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ChiGoose

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  1. Maybe. I just think he doesn’t care about facts and knows that his supporters will believe absolutely anything he says without question.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Bang up job, GOP. At what point can we just all admit that they actually want this.
  5. There’s a 0% chance he actually did this. He almost certainly posted this for engagement because he believes his audience will believe it.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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."
  10. GOP: The party of whiny children who cannot govern.
  11. 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."
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Generally if someone on this board uses the world “Marxist” or “communist” unironically, you can assume they don’t know what it actually means.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. The amount of logical backflips you have to do to arrive at the conclusion that the people who want Ukraine to be able to defend itself are the ones responsible for them dying is insane. I cannot imagine what kind of media diet someone with this idea has. Putin is responsible for Ukrainians dying. Putin has said that there’s no reason to stop the war when he’s winning because Ukraine is running out of ammo. The people who are responsible for Ukrainians dying are Putin and the people who prevent Ukraine from pushing his forces back by denying them support.
  19. There is zero market for this. It’s why TV news is just all bad. If you want good journalism, you won’t find it on tv.
  20. It’s rare for them to do something well, so that’s a nice change of pace.
  21. I’m not making any judgment on it. I’m just saying that if you destroy a country’s embassy, you better be prepared for retaliation. Though I will note that doing the retaliation in a way that allows Israel to defend against it (like drones taking hours to get there) could help prevent further escalation
  22. Israel had to have expected this after destroying Iran’s embassy in Syria. Hopefully they prepared.
  23. That’s just a long load of nonsense that amounts to: who gives a damn about the constitution? Let states ignore it.
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