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  1. You could argue that the federal prosecutions were less political than the NY prosecution, especially the Mar A Lago case. And therefore less easily dismissed than the NY case. But, I'm pretty sure that's shitting in one hand and hoping in the other.
  2. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/nx-s1-4977352/trump-trial-verdict
  3. The backstory. https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/us-news/trump-rips-lara-trump-guest-charlamagne-tha-god-after-epstein-claim/ Apologies for the NYP link, but Charlamagne apparently went on Lara's show on Fox and ripped Trump over Epstein. Provoking the latest insane screed.
  4. So the interviewer is the Black Rifle Coffee guy? I am aware, peripherally, of the Montana Knife guy. That is a surprisingly nuanced discussion from them. And this underscores something. In addition to a goodly number of manufacturing-type jobs we really don't want back because they're menial and hazardous, there are certain industries/manufacturers where it just doesn't make any sense to try to compete domestically with them. Germans and Swiss, for example, have always been good at precision specialty machine tools. Like the blade-grinding machine where they make a dozen a year in Germany. Neither the world nor the US needs another blade grinding machine manufacturer. Those things are kind of like coffee and bananas: it don't make no sense to have a domestic industry. I'm relatively certain there are dozens upon dozens of examples of this that are being tariffed for no good reason at all. ETA: that derek guy makes these points, especially the garment industry. I had to find a thread reader to read the thread.
  5. I mean, the most fundamental thing about all this. You don't cut the motherfucking taxes until you've got the spending/deficit part under control. Fiscal responsibility my ass.
  6. It wouldn't have changed the outcome. Let's say Trump had been indicted for both in say February 2021, which is pure fantasyland. Let's get to trial in 18 months, so that puts us in September 2022. And the conviction becomes final for appeal purposes after sentencing in say January 2023 (and this assumes a relatively sane trial duration of a month or less, which may not be a good assumption). A pretty normal appeal takes a year to 18 months, so that gets us to January 2024. Then there's the Supreme Court, and let's assume they'll take it, so another year, plus. We're at, whoops, January 2025. These would be fairly speedy for any federal criminal defendant that doesn't take a plea. It does not take into account the various unique defenses available to any former POTUS indicted for crimes occurring proximate to, if not during, the administration. And, the presidential immunity question was a new one that had to be resolved, one way or another and by its nature would have required a mid-case appeal (interlocutory). Even had SCOTUS taken it on an expedited basis, and given a less bullshit ruling, that inserts a minimum six month delay in the middle of trial court proceedings, which puts us in June 2025. It was fucked from jump assuming he was re-elected.
  7. I am impressed (shocked? flabbergasted?) by your knowledge of wrasslin.
  8. Haha jkates negged this post. I won't neg back, but I'll call him a fascist cunt. Cunt.
  9. It means when and if Trump TACOs, it goes away.
  10. He wasn't overmatched at all. The problem, the fundamental problem, was anyone thinking that a final conviction in two first-ever prosecutions of a FPOTUS could be secured in four years. The only way that could happen was an innocent President who insisted on a speedy trial to prove his accusers wrong. And, of course, it wasn't Smith that re-elected the sonofabitch, creating the four-year time frame.
  11. To be fair, Sesame Street was created in the pre-Friedman capitalist era, when business was a bit less psychotic about growth and quarterly reports and share price. But, profit motive, in whatever form it took in 1968 and prior still was not up to producing educational TV for kids.
  12. It's not completely random. Seiko on the 007 and some others, including that one, rotated the movement so the crown/stem isn't at 90 degrees so as not to dig into your wrist. The date wheel goes with it. I haven't found the crown digging in to be much of an issue. However, my watch during most of college was a Hamilton Field Watch like this. And the crown created this sort of callus on my wrist. I didn't know it was happening, I couldn't feel it. But on the rare occasion I took off the watch, I could see this little patch of skin that was different from the rest. For a sec, I actually thought It was leprosy or some shit.😬😬
  13. It's not an issue of "wholesome." First off, Daily Wire is producing propaganda for kids. It might be some truly dangerous psyop shit. This is one of the most insidious features of your team. The educated world does not "indoctrinate" kids, it exposes them to ideas. Your ideas are repugnant, so they require indoctrination. Sesame Street was specifically designed to provide the kind of engagement that privileged kids got in preschool for disadvantaged kids. In other words, free preschool at home for poor kids. And yes, now Sesame Street is a moneymaker, just like the Muppets and I'm sure various other "franchises" created under the auspices of CPB. They in all likelihood would never have existed without a) funding from CPB and PBS and b) airing by PBS stations. Private funding would have been obsessed with whether they could sell enough ads for Count Chocula in their time slot.
  14. Yall got this all backward. PBS funded and more importantly aired shows that had characters, that BECAME popular, thanks to PBS. Now they could theoretically make money off it, but they don't own the rights. Some poor shmuck like Fred Rogers or Jim Henson owns the rights. And, pro tip from pharma, marketing costs money. Lots of money. Those that are sufficiently well capitalized to make shit tons of money from their shows and characters don't NEED or WANT PBS. They'll go to some other bunch of whores like Disney.
  15. What's astonishing is that Trump's connections to Epstein have been well-known for 20 some odd years. I suppose the Qturds were unaware of this. OR, they thought Trump would expose it all, including some innocent explanation for his Epstein connections. Either way, they're seeming to have a tough time with this one.
  16. Take a look at the Orient divers. https://www.orientwatchusa.com/collections/sport/ra-aa0009l19a Solid watches.
  17. Well, bad and badly cooked steaks still exist. I personally like a little bit with a pork chop or tenderloin. And I am of the understanding that it goes well on a certain whataburger that is thick and hearty.
  18. Which makes his MIL the secretary of education who doesn't know artificial intelligence from steak sauce.
  19. Oily bohunk
  20. Spending is spending I guess, but there isn't a ton of consumer or taxpayer-oriented spending in that bill. I guess it will trickle down. 😬😬
  21. Why didn't the private sector generate Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, etc? And now we're concerned about private media having to compete with PBS? Fucking hell.
  22. Sounds pretty accurate to me.
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