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softlynow

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  1. I saw that the man who punched Steve Buscemi was charged with felony assault. I'd say that's a positive development. What I know of Buscemi is he's not an asshole like a lot of our celebrities.
  2. On the one hand, being in a non-battleground state means I'm not inundated with campaign ads, and that is nice. On the other, I have no sense whether the Biden campaign is trying to put the positives in front of voters. It would be nice if he was actively messaging on the economy, bypassing the media who have seemingly no interest in doing anything other than covering everything Trump or occasionally saying Biden is old.
  3. Yes, but don't sweat the small stuff. He's going to move the seat of imperial government to Trump Tower and imprison or behead all of us writing ill of him on the internet.
  4. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero, so one would think it would also go for GOP one-party rule. As for Dems ever winning statewide elections in Texas again:
  5. Imagine for a moment that everything about this is reversed. Biden is the corrupt, narcissistic, racist, facsist shitgibbon from New York, Trump is president. Biden is now 34 times convicted of these crimes, and let's also say it's in Texas. The solution to all our problems would be a sentence of 10 years on each count to be served consecutively (let's pretend the analogue offense is a 3rd Degree felony in Texas, to be honest I haven't cared to look). There would be no appellate bond, because, being a sentence of 10 years or more, he would be inelligible for one. You all know that if the shoe were on the GOP foot, that would be the result. I don't know if that kind of result is possible here, under New York law, but if it is, I hope Merchan at least consideres it.
  6. It’s not atypical. The rules of evidence and procedure keep a fair amount of information away from the jury. It’s hard to know whether you’ve thoroughly covered a topic to a layman’s satisfaction. Sustained objections will definitely peak interest, too, and that often leads to jury notes. In bench trials it can be obvious how hard it is to convey your message because the judge will take over questioning a witness, if something is unclear. Doesn’t happen to me too often, and when it does it’s always to clean up a finer point, but I’ve had opposing counsel’s case practically made my a judge taking over the examination a few times. Add in this bullshit about not having the charge, and I’d be surprised if we’re done with the jury notes.
  7. Yep. That we are hoping that one or more juries help us beat this fucker in November is very much a concern. Voters are stupid. Juries are just a small sampling of that stupidity.
  8. Juries are wild animals in and of themselves. I had a sexual assault case hang up because 1 juror misheard testimony regarding yoga pants. 11 to convict. The other 11 looked totally beaten down that they couldn't convince her that she'd misheard the testimony. A jury a colleague had for his trial somehow had an 18 year old on the panel who fell asleep constantly during the trial. He was the only one who didn't vote to convict. My partner had a jury hang up on a bank robbery solely because the prosecutor inavertently insulted a woman during jury selection, and felt it was the only way to "have her voice heard." I had one jury write on the jury form that they thought the charges were totally unjust, and the case should've been dismissed . . . directly below the signature of the presiding juror finding my client guilty. And a corporate attorney was the presiding jury. The judge was pissed. This jury can easily fuck this up, and it could be for a bizarre reason Stephen King couldn't dream up.
  9. "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress;" Before we entered the Darkest Timeline on November 2, 2016, 11:47 CDT (Cubs win WS), we had an accepted interpretation of the language above. But, as we now know, once a political party give fuckall about the accpted interpretation and how we put that into practice, there is more than enough wiggle room in that constitutional clause to convince anyone with a vested interest to just about anything they can conceivably do bring about the desired result. Those governors and legislator are more than willing to Mitch McConnell this election. To deny that is to deny that we are in crisis.
  10. I do. The 24-hour news networks' ratings will be incredible. Just another reason to think it might happen. With AI, today's would be Hearst (Lachlan Murdoch's coming out party?) wouldn't even need a Frederick Remington.
  11. The Republican governors in states Joe won are Joe Lombardo in Nevada, Kemp in Georgia, Chris Sununu in NH and Phil Scott in Vermont. Flip those from last time, and it's 274 Biden, 264 Trump, after reapportionment.
  12. Tricky, for sure. You'll just have to tailor the message to the listener. We know the media won't, beyond pimping themselves out for clicks.
  13. Even if you think Biden wins, you should be amplifying the Trump could/will win message. The easiest way for Trump to win is a lack of a sense of urgency. Clinton made a bunch of mistakes in 2016. But Trump looking unelectable, IMHO, had to affect turnout and allow for some folks to feel OK about "sending a message" and voting for Stein or even Johnson. Over 4.5% of voters chose someone other than Trump or Clinton. In 2020 that dropped to about 1.8%. 2012 saw about the same percentage vote for neither Obama nor Romney. Trump could win should be all you say to anyone you know who understands the stakes of this election or otherwise will not for for Trump. They need to be scared to stay home or vote for RFK or some other joke candidate.
  14. She wants to continue it when possible. It's really the only move she has left given her ambitions.
  15. Yeah. It's really that simple. 40% of the electorate suffers from the Black Sleep of Kali Ma, and literally nothing matters to them. They control the GQP.
  16. Nikki Haley says she’s voting for Trump in November https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/nikki-haley-donald-trump/index.html
  17. Not immediately acknowledging the hotness of Hayley Atwell is an affront to God. Just sayin'.
  18. That’s a judge who needs his/her shit put on blast.
  19. We get out of it by winning. This isn't a PG-13 movie where the good guys prevail by sticking to their virtues, like Batman not killing or Jack Ryan refusing to dance the Potomac Two-Step. This shit is NC-17 if we need it to be. They pull a knife, you pull a gun. They send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of them to the morgue. America was never that pure anyway. Stop pissing yourself about the good ole days. Leave that delusional shit to morons like Harrison Butker.
  20. I did leave out the part about your off-label uses of Liquid Smoke and gold-plated HDMI cables.
  21. Red county DAs will likely ramp up the plea offers again, just like they did in MoCo after Ogg announced her look the other way policy in Harris Co. As I recall the MCDA made a public statement about the evils of reefer (his word choice) and offers of dismissal with a clean test disappeared overnight.
  22. I'm more interested in I'm more interested in following up on my client's revelation this morning that they have, among their $10k in sex toys, an anal shower head. Unfortunately, I had to spend 5+ minutes hearing about it, and the trauma that my client will suffer if it is not awarded to them (leaving gender out for reasons). I've met my daily quota of hearing about people's fucked up lives.
  23. Greed was the “belief.” Pure self-interest. Laissez-faire is the con. Those who believe(d) are/were the marks. The kleptocratic class doesn’t believe in anything but themselves.
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