to serve. He was not drafted.’
“That's the kind of casual cruelty that falls out of these decorum-humpers the moment an election forces them to face an actual human being. And here's the thing about everyman dumbasses like Platner: they don't talk like that. That line is pure thirty-year operator — the reflex of someone who's spent a career treating war as a line item and the people fighting them as a footnote. These people hold you in contempt and are indecent straight through. They just know which side of the plate the salad fork goes on.“
The Platner-Collins race is pretty Kingian tbh. Phony baloney evil soul-pit machine politician with an evilish relationship history vs. dim witted, emotionally unstable guy who has undeniably done some very bad things but who the audience ultimately sympathizes with
@EIEIOhMyGod That's just it, like if shit is lined up, do what you love! Weird to put like a people say I shouldn't until I'm 30. So what? We grew up in shwallywood, 22 might be the median age for mom's here lol
Everyone freaks out about NMC’s and trade protection yesterday cause Detroit’s top C asks out
The next day: “Michael Mccarron” is awarded full control over his career
Management issue, not player issue, folks.
I realize Dylan Larkin fits into the NHL Age of Player Empowerment thing, but this seems like such a different situation than Hughes, Tkachuk, Marner or others who were like “I’m not re-signing here."
He’s got 5 years left. Now, if *this* starts a trend, things get interesting.
The #Oilers are like the Vegas Golden Knights in not caring what anyone thinks in making controversial calls if it means they can win.
Except the moves they make are bad.
Courtside at MSG is funny because it’s like beloved former Knicks star from the ‘90s next to an insanely famous actor next to the CEO of a company that turns orphans into AI data center liquid coolant.
He’s dating Kim Kardashian, who has an estimated net worth of nearly $2 billion. He's worth nearly $500 million and lives in Monaco to avoid paying taxes in the UK.
Remarkable lack of self-awareness.