The Frankish Reich
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23 minutes ago, JFKjr said:
I like that you've shifted from eggs to tomatoes.
Hah! I have no need for store-bought tomatoes until mid-October. I just picked the first ripe ones of the year.
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2 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
What a flaming pile of sh*t the democrats must be to lose to this guy TWICE! Right?
At least you didn't say THRICE
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Not just saying the quiet part out loud. No. Actually boasting that he - the Attorney General of Florida - is going to participate in a sham of due process (note the quotes around the word "process") by having national guard JAGs play immigration judge in kangaroo courts. This out to get you disbarred.
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Corruption. So prevalent now that hardly anyone notices.
Mr. Trump is suing for $20 billion, claiming that CBS deceptively edited a 2024 campaign interview with Kamala Harris. The version that aired, his lawyers recently argued, “led to widespread confusion and mental anguish of consumers,” including Mr. Trump.
CBS has released the full tape, and it shows that these claims are concocted. Yet the President has leverage over Paramount, because its merger with Skydance Media requires approval from the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC. Mr. Trump has reportedly turned down a $15 million settlement offer, and the Journal reported Wednesday that a mediator has proposed that the two sides settle the lawsuit for $20 million.
The business logic for settling Mr. Trump’s grievance is easy to grasp: What’s $20 million in grease money, if it might save an $8 billion merger? Unless, that is, a big payout to the President could be viewed as a bribe.
It’s obvious that Mr. Trump is relying on the threat of regulatory disapproval as leverage in the lawsuit. Does this really fit the federal bribery statute? What level of legal frivolousness is required before settling a civil suit becomes pretextual?
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3 hours ago, JDHillFan said:
If you want to see a wisecrack of that sort as racism, by all means have at it. Really odd.
Since you asked:
No. I don't call this one racist. It is playing upon a meme. That meme has been shown to be untrue, but if you don't pay attention to the source, it could have come from a Jimmy Kimmel or some similar comic making fun of the made-up story about eating the cats and eating the dogs.
So yes, just a wisecrack.
Not like KBJ doing a little dance rather than writing a reasoned opinion, which is, in my expert opinion, simply and clearly racist.
And if this one ^^ supports it, it must be racist.
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14 hours ago, Big Blitz said:
Hey wait! Those are our NYC Uber drivers!!
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2 minutes ago, Wacka said:
So you support a pervert?
Of course not.
1. He should have been convicted for domestic violence assault. The hotel video tells the story. He paid off the victim.
2. He is, as the jury found, clearly guilty of the Mann Act crimes. Those have been criticized as puritanical things that should have fallen by the wayside decades ago, but they are still the law, and he still violated it. Given the circumstances surrounding the Mann Act violations, I hope he gets a very substantial sentence. I think he's exposed himself (hah!) to about 20 years. I'd like to see him get 5-10.
3. The RICO counts were a legal stretch, and the evidence just didn't clearly support them beyond a reasonable doubt.
There was a failure of the criminal justice system in allowing this perv to get away with his conduct for a long time, but that failure isn't fixed by charging unsupportable crimes now. In a weird way, justice has finally been done (assuming the sentence is sufficient).
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50 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
Seems to me that manipulating questions and answers to influence the public flies in contrast to the public good, too. As for stupid lawsuits, we already have those. The Carroll civil suit against Trump is a pretty stark example of lawyers gone wild.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts though!
Look, "you edited your interview to make my competitor look smarter" is a theory that has no standards. It absolutely would not have succeeded at trial, and there are 1st Amendment issues that may have shot it down as a legal matter too.
In this specific case we once again see Trump's personal desires - to punish CBS for favoring Harris over him - run up against his total control of the Executive Branch and the very real threat that the FCC will do his bidding by messing with Shari Redstone's plan to sell the company. In this way it is a corrupt settlement. And everyone who's looked at it objectively has agreed.
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Sean Combs (let's stop using his infantile nicknames) acquitted of the big RICO charges, convicted on the little Mann Act felony.
The jury got it right. Overcharged. Clearly guilty of a lot of domestic violence that wasn't prosecuted thanks to playoffs, now convicted under the old morals charge about transporting people (in a weird turnabout, people with penises) for the purposes of prostitution.
Sometimes juries really do work the way they're supposed to.
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Troubled kid with a major Nazi infatuation.
No, that doesn't mean it's Trump's fault.
But don't we need to think about what's going on here? Why are boys obsessed with Call of Duty and Nazi crap? And why do at least a few of them turn into senseless killers? What role do absentee fathers play?
We could ask those questions or we could just go full catturd and desperately suggest transgenderism is at fault just to deflect blame.
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33 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
the ((((thing)))) is code for ((((the JEWS))))
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2 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
@The Frankish Reich this seems like a reasonable outcome, yes?
Yes and no.
For CBS/Shari Redstone, yes, as it allows her to do what she wants - sell the company by preemptively buying off the regulators.
As a matter of public policy, an awful outcome. An outcome that will embolden more stupid lawsuits like Gavin Newsom's very similar one against Trump.
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Grok made up "facts" about the Idaho shooter. "Facts" that were reposted in the Right Wing Terrorism thread.
The mainstream media did not make up "facts."
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3 hours ago, Roundybout said:
Rural hospitals are communism. Real Americans die from pneumonia in silence, right @Big Blitz?As Sen Ernst says, we’re all gonna die. Do your patriotic duty to save money for ICE and don’t run up that Medicaid bill
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28 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
14 rural hospitals at risk of closure in Washington state alone
https://www.fox28spokane.com/senator-murray-reacts-to-u-s-senates-approval-of-big-beautiful-bill/
Yep.
for me, that's the worst part of it. I have in-laws in some smaller towns in AZ and NM. The hospital is what separates the surviving towns from the dying ones.
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17 hours ago, Big Blitz said:
Mount Rushmore baby!
Like Homeloser
Yes, amazing how Trump announced those trade-freezing tariffs and kept them in place and then the stock market went up.
I mean, that's what happened, right?
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Just now, Big Blitz said:
California policies - deregulation and cutting taxes - could end that issue tomorrow.
Housing is desired by EVERYONE.
They can move wherever they want.
They can’t move and won’t move to deep blue ***t holes bc their governments of commies have made it impossible to want to live there.
Thus the exodus. But the millionaire politicians have it good so they don’t care. They have job security and generational wealth.
Thanks, Yogi, for reminding us that nobody wants to go there because it's always too crowded.
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If the supporters here were being honest, they'd say that they're glad it passed because it made the 2017 tax cuts permanent, even though they acknowledge that it did, at best, nothing to address long-term deficits. So they'd be giving it a big two cheers.
Is that what we're seeing? No. It's Three Cheers for Continued Lower Taxes and Huge Deficits!
It's a cult.
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18 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
That’s not the point here. That particular effort is lame.
You are many things - skinflint, scold, know-it-all, faux independent. What you are not, is a humorist. At your age that’s not going to change.
In other words, unless you think it is hilarious that a highly educated black woman breaks into a dance instead of trying to debate her opponents, there is no joke at all here.
And we have a word for that kind of humor: Racist.
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So Trumpies, help me to understand:
- we need tariffs to bring back the basic production jobs that have largely moved overseas to take advantage of cheaper labor.
- therefore, we should put tariffs on foreign goods, including agricultural products, to encourage U.S. production
- but we cannot grow tomatoes economically in the United States without foreign labor
- so we should import (provide some kind of "pass" according to Trump; we call that a work visa) Mexicans to come and pick our tomatoes here
In what way, then, does a tariff on tomatoes protect American jobs?
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33 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Exactly. Why do you think Senators from states with big poor white trailer populations (Hawley, Tillis) are all worked up about Medicaid cuts?
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Just now, JDHillFan said:
You are not qualified to judge humor. I thought we’d agreed on that.
So explain to me what the joke is here.
Black woman dances around instead of writing legal opinion.
Hilarious.
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2 minutes ago, B-Man said:
I see the new management at the World's Least Funny Parody Site is backing off the anti-catholicism in favor of good old fashioned racism.
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3 minutes ago, B-Man said:
ASSUMING THE BUDGET GETS PASSED:
U.S. Navy to Receive 19 New Warships in 2026 Budget Amid China and Middle East Tensions.
This expansion underscores the United States’ strategic pivot toward countering emerging maritime threats, particularly the accelerating rise of China’s naval power.
With the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy now fielding over 730 vessels, the U.S. Navy’s force modernization has become an operational necessity. The FY2026 shipbuilding plan includes one Columbia-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, two Virginia-class attack submarines, two Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, one America-class amphibious assault ship, one San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, nine Landing Ship Mediums, two John Lewis-class fleet oilers, and one T-AGOS ocean surveillance vessel.
These acquisitions are structured to enhance U.S. capabilities in undersea warfare, amphibious operations, maritime logistics, and multi-domain surveillance.
Homelander...................wrong again.
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Military-Industrial Complex now shuddering in fear as they figure out how to spend hundreds of billions of new dollars.
Anyone Here Ever Been on a Jury? (or involved in choosing a jury?)
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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I did, at least generally, and from what I saw I think the jury got that one right too. (DUI conviction but acquitted of murder/manslaughter)