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  1. 38 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm still laughing at MTG's shade thrown at AOC over her "intelligence".  Honors grad from BU versus a generic schlub from UGA.  Yeah, I know where I'm putting my money.

    I have found that flustered, cornered people who are feeling threatened tend to reflexively throw out insults that have been hurtful to them in the past, usually dating back to childhood.  A lot of times those insults thus make no sense in the current context.  MTG has obviously been called stupid her entire life (for obvious reasons), and the cuts run deep. 

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  2. 41 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    Near the end the driver mentions he is in a company vehicle. Given how quiet the driver was the whole time I’m assuming he is the younger brother and has been dealing with this kind of shit his entire life

    Yea that was one of my favorite parts.  You can tell that driver was thinking “Oh, fuck.  Not this shit again!”. 

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  3. 36 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Hang up your scalpel, doc. I’ve decided you’re too old to practice. That should be my decision and not yours, right?

    i get the arguments. It’s easy to armchair QB the topic. But we have rights and freedoms in this country and RBG was totally within hers. If she only could’ve held on for a few more months.

    Or better yet, if McConnell wasn’t a scurrilous, hypocritical scumbag. That’s the bigger issue. Ginsberg was a great person. McConnell is a massive piece of shit whom I can’t wait to talk about in the past tense. He deserves to die. She didn’t. C’est la vie. 

    Surgeon's ability to practice medicine are subject to approval by others, specifically hospital credentialing committees and licensing boards.  These privileges must by routinely renewed at which time their competencies are reviewed. Doctors are often forced into retirement in this way.  If Sawz decides he wants to perform surgery into his 80's, the credentialing committee must approve this.  If he fucks up and harms a patient, not only he, but entire hospital board and the members of that committees are subject to not just criticism, but significant legal action.  

    RBG may have been a great person, but she fucked up, fucked a lot of people in the process, and it is rightfully a  stain on her legacy. 

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  4. Spoiler

    Trump focuses on Stormy Daniels’s testimony

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    By Marianne LeVine

    National political reporter focused on the 2024 elections

    Donald Trump appeared to be listening closely to Stormy Daniels’s testimony.

    He whispered to his lawyer Susan Necheles as Daniels described taking calls from Trump after they met, and he appeared to hand Necheles a note.

    Trump sat back in his chair during much of the testimony and at times turned to speak to his lawyer Todd Blanche. He listened intently as Daniels described what she said was her final in-person interaction with Trump.

    He briefly looked at his watch as Daniels spoke about her interview with In Touch magazine.

     

    The judge has sent the jury to lunch, with trial scheduled to resume at 2 p.m.

    Donald Trump left the courtroom with a stern expression on his face. He was followed by his lawyers and his son Eric, who is in attendance again Tuesday.

     

  5. From the W.Post 

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    Judge says prosecutors are going into too much detail with Stormy Daniels encounter

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    After a 15-minute morning break in the testimony of adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said prosecutors were going into too many details and should move faster.

    “The degree of detail you are going into here is just unnecessary,” said Merchan, adding that jurors don’t need to know the color of the floor in the hotel room where Daniels said she spent an evening with Donald Trump in 2006.

     

    When Daniels returns to the stand, the judge said, “The people need to move along.”

    Even before Daniels’s court appearance, prosecutors and defense lawyers had argued about the value of her testimony in a case in which the charged crimes are falsification of business records that she never saw.

    But those business records involved a wire transfer and checks in 2016 and 2017 that paid for Daniels’s silence about their alleged tryst during Trump’s presidential campaign.

    When Daniels’s testimony resumed, prosecutors asked her about her trip to the bathroom in Trump’s hotel suite, and the Old Spice and Pert Plus she found there.

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    Stormy Daniels says Trump sent Ben Roethlisberger to escort her to her room

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    By Devlin Barrett

    Reporter focusing on national security and law enforcement

    Stormy Daniels, whose testimony provoked a number of sidebars between lawyers and the judge in a short period of time, just described running into Donald Trump in Lake Tahoe the night after she says they had sex in his hotel room in 2006.

    At a hotel nightclub, she testified, she met Trump, who was with Ben Roethlisberger, then the quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

    “He introduced me as his ‘little friend Stormy’ to Big Ben,” she told the jury, using the star quarterback’s nickname.

    Daniels said that when she was going back to her room, Trump sent Roethlisberger to walk her there, she testified. Prosecutors did not press further, but in her book, Daniels describes an awkward standoff at the door of her room in which she resisted Roethlisberger’s entreaties to come into her room.

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    Daniels describes having sex with Trump

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    By Tom Jackman

    Reporter covering criminal justice locally and nationally

    Stormy Daniels in 2018. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

    Stormy Daniels said that after drinking two bottles of water while chatting with Donald Trump, she asked to use the restroom. She walked through a bedroom to use the bathroom, and when she emerged Trump was on the bed in a T-shirt and boxer shorts, Daniels said.

    Daniels said she was startled. “I wasn’t expecting someone to be there, especially minus a lot of clothing,” she testified. “That’s when I had that moment when I felt like the room spun in full motion. And I felt the blood leave my hands and my feet, almost like if you stand up too fast. I just thought: ‘Oh my God. What did I misread to get here?’ Because the intention is pretty clear — somebody’s in their underwear on the bed, posing for you.”

    Daniels said Trump “stood up between me and the door, not in a threatening manner.” Daniels said she told him: “I’ve got to go. He said, ‘I thought we were getting somewhere, we were talking.’”

    Daniels said she did not remember many of the subsequent details, saying, “I think I blacked out,” but that she wasn’t drugged or drunk.

    “Next thing I know I was on the bed,” Daniels said, “the opposite side of the bed from where we’d been standing. I had my clothes and shoes off. We were in missionary position.”

    She testified that she didn’t remember how her clothes came off but did recall that “I was staring at the ceiling. I didn’t know how I got there. I was trying to think about anything other than how I got there.”

    Daniels said Trump did not wear a condom and that they didn’t discuss that. “I didn’t say anything at all.” She said the encounter was brief.

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    Stormy Daniels tells jury that she had unwanted sex with Trump, who said they were ‘fantastic together’

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    By Shayna Jacobs

    Courts, law enforcement and criminal justice

    Stormy Daniels told a Manhattan jury Tuesday that she did not want to have sex with Donald Trump in his Lake Tahoe hotel room in 2006 but did not resist, and that afterward Trump suggested they reunite because they were “fantastic together.”

    In the stunning testimony, the adult-film actress said she was so rattled by the event that while she was sitting on Trump’s hotel bed afterward, her hands were shaking and she couldn’t pull herself together.

    She said that they had previously discussed his wife, Melania, but that he told her that they slept in separate rooms.

    “My hands were shaking so hard I was having a hard time getting dressed,” Daniels testified to a captivated jury.

    Trump suggested that they get back together for future encounters, Daniels testified. “Oh, it was great,” Trump said, according to Daniels. “Let’s get together again, honey bunch. We were great together.”

    Daniels, who has discussed outside of the courtroom having been sexually abused as a child, said she was embarrassed by the fact that she allowed the sexual interaction to go forward. “I felt ashamed that I didn’t stop it and I didn’t say no,” she said.

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    Jury hears disturbing details of Stormy Daniels’s alleged sexual encounter with Trump

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    By Devlin Barrett

    Reporter focusing on national security and law enforcement

    Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels described having a one-night stand with Donald Trump that at times sounded like nonconsensual sex — prompting a flurry of sidebar arguments interrupting her testimony.

    “There was an imbalance of power for sure. He was bigger and blocking the way, but I was not threatened,” Daniels said, describing the moment when she entered a bedroom in Trump’s hotel suite in 2006 to find him posing on the bed.

    “The next thing I know, I was on the bed, somehow on the opposite of the bed.” She said her bra was still on, but they were in the missionary position.

    “Do you have a recollection of feeling something unusual?” prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked, before the judge stopped Daniels from answering that question.

    “I was staring up at the ceiling, and I didn’t know how I got there,” Daniels said.

    The account is similar to what Daniels described years earlier in her book, but the degree of detail was surprising, particularly given that Trump is not accused of any sex crimes.

    Trump is on trial for allegedly falsifying business records, but the jury has now heard details of him engaged in something akin to nonconsensual sex.

    Daniels said she was not drunk or under the influence of drugs, but she described feeling strange and not having a grasp on the sequence of events.

    Trump’s defense lawyers were clearly upset that Daniels kept offering details and opinions about the encounter far beyond the claim of the two having a sexual encounter — particularly since the testimony about that sex came after the judge had explicitly urged the prosecutor not to go into a lot of details in front of the jury.

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    Daniels says she stayed in touch with Trump in hopes of landing ‘Apprentice’ spot

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    By Tom Jackman

    Reporter covering criminal justice locally and nationally

    After her alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump, Daniels said, Trump called her nearly weekly, and sometimes she would put him on speaker for her friends and fellow cast members to hear.

    “We thought it was funny,” Daniels said. “Dozens and dozens and dozens of people heard me talking to him.” She said Trump would always have an update about his attempt to place her on his reality show “The Apprentice,” and because she thought such an appearance would bolster her career, she stayed in touch with him.

    In March 2007, Daniels said, she traveled to New York and met Trump in his office at Trump Tower. She said Trump was busy and was getting “pushback” about having her on “The Apprentice.” But he arranged for Daniels and her assistant to attend the Miss USA Pageant, which Trump then owned, that summer.

    In summer 2007, she said, she agreed to meet with Trump at a bungalow in Los Angeles, where she said Trump made sexual advances, but she rebuffed him by telling him she was menstruating and didn’t want to have sex.

    Finally, Trump called her and told her she could not appear on the show. “He said his overrule had been overruled by someone.” Daniels said Trump continued to call her, but she stopped taking his calls and didn’t see him again.

     

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    Daniels tells jury she was threatened in a parking lot after word of her Trump tryst surfaced

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    Stormy Daniels said that five years after her 2006 sexual encounter with Donald Trump, the story surfaced in a gossip magazine, leading to a terrifying encounter in a Las Vegas parking lot.

    She said she was approached by a man she didn’t know when she was with her infant daughter.

    “He approached me and said that, he threatened me, not to continue to tell my story … about my encounter with Mr. Trump,” Daniels testified.

    Daniels said she did not tell the police at the time about the threat “because he told me not to say anything at all, and I was scared.”

    Spoiler

    Daniels said she had moved on from Trump before gossip site published item about them

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    By Shayna Jacobs

    Courts, law enforcement and criminal justice

    Stormy Daniels said she fully moved on from what she described as an unwanted sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006 as well as the elusive idea of being cast on “Celebrity Apprentice,” the witness testified Tuesday.

    In the coming years, and after learning that the TV gig Trump dangled would not transpire, Daniels said her career picked up and she started a family.

    “It was pretty awesome. I got a raise, a lot more movies, a lot more mainstream things [like] ‘40-Year-Old Virgin,' ” Daniels said, naming a hit movie she had a cameo in.

    “I got married, I had my daughter, I became a nationally-ranked equestrian with my horses,” Daniels said. “I bought a house and moved to Texas.”

    Daniels said she stopped talking to Trump after a number of meetings during which he discussed her possible casting on his hit NBC show on which famous people win Trump’s approval in business situations.

    She testified that “In Touch” magazine contacted her in 2011 offering her $15,000 for her story about Trump, which she said she participated in but the story never ran. It did appear, however, on a gossip website.

    Daniels’s Trump story remained largely unknown for several years but resurfaced when Trump ran for president in 2016 and his payoff to Playboy model Karen McDougal was reported by the Wall Street Journal.

     

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  6. 9 minutes ago, miguelito said:

    I could never be a professional interviewer.

     

    Noem: I don't have conversations about my conversations. 

    Miguelito: What the hell does that even mean, you stupid, ugly bitch?

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  7. 2 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

    I think it will be interesting to see what if any official punishment they can mete out as they are a public institution. Looks like the kid has embraced the never apologize, never admit a mistake MAGA mantra

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  8. 2 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

    Something about hate just keeps assholes going. Why everyone in my family lives into their 90s.

    This is true.  If you ever end up in the hospital and things are looking serious, you need to turn into the biggest asshole possible.  Nice patients die quickly, assholes live forever.   

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  9. 29 minutes ago, royiv said:

    Kind of funny since his dad’s latest grift is as a bible huckster.

    The Trump bible is the only way to buy a bible these days without getting arrested by the FBI!   Stock up while you still can!

  10. 21 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    Fucker should already be in jail due to the nature of his alleged crimes and the fact that most of them have been videotaped.

    Jail Trump for this at the end of the day so that he has to stay in jail until Monday. Or just sentence him to two or three days. 

    Or firing squad. Works either way.

    Put him in the M13 block and instruct them to give him a real gag order

  11. 21 hours ago, Serak The Preparer said:

    It's fucking gross. Looking at hot consenting women (nekkid or not) is awesome but it sucks to see such approval of shit like this from what is otherwise a reasonable group of people. This same group that (rightly) champions women's right to control their bodies shouldn't also applaud manipulating images to sexualize non-consenting women. 

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    Keep complaining.  I am almost there!

    (P.S.  I agree with you)

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  12. 9 hours ago, mdmost said:

    I'm sure this was uttered in 2016 as well. What followed was a real laugh riot. 

    The difference is we're not all demanding policies from Biden to get us to either show up to vote for him or not stay home. The "I'm not voting for Biden because of _______" is definitely worthy of ridicule especially when you couple that with saying Trump is just as bad or Biden is worse. 

    Furthermore,  lots of us middle age dudes have the resources not only to survive, but significantly profit from a Trump presidency since we are again voting against our (short term) financial interests.  The young, brown, and entitled who will be intimately facing the unlubed dildo of consequences are playing Russian Roulette, while us middle age guys are playing Blackjack….with house money.

  13. 1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    Hasn’t the U.S. tried to broker multiple ceasefires? And Hamas keeps rejecting them. The US isn’t a saint but the people in charge of Gaza aren’t either. And Israel is bad too. The normal everyday people of Palestine are the real victims. 

    Idealistic college kids think there’s an easy solution to everything. 

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  14. 49 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    I hope the they have that same youthful vigor when the new administration is having them forcefully removed from our shores.  

    Take your anti-Israel, anti-Biden stances now young people.  And don’t bother voting this Autumn. 

    If Trump wins this fall, and it turns out the college kids sat out in large numbers or voted for Trump, these dumb shits will truly deserve what will happen.  I will just take my sizable tax cuts, buy a overseas residence and a new popcorn machine, and watch with fascination at the flood of "I can't believe the leopards ate my face" outrage on TikTok. 

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