Seth Meyers: NY AG’s Bombshell Lawsuit Accuses Trump of Staggering Fraud, Seeks $250M

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Seth takes a closer look at New York Attorney General Letitia James suing Trump over allegations of staggering fraud and a special master chastising Trump’s legal team during a hearing on the classified Mar-a-Lago documents.

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314 comments
1
austin_blue  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:41:53pm

Trumpworld is about to run into reality. When you have spent decades of Criming, you are going to spend decades in jail.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:43:50pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:44:14pm
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Dangerman  Sep 21, 2022 • 7:49:51pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

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As I said downstairs
They elected this…thing president
And want to do it again

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:09:08pm
Tom Hardy still does not have an Academy Award, but now he does have a gold medal from the 2022 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open Championship. The 45-year-old actor, famous for his roles in Inception, Mad Max: Fury Road, and the Venom franchise, took home the top prize at the UMAC Milton Keynes Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open on September 17.

Hardy competed as a “high-level blue belt” in the category of men 41-and-older. Per local paper the Milton Keynes Citizen, Hardy told one stunned opponent, “Just forget it’s me and do what you would normally do.”

In August, Hardy won another Jiu-Jitsu event-a competition in Wolverhampton for the REORG charity that he works with-where he defeated a 40-year-old fighter named Danny Appleton. Appleton told The Northern Echo, “He’s just a top guy-he’s very strong which surprised me and a very good fighter. But he’s probably the toughest competitor I’ve had — he certainly lived up to his Bane character, that’s for sure.” Hardy apparently has ties to North East England through his wife, actress Charlotte Riley, as well as one of his grandfathers.

gq.com

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:09:43pm

re: #4 Dangerman

As I said downstairs
They elected this…thing president
And want to do it again

He’s an expert in their field.

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Captain Ron  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:12:49pm

My next t-shirt.

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austin_blue  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:13:04pm

I remember, when I was sitting Nuclear Alert in the early 80’s, fully prepared to take off and sling Nuclear Devastation on the Godless commies, that I thought to myself “Hey! I’ve got a Top Secret/No Dissemination to Foreign Nationals/Emergency War Order clearance! I’ll just declassify it with my Big Brain and make a little Walking Around money by selling it to the Russkies!”

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Targetpractice  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:18:14pm

The reality that Trump is never going to allow to sink into his addled brain is that he made himself a target for these various criminal and civil troubles with his need to prove he was “better” than the black guy who made him feel bad that one night in 2011. In a reality where he chose to pass on running in 2016, nobody was interested enough in his finances to realize that the numbers he was telling the tax assessors bore no relation whatsoever to what he was telling the banks holding his numerous debts.

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:19:28pm
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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:25:42pm

My youngest son got an acceptance letter from Oklahoma State University. It’s the college he has liked the most of those we’ve gone to.

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:29:18pm

re: #72 Dangerman

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ckkatz  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:34:21pm

re: #11 Belafon

Stillwater is one of the prettiest parts of Oklahoma.

When I was at Artillery Officers Basic Course in Ft Sill, Oklahoma (decidedly not one of the prettier parts of Oklahoma), another attendee was a graduate of OSU. He had been born and raised in Oklahoma, went to college in Oklahoma and joined the Army so he could finally get out of Oklahoma.

In the infinite wisdom of the Army, he was assigned to the Field Artillery Branch and sent to the basic course in… Oklahoma.

At the end of the course the Army, after reviewing your requests for assignment, provides you with your next assignment.

In order to get out of Oklahoma, he requested Korea. Which at the time was considered a hellhole assignment. The Army, in its infinite wisdom assigned him to the new MLRS unit. Which was based in, yup… Ft Sill, Oklahoma.

I doubt that he ever made it out of Oklahoma.

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ckkatz  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:35:52pm

re: #11 Belafon

My youngest son got an acceptance letter from Oklahoma State University. It’s the college he has liked the most of those we’ve gone to.

Btw,

Congratulations to your son and to you and your lady!

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austin_blue  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:40:56pm

Night all. Sweet scaly dreams.

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ckkatz  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:41:35pm

In weird news…

A bunch of Conspiracy Theory sources are claiming that there is going to be an EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) event this coming weekend. Most are claiming it will be a Carrington Event. (Solar Flare)

I haven’t yet figured out why they chose an event that they most likely couldn’t even spell originally. The only thing I can think of is that it gives them an excuse to wear tinfoil hats.

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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:49:18pm
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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:51:55pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:52:17pm

re: #16 ckkatz

In weird news…

A bunch of Conspiracy Theory sources are claiming that there is going to be an EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) event this coming weekend. Most are claiming it will be a Carrington Event. (Solar Flare)

I haven’t yet figured out why they chose an event that they most likely couldn’t even spell originally. The only thing I can think of is that it gives them an excuse to wear tinfoil hats.

That’s a switch: The ship is sinking but the rats stay and everyone else flees.

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ckkatz  Sep 21, 2022 • 8:56:59pm

re: #19 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

That’s a switch: The ship is sinking but the rats stay and everyone else flees.

I am not familiar with this site, but it mirrors what I have seen:

TikTok conspiracy says huge solar flare will hit Earth on September 24
hitc.com

Even Beau of the Fifth Column has a video out on the Carrington Event. I note that he is having a hard time keeping a straight face, though.

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Youtube Video

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sagehen  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:05:23pm

Youtube Video

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:12:56pm

re: #12 Belafon

This one made me giggle:

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:18:13pm

re: #22 Belafon

This one made me giggle:

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I’ve never seen this before. It’s animated at Google.

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Captain Ron  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:19:47pm

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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:20:13pm

One important thing to keep in mind with Russia - Putin only mobilized 300K more troops. He originally sent 200K. By most estimates, between the 54K dead and the estimated wounded, he’s lost 150K in Ukraine. So he basically is backfilling the 150K he lost and adding another 150K to cover his expected losses.

This isn’t augmentation, or an increase in force. It’s replenishment.

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:20:20pm
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ckkatz  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:20:44pm

re: #18 darthstar

Hmm,
Russian Hussar uniform,
Dolman - Red,
Breeches - Blue,
Braid- Yellow,
Collar and Cuffs Red.

Hard to tell what year without the Shako (hat). But likely Russian Imperial Guard “Life-Guard” Regiment uniform.

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:20:48pm
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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:21:50pm

re: #26 Belafon

Imagine all of the important Russians who could have been taken out if Trump had been allowed to build his tower in Moscow. I mean, anything over 4 stories is dreadfully fatal. Imagine 34.

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Captain Ron  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:23:08pm

re: #29 darthstar

Turnip does like to add 10 stories to his buildings.

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Sherlock Hound  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:24:20pm

re: #24 Captain Ron

I misread it as “gobbledick”. Cruel, but it works too!

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A Cranky One  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:24:29pm

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Captain Ron  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:26:04pm

re: #32 A Cranky One

I rarely go for treats, maybe that’s why my wife could never train me.

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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:26:41pm
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Captain Ron  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:27:10pm

But live in a house with 3 women, you’ll be quickly trained on the toilet seat…

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JC1  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:29:21pm

According to various Twitter sources, sizable POW exchanges took place between Russia and Ukraine. Over 200 Ukrainian soldiers were released, including some from Azov. 10 foreigners were also released.

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retired cynic  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:30:57pm

re: #36 JC1

Supposedly from the Mariupol defenders: quite a number of them.

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JC1  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:32:24pm

And so this happened… 1/6. Been using this starting word for about a month. Might need to change it now.

Wordle 460 1/6

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:32:51pm

re: #10 Crush White Nationalism

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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:33:51pm

re: #36 JC1

According to various Twitter sources, sizable POW exchanges took place between Russia and Ukraine. Over 200 Ukrainian soldiers were released, including some from Azov. 10 foreigners were also released.

Yes, and Ukraine gave Russia back that asshole Medvedchuk or whatever…serious war criminal - but they got enough people back it was worth it. And Russian telegram is losing their shit over the trade…it’s a great day for Ukraine.

And a couple of familiar faces were returned…god love ‘em…

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ckkatz  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:34:30pm

In Israel-related news:

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:40:16pm
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retired cynic  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:40:48pm

re: #42 Dr Lizardo

!!!!!

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retired cynic  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:41:12pm

Ted Cruz Takes Credit for Legislation He Voted Against
“While speaking at Texas Tech University on Sept. 1, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took credit for an ‘incredible victory,’ saying he led the fight to fund a project that he voted against,” WCPT reports.

“The expansion of I-27 is estimated to create thousands of jobs and provide direct links for local and international trade by reducing congestion on the highway in the Eastern region of Texas.”

“Even though the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed the legislation by a 68-31 vote in March, Cruz failed to mention was one of the Senators who voted against the bill was him.”

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Captain Ron  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:45:41pm
Israel just came on-side with Ukraine after Russia started using Iranian drones.

Israeli anti-drone technology is now being transferred to Ukraine.

Ah, the magic power word to get Israel to do something.

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sagehen  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:46:18pm

re: #39 Dr Lizardo

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Youtube Video

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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:48:40pm

re: #43 retired cynic

!!!!!

I think he’s got more classified documents in there.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:51:25pm

re: #47 darthstar

I think he’s got more classified documents in there.

Ah ha!! Maybe that’s how it works. Trump’s passing them on to Hannity, who in turn passes them on to Tucker Carlson, who passes them on to his GRU handler.

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retired cynic  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:51:42pm

re: #47 darthstar

I think he’s got more classified documents in there.

For sure nobody wants to search THAT!

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DodgerFan1988  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:52:19pm
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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:57:28pm

re: #48 Dr Lizardo

Ah ha!! Maybe that’s how it works. Trump’s passing them on to Hannity, who in turn passes them on to Tucker Carlson, who passes them on to his GRU handler.

The inhuman centipede.

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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 9:59:15pm

re: #50 DodgerFan1988

Jesus…they think this was a good day for Trump?

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Belafon  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:13:42pm

Did you know that the light bulb companies back in the early part of the 20th century got together to agree that light bulbs should have an end of life of around 1000 hours, and the companies could be fined if they went too far over that? And that there are at least two bulbs built from mainly carbon filament that have been lit for over 100 years?

interestingengineering.com

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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:16:24pm
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darthstar  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:27:33pm

My wife had a long day at work today - hung out at the ballpark for Dreamforce…comes home and says the Chili Peppers put on a pretty good show. I was all, “WTF?”

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ckkatz  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:36:04pm

Just saw this..

1. Go to google.com
2. In the search window type cat
3. When the list of options displays, select the first( “cat animal”) one.
4. Click on the paw print (Upper left hand side, with animation of cat paw pressing it)
5. Click elsewhere on the page.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:39:29pm

re: #38 JC1

And so this happened… 1/6. Been using this starting word for about a month. Might need to change it now.

Wordle 460 1/6

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Took me 2!

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:59:04pm

re: #50 DodgerFan1988

….

??? What happened on September 21????

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 21, 2022 • 10:59:33pm

WTAF?
Worker was dead in department store’s bathroom for 4 days: authorities

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 63-year-old worker died in the public bathroom of a South Carolina department store, but her body was not discovered for four days, authorities said.

Bessie Durham, a janitor at the Belk at Columbiana Centre, was found dead Monday, investigators said. Her cleaning cart was outside the restroom.

Durham was last seen Thursday at work and her body was found shortly after her family filed a missing person report, Columbia Deputy Police Chief Melron Kelly, told WIS-TV

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Captain Ron  Sep 21, 2022 • 11:08:40pm

re: #59 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Nobody wants to pee in a department store bathroom?

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 21, 2022 • 11:15:24pm

re: #60 Captain Ron

Nobody wants to pee in a department store bathroom?

About 25 years ago, I worked at a now-closed Sears store in the Portland, OR metro area. The public bathrooms were always kept very clean; That was something the store manager insisted upon because he recognized that lots of people wander into a store just to use the john and if it looks clean, it makes a positive impression. It may sound weird, but on that score, he was right.

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carey94tt  Sep 21, 2022 • 11:46:43pm

Well, I can now confirm that Covid sucks. I tested positive Tuesday morning. My last booster way in May. My wife is in similar shape and we still have to deal with the horses and dogs.

At least it is a great time to say FT.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 21, 2022 • 11:56:34pm

re: #56 ckkatz

Just saw this..

1. Go to google.com
2. In the search window type cat
3. When the list of options displays, select the first( “cat animal”) one.
4. Click on the paw print (Upper left hand side, with animation of cat paw pressing it)
5. Click elsewhere on the page.

Works for dogs too.

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mmmirele  Sep 21, 2022 • 11:57:43pm

re: #56 ckkatz

Just saw this..

1. Go to google.com
2. In the search window type cat
3. When the list of options displays, select the first( “cat animal”) one.
4. Click on the paw print (Upper left hand side, with animation of cat paw pressing it)
5. Click elsewhere on the page.

I did this. My cat, who was laying around four feet to my left, looked at me, meowed and got up and left. I think she was annoyed I woke her up for nothing.

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mmmirele  Sep 21, 2022 • 11:59:29pm

re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter

??? What happened on September 21????

It’s a song.

Earth, Wind & Fire - September

I remembered it was the 21st of September this morning on our standup call so I let everyone know. And then some people started singing…heh

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 22, 2022 • 12:16:54am

BTW, laughing at Trump’s preposterous idea that he can apparently declassify anything by just thinking about it. Maybe someone needs to explain to him that the Jedi Mind Trick is fiction.

This tweet nicely sums up Trump’s delusions:

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BlueSpotinAL  Sep 22, 2022 • 12:22:26am

re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter

??? What happened on September 21????

First day of Fall … of Trump

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 22, 2022 • 12:41:45am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 22, 2022 • 12:51:03am

re: #45 Captain Ron

The drumbeats of war get ever louder.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 22, 2022 • 1:04:49am

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Youtube Video

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 22, 2022 • 1:09:54am

Another thought. I’d love to be able to hear the frantic phone calls going on between Donnie, Jr., Eric and Ivanka right about now.

OTOH, they’re probably not calling each other.

They’re probably all trying to figure out who’s gonna be the first one who flips on the rest.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 22, 2022 • 1:26:51am

re: #71 Dr Lizardo

Is the FBI listening to the Trumps’ calls?

Is the NSA listening to any foreign calls?

Trump of course has the problem of an old rape allegation getting new life under a new law.

How many different legal issues is Trump going to face at the same time?

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 22, 2022 • 1:57:18am

re: #72 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Is the FBI listening to the Trumps’ calls?

Is the NSA listening to any foreign calls?

Trump of course has the problem of an old rape allegation getting new life under a new law.

How many different legal issues is Trump going to face at the same time?

Remember that scene in The Perfect Storm, where the F/V Andrea Gail founders in a rogue wave*? Yeah….it’s gonna look like that.

*It may not have necessarily been a rogue wave, but one wave during the 1991 storm was recorded at 100 feet (30 meters) by a buoy off Nova Scotia and weather buoys in the area of her last known location were recording wave heights over 60 feet (18 meters)

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 22, 2022 • 2:15:50am

I’ve been up, but draggin’ ass.

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:13:10am

According to the Russian law the potentially mobilizable can’t leave Russia. The message from the Kremlin sources has nevertheless been, that the borders will stay open for them for now (I think to weed out the potentially “active” elements unwilling to become cannon fodder — easier to get rid of them this way than to have trouble with them later). Still, many (not all) men in the Moscow airports are being interrogated about military-related matters. See no info yet on whether some were prohibited from leaving.

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:22:22am
They also didn’t know that an anonymous source close to DeSantis would suggest to NBC News that a planned charter flight from San Antonio to Delaware — that was destined for an airport not far from President Joe Biden’s summer home, according to flight records, and dominated cable news on Tuesday — was canceled without explanation and then used to ‘punk’ journalists and Democrats and keep the ‘spotlight’ on immigration.”

The man’s a pig.

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:24:57am

re: #66 Dr Lizardo

BTW, laughing at Trump’s preposterous idea that he can apparently declassify anything by just thinking about it. Maybe someone needs to explain to him that the Jedi Mind Trick is fiction.

This tweet nicely sums up Trump’s delusions:

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Please don’t make this an actual defense in an actual filing in an actual court that actual lawyers have to argue and actual judges who will have to consider and respond to, as if it’s something real

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:28:06am

how valiantly hard Hannity tries to save Trump from this catastrophically stupid comment…but it’s too late…

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:28:46am

Matt Gaetz to the FBI: “Well, Mr. Trump told me he was thinking about me when he gave those other pardons so that means I am pardoned, too.”

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:31:27am

Weird-o-rama!

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:32:18am

Hey, tuck:

There were tapes. It was in all the newspapers.

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:33:17am

re: #78 Dangerman

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how valiantly hard Hannity tries to save Trump from this catastrophically stupid comment…but it’s too late…

You think hannity ever thinks to himself “why did I hitch my wagon to this ass”?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:37:19am

re: #82 Dangerman

You think hannity ever thinks to himself “why did I hitch my wagon to this ass”?

Hannity has made millions off of Trump, of course he doesn’t mind how stupid Trump sounds or looks. Hannity himself has no moral fiber anymore than Trump does.

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:39:45am

Does he know his team picked Dearie?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:41:42am

re: #84 Dangerman

Does he know his team picked Dearie?

Doesn’t matter.

Trump *always* makes the right decisions.

Only underlings make poor ones.
//

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:41:54am

Yoon Kyung Cho studied at Julliard and continues to make a name for herself, but I wonder if she’s reached a point where her career has plateaued. In the world of serious music there are only so many positions at the top, and while a handful of cellists have become celebrities of a sort, it’s only a handful.

Nevertheless she smites me:

Youtube Video



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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:41:57am

re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter

??? What happened on September 21????

That was my first and only thought.

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:45:05am
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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:46:21am

re: #88 Dangerman

That’s also what the 11th Circuit said, since they, unlike Judge Cannon, apparently have more than two brain cells to rub together.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:47:05am

Also, just another day ending in -y.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 460 4/6

🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:47:54am

re: #87 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That was my first and only thought.

en.wikipedia.org

My bet is that they are celebrating the establishment of Mexican professional wrestling in 1933.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:48:08am

re: #86 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The reason I ponder this is because she is 33 and the problem with celebrity is that the onus on women is too look young and sexy, which she does well, but time is not on the side of celebrity women.

It’s all part of the asymmetry in life, how women are judged more harshly in regards to looks and aging.

A musician can of course become better as they age and I have no doubt she can too. But also I wonder if her Korean family is pressuring her to have babies. Societal pressure works against artists in general, and I suspect even more so for women in east Asia.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:50:31am

re: #91 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

en.wikipedia.org

My bet is that they are celebrating the establishment of Mexican professional wrestling in 1933.

Not this crowd. No way. Nazi wrestling, sure. Mexican wrestling? Nope.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 3:58:16am

Speaking of two brain cells to rub together, this guy clearly doesn’t have them, and if any of his lawyers do, said brain cells are probably dead due to alcohol abuse after this appearance:

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sagehen  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:05:07am

re: #86 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Yoon Kyung Cho studied at Julliard and continues to make a name for herself, but I wonder if she’s reached a point where her career has plateaued. In the world of serious music there are only so many positions at the top, and while a handful of cellists have become celebrities of a sort, it’s only a handful.

Video

..

I don’t even follow classical music, and even *I* can name 4 celebrity cellists — YoYo Ma, Pablo Casals, and these guys:

Youtube Video

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TarHellion  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:11:40am

All aboard the Birbie Bus! At some point, this silly game is going to get its revenge. Happy Autumnal Equinox! One more hot day - approaching 90 - but the low Friday morning is supposed to be in the upper 40s. That’s one of the biggest temperature swings we would have around here. Happy Friday Eve everyone!

Click to Reveal

Wordle 460 3/6

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🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:19:02am

re: #1 austin_blue

Trumpworld is about to run into reality. When you have spent decades of Criming, you are going to spend decades in jail.

We already have Tucker Carlson telling us that Watergate was an FBI Deep-State Plot.

You can well imagine how they are rationalizing all of this.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:28:48am

re: #91 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

en.wikipedia.org

My bet is that they are celebrating the establishment of Mexican professional wrestling in 1933.

I used to go watch the Luchadores with my Latino neighbors in Hammond, Indiana, and was impressed by the costumes obviously hand-stitched together out of old curtain scraps and sofa coverings.

El Nacho Libre was not a great film, but it did bring tears of nostalgia to my eyes.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:29:14am

re: #90 Dopamine Fish

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:30:02am

So apparently, after the visit from the Republican state house candidate yesterday afternoon, while I was gaming with my son last night, the Democratic candidate showed up and talked to my wife. Mrs. Fish says they had a pleasant conversation, and she discussed her concern about our kids going through active shooter drills and false alarms (we got an email from my daughter’s school about schools apparently being “swatted” now). I have to admit, candidates showing up in person to campaign for themselves is… not what I expected, even for Minnesota state politicians, but I respect that. I’m also glad Mrs. Fish got a chance to interact with the candidate I plan on voting for, so that she has a first-person reason to vote for her herself. She is proudly independent, and in any case, I wouldn’t want to feel like I’m telling her who to vote for, so now I feel more comfortable.

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TarHellion  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:30:42am

re: #59 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

re: #60 Captain Ron

re: #61 Dr Lizardo

The Belk at our local mall had men’s and women’s rooms just off from the upper level women’s clothing section. The men’s room was hardly utilized and stayed next to spotless. That was the go-to destination if nature began calling. Far better than any of the other restrooms within the mall complex!

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:42:05am

Just finished doping the oldest cat. She has a vet appointment in a couple hours. She absolutely HATES going to the vet. She hisses and won’t come out of her transport, fights the whole time. She is deaf so no amount of soothing talking is going to calm her down. So the vet has given us pills to mellow her down. We give them to her an hour or two before the appointment. Will see how they work this time.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:42:42am

re: #103 Eventual Carrion

Good luck. Hope everything goes well with the feline overlady.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:45:31am

re: #95 sagehen

Yes, Youtube just tried to feed me a 2 Cellos video. There are a handful of celebrity cellists, and you named them. They are successful as both artists and celebs.

The problem for any musician is that there is in this world a great many good musicians (music being part of species) so standing out takes some good luck along with cunning and talent.

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TarHellion  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:47:37am

re: #38 JC1

A hole-in-one! An albatross (double-eagle on a par 4). Awesome!

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:49:15am

re: #1 austin_blue

Isn’t it ironic that he wouldn’t be facing all of this scrutiny, litigation and liability if he hadn’t been President? He should kept his behind as a game show host. Now he’s facing jail time..

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2022 • 4:58:38am

OperativnoZSU channel claims hackers hacked MoD servers and downloaded a list of 300k names. The file is 90mb. May be a fake of course.

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Mike Lamb  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:05:44am

How long before Trump says that he locked the documents, which makes them his?

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lawhawk  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:09:34am

re: #8 austin_blue

I remember, when I was sitting Nuclear Alert in the early 80’s, fully prepared to take off and sling Nuclear Devastation on the Godless commies, that I thought to myself “Hey! I’ve got a Top Secret/No Dissemination to Foreign Nationals/Emergency War Order clearance! I’ll just declassify it with my Big Brain and make a little Walking Around money by selling it to the Russkies!”

Check out the big brain on Brett! You’re a smart mofo!

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lawhawk  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:12:10am

re: #95 sagehen

I don’t even follow classical music, and even *I* can name 4 celebrity cellists — YoYo Ma, Pablo Casals, and these guys:

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And as they are beautiful (recite in your best Croatian-English accent).

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lawhawk  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:15:13am

re: #109 Mike Lamb

How long before Trump says that he locked the documents, which makes them his?

He took the documents, claiming they were his.

They were never his in the first place. They were classified documents that were and are always the property of the US government and he was never entitled to possess, let alone store at an unsecure facility like MAL.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:23:27am

re: #113 lawhawk

He took the documents, claiming they were his.

They were never his in the first place. They were classified documents that were and are always the property of the US government and he was never entitled to possess, let alone store at an unsecure facility like MAL.

FTFY. Not because they’re not classified; they certainly are. But because, as I’m sure you already know, it doesn’t matter. He took documents belonging to the US Government. Period. Full stop. Any claims that he made them his personal documents according to the Presidential Records Act are bunk. Even if those claims were valid - say, for example, handwritten notes on the documents - NARA still owns the documents, and he is given access to them. He doesn’t get to walk away with them and do whatever he wants with them.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:24:55am

Okay…that was one hell of a Friday news dump for a Wednesday yesterday.

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:30:06am

An indirect piece of information from Kemerovskaya oblast (may be a rumor, but…). They wanted to create mobilization lists “quietly”. The answer to the question of one official, how can it be possible to do it quietly if he doesn’t know who has already served and who hasn’t was allegedly to add anyone who had Z and V on their cars.

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Jay C  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:30:17am

re: #113 lawhawk

He took the documents, claiming they were his.

They were never his in the first place. They were classified documents that were and are always the property of the US government and he was never entitled to possess, let alone store at an unsecure facility like MAL.

Yeah, but maybe Trump will claim that since he thinks those documents are his, and has assumed all along that they are his (regardless of trivial facts like their “classification” status), they fall under the authority of the Presidential Mental Powers Act wrt to their actual status, so no crime applicable at all. Ever. Nohow….

(This is satire, of course, but it’s a good bet that TFG’s next line of “defense” over his illegal possession of the MAL documents will probably be something close)

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:31:17am

re: #115 darthstar

And all of it bad for the mango menace and his spawn. I’m also wondering what’s going through the loose cannon’s mind as well. The 11th raked her over the coals pretty well in their opinion.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:32:38am

re: #118 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

And all of it bad for the mango menace and his spawn. I’m also wondering what’s going through the loose cannon’s mid as well. The 11th raked her over the coals pretty well in their opinion.

If I had to guess? “Goddammit. Those chucklefucks were supposed to back me up. Now I’m going to have to do the right thing for once, if asked. God, I hope the government doesn’t ask. I don’t want to have to go back on myself.”

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:43:52am

Sigh. Akiva, I love you, but you poor gentle soul, you. The fact is, 30% of America - including, apparently, a majority of the state of Florida - are just evil people. They. Do. Not. Care. In fact, they approve of the cruelty, as long as it’s “those people”. Because to them, anyone getting a benefit they themselves did not get is unfair. Regardless of the reason, regardless of how fair it is, no one can be more advantaged than me, because I am the center of my universe.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:44:45am

No more price gouging

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:46:22am

re: #120 Dopamine Fish

Yeah, he is too good for this world.

As we all know, the cruelty is the point.

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:50:02am

re: #120 Dopamine Fish

Sigh. Akiva, I love you, but you poor gentle soul, you. The fact is, 30% of America - including, apparently, a majority of the state of Florida - are just evil people. They. Do. Not. Care. In fact, they approve of the cruelty, as long as it’s “those people”. Because to them, anyone getting a benefit they themselves did not get is unfair. Regardless of the reason, regardless of how fair it is, no one can be more advantaged than me, because I am the center of my universe.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:51:23am

Some insurrectionists are in the process of finding out today.

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:52:28am

re: #84 Dangerman

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i wont listen to the clip, he makes my skin crawl.
it’s possible that he was referring to the search warrant judge and not Dearie.

overall, he’s still a ass.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:52:43am

re: #117 Jay C

Yeah, but maybe Trump will claim that since he thinks those documents are his, and has assumed all along that they are his (regardless of trivial facts like their “classification” status), they fall under the authority of the Presidential Mental Powers Act wrt to their actual status, so no crime applicable at all. Ever. Nohow….

(This is satire, of course, but it’s a good bet that TFG’s next line of “defense” over his illegal possession of the MAL documents will probably be something close)

Judge Cannon would buy it.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:53:24am

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No Malarkey!  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:54:47am

re: #84 Dangerman

Does he know his team picked Dearie?

Clearly, Trump’s lawyers are never Trumpers who rigged the court by selecting Dearie.//

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 5:57:28am

re: #107 Patricia Kayden

Isn’t it ironic that he wouldn’t be facing all of this scrutiny, litigation and liability if he hadn’t been President? He should kept his behind as a game show host. Now he’s facing jail time..

chutzpah - the un-selfaware kind
(hubris for the atheists)

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:00:19am

re: #113 lawhawk

re: #114 Dopamine Fish

first it was ‘i declassified them with the wave of my hand, this very hand”
(yes, it’s besides the point)

so you know that next will be: ‘i turned them into personal documents the same way’

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:01:04am

re: #117 Jay C

Yeah, but maybe Trump will claim that since he thinks those documents are his, and has assumed all along that they are his (regardless of trivial facts like their “classification” status), they fall under the authority of the Presidential Mental Powers Act wrt to their actual status, so no crime applicable at all. Ever. Nohow….

(This is satire, of course, but it’s a good bet that TFG’s next line of “defense” over his illegal possession of the MAL documents will probably be something close)

DAMN i should have read two comments ahead!

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:01:55am

re: #130 Dangerman

first it was ‘i declassified them with the wave of my hand, this very hand”
(yes, it’s besides the point)

so you know that next will be: ‘i turned them into personal documents the same way’

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:04:32am

re: #132 Dopamine Fish

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true but as i said above….

re: #77 Dangerman

Please don’t make this an actual defense in an actual filing in an actual court that actual lawyers have to argue and actual judges who will have to consider and respond to, as if it’s something real

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No Malarkey!  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:12:14am

re: #133 Dangerman

true but as i said above….

Trump’s lawyers have been desperately trying to not argue for the crazy stuff Trump says in interviews and on social media, but when he gets indicted for stealing these documents, for the life of my I don’t know what his defense could possibly be. I’m guessing his lawyers will make vague suggestions that maybe the documents were planted, and this is just a political witch hunt, rest their case, and hope a juror who distrusts the government will refuse to find him guilty.

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:22:51am

re: #121 darthstar

No more price gouging

Already refuted yesterday. Stale fake news.

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Mike Lamb  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:23:09am

re: #113 lawhawk

He took the documents, claiming they were his.

They were never his in the first place. They were classified documents that were and are always the property of the US government and he was never entitled to possess, let alone store at an unsecure facility like MAL.

“Locked” should have been “licked”.

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lawhawk  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:23:14am

re: #134 No Malarkey!

Trump’s lawyers have been desperately trying to not argue for the crazy stuff Trump says in interviews and on social media, but when he gets indicted for stealing these documents, for the life of my I don’t know what his defense could possibly be. I’m guessing his lawyers will make vague suggestions that maybe the documents were planted, and this is just a political witch hunt, rest their case, and hope a juror who distrusts the government will refuse to find him guilty.

That’s about the only defense Trump has left. He was found in possession of all those documents. That’s a crime. He mishandled those documents. Also a crime.

Additional crimes: the documents were classified, and carry specific penalties for espionage.

His lawyers can’t even do the pound on the table routine, without throwing Trump’s earlier lawyers to prosecutors and state bar associations for disbarment - as they lied on their official pleadings and reports to DOJ that all documents were returned, when that clearly wasn’t true.

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jeffreyw  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:24:43am

Double Cheese - pickle, onion, mustard

Good morning!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:26:20am

welp…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:28:20am

re: #117 Jay C

Yeah, but maybe Trump will claim that since he thinks those documents are his, and has assumed all along that they are his…

He viewed assuming the Presidency as if he were assuming control of a company: you are free to hire and fire as you please, demand NDA’s from everyone who works for you, and, of course, everything you touch there immediately belongs to you an you alone in perpetuity.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:30:50am

re: #135 Nyet

Already refuted yesterday. Stale fake news.

Thank you for pointing that out.

One really needs to read news reports carefully and rely on multiple independent sources.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:32:49am

re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp…

Someone needs to explain to these stupid kids that you do not threaten to set off bombs, even as a joke. A sorority sister at my daughter’s college got arrested last week for making a bomb threat on social media.

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Mattand  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:34:35am

re: #134 No Malarkey!

Trump’s lawyers have been desperately trying to not argue for the crazy stuff Trump says in interviews and on social media, but when he gets indicted for stealing these documents, for the life of my I don’t know what his defense could possibly be. I’m guessing his lawyers will make vague suggestions that maybe the documents were planted, and this is just a political witch hunt, rest their case, and hope a juror who distrusts the government will refuse to find him guilty.

re: #137 lawhawk

That’s about the only defense Trump has left. He was found in possession of all those documents. That’s a crime. He mishandled those documents. Also a crime.

Additional crimes: the documents were classified, and carry specific penalties for espionage.

His lawyers can’t even do the pound on the table routine, without throwing Trump’s earlier lawyers to prosecutors and state bar associations for disbarment - as they lied on their official pleadings and reports to DOJ that all documents were returned, when that clearly wasn’t true.

I’m being genuine here, but it seems like the only other defense they could use is mental decline. Particularly after that Hannity interview.

I realize that Trump admitting any sign of illness or weakness is pretty much salt on a snail for him, but it seems like that would be a remote option that should be on the table. Even if it is put-on, like that mobster from NYC who used to walk around in a bathrobe feigning dementia.

And as everyone else has said: this motherfucker literally got on air, on the most watched news network, and basically claimed that telepathy is a method for US presidents to declassify documents.

It just boggles the imagination.

I also have to question Hannity’s motivations if he thought this was somehow going to help Trump. Unless it was just “Fuck it, I’ll have the doddering old fool on to con his sheep again, because I could use the ratings.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:37:28am

re: #142 No Malarkey!

Someone needs to explain to these stupid kids that you do not threaten to set off bombs, even as a joke. A sorority sister at my daughter’s college got arrested last week for making a bomb threat on social media.

I remember the days when we used to sing “Glory glory, hallelujah!
My teacher hit me with a ruler.
I met her at the door with a loaded .44,
she ain’t gonna teach no more!”

That might have gotten you sent to the Principal’s office for a paddling, but would not get you kicked out of school…

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No Malarkey!  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:43:03am

re: #143 Mattand

I’m being genuine here, but it seems like the only other defense they could use is mental decline. Particularly after that Hannity interview.

I realize that Trump admitting any sign of illness or weakness is pretty much salt on a snail for him, but it seems like that would be a remote option that should be on the table. Even if it is put-on, like that mobster from NYC who used to walk around in a bathrobe feigning dementia.

And as everyone else has said: this motherfucker literally got on air, on the most watched news network, and basically claimed that telepathy is a method for US presidents to declassify documents.

It just boggles the imagination.

I also have to question Hannity’s motivations if he thought this was somehow going to help Trump. Unless it was just “Fuck it, I’ll have the doddering old fool on to con his sheep again, because I could use the ratings.”

Would love to see Trump go with a diminished capacity defense, but it isn’t going to happen. A real possibility is his lawyers throwing Trump aides under a bus by implying that they packed up a bunch of documents Trump wasn’t even aware of. It’s a lie, so they won’t actually put any testimony on, especially not Trump himself, but they just need to plant the idea in the minds of the jury in hopes of getting a mistrial, if not an acquittal.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:45:21am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Thank you for pointing that out.

One really needs to read news reports carefully and rely on multiple independent sources.

I think it’s more, in this case, that we need to hear it from a few reliable sources. We need a list of best sources from around the world.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:48:31am

re: #127 HRH Stanley Sea

Did the same thing:

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:49:19am

re: #142 No Malarkey!

Someone needs to explain to these stupid kids that you do not threaten to set off bombs, even as a joke. A sorority sister at my daughter’s college got arrested last week for making a bomb threat on social media.

This was a joke in mad magazine back in the 70s I think

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:49:58am

re: #147 Belafon

I think it’s more, in this case, that we need to hear it from a few reliable sources. We need a list of best sources from around the world.

that’s what I meant about reading “carefully”, as in with regards to source

I tend to trust the BBC for any news that is not about the UK…

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Sherlock Hound  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:51:33am

re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I remember the days when we used to sing “Glory glory, hallelujah!
My teacher hit me with a ruler.
I met her at the door with a loaded .44,
she ain’t gonna teach no more!”

That might have gotten you sent to the Principal’s office for a paddling, but would not get you kicked out of school…

“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school…”
//

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:53:16am

re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

that’s what I meant about reading “carefully”, as in with regards to source

I tend to trust the BBC for any news that is not about the UK…

Not sure what it’s like these days but I used to like Deutsche Welle’s English service for a European perspective.

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:54:50am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

Would love to see Trump go with a diminished capacity defense, but it isn’t going to happen. A real possibility is his lawyers throwing Trump aides under a bus by implying that they packed up a bunch of documents Trump wasn’t even aware of. It’s a lie, so they won’t actually put any testimony on, especially not Trump himself, but they just need to plant the idea in the minds of the jury in hopes of getting a mistrial, if not an acquittal.

Nah
He’s been “negotiating” with nara for more than a year.
A mistake by underlings could have been addressed quickly at the onset.
The signed declaration by bobb only this past June will dispatch all that.
That’s why they needed the search warrant

If “aides” screwed it up when he left the white house, he compounded it multiple times later, instead of easily fixing it

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:55:03am
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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:56:00am

re: #151 Sherlock Hound

“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school…”
//

Alice Cooper…

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:56:20am
In a footnote to the government funding fight, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) seems to be fighting a losing battle on his latest hobby horse: making it easier for the fossil fuel industry to get permits to rape the land. He made a deal with Schumer to secure his vote on the Inflation Reduction Act in August, making an agreement that the permitting bill would be attached to the continuing resolution. Unfortunately, no one else made that agreement. House leadership seems not to want to pick a fight with the growing group of members who are asking that the bill be left out, and now a group of liberal senators are joining that call.

They’re not saying they’ll shut down government if it’s attached. They’re not even saying they’re implacably opposed to it. They’re saying they “believe such important issues should be examined through detailed committee consideration and a robust floor debate separate from the urgent need to see that the government stays open.” Meanwhile, Republicans whose support Manchin would need to get it passed show no interest whatsoever in helping him. Manchin promised that he would finally release the language for his bill on Wednesday. As of early Wednesday afternoon, it hadn’t materialized.

He may have decided to take his ball and go home. He had a bit of a meltdown over how everybody is picking on him Tuesday. He told reporters that he had “never seen” such an example of “revenge politics” from the left, with Sen. Bernie Sanders and the “extreme liberal left siding up with Republican leadership” to oppose his plan. It’s not about his plan, he insisted. “It’s revenge towards one person—me,” Manchin said.
“I’m hearing that the Republican leadership is upset,” he added. “They’re not going to give a victory to Joe Manchin. Well, Joe Manchin is not looking for a victory.” Yeah, the prospects for that bill being forced through in the continuing resolution are fading by the minute.

dailykos.com

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 6:57:07am
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Renaissance_Man  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:01:06am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

Would love to see Trump go with a diminished capacity defense, but it isn’t going to happen. A real possibility is his lawyers throwing Trump aides under a bus by implying that they packed up a bunch of documents Trump wasn’t even aware of. It’s a lie, so they won’t actually put any testimony on, especially not Trump himself, but they just need to plant the idea in the minds of the jury in hopes of getting a mistrial, if not an acquittal.

The most likely possibility is that we see an endless barrage of different excuses, several contradictory, until the US media finds one that they can hammer enough until Americans accept once again that Donald Trump is above the law. This will become easier once he declares his candidacy and then all the panels and think pieces can raise the possibility that all of this is just a politically motivated witch hunt.

After that, they can then run the panels and think pieces that talk about how he is a maverick candidate that shrugs off scandals that would sink normal politicians. Who wouldn’t want that guy as Emperor?

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No Malarkey!  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:01:16am

re: #153 Dangerman

Nah
He’s been “negotiating” with nara for more than a year.
A mistake by underlings could have been addressed quickly at the onset.
The signed declaration by bobb only this past June will dispatch all that.
That’s why they needed the search warrant

If “aides” screwed it up when he left the white house, he compounded it multiple times later, instead of easily fixing it

Well yeah, that is why Trump’s lawyers are just going to try to imply it; it’s a blatant lie. The truth gets Trump sent to prison. If just one Trumper who assumes Trump is innocent and the “Deep State” is persecuting him gets on the jury, they can get a mistrial.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:02:25am

re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth

I have far more respect for Rodin than DT.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:05:36am

re: #125 Dangerman

You’re like me. I haven’t heard him speak since he left office. Four years of constant coverage was more than enough.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:06:59am
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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:09:11am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:09:40am

re: #158 Belafon

Tempted to sign up as a guy named “Bunter Hiden”.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:09:50am

You think your HOA is bad:

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:11:55am

Dark Patron:

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jeffreyw  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:12:18am

re: #94 Dopamine Fish

Speaking of two brain cells to rub together, this guy clearly doesn’t have them, and if any of his lawyers do, said brain cells are probably dead due to alcohol abuse after this appearance:

He’s setting up a Vincent Gigante defense.

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mmmirele  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:14:04am

re: #134 No Malarkey!

Trump’s lawyers have been desperately trying to not argue for the crazy stuff Trump says in interviews and on social media, but when he gets indicted for stealing these documents, for the life of my I don’t know what his defense could possibly be. I’m guessing his lawyers will make vague suggestions that maybe the documents were planted, and this is just a political witch hunt, rest their case, and hope a juror who distrusts the government will refuse to find him guilty.

Prosecution: “If these documents were planted, then why is Mr. Trump’s very distinct handwriting in Sharpie marker all over them?”

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wrenchwench  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:19:01am

The birb had to rearrange its feathers.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 460 4/6*

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I try not to look in advance, but I saw everything from 1/6 to X/6, so I knew it was a good puzzle.

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lawhawk  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:19:07am
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No Malarkey!  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:21:00am
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Eventual Carrion  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:21:29am

re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Rodin rule!

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TarHellion  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:21:30am

CREW reports Secret Service knew Neo-Nazis were coming on Jan. 6.

citizensforethics.org

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No Malarkey!  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:21:33am

re: #174 No Malarkey!

A hearing on this lawsuit is underway.

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lawhawk  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:23:20am

re: #170 jeffreyw

He’s setting up a Vincent Gigante defense.

Gigante was notorious for mumbling nonsense, wearing pajamas and a robe outdoors, etc.

Trump’s making coherent statements (for him) as to taking and storing documents at MAL. There’s no way he could try the Gigante defense, and in any case, it’d have the same outcome.

Gigante was found guilty - and ultimately admitted that the insanity defense was a ruse to delay/avoid prison. He got additional time slapped on his sentence and died in prison.

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:24:05am

Did you know that this year, alone, in Putin’s “mysterious deaths” category, he rates his own wiki page?

2022 Russian businessmen mystery deaths

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:24:40am

Work rant: IT apparently sent an update through last night that erased ALL my email settings.

Take one guess if they were nice enough to let me know about it ahead of time.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:25:01am

re: #180 Eclectic Cyborg

Work rant: IT apparently sent an update through last night that erased ALL my email settings.

Take one guess if they were nice enough to let me know about it ahead of time.

I’m sure they let you know via email.

/half

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A Cranky One  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:36:36am

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:38:22am

re: #182 A Cranky One

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Is that what I’ve been doing wrong all this time? I swear, every time I leave, something inevitably goes pear-shaped.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:38:58am
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sizzzzlerz  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:41:13am

Now that it is clear everybody is laughing at TFG’s attempt to use the Jedi Mind Trick to declassify all the documents he stole, he is going to have to fall back to the Tinkerbelle defense, wherein, if the president claps his hands really, really hard, all those top secret documents change to being unclassified.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:42:27am

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

He was hoping to use her.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:43:07am

re: #185 sizzzzlerz

Now that it is clear everybody is laughing at TFG’s attempt to use the Jedi Mind Trick to declassify all the documents he stole, he is going to have to fall back to the Tinkerbelle defense, wherein, if the president claps his hands really, really hard, all those top secret documents change to being unclassified.

Waiting for the Green Lantern defense.

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:43:07am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Thank you for pointing that out.

One really needs to read news reports carefully and rely on multiple independent sources.

Aside from official refutations and the lack of any stories of folks unable to buy tickets due to age (etc.) there is also a telegram channel with stories of folks crossing the border. pogran_kontrol_russia. They’re sometimes interrogated but I have yet to see someone unable to leave. Had such a rule been instated, it would have been general. Also, most males over 50 are freed from service.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:43:44am
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lizardofid  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:43:57am

re: #185 sizzzzlerz

Now that it is clear everybody is laughing at TFG’s attempt to use the Jedi Mind Trick to declassify all the documents he stole, he is going to have to fall back to the Tinkerbelle defense, wherein, if the president claps his hands really, really hard, all those top secret documents change to being unclassified.

LOL, yes.

“These are not the classified documents you are looking for”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:44:17am

re: #186 Belafon

He was hoping to use her.

and she wasn’t going to have ANY of it

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:46:11am

re: #190 lizardofid

LOL, yes.

“These are not the classified documents you are looking for”

Garland: “I’m a Toydarian. Mind tricks don’t work on me; only facts.”

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:46:34am

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

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he’s almost saying the act of taking them ‘off premises’ declassified and transformed into personal documents because I took them

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:48:16am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ahhhhhh! He’s just looking for some treats and belly rubs.

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:49:21am

re: #180 Eclectic Cyborg

Work rant: IT apparently sent an update through last night that erased ALL my email settings.

Take one guess if they were nice enough to let me know about it ahead of time.

my guess, they did, by email

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TarHellion  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:50:41am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

To the conspiracy nuts, it’s Queen Elizabeth II coming back in her “real” form.

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lizardofid  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:52:41am

re: #195 Dangerman

my guess, they did, by email

Which the new settings sent to spam.

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Jay C  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:55:25am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

OK: I know monitors are the largest lizards (by class), AND: I know Florida is home to an array of bizarre creatures (though most of those are in the genus Homo): but SRSLY: are lizards that size common down there? This one looks like The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms’ kid brother (sister?)…..

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:56:35am

Wordle 460 2/6

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That’s right, that’s right. We bad!

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:56:46am

re: #188 Nyet

Overview of the situation. Long lines on the borders with Georgia, Kazakhstan, Finland, Mongolia. Almost no cases of being forced to remain. Some cases of refusals by the receiving countries.

meduza.io

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:57:54am

so spy45 thinks they were looking for hillary’s emails.
how exactly would that even work?

no don’t bother

they were looking for stolen documents, classified and otherwise.
they were listed on the search warrant.
they were found exactly where they were looking / presumed them to be.

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A Cranky One  Sep 22, 2022 • 7:58:05am

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:02:26am

re: #173 lawhawk

My understanding, and I may of course be wrong, is that Favre was not actually paid.
The “payments” to him became donations to the fund to guild the volleyball center.
In order for the university to approve the project 100% of the construction funds had to be put into a trust first. The Governor could not legally transfer that much money for a “brick and mortar” project in a single year

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:02:55am

re: #201 Dangerman

so spy45 thinks they were looking for hillary’s emails.
how exactly would that even work?

no don’t bother

the final word on this nonsense:

So, you went court shopping for a sympathetic judge to enjoin the fruit of a lawful search warrant by the FBI to obtain evidence of HRCs wrong doing?

that’s some x dimensional chess right there

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:04:41am

re: #203 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Yep. Favre probably won’t see any legal consequences from this. Unfortunately.

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:10:08am

Leaving Russia years ago has really been the best decision of my life.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:10:31am

re: #201 Dangerman

so spy45 thinks they were looking for hillary’s emails.
how exactly would that even work?

no don’t bother

they were looking for stolen documents, classified and otherwise.
they were listed on the search warrant.
they were found exactly where they were looking / presumed them to be.

Trump was just regurgitating his favorite hits: “Hillary’s emails,” “Russia, Russia, Russia” and of course “They spied on my campaign.”

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:10:58am

re: #205 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep. Favre probably won’t see any legal consequences from this. Unfortunately.

He might get in trouble for knowing about a crime and not reporting it, if they were willing to pursue it.

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:13:06am

re: #208 Belafon

He might get in trouble for knowing about a crime and not reporting it, if they were willing to pursue it.

He’s white and he has a super bowl ring. They won’t.

ETA: I enjoyed watching him play but learned a long time ago I didn’t want to be around him. Kinda like Shady Brady.

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Wile E. Wonka  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:16:09am

re: #190 lizardofid

LOL, yes.

“These are not the classified documents you are looking for”

Or maybe he’s going for the Saddam Hussein defense…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:17:05am
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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:17:51am

re: #211 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

To translate from legalese: “Alright, I admit I fucked up. I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further.”

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:17:57am

re: #200 Nyet

This relative freedom to leave will probably end pretty soon. Maybe in 1-2 days. As I pointed out above, formally the law already prohibits it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:18:41am

re: #174 No Malarkey!

“Republicans claim that state law only allows voters to cure defective ballots for which voters’ proof of identification is lacking or unverified. The GOP alleges that BOEs are allowing voters to fix other defects, like a missing signature.”

Democracy is sick and the GOP has the “cure”…

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:19:15am

re: #212 Dopamine Fish

Essentially, that makes the temporary stay of the order permanent; there is now no route to appeal to SCOTUS, because the temporary stay is functionally vacated, so there’s nothing to appeal.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:19:26am

re: #212 Dopamine Fish

To translate from legalese: “Alright, I admit I fucked up. I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further.”

And the 11th is going “Yeah, but you’re going to get to wear the tutu and ride the unicycle.”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:21:02am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:23:08am

re: #217 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:24:02am

re: #26 Belafon

Kaz Weida@kazweida
My goodness. Another one.
11:10 PM • Sep 21, 2022
Anatoly Gerashchenko, the former head of Moscow’s Aviation Institute, died in a mysterious fall inside the institute’s headquarters in the Russian capital on Tuesday. He is the latest Russian official to fall to his death in mysterious circumstances. trib.al

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 21, 2022

Cop just arriving on scene: “What happened to him?”

Man at scene: ‘He fell down.’

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:24:08am

What IS still on the table, though, is the appeal of the overall order that the DOJ could still bring to the 11th Circuit. However, now that the stay has been effectively mooted, and the only reason they were locked into appealing the order is because they got the stay “pending appeal”, it is now possible that they might not appeal the thing and just let Dearie do whatever with the non-classified documents.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:26:15am

re: #219 BeenHereAwhile

Cop just arriving on scene: “What happened to him?”

Man at scene: ‘He fell down.’

Any movie about Putin’s last das will inevitably be called The Downfall

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:26:24am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:27:07am

re: #95 sagehen

I don’t even follow classical music, and even *I* can name 4 celebrity cellists — YoYo Ma, Pablo Casals, and these guys:

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Another cello player I enjoy hearing:

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lawhawk  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:27:33am

re: #216 Belafon

Robot Chicken: This Deal’s Getting Worse All The Time

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:31:24am

The problem with recording a podcast based on current events: Sometimes, current events can pass you by.

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:34:31am

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

I wouldn’t be too surprised if Trump’s pocket “Judge” has simply given up on covering for his ass. I bet she now relishes the position of Federal Judge more than any sense of loyalty to a toddler-brained rapidly-aging clown shoe.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:35:49am

Western good morning!

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No Malarkey!  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:36:12am

Kentucky’s awful AG wanted to send a woman to prison for years for stealing $80 worth of groceries.

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BlueSpotinAL  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:36:59am

Hamming it up in Parma.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:39:42am

re: #228 No Malarkey!

Kentucky’s awful AG wanted to send a woman to prison for years for stealing $80 worth of groceries.

“Your honor, I know the driver was only doing five miles over the speed limit, but his car has a computer in it.”

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lizardofid  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:40:09am

re: #229 BlueSpotinAL

Hamming it up in Parma.

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We need smella vision stat.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:40:37am

re: #229 BlueSpotinAL

To bad you can’t park one of those in your suitcase to bring home.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:40:40am

re: #229 BlueSpotinAL

Hamming it up in Parma.

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You’re in Cleveland? I thought you were in Italy.

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BeachDem  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:40:43am

re: #185 sizzzzlerz

Now that it is clear everybody is laughing at TFG’s attempt to use the Jedi Mind Trick to declassify all the documents he stole, he is going to have to fall back to the Tinkerbelle defense, wherein, if the president claps his hands really, really hard, all those top secret documents change to being unclassified.

It’s the Humpty Trumpty excuse:

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:41:18am

re: #65 mmmirele

It’s a song.

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I remembered it was the 21st of September this morning on our standup call so I let everyone know. And then some people started singing…heh

Ahh!! That explains the musical notes in the tweet!! Thank you!

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:50:47am

re: #117 Jay C

Yeah, but maybe Trump will claim that since he thinks those documents are his, and has assumed all along that they are his (regardless of trivial facts like their “classification” status), they fall under the authority of the Presidential Mental Powers Act wrt to their actual status, so no crime applicable at all. Ever. Nohow….

(This is satire, of course, but it’s a good bet that TFG’s next line of “defense” over his illegal possession of the MAL documents will probably be something close)

Not from the lawyer(s) who is competent. I bet those lawyer(s) want to stay as far away from such an assertion.

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gwangung  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:52:38am

re: #220 Dopamine Fish

What IS still on the table, though, is the appeal of the overall order that the DOJ could still bring to the 11th Circuit. However, now that the stay has been effectively mooted, and the only reason they were locked into appealing the order is because they got the stay “pending appeal”, it is now possible that they might not appeal the thing and just let Dearie do whatever with the non-classified documents.

As I understand it, that should be fine (there are, after all, personal papers in there). We the people shouldn’t care if he goes through the unclassified papers to determine which have any executive privilege—that still doesn’t affect the case for obstruction. Nor should it affect the determination of personal papers—-if they were generated by other departments, they are, by definition, not personal papers.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:53:05am

re: #236 Hecuba’s daughter

Not from the lawyer(s) who is competent. I bet those lawyer(s) want to stay as far away from such an assertion.

The singular is appropriate here. Chris Kise is, apparently, a decently competent lawyer. Alina Habba and Christina Bobb, on the other hand, are essentially eye candy with JD’s.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:54:31am

I didn’t see the video from last night, just heard clips on the radio, but wow…..he’s HUGE. He doesn’t fit on the chair.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:54:33am

re: #219 BeenHereAwhile

Cop just arriving on scene: “What happened to him?”

Man at scene: ‘He fell down.’

Probably doing internal parachute testing and discovered a flaw.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:54:51am

re: #127 HRH Stanley Sea

My goodness. I don’t think I’ve ever filled a line incorrectly before.

🌳

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:55:34am

re: #239 Dr. Matt

I didn’t see the video from last night, just heard clips on the radio, but wow…..he’s HUGE. He doesn’t fit on the chair.

But he’s the healthiest man to ever live in the White House. How very dare you, sir.

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Jay C  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:55:39am

re: #236 Hecuba’s daughter

Not from the lawyer(s) who is competent. I bet those lawyer(s) want to stay as far away from such an assertion.

You’ve included an inapplicable term in that comment, HD…..

Said term being apparently anathema to Team Trump (“only the best people”….etc.)

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lawhawk  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:57:16am

re: #239 Dr. Matt

5’10?

I didn’t know you could stack shit that high.

Trump’s statements indict himself on taking the documents at issue. He directed that they be taken.

This wasn’t an accident where they were grabbed by mistake. They were purposefully taken. Trump just helped the DOJ prove its case against Trump.

Again.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 8:57:44am
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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:01:19am

re: #230 Belafon

“Your honor, I know the driver was only doing five miles over the speed limit, but his car has a computer in it.”

“Hey, man, you were lucky I didn’t have KITT hit the turbo-boost. You’d never have caught us.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:03:08am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

Would love to see Trump go with a diminished capacity defense, but it isn’t going to happen. A real possibility is his lawyers throwing Trump aides under a bus by implying that they packed up a bunch of documents Trump wasn’t even aware of. It’s a lie, so they won’t actually put any testimony on, especially not Trump himself, but they just need to plant the idea in the minds of the jury in hopes of getting a mistrial, if not an acquittal.

That defense especially won’t work if Trump’s fingerprints are on the documents.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:03:17am

New Felland…I like it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:03:22am
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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:04:27am

re: #242 Dopamine Fish

But he’s the healthiest man to ever live in the White House. How very dare you, sir.

And Dr Ronny Jackson obviously gets high on his own supply.

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:05:37am

re: #247 Hecuba’s daughter

That defense especially won’t work if Trump’s fingerprints are on the documents.

i would like to see running for president play out against a diminished capacity defense

(yes, i know, i know…40%)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:06:50am

re: #228 No Malarkey!

Kentucky’s awful AG wanted to send a woman to prison for years for stealing $80 worth of groceries.

It cannot be “unlawful access to a computer” if that computer is made available to the public for use as a self-scanner.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:09:12am

I think what’s funny is, the DOJ gave Cannon this out when she issued her awful order. She said, no, I am going full speed ahead on this, I dare you to tell me otherwise. The 11th Circuit stepped in and handed her her ass and said, you should’ve taken the DOJ’s out when they gave it to you. So now they’ve essentially gotten the exact same result as they would have if she had accepted their motion for reconsideration, except she looks like a partisan hack in front of the entire world, thanks to being eviscerated by the circuit court.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:09:15am

re: #103 Eventual Carrion

Just finished doping the oldest cat. She has a vet appointment in a couple hours. She absolutely HATES going to the vet. She hisses and won’t come out of her transport, fights the whole time. She is deaf so no amount of soothing talking is going to calm her down. So the vet has given us pills to mellow her down. We give them to her an hour or two before the appointment. Will see how they work this time.

I had to take a cat to the vet once. The cat was great in the car and at the vet. Half way to the vet I had to go thru a tollbooth. I’d done this many times before without issue. This time, however, said cat decided she wanted to hang with the toll guy so she jumped out of the car window right into the tollbooth. Before I could completely freak out, Tollbooth Guy picked her up and handed get back to me.

So that was a fun outing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:11:30am

re: #254 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I had to take a cat to the vet once. The cat was great in the car and at the vet. Half way to the vet I had to go thru a tollbooth. I’d done this many times before without issue. This time, however, said cat decided she wanted to hang with the toll guy so she jumped out of the car window right into the tollbooth..

What did you expect? He was sitting in a BOX!

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:13:06am

re: #228 No Malarkey!

Kentucky’s awful AG wanted to send a woman to prison for years for stealing $80 worth of groceries.

F*** Daniel Cameron

He is an awful representation for the state, but plays up the “he’s one of the good ones”, and makes sure all of the racists don’t feel so racist because he’s okay, with his Trump endorsement.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:22:56am

re: #256 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

F*** Daniel Cameron

He is an awful representation for the state, but plays up the “he’s one of the good ones”, and makes sure all of the racists don’t feel so racist because he’s okay, with his Trump endorsement.

I think he’s trying out for Thomas’s chair.

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:23:08am
NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The white woman who falsely told police she was threatened by a Black bird-watcher in New York City’s Central Park has lost a lawsuit accusing her former employer Franklin Templeton of illegally firing her and portraying her as racist.

In a decision on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams rejected Amy Cooper’s claim that she was defamed when Franklin Templeton and its Chief Executive Jenny Johnson referred on three occasions to the incident and said they did not tolerate racism. A video of the incident went viral.

The Manhattan judge also said Cooper failed to prove she was fired in May 2020 because of her race or gender, and without the kind of thorough investigation once done into a male employee’s alleged offensive conduct.

Woman who falsely accused Black bird-watcher loses lawsuit against ex-employer (Reuters)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:23:54am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:24:16am

re: #164 Patricia Kayden

You’re like me. I haven’t heard him speak since he left office. Four years of constant coverage was more than enough.

I listened to trump speak maybe fivebtimes when he was in office. I couldn’t bear it. I preferred to read his word salads. His voice had always grated. At least at one point in his life he could form cogent sentences. That was long before he was in office.

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:26:07am

re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It cannot be “unlawful access to a computer” if that computer is made available to the public for use as a self-scanner.

often, the actual case doesnt matter
just effing up someone’s life enough does it for them

the time
the cost
the never knowing when / if it’ll ever be over…

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:26:33am

re: #253 Dopamine Fish

I think what’s funny is, the DOJ gave Cannon this out when she issued her awful order. She said, no, I am going full speed ahead on this, I dare you to tell me otherwise. The 11th Circuit stepped in and handed her her ass and said, you should’ve taken the DOJ’s out when they gave it to you. So now they’ve essentially gotten the exact same result as they would have if she had accepted their motion for reconsideration, except she looks like a partisan hack in front of the entire world, thanks to being eviscerated by the circuit court.

ETTD

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:27:34am

re: #254 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I had to take a cat to the vet once. The cat was great in the car and at the vet. Half way to the vet I had to go thru a tollbooth. I’d done this many times before without issue. This time, however, said cat decided she wanted to hang with the toll guy so she jumped out of the car window right into the tollbooth. Before I could completely freak out, Tollbooth Guy picked her up and handed get back to me.

So that was a fun outing.

“Sorry. Coins or bills only.”

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:28:10am

While M Night Shyamalan is hit or miss (to put it mildly), this looks like a promising effort. And it looks like Dave Bautista has a pretty major role in this film, along with Rupert Grint.

The film is based on the 2018 novel “The Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul G. Tremblay.

Youtube Video

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Dr. Matt  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:29:05am

The Dark Brandon White House:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:31:19am

re: #258 Crush White Nationalism

Woman who falsely accused Black bird-watcher loses lawsuit against ex-employer (Reuters)

Is that the lady that’s in all the memes?

267
Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:32:34am
268
jaunte  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:32:55am
269
Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:33:00am

That is NOT how this works. Nobody buys a property based on the brand name of the current owner, because - spoilers - THEY WON’T OWN IT ANYMORE. Therefore, the brand name, by definition, has exactly ZERO value added.

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jaunte  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:33:28am
271
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:33:40am

re: #260 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I listened to trump speak maybe fivebtimes when he was in office. I couldn’t bear it. I preferred to read his word salads. His voice had always grated. At least at one point in his life he could form cogent sentences. That was long before he was in office.

The only time I ever tuned in a DT speech was in fact on January 6th, 2021, just in time to see him tell his followers “I’ll be with you!”

272
jaunte  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:33:56am

@jjmacnab
Jones’ hands are shaking hard when he pours himself some water.

273
Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:35:13am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

I had no idea what this latest outrage was. Looks like some VUMC doctors said some things about gender surgeries for kids that were blown up by the RWNJ noise machine.

274
Hecuba's daughter  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:35:44am

re: #207 No Malarkey!

Trump was just regurgitating his favorite hits: “Hillary’s emails,” “Russia, Russia, Russia” and of course “They spied on my campaign.”

And his brain-dead acolytes support everything he said.

275
jeffreyw  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:37:41am

Local tv news station

276
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:38:20am

re: #211 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

So Dearie is of the hook completely out just for those 100 documents?

277
BeenHereAwhile  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:38:29am

re: #226 Florida Panhandler

I wouldn’t be too surprised if Trump’s pocket “Judge” has simply given up on covering for his ass. I bet she now relishes the position of Federal Judge more than any sense of loyalty to a toddler-brained rapidly-aging clown shoe.

Consigned to being a District Judge, (in a back water court) Southern District of Florida, for life.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:38:41am

re: #273 Eclectic Cyborg

I had no idea what this latest outrage was. Looks like some VUMC doctors said some things about gender surgeries for kids that were blown up by the RWNJ noise machine.

Statement about transgender health care at VUMC

279
Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:38:49am

re: #276 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So Dearie is of the hook completely out just for those 100 documents?

Correct. The matter of the classified documents is now no longer within his purview.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:38:51am

re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Republicans claim that state law only allows voters to cure defective ballots for which voters’ proof of identification is lacking or unverified. The GOP alleges that BOEs are allowing voters to fix other defects, like a missing signature.”

Democracy is sick and the GOP has the “cure”…

To kill it?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:39:58am

re: #275 jeffreyw

Local tv news station

my crongresscritter pretending to be clever…

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lawhawk  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:40:08am

re: #269 Dopamine Fish

That is NOT how this works. Nobody buys a property based on the brand name of the current owner, because - spoilers - THEY WON’T OWN IT ANYMORE. Therefore, the brand name, by definition, has exactly ZERO value added.

[Embedded content]

You buy the Plaza Hotel, because it’s the Plaza. Turn it into something else, and it has a completely different value - which is precisely what has happened, as the hotel is now both a hotel and condo complex. Different uses, different values, and different outcome should the property be sold again.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:42:04am

re: #280 Hecuba’s daughter

To kill it?

slowly strangle it, yes

284
jaunte  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:42:25am

re: #269 Dopamine Fish

Taking the Trumplawyer theory for what it’s worth, he now has an entire portfolio of poison unicorn real estate.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:44:48am

re: #282 lawhawk

Having Trump’s name on a property matters when he is President and can arrange a lot of favors for you in exchange for doing business with him on terms that are beneficial to him and his organization.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:45:53am

re: #282 lawhawk

You buy the Plaza Hotel, because it’s the Plaza. Turn it into something else, and it has a completely different value - which is precisely what has happened, as the hotel is now both a hotel and condo complex. Different uses, different values, and different outcome should the property be sold again.

I’m sure there’s something to do with revenue that could involve the Trump brand having some intrinsic value, but it doesn’t matter when you’re discussing the value of a property vis-a-vis what it should be worth to someone else.

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austin_blue  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:46:13am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

Reminds me of:

ebay.com

288
jaunte  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:46:38am

The Alex Jones trial sidebars are miked so the Youtube audience can hear the whispered convos.

289
Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:47:04am
290
Crush White Nationalism  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:49:13am

re: #287 austin_blue

Reminds me of:

ebay.com

I saw them many years ago at a multi-band show.

291
I Would Prefer Not To  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:52:06am

re: #264 Dr Lizardo

While M Night Shyamalan is hit or miss (to put it mildly), this looks like a promising effort. And it looks like Dave Bautista has a pretty major role in this film, along with Rupert Grint.

The film is based on the 2018 novel “The Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul G. Tremblay.

[Embedded content]

Video

I’m a FB friend of the Author. Met him at book signing. Cool guy. His books are cool.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:57:59am

re: #291 I Would Prefer Not To

I’m a FB friend of the Author. Met him at book signing. Cool guy. His books are cool.

I hope that Shyamalan does his novel justice. Like I said, Shyamalan can be hit or miss, though to his credit, he swings for the fences, not just choosing to play it safe. He’s got some fantastic ideas, but sometimes those ideas just aren’t that well-executed.

293
JC1  Sep 22, 2022 • 9:59:57am

re: #271 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The only time I ever tuned in a DT speech was in fact on January 6th, 2021, just in time to see him tell his followers “I’ll be with you!”

I really enjoyed his interviews on the Howard Stern show. He was a great guest. He was funny and articulate, if boorish and outrageous. Very different from his POTUS speeches. He’s either going senile or method acting MAGA messiah well enough to make Daniel Day Lewis envious. My bet is with the former.

294
wrenchwench  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:05:53am
295
Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:09:03am

hearing aids…

296
Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:10:16am

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

hearing aids…

Lying to the court is a sanctionable offense, Dersh.

297
Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:12:11am

Ohhhh, fishfolk are gonna have a big mad if this is true.

298
Belafon  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:12:18am

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

hearing aids…

You can link some hearing aids to your cellphone, but he could just go get a new phone.

299
Hecuba's daughter  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:15:14am

re: #298 Belafon

You can link some hearing aids to your cellphone, but he could just go get a new phone.

My question: can’t they just clone his phone and return to him or does it have information that would allow him to continue his criminal activity?

300
Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:15:22am

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

hearing aids…

I have hearing aids that I can connect to my phone (via bluetooth) and control. However, I don’t NEED the bluetooth (or my phone) to use the hearing aids. They work just fine once I put batteries in and turn them on.

The extra control is nice, but not essential.

As usual, Mike Lindell is full of shit (and may be technologically illiterate on top of that).

301
dat_said  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:19:09am

re: #300 Eclectic Cyborg

I have hearing aids that I can connect to my phone (via bluetooth) and control. However, I don’t NEED the bluetooth (or my phone) to use the hearing aids. They work just fine once I put batteries in and turn them on.

The extra control is nice, but not essential.

As usual, Mike Lindell is full of shit (and may be technologically illiterate on top of that).

My wife can use her hearing aids as wireless mic-less ear buds when she gets a call on her smart phone

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:22:08am
NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered the dismissal of a National Rifle Association lawsuit accusing a New York regulator of stifling its speech by pressuring banks and insurers to stop doing business with the gun rights group.

In a 3-0 decision, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the NRA failed to prove that Maria Vullo, the former superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS), “crossed the line between attempts to convince and attempts to coerce.”

Vullo had in April 2018 called upon banks and insurers to consider the “reputational risks” of doing business with gun rights groups, following the fatal shooting two months earlier of 17 people at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

She later fined Lloyd’s of London and two other insurance businesses more than $13 million, and they agreed to stop selling NRA-endorsed products that New York considered illegal.

NRA free speech lawsuit against New York regulator is dismissed (Reuters)

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austin_blue  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:22:37am

re: #290 Crush White Nationalism

I saw them many years ago at a multi-band show.

Houston band. They came to Austin a lot back in the day. Had a minor hit with Bitchin’ Camaro. They were…interesting.

304
Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:22:57am
305
Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:23:47am

re: #304 Backwoods_Sleuth

The worst life decision a young single person can make is voting Republican. It limits your options by 100%.

306
Mattand  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:24:19am

Just to make sure I understand this:

The 11th Court essentially said to Judge Cannon, “Oh, for fuck’s sake, you were actually serious? This is stupid, no.”

Cannon, a Trump appointee who is obviously sympathetic to him, responds with the editorial equivalent of screaming “SMOKE BOMB!” and basically eliminates any chance Trump has to appeal to a Supreme Court he helped build, and in theory would be in the bag for him.

Do I have this right?

Also, I missed this, but how was Trump able to get in front of Cannon in the first place? I remember reading about some venue shopping going on. Was it just luck of the draw, or did another MAGAt judge or court employee gin up the system for him?

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:24:26am

re: #285 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Having Trump’s name on a property matters when he is President and can arrange a lot of favors for you in exchange for doing business with him on terms that are beneficial to him and his organization.

It could matter in valuation as collateral for a loan, vs market value to sell, vs rules how it should be valued under gaap for financial stmt purposes

308
Mattand  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:25:15am

re: #305 Dopamine Fish

The worst life decision a young single person can make is voting Republican. It limits your options by 100%.

Followed closely by paying attention to Scott Adams.

309
Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:26:53am

re: #306 Mattand

Just to make sure I understand this:

The 11th Court essentially said to Judge Cannon, “Oh, for fuck’s sake, you were actually serious? This is stupid, no.”

Cannon, a Trump appointee who is obviously sympathetic to him, responds with the editorial equivalent of screaming “SMOKE BOMB!” and basically eliminates any chance Trump has to appeal to a Supreme Court he helped build, and in theory would be in the bag for him.

Do I have this right?

Put succinctly, yes.

Also, I missed this, but how was Trump able to get in front of Cannon in the first place? I remember reading about some venue shopping going on. Was it just luck of the draw, or did another MAGAt judge or court employee gin up the system for him?

As far as I know, it was luck of the draw; he filed it in her district, intending for it to go directly to her, but lawtwitter told me that MDFL has some kind of a rotation system for cases, so there was actually a chance that it could’ve landed with somebody who isn’t completely in the tank for Trump.

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:27:01am

re: #308 Mattand

Followed closely by paying attention to Scott Adams.

He’s entirely irrelevant these days. Losing his mind lost him a lot of newspapers that once carried his strip.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:27:28am

re: #310 Crush White Nationalism

He’s entirely irrelevant these days. Losing his mind lost him a lot of newspapers that once carried his strip.

And now he’s screaming he’s being canceled, which, well, LOL. That’s what you get for being a dumbass.

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Dangerman  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:27:36am

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

hearing aids…

[Embedded content]

Get another phone
Download the app
Done

My 93 yo mom knows how to do this with hers

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Crush White Nationalism  Sep 22, 2022 • 10:28:34am

re: #312 Dangerman

Get another phone
Download the app
Done

My 93 yo mom knows how to do this with hers

But does she know how to score some crack at 3am? We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.

314
FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 22, 2022 • 11:06:36am

re: #149 Dangerman

This was a joke in mad magazine back in the 70s I think

I recall one from Mad in that time period with a husband and wife walking in the airport. They’re talking about how the police are all jumpy in airports about bomb threats and such. She asks him “What’s the movie on the flight?” and he replies “‘The Omega Man’”. She responds, “Oh no. Not that bomb!” Last frame is a bunch of police grabbing her saying “You’re under arrest!”


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