ChiGoose

The dire situations of their homes are apparently not why they left. They were all studiously following the news about US presidential executive orders. The underfunding of immigration courts causing massive backlogs had no bearing on being unable to handle large influxes of people. It was simply that there wasn’t a 2,000 mile line wall, fortified with military garrisons that would… have had to let asylum seekers in anyway by law… Thanks for proving you’re just a simpleton hack incapable of any rational thought beyond “everything that makes me mad is always the fault of people I don’t like.”

A whole lot of failed analysis anchored by the idea that illegal immigration is bad for the Dems and that’s why the Dems want illegal immigration. Do you guys actually think about what you say or just spurt out whatever nonsense first crosses your mind?

It’s pretty telling that conservatives continually fail root cause analysis and simply just say “it’s the Dems fault when bad things happen” because it comfort them.

Dems want actual solutions. That’s why the GOP opposes them. The GOP wants to point to chaos to scare old people into voting for them. If you truly believe that the Dems want more illegal immigrants, I suggest popping the bubble you are living in.

The border crisis cannot be solved by executive action. It requires a Congressional solution. Even if Trump wins, he’d still need Congress to send him a bill to sign. Given how successful his administration was at their various attempts at infrastructure week and that his solution is a dumb wall that won’t fix the issue, there’s a zero percent chance this is solved on January 20th.

Judge Merchant seems to think they’ll still be able to do opening statements first thing Monday. Depends on if they can seat the rest of the alternates tomorrow.

Not even pretending they’re not the bad guys. Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits “Lawmakers on a Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to slash unemployment benefits — part of a Republican-backed push to roll back regulations on companies and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers.”

One would think so. If one were a thinking person.

Maybe. I just think he doesn’t care about facts and knows that his supporters will believe absolutely anything he says without question.

Jury shrinks from 7 to 6. Enough information was made public about a juror that several people were able to identify her. She asked to be removed from the jury.

For a good laugh, think about how the MAGA crowd would react if the Biden campaign did this and then compare it to how they bootlick this story once they get their marching orders.

Bang up job, GOP. At what point can we just all admit that they actually want this.

There’s a 0% chance he actually did this. He almost certainly posted this for engagement because he believes his audience will believe it.

Some good coverage of the jury challenges this afternoon: Trump challenges jury candidates 1, 2, 3, 6 for cause. Challenges for 1 and 3 are denied. Challenges for 2 and 6 are granted. Trump then uses peremptory challenges to strike jury candidates 1, 3, 5, and 10. By the end, they have seated six members of the jury: candidates 4, 9, 12, 14, 17, 18. They are sworn in and told to be ready to come back on Monday.

I had to report to jury duty once but just spent the whole day in a large room downtown, never getting called into a courtroom.

NYS law tolls the statute of limitations when a defendant is out of state (CPL sec. 30.10 4(a)(i)) NY AG alleged that the falsifying of business documents was done as part of a scheme to violate election laws (Statement of Facts, paragraph 2) The payment would have been legal had it come from the Trump Campaign and properly disclosed (which would have ensured this case never happened) but the whole activity was done to prevent that from happening. Arguing that failure to properly disclose payments to the FEC isn't a crime because they never filed what they were supposed to with the FEC is quite the position.

Looks like Trump was having trouble understanding the judge's actual instructions. But I suppose we cannot let the facts stand in the way of some good rage baiting. Trump is seething about missing Barron’s graduation. Here’s what the judge actually said "Before jury selection commenced, Mr Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, asked Judge Juan Merchan if the court could adjourn on 17 May so Mr Trump could attend Barron’s graduation. In New York, criminal defendants must attend trial unless they apply for a waiver, which Mr Trump has not done. Judge Merchan said he could not rule “at this time” but noted that if the trial was “running behind schedule” they would not be able to accommodate. Despite no firm ruling on the matter, Mr Trump still purported that the judge made an unfair ruling preventing him from attending his son’s graduation."

GOP: The party of whiny children who cannot govern.

Well this has got to be embarrassing for anyone who fell for the obviously wrong tweet about a million people registering to vote in Texas without a photo ID this year. Will they admit that they were wrong, or just roll their eyes? Statement on Voter Registration ID Requirements “Austin — There have been recent and inaccurate reports about the voter registration process and ID requirements in Texas. Please see the statement from Secretary of State Jane Nelson below. "It is totally inaccurate that 1.2 million voters have registered to vote in Texas without a photo ID this year. The truth is our voter rolls have increased by 57,711 voters since the beginning of 2024. This is less than the number of people registered in the same timeframe in 2022 (about 65,000) and in 2020 (about 104,000). When Texans register to vote, they must provide a driver license number or a Social Security number. When an individual registers to vote with just a SSN, the state verifies that the SSN is authentic. While federal law allows individuals to register to vote without a photo ID, Texans must actually show proof of ID to vote. The 1.2 million figure comes from the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) website, which is supposed to report the number of times states have asked to verify an individual’s social security number. The SSA number is clearly incorrect, and we are working now to determine why there is such a large discrepancy."

As far as I can tell, it was 190 into O’Hare but the traffic blocked up to the 90/190/294 junction. Causing people to miss their flights isn’t going to endear anyone to your side. Seems like this group was probably pretty insular in their thinking.

Not my area of expertise, but I don't think false imprisonment or related charges would be successful. Being annoying and causing traffic isn't the same as imprisonment or restraint. People can always get out of their cars and walk (as it seems many did in this instance). A quick glance at the IL code around false imprisonment doesn't reveal an obvious charge. Many of the protesters did get arrested and charged, however: 40 protesters arrested outside O'Hare Airport for blocking traffic; forcing people to walk to terminals I imagine the charges end up being something around obstruction or interference with traffic but we'll see when the charges are released. As a sidenote: my wife unwittingly got caught up in this. The traffic backed up pretty severely and she ended up being quite late to work this morning. That's part of a pretty major highway intersection.

Generally if someone on this board uses the world “Marxist” or “communist” unironically, you can assume they don’t know what it actually means.

Do you ever get anything correct? You seem to live in a sad little bubble protecting yourself from reality because you cannot handle anything that might challenge you just a little bit. Projecting your ignorance on others seems to give you comfort even if you’re wildly wrong. If ignorance is bliss, you’ve gotta be one of the happiest people around.

Iranian embassy attack has Israel, Middle East on edge Iran says Israel bombs its embassy in Syria, kills commanders Khamenei says Israel 'must be punished' for Syria embassy attack It was a consulate building that was part of the embassy compound.

That’s why I think this was retaliation for Israel’s attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria. Iran has to respond to save face, but does so in a way that Israel can defeat the attack to prevent escalation.