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  1. 2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    A desperate Putin is now drafting 300,000 ex-soldiers. Fair to say the vast majority of them want nothing to do with this war.

    if this doesn’t work for Putin, the only offensive options left are a full draft or nuclear weapons.

    Putin is risking his entire regime over this.

    Also included in the decree: 

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    Another key clause in the decree prevents most professional soldiers from terminating their contracts and leaving service until the partial mobilization is no longer in place.

    That's got to be a kick in the balls for the Russian soldiers who are on the ground now.  They are there for the duration.  There are five ways out: victory, defeat, death, debilitating injury, or desertion.  Maybe Putin figures that will commit them to victory.  But, with every Ukrainian victory, that path seems further out of reach.  And, for the average Russian soldier, the differences between victory and defeat are inconsequential.  It's not like he's defending his homeland.  

  2. 26 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Nope.  That's a 100 year old feature of appellate law.  Nothing fucked up about it except it doesn't deliver justice swiftly enough for you.

    So, if I am understanding you correctly, the appointment of the Special Master cannot be appealed but the decision on whether to have certain documents bypass is.  So, in theory, the DOJ could file a motion to be able to use all the documents prior to Special Master review, Cannon would shoot it down, but that decision could be appealed, rendering the unappealable Special Master pointless.  Did I get that right? Because it sounds kind of fucked to me.  

    (FWIW, I am not really that worried about the delay, I just think that it's funny how the legal system can be ridiculous.  It was invented by man, man is a ridiculous creature, so this should not surprise anyone.) 

  3. 25 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Sure, but then what did the do with what they found?  Change votes?  Just steal individual voter data?  Like I said, both crimes, but one is worse.

    In 2016 we know Russia breached voter machines, but we don't think they changed votes.  Rinse, repeat, just with locals?

    I'm not trying to handwave away this issue, it's fucking huge, I just don't know exactly the extent of the crime, or at least the "charges" (if levied).

    I assume they were searching for evidence of election fraud.  They didn't just advocate for the Koolaid, they drank it.  They were convinced that 1) there was evidence of fraud, 2) they were entitled to break multiple laws to demonstrate its existence.  Just like they were entitled to invade the Capitol to reinstate the once and future king.  They are fucking idiots.  

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  4. "J.D. is kissing my ass he wants my support so bad," Trump said.

    I love that Trump endorses dipshits in the most dipshitastic way imaginable.  Not, "I know he is a great leader and will advocate strongly for Ohio." Not, "He represents conservative values that made our country what it is."  Nope, Trump just comes right out and says it.  The only qualification that JD needs to be in the Senate is that he is willing to debase himself for Emperor Trump.   I mean, that's got to appeal to independent voters, right? 

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  5. 1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Maybe he orders the handwriing portion redacted from the documents the government can use?  Maybe make a quick decision on executive privilege with respect to that presumably small subset of the classified documents?

    Good question.  As a former FISA judge, I think he'll be sympathetic to the national security concerns and do what he can to alleviate them as quickly as possible.

    As an extension of this court, is he allowed to make any decision on executive privilege, or does that need to go through the DC court?  

  6. Ok, from a practical standpoint, now the special master has been appointed.  I assume it should take him about a day to review the classified documents (or, perhaps I should say "the documents with classified markings") and provide them to the prosecution.  Is there any reason he would hold on to documents which are clearly marked classified which have no Trump notes on them? 

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  7. 32 minutes ago, AnTiM said:

    My suspicion is that the guys without their hands on their hips are FBI plants.  At least I hope so.  The good news is that in athletics, hands on hips shows you are tired of what is happening.

    Yep.  Shifting from sports to movies, good acting and blocking should be able tell the story without dialogue.  In this scene, Trump is ranting about something and his sycophants are trying to look as concerned.  You can almost see the heads slowly nodding and the twisted frowns. Notice the three on the right turn away from his gaze. He's asking for something they can't provide.  

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  8. 52 minutes ago, Lidig8r said:

    Here is the Complaint:

    https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/lowery-texas-am-complaint-usdc-houston.pdf

    This has a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss written all over it.

    There is nothing in the Complaint about class allegations. Those have to be plead specifically.

    Unless they dramatically change the pleadings, this has sanctions written all over it.

    That's ok.  When they lose, they get to be victims again.  

  9. 34 minutes ago, Woland said:

    Wouldn’t it be nice if troops were being pulled out of Ukraine and being sent to Moscow to protect the regime.

    I am sure there are some troops Putin would rather keep as far from Moscow as possible.  I can't fathom what moral must be like.  Keep in mind, a decent percentage of them actually thought they were being deployed for war games, not war.  They weren't mentally prepared for a tough fight.  Add in the wide spread incompetence, the failing equipment because of corruption, the failing supply lines, and the frequent killings of high ranking officers, and I am not sure Putin would be comfortable with his options of the military protecting his control. 

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  10. 24 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

    That is why tequila that is not 100% agave is headache sauce. 

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    I don't think that has much to do with it.  Just about anything that isn't the alcohol molecule gets distilled out.  And it's not like "trace levels of corn" is some kind of outlier in our diets.  

    More likely, expensive shit has better distillation and quality control.  And you are less likely to use mixers high in sugar or choke it down as a shot. 

  11. 6 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Um... no. But you can make vodka out of anything. Tito's is the best known corn vodka. 

    (Smirnoff is corn, too - I thought it was grain)

    Corn is grain.

    I did some work at an ethanol plant in Kansas.  It produced both fuel grade ethanol and food grade.  The difference was the food grade went through a third distillation tower to remove methanol and the fuel grade had gasoline added for tax purposes.  The food grade was shipped to another facility where water was added to make it Skyy Vodka.  Corn based ethanol is about as cheap of alcohol you can get, so it's the default unless someone is marketing otherwise. 

    Even in other types of hard liquor, they will use corn based ethanol to augment the traditional ingredients.  Tequila can have 51% agave, and the rest corn based alcohol.  Premium tequila is 100% agave.  Gin just has juniper berries to flavor alcohol made from corn.  I think rum is usually sugarcane (relatively cheap in those regions).  

    So, it was wrong to say "almost all" hard liquor is corn based, but I would be willing to bet better than 50% is corn.  

     

     

     

     

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  12. 25 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The addition of Kise and subtraction of Halligan has much improved the advocacy.  Dammit.  They're also starting to make the declassification argument out loud, which I don't think is ultimately going to get them anywhere.

    Do they have a choice?  If the documents marked Top Secret are actually Top Secret, it seems like a pretty easy prosecution, regardless of any executive privilege issues.  I could see an EP argument that no one should be allowed to look at the documents, but that doesn't mean Trump is allowed to do what he wants with them.  At the end of the day, the defense will need to show that Trump did not have Top Secret documents in Maralargo.  That means either convincing people they weren't at Maralargo or that they weren't TS.  The first options means convincing a jury that 20-30 FBI agents set him up and that witnesses from the Trump camp are perjuring themselves, because certainly the DOJ has informants.  That is less likely to work than just claiming that they weren't actually Top Secret. 

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  13. 17 hours ago, closetohumping said:

    Can you make vodka out of corn?

    Almost all vodka, and hard liquor in general, is made out of corn.  

    16 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    If Warren Buffet is involved, the buyout is vending machine money.

    I've never seen anything to suggest that Buffet gives a shit about Husker football.  He's gave $100k to the school paper.  He's given money for buildings.  I don't recall any donations to the athletic department.  

    11 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

    It’s a bad job. Nobody an an upward trajectory will take it unless they’re money whipped.  Really money whipped.  Overwhelmingly money whipped, because it’s where coaches go to die.

    Well, yeah, except for the money, most jobs suck.  I agree it's not a great job in college football - high expectations with little recruiting draw - but still. 

    2 hours ago, Liquor and Poker said:

    Something about the specificity of “like 57” made me laugh. 

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  14. I am posting a picture of a cheeseburger.  It's not the best looking cheeseburger on the internet, but it is about ten thousand times more appetizing than that deconstructed bullshit image that will not fucking leave my tapa screen.  Hopefully this cheeseburger will displace that nonsense.  I have as much interest in deconstructing a hamburger as I do in pulling the engine out of a Ferrari and pretending it makes it better.  (

    Bozo, I don't care if you like it.  It's a pointlessly fussy version of something God intended to be simple and messy.  It is heresy. You should be burned at the fucking stake.  Not really, but you get my drift. 

     

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  15. 24 minutes ago, texastough said:

    There is no way Trump can concede that no privilege applies to the classified documents. That is almost as good as an admission of guilt in the coming criminal prosecution.

    My guess is their brief argues that the personal and governmental records were commingled at MAL, and potential privileges could apply to, for example, personal/presidential documents that made reference to classified documents. In other words, argue that it still takes a special master to sort out how all the records were being used/reviewed by Trump. 

    Admittedly its a shitty argument but its the best I can come up with. Either way its a brilliant strategy to put Trump in this position.

    I would argue that some of the documents had hand-written notes on them, which were part of decision making process, and therefore protected.  And it would take a Special Master to review the all the documents to find those notes. 

    It would be idiotic for the defense to argue that classified documents were not in Trump's possession - particularly if there were handwritten notes on them.  I think they will concede that.  I assume that they will argue that he had the rights to the documents for extremely murky, but previously untested, rationalizations. 

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  16. 21 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Support for the monarchy has steadily gone down the past decade. The Brits have less faith in Charles than Will. And the ruling party just chose an anti-monarchist as PM 

    I could see it if Charles decides to glue that crown to his head and not give it to Will until he dies. 20-25 years of Charles III doesn’t bode well. 

    White supremacists believe their genetics and history gives them the god-given right to hold an elevated position in society.  Monarchists take that same basic construct and exaggerates it to absurd proportions.  So yeah, its whole premise is ridiculous.  Without the charisma and the life-long continuity to hold it together, I think it will rattle apart.  Maybe they keep the titles like the rest of the aristocracy, but I think their official duties and protections will diminish, and I could see them recede into background.  I think most of them would rather just be rich than royal anyway.  

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