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Captainant

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  1. Cohen went to prison for crimes that he pled guilty to, and that trump aided and abetted as a co-conspirator. That is the federal campaign finance law violation that was prosecuted by SDNY in 2018. The concealment was part of the conspiracy to commit a campaign finance law violation. It really is remarkable how quickly you find a way to frame any attempt to prosecute trump as an overreach.
  2. We'll take it for now. It's a shit ton more for the defense industry and restocking old munitions with fresh new ones. Unfortunate that this discussion needs to be kept in CR
  3. One of the key facts is that he used this in kind contribution from the national enquirer to keep a critical story quiet at a critical moment of the election, and then covered up his tracks of doing so to hide it from the people that elected him. "Separating trump" from the facts removes critically important context. Perhaps instead of "trump" you should mentally model it as "the sitting American President used fraud to hide crimes from before he was president"
  4. The case he's missing orals for is Snyder v. United States which is about whether section 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(B) criminalizes gratuities, i.e., payments in recognition of actions a state or local official has already taken or committed to take, without any quid pro quo agreement to take those actions I'm sure it's just a coincidence that clarence is missing today.
  5. I betcha a $20 donation to Burnt Ends that at least once in this trial, trump will no-show and get an after-the-fact exception or something else that that prevents him from getting frog marched into court
  6. Finally, a natural use for the drooling Homer reaction
  7. it's almost like the entire stock market valuation model is built on speculation and handwaving, and is completely decoupled from actual underlying value, or something.
  8. What's fucking INSANE is that TSLA is literally more than 10X the market cap of Ford, who actually make and sell vehicles! Musk has pumped TSLA's valuation so high on speculation, FOMO, and buzzword technobabble. And a large contingent of suckers willing to pay five figures to beta test their pedestrian and emergency services killing software
  9. In the recall story the brake was non responsive while the accelerator was pegged with no input. The accelerator pedal doing a RUD is a separate issue
  10. And a big part of such poor voter turn out is the concerted effort by Republicans to make voting more difficult and time consuming. Right down to fucking up the fucking postal service in a vain attempt to invalidate mail in ballots
  11. German Defense Minister really underscoring the criticality of what's at stake with Ukraine: https://english.nv.ua/nation/europe-should-prepare-for-a-large-scale-russian-attack-german-defense-chief-says-50409492.html
  12. Unfortunately, the US congressional agenda is being dictated an insurrectionist that has historically shown a preference against Ukraine and towards russia.
  13. Considering the last opposition political leader was disappeared into a russian prison and murdered, it's not that surprising that opposition news and enthusiasm has been falling in russia. Putin has got a totalitarian grip on his country, and he's been quite effective recently at maintaining that station
  14. Good interview by Bankston on his plaintiff work against the businesses and individuals that are lying on air and defaming his clients In addition to the Musk suit, there's a new suit over the Allen TX neonazi mass shooting where they ID'd the wrong Mauricio Garcia as the neonazi wearing a "RWDS" patch. Bankston really does a nice job laying out the human cost to Garcia's family when family friends are calling his mom to share their condolences for their son being a neonazi. God, I hope Bankston nails all these fuckers. For all the good it'll do as the defendants weasel out of judgements like Jones is doing.
  15. I guess "moving on" actually means being completely unresponsive to a long and detailed post just to come back and say "nuh uh". Keep up the good work, Rex.
  16. Haven't you seen Top Gun 2? Just need a flight of 4 Super Hornets
  17. Historically speaking, I wouldn't count on that as a long-term fix.
  18. I mean, as long as it's going to Horns, does it matter who the NIL money is going through? Seems weird to base your college football enthusiasm on other people's politics. Lol the last time people were complaining about "moderation harming discourse" some water head bought Twitter and ruined it by opening the flood gates to the most reprehensible people possible. The communities of Shaggy and Surly have endured because they don't kowtow to whatever the biggest wallet says should happen, and it has pretty good community policing of bullshit.
  19. Is it politics when President Zelensky is the one saying "we will fall to Russia if US Congress doesn't pass aid"? Or is the politics the disagreement in the thread that the US should not support our democratic ally against a fascistic dictators invasion?
  20. This makes sense though, aren't most Starfleet missions 5 years?
  21. Motherfucker read a fucking history book about how the US was going domestically in the 1930s. Hint: it wasn't sunshine and handjobs. Do you teach your children that they should only do the right thing if everyone else is doing it? This is literally the trumpist anti-NATO argument and talking point being regurgitated and smeared across the Ukrainian war. Motherfucker the dude you voted for - the so called "king of debt" - is who put us on this debt spiral. Government revenues are down because of the obscene corporate and ultra wealthy tax cuts passed in 2017. You don't get to throw gasoline on a fire and then complain about all the smoke and heat.
  22. Russia is already never coming to the table as long as putin is breathing. You are repeating putin and tucker carlson's useful lie that they would negotiate a peace. You should open a fucking history book to the mid to late 1930s and read up on how appeasing these sorts of figures tends to go. And why shouldn't we be willing to subsidize Ukraine? They are a globally significant producer of wheat, a major science and technology hub (most of Russia's best equipment was designed and made in Ukraine), and a key strategic ally as a check against Russian expansionism. Their boys shoot our guns at Ivan so our boys don't have to. Do you just want to see some American blood shed too before you're willing to support our allies? For fucks sake, your sort of thinking would have given the axis powers the free hand they needed to win in WWII. Were it not for lend/lease the war likely would have ended in 1940. But hey at least it would have avoided all those """unnecessary deaths""" amirite???
  23. You tryna tell me that the plains and peninsulas of Ukraine are similar fighting conditions to the mountainous and desert Afghanistan?
  24. It's gonna take a military level of support to defeat russia in the field. Not a few handfuls of missiles and ammo that CIA could scrounge
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