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chancery wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 10:08 pm

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 9:51 pm The 'man on the street' reax has been heart-crushing for me, I will admit.

Gift link: From the NY Times

Typical NYT bullshit. If NYT Pitchbot posted these you'd scoff.

I have to admit I thought I was being punked by Jordan Klepper when I first read them.

At least at federal sentencings (and I will assume NY state has similar rules), after the arguments of counsel, and immediately before sentence is pronounced, the defendant is afforded the right to make an allocution. In some instances, defendants are able to significantly affect their sentence, of...

John Thomas8 wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 9:53 pm The magats on r/conservative are guzzling copious amount of stupidity:

I find it both funny and sad that the same people who don't see the chain of culpability in Trump->Cohen somehow see one in Biden->Bragg.

The 'man on the street' reax has been heart-crushing for me, I will admit.

Gift link: From the NY Times

bob wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 5:28 pm It is the day birthers have dreamed about for over a decade:

A disgraced ex-president is convicted for crimes to obtain the presidency.

Does this mean that the folks who stood by and knowingly let the man crime are guilty of ....

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misprision of a felony?

We found a Day One workaround. We'll see if it's still working around by Day Two, I suppose. One day at a time, for the next 6 weeks. I don't want to say "and then it's someone else's problem", since, uh, that's not a great mindset, but it'll be less of a drain, at the very least, when I c...

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 7:02 pm Trump so very much likes to be referred to as President Trump. I propose that newscasters start referring to him as Felon Trump.

I am now calling him 'FJT'. Felonious J. Trump.

Dave from down under wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 6:45 pm Jim Wright pointed out

Trump the Felon cannot vote in Florida

I'm waiting for him to try anyway, though.

Mrich wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 5:40 pmIMG_7767.jpeg

I'm sure Mr. Trudeau has himself been waiting to reuse this one.

:bighug: Give us a heads up when you get to Florida. There’s a few of us down here, maybe we can do a mini meet up. Good plan. I should be in the tri-county area between mid-Aug and mid-Sept (my first few weeks back in the States, I need to do some periodic required retraining, and some mid-level p...

If you would prefer a third world posting perhaps you might consider the Uk? Take care. That was my post before here, actually. Did two years commuting daily from East Putney to Vauxhall. Enjoyed my time immensely but the 45 minute minimum mass transit commute each way did stretch that enjoyment so...

I mean, I dunno, gang, the title on this thread is somewhat vague. What are we talkin' 'bout here? :biggrin: (Found a temporary workaround on the VPN thing, may not give me more than a day or two before I have to be more clever, but while I'm here, I might as well bask in the collective schadenfreude)

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 9:57 pm #1 reason for leaving? The politics. With an honorable mention to the rising cost of things such as auto and home insurance, and real estate prices.

....price increases caused by policies which are the result of politics, of course.

Just a brief heads up that I may be incommunicado for most of the next 6 weeks if all does not go well. My current country of assignment started cracking down on certain ISP 'liberties' today, and that includes a lot of the stuff that most Americans take for granted like VPNs and social media. ISPs ...

If he is convicted, then all right-wing craziness thus far is not even a hint of the craziness to follow. He won't be imprisoned but he will be a convicted felon, which will make the debate on June 27 sooper spicy. You know a Biden speechwriter is just jonesing to slip the "I like debate oppon...

Bannon should be told to bring a toothbrush. If the hearing ends with a ruling that he should go to prison, there should be a prison bus waiting outside the courthouse. He should not be allowed several months to report to prison. Awfully presumptuous of you to assume that Bannon owns, or even knows...

Given how the Overton Window tends to move on this sort of thing, and with surprising swiftness, I am assuming that by 2028, either virtual roll calls will be normalized, *or* schedules of all states' ballot deadlines will be compared to schedules of nominating conventions so that this doesn't happe...

In the defendant's defense, the prosecutor, after COB before a holiday weekend, sent an email saying, "we're going to file this motion." With an offer to meet and confer on Monday, the prosecutor said, "Nah; we're filing tonight." I would not be surprised if this catches this ju...

Much hay is made of the impact that a draft has on a nation -- when you level out as much as possible the demography of who serves in a military, the potential losses are borne by everyone. I think what Chilidog notes above is part of the longer-term change. As we've moved to a volunteer force, wher...

NYT put this up as a brief postscript in their live updates feed on the Libertarian Convention thing (x-post to this and JFK Jr. thread): And he’s out: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was eliminated in the first round of voting for the Libertarian presidential nomination, with just 2.07 percent of the votes a...

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 7:27 am

In the hearing, that went over like a wet balloon.

Wrong.

Wet balloons still fly. Just shake 'em a little bit. That's not the saying.


Try a lead balloon, Frank.

Maybe he wanted to hint at "wet fart in church", which is how I think the saying goes?

Wonder what tonight's audience is going to look like, complexion-wise.. Also wonder if he's going to stick his foot in his mouth with some offhand racist comment.. Former President Donald Trump is set to hold a rally in deep-blue South Bronx, New York, on Thursday evening as he looks to court the H...

What screwed up Charlie Kirk's brain? Huffing glue...? Genetics...? Traumatic brain injury...? See, I was going to go all ironic-tragic about it and say that one time, as a child, he ate a whole fistful of little pink and white pills thinking they were candy, and he's hated those things ever since.

She wants to be VP soooo bad. Given his age and health. This was my running joke regarding the whole nightmare electoral tie scenario. Sure, the House chooses the Prez, but the Senate chooses the VP. Imagine the howls if he gets the House to install him, but the Senate puts in Veep Harris, and then...

Having quickly done my Google Fu, I will at least give Piscopo credit for not being a Johnny (Dangerously) Come-Lately. He campaigned for TFG as far back as '16, and toyed with a gubernatorial race of his own after his experiences doing so. So I'll give him some credit back for being sincere and not...