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ChiGoose

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  1. Everyone get out your Jump to Conclusions Mat, pick whatever explanation best fits your personal narrative and then disregard anything that challenges your conclusion.
  2. For sure. We definitely need to do something, and I don’t want to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. That being said, I’m worried that they just wipe their hands after this and let the other companies off the hook
  3. My concern is that instead of putting in safeguards for all social media companies to prevent this kind of stuff (could even use the EU’s GDPR as a template), they just targeted TikTok. Seems like a big win for Meta, Alphabet, etc. to have the government eliminate a competitor. Better than nothing but definitely not ideal.
  4. In case anyone is wondering why he changed his mind on TikTok. Yass is a major investor in ByteDance, which owns TikTok.
  5. MTG Officially Launches Revolt Against Speaker Mike Johnson "It’s anarchy again in the House GOP. On Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed a motion to formally boot Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from the office, according to a source familiar with the matter. Greene's move, which came amid conservative outrage over Johnson's deal on a spending deal to avert a government shutdown, threatens to throw the chamber into chaos just months after a hard-right faction ousted Kevin McCarthy from the top job. It was not immediately clear when a vote on Johnson's fate would occur." What a clown show. A party completely incapable of governing.
  6. Trump appears unable to secure a bond for his appeal. Shouldn’t be that hard for a billionaire business magnate…
  7. It’s incredible that anyone still treats Laffer as anything but a joke.
  8. Buddy, I visit this site when I’m bored. If you have something specific you want me to respond to, spell it out. I don’t have patience for games.
  9. Well yeah, Trump wasn’t charged under the Presidential Records Act so I’m not sure what your point is.
  10. If Donald Trump had simply handed the documents over when requested, he wouldn’t have been indicted. Joe Biden didn’t lie to his lawyers and hide documents from them to keep him from turning them over. Trump did that. It’s not a double standard. It’s different facts.
  11. It’s bad and it shows that our controls around government docs are broken, but it’s not something you get prosecuted for.
  12. Well, you’ve got it. Elected officials who take things that don’t belong to them but return them when asked don’t get prosecuted. Elected officials who take things that don’t belong to them but refuse to return them when asked to return them get prosecuted. Easy-peasy
  13. I’m assuming that the people who still think Biden committed a crime with his possession of documents also agree that Trump committed way worse crimes in his documents case. I mean, given the facts of the cases, to believe that Biden committed crimes but Trump didn’t would require being completely divorced from reality…
  14. A lot of the current iteration of the Right seems to be a combination of performative a-holery and projection with a mix of Dunning-Kruger.
  15. That logic makes about as much sense as saying that North Korea is a democracy because it's called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Where do you get your legal news and analysis from?
  16. I don't watch MSNBC (or any news channel). If you're looking to understand legal issues, start with lawyers or people with a lot of experience reporting on the law. Some outlets to check: Lawfare Just Security SCOTUS Blog Election Law Blog Above The Law Some outlets have specific law beats (like Bloomberg Law), which I would prefer to their general journalists covering legal issues. Some of them have podcasts too, like Lawfare and Just Security. I also like the National Security Law Podcast as well as Rational Security. When looking for good sources on legal issues, check on who is providing the coverage. Are they lawyers? Bonus if they are law professors or have experience practicing in the issue they are discussing. As far as experts go, I generally follow the philosophy: don't ask the typical talking heads to explain legal things, don't ask your mechanic for medical advice, don't ask comedians for war strategy.
  17. I feel like the focus on trying to ban TikTok for it's very real problems is because big moneyed interests like Meta, Alphabet, and the rest would prefer to have the government axe a competitor than enact an actual solution like the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. There's no real reason to have this rushed through other than to take advantage of a moment and avoid having real discussions that might result in a better outcome that is disliked by influential donors.
  18. The folks in here trusting talking heads instead of actually reading primary sources (probably because they have big words) and/or listening to real experts with real knowledge (instead of random Twitter accounts that are regularly wrong) are the same voices who routinely demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge of the law, facts, and reality. They would rather be loudly wrong than actually learn anything. It's Dunning-Kruger personified.
  19. I would strongly disagree with this take. There are significant differences in fact between Trump's cases and the actions of others that are often incorrectly conflated with him. Had Pence or Biden obstructed the investigations into their possession of government documents, they would face charges (though Biden would not be indicted until he's out of office). Claiming an election was decided improperly and suing to try to overturn the results are legal. Coordinating a multistate effort to have people falsely claim to be electors and attempt to transmit fake election results to Congress is fraud. Among the charges that Trump is facing are several counts of obstruction. All of those are the direct results of his own actions. Even if you believe that you are innocent, obstructing an investigation is going to land you in trouble. In fact, Trump should have been charged with obstruction of the Mueller investigation as soon as he left office. I don't know why Garland chose to let the statute of limitations run on that one. If there really was a grand conspiracy to convict Trump and keep him out of the 2024 election, they could have done that in 2021.
  20. No, they do not. The modern conservative movement is built upon ignorance and laziness. They do not understand how the world works and anything that pierces their lack of understanding is just evidence that they were right all along.
  21. You’re welcome. I am a big advocate of reading primary sources and a big critic of how the media covers legal things.
  22. Here ya go: US v. Trump (DC Case) US v. Trump (Florida Case) The People of the State of New York v. Trump (Manhattan Case) The State of Georgia v. Donald Trump, Rudolph Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, Ray Smith III, Robert Cheeley, Michael Roman, and David Shafer And also here's the ruling for the NY fraud case: People of the State of New York v. Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Allen Weisselberg, Jeffrey McConney, The Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, The Trump Organization, Inc., Trump Organization LLC, DJT Holdings LLC, DJT Holdings Managing Member, Trump Endeavor 12 LLC, 401 North Wabash Venture LLC, Trump Old Post Office LLC, 40 Wall Street LLC, Seven Springs LLC
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