The Frankish Reich

What do you think the chances are that the OP bought DJT?

They also want to make sure you'll never be able to eat lab-grown meat! Because, you know, freedom!

Good boy, you've provided some indication that this might've been behind the judge's release decision! How much better to do it at the start. My guess: you had no idea about Tennessee or Shelby County law and procedure, and it was kind of a lucky guess. Although Obama and Biden still have nothing to do with it. Other than that, your topic is right on point.

Dems: The lame-duck President of the United States encouraged violence at the Capitol! Repub retort: some rando named Riddhi Patel also encouraged violence in Bakersfield! Yep. You got me. It's officially a tie game. EDIT: I confessed here that I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh in the late 80s/early 90s (before he became a tiresome one-note act). One of the things he used to do was called something like "Caller Education." Someone would call into his show with a stupid retort like this one. He'd gently (they were pretty much all on his side in order to get past the screener) help them through the process of constructing a sensible, at least surface-persuasive argument. I am trying to do that here, but I'm afraid I've wandered into the special classroom.

Would you care to show me how I'm incorrect?

Killer previously released without bond. In Tennessee, where there is no equivalent to NY state's law making no-cash releases the norm. If you actually read the article (what a concept!) you'll see that the prosecution argued for detention and/or a high bond, but a state judge/magistrate nevertheless decided to release him. So to sum up: - Nothing to do with Obama and Biden. It was a pure state, not federal, matter. - Nothing to do with NY's no-cash bail law or any Tennessee equivalent. There's one person to blame for making a bad decision, and it's the judge that released him.

It's difficult to wrap our heads around sometimes. We're so used to seeing Trump - the latter day Trump of The Apprentice and on - that we forget how weird he is. Think about it. If someone told you back in your childhood that sometime in the future we will elect as President a 70-something white man who uses a fake tan made for Dominican or Puerto Rican women ("Bronx color," high orange) all over his face, who has the most bizarro combover of yellow hair you've seen since your granny got a bad hair dye, who leaves the area around his eyes and ears pasty white ...

I thought it was mildly amusing. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/6/20998822/trump-orange-concealer-bronx-colors He did just give himself a new bronzing for the spring, several shades darker than his winter tones. Check out the raccoon eyes.

What is this "Commission on Presidential Debates" they wish to comply with (and even advance)? Surely it is not this one that the REPUBLICAN PARTY officially withdraw participation in? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-party-withdraws-us-commission-presidential-debates-2022-04-14/#:~:text=Republican Party withdraws from U.S. commission on presidential debates,-By David Morgan&text=WASHINGTON%2C April 14 (Reuters),and refused to enact reforms The RNC's action requires Republican candidates to agree in writing to appear only in primary and general election debates sanctioned by the [Republican National] committee. The nonprofit commission, founded in 1987 to codify the debates as a permanent part of presidential elections, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It was unclear what format future RNC-backed debates would take or whether they would take place as often as in recent decades. The move, which followed months of wrangling between the RNC and the commission, will potentially deprive voters of seeing Republican and Democratic candidates on the same stage. Oh.

You must, just must, respond! Allow me to instruct you on the art of ignoring someone or something. You don’t read what they’ve said. If you see that little quote box here and in boldface it has my screen name, you just scroll down to the next comment. You can do it, tough guy!

I dunno. Ol' Tarheel's been binding his manboobs since at least 1998 and he seems to be doing o.k.

Ahh, the Ironclad Law. Bad News for Trumpistas = Posting of Stupid Trump as Hero Memes in Every Thread.

You better watch your back, @HomeskillitMoorman. First comes "I'm done with you in this thread." Then comes "I'm done with you on PPP." Then comes the dreaded "I've put you on ignore." Which in Ol' Tarheel's terminology means, "I will put that little arrow with a childish insult below every post you make forevermore." And I will desperately wait for someone to quote your posts so I can have plausible deniability that I really am "ignoring" you by reading everything you write, but only secondhand. That's the one that really hurts.

Mr. Plessy no doubt regretted his decision to fight that whole "separate but equal" thing. He really should have waited a hundred years or so when the composition of the Court was favorable to him. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/163us537 Hell, for that matter, that foolish Dred Scott probably regrets not just returning to his slave master. He could've prevented the Civil War. Maybe even for another decade or so.

It's the Iron Law of Trumpy Projection! Trump's fortune came from his adjudicated racist father's slumlord past and he's always given off strong racist vibes (see the whole Central Park murders "wilding" thing he inserted himself into). So let's accuse Biden of racism! Trump is caught on tape saying he just grabs women by the p[]ssy and he always manages to be backstage when those young Miss Teenies are getting dressed and he brags about how shaggable his teenage daughter has become. So let's accuse Biden of being a perv! There's your response, Tarheel.

Extreme right-to-life positions were essential for anyone with a dream of being president. Ron DeSantis signed that 6-week bill. Trump said he'd appoint justices who would undo Roe and return the matter to the states. And you're right, that's what happened. Things many people had said - for example, that IVF always involves selective implantation of embryos and that the others are disposed of, and that it would therefore run afoul of strict abortion bans - quickly came to pass. And that Roe was the only thing standing between the modern world and ancient, dead-letter anti-abortion laws like the Arizona territorial law. You got what you wanted, Republicans. Deal with it. Because we're not gonna let you run away from it.

By whom? The Arizona Supreme Court says it's a valid law. So the appeal is to ... the U.S. Supreme Court, which just told us (thank you Trump and your rushed nomination of Amy Coney Barrett) that this is an issue for the states to decide. Fascinating how the anti-abortion rights people are now all waiting for some court, somewhere to save them from themselves.

So you're saying you're an edibles guy.

This is correct. It wouldn't be a bad idea for the Senate Dems to force a vote on repeal of the Comstock Act just to put Republicans on the record about what their true intentions are.

I have no idea who the poster known as Mrs. Betty Bowers is, but that's a damn good takedown! Some advice for the prosecution: never refer to this as an "affair" with Stormy Daniels. Always refer to it as an attempt to coverup having sex with Stormy. "Affair" sounds kind of like there was some emotional or romantic connection that actually might make Trump seem just slightly sympathetic. Push the boundaries as much as you can get away with. He had sex with a woman who made a living out of having sex for money. There's a word for that ...

I appreciate her sentiment. But unless Arizona is (otherwise) very weird, it really wouldn't be up to her. A local DA in some extremely red county absolutely could prosecute someone - a woman, doctor, or "accessory" - under this statute, and there's really nothing the State AG could do about it. So I don't know if it's productive for her to be saying, "don't worry, I've got your back." Once the AZ Supreme Court stay is lifted, it's every DA for him/herself in prosecuting women under what is now considered a valid statute. California women: think twice before you leave LA for that lower cost of living in Arizona ... https://kjzz.org/content/1876667/kris-mayes-says-arizona-attorney-generals-office-working-plan-fight-abortion-ban Someone who knows Arizona law agrees with me. Prosecutorial discretion resides with individual DAs and not with the AG. So the AG's pronouncement is cold comfort for Arizona women.

Time to take that number down. Do it quietly. Just make it disappear. Don't wait for the new stadium. Give Number 32 to a practice squad player.

He was found not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. And then found responsible for the murders by a preponderance of the evidence.

Close to my age, but when I was about 6 I decided that Dennis Shaw was Da Man. And as far as I know, Dennis Shaw went on to live an honorable life.