Seth Meyers: Trump Visits Chick-fil-A as Court Rejects Delay Tactics in Hush Money Trial
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re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅
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MAGAt: “He speaks his mind! He stands by what he says! HE’S A MAN OF HIS WORD!!!”
Trump: “I’m changing my mind after meeting with my ‘friend’ at my golf course for lunch.”
MAGAt: “SEE! He’s willing to change his mind to support the voters! HE REALLY MEANS IT THIS TIME!!!”
3 more days until Putin’s cockholster begins the process of finding out.
re: #5 darthstar
3 more days until Putin’s cockholster begins the process of finding out.
Don’t get our hopes up, there’s probably some ass-kisser in a robe ready to bail him out yet again before Monday.
re: #7 Targetpractice
Don’t get our hopes up, there’s probably some ass-kisser in a robe ready to bail him out yet again before Monday.
Maybe…but I think this being the ‘lowest’ court trying him for criminal behavior is the silver bullet we all thought didn’t exist. Wait…you can get booked into state prison? What next? County jail? Imagine Trump having to sit in a county jail for 30 days. 23 hours a day of lock up in a place that smells like a locker room where the urine isn’t allowed to drain except on Sundays. God, that just makes my heart go pitter-pat.
re: #8 darthstar
Is this a jury trial? Must be if it is a criminal case.
How likely is it that a Trumper may sit on the jury?
I suspect there’s at least a 90% chance of at least one Trumper makes it to the Jury.
If that is the case then Trump will walk.
And when he walks he will crow endlessly about it.
Now the trial itself will air dirty laundry and Trump will not like that, but all people will remember will be the verdict.
And that is why I, unlike so many, am not jumping for joy over these trials.
re: #9 darthstar
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I think commentary I heard about polls across the pond is probably true over here as well, that the media is fooling themselves (deliberately or otherwise) by assuming a lot of the “Don’t Know” or “Undecided” voters will break for Trump on Election Day and that’s being reflected in polling. Or assuming that the “Anybody But Trump” vote in the GQP primaries will end up holding their noses and voting for him anyway.
Some of the dumbest Foxfabe around is them fawning over how he buys Chick-Fil-A for others. He isn’t buying shit, he’s telling his people to pay out of the money he keeps begging.
re: #13 jaunte
Some of the dumbest Foxfabe around is them fawning over how he buys Chick-Fil-A for others. He isn’t buying shit, he’s telling his people to pay out of the money he keeps begging.
Or he stiffs the place.
re: #10 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Is this a jury trial? Must be if it is a criminal case.
How likely is it that a Trumper may sit on the jury?
I suspect there’s at least a 90% chance of at least one Trumper makes it to the Jury.
If that is the case then Trump will walk.
And when he walks he will crow endlessly about it.
Now the trial itself will air dirty laundry and Trump will not like that, but all people will remember will be the verdict.
And that is why I, unlike so many, am not jumping for joy over these trials.
There was at least one Trump fan in his civil trial. Not sure that helped him there.
re: #13 jaunte
Some of the dumbest Foxfabe around is them fawning over how he buys Chick-Fil-A for others. He isn’t buying shit, he’s telling his people to pay out of the money he keeps begging.
Ayep, assuming the story is true* and he actually did order 30 milkshakes for customers, he’ll mark it off as a campaign expense…and probably multiply the actual cost several times to pocket the difference.
*Has anyone actually seen an interview with a customer who received one of these milkshakes?
re: #10 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Is this a jury trial? Must be if it is a criminal case.
How likely is it that a Trumper may sit on the jury?
I suspect there’s at least a 90% chance of at least one Trumper makes it to the Jury.
If that is the case then Trump will walk.
An important thing to remember about most people is that they’re joiners, which is why hung jury rates are typically pretty low.
re: #15 gwangung
There was at least one Trump fan in his civil trial. Not sure that helped him there.
But civil trials do not demand 100% concurrence of all jurers.
Here in California it takes 75% of the Jury in a civil trial to give an award.
re: #17 goddamnedfrank
An important thing to remember about most people is that they’re joiners, which is why hung jury rates are typically pretty low.
Trumpers who are zealots are not going to be your typical person.
We’ve seen the religious zeal of said people to drive them to the extremes.
re: #17 goddamnedfrank
An important thing to remember about most people is that they’re joiners, which is why hung jury rates are typically pretty low.
Plus, I’m guessing it’s hard for most people to dig in and become the most recalcitrant asshole version of themselves possible in a group that statistically contains at least two ladies who remind them a little bit of their mom / favorite aunt / grandma.
re: #13 jaunte
Some of the dumbest Foxfabe around is them fawning over how he buys Chick-Fil-A for others. He isn’t buying shit, he’s telling his people to pay out of the money he keeps begging.
My other thought is this: What can Trump do on Monday to mess up this trial?
Jury selection is going to be tricky for sure.
What cards can Trump play to gum up the jury selection?
Last time I showed up to Jury duty was… yesterday.
The forced-watch of half an hour of videos on the jury process was torture… but it did drive home to me that judges bend over backwards to make sure at least to keep an appearance of an impartial jury?
What if Trump (his attorneys) claim that anyone who is aware of Trump’s public legal issues are inherently biased and are not fit for the jury in this case?
re: #10 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Is this a jury trial? Must be if it is a criminal case.
How likely is it that a Trumper may sit on the jury?
I suspect there’s at least a 90% chance of at least one Trumper makes it to the Jury.
If that is the case then Trump will walk.
And when he walks he will crow endlessly about it.
Now the trial itself will air dirty laundry and Trump will not like that, but all people will remember will be the verdict.
And that is why I, unlike so many, am not jumping for joy over these trials.
If there’s a devoted trumpet who refuses to convict in spite of the evidence, if it’s 11-1, the judge will make them keep deliberating. Maybe for days. Until finally declaring a mistrial, and then the State might decide to do it all again.
re: #20 goddamnedfrank
Plus, I’m guessing it’s hard for most people to dig in and become the most recalcitrant asshole version of themselves possible in a group that statistically contains at least two ladies who remind them a little bit of their mom / favorite aunt / grandma.
To be clear this is absolutely a capacity one should cultivate within oneself, because jury nullification is a 100% legit way to deal with injustice and institutional racism.
I just have my doubts about how much the average lone Trumper can actually stand up to the sustained interpersonal pressure of jury deliberations, despite their self mythologizing about being individualists, free thinkers and suchlike.
Donald Trump Makes Bizarre Pitch for RFK Jr. in New Video
Voting for the third-party candidate would be “great for MAGA,” the former president said.
Donald Trump wants Democrats to vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—making the bizarre pitch in a new contradictory video announcement shared to Truth Social on Thursday.
He called the independent 2024 candidate a “radical left candidate,” but insisted that he was “a better man” than his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden.
“If I were a Democrat, I’d vote for RFK Jr. every single time over Biden, because he’s frankly more in line with Democrats,” the former president said.
Trump vaguely referenced RFK Jr.’s one-time support for the so-called “Green New Scam,” but didn’t provide much else in the way of comparison to Biden.
The former president is banking on the idea that Democratic voters who are dissatisfied with Biden will flee to RFK Jr., even though the independent’s conspiracy theorizing, Jan. 6 hand-wringing, and some of his campaign staff’s explicit opposition to Biden have far more in common with Trump’s vengeful, reality-challenged rhetoric.
In his meandering rant, Trump even called RFK Jr. “great for MAGA.”
It remains unclear whether RFK Jr. will hurt Biden or Trump worse come November—though as a spoiler, RFK Jr. will likely fail to appeal to Democrats who are disappointed over Biden’s continued support of Israel, given his continued defense of the country’s brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
re: #26 Joe Bacon ✅
I cannot ever remember a presidential candidate actively advertising for a spoiler candidate. There have been cases in the past of candidates offering opinions about third party candidates or even being asked to respond to something they said/did, but I cannot ever remember an instance in my 20+ years of voting when one party’s candidate actually argued aloud for the other party’s voters to support a third party candidate over their own party’s.
re: #27 Targetpractice
I cannot ever remember a presidential candidate actively advertising for a spoiler candidate. There have been cases in the past of candidates offering opinions about third party candidates or even being asked to respond to something they said/did, but I cannot ever remember an instance in my 20+ years of voting when one party’s candidate actually argued aloud for the other party’s voters to support a third party candidate over their own party’s.
It’s part of a three pronged attack
re: #27 Targetpractice
I cannot ever remember a presidential candidate actively advertising for a spoiler candidate. There have been cases in the past of candidates offering opinions about third party candidates or even being asked to respond to something they said/did, but I cannot ever remember an instance in my 20+ years of voting when one party’s candidate actually argued aloud for the other party’s voters to support a third party candidate over their own party’s.
Because trump is a cheat, a fraud, a liar and desperate to try to stay out of jail.
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
My other thought is this: What can Trump do on Monday to mess up this trial?
Jury selection is going to be tricky for sure.
What cards can Trump play to gum up the jury selection?
Last time I showed up to Jury duty was… yesterday.
The forced-watch of half an hour of videos on the jury process was torture… but it did drive home to me that judges bend over backwards to make sure at least to keep an appearance of an impartial jury?
What if Trump (his attorneys) claim that anyone who is aware of Trump’s public legal issues are inherently biased and are not fit for the jury in this case?
Aren’t they trying to weed out those with strong political views — weren’t they asking very specific jury questions about membership in groups and subscriptions to certain publications?
re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter
Aren’t they trying to weed out those with strong political views — weren’t they asking very specific jury questions about membership in groups and subscriptions to certain publications?
There will always be zealots but they’ll be pretty easy to discover.
I’d watch for jury tampering, e.g., a bribe. Because that has trump written all over it.
Ah, it wouldn’t be Fallout without exploring at least one abandoned vault full of horrors and secrets.
My day did not end when I thought it did at 8:15. I got paged in an hour later, because whatever we did during the day apparently did not work and completely effed things up. I finally got away from that about 5 minutes, but I’m seriously not happy right about now.
Oh, and I’m still on call for another five hours, 22 minutes.
re: #24 sagehen
If there’s a devoted trumpet who refuses to convict in spite of the evidence, if it’s 11-1, the judge will make them keep deliberating. Maybe for days. Until finally declaring a mistrial, and then the State might decide to do it all again.
Yeah, well, the judge will give an Allen (or “dynamite”) charge to the jury, basically telling them—it took a lot to get this trial together and presented to you all. It was expensive. You’ve heard all the evidence and the arguments, it’s going to cost more money to do the trial again, so why don’t you all discuss it a little bit more and see if you can’t come to a conclusion one way or another?
Yeah, and sometimes the Allen charge just doesn’t work. /remembers a guy who told a documentary filmmaker that he really did deliberately hang a federal jury in a criminal case because he was one of those jury nullification goofs.
re: #10 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Is this a jury trial? Must be if it is a criminal case.
How likely is it that a Trumper may sit on the jury?
I suspect there’s at least a 90% chance of at least one Trumper makes it to the Jury.
If that is the case then Trump will walk.
And when he walks he will crow endlessly about it.
Now the trial itself will air dirty laundry and Trump will not like that, but all people will remember will be the verdict.
And that is why I, unlike so many, am not jumping for joy over these trials.
I think you are overestimating how many Trumpers are in Manhattan, and how many are smart enough to completely conceal their allegiance.
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
My other thought is this: What can Trump do on Monday to mess up this trial?
Jury selection is going to be tricky for sure.
What cards can Trump play to gum up the jury selection?
Last time I showed up to Jury duty was… yesterday.
The forced-watch of half an hour of videos on the jury process was torture… but it did drive home to me that judges bend over backwards to make sure at least to keep an appearance of an impartial jury?
What if Trump (his attorneys) claim that anyone who is aware of Trump’s public legal issues are inherently biased and are not fit for the jury in this case?
During voir dire the members of the jury pool are asked if they can make an impartial decision based solely on the evidence presented at trial. The judge isn’t going to allow Trump to strike for cause solely on the grounds of merely being aware of Trump’s legal issues. Also you may be surprised at how many people actually aren’t aware, except perhaps in the vaguest way. We are freaks; most people pay no attention to the news.
re: #39 No Malarkey!
During voir dire the members of the jury pool are asked if they can make an impartial decision based solely on the evidence presented at trial. The judge isn’t going to allow Trump to strike for cause solely on the grounds of merely being aware of Trump’s legal issues. Also you may be surprised at how many people actually aren’t aware, except perhaps in the vaguest way. We are freaks; most people pay no attention to the news.
That being said, it will probably take longer to seat a jury in this trial than normal, because Trump has near 100% name recognition, and many people have very strong opinions about him.
re: #36 mmmirele
My day did not end when I thought it did at 8:15. I got paged in an hour later, because whatever we did during the day apparently did not work and completely effed things up. I finally got away from that about 5 minutes, but I’m seriously not happy right about now.
Oh, and I’m still on call for another five hours, 22 minutes.
Ah, the dreaded “Oh no you don’t!” type of catastrophic failure…
re: #39 No Malarkey!
During voir dire the members of the jury pool are asked if they can make an impartial decision based solely on the evidence presented at trial. The judge isn’t going to allow Trump to strike for cause solely on the grounds of merely being aware of Trump’s legal issues. Also you may be surprised at how many people actually aren’t aware, except perhaps in the vaguest way. We are freaks; most people pay no attention to the news.
The average person knows that he’s been investigated, that he’s been charged, and that he’s going to trial. Some will know the names involved other than Trump’s, such as having heard of “Stormy Daniels” or Michael Cohen, but most couldn’t tell you more than a bare-bones summation of the allegations.
re: #43 Targetpractice
The average person knows that he’s been investigated, that he’s been charged, and that he’s going to trial. Some will know the names involved other than Trump’s, such as having heard of “Stormy Daniels” or Michael Cohen, but most couldn’t tell you more than a bare-bones summation of the allegations.
For the average Joe or Jane, their summation is simply, “Didn’t Trump pay a porn star to have sex with him?” and that’s probably the extent of it.
People here on LGF, as well as other websites with a strong political focus, are the outliers. We’re the political junkies, whereas your average American really isn’t.
re: #38 No Malarkey!
I think you are overestimating how many Trumpers are in Manhattan, and how many are smart enough to completely conceal their allegiance.
This.
re: #43 Targetpractice
The average person knows that he’s been investigated, that he’s been charged, and that he’s going to trial. Some will know the names involved other than Trump’s, such as having heard of “Stormy Daniels” or Michael Cohen, but most couldn’t tell you more than a bare-bones summation of the allegations.
And remember, trump is such a dick that he can’t help showing all his dickishness every single day of a trial. That’s what killed him in the E. Jean trial.
So, the accusations of genocide on part of the Israelis against Gazans irk me..
Normie: 30k deaths in Gaza do not compare to 800k genocide in Rwanda.
Tankie Pro-Pal: Genocide is not about numbers, but intent.
Normie: Hamas intentionally massacred 1,200 Israelis in a bid to exterminate Israel.
Tankie Pro-Pal: You can’t compare 1,200 Israeli deaths to the much bigger number of 30k deaths in Gaza.
Normie: So what decides genocide? Intent or numbers? If intent, Hamas was clearly more intentional — still is — in its killing Israelis. If numbers, 30k of 2 million Gazans is puny, especially when compared to Rwanda’s 800k (intent and number) or Holocaust’s six million (intent and enormous number).
Tankie Pro-Pal: You are a zionist sell out. Besides, the liberation movement Hamas doesn’t have to follow white colonizer law, in which genocide is a crime anyways.
Yep, bombings of Gaza are likely a war crime to some currently unspecified extent. It’s possible crimes against humanity have been committed by Israel.
But genocide? No.
If we’re gonna talk who ticks more of the checkboxes on the “Elements of Crime” for genocide, it’s Hamas & Co (tho I would say “possible”, not be firm in a “Yea, the a-holes did it”). Who also have committed war crimes, not only against Israel, but also against the civilian population of Gaza. And I haven’t even touched possible crimes against humanity on part of Hamas & Co yet…
I see the genocide charges brought by Nicaragua and South Africa as something between PR stunts, either country falling maga for Hamas & Co, or intentionally running cover for Hamas & Co.
But either way, it will cost them and the Palestinians dearly that it was done.
re: #47 Teukka
Also, I can’t square this strain of thought on X:
Leftists:
“Biden should do something about Gaza! He’s abetting genocide!”
Same leftists:
“America is evil and we need to have a revolution! Multipolar world for the Global South!”
You literally cannot reconcile these two statements.
What was the foreign policy of France in 1792? Or Russia in 1917?
re: #7 Targetpractice
Don’t get our hopes up, there’s probably some ass-kisser in a robe ready to bail him out yet again before Monday.
Yes, I will not gloat until his ass is behind bars.
re: #46 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And remember, trump is such a dick that he can’t help showing all his dickishness every single day of a trial. That’s what killed him in the E. Jean trial.
His dickishness isn’t what’s going to hurt him, it’s his ego that’s going to do him in. He could have quietly gone to Bragg months back and worked a plea deal where he paid off fines for the misdemeanors or agreed to “community service” in exchange for the felonies being dropped. Or started arguing weeks back that the whole episode had been an attempt to keep the whole thing quiet from Melania, that he’d had Cohen make the payment to keep it secret from his new wife and the later payment had been to cover the debt. Or he could have even tried Gotti-style defense, arguing that Cohen had made the pay-off out of “loyalty” to Trump and the payment he got was unconnected to Daniels altogether.
But no, instead he’s going to sit at the defense table, scowling and mumbling to himself as his lawyers try to convince a jury that the City of New York hates Donald Trump personally and is only putting him on trial to hurt his political career.
So the latest generative AI for sound/music is Udio, so I decided to give it a try:
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Udio also generated the cover image and video.
It was a very simple prompt for a classical style piece that was ominous. I also asked that it be choral as in a requiem. The last two did not register, it appears.
While the sound quality is ok, I think the obvious problem is that the music lacks a creative direction. It very much sounds like what a beginning composer might write for a class assignment, without inspiration.
Which I suspect will always be the problem with this kind of AI.
re: #39 No Malarkey!
Also you may be surprised at how many people actually aren’t aware, except perhaps in the vaguest way. We are freaks; most people pay no attention to the news.
We know what we see on TV crime and legal series.
From my “For you” tab on Xitter:
BREAKING: ISRAELIS SUMBIT REQUEST TO POLICE TO ALLOW AN ALTAR AND KNIVES TO SLAUGHTER RED COWS IN AL AQSA MOSQUE ON APRIL 22, 2024
RED HEIFER? pic.twitter.com/csYdQFr7qb— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) April 11, 2024
User caution is advised for the comments…
re: #53 Teukka
Certainly it is troll-bait?
re: #54 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Certainly it is troll-bait?
Some of the responses may be. But not all. And not the OP.
re: #57 Teukka
Bullshit to rile the extremist Muslims up, aye.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking. Poking the wasp’s nest.
re: #57 Teukka
Religious extremism (of whatever stripe) ends badly.
That lesson is learned over and over because people refuse to remember.
re: #59 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Religious extremism (of whatever stripe) ends badly.
That lesson is learned over and over because people refuse to remember.
Political extremism of any stripe as well.
Or hybrids of the two, those lead to the worst ends.
re: #50 Targetpractice
His dickishness isn’t what’s going to hurt him, it’s his ego that’s going to do him in. He could have quietly gone to Bragg months back and worked a plea deal where he paid off fines for the misdemeanors or agreed to “community service” in exchange for the felonies being dropped. Or started arguing weeks back that the whole episode had been an attempt to keep the whole thing quiet from Melania, that he’d had Cohen make the payment to keep it secret from his new wife and the later payment had been to cover the debt. Or he could have even tried Gotti-style defense, arguing that Cohen had made the pay-off out of “loyalty” to Trump and the payment he got was unconnected to Daniels altogether.
But no, instead he’s going to sit at the defense table, scowling and mumbling to himself as his lawyers try to convince a jury that the City of New York hates Donald Trump personally and is only putting him on trial to hurt his political career.
Glorious. Absolutely glorious.
re: #60 Teukka
Political extremism of any stripe as well.
Or hybrids of the two, those lead to the worst ends.
Which is why I thank God every day for giving our Founding Fathers the Divine Wisdom to separate Church from State.
re: #61 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And Trump can’t pull off any BS theatrics in the courtroom like he did during the E. Jean Carroll trial, like storming out.
He’s just gonna have to sit there and take it. And he’s gonna hate every minute of it.
re: #63 Dr Lizardo
He’s just gonna have to sit there and take it. And he’s gonna hate every minute of it.
That’s going to be the kicker. He has to be there, he does not have a choice. That alone may trigger him to do something crazy.
re: #64 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That’s going to be the kicker. He has to be there, he does not have a choice. That alone may trigger him to do something crazy.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all. I can easily see him making some outburst triggered by narcissistic injury and completely losing his shit.
This time I asked Udio for a tuba, or some tubas. Anytime I tried to request a time signature Udio seemed triggered to give me some standard music as such, and not tubas. So I just asked for tubas and a slow tempo.
Here’s what it gave me:
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And here are the lyrics it generated (and it generated the cover image too.)
In the hall, in the hall, it’s rumbling low
Tubas breathe, sounds that ebb and flow
Gentle giants, beneath the score
Bringing life to music, wanting more
Somber notes fill the space, fill the air
A base so deep it gets everywhere
This is resonant
This is resonant
Brass speaks in lows speaks in lows speaks in lows speaks in
This is resonant
This is resonant
Brass speaks in lows speaks in lows speaks in lows speaks in
Through the depths, through the depths, it hums along
Tuba’s voice like the earth, so strong
Round tones roll, they echo ‘cross the floor
Feel the vibe of brass, hear the tuba’s mighty roar
This is resonant
This is resonant
Echoes deep, echoes deep, in the heart they stay
Carrying tunes far, far away
Majestic music beneath the moon’s glow
Tubas play on, with a sound so low
In the silence, in the night, they sustain
Bridging songs with a bass refrain
Vibrations travel, through the ground they roam
Under stars, tubas find their home
Carry us through twilight, to the dawn’s light gleam
In every soft rumble, there’s a deeper dream
Silent whispers of the sleeping town
While tubas echo, round and round
In the prior example I asked for choral requiem and didn’t get it.
Here I asked for tubas and I got a chorus singing about tubas.
re: #65 Dr Lizardo
I wouldn’t be surprised at all. I can easily see him making some outburst triggered by narcissistic injury and completely losing his shit.
I wish it was being televised.
re: #66 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Are musicians even needed any more?
/just asking for some friends
I think I’ve figured out the end-game for AI:
Peak Dadaism.
re: #63 Dr Lizardo
And Trump can’t pull off any BS theatrics in the courtroom like he did during the E. Jean Carroll trial, like storming out.
He’s just gonna have to sit there and take it. And he’s gonna hate every minute of it.
It’s going to be an endurance test for him, one that he’s going to fail miserably. He can’t just decide he’s “done” for the day and leave to retreat to the cameras or to Trump Tower. And even if he weren’t running for the presidency again, his ego would never allow him to show up looking like a dying old man to play for sympathy points with the jury. So instead, he’s going to be sitting in that courtroom for 6-8 hours a day with only a lunch break in-between. Every time he acts up, every time he does something to draw the judge’s ire, means more time spent in a coutroom he doesn’t want to be in. And his only respite will be to go whine to the cameras when the day is done about the same BS “THEY’RE SO MEAN TO ME!” whines.
He’s gonna be a sloppy mess within a week.
re: #72 Targetpractice
It’s going to be an endurance test for him, one that he’s going to fail miserably. He can’t just decide he’s “done” for the day and leave to retreat to the cameras or to Trump Tower. And even if he weren’t running for the presidency again, his ego would never allow him to show up looking like a dying old man to play for sympathy points with the jury. So instead, he’s going to be sitting in that courtroom for 6-8 hours a day with only a lunch break in-between. Every time he acts up, every time he does something to draw the judge’s ire, means more time spent in a coutroom he doesn’t want to be in. And his only respite will be to go whine to the cameras when the day is done about the same BS “THEY’RE SO MEAN TO ME!” whines.
He’s gonna be a sloppy mess within a week.
I’ve seen general predictions that such a trial will last around six or so weeks. He’ll look like an extra from Dawn of the Dead by the end of that 😄
If I was so low-cost TV/movie factory, like The Asylum, I wouldn’t even bother hiring a composer or musicians for a soundtrack.
Just use AI to crank out a bunch sound clips, and use those in the edits.
re: #73 Dr Lizardo
I’ve seen general predictions that such a trial will last around six or so weeks. He’ll look like an extra from Dawn of the Dead by the end of that 😄
What’s only going to make it worse is he’s going to insist on trying to keep up as much of his campaign schedule as possible. Which means trying to appear at rallies between trial days knowing he’s going to have to be in a courtroom bright and early the following day. Trying to make as many public appearances as he can on the weekends before running back to NYC on a red-eye flight. I remain convinced that before the case goes to the jury, he will try to schedule a rally early in the afternoon or evening and whine to the judge for permission to leave early so he can get there in time to perform.
And given the subject matter of the criminal trial, I don’t think that his Dear and Devoted Wife is going to want to be anywhere near him or associated with him at all.
re: #75 Targetpractice
From what I’ve seen lately, his “campaign schedule” is surrounding himself with lot-lizard lookalikes, lickspittles and toadies down at Mar-a-Lago and playing golf. Rumor on the political grapevine is that he’s had to scale back owing to lack of dinero.
Udio is fun… don’t know if it counts as “music”, but one can crank out all sorts of sonic treats with it.
re: #78 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Humanity ends not with a bang… but a whisper.
My starting strategy is designed to minimize whiffs. The double airball at the beginning, then, took me extremely by surprise - and severely limited my word choices.
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re: #81 Nerdy Fish
My starting strategy is designed to minimize whiffs. The double airball at the beginning, then, took me extremely by surprise - and severely limited my word choices.
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Essentially, my two starting words coming up empty left me with the following:
* One extremely common letter - H - I pretty much knew it had to have that;
* One vowel - I;
* The limited letters reduced the possible word endings to pretty much just -Y.
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re: #81 Nerdy Fish
I read that, went off really weird on #2 after a whiff on #1.
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Some famous professor in Geneva, New York wrote an article, duly published by Verso, as to why killing civilians is great & how she was so excited about 10/7.
What else is new? For these bored folks, we, the people of Middle East, only exist as subjects of their fantasies— Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی (@arash_tehran) April 11, 2024
The war of attrition continues.
Russia’s missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy system, the bombardment of its second-largest city and advances along the front are stoking worries that Kyiv’s military effort is nearing breaking point.
A dire shortage of ammunition and manpower along the 1,200-kilometer (930 mile) front and gaps in air defense show that Ukraine is at its most fragile moment in over two years of war, according to Western officials with knowledge of the situation.
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Far from being able to seize back occupied territory, which was last year’s objective, Kyiv’s forces are struggling to hold the line on Russia’s advance. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said last week that Russia may be able to mobilize as many as 300,000 new troops by June 1.
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After months of stalling, Zelenskiy and Ukrainian lawmakers have expedited contested legislation to bolster the ranks of fighting forces, approving a lower conscription age and tightened rules for the draft.
A key worry is Kharkiv, which Russian forces tried and failed to seize in the opening campaign of the war. The proximity of the city, to the Russian border makes it vulnerable to Russian shelling. Kremlin forces have pelted it with S-300 ballistic missiles and glide bombs, laying waste to swathes of residential areas and destroying nearly all local power-generating capacity.
Another state has a conflict between ballot cutoff date and the timing of the Dem convention. Washington state will accept a provisional nomination. The Alabama Secretary of State says he will not.
al.com
Washington (state) rule could leave Biden off the November ballot, but state has a solution
abcnews.go.com
Hey, you go first, no you go first, no thanks, you go first, no hey I was puuuuussssssshhhed!
They are flightless but fearless.
Scores of baby penguins bravely dove off a massive 50-foot cliff for their first-ever swim in the icy Antarctic waters below, incredible new footage shows.
Award-winning National Geographic cinematographer Bertie Gregory spent a frigid two months tracking the 10,000-strong flock of Emperor penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula when he captured the chicks’ never-before-seen behavior on camera, he told “Good Morning America.”
“It’s called fledging, when they take their first swim,” he said. “Normally they jump off of sea ice, which is 1 or 2 feet high. We were noticing that these trains of chicks were going past to a different place.
“So I launched the drone, flew it over there to see what was going on, and realized they were stacking up on the edge of a huge 50-foot ice cliff,” he continued.
“One by one they started to jump off this 50-foot ice cliff to take their first swim in the Southern Ocean.”
re: #8 darthstar
He’d only stink up the place.
re: #27 Targetpractice
I cannot ever remember a presidential candidate actively advertising for a spoiler candidate. There have been cases in the past of candidates offering opinions about third party candidates or even being asked to respond to something they said/did, but I cannot ever remember an instance in my 20+ years of voting when one party’s candidate actually argued aloud for the other party’s voters to support a third party candidate over their own party’s.
“presidential candidate” is the wrong framing
anything he does in that context is the wrong framing
campaigning is merely the vehicle/technique/con he chose at this moment
he’s a grifter
every move is intended to make him money
he’s indicted
every move is intended to keep him out of jail
its not about politics or policy or America or democracy, or…
re: #43 Targetpractice
The average person knows that he’s been investigated, that he’s been charged, and that he’s going to trial. Some will know the names involved other than Trump’s, such as having heard of “Stormy Daniels” or Michael Cohen, but most couldn’t tell you more than a bare-bones summation of the allegations.
remember, this is supposed to be the most complicated of the cases - the hardest to explain
re: #89 Decatur Deb
This all strikes me as if the DNC screwed up.
Just to be safe, I think the DNC should move up their nomination process. The delegates don’t have to meet in person to vote, do they?
Why can’t the DNC have the delegates vote in a giant conference video call?
Then have the August event just be for the platform and the speeches.
re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Calendars is hard.
re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This all strikes me as if the DNC screwed up.
Just to be safe, I think the DNC should move up their nomination process. The delegates don’t have to meet in person to vote, do they?
Why can’t the DNC have the delegates vote in a giant conference video call?
Then have the August event just be for the platform and the speeches.
The DNC didn’t screw up. This isn’t the first time the convention has been held after a state’s deadline. Hell, in 2020, both the Republicans and the Democrats did it, with no issues. The problem is only occurring now because Republicans are so hyper-partisan, they are looking for any flimsy excuse to take Joe Biden off the ballot, for no reason other than they’re mad about their Dear Leader going through all the things right now.
re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This all strikes me as if the DNC screwed up.
Just to be safe, I think the DNC should move up their nomination process. The delegates don’t have to meet in person to vote, do they?
Why can’t the DNC have the delegates vote in a giant conference video call?
Then have the August event just be for the platform and the speeches.
nobody screwed up
this has happened before
only it was the red team then and wouldntchaknow they found a solution
Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen (R) has just sent off a letter very much like the one that Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) sent off about a week ago. Both letters warn the Biden campaign that this year’s Democratic National Convention, scheduled for August 19-22, comes after the deadline for ballot certification. In other words, if the Democrats don’t move their convention up, Biden could be booted off both states’ ballots in November.
Whatever can be done? Hmmmmmmmmmm. Is there any historical precedent whatsoever for this situation? As it turns out, well, yes there is. A number of readers wrote in to point out that, in 2020, the Republican National Convention was held August 24-27. This makes sense, since the party that holds the White House always goes second. Anyhow, what did legislators in those two states do when they discovered the problem back in 2020? They quickly passed waivers granting the Republican Party extra time to send in its certification (in fact, Ohio had to grant that concession to both parties, as the 2020 Democratic convention was also held after the deadline).
Clearly, the Ohio and Alabama legislatures are going to have to blink here, right? Otherwise, they will get their pants sued off. They can’t give concessions to one party and not the other. Alternatively, they could just permanently change the cutoff date to something more realistic. Six of the last eight Democratic conventions were not held in time to meet the current deadlines in Ohio and Alabama, along with five of the last eight Republican conventions. One wonders exactly what is being accomplished with these obviously unrealistic deadlines, not to mention these “dire warning” letters from the secretaries of state. (Z)
biden won’t be booted off the ballot anywhere.
and certainly not for this nonsense
re: #97 Nerdy Fish
The DNC didn’t screw up. This isn’t the first time the convention has been held after a state’s deadline. Hell, in 2020, both the Republicans and the Democrats did it, with no issues. The problem is only occurring now because Republicans are so hyper-partisan, they are looking for any flimsy excuse to take Joe Biden off the ballot, for no reason other than they’re mad about their Dear Leader going through all the things right now.
damn!
re: #98 Dangerman
nobody screwed up
this has happened before
only it was the red team then and wouldntchaknow they found a solutionbiden won’t be booted off the ballot anywhere.
and certainly not for this nonsense
At the moment, Biden will be off the AL ballot unless the GOP-dominated legislature or the nutcase SoS take an action. Not taking equitable actions is their norm.
Last Friday, a health alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pinged its way across the inboxes of clinicians and state health departments all over the US. The message described how a dairy farm worker in Texas had contracted H5N1, the highly infectious strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, that’s currently circling worldwide. The dairy worker had caught the virus, apparently, from cattle.
The CDC’s alert urged doctors to be vigilant and consider H5N1 a possibility in any patients presenting with acute respiratory symptoms or sore eyes who had recently been in contact with animals.
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So far, the public health threat from H5N1 has been minimal because it cannot easily enter the cells of the human nose and mouth, though when the virus does infect people, it can be deadly.
“The virus is not one that can transmit easily between humans,” says MacIntyre. “The key event that could result in a human pandemic is a mutation that switched the affinity of the virus to certain receptors in the human respiratory tract.”
re: #101 Decatur Deb
At the moment, Biden will be off the AL ballot unless the GOP-dominated legislature or the nutcase SoS take an action. Not taking equitable actions is their norm.
And I have no doubt the DNC is already figuring out how to deal with their obstructionism. There are a lot of things I’m worried about for this fall’s election. This isn’t one of them.
re: #103 Nerdy Fish
And I have no doubt the DNC is already figuring out how to deal with their obstructionism. There are a lot of things I’m worried about for this fall’s election. This isn’t one of them.
I’m not that worried about it because we could do just as well in Alabama with a Biden write-in, and the impact of the BS would have good effects nationwide.
re: #104 Decatur Deb
I’m not that worried about it because we could do just as well in Alabama with a Biden write-in, and the impact of the BS would have good effects nationwide.
“Look at how the GOP, the so-called ‘Party of Law and Order’, plays by a ‘rules for thee, but not for me’ code of ethics. You better believe, once they gain power, they will worsen our two-tier system of justice so that only their enemies will ever face consequences.”
re: #105 Nerdy Fish
“You didn’t use your vote in 2020, and now you’ve lost it.”
re: #106 Decatur Deb
“You didn’t use your vote in 2020, and now you’ve lost it.”
“And if you don’t write in Biden in the election, this will be every Democrat in the United States.”
re: #108 PhillyPretzel ✅
And we are yet to have a convention for either party. We are still in the Caucus/Primary season. I can see this is going to be a very long political season.
Certainly be interesting, depending on what is going on in Gaza.
re: #109 Shropshire Slasher
Certainly be interesting, depending on what is going on in Gaza.
Comforting to see that a couple thousand radical fuckheads can wreck the world.
re: #96 Decatur Deb
Calendars is hard.
It didn’t matter four years ago to the states that both conventions were after their deadlines. Something changed.
re: #111 Belafon
Everyone is trying to make a “man-baby” happy.
re: #86 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
I read that, went off really weird on #2 after a whiff on #1.
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re: #111 Belafon
It didn’t matter four years ago to the states that both conventions were after their deadlines. Something changed.
Shame has been banished to the children’s library. (And we have an even worse SoS.)
re: #114 Decatur Deb
Shame has been banished to the children’s library. (And we have an even worse SoS.)
It got removed from there because it was too “woke”.
re: #114 Decatur Deb
Shame has been banished to the children’s library. (And we have an even worse SoS.)
or to the cornfield
and Anthony is going to make it snow
But it’s good that you’re making it snow, Anthony, it’s real good!
re: #115 Nerdy Fish
It got removed from there because it was too “woke”.
If the hellish din from this Trump resurrection would subside, I would spend all my effort trying to defend Alabama libraries. They are under severe attack.
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
(total cultural reference breakdown, there)
JUST IN: A Jan. 6 defendant must pay ~$32,000 to a German media company whose equipment he destroyed, a federal appeals court ruled today.
The court rejected the defendant’s that such “restitution” orders can’t apply to private property. https://t.co/R8jexmoR5j pic.twitter.com/PEWhLMj5wT— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 12, 2024
re: #102 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
“The key event that could result in a human pandemic is a mutation that switched the affinity of the virus to certain receptors in the human respiratory tract.”
The Chinese are busy working on it as we speak…
re: #111 Belafon
It didn’t matter four years ago to the states that both conventions were after their deadlines. Something changed.
i think the real point is nothing changed.
that’s why this will never fly
re: #114 Decatur Deb
Shame has been banished to the children’s library. (And we have an even worse SoS.)
tfg ‘proved’ in colorado that this is a federal issue
there is a female cardinal outside our sliding glass doors that’s been trying to get in all morning
not flying into the glass and falling to the ground dazed
from the ground
poking at the glass
fluttering up and down about two feet
then hanging on the screen
i dont think it’s trying to make nice with Squeak
re: #123 Dangerman
tfg ‘proved’ in colorado that this is a federal issue
you are assuming logical consitency in Court rulings
re: #101 Decatur Deb
At the moment, Biden will be off the AL ballot unless the GOP-dominated legislature or the nutcase SoS take an action. Not taking equitable actions is their norm.
The partisan stink will rub off on the whole Republican party, though.
re: #124 Dangerman
“I’d like to talk to you about roof repair.”
re: #119 lawhawk
JUST IN: A Jan. 6 defendant must pay ~$32,000 to a German media company whose equipment he destroyed, a federal appeals court ruled today.
He has made himself a hero of Truth, seems he should open a GoFundMe to recoup his sacrifice.
re: #120 jeffreyw
Fried or baked? Preference, I suppose. 😂
re: #124 Dangerman
there is a female cardinal outside our sliding glass doors that’s been trying to get in all morning
not flying into the glass and falling to the ground dazed
from the ground
poking at the glass
fluttering up and down about two feet
then hanging on the screeni dont think it’s trying to make nice with Squeak
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re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That reminded me to check the Cardone GFM for Trump. Just over $2m. 😂
re: #134 GlutenFreeJesus
That reminded me to check the Cardkne GFM for Trump. Just over $2m. 😂
Fairly impressive, that is what nearly 0.4% of what ne needs to cover his fines!!!
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you are assuming logical consitency in Court rulings
Within the span of a few months and a repeat of a blatantly political issue, yes
re: #133 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
She’s hungry. Give her something!
Shes a regular
knows where the feeders are
Two weeks later and my Easter Seals have died, PetSmart doesn’t sell seal chow, go figure.
NEWS — Evan Corcoran, the Trump attorney who became a critical witness in the classified documents case against the former president, has quietly left his legal team. Full story at 9:00 right now.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 12, 2024
Expect some Kamala sound bites later:
Here’s a taste of what Harris is expected to say:
“We all must understand who is to blame. It is the former president, Donald Trump. It is Donald Trump who, during his campaign in 2016, said women should be punished for seeking an abortion.”
“Donald Trump is the architect of this health care crisis. And that’s not a fact he hides. In fact, he brags about it.”
“And as much harm as he has already caused, a second Trump term would be even worse. If Donald Trump gets the chance, he will sign a national abortion ban. How do we know? Look at his record. Congress tried to pass a national abortion ban before, in 2017, and then-President Trump endorsed it.”
re: #146 lawhawk
Wasn’t he one of the more competent attorneys on the team?
re: #145 jeffreyw
There was a discussion of AI art and copyright issues on an episode of ST Voyager (“Author, Author”) when the holographic doctor wrote and published a novel.
re: #144 A Cranky One
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I hope it dies.
re: #150 darthstar
Wasn’t he one of the more competent attorneys on the team?
Was. Past tense. And even then, he was still mired in the criminal/corrupt conduct by Trump and the subsequent coverup of criminal conduct.
Last night with kitten:
PURR PURR I LOVE YOU IMMA LIE ON YOUR FACE AND NECK.
OK little girl please move
NO I LOVE YOU AND I MUST CHEW ON YOUR EAR
Ouch, no, you can stop that.
I WILL CHEW ON YOUR CHEEK AND LOUDLY WASH MYSELF RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR EAR
Ah, don’t, don’t do that. I’m moving you, you little monster.
HAVE A MOIST KITTEN SNEEZE RIGHT IN YOUR FACE BECAUSE I LOVE YOU
(wiping face) I didn’t need that. Move. Now.
IMMA SCAMPER AROUND
Ok you do that. Go bug that other sleeping human next to me.
This confused me, then I realized attorney client privilege doesn’t apply to criminal behavior…
re: #153 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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I hope it dies.
Bummer…bounced back up a buck. I really want it to settle in the 20s for the weekend.
re: #158 darthstar
Bummer…bounced back up a buck. I really want it to settle in the 20s for the weekend.
Investors are playing a long game with this very high-profile stock
re: #157 GlutenFreeJesus
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I usually get image size exceeds maximum…is it an image you copied from the web? It could be a .webp file.
re: #158 darthstar
Bummer…bounced back up a buck. I really want it to settle in the 20s for the weekend.
There’s still plenty of day left.
re: #161 darthstar
Photos taken with phone.
re: #156 darthstar
This confused me, then I realized attorney client privilege doesn’t apply to criminal behavior…
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re: #161 darthstar
I usually get image size exceeds maximum…is it an image you copied from the web? It could be a .webp file.
Webp is now supported here.
re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Investors are playing a long game with this very high-profile stock
If you call buy at 10:00am and sell at 10:15am a long game.
re: #163 GlutenFreeJesus
Photos taken with phone.
Are you sure you’re holding your mouth right when you click the button?
re: #167 darthstar
Are you sure you’re holding your mouth right when you click the button?
When someone has a technical issue I’ll often open with that suggestion.
re: #10 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Is this a jury trial? Must be if it is a criminal case.
How likely is it that a Trumper may sit on the jury?
I suspect there’s at least a 90% chance of at least one Trumper makes it to the Jury.
If that is the case then Trump will walk.
And when he walks he will crow endlessly about it.
Now the trial itself will air dirty laundry and Trump will not like that, but all people will remember will be the verdict.
And that is why I, unlike so many, am not jumping for joy over these trials.
Avoiding any efforts to hold him accountable because of potential jury nullification and resulting Truth Social posts is certainly a take.
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
My other thought is this: What can Trump do on Monday to mess up this trial?
Jury selection is going to be tricky for sure.
What cards can Trump play to gum up the jury selection?
Last time I showed up to Jury duty was… yesterday.
The forced-watch of half an hour of videos on the jury process was torture… but it did drive home to me that judges bend over backwards to make sure at least to keep an appearance of an impartial jury?
What if Trump (his attorneys) claim that anyone who is aware of Trump’s public legal issues are inherently biased and are not fit for the jury in this case?
The Judge will tell them to fuck off.
Nobody could have predicted this marriage between two middle age attention whores wouldn’t last…
re: #171 darthstar
Nobody could have predicted this marriage between two middle age attention whores wouldn’t last…
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A good article from Masnick on the Meta F/U — LGF and Charles get noted.
The first thing you have to realize is that Mike’s is the most probable explanation: eg something like a heuristic automated site protection monitor (ala Akismet for Wordpress blogs) blocked these sites at the galactic level due to perceiving them as a threat but it’s unlikely that it was a flavor of moderation ai or bot.
Maybe some xss ‘sploit was in a Ad at the Kansas Reflector site, but who knows, and even when or if Meta explains we probably won’t know exactly what it was.
techdirt.com
B-B-B-B-Bob…..
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— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 12, 2024
MTG: I don’t trust the government, and neither should you.
Me: You’re in the fucking government and I don’t trust you or any of your MAGA cohorts precisely because you’re saboteurs, obstructionists, and goddamned Christian fascists who don’t care about personal liberty, freedom, or the US Constitution or the rule of law because you put party over all else and want to impose your fascist/autocratic impulses on everyone else to punish your enemies.
re: #175 lawhawk
If I could give you more than one upding I would.
re: #175 lawhawk
MTG: I don’t trust the government, and neither should you.
They will come to trust it once they have it fully in their grip and have imprisoned, neutralized and/or banished the opposition.
re: #158 darthstar
Bummer…bounced back up a buck. I really want it to settle in the 20s for the weekend.
There’s time. Don’t give up hope just yet.
re: #79 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Udio is fun… don’t know if it counts as “music”, but one can crank out all sorts of sonic treats with it.
This Dune fan wants to try “semuta music” for a prompt.
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re: #156 darthstar
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Being in a position in which you become a witness in your client’s trial is an attorney’s worst nightmare.
However, I’m personally aware of a federal criminal trial in which a defense attorney voluntarily called his firm’s partner to testify as to the actions of their firm’s in house investigator. This was done in an agreement with the AUSA, to forestall the AUSA from issuing a grand jury summons to the investigator
Pretty interesting transcript of Walt Nauta committing obstruction in real time.
re: #171 darthstar
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Three months. They were married for three months. And people wonder why I hate that show.
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Except none of these fuckers will ever be trusted enough by the person in power and will find themselves excommunicated or killed because they pose a threat - that’s how authoritarian regimes work.
re: #182 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Three months. They were married for three months. And people wonder why I hate that show.
It would be easy enough to just have a marriage ceremony on the show and have it NOT be legally binding.
re: #164 lawhawk
Crime fraud exception pierces the attorney client privilege, and it’s been used several times against Trump and his coconspirators in multiple criminal cases to date. Trump rails against this, even though it’s well established law that a lawyer cannot engage in crimes on behalf of their client, and then use the attorney-client privilege to cover up the crime.
because they committed crimes
and still he’s a front runner for the presidency
re: #171 darthstar
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i never heard of either one of em
re: #180 BeenHereAwhile
Being in a position in which you become a witness in your client’s trial is an attorney’s worst nightmare.
However, I’m personally aware of a federal criminal trial in which a defense attorney voluntarily called his firm’s partner to testify as to the actions of their firm’s in house investigator. This was done in an agreement with the AUSA, to forestall the AUSA from issuing a grand jury summons to the investigator
when your attorney’s attorneys need attorneys
re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg
It would be easy enough to just have a marriage ceremony on the show and have it NOT be legally binding.
I wonder what their prenup looked like…probably the legal equivalent of that.
re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you move in the wrong circles
Or the right ones.
re: #191 Belafon
Or the right ones.
I am aware of the existence of bachelor shows (one of the biggest in Germany is Bauer sucht Frau “Farmer Seeks Wife”) but I have never and probably never will ever watch one.
re: #81 Nerdy Fish
My starting strategy is designed to minimize whiffs. The double airball at the beginning, then, took me extremely by surprise - and severely limited my word choices.
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re: #93 Dangerman
“presidential candidate” is the wrong framing
anything he does in that context is the wrong framing
campaigning is merely the vehicle/technique/con he chose at this momenthe’s a grifter
every move is intended to make him money
he’s indicted
every move is intended to keep him out of jailits not about politics or policy or America or democracy, or…
Every move is designed to help him achieve the status of “dictator for life”. And the red states are all on board with that goal.
re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am aware of the existence of bachelor shows (one of the biggest in Germany is Bauer sucht Frau “Farmer Seeks Wife”) but I have never and probably never will ever watch one.
Frau Und Boden really gets the feel
re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg
It would be easy enough to just have a marriage ceremony on the show and have it NOT be legally binding.
Really. It’s television.
re: #194 Hecuba’s daughter
Every move is designed to help him achieve the status of “dictator for life”. And the red states are all on board with that goal.
He will be allowed to rule from Beyond the Grave through a Presidential Medium of his choice.
Morning at the Dark Tower:
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re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The Chinese are busy working on it as we speak…
The 2 human cases here — one in 2022, the other now — were both mild, when previous cases elsewhere were reported to have a mortality rate over 50%. Maybe it evolved to a variant that is less lethal to humans. Or, more likely, the sample size was too small to be meaningful.
re: #126 BlueSpotinAL ✅
The partisan stink will rub off on the whole Republican party, though.
Meaningless. Their goal is for a Trump dictatorship and the party is working diligently at accomplishing that goal.
re: #203 A Cranky One
another reason I do not keep cats.
re: #202 Dr. Matt
My knowledge of the stocks can fit on the back of a postage stamp. With that, why are there two different stocks related to TFG?
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Looks like one is on the Dow and the other in NASDAQ. What that means I can’t say.
re: #205 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Looks like one is on the Dow and the other in NASDAQ. What that means I can’t say.
One is a holding company so they can use creative accounting to confuddle and hide losses while inflating assets?
re: #199 A Cranky One
Now the truth comes out about Charles.
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Juke Joint Jezebels Unite!
I’m watching Star Trek S01E11 The Menagerie.
It has an early example of social engineering workers using voice synthesis to gain access to a computer system and upload a hostile program. Spock’s a hacker.
Leonard Leo proclaims he is above the law and will ignore the Senate subpoena.
re: #210 Joe Bacon ✅
Leonard Leo proclaims he is above the law and will ignore the Senate subpoena.
He’ll send regrets on his vintage Nazi stationary
re: #199 A Cranky One
Now the truth comes out about Charles.
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Soon, they’ll start teaching square dancing in schools again.
I mentioned the sudden layoffs yesterday. It seems that, a couple of weeks ago, the CEO of my company sold off nearly $10M in stock.
re: #174 Dave In Austin
B-B-B-B-Bob…..
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It’s on its way back up. Am only interested on its daily close price, not the mid-day volatility.
re: #202 Dr. Matt
My knowledge of stocks can fit on the back of a postage stamp. With that, why are there two different stocks related to TFG?
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Apparently DJTWW consists of warrants to buy DJT at a given price generally within a specific time frame. I think that means you pay the price of DJTWW plus whatever the specified stock price to get the DJT shares.
Disclaimer: no expert. Do not buy or sell anything based on my understanding of it.
re: #213 Belafon
I mentioned the sudden layoffs yesterday. It seems that, a couple of weeks ago, the CEO of my company sold off nearly $10M in stock.
re: #171 darthstar
Nobody could have predicted this marriage between two middle age attention whores wouldn’t last…
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Marriage between James Carville and Mary Matalin has lasted. Of course, they did know each other for years before marrying.
re: #213 Belafon
I mentioned the sudden layoffs yesterday. It seems that, a couple of weeks ago, the CEO of my company sold off nearly $10M in stock.
Remember the Enron bastards who unloaded all their stocks but forced employee pension plans to hold onto it until it had crashed.
This is the sort of behavior that would get me to support the Death Penalty.
Jimmy Page and his skiffle group in 1957 - long before Led Zeppelin. 🎶’Mama Don’t Want To Skiffle Anymore’ pic.twitter.com/HW9TGrPIy6
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re: #220 gocart mozart
God Damn you, Rock ‘n’ Roll! You distracted Jimmy from curing cancer!!!
re: #210 Joe Bacon ✅
Leonard Leo proclaims he is above the law and will ignore the Senate subpoena.
Why wouldn’t he? He’s got the ultimate back stop if the Senate wanted to push the issue of compliance.
re: #199 A Cranky One
Now the truth comes out about Charles.
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what’s next? “drug use, graphic sexual depictions, white people clapping on the wrong beats during simulated rock concert”
re: #223 steve_davis
what’s next? “drug use, graphic sexual depictions, white people clapping on the wrong beats during simulated wrong rock concert”
People failing to attend church services on Sunday mornings
re: #210 Joe Bacon ✅
Leonard Leo proclaims he is above the law and will ignore the Senate subpoena.
The Founders didn’t build our institutions to deal with a confederacy of pimps.
re: #226 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Thank you
re: #194 Hecuba’s daughter
Every move is designed to help him achieve the status of “dictator for life”. And the red states are all on board with that goal.
We may be quibbling.
His goal is money
His current means to achieve is dictator
If he saw his way to more money without the politics angle, he would take that route instead
House passed FISA 702. Quicker than expected.
Guess who this week slams Trump for flip-flopping on abortion by saying it should be left to the states. “President Trump’s retreat on the Right to Life is a slap in the face to the millions of pro-life Americans who voted for him in 2016 and 2020..”
Mike pence
re: #229 Dangerman
We may be quibbling.
His goal is money
His current means to achieve is dictator
If he saw his way to more money without the politics angle, he would take that route instead
Money or power? Being the center of attention? He’s had a real taste of it and wants more. Yes — he also wants to avoid prison. But his whole life he craved fame, instead of just sitting in the back and accumulating money like his father. Being president makes you the central focus of the whole nation. And if the March 17 tweet by Marty Taylor is accurate, he has long aspired to become America’s Hitler.
re: #231 Dangerman
Guess who this week slams Trump for flip-flopping on abortion by saying it should be left to the states. “President Trump’s retreat on the Right to Life is a slap in the face to the millions of pro-life Americans who voted for him in 2016 and 2020..”
Necktie-Party Mike has good reason to want to make Trump look like an opportunist asshole.
Not true. I wouldn’t sell Bibles https://t.co/vFczDwRe3E
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) April 12, 2024
re: #232 Hecuba’s daughter
And if the March 17 tweet by Marty Taylor is accurate, he has long aspired to become America’s Hitler.
That was known about him years ago.
re: #234 Dangerman
What two consenting adults do for fun in private and at their own expense is really nobody’s business.
The upcoming trial has little to do with that, merely with the manner in which the payments for her services (and silence about them) were rendered.
Surprise! https://t.co/hLoFOYHIjX
— Erik Halvorsen (@erikhalvorsen18) April 12, 2024
re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What two consenting adults do for fun in private and at their own expense is really nobody’s business.
The upcoming trial has little to do with that, merely with the manner in which the payments for her services (and silence about them) were rendered.
She wasn’t selling
He bought her off
re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What two consenting adults do for fun in private and at their own expense is really nobody’s business.
The upcoming trial has little to do with that, merely with the manner in which the payments for her services (and silence about them) were rendered.
That’s a good trial defense argument in terms of method, means, and opportunity - as Trump has no shame. But such testimony by witnesses under oath published in major media could tip a non MAGA Trump supporter into reconsidering their vote.
re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People failing to attend church services on Sunday mornings
Eating from the taco truck.
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