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  1. 1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

    I mean... y'all all do realize that literally everything he said in that tweet was sarcasm, right? He was saying it to poke fun at the people who think he'd do it.

    I'd have thought the "fly coach nobody would recognize me" bit in there would make that obvious, but...

    Yeah kinda like that time that he kept poking fun at Bill Maher because he kept saying Trump would try to stay in the White House past his term…

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  2. 16 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    BUT WHAT ABOUT FREE SPEECH! 

    Yeah, we have an amendment just down the page from that one that sorta addresses this all...

    Holy shit, if I am going to relapse hard if I have to listen to another person start a conversation with, "As a student of the Constitution..." 

    You know the 1st, 2nd, and 5th amendments.  And not even that well.  Plus, oh yeah...before they wrote out the Bill of Rights...they actually wrote out the actual fucking Constitution.  Seven Articles.  Same number of indictments for Commander Dipshit (when the last 3 fall later this year).  The whole thing would have been longer but they didn't fathom half the shit Trump would do.  

    I musta missed the Federalist Paper that dealt with, "What if a sitting or recently removed President shares U.S. military plans with adversaries for personal gain or fame?"  There's no specific law for half his shit because nobody, even Nixon, ever thought somebody in charge of the Republic would pull this kinda shit.  Yeah, sorry Article II didn't do a deep dive into perfect phone calls.  I think they were busy with a fucking war or something.  

    They’re certainly not graduate students

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  3. 4 hours ago, Don Johnson said:

    Why are there separate divisions in chess to begin with?

    That’s a question I’ve had as well. If you can’t even justify separating genders in the first place, banning transgender competitors just comes off as a dick thing to do for the mere sake of doing dick things. We don’t even need to go into the effects of hormone therapy on that one.

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  4. 1 hour ago, kevwun said:

    They should spend less time trying to convince him not to do the news conference and more time interviewing attorneys who can represent them when they inevitably get indicted.

    Thing is, when you develop a very loud reputation of being “that guy” that stiffs his attorneys and asks them to do unethical shit to the point where it leads to their own disbarment, “interviewing attorneys” becomes Exhibit A of beggars being choosers.

  5. 44 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    I can't wait to see how many times he's typed out the n-word in a draft of a tweet.

    Only if it’s presented as a Jack Torrance writing

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  6. 39 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Instead, Tuohy said the whole ordeal went down because the NCAA told him if Oher wanted to attend Ole Miss -- he'd have to be considered part of the family due to Touhy's status as a "booster" at the school.

    I assume there are people who worked for the NCAA at the time who could verify this. I mean it's easy to say things like this, but without some sort of verification, well...Hitchens' razor.

    39 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    He continued, "We contacted lawyers who had told us that we couldn't adopt over the age of 18; the only thing we could do was to have a conservatorship. We were so concerned it was on the up-and-up that we made sure the biological mother came to court."

    Fine. Why is he still under this conservatorship at the age of 37 when his NFL career is long over?

    39 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Tuohy then said he'd "of course" end the conservatorship if that's what Oher wanted.

    The thing is they were counting on the idea that he would never express that because he was, falsely, led to believe this conservatorship made him part of the family. Were they ever counting on the idea that one day he'd show up and say "I want out of the family?"

    39 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    "We didn’t make any money off the movie," Tuohy said.

    "According to the legal filing, the movie paid the Tuohys and their two birth children each $225,000, plus 2.5% of the film's "defined net proceeds." 

    So someone is lying and it's on Michael to demonstrate it either way. I'm sure if Mr. Tuohy is telling the truth, he'd have no trouble whatsoever with the demand that they produce an accounting.

    39 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    "Well, Michael Lewis ['The Blind Side' book author] gave us half of his share. Everybody in the family got an equal share, including Michael. It was about $14,000, each."

    Ok, the book was published when Michael was a sophomore at Ole Miss, so how would this not be a violation of NCAA rules?

    39 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Tuohy says he was in no need of cash after he had sold his fast-food franchises for over $200 million.

    Again, why keep Michael under a conservatorship when he's nearing 40?

    39 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    "I will say it’s upsetting that people would think I would want to make money off any of my children," he said.

    Would Mr. Tuohy say it's less upsetting than, as upsetting as, or more upsetting than Michael finding out after nearly 2 decades that they've been lying both to him and the public about being part of the family when he certainly was not?

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  7. 5 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    It's an NIL deal, which was not permissible in 2007.  Not much different from being forbidden to profit from being on the cover of NCAA Football 2007.

    How could it be an NIL deal when the movie wasn’t even filmed, much less released, until after his eligibility was up? 

  8. 6 minutes ago, The Dog said:

     

    I expected this as well. It’s a trademark of rightist politics in general to pounce on the vaguest appearance of oppositional impropriety, run with it and scream about it until the end of fucking time. Clockwork.

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  9. 18 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    Oh I think the vast majority of the true Dotardians most definitely don't see through it. 

    His voters? No, they don't. His supporters in DC? Yeah they see it and they support it. They're not interested in governing; they're interested in ruling. 

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

    Which goes back to why he really does believe it's rigged--because he rigged the system and still lost.  Remember when he said that if Hillary won, she rigged the system?  

    If you really think about it, what he actually said is even more narcissistic. What he said was “I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election...if I win."

  11. 16 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, it will be the Fulton County District Attorney, which is, despite the name, an arm of the state government, not Fulton County. And the case will be styled State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump et al. 

    It's essentially the same thing as the criminal case he's dealing with in Florida. Yeah the description of the  court says "Southern District of Florida," but it's still a federal case.

    16 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The key word in the title is District not County. District Attorneys represent the state in districts that often but not always correspond to counties.  This is the difference between district amd county attorneys.

    Yep. Pure local misdemeanor crap is tried, at least in Georgia, by the Solicitor General. County Attorneys really only exist for civil matters concerning the government. In fact, the Camden County Attorney's website specifically says "The county attorney manages all county leases and county litigation issues, but does not handle any criminal matters."

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  12. 3 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    Reuters dude fucked up:

    Keep in mind that it is not the State of Georgia that is going to indict him but rather Fulton County. 

    The State is going to indict him in Fulton County.

    https://pacga.org/about-pacga/

    "The District Attorney is the chief prosecuting officer for the State of Georgia within each of the State’s 50 judicial circuits. Judicial circuits consist of one to eight counties and are generally named for a geographical feature within the Circuit."

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  13. 18 minutes ago, The Dog said:

     

    "There's a totally perfect african american in my ass right now. The very best african american. But I have to say, the food has gone to hell. When I was president, a Prisoner would get the very best food Anywhere. Totally "the" best. They thought Bobby Flay was working in There. They would tell Me that. But now thanks to the Biden Crime Family and the do-Nothing socialist Pinko communist "anarchist" fascist Leftist democrats, it doesn't "even" compare to a breakfast buffet from some fleabag Hotel in a Shithole country."

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  14. 47 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    (SIAP wanted to be sure the free NYT link was provided)

    I mean sure but you have to understand that most of the dialogue concerning his eligibility is limited to things that range from “unavoidable” to “realistic.”

    That’s why you never see anyone mention the fact that, for example, the GQP is a private party that is well within their right to preemptively disqualify him from running as a Republican. That’s not gonna happen, but it theoretically could.

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