I want to see this wrap up asap so we can start referring to “Convicted Criminal Donald J Trump”
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I want to see this wrap up asap so we can start referring to “Convicted Criminal Donald J Trump”
If the state did its job right, that’s “Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump.”
re: #2 Nerdy Fish
Granted, we will have to hang an asterisk on it for a while as it will be immediately repealed (on the grounds that DJT was not satisfied with the outcome)
I just want to see the asshole in a cell ASAP.
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re: #225 BigPapa
I wonder if the cannibal’s palette would prefer a bodybuilder or a Meal Team 6 Chump cultist. Or do all assholes taste like shit?
The noted Republican cannibal Alfred Packer dined exclusively on scrawny Hinsdale County Democrats. This was the only fare available, though, so his preferences would be of little value in a potential marketing analysis.
At Packer’s trial the judge was reported to have said:
Stand up yah voracious man-eatin’ sonofabitch and receive yir sintince. When yah came to Hinsdale County, there was siven Dimmycrats. But you, yah et five of ‘em, goddam yah. I sintince yah t’ be hanged by th’ neck ontil yer dead, dead, dead, as a warnin’ ag’in reducin’ th’ Dimmycratic populayshun of this county. Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would sintince ya ta hell but the statutes forbid it.
Alas, this story is apprently apochryphal but it’s a fact that there are still very few Democrats in Hinsdale County Colorado.
Turned on the teevee box just in time to see Katy Tur freaking out at Michael Steele because he dared to criticize media coverage of Trump.
These are the most thin-skinned, egotistical people I’ve ever seen.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-14T18:01:56.000Z
Welp this is a new one. TEH JUICE DID JANUARY 6!!!!1!!1!11!!!1
re: #8 darthstar
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Wow, this Todd Blanche sounds like a real Trump lawyer. Thin-skinned and borderline incompetent.
There are train tracks about 1 1/2 blocks from our house. It’s a line that connects two different lines.
Since there are no guard rails/flashing lights lights for most the of intersections through the residential neighborhoods, the trains are required to sound their horn for each intersection (every block).
After floods of complaints about the trains late at night, they are only allowed to send traffic between the main lines during the day.
Today is busy. Been listening to the train horns non-stop for hours.
I appreciate the rail for reducing the traffic on the roads and helping the ecology.
But damn, I’m getting tried of the train horns all afternoon.
Of course, I’m cranky (surprise), but seriously…
*SIGH*
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re: #6 Charles Johnson
Which is why I refer to her as Katy Turd.
re: #9 Nerdy Fish
Wow, this Todd Blanche sounds like a real Trump lawyer. Thin-skinned and borderline incompetent.
A REAL Trump lawyer is entirely incompetent. Borderline incompetent is also borderline competent, and someone like that might tell Trump the truth.
It’s so weird how Trump’s lawyers and followers always act shocked when someone says anything negative about Trump.
The guy is a fucking racist, a gross misogynist, and a wretched grifting con man. But we’re apparently not supposed to notice.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-14T18:29:16.000Z
NPR’s “Here and Now” program currently has two female presenters on, one from Politifact, vigorously both-sidesing abortion policy statements from Trump and Biden. Un fucking believable.
re: #9 Nerdy Fish
Wow, this Todd Blanche sounds like a real Trump lawyer. Thin-skinned and borderline incompetent.
I’m guessing Blanche was put up to do this by Trump, because he had to know that there’s nothing good that comes from this. They got roasted by Daniels on cross, and Cohen is of a similar mind to clap back. I’m just waiting for Cohen to remind everyone that Trump was the unindicted coconspirator on at least one of the crimes for which Cohen went to prison.
re: #11 Vicious Babushka
*SIGH*
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re: #12 Joe Bacon ✅
Which is why I refer to her as Katy Turd.
The main thing I know about her is that her mother bodied tiny Ben Shapiro for being a transphobe.
Which baffles me because Trump represents a lethal threat to her family, personally. I continue to marvel at how terribly the media is meeting this moment.
re: #11 Vicious Babushka
*SIGH*
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re: #14 Charles Johnson
If you want to only go by the legal system, he’s an adjudicated rapist, whose business was found guilty of criminal acts, whose personal actions resulted in a half billion dollar fraud judgement, who is barred from running a charity because he stole money from it.
Gosh, how can anyone talk down to him? He was the PRESIDENT!!!
re: #16 lawhawk
I’m guessing Blanche was put up to do this by Trump, because he had to know that there’s nothing good that comes from this. They got roasted by Daniels on cross, and Cohen is of a similar mind to clap back. I’m just waiting for Cohen to remind everyone that Trump was the unindicted coconspirator on at least one of the crimes for which Cohen went to prison.
Roasted on the cross. Sounds good.
re: #20 Unabogie
If you want to only go by the legal system, he’s an adjudicated rapist, whose business was found guilty of criminal acts, whose personal actions resulted in a half billion dollar fraud judgement, who is barred from running a charity because he stole money from it.
Gosh, how can anyone talk down to him? He was the PRESIDENT!!!
And Jay-Zuss forgives all his transgressions since he killed Roe and saved all those babies…
re: #16 lawhawk
I’m guessing Blanche was put up to do this by Trump, because he had to know that there’s nothing good that comes from this. They got roasted by Daniels on cross, and Cohen is of a similar mind to clap back. I’m just waiting for Cohen to remind everyone that Trump was the unindicted coconspirator on at least one of the crimes for which Cohen went to prison.
This. It’s been a standard carp from Trump’s defenders that Michael Cohen should not have much/any credibility because he is a convicted felon/liar: it never seems to occur to them to consider just WHY Cohen was convicted and jailed…
Fire Onehttps://t.co/Gln7tdB707
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 14, 2024
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Posted that in the last thread. They way she went after him she knows she is guilty
re: #20 Unabogie
If you want to only go by the legal system, he’s an adjudicated rapist, whose business was found guilty of criminal acts, whose personal actions resulted in a half billion dollar fraud judgement, who is barred from running a charity because he stole money from it.
Gosh, how can anyone talk down to him? He was the PRESIDENT!!!
They’re authoritarians. If the leader does it, it’s good. Fraud, rape, and stealing from kids with cancer are now Republican values. Some of them are even wearing diapers because the leader is now decrepit.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
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Necheles did the same shit when questioning Daniels, bringing in tweets and quotes from interviews slagging Trump. The impression the jury is supposed to take away from this is that those witnesses most vocally opposed to Trump are motivated by hatred of him, so you should view anything they have to say about him with skepticism. Note that they never tried this shit with Hicks or any of the others who broke down into tears because they’d “betrayed” their God-Emperor.
re: #27 Targetpractice
It backfired spectacularly on Necheles for that, which is why Blanche is trying the same stunt with Cohen.
It is a strategy, but not a particularly good one when you’ve got someone who is somewhat quick on their feet, and knows Trump better than most. What better way to remind everyone of how criminal Trump is by reminding everyone that he lied and perjured himself and engaged in criminal conduct by and for… Trump.
re: #23 Jay C
This. It’s been a standard carp from Trump’s defenders that Michael Cohen should not have much/any credibility because he is a convicted felon/liar: it never seems to occur to them to consider just WHY Cohen was convicted and jailed…
Found myself stuck in the room the other day with my Faux-watching dad while they were discussing Cohen and he repeated the MAGAt line that Cohen’s a convicted perjurer that nobody should believe. I pointed out that he was convicted…for lying for Trump. And apparently the follow-up to “Cohen’s a liar” is now “He lied for a lot of people!”
*rubs eyes*
At NPR… “I and a couple of other editorial leaders were encouraged to make sure that any coverage of a Trump lie was matched with a story about a lie from Hillary Clinton. Another colleague asked what to do if one candidate just lied more than the other.”
https://slate.com/business/2024/04/npr-diversity-public-broadcasting-radio.html
“…And that’s what the core editorial problem at NPR is and, frankly, has long been: an abundance of caution that often crossed the border to cowardice. NPR culture encouraged an editorial fixation on finding the exact middle point of the elite political and social thought, planting a flag there, and calling it objectivity. That would more than explain the lack of follow-up on Hunter Biden’s laptop and the lab-leak theory, going full white guilt after George Floyd’s murder, and shifting to indignant white impatience with racial justice now.”
re: #26 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Some of them are even wearing diapers because the leader is now decrepit.
How can true believers prove the diaper wearing is sincere and not ironic?
re: #31 jaunte
How can true believers prove the diaper wearing is sincere and not ironic?
When Goldfarter’s True Disciples take a dump in them to prove their loyalty to Gawd’s Anointed King.
re: #31 jaunte
How can true believers prove the diaper wearing is sincere and not ironic?
You can tell by the smell.
re: #33 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
You can tell by the smell.
Really true believers should spend enough time with him they get inured to the smell.
re: #33 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
“What smell?”
re: #34 aatharuv
Really true believers should spend enough time with him they get inured to the smell.
Yeah…just like Ted Nugent…
“Ladies and gentlemen, this case hinges on the word of a known liar, Michael Cohen, who has every motive to lie about President Trump, a man he hates with a fiery passion”
That’s the play they’re running. This is all in service of “see how much he hates him! Tell me he wouldn’t lie to hurt him”
— AkivaMCohen (@akivamcohen.bsky.social) 2024-05-14T18:49:59.099Z
It’s not the world’s best play given all the other evidence, but they just need to convince one juror it’s a basis for reasonable doubt
— AkivaMCohen (@akivamcohen.bsky.social) 2024-05-14T18:51:09.225Z
Cohen: That’s 1 item.
Trump’s lawyer Blanche: We offer this into evidence: a $32 t-shirt with President Trump in jail?
Cohen: Yes
Blanche: And the coffee cup, Send Him To The Big House Not the White House - so it’s not just the tshirt?
Justice Merchan: Sustained.— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) May 14, 2024
Blanche wants to show that Cohen is trying to make money off his relationship with Trump, which is in tatters thanks to going to prison on Trump’s behalf.
This is tangential to the case in chief by prosecutors, and isn’t getting at Cohen’s veracity or perjury, because Cohen’s testimony today isn’t giving Blanche the stuff he needs.
Rather, Cohen’s reminding everyone that he worked for Trump, did stuff for Trump, and lied for Trump.
People who work for criminals are often criminals themselves, and putting them on the stand will not be cut and dried and perfect witnesses with perfect memories and a clean background.
Blanche isn’t doing a very good job here.
re: #39 lawhawk
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Blanche wants to show that Cohen is trying to make money off his relationship with Trump, which is in tatters thanks to going to prison on Trump’s behalf.
This is tangential to the case in chief by prosecutors, and isn’t getting at Cohen’s veracity or perjury, because Cohen’s testimony today isn’t giving Blanche the stuff he needs.
Rather, Cohen’s reminding everyone that he worked for Trump, did stuff for Trump, and lied for Trump.
People who work for criminals are often criminals themselves, and putting them on the stand will not be cut and dried and perfect witnesses with perfect memories and a clean background.
Blanche isn’t doing a very good job here.
It was the excuse used to choose to not prosecute child sex trafficker Matt Gaetz, so it was worth a try.
re: #38 Nerdy Fish
They’re praying that there’s a single juror willing to buy into the baffling BS Trump is spewing about the case, because there’s overwhelming evidence of Trump’s guilt on the evidence notwithstanding Cohen’s credibility. Cohen’s credibility is actually pretty good in this respect. He perjured himself to protect Trump. He says as much. He lied to Trump’s benefit, and on his behalf. Prosecutors have repeatedly shown how people around Trump lie and commit crimes to advance Trump wrongdoing.
re: #39 lawhawk
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Blanche wants to show that Cohen is trying to make money off his relationship with Trump, which is in tatters thanks to going to prison on Trump’s behalf.
This is tangential to the case in chief by prosecutors, and isn’t getting at Cohen’s veracity or perjury, because Cohen’s testimony today isn’t giving Blanche the stuff he needs.
Rather, Cohen’s reminding everyone that he worked for Trump, did stuff for Trump, and lied for Trump.
People who work for criminals are often criminals themselves, and putting them on the stand will not be cut and dried and perfect witnesses with perfect memories and a clean background.
Blanche isn’t doing a very good job here.
It’s a mob lawyer tactic, painting the prosecution’s witness as a lying crook who’s got a beef with the defendant and would do anything and everything including lying on the stand to settle said beef.
Comer & Combover is the new Dumb & Dumber pic.twitter.com/XTSU4FE3Jv
— Edwin Mix (@EdMix13) May 14, 2024
Sawing logs again. Don Snoreleone pic.twitter.com/gqSrg5X0Of
— colette flanigan (@FlaniganColette) May 14, 2024
re: #44 lawhawk
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Blanche is putting on a show at the behest of his client, and his client isn’t even paying attention. Sad.
re: #45 Nerdy Fish
He’ll just catch the highlights on Fox News later.
It will be a tough transition, from sawing logs to breaking rocks.
re: #42 Targetpractice
It’s a mob lawyer tactic, painting the prosecution’s witness as a lying crook who’s got a beef with the defendant and would do anything and everything including lying on the stand to settle said beef.
It’s about the only play they have, because they sure as hell can’t put Trump on the stand; that would seal a guilty verdict, and could result in perjury charges.
We have reached the part of the story where people are doing the opposite of what the CDC recommendations specifically out of spite. Even for shit like raw milk which they have probably never consumed before in their lives.
“Since March 25, when the bird flu virus was confirmed in U.S. cattle for the first time, weekly sales of raw cow’s milk have ticked up 21% to as much as 65% compared with the same periods a year ago”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/raw-milk-sales-spike-despite-cdcs-warnings-of-risk-associated-with-bird-flu
Sec. of State Antony Blinken joins a band in Kyiv to perform Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.” pic.twitter.com/N8Ia2KdHgc
— The Recount (@therecount) May 14, 2024
re: #50 jaunte
They’re trying to prove that experts know nothing and they’re the real smart people. They’ll prove it to themselves too, via survivorship bias.
re: #50 jaunte
Suicidal cults.
re: #39 lawhawk
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Blanche wants to show that Cohen is trying to make money off his relationship with Trump, which is in tatters thanks to going to prison on Trump’s behalf.
This is tangential to the case in chief by prosecutors, and isn’t getting at Cohen’s veracity or perjury, because Cohen’s testimony today isn’t giving Blanche the stuff he needs.
Rather, Cohen’s reminding everyone that he worked for Trump, did stuff for Trump, and lied for Trump.
People who work for criminals are often criminals themselves, and putting them on the stand will not be cut and dried and perfect witnesses with perfect memories and a clean background.
Blanche isn’t doing a very good job here.
A jury found “Sammy the Bull” Gravano (confessed to 19 murders) credible.
Maybe this jury will believe Michael Cohen.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I want to see this wrap up asap so we can start referring to “Convicted Criminal Donald J Trump”
You’d think by now “rapist” might have caught on
Gee, I wonder why?
Arizona prosecutors haven’t been able to serve Rudy Giuliani his indictment
Nearly three weeks ago, the former New York mayor was charged in Arizona in connection with actions he allegedly took after the 2020 presidential election to try to reverse Donald Trump’s loss in the state. Two state attorney general agents traveled to New York to hand-deliver a summons to Giuliani but weren’t able to get past a doorman. Other attempts have also failed. If Giuliani doesn’t appear in court on May 21, he could be held in contempt.
re: #11 Vicious Babushka
*SIGH*
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Anti-abortion extremist Lauren Handy gets nearly 5 years for leading invasion of reproductive health clinic.
— Daily Kos (@dailykos.bsky.social) 2024-05-14T19:28:34.846Z
re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅
He’s about to learn, evading service doesn’t make the indictments go away. It makes the process servers get more… creative with their efforts.
re: #60 Nerdy Fish
He’s about to learn, evading service doesn’t make the indictments go away. It makes the process servers get more… creative with their efforts.
If someone like Rudy can do it, people with money must easily be able to place a doorman between themselves and a process server. Is there no process to force a doorman to allow entry?
re: #11 Vicious Babushka
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We found the cop who let the January 6ers in that back door.
— Joe’s belly (@Joes_Belly) May 14, 2024
A personal note:
Mrs. Wimpo was atop a stepladder, futzing around with a plant on a high shelf, tried to step down with the potted plant in her hands, and …
… missed the step.
Fractured the femur right at the “neck” (apparently an anatomical term of art) and required surgery to stick in a metal plate & some screws. I’ve been told that “at least it wasn’t a spiral fracture,” but damn, I know the femur is basically the biggest/strongest bone in the damn body.
So if anyone has any tips or tricks to make the rehab process easier, well, all would be much appreciated at this juncture, eh?
The truth is out there, Sheeple!
If you’ve been paying any attention to the latest conspiracy theories floating out there on that pit of slime known as “social media’, you’d have known that the recent auroras in our night skies were not the work of impossibly powerful coronal mass ejections from the Sun but the work of HAARP, the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program run by the University of Alaska. After issuing a notice that UofA would be testing HAARP May 8-10, our bestest and brightest out there in dumbshit land decided that this was the reason for the lights. Oh, and chemtrails, as well. You know it must be true since one of these poindexters decided that the green dust left on her garden table could only have come from the aurora.
And you wonder why so many people decided Covid vaccinations were harmful so they decided to ingest horse paste, instead. And then get the repugs in state legislatures to ban vaccinations of any sort.
re: #58 Randall Gross
5 years isn’t enough for that thug.
re: #60 Nerdy Fish
He’s about to learn, evading service doesn’t make the indictments go away. It makes the process servers get more… creative with their efforts.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I want to see this wrap up asap so we can start referring to “Convicted Criminal Donald J Trump”
I wouldn’t count my convicts before they’re judged “Guilty”.
re: #62 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
If someone like Rudy can do it, people with money must easily be able to place a doorman between themselves and a process server. Is there no process to force a doorman to allow entry?
IIRC, Ken Paxton avoided service for months on some lawsuit or other before a brave (and/or foolish) server was able to gain access to his wife at their home and get her to accept the documents.
re: #50 jaunte
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
We have reached the part of the story where people are doing the opposite of what the CDC recommendations specifically out of spite. Even for shit like raw milk which they have probably never consumed before in their lives.
@paleofuture.bsky.social
“Since March 25, when the bird flu virus was confirmed in U.S. cattle for the first time, weekly sales of raw cow’s milk have ticked up 21% to as much as 65% compared with the same periods a year ago”
Possibly relevant:
re: #73 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I agree but I don’t think he actually said that.
re: #74 PhillyPretzel ✅
I agree but I don’t think he actually said that.
Probably didn’t wear shades either.
re: #61 Dangerman
Lgf relay drivers road trip!
re: #63 HRH Stanley Sea
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re: #65 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
A personal note:
Mrs. Wimpo was atop a stepladder, futzing around with a plant on a high shelf, tried to step down with the potted plant in her hands, and …
… missed the step.
Fractured the femur right at the “neck” (apparently an anatomical term of art) and required surgery to stick in a metal plate & some screws. I’ve been told that “at least it wasn’t a spiral fracture,” but damn, I know the femur is basically the biggest/strongest bone in the damn body.
So if anyone has any tips or tricks to make the rehab process easier, well, all would be much appreciated at this juncture, eh?
Bummer, bummer, bummer!
Not much one (well, the healthy one) can really do, outside of*:
1. Be helpful (i.e. do all the shlepping/hauling/housework, cooking, etc.)
2. Be sympathetic (i.e. never complain about point 1)
3. Be pro-active (i.e. making sure she makes rehab appointments, etc.: otherwise see point 2)
Best wishes and good thoughts for a problem-free recovery!
* wisdom gained from unfortunate experience with my spouse
re: #74 PhillyPretzel ✅
I agree but I don’t think he actually said that.
Probably just difficulties in the translation
Washington Post counts 30,573 false or misleading claims in four years by Trump
thehill.com
So of course his defense comes down to calling someone else a liar.
re: #77 Jay C
Bummer, bummer, bummer!
Not much one (well, the healthy one) can really do, outside of*:
1. Be helpful (i.e. do all the shlepping/hauling/housework, cooking, etc.)
2. Be sympathetic (i.e. never complain about point 1)
3. Be pro-active (i.e. making sure she makes rehab appointments, etc.: otherwise see point 2)Best wishes and good thoughts for a problem-free recovery!
* wisdom gained from unfortunate experience with my spouse
all of that plus bourbon.
- and two glasses.
re: #27 Targetpractice
Why would anyone hate ‘America’s favorite president’???
“When The Washington Post Fact Checker team first started cataloguing President Donald Trump’s false or misleading claims, we recorded 492 suspect claims in the first 100 days of his presidency. On Nov. 2 alone, the day before the 2020 vote, Trump made 503 false or misleading claims as he barnstormed across the country in a desperate effort to win reelection.”
Looks like we’re likely to get another great TV series based on a video game.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ‘Tomb Raider’ Series Scores Amazon Pickup
The Tomb Raider TV series is moving forward at Amazon.
A year and change after The Hollywood Reporter exclusively revealed Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge was writing and producing an adaptation of the popular video game turned action movie Tomb Raider, the retail giant/streamer has handed out a series order for the live-action series. A worldwide casting search will begin soon for an actress to play Lara Croft in the series from Legendary Television.
The surprise announcement was made Tuesday during Amazon’s first trip to woo Madison Avenue ad buyers at TV’s upfront week in New York, with the news arriving after another video game adaptation, Fallout, has become a breakout hit for the service.
Waller-Bridge is writing the scripts for Tomb Raider. The Fleabag grad does not plan to star in the TV adaptation of the property, which spawned 2001 and 2018 film adaptations starring Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander, respectively, as the adventurous archaeologist. The Lara Croft character, who has not yet been cast for Amazon, was also voiced by actresses including Camilla Luddington, Keeley Hawes and Minnie Driver in a slew of video game titles. Hayley Atwell also brought the character to life in a Netflix anime series.
In order to support Trump, his voters must lie to themselves. Truly the cult of the Big Lie.
One telling statement on the liveblogs of the cross of Michael Cohen is that the jurors are laughing at some of his answers in sympathy with Cohen, such as when he responded to the question, “You want to see Donald Trump in jail?” with “Yes.”
Jurors laughing at prospect of client jailed = bad.
re: #7 Vicious Babushka
Welp this is a new one. TEH JUICE DID JANUARY 6!!!!1!!1!11!!!1
Guided by Rothschild Space Lasers
re: #79 jaunte
Washington Post counts 30,573 false or misleading claims in four years by Trump
thehill.com
…
which is why this behavior
re: #30 jaunte
…encouraged to make sure that any coverage of a Trump lie was matched with a story about a lie from Hillary Clinton
was lazy and idiotic.
it was not reporting or even merely observing.
it was creating the narrative that clinton lied as much as tfg
we all know the quote about sticking your head out the window to see if it’s raining
if someone exhibits aberrant behavior, you don’t measure the other party by using the same standard
re: #58 Randall Gross
That would be the FO stage…
re: #88 Dangerman
which is why this behavior
was lazy and idiotic.
it was not reporting or even merely observing.it was creating the narrative that clinton lied as much as tfg
we all know the quote about sticking your head out the window to see if it’s raining
if someone exhibits aberrant behavior, you don’t measure the other party by using the same standard
Yesterday, I learned that the AP is no better.
re: #49 Shropshire Slasher
I’m a 7th generation Floridian!
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White, so it’s a taser rather than 17 rounds of 9mm and a lie that the driver shot first and a body camera that suddenly “didn’t work”.
ACAB.
re: #90 wrenchwench
Yesterday, I learned that the AP is no better.
all news is compromise
all news is judgement
and
conventional ‘news’ took a turn some time back - 20, 30, 40 years?
- instead of reporting, observing and opining (which is fine)
- it/they became an integral part of the process of creating news
- it was a slow evolution and now there’s no going back.
- because there’s no self awareness that it’s even occurring. they’re actively doing it
re: #85 jaunte
This is starting to sound very much like a jury that is going to deliberate for just long enough to get their free lunch at a New York deli prior to rendering a guilty verdict. I don’t want to speak too soon, because there could still be a crazy person on the jury, but it bodes ill for the tangerine wankmaggot.
re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅
Gee, I wonder why?
Arizona prosecutors haven’t been able to serve Rudy Giuliani his indictmentNearly three weeks ago, the former New York mayor was charged in Arizona in connection with actions he allegedly took after the 2020 presidential election to try to reverse Donald Trump’s loss in the state. Two state attorney general agents traveled to New York to hand-deliver a summons to Giuliani but weren’t able to get past a doorman. Other attempts have also failed. If Giuliani doesn’t appear in court on May 21, he could be held in contempt.
If a warrant is issued - in terms of comfort level - would be far better for Giuliani to appear at arraignment than to be subject to state transport.
re: #62 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
If someone like Rudy can do it, people with money must easily be able to place a doorman between themselves and a process server. Is there no process to force a doorman to allow entry?
An arrest warrant
re: #11 Vicious Babushka
*SIGH*
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The cross examination of Cohen may be done by the end of Thursday. This case could go to the jury next week, unless the defense calls a bunch of witnesses.
re: #95 Nerdy Fish
This is starting to sound very much like a jury that is going to deliberate for just long enough to get their free lunch at a New York deli prior to rendering a guilty verdict. I don’t want to speak too soon, because there could still be a crazy person on the jury, but it bodes ill for the tangerine wankmaggot.
i know we’ve said this before:
a stealth mole cant just sit there arms folded, say no way no how and monkey wrench the works.
they have to participate
present arguments in support for their position
in good faith
you know, in accordance with the oath they took
“The Raw Milk Institute called the warnings “clearly fearmongering.” The institute’s founder told the LATimes his customers are specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows.”
This is an example of how minimizing COVID is destructive to public health far beyond COVID.
— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.bsky.social) 2024-05-14T20:12:07.304Z
re: #51 gocart mozart
You might want to think about only singing the chorus of that one, Mr Secretary… that one’s even worse than “Born In The USA” for not actually saying what people think it’s saying…
re: #11 Vicious Babushka
*SIGH*
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Just realized that it’s almost halfway thru May and I haven’t plugged my air conditioner in.
I usually plugged it in by the last week of April.
Also it’s been windier than usual when I walk to the gym in the afternoon!
re: #92 Dangerman
all news is compromise
all news is judgement
and
conventional ‘news’ took a turn some time back - 20, 30, 40 years?- instead of reporting, observing and opining (which is fine)
- it/they became an integral part of the process of creating news
- it was a slow evolution and now there’s no going back.
- because there’s no self awareness thatit’s even occurring.they’re actively doing it
Don’t think it’s new. Just reverting to the past. Let’s not forget that the Hearst newspapers instigated the Spanish American war when yellow journalism ruled the day in the 1890’s. Media was very partisan during the 19th Century.
Here’s a discussion on the topic: ethics.journalism.wisc.edu Unfortunately the article was written in 2011 before the explosion of social media and its impact on political engagement and the consolidation or outright elimination of so many newspapers.
re: #99 William Lewis
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Cross-examination of Michael Cohen has ended for the day. At one point, Cohen was asked if he called Trump a ‘Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain” and he admitted he had. Full recap of today …https://t.co/cVzoUSMXvI
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 14, 2024
Hahahahahahahaha.
re: #109 Eclectic Cyborg
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Hahahahahahahaha.
these stories are all cute and quaint and stuff
but there was none like “defense destroys prosecution’s case…, here’s the real evidence, etc”
the defense got nuthin’
For several minutes, Trump appeared to be sleeping in his seat as Blanche continued to conduct his cross-examination of Cohen. Trump was motionless, his head hanging down.His lawyer Susan Necheles, who sat two seats away from him with an empty seat between them, appeared to attempt — unsuccessfully — to get his attention. Failing to do so, she moved into the empty seat between them, at which point Trump appeared to awaken.
Necheles then whispered in Trump’s ear before moving back to her original seat.
he was not ‘thinking’ or ‘processing’
he was sleeping
odd way to ‘participate’ in your defense by not even listening to the people testifying about what you said and did
re: #110 Dangerman
these stories are all cute and quaint and stuff
but there was none like “defense destroys prosecution’s case…, here’s the real evidence, etc”
the defense got nuthin’
Their only hope is to convince everyone that Trump is a doe in the woods and everyone else is running his business for him. And that everyone is lying but him.
re: #112 Unabogie
Their only hope is to convince everyone that Trump is a doe in the woods and everyone else is running his business for him. And that
everyone isall his hand picked people are lying but him.
yeah
i’d want that guy as president
totally manipulable
and what judgement in hiring. surround yourself with experts!
re: #113 Dangerman
yeah
i’d want that guy as president
totally manipulable
and what judgement in hiring. surround yourself with experts!
“Only the best people.”
re: #103 goddamnedfrank
new meaning to “thinning the herd”
re: #112 Unabogie
Their only hope is to convince everyone that Trump is a doe in the woods and everyone else is running his business for him. And that everyone is lying but him.
the defense seems to be “yeah, he did it, fuck you, what are you going to do about it? nothing, that’s what, fuck you.”
“In the last several days of courtroom drama, Trump has been accompanied by an entourage of prominent Republican lawmakers eager to be seen offering their public support to the indicted former president. Not only is their presence an act of theatrical solidarity, they have been acting as mouthpieces for Trump, who remains bound by a gag order barring him from attacking witnesses, jurors, court staff, prosecutors, and the families of those involved in the case.”“On Tuesday, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, addressed reporters gathered outside of court and repeated attacks against witnesses and the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who has led a Democratic consulting firm, that have previously landed Trump in hot water.”
“Johnson was not the only one of Trump’s guests to target Merchan’s daughter.”
im having a hard time accepting that each member of this ‘entourage’ came to the same conclusion independently and just had to do a press op or tweet out their indignation about only this one NY judge’s daughter.
it boggles.
re: #110 Dangerman
these stories are all cute and quaint and stuff
but there was none like “defense destroys prosecution’s case…, here’s the real evidence, etc”
the defense got nuthin’
They are still in the establishing “You hate Trump and you are a liar who would do anything to help yourself” phase. If they don’t get into actual details on Thursday then they are in trouble.
re: #116 KGxvi
the defense seems to be “yeah, he did it, fuck you, what are you going to do about it? nothing, that’s what, fuck you.”
IIRC, the defense strategy - dictated by Trump himself, mind you - is along the lines of, “Ignore whether or not he did it, this is a partisan witch hunt being brought by people who have sour grapes about how bigly he won the 2020 election.”
has the defense produced a witness list yet? I’m legitimately curious who they will be calling to testify later this week.
re: #117 Dangerman
im having a hard time accepting that each member of this ‘entourage’ came to the same conclusion independently and just had to do a press op or tweet out their indignation about only this one NY judge’s daughter.
it boggles.
so quick question apropos of the above discussion re: ‘the news’
can this be reported on even when there’s zero ‘counter’ examples of Biden or any democrat trashing a judge or a witness (not just this trial, any trial) to ‘match’ with it?
re: #120 KGxvi
has the defense produced a witness list yet? I’m legitimately curious who they will be calling to testify later this week.
i read (i’;ll have to find it) they plan to call one witness
some kind of ‘expert’
but it didnt say who or what that person was ‘expert’ in.
re: #122 Dangerman
i read (i’;ll have to find it) they plan to call one witness
some kind of ‘expert’
but it didnt say who or what that person was ‘expert’ in.
Watch it be Jonathan Turley or some shit.
re: #122 Dangerman
i read (i’;ll have to find it) they plan to call one witness
some kind of ‘expert’
but it didnt say who or what that person was ‘expert’ in.
This oughtta be good, because you know whoever it is was approved by Trump, which means a clown moment is approaching.
re: #121 Dangerman
so quick question apropos of the above discussion re: ‘the news’
can this be reported on even when there’s zero ‘counter’ examples of Biden or any democrat trashing a judge or a witness (not just this trial, any trial) to ‘match’ with it?
Something something Menendez
re: #121 Dangerman
so quick question apropos of the above discussion re: ‘the news’
can this be reported on even when there’s zero ‘counter’ examples of Biden or any democrat trashing a judge or a witness (not just this trial, any trial) to ‘match’ with it?
Does Judge Cannon count?
re: #126 danarchy
D?oes Judge Cannon count?
she might know how
i wouldnt assume
she got everything else wrong
Dr. Stabby Calls For Overturning No-Fault Divorce Laws
It’s all about removing the agency of women. They will not be allowed to control their bodies or their marriages. Some are even discussing repealing thwe 19th Amendment giving women the vote.Just amazing.
re: #128 silverdolphin
Hopefully women would protest in massive numbers if the 19th was repealed.
re: #128 silverdolphin
Had to check on the 3/4 states thing.
What does it take to repeal a constitutional amendment?
The Constitution’s Article V requires that an amendment be proposed by two-thirds of the House and Senate, or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. It is up to the states to approve a new amendment, with three-quarters of the states voting to ratifying it.