The Bob Cesca Podcast: Misfits, Mutants, Marxists, and Communists

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Misfits, Mutants, Marxists, and Communists — [Explicit Language] Judge rules that E. Jean Carroll can reopen her lawsuit against Trump after CNN town hall lies. Could Trump be indicted in New Jersey, too? John Kelly says Trump scared s**tless. Trump always makes things worse for Trump: Legal Advice Editions. The moronic lament of Eric Trump. The topless trans woman at the White House. Trump didn’t buy a damn thing at that Miami Cuban restaurant. The economics of Star Trek. Fox News chyron calls Biden a “wanna-be dictator.” With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Circe Link and Christian Nesmith, and more!

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austin_blue  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:00:33pm

Tornado Warning out west of Dave. Expired now.

Atmosphere right now is as stable as a schizophrenic off his meds.

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silverdolphin  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:05:36pm

Anyone remember this scene from Little Big Man (a tremendously underrated movie, IMHO), when Custer is deciding to go down into the Coulee. Here:

Little Big Man clip Custers insanity 3

I think in 100 years we might see something similar, but instead of Custer, it is a buffon-like Trump being told by an aide to “Hold onto those documents, Mr. President, because they belong to you”

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🔧-wench  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:08:41pm

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:10:30pm

re: #1 austin_blue

Tornado Warning out west of Dave. Expired now.

Atmosphere right now is as stable as a schizophrenic off his meds.

Getting yellow out here.

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🔧-wench  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:17:37pm

Mastodon

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Markm1960  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:25:56pm

re: #2 silverdolphin

Anyone remember this scene from Little Big Man (a tremendously underrated movie, IMHO), when Custer is deciding to go down into the Coulee. Here:

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I think in 100 years we might see something similar, but instead of Custer, it is a buffon-like Trump being told by an aide to “Hold onto those documents, Mr. President, because they belong to you”

Was just at the Little Big Horn yesterday.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:29:24pm

jeebus

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:30:32pm

re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth

jeebus

Rafael Theodore Cruz, your facts are in error here. Because unlike Republicans, we don’t worship our elected leaders, and we would vote to convict Biden if he had done something worthy of being convicted.

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:30:59pm

re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth

jeebus

Well, Hell is for children…just ask Ted Cruz’s daughters.

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:32:24pm

re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth

jeebus

I guess that’s just Ted hitting us with his best shot. He should put another coin in the music machine if he really loves rock and roll.

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🔧-wench  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:34:03pm

Mastodon

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gwangung  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:35:02pm

re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth

Pat Benatar’s been married to the same guy for 20-30 40 years. And served happily in her local PTA.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:38:48pm

re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth

jeebus

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Hit Ted with your best shot!
C’mon and hit him with your best shot!

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:39:51pm
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silverdolphin  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:45:30pm

re: #6 Markm1960

Was just at the Little Big Horn yesterday.

It is an awe-inspiring site. I really enjoyed my visit. So many military historical sites are close to civilization and shopping malls. Little Big Horn feels like it did 150 years ago.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:47:59pm

re: #12 gwangung

Ted thinks of Pat Benatar because she was the devil woman who haunted his dreams when he was 13.

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Markm1960  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:49:56pm

re: #15 silverdolphin

It is an awe-inspiring site. I really enjoyed my visit. So many military historical sites are close to civilization and shopping malls. Little Big Horn feels like it did 150 years ago.

I last visited almost 60 years ago. Little has changed from what my young mind remembered. Biggest change was the addition of the monument for the native Americans and the ‘markers’ for the known native dead. That and my understanding of what happened.

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:53:19pm

re: #16 jaunte

Ted thinks of Pat Benatar because she was the devil woman who haunted his dreams when he was 13.

I’m guessing so did Marsha and Jan.

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Unabogie  Jun 15, 2023 • 4:59:14pm

I will never understand these people “laying hands on Trump” when Trump so obviously detests them and their religion. I guess if you believe in the sky daddy then it’s much easier to convince you of other ridiculous things that also have no evidence.

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Captain Ron  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:00:16pm

Opinion by Rich Lowry

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Unabogie  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:01:15pm

re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth

jeebus

Speaking only for myself, I’m 100% sure if they had video of Joe Biden murdering kids then no Democrats would support him. Can we say the same thing of Trump and Republicans? Or Republicans and any white person who murders a Black child?

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:05:10pm

re: #21 Unabogie

Speaking only for myself, I’m 100% sure if they had video of Joe Biden murdering kids then no Democrats would support him. Can we say the same thing of Trump and Republicans? Or Republicans and any white person who murders a Black child?

“it had to be done” like the guy who strangled to death a manic Black man on a NYC subway.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:05:36pm

re: #19 Unabogie

I will never understand these people “laying hands on Trump” when Trump so obviously detests them and their religion.

You have to understand, these people have convinced themselves and their parishioners that there is only one political issue that matters: Abortion. Ending abortion is their religious litmus test, and in that regard, Donald Trump is the holiest man ever to have lived; his existence in the White House at the right time gave them God’s Anointed Supreme Court, who struck down Roe and started bringing God back to America. They’re willing to brush aside any evidence to the contrary, because they are so focused on the end goal of saving all the unborn.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:06:29pm

re: #23 Nerdy Fish

You have to understand, these people have convinced themselves and their parishioners that there is only one political issue that matters: Abortion. Ending abortion is their religious litmus test, and in that regard, Donald Trump is the holiest man ever to have lived; his existence in the White House at the right time gave them God’s Anointed Supreme Court, who struck down Roe and started bringing God back to America. They’re willing to brush aside any evidence to the contrary, because they are so focused on the end goal of saving all the unborn.

And how dare you question Roger Stone’s conversion! //

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mmmirele  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:07:30pm

re: #3 🔧-wench

That is a group of sharp-dressed men! Seriously, so handsome, and facing a world that didn’t accept them as full human beings.

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Captain Ron  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:08:42pm
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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:09:59pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:10:27pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:11:23pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

If she’s dead and he’s still keeping her name secret, was she ever alive?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:12:25pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

re: #29 darthstar

It makes one wonder if she existed at all.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:12:51pm

re: #29 darthstar

If she’s dead and he’s still keeping her name secret, was she ever alive?

It’s the Schrödinger’s witness dilemma.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:13:37pm

re: #27 darthstar

When does this become Racketeering? Seems mighty close to me.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:14:26pm

re: #27 darthstar

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Ron DeathSentence is a small and petty man.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:16:43pm

re: #21 Unabogie

Speaking only for myself, I’m 100% sure if they had video of Joe Biden murdering kids then no Democrats would support him. Can we say the same thing of Trump and Republicans? Or Republicans and any white person who murders a Black child?

Cruz and his ilk have to project and say bothsiderism things like that. Otherwise, it’s patently obviously how deeply down the road to hell they have gone. Willingly. And hopefully soon facing the political oblivion they so richly deserve.

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Captain Ron  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:18:10pm

re: #31 Charles Johnson

It’s the Schroedinger’s witness dilemma.

YouTube

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:20:07pm

re: #35 Captain Ron

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Video

A movie I wished I had never seen — and I was warned.

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BigPapa  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:20:17pm

Why didn’t anybody ever tell me The Melvins were great work music?

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:20:19pm

re: #21 Unabogie

Speaking only for myself, I’m 100% sure if they had video of Joe Biden murdering kids then no Democrats would support him. Can we say the same thing of Trump and Republicans? Or Republicans and any white person who murders a Black child?

This is an oddly specific scenario. How do we know there is no video of Ted Cruz in a Satan suit murdering babies while singing Pat Benatar? PLAIIOS!S!!S!!!!

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Unabogie  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:21:15pm

re: #34 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Cruz and his ilk have to project and say bothsiderism things like that. Otherwise, it’s patently obviously how deeply down the road to hell they have gone. Willingly. And hopefully soon facing the political oblivion they so richly deserve.

There’s that old line that believing absurdities leads to committing atrocities. We’re well into the first part so I’m pretty sure the second part will be happening real soon.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:21:43pm

re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth

jeebus

Pat Benatar? Cruz’s tiny weasel brain free-associated furiously and that’s what he came up with as an example of evil death metal Satan music?

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austin_blue  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:21:47pm

re: #18 darthstar

I’m guessing so did Marsha and Jan.

Before she went into RockyRoll, Benetar trained as an opera singer.

One helluva set of pipes.

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Unabogie  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:22:04pm

re: #38 Vicious Babushka

This is an oddly specific scenario. How do we know there is no video of Ted Cruz in a Satan suit murdering babies while singing Pat Benatar? PLAIIOS!S!!S!!!!

It’s like Eric Trump talking about Barron’s underwear drawer. Too weirdly specific to just be off the cuff, right?

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:23:21pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

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Difficulty: Rudy Giuliani. If he said the sky was blue, I’d walk outside to check. Even if he’s sober, it’s such an unusual occurrence I’m not sure his brain could function when off the sauce.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:23:36pm

This song just exudes Satanic evil.

Pat Benatar - We Belong

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:23:48pm

Anyone that prays with Trump is a sucker that deserves to have everything taken from them.

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Unabogie  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:24:23pm

re: #40 Charles Johnson

Pat Benatar? Cruz’s tiny weasel brain free-associated furiously and that’s what he came up with as an example of evil death metal Satan music?

Patricia and her husband have a successful and loving marriage that’s lasted decades. I bet if Trump insulted her, Neil would not snivel and beg Trump for acceptance afterwards like Teddy did.

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gocart mozart  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:29:01pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

Well I always hated it.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:29:03pm

Raphael, when Joe Biden goes out to murder children, he listens to BLACK FUCKING SABBATH!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:29:40pm

re: #26 Captain Ron

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Cause the case is so weak, that’s why //

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austin_blue  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:29:44pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

This song just exudes Satanic evil.

[Embedded content]

Video

Well, she *is* wearing Lizard Gloves…

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:30:37pm

You could probably break Ted Cruz’s brain by playing Cannibal Corpse at high volume.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:32:00pm

re: #51 Charles Johnson

You could probably break Ted Cruz’s brain by playing Cannibal Corpse at high volume.

Who said that weird fucko ever had a brain?

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austin_blue  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:33:42pm

re: #51 Charles Johnson

You could probably break Ted Cruz’s brain by playing Cannibal Corpse at high volume.

Or Big Lizard in my Backyard.

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Markm1960  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:34:00pm

re: #48 Ace Rothstein

Raphael, when Joe Biden goes out to murder children, he listens to BLACK FUCKING SABBATH!

Not Slayers ‘Angel of Death’ ?

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austin_blue  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:34:33pm

re: #52 Ace Rothstein

Who said that weird fucko ever had a brain?

Oh he’s got a brain, all right! It’s just Abby Normal.

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steve_davis  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:34:55pm

and in somewhat demoralizing news, the cat who has been coming in to eat and drink is ANOTHER black cat that is not Jesse, and I’m not adopting someone else, sorry. That was a one time moment when the Grinch’s small heart grew three times that day. It’s got room in there for Jesse, but not some interloper.

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austin_blue  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:41:26pm

re: #56 steve_davis

and in somewhat demoralizing news, the cat who has been coming in to eat and drink is ANOTHER black cat that is not Jesse, and I’m not adopting someone else, sorry. That was a one time moment when the Grinch’s small heart grew three times that day. It’s got room in there for Jesse, but not some interloper.

Damn. That *will* harsh one’s mellow.

I do hope you will find Jesse, but it’s also fair to say, “An outsides cat’s life is a hard life.”

Good luck, Steve. My best to you.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:43:28pm

Mastodon

She’s not recusing.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:44:35pm

Oops, wrong link.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:46:03pm

Judge Aileen Cannon has issued orders to the attorneys; she’s apparently staying on the case.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:47:39pm

re: #60 jaunte

I am convinced that Trump will be found not guilty.

Whenever the case is actually tried in court.

There will be at least one Trumper on the jury.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:49:02pm

re: #60 jaunte

Judge Aileen Cannon has issued orders to the attorneys; she’s apparently staying on the case.

This case is going to come down to whether or not she values whatever Trump offered her to get her off the hook. If she is no longer convinced he can, or will, honor whatever deal they had in place, this case will go before a jury in a very strong state, and the state could win. If she believes he will give her an appointment on the 11th or SCOTUS, he will walk. It’s as simple as that.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:49:17pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

This song just exudes Satanic evil.

[Embedded content]

Video

OMG! She has green lizard hands and THERE ARE CHILDREN SINGING HER SONG!!11!!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:49:23pm

Justice is, like almost all of our concepts, just a cultural creation.

One of the traits of societies is that those at the top of the pecking order live by different rules than the masses.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:50:49pm

re: #62 Nerdy Fish

If she thinks Trump honors his promises, she is simple.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:52:01pm

re: #62 Nerdy Fish

“If she believes he will give her an appointment on the 11th or SCOTUS, he will walk. It’s as simple as that.”

Well, he could nominate her. Whether or not she would be confirmed is another matter.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:54:00pm

Trump has no defense for the crimes he’s already admitted to in public. Even if the judge is prepared to suppress some evidence, I don’t think she can hide all of it.

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TedStriker  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:54:45pm

re: #48 Ace Rothstein

Raphael, when Joe Biden goes out to murder children, he listens to BLACK FUCKING SABBATH!

Ozzy or Dio?

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 5:58:48pm
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🔧-wench  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:05:48pm

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:05:49pm
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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:07:53pm

re: #69 jaunte

In the Trump case, screw “innocent until proven guilty”. Everyone knows the man is guilty as sin, most especially his loudest defenders.

What’s really on trial in the Trump case is rule of law in the US.

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:08:20pm

re: #60 jaunte

Judge Aileen Cannon has issued orders to the attorneys; she’s apparently staying on the case.

I think she’s trying to play this by the book. It’s her chance to seal her legacy as a respectable judge. Seeing this case to its end and delivering an appropriately harsh sentence will do that for her.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:08:49pm

re: #73 darthstar

I hope you’re right.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:09:39pm

re: #68 TedStriker

Ozzy or Dio?

Ozzy, duh.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:09:50pm

re: #73 darthstar

I think she’s trying to play this by the book. It’s her chance to seal her legacy as a respectable judge. Seeing this case to its end and delivering an appropriately harsh sentence will do that for her.

I have been wondering, in the back of my mind, if the true motivation for Loose Cannon’s order invoking the special master wasn’t necessarily being in the tank for Trump, but because she is so out of her depth when it comes to matters of this nature, she wanted to essentially punt on the hard stuff.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:11:17pm

re: #73 darthstar

I think she’s trying to play this by the book. It’s her chance to seal her legacy as a respectable judge. Seeing this case to its end and delivering an appropriately harsh sentence will do that for her.

That would be a sensible way for her to try to restore her reputation. Let’s hope she chooses to do that.

On the flip side, if she gets Trump off in some way that can’t be appealed to the 11th circuit, then burn the Federal judiciary to the ground (metaphorically). There is no reason to put up with institutions that have failed that badly.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:12:11pm

re: #73 darthstar

I think she’s trying to play this by the book. It’s her chance to seal her legacy as a respectable judge. Seeing this case to its end and delivering an appropriately harsh sentence will do that for her.

The biggest and most important trait of “Trumpism” or MAGA is a complete and total lack of shame. These people like Cannon DO NOT GIVE A FUCK. She is there to protect Trump, PERIOD.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:12:14pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:13:26pm

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:13:37pm

re: #79 jaunte

MY BOXES

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:14:03pm

re: #79 jaunte

The PRA protects presidential records, not agency records.

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Sherlock Hound  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:14:07pm

re: #38 Jay C

Yup, the woman who made those “dolls” had her house raided. I lived in her old neighborhood and still live two blocks away from her house.

Salem celebrates Halloween for 365 (366) days a year. But according to the consensus of people I know online and offline, we are Very Much Not Like That.

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:14:31pm

re: #75 Ace Rothstein

Ozzy, duh.

Dio. Okay, Ozzy. Fuck. Like AC/DC the leads are interchangeable.

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:15:49pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

My father used his AOL email until he died last year.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:16:00pm

re: #81 Nerdy Fish

“…perhaps the most unforgettable Dickensian scene is that of Miss Havisham’s bridal cake in Great Expectations - a torrid, insect infested, decaying mass that mirrors the rotting soul of its would-be bride.”

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:17:35pm

re: #79 jaunte

He probably wouldn’t be satisfied with the classified documents he took as they’re out of date and don’t hold much resale value. He’d prefer they returned HIS boxes with updated versions of the classified documents he stole.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:18:15pm

re: #82 Ace Rothstein

The PRA protects presidential records, not agency records.

Many of the documents involved could very well be presidential records, but he does not have the authority to retain them when he is no longer President. They are owned by NARA, and his retention of them falls afoul of the very PRA he seeks to take advantage of. That he cannot be sued or charged under that act does not mean he cannot be in violation of it.

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:19:02pm

Loved this fucking skit when I was a kid.

Mastodon

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:19:37pm

re: #79 jaunte

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:20:52pm

re: #88 Nerdy Fish

Many of the documents involved could very well be presidential records, but he does not have the authority to retain them when he is no longer President. They are owned by NARA, and his retention of them falls afoul of the very PRA he seeks to take advantage of. That he cannot be sued or charged under that act does not mean he cannot be in violation of it.

The PRA is a total red herring. Trump is being charged under other parts of the Federal Code, and the PRA contains no exemption to the laws Trump has violated.

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silverdolphin  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:21:45pm

re: #20 Captain Ron

Opinion by Rich Lowry

JFC. Let’s show there are two tracks for justice, that an ex-President can commit crimes and never see a day in jail, while an average peson would spend decades. No penalty for the most corrupt ex-President we ever had, not even looking at his corruption as President.

Of course, he cannot be pardoned for state crimes. So come on Georgia.

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mmmirele  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:24:27pm

re: #12 gwangung

Pat Benatar’s been married to the same guy for 20-30 years. And served happily in her local PTA.

Forty-two years. She’s been married to the same guy for 42 years. Ted Cruz just reached back into the mists of time and pulled her name out of his musty brain.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:25:02pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

Je weet wat je deed.
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Nerdy Fish  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:25:06pm

re: #87 darthstar

He probably wouldn’t be satisfied with the classified documents he took as they’re out of date and don’t hold much resale value. He’d prefer they returned HIS boxes with updated versions of the classified documents he stole.

I’m starting to doubt he had any intention of selling the documents, or using them as leverage. Reflecting on Trump Employee 2’s comment about “the beautiful mind paper,” I am now mostly convinced that he kept the documents, not for any specific advantage they might confer, but because they reminded him of (in his mind) his best moments as President - memories of things he was proud of. He wants to remember that heady feeling of being invincible, the most powerful man in the world, literally everybody hanging on every single word he says.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:25:25pm

re: #94 mmmirele

Ted Cruz is trying to get back at all of us for all the times he got his nerd ass kicked in high school.

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🔧-wench  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:30:36pm

re: #96 Nerdy Fish

I’m starting to doubt he had any intention of selling the documents, or using them as leverage. Reflecting on Trump Employee 2’s comment about “the beautiful mind paper,” I am now mostly convinced that he kept the documents, not for any specific advantage they might confer, but because they reminded him of (in his mind) his best moments as President - memories of things he was proud of. He wants to remember that heady feeling of being invincible, the most powerful man in the world, literally everybody hanging on every single word he says.

Cargo cult in bankers’ boxes.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:30:53pm

re: #96 Nerdy Fish

I’m starting to doubt he had any intention of selling the documents, or using them as leverage. Reflecting on Trump Employee 2’s comment about “the beautiful mind paper,” I am now mostly convinced that he kept the documents, not for any specific advantage they might confer, but because they reminded him of (in his mind) his best moments as President - memories of things he was proud of. He wants to remember that heady feeling of being invincible, the most powerful man in the world, literally everybody hanging on every single word he says.

I.e., trophies. That rings true, especially with that bit where he was showing them off just to impress others, instead of making it pay per view.

That said, the damage to US national security is still immense, since security at Trump’s FL pesthole is nonexistent, and every interested foreign intelligence agency in the world has long since known everything that was in Trump’s stolen documents.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:31:47pm

re: #99 EPR-radar

Like that Chinese spy that made her way into Mar a Lardo.

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gwangung  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:35:27pm

re: #94 mmmirele

Forty-two years. She’s been married to the same guy for 42 years. Ted Cruz just reached back into the mists of time and pulled her name out of his musty brain.

I am an old fart and can’t count years.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:38:42pm

re: #76 Nerdy Fish

I have been wondering, in the back of my mind, if the true motivation for Loose Cannon’s order invoking the special master wasn’t necessarily being in the tank for Trump, but because she is so out of her depth when it comes to matters of this nature, she wanted to essentially punt on the hard stuff.

I think I read shes tried four criminal cases. Four. Nothing of this magnitude or complexity of course.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:42:57pm

re: #61 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I am convinced that Trump will be found not guilty.

Whenever the case is actually tried in court.

There will be at least one Trumper on the jury.

a hung jury can be retried. My guess is that the case is strong enough to convict on some of the counts. Juries like to feel that they are in charge so they ignore some of the counts. It doesn’t matter the’re will be other cases. In my opinion, if he’s not convicted of what happened on Jan 6, we have failed. Keep the faith.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:43:05pm

re: #102 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I think I read shes tried four criminal cases. Four. Nothing of this magnitude or complexity of course.

Yes, todays electoral-vote said she had 224 criminal cases before her, but 220 of them pled out before they went to trial.

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A Cranky One  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:57:30pm

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 6:58:30pm

re: #51 Charles Johnson

Reading a horror comic one dark night in September 1963 at the neighbors house while the radio played: the creepiest tune I can imagine is Bobby Vinton singing Blue Velvet.
Apparently David Lynch had a similar experience.

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🔧-wench  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:00:07pm

re: #104 Nerdy Fish

Yes, todays electoral-vote said she had 224 criminal cases before her, but 220 of them pled out before they went to trial.

What if trump plead guilty to 37 lesser felonies. Little bit of jail, can never run for office again. ? Would that suffice?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:01:18pm

re: #104 Nerdy Fish

Yes, todays electoral-vote said she had 224 criminal cases before her, but 220 of them pled out before they went to trial.

She’s known as The Cannon, and defendants are terrified of going to trial.
/The statement above is probably not true.

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🔧-wench  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:03:54pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:07:01pm

re: #67 jaunte

Trump has no defense for the crimes he’s already admitted to in public. Even if the judge is prepared to suppress some evidence, I don’t think she can hide all of it.

My brainwashed Jesusbot relatives reply that he does have a defense—Jesus will save him because he stopped abortion.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:08:37pm

re: #110 Joe Bacon ✅

If Jesus can rapture him right up next week that would be fine.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:09:46pm

re: #111 jaunte

If Jesus can rapture him right up next week that would be fine.

Yeah, Jesus ain’t gonna want that one. Just sayin’.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:35:33pm

re: #2 silverdolphin

Anyone remember this scene from Little Big Man (a tremendously underrated movie, IMHO), when Custer is deciding to go down into the Coulee. Here:

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Video

I think in 100 years we might see something similar, but instead of Custer, it is a buffon-like Trump being told by an aide to “Hold onto those documents, Mr. President, because they belong to you”

Custer impetuously broke up Jeb Stuart’s charge at Gettyburg, but hubris did him in.

Trump’s S FL trial could be his Nuremberg trial.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:41:16pm

re: #67 jaunte

Guilt is not the issue here, in the big picture.

It’s whether Trump will pay for his (admitted) crimes.

I say no.

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ckkatz  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:43:11pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:44:40pm

re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Guilt is not the issue here, in the big picture.

It’s whether Trump will pay for his (admitted) crimes.

I say no.

That depends on what is meant by “pay.” He won’t get the traditional punishment for sedition or espionage, but I think he has some convictions coming his way.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:45:32pm

re: #103 I Would Prefer Not To

Keep the faith.

I have no faith to keep.

To me, society is about hierarchies, about climbing a ladder as high as one can.

Justice, like race, is a social construct. There is no objective value in the universe called “justice”.

Trump is not the dumb ass he is often thought to be.

A bore, yes.
An obnoxious bore, yes.
A malicious, obnoxious bore, yes.

But he is playing the game all strong men play.

They want to be immortal.

Whatever it takes to make sure his name is remembered for a thousand years.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:49:53pm

What we see playing out with Trump and how he flaunts his crimes (and how he’ll get away with them, I predict) is not something new.

People like to ask how we got to this, in 2023. Looking for causes. Maybe they go back to Reagan’s electoral victories, or Roe v. Wade.

I think it goes farther back (as far a the US is concerned.)

I say go back to 14 April, 1865.

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ckkatz  Jun 15, 2023 • 7:56:29pm

Looks like more folks are cleaning out their basements.

I understand that the Merkava Mark V is just about to enter Israeli service this year.

No. built
Mark I: 250 (1979)
Mark II: 580 (1983)
Mark III: 780 (1989)
Mark IV: 360 in service + 300 units being delivered. (2004)

I believe that the Jordanians also have ~1000 older tanks (Chieftain, Centurion, Challenger, M60) in storage. We may see transfers in the near future.

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ckkatz  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:02:55pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:08:38pm

re: #92 silverdolphin

JFC. Let’s show there are two tracks for justice, that an ex-President can commit crimes and never see a day in jail, while an average peson would spend decades. No penalty for the most corrupt ex-President we ever had, not even looking at his corruption as President.

Of course, he cannot be pardoned for state crimes. So come on Georgia.

Wonder what pound of flesh GA Gov Brian Kemp would want to pardon Trump?

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silverdolphin  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:08:38pm

re: #62 Nerdy Fish

This case is going to come down to whether or not she values whatever Trump offered her to get her off the hook. If she is no longer convinced he can, or will, honor whatever deal they had in place, this case will go before a jury in a very strong state, and the state could win. If she believes he will give her an appointment on the 11th or SCOTUS, he will walk. It’s as simple as that.

This is going to be one of the most complex cases ever tried, not only because of Trump but because of the sheer number of secret documents that must be dealt with in very specific fashion because of their classification. She has only overseen 4 trials and spent less than 15 hours acting as a judge in a trial. She is almost certain to make a critical error and not follow the detailed processes required. The prosecutors then appeal saying she is out of her depth.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:10:41pm

re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I don’t believe Trump will get away with it. 37 charges in Florida and multiple charges to come in NY and Georgia and possibly New Jersey. The only way he gets away is if a Republican wins the White House. Then he’ll be pardoned.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:15:40pm

re: #20 Captain Ron

It’s odd how Lowry and ilk center Trump supporters as the majority. The last two elections clearly show that the majority of voters don’t support Trump. Most of us hate his guts and want to see him rot away in prison for the rest of his life. That’s what he deserves.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:18:49pm

re: #102 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I think I read shes tried four criminal cases. Four. Nothing of this magnitude or complexity of course.

14 total days of trial.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:21:41pm

re: #123 Patricia Kayden

I don’t believe Trump will get away with it. 37 charges in Florida and multiple charges to come in NY and Georgia and possibly New Jersey. The only way he gets away is if a Republican wins the White House. Then he’ll be pardoned.

A corrupt pardon from a corrupt GOP president (as if there could be any other kind of GOP president) only gets Trump off the hook for his Federal crimes.

The GA governor is a Republican, so a corrupt pardon there is also a possibility.

But I don’t have much of a problem with a possible Kemp pardon of Trump for his crimes in GA. Let the entire country see how corrupt the GOP is, and if the GOP can still win/steal elections after that, we’re done.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:23:15pm

re: #124 Patricia Kayden

It’s odd how Lowry and ilk center Trump supporters as the majority. The last two elections clearly show that the majority of voters don’t support Trump. Most of us hate his guts and want to see him rot away in prison for the rest of his life. That’s what he deserves.

It’s not odd at all. Fascists always claim to be speaking for the majority, and it’s just more fascist lies. See also Nixon’s purported “silent majority”.

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silverdolphin  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:26:22pm

re: #125 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

14 total days of trial.

IMHO. She will have to follow the Classified Information Procedures Act, a very complex set of procedures. This is to prevent graymail threats by Trump. She will screw this up, allowig Trump to release top secret info, the prosecutors will appeal and likley win, removing her for a more experienced judge.

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Captain Ron  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:28:19pm

Hey guys, I found this neat new puzzle box.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:32:26pm

re: #128 silverdolphin

IMHO. She will have to follow the Classified Information Procedures Act, a very complex set of procedures. This is to prevent graymail threats by Trump. She will screw this up, allowig Trump to release top secret info, the prosecutors will appeal and likley win, removing her for a more experienced judge.

Trump has no real graymail threats here, since everything he’s stashed away at his FL pesthole must be assumed to already be in enemy hands. However, the CIPA procedures should still be followed, since it’s a plausible way to get Judge Loose Cannon off the case.

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:35:54pm

Damnit, all the Pat talk got this stuck in my head, so now you all get to suffer with me!

Heartbreaker (Remastered)

Maybe that’s the satanic song Tailgunner Ted was thinking of.//

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:37:43pm

re: #115 ckkatz

Tom Bonier
@tbonier
I genuinely don’t understand this. No Labels will only continue to campaign if it appears as though Trump could beat Biden? How does that make sense unless your objective is for Trump to win?

Dark campaign funds are source for a slush fund.

Apparently some $600 million was eased out of Trump’s 2020 billion dollar campaign fund and not proven to have been spent on Trump’s campaign.

IIRC, Trump’s campaign was short of money in October and November 2020. To date I’m not aware if those asking just prior to the election “what happened to the money” ever got a satisfactory answer.

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silverdolphin  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:39:00pm

re: #131 Targetpractice

Damnit, all the Pat talk got this stuck in my head, so now you all get to suffer with me!

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Maybe that’s the satanic song Tailgunner Ted was thinking of.//

She was one of my favorites and some great music videos. Such a talent.

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KingKenrod  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:39:22pm

re: #121 BeenHereAwhile

Wonder what pound of flesh GA Gov Brian Kemp would want to pardon Trump?

No gov pardons in GA

Pardons are done by a board, and only after part of the sentence has been served.

Or so I’ve heard other people say.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:41:53pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:42:46pm

re: #126 EPR-radar

The GOP won the House after the January 6th insurrection so I have no doubt that they can win after pardoning Trump.

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ckkatz  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:42:50pm

re: #128 silverdolphin

I am presuming/hoping that DOJ has a plan on how to deal with Cannon and Trump hijinks. They are supposedly experienced and knowledgeable. And they are the ones that made the decision to proceed.

The various tv talking heads, including some who might actually know what they are saying, have indicated that there is a long road ahead and that the DOJ should have multiple opportunities to appeal if the deem it necessary.

According to Joyce Vance, a former Federal DA for the Northern District of Alabama (in the 11th circuit) once a jury has been seated the DOJ’s ability to maneuver will be extremely limited.

The whole thing, of course, is way above my pay grade…

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:43:25pm

re: #134 KingKenrod

No gov pardons in GA

Pardons are done by a board, and only after part of the sentence has been served.

Or so I’ve heard other people say.

Thanks for the correction - that’s good to know.

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:49:14pm

re: #115 ckkatz

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Politico had an article the other day where they also admitted there’s another scenario where they will drop out of the race: If Trumps drops or is beaten in the primaries by another candidate.

Their reasoning? They only want to run if there is a large enough pool of “independents” (read: Repubs in denial) who don’t want to vote for Trump again but still want to vote Repub. So they’ll offer someone like Manchin who’s practically a Repub in all but name so that all those “independents” can pat themselves on the backs for “voting their conscience” or whatever excuse they make at the country club on Wednesday.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:52:27pm

re: #115 ckkatz

The No Labels goons are conservatives, therefore they are liars. In this case, the lie is so blatant it shows up as an immediately obvious self-contradiction.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:55:09pm

re: #96 Nerdy Fish

I’m starting to doubt he had any intention of selling the documents, or using them as leverage. Reflecting on Trump Employee 2’s comment about “the beautiful mind paper,” I am now mostly convinced that he kept the documents, not for any specific advantage they might confer, but because they reminded him of (in his mind) his best moments as President - memories of things he was proud of. He wants to remember that heady feeling of being invincible, the most powerful man in the world, literally everybody hanging on every single word he says.

Except has anyone determined exactly why the Saudis gave Jared $2 billion? We know Trump revealed top secret information to the Russians at the beginning of his administration. He is motivated by financial interests above all and it is logical to consider that he was selling this information.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:57:14pm

re: #141 Hecuba’s daughter

Except has anyone determined exactly why the Saudis gave Jared $2 billion? We know Trump revealed top secret information to the Russians at the beginning of his administration. He is motivated by financial interests above all and it is logical to consider that he was selling this information.

This. Prince Bonesaw doesn’t do charity, and even if he did, Kushner/Trump is not a worthy cause.

Therefore there must be a quid pro quo.

Personally, I’d like to throw all the US parties involve in this corrupt deal into Gitmo until someone feels like talking. And yes, that includes the waterboarding.

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BigPapa  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:57:34pm

I did brussel sprouts with lemon, garlic, fresh thyme, and a little sherry vinegar. Holy broke da mouth.

The roast cabbage and mushrooms with turmeric was almost as good.

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:57:47pm

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ckkatz  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:59:00pm
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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 8:59:27pm

re: #131 Targetpractice

Damnit, all the Pat talk got this stuck in my head, so now you all get to suffer with me!

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Maybe that’s the satanic song Tailgunner Ted was thinking of.//

I had Alexa play Pat Benetar for about a half hour before dinner. My wife was all, “WTF?” and I explained about Ted Cruz.

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:00:20pm

re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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So her reasoning is that rape is cool if the rapist is not physically abusive? Just think of it as being “spontaneous” when he ignores your denial of consent and has sex with your unconscious body?

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:02:54pm

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sagehen  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:03:44pm

re: #127 EPR-radar

It’s not odd at all. Fascists always claim to be speaking for the majority, and it’s just more fascist lies. See also Nixon’s purported “silent majority”.

Nixon’s majority was anything but silent.

The 1968 E.V. results were Nixon 301, Humphrey 191, Wallace 46
The 1972 E.V. results were Nixon 520, McGovern 17

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ckkatz  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:03:45pm

Speaking of Salem, Massachusetts… May they continue to eat their own!
(And to belabor the comment; witches are supposed to sink in water.)

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:04:17pm

re: #147 Targetpractice

So her reasoning is that rape is cool if the rapist is not physically abusive? Just think of it as being “spontaneous” when he ignores your denial of consent and has sex with your unconscious body?

The conservative failure to understand consent in this context is absolute. Fundamentally, most of them think of women as appliances, and you don’t ask an appliance for consent before it is used for its intended purpose.

Since this conservative viewpoint is especially appalling (even for shitty conservative views), being accused of having it is a sure fire way to draw howls of outrage from conservatives.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:04:39pm

re: #136 Patricia Kayden

The GOP won the House after the January 6th insurrection so I have no doubt that they can win after pardoning Trump.

The Democratic Party got five million more votes than the Republican Party in 2020 and lost thirteen seats. The GOP gained fourteen seats (one was open).

There were far too many “a pox on both your houses” centrists (and a lesser extent voters who were suppressed).

The power of gerrymandering coupled with people thinking politics doesn’t matter in their day-to-day lives. Centrists would lead us right into fascism.

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darthstar  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:07:03pm

I need to shop at Crate & Barrel more.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:08:30pm

re: #149 sagehen

Nixon’s majority was anything but silent.

The 1968 E.V. results were Nixon 301, Humphrey 191, Wallace 46
The 1972 E.V. results were Nixon 520, McGovern 17

The Electoral College is Omni-shitty, useless in all respects.

E.g., the 1972 election had Nixon with 60.7% of the popular vote, and McGovern only got 37.5%. Yes, McGovern lost, and lost badly. But that 30 to 1 blowout in the electoral college is a piss-poor gauge of the actual results.

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austin_blue  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:08:59pm

Well, I’m out. Goodnight dear friends.

Sweet dreams.

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ckkatz  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:09:05pm
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Captain Ron  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:10:29pm

I’m watching Star Trek Strange s1e10 again. I just realized Captain Batel is Wynonna Earp.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:16:26pm

re: #156 ckkatz

Breaking: Rudy is trans.

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ckkatz  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:17:15pm

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Article -

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:19:32pm

re: #149 sagehen

Nixon’s majority was anything but silent.

The 1968 E.V. results were Nixon 301, Humphrey 191, Wallace 46
The 1972 E.V. results were Nixon 520, McGovern 17

If Nixon’s opponent were Muskie not McGovern, the results would not have been so lopsided but Nixon would likely have still won the election.

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mmmirele  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:20:07pm

re: #151 EPR-radar

The conservative failure to understand consent in this context is absolute. Fundamentally, most of them think of women as appliances, and you don’t ask an appliance for consent before it is used for its intended purpose.

Since this conservative viewpoint is especially appalling (even for shitty conservative views), being accused of having it is a sure fire way to draw howls of outrage from conservatives.

It’s one of my regular talking points about Evangelical sexual attitudes. If someone is a complete asshat about LGBTQIA people, I just point out that Evangelicals also teach and believe that our bodies are not our own (1 Cor 6:19-20, a straight reading) and that a wife owes sex to her husband (1 Cor 7:1-6, but Evangelicals ignore that there’s mutuality about both husband and wife owing to each other due to Evangelical patriarchy). Then I point out that since they don’t believe in consent in sex and essentially still think marital rape is OK, I don’t see why any normal person would take anything they say seriously at all.

WRT Donald Trump…this would never happen, but can you imagine the consternation if a Mar-A-Lago spy was put on the stand in his case? You know, like a French spy? With a completely outrageous accent talking about how easy it was to penetrate MAL, access and take pictures of the documents? Again, this would never, ever happen because no other country is going to let their spy take the stand, but it’s a pleasant as hell fantasy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:21:56pm

More on that “witness” from the GOP:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:23:44pm

Much of Reddit is still inaccessible, though some of the popular subreddits came back (like r/Politics).

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piratedan  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:26:42pm

re: #124 Patricia Kayden

Biden beat him by 7m votes last time and all Biden has done in the interim is pull the economy out of the shitter, restored manufacturing in the midwest, addressed climate change and income disparity, helped make life more or less normal again post pandemic and rose to the occasion past the foreign policy minefield left by 45.

instead the GOP has offered us hate and cruelty and idiocy.

Granted the MSM will do their level best to normalize all of that lunacy because they are essentially owned by their own idiocy regarding clicks and horse races

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ckkatz  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:29:20pm
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Belafon  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:31:46pm

re: #163 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Much of Reddit is still inaccessible, though some of the popular subreddits came back (like r/Politics).

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“I own Reddit, damn it, not the people who make content.”

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:34:36pm

re: #163 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Huffman is a typical despot, pretending that anyone with any ability to oppose his whims, no matter how trivially, is some kind of oppressor.

Would it be unethical to see if conservatives must DARVO to survive by direct experimentation?

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ckkatz  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:35:16pm
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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:35:51pm

re: #166 Belafon

“I own Reddit, damn it, not the people who make content.”

That CEO is a fucking tick, wanting to make the big bucks by monetizing content and services provided to the platform for free by its users. Fuck him with a rusty chainsaw.

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ckkatz  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:37:04pm

Didn’t see any mention of this on lgf -

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retired cynic  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:37:43pm

re: #168 ckkatz

WTF!

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:39:43pm

re: #171 retired cynic

WTF!

What hurts is seeing this level of stupidity from the Washington Post. It’s as if the political media is pissing on the very idea that reporting on politics can be a useful profession.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:41:42pm

re: #170 ckkatz

Regrettably, this kind of thing tends to be ephemeral, since the first company to break the deal gets the biggest rewards from the perverse incentives of capitalism.

It’s also the best that can be done at the moment, since nothing useful can get through the House.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:49:24pm

re: #169 EPR-radar

That CEO is a fucking tick, wanting to make the big bucks by monetizing content and services provided to the platform for free by its users. Fuck him with a rusty chainsaw.

The unpaid volunteers are the real landed gentry, not the Libertarian oligarch who owns the site.

This isn’t his first meltdown over users either. During the Pizzagate nonsense, he edited all the posts critical of him in r/The_Donald (before that subreddit got banned for promoting violence).

He also once gave an award to r/Jailbait’s moderator (because underage girls and Libertarian). It was shut down only after CNN did a report on r/Jailbait.

When Gawker was about to publish an exposé about the real person who ran numerous underage and creepshot subreddits, Huffman banned the subreddits the day before. Gawker published it anyway, which caused much kvetching over doxxing people’s private information (for you know, publishing photographs of underage girls by Libertarians).

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:55:45pm

re: #163 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Much of Reddit is still inaccessible, though some of the popular subreddits came back (like r/Politics).

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It’s one of those decisions that only makes sense to strong men, the ones who believe that the plebes love them and what they’re doing, and that the way to deal with any who stand against them is simply to portray them as “enemies of the people.”

Using that logic, he’s convincing himself that all he has to do is just put the decision in the hands of those plebes and they’ll do his job of banning those “enemies” for shutting down popular subreddits. When that fails, he’ll do it himself and claim “lots of people” have asked him to do it but wouldn’t speak publicly for fear of “retaliation.”

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2023 • 9:59:01pm

re: #175 Targetpractice

Big manly men who went to him crying.

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2023 • 10:51:12pm

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

More on that “witness” from the GOP:

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As of right now, the GQP “case” against the Bidens amounts to:

- Witnesses/”Whistleblowers” who refuse to be identified and have either “disappeared” or “died” without explanation
- Banking documents showing deposits which they cannot explain
- An FBI FD-1023 from an unidentified source that claims an unnamed exec asked for advice on how to buy influence with the Bidens and floats bribery but never says that an offer was made or money paid
- Tapes that are allegedly were recorded as “insurance” by this unnamed exec and given to his wife who has no mysteriously died and the tapes vanished

FFS, Whitewater had more substance to it than this shit-heap does, and that consisted of a single bastard offering unverifiable testimony in the hopes of a better prison sentence.

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A Cranky One  Jun 15, 2023 • 10:58:48pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 15, 2023 • 10:59:17pm

re: #177 Targetpractice

As of right now, the GQP “case” against the Bidens amounts to:

- Witnesses/”Whistleblowers” who refuse to be identified and have either “disappeared” or “died” without explanation
- Banking documents showing deposits which they cannot explain
- An FBI FD-1023 from an unidentified source that claims an unnamed exec asked for advice on how to buy influence with the Bidens and floats bribery but never says that an offer was made or money paid
- Tapes that are allegedly were recorded as “insurance” by this unnamed exec and given to his wife who has no mysteriously died and the tapes vanished

FFS, Whitewater had more substance to it than this shit-heap does, and that consisted of a single bastard offering unverifiable testimony in the hopes of a better prison sentence.

All these lies are intended to do is keep Republican voters voting for their party’s shyte sandwich of grasping power, comforting the comfortable and afflicting the needy, whilst confuse centrists and non-voters into being unable to tell what’s true.

For us, they’re lying, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, and yet they still lie.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 15, 2023 • 11:12:27pm

This woman is like Lori Alexander (The Transformed Wife) but somehow worse. She reads like Poe’s Law but I assure you she’s legit.

No atheist or feminist goes after her for wanting to be a “traditional housewife.” They go after her for wanting to force every other woman to do the same, in accordance with her religion, and for being a TERF.

The Feminist Turned House Wife 🇵🇹
@femturnedwife
Former atheist feminist saved by the grace of God. Wife and mother of 3. All opinions are my husband’s.
TexasJoined April 2018

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2023 • 11:13:32pm

The only other term would be unfair to dogs:

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2023 • 11:23:45pm

re: #20 Captain Ron

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Opinion by Rich Lowry

Lowry’s entire argument could be condensed down a single sentence: “Do it to make the MAGAts happy.”

That’s the sum total of his argument, that the MAGAts are angry and bitter that the DOJ did not do their bidding by putting Hillary and the Bidens behind bars, so they deserve a consolation prize of seeing the God-Emperor walk free from some of the worst offenses of national security in recent memory.

The rest of it is the usual “Do it for the good of the country” BS that leans heavily upon the idea that Ford pardoning Nixon for Watergate somehow eased political tensions in America rather than just setting the stage for decades of blatant criming by Repubs that went unpunished because of fears of public (read: Repub) backlash.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 15, 2023 • 11:25:37pm

(11:07)

The Ark Royal Sinking

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2023 • 11:29:40pm

I had a fun night. Got to see my favorite touring rock ‘n’ roll circus here:

Mastodon

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IngisKahn  Jun 15, 2023 • 11:44:36pm

re: #181 Belafon

That’s complete bullshit, at least they are getting ratioed

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sagehen  Jun 15, 2023 • 11:46:10pm

re: #182 Targetpractice

Lowry’s entire argument could be condensed down a single sentence: “Do it to make the MAGAts happy.”

We’re not stupid enough to think it really would make the MAGAts happy.

If Biden were to pardon Trump, TFG would immediately go on social media to claim this is proof that there was never any legitimate case, that the Dems now admit that…

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Targetpractice  Jun 15, 2023 • 11:58:30pm

re: #186 sagehen

We’re not stupid enough to think it really would make the MAGAts happy.

If Biden were to pardon Trump, TFG would immediately go on social media to claim this is proof that there was never any legitimate case, that the Dems now admit that…

Right, which only makes it more ridiculous that he suggests it be done after the election by either Biden or whichever Republican beats him in the primaries as a “consolation prize.” When Donny is squealing every waking moment that even investigating what he had for breakfast is a form of electoral interference, how hard is it to see that pardoning him after he’s lost another election bid would lead to accusations that the whole investigation had been a deliberate effort to tank his campaign?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2023 • 12:51:22am

re: #181 Belafon

The only other term would be unfair to dogs:

TERFs named themselves that. They then objected to it when actual feminists exposed them as a Heritage Foundation front group and started mocking them.

They then bellyached that the term was “politicised” by liberals.

They then chose the name “Gender Critical” for themselves as an alternative to TERF. Since that rebranding was obviously transparent, the mocking continued, so they claimed that term was being politicised.

AP here is caving to conservative grievance politics. TERF accurately describes what they are (and a lot of them are actually men).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 16, 2023 • 1:18:17am

[moved by me]

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sagehen  Jun 16, 2023 • 1:41:01am

re: #187 Targetpractice

Right, which only makes it more ridiculous that he suggests it be done after the election by either Biden or whichever Republican beats him in the primaries as a “consolation prize.” When Donny is squealing every waking moment that even investigating what he had for breakfast is a form of electoral interference, how hard is it to see that pardoning him after he’s lost another election bid would lead to accusations that the whole investigation had been a deliberate effort to tank his campaign?

I’d be okay with, after he’s convicted and serves a year or so, cutting a deal where if he fully and truthfully allocutes he gets his sentence commuted.


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