The Frankish Reich
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30 minutes ago, KDIGGZ said:
Sounds like an episode of 90 Day Fiancee. Either that or he's a spy unfortunately
I vote for the first option.
And I might add: a damn fool.
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12 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
Are you a chubby chaser, Frank?
I respectfully decline to answer. But I will say that Ozempic is a human rights violation.
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5 hours ago, Irv said:
Demented Biden and Third Term Obammy have forced the Venezuelan Diet on the country. Starving people. Can't wait until these two losers are voted out. What a mess.
What percentage of people on SNAP are obese?
Weight differences were especially striking for women; 42 percent of women who participated in food stamps were obese, compared with 30 percent of eligible nonparticipating women and 22 percent of women with incomes above the eligibility limit.
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1 hour ago, FireChans said:
3 less sacks
You mean 3 fewer sacks? 😁
Actually, this is a tricky one. Since you can be credited with a half sack, maybe it should be less.
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3 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
At the risk of repeating facts known to all, we have a president who has lied about where his son died. We don't need secret sources, intrepid investigative reporters, hidden cameras or spies walking among us. All we need is a google search and this fabrication is readily apparent.
That's before we get to lies about his education, class ranking, dead people he has met with, driving trucks, working in his son's business, handling of top secret information and just about everything else.
Biden is known for astonishing, stupid and self-disqualifying statements delivered over decades in public office. Kristi Noem can't hold a candle to JB, and he's THE standard bearer of democrat politics over the last 20+ years.
Yeah, but he didn't shoot Commander. Or Major.
And he never banged Corey Lewandowski.
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13 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
That I understand. All the cases I've been pointed to up to now had clear legal violations attached to the charge of falsifying business records. Falsify business records to embezzle funds. Falsify business ecords to hide contribution channeled through other intermediaries. And so on.
What specific crime did Trump commit that he's trying to conceal through the falsification of business records? Its not illegal to enter into an NDA agreement. Its not illegal to compensate the other party for signing the agreement. Its not illegal to not disclose the existence or terms of the NDA to the public, election or no election.
For me, there's just too much smoke and fog to see through here.
You need to focus on the elements that will be in the judge's jury instructions. Of course, we don't have those yet. But we know it will include things like this:
- were business records falsified? This one is a no-brainer.
- did Trump cause those records to be falsified? There's some wiggle room there. The accountant did it at Cohen's urging, etc, with Trump strangely unaware.
- was it done for the purpose of influencing the election? There's a lot of room there. Following generally, I see that Hope Hicks (a prosecution witness) testified that at one point Trump was calling her about whether the Stormy thing had hit the press and had stopped having the newspaper delivered to his residence in the hope that if it was, at least Melania wouldn't see it. So the defense can argue that Trump's motivation - even if they establish the other elements - was primarily to protect his family from embarrassment. The prosecution will, of course, argue that the furious activity right after the "grab 'em by the p[]ssy" tape - the expressed need to get it done immediately - shows that the election was the primary purpose. As I said above, I think the prosecution has already put on enough evidence for a reasonable juror to infer from the circumstantial evidence that the charge has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt. There's also enough for the defense to argue that it hasn't.
- here's where the jury instructions will be critical: is it enough that the prosecution shows that influencing the election was one purpose of the scheme, even if there were others? That's the most favorable instruction for the prosecution. Or maybe it has to be the primary purpose, or even the sole purpose; the defense would love that.
I just don't know the law here since it hinges largely on NY State decisions (not my turf) and how much will fall on the judge vs. established case law.
When the case was brought, I thought the legal theory was kind of a stretch. I think they've convinced me it's pretty solid, and that the verdict will turn on the instructions and how the 12 jurors make inferences from circumstantial evidence.
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1 minute ago, Doc said:
No surprise. People are now realizing that that what Joe sold back in 2019 was a lie and have an idea was 4 more years of this shitshow of an Admin will bring.
Good Lord. Citing Rasmussen. Used to be a quasi-legit polling firm with a strong Republican bias, but as I understand it Mr. Rasmussen itself sold out and now it's nothing more than a propaganda machine.
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On 5/1/2024 at 11:33 AM, KDIGGZ said:
Them - "I'm a Democratic socialist"
Anyone with a brain - "Oh so you are a communist!"
The Massage Therapist needs to actually read Marx. Don't get that massage oil on your copy of Das Kapital.
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20 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
Whoa, look at the timeline here.*
Someone's got a dummy account and is actually reading my posts!!
*note that nobody quoted me before he posted this pointless emoji
1 hour ago, B-Man said:It's Hard to Imagine a Worse Day for Stormy and the NYC Prosecutors in the Hush Trump Case
VICTORIA TAFT
It's hard to imagine a worse day in court than having a reliable witness come in, throw his own client, Stormy Daniels, under the New York Subway train, and then completely disembowel the prosecution's case, at least the one they're selling to the jury.
That's what happened Thursday in the Hush Trump case in Manhattan. The Get Trump prosecutors' big coup of a witness, Stormy Daniels' attorney Keith Davidson, basically pantsed D.A. Alvin Bragg, his assistant D.A., and lead prosecutor Matthew Colangelo in front of God and everybody.
First, Davidson threw his client, the former adult movie copulator, under the B train by leaving her naked and exposed as the conniving extortionist she has always appeared to be in this shakedown of Trump. Davidson, who insisted on correcting attorneys nomenclature and another verbiage on the stand, pedantically yet thoroughly, discredited the prosecution's case that Trump frantically tried to silence the statuesque porno professional for a supposed long-ago tryst for the purpose of stealing the 2016 election. If you're new here, this is the prosecution's theory. There's more to it than that, but stop laughing and read more over here, here and here.
Under questioning by Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass, Davidson went over the nondisclosure agreement he helped draw up for Daniels. Steinglass was gingerly trying to ask Davidson if Stormy's agreement was a lie when she signed it to collect $130,000 or now, in court.
But it was what he said under cross-examination by Trump's attorney that appears to have left Stormy in even more legal jeopardy than she was before.
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Absolutely no one but these "give them what they want to hear" hacks thinks this is going well for Trump.
And it got worse today when Hope Hicks provided enough for any juror to infer that Trump was fully in the loop. The prosecution could actually rest now, but I imagine there's more to come.
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Hope Hicks on now. And any idea that she might not give the DA what he expected is out the window.
News on cross-examination of Hicks: defense seems to be violating the old rule of "ask your one or two questions, then sit down!"
The one question here would be: "Donald Trump never told you that he would pay off anyone to keep other embarrassing stories out of the news, right?"
Answer (I assume): Correct.
They seem to be making things worse by prolonging the agony ...
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Bigger lesson from Kristi Noem's self immolation: never be seen a wanting the VP job too much.
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1 minute ago, BillsFanNC said:
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I thought he "owned it"
Read the link I posted, not just for info on how one moronic sheep got duped this one time, but about the chain of tweets and retweets that keep the sheep manure coming.
tl;dr
1. A liberal satire site, with a disclaimer saying "nothing on this site is true," runs a silly fake story. It seems that the purpose of this was to bait the fake news right-wing media into repeating it. No one would be so stupid as to do that, right? Wrong.
2. That satirical post was then reposted by a guy in Pakistan (feeding himself on clicks), removing the "satire" disclaimer
3. That was then tweeted by one of his fave "news" sources, someone never has heard of who calls himself "Mike Netter"
4. And the NC Bills reposts it here. Without checking on the origins. Without even googling whether it is real (wouldn't Denzel/Stallone put out press releases?) That then winds up here.
Nice work. And sadly typical. Ladies and gentlemen, the right-wing echosphere in a nutshell.
Origins of the claim
ALLOD
This site is part of the "America's Last Line of Defense" network of satire websites run by self-professed liberal troll Christopher Blair from Maine along with a loose confederation of friends and allies. He runs several websites and Facebook pages with visible satire disclaimers everywhere. They mostly publish made-up stories with headlines specifically created to trigger Republicans, conservatives and evangelical Christians into angrily sharing or commenting on the story on Facebook without actually reading the full article, exposing them to mockery and ridicule by fans of the sites and pages.
Every site in the network has an About page that reads (in part):
About Satire
Before you complain and decide satire is synonymous with "comedy":sat·ire
ˈsaˌtī(ə)r
noun
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined. Any similarities between this site's pure fantasy and actual people, places, and events are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and satirical. See above if you're still having an issue with that satire thing.
Articles from Blair's sites frequently get copied by "real" fake news sites that omit the satire disclaimer and other hints the stories are fake. One of the most persistent networks of such sites is run by a man from Pakistan named Kashif Shahzad Khokhar (aka "DashiKashi"), who has spammed hundreds of such stolen stories into conservative and right-wing Facebook pages in order to profit from the ad revenue.
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1 hour ago, BillsFanNC said:
And here you'll find the difference between me and PPP commies.
I always check, but couldn't readily find anything confirming or disputing it.
But I'll own it. Something you'll NEVER see from PPP commies.
In other words, he just posts crap that comes in on his Twitter feed!
But other than that, he is scrupulous about his self fact-checking.
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43 minutes ago, JaCrispy said:
DeSantis would not be a good pick imo…Not a good debater, not personable enough, not likable enough, unless you’re going purely on policy- which many people don’t…
Plus it would look weird after Trump has made fun of him for so long, not to mention the whole high heel fiasco…😉
Those boots were made for walkin'
Choosing DeSantis would require Trump to change his official residence back to NY or to NJ in order to bypass the constitutional requirement that the Pres and VP must be from different states.
Plus the recent 6 week FL abortion law would bring that issue front and center, which they'll want to avoid.
So I don't see it.
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Guess who lied about meeting Kim Jon Un?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/kristi-noem-kim-jong-un
The most astonishing, stupid self-disqualifying book ever.
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2 hours ago, B-Man said:
WHAT TWO-TIERED JUSTICE SYSTEM?
Alvin Bragg May Not Prosecute Pro-Palestinian Rioters Who Occupied Columbia University.
On Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg refused to say whether he will prosecute the pro-Palestinian rioters who broke into and took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
Bragg is currently prosecuting Donald Trump for an alleged campaign finance violation that is normally tried as a misdemeanor offense and would normally result in a fine as a felony. In addition to elevating the misdemeanor offense to a felony, the statute of limitations on the alleged crime had passed. On top of that, nondisclosure agreements are not illegal.
Despite Bragg's overzealousness to go after Trump, he was unresponsive to inquiries from the Daily Caller regarding potential charges for pro-Palestinian rioters arrested on Tuesday. The New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested 119 rioters at Columbia University on Tuesday evening, as well as 173 at a City University of New York (CUNY) protest, where students also took over an administrative building.
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Mass trespassing.
Columbia allowed them onto the quad, allowed them to pitch tents, supported their right to exercise their freedom of speech. A lot of them wandered inside as a continuation of the free speech demonstration. Video doesn't show anyone trying to physically bar them.
Plus some obviously non-student type agitators dressed in remarkably clean khakis were seen whispering sweet nothings in their ears before they entered the building. They weren't "camping" anywhere. They were obviously government informants urging these kids on. Any kids who are arrested should be considered patriots. No, not just patriots. Political prisoners.
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59 minutes ago, Pokebball said:
As a country, we're sending Ukrainians into war and possible death
I was under the impression that they were putting up a fight to save their own country. Now I realize Biden has drafted them into service.
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2 minutes ago, KDIGGZ said:
I used to be more "liberal" (not Democrat though) when I was younger. The older I get the more conservative seemingly, although my views haven't changed much but the Dems have gone off the deep end
I'm with you on that. Just go back to Bill Clinton or Biden the crime bill guy. Policy wise I don't think I've changed much at all. First the Democrats tacked sharply left, then the Republicans (and I voted for Romney) tacked sharply nuts.
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10 minutes ago, boyst said:
Right, and sadly people from such great states as NY, CA, and all of the coastal parts of NE have had their mind blown.
I bet if you went to the middle of Nebraska and announced that when you left your $3.4mm penthouse in NYC there was a homeless man taking a ***** in the sidewalk they'd think it was just as insane as someone euthanizing a feral dog.
I mean, seriously? Hundreds of dogs are euthanized every minute across the country but this 1 dog... Because Noem is (probably?) a Republican it is an issue?
My God the mind virus that is the human brain of the American people is so weird.
The thing is not so much that she shot the dog (if she even did). It's that she somehow thought this story would help her.
It hasn't, and it won't. It was a ridiculous own goal. I can get "taking that old dog out back and shooting it to put him out of his misery." This is not that.
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2 minutes ago, Tommy Callahan said:
Most blue strongholds are inner cities. Keep trying though.
Flawed logic rules! I'll help. See if you can follow.
My point: polls say the college educated tilt strongly Democratic.
Your response: polls/schmolls. You can't trust 'em.
My rejoinder: precinct level data support the validity of the polls here. Precincts with high percentages of the college educated vote strongly Democratic.
You response: most highly Democratic areas are in inner cities (euphemism for majority-minority)
Hmm ... I'll wait
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1 minute ago, JDHillFan said:
I’m not a philosopher either so now your gotcha is really devalued.
Please keep us posted on your future enjoyment of “meat”/meat*. And if you run into any trouble figuring out what a woman is, ask any average person you see. They don’t even need to be biologists.
Neither a Platonic essentialist nor a Wittgensteinian I see.
More of a Harveyist. Steve Harvey, that is. Family Feud School of Philosophy. Survey says ...?
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15 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
Yes. You surely got me there. Can’t believe I couldn’t reconcile lab grown “meat/meat*” with knowing what a woman is. Very well done (can lab grown “meat” be cooked well done?) on your part. Keep in mind that I am not a biologist so your “gotcha” is probably not as good as I am making it sound.
A little philosophy is in order.
The great philosopher Wittgenstein tells a story. He's walking around Cambridge, as usual deep in his own thoughts. He sees a sign in front of a theater advertising some kind of performance. It says, "Dead" Man Speaks.
Now this really gets him thinking. What does the theater mean by this? Surely it doesn't mean that they're rolling in a casket and the corpse sits up and starts conversing. No. But here's what's weird about it: Wittgenstein doesn't dismiss this as some kind of linguistic nonsense. No. He has a sense of what it does mean. Maybe it's someone who had one of those life-after-death-and-then-revived experiences. Maybe it's someone who was missing and declared dead. In context, it wasn't nonsense. Indeed, it made ... sense.
What is a woman? What is meat?
Context, my friend, context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Investigations
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1 minute ago, JDHillFan said:
The “progessives” trying to push this could do as all a favor and just stylize it as “meat” or meat*. It’s certainly not meat. The next thing you know they will be telling us men are women and vice versa.
Haha.
(note that as the top lobbyist for ADM, no doubt Mr. Kelly wrote some of that press release himself)
But why isn't it "meat?"
Let's say a DNA test says, yeah, that's beef all right, indistinguishable from that of a steer.
Isn't that what your "what is a woman test" would require? Is this human being genetically a woman?
Hoist by your own linguistic petard.
Seriously, this does piss me off, the stifling of innovation based on some kind of "but it's just not natural!" silliness.
Let's say labs get really good at growing human organs. A human replacement kidney, or liver, or heart. With genetic modifications that make rejection a whole lot less likely. We're seeing that with the genetically modified pig kidneys now. It's a great development!
So Ron DeSantis says, Yeah, great, that's wonderful! My wife's liver is failing, grow her one of those replacements right now!
But don't you dare grow pig meat that I can roast for dinner tomorrow. That would be wrong.
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The actual evidence at trial - I've been trying to follow the reporting of people who've actually been in the courtroom or overflow video room.
So far, the prosecution case is pretty solid, but there's one big gap: no one has tied the hush money payment directly to Trump. Trump will still have the defense that he had deputized Michael Cohen to just take care of little things like this. A kind of, "Mike, I don't need to know everything that comes up, I trust your judgment to just take care of it."
It seems that Cohen will be the only guy to actually testify that Trump himself o.k.'d (or dreamed up) the plan. And Cohen is a sleaze. So it'll all come down to that.
Election Interference | Donald Trump + Stormy Daniels hush money case
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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From the deleted Trump post: "no time for lawyers to prepare."
What? No time to prepare for something they knew was coming for at least a year?