ChiGoose

Anyone other than Trump would already have been in cuffs and on their way to jail

Me neither. I'm not even sure my tv package even has MSNBC. I think this very much misconstrues the actual facts of the case, how law enforcement works, what search warrants do, and basically the entire case itself. So I'm feeling pretty good about lack of knowledge as the actual reason.

Not much of a surprise here, even from the ultra conservative fifth circuit:

I'm guessing lack of good information. Reporting on legal cases is generally pretty poor but it also seems that a lot of people here are being taken in by people who have no idea what they are talking about like Julie Pepe Silvia. Happened to the former president too. Ignored his lawyers, listened to Tom Fitton instead and then got indicted.

I don't understand how anyone with just the basic grasp of the facts could think that the Mar A Lago charges are a dud.

Harming our military in order to pursue a goal so unpopular that it cost the GOP a chance at the senate and prevented the expected red wave is really an interesting strategy. Is Tuberville secretly a Democrat trying to help the party?

SCOTUS said that the President doesn't have the authority to cancel student loan debt under the HEROES Act. The details of this policy have not been released yet, but I very much doubt that it is also grounded in that law.

Wow. She is really bad at this.

Yelling fire in a crowded auditorium isn’t a crime. He also cooperated with authorities when he learned he was wanted. And here I thought the conservatives were mad at how willing the government was to throw the book at Jan 6 people. Now we’re mad that they’re not tough enough?

That is a whole lot of text to avoid Occam’s Razor: Epps was a Trump supporter who went to the Capitol, talked *****, and then backed down when people actually acted. I don’t give a damn about what happens to the guy, but the idea that he was a government plant is simply people trying to come up with reasons to excuse bad behavior from people their perceive to be on their team.

His claim is that the conspiracy theory that he was a Fed has led to gullible people to believe that he was working against Trump (despite being a Trump supporter). This lead to threats against him to the point that he had to sell his home and live in a mobile home.

Oh I didn’t realize there was a thread on Julie Pepe Silvia. Do we know what her area of practice is?

If he’s suing Fox on defamation for claiming he was working for the FBI and that this claim caused him harm, he just needs to prove that he wasn’t working for the FBI and that Fox’s claims was the but for cause of him suffering harm. Seems pretty straightforward given the evidence. Fox’s lawyers will likely advise them to settle. Also keep in mind that the average American doesn’t know about this Epps stuff but those that do generally think the conspiracy is nuts. Fox won’t want a jury trial.

Here’s why Ray Epps is my favorite conspiracy theory: Not only is there absolutely no substantive evidence that he was working with the government before the events of Jan 6, but the only way it changes anything if he was is if you believe that Trump supporters are such gullible morons and so prone to crime that a single guy telling them to do crimes would whip them into a violent frenzy. You would have to believe that Trump supporters are knuckle-dragging sociopaths. Personally, I don’t think that’s true of most Trump supporters but the conservatives here seem to disagree.

So is the big gotcha here: 1. Epps is suing Fox for the claims they made and not the claims they didn’t make; or 2. Epps is suing based on the easiest probable claims? In either case, Julie Pepe Silvia here should probably ask her law school for a refund because they clearly failed her.

I wonder if Ms Romney is going to end up implicated in the fake electors scheme

I think Fox probably settles this. Epps would be pretty sympathetic to a jury and they’d want to avoid that.

Are you arguing that his lawyer is not on contingency because he should expect Fox to settle?

Given the evidence, his lawyer may be working on contingency.

Agreed. There’s little chance Fox will let this get to trial.

Here’s the video

Cities have a lower per capita carbon footprint than rural areas

To believe this is to argue that Russia is also going to invade Finland.

Yup. Although having government employees who work for you promote your book and push for sales as part of their jobs is against the rules basically everywhere except SCOTUS. Hopefully, this will spur the GOP into actually supporting SCOTUS ethics reforms, but I won't hold my breath.